COVID Will Have Its Due

 "Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." - Proverbs 16:18

The U.S., the most powerful nation on Earth, lost over a million of its citizens to COVID. China, the world's second-most powerful nation, lost 5,000. President Hsieh is well aware of the immense difference those two numbers represent. His Herculean effort to shield the Chinese people from COVID is nothing short of amazing. Here is the rub: He protected hs people so well, they never had a chance to develop "herd immunity" like the Americans - those spoiled brats who demanded their freedom... now! (and then took it on the chin.) For we, the worst of the COVID appears to have passed. China's worse is yet to come. 

President Hsieh is in a bind. He protected his people at the price of their freedom - even at the price of their nations economy which has suffered severely during his draconian lockdowns. Now, his have said, "Enough." Like the Americans, they are ready to face down COVID themselves. 

Because of the contagious nature of the Omicron variant, more Chineses will become infected, and many more than 5,000 will die. When that happens Hsieh will no long be able to gloat in his haughty way, with that insrutable look that keeps the world, and his people, at bay.  

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All Aboard

I hear they want to send a black woman to the moon. Wouldn't that be something? (Sounds like something Joe Biden would propose.) Next, we might want to try sending an LGBTQ person, or how about a redhead? 

Just stop it. Stop dividing people by picking winners based upon what they look like. Such an approach is manipulative, and demeaning, like you-know-who declaring, "I'm going to pick a black woman to be my vice-president!" before he had actually won the Democratic nomination.

Send your best to the moon, and beyond. That is how we realize our best chance for success out there. Race or gender does not matter. What matters is ability, and resourcefulness. Let them be all-white, all-black, all-gay for all I care, just as long as they are all good.  

Wernher von Braun Stuck the Landing: Kanya Keeps Missing the Mark

Kanye West, appearing on an Alex Jones podcast, declared, "I love Hitler." Then, he doubled down and said it again. He went on to suggest that Hitler invented the microphone, and highways; neither of which is true. (The first paved road was built over four thousand years ago.)

The Nazis did, however, advance rocket technology far beyond what anyone else had achieved at the time. After the war, Hitler's top engineer, Wernher von Braun, was snatched from war-torn Germany and spirited to America where he would design the Saturn V rocket (and flight path) that put America on the moon. It is the single greatest achievement in human history. 

Something else came of Hitler's madness: His assault upon the Polish frontier in 1939 became a harbinger of the demise of European imperialism. England, especially, was so ravaged by Hitler's Wehrmacht that it no longer had the financial, or military means, to sustain its empire. Suppressed peoples throughout Africa and Asia rose up out of Europe's ashes and declared their independence.

Hitler's intense desire to enslave had spawned the liberation of a billion human beings.