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The Greatest Human Failing
People can NOT mind their own business!
I was really ready to go on tear with this piece. I had the soapbox out and the rant was ready to write itself. After all, growing up in the bosom of Small Town America, I have been at the business end of damaging gossip and nasty speculation. Where I grew up it was a given that people were not going to mind their own business. Moving from the micro to the macro, just to start with here we have the ridiculous near-daily protests of drag story hours or brunches blended with a dash of American politicians telling China to watch its step…in Asia.
Yes, friends, the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave apparently isn’t content with wrecking Eastern Europe. Now it wants to tell China how it should and should not behave on its own continent. On the other side of the world.
We got some nerve, huh?
Those finger-waggers in D.C. need to pause for a moment and remember who is largely supplying its military with butanetriol. Turns out those Hellfire missiles won’t be nearly as reliable if the U.S.A. wants to aim them at China without this critical chemical supplied by — wait for it — China.
But our government seems to be constitutionally incapable of minding its own business.
