Sad Water in Paradise - World Humbugs as Normal

I am told by Google Stats that although nobody has formally signed up to my blog .......its on the Map.  Frankly I don't care .......this is the beauty of living far away from the boredom of the fast track.  However if there was an ardent follower out there, he or she would have noted 'zero'...that is three months of blankety blank.  In that time the Grim Reaper has accounted for two close friends, one of my dogs, a spouse traumatic near miss .......and several acquaintance 'almosts' .  Sadness beyond belief.

It is however not the only reason for a silent quill......a new business, much binding in the bush ......and a merry canter into 2011 with a few friends over for Christmas from a very chilly Blighty......ensured an involuntary blogger strike.

Going back to the weather, La Nina which is the cause for all this global weather outrage has allowed us all here to wear our UK Summer Wardrobe almost continuously for a month and a half.....heaters are being imported.  That said some days have been very warm and with no humidity (hence night time chill) very pleasant......and following a good rainy fall the island is looking stunning.

While walking fully wrapped on a beach today .........aware I was scoring with my "ink pot" later ..... it struck me how appropriate this weather move outside my comfort zone equated to what was happening in many parts of the world particularly in western style democracies.  This has not happened overnight, but assiduously over many years since the last World War in fact, but now the layers of wallpaper covering the cracks are falling away revealing walls that themselves are crumbling.

Wikileaks has sought a bow, being welcomed by many who would die before their own real persona was socially outed.   Also all those who worried about the destabilising of the Middle East by America seem to have little problem with risking mass scale Shia uprisings by writing in Capitals on their 'walls' that their leaders are encouraging America to bomb Iran.   Sadly only those who live shell like lives would have learn't anything from these leaks........while diplomacy, the art of defusing tensions, is put in the dock by those who keep telling people 'they love them' for fear of rejection.

In the States Obama has received an unwelcome (although politically welcome for him) boost by the attempted assassination of a congress woman by an unstable young man.......who for all the wrong reasons has hopefully begun a serious quest into the credibility of irresponsible media masquerading as Newscasters.  Anybody with any semblance of brains cannot rule out the influence people such as O'Reilly, Beck and Olberman have .....not on the public at large .........but the baying sheep who flock to their piper's tunes........rigged up to boost their egos, bank balances and self aggrandisement they thrive on the sound of their own voice and continuously prove why Americans are sadly so prone to Cult figures.  In the UK we also have a media issue ..and egos are involved ...but its not to do with the right or left of politics .......more I can outsmart or at least out shine the PM (Conservative, Labour, whomever) as typified by John Humphries. The saddest part of the US dilemma is to meet the many rational well travelled intelligent GOP (more so than Democrat ) voters who are shocked and ashamed of the lowbrow reactionary literally incitement  shown by so called Tea Party activists, elements of the Republican party and the aforementioned wreckers of accord.. .... many seriously believe that unless Obama can turn partisanship around America will lose its credibility completely and become ungovernable.

.......meanwhile in Europe Germany takes on the role of European Chef, while France hangs on ignominiously and the British Coalition attempts to jump out of debtors prison with one bound...........in the East you could argue that they are at last approaching something like a comfort zone for the first time for centuries .....but that is just it ..all is changing around them ..... and they too are in foreign waters, albeit getting warmer.

Bring on the Ides of March ..........I am sure they have something in store.