Descend into the Maelstrom

So I’ve been hearing people talk about a doomsday scenario.  Of course I have no proof of any of it.  More importantly, it’s not going to change my daily plans a god damn bit.  "When your number’s up, your number’s up." I’ve lived a good life already.

Some quarters believe that Al-Qaeda has been working with and financing MS-12, a Central American organized crime syndicate, to bring nuclear weaponry into the United States to blow shit up.  I met someone today who read blog conjecture that a possible target is NYC on 9/13, when world leaders congregate for a big UN meeting.  Some terrorist monkey in Pakistan has ordered the killing of 4 million Americans, half of whom should be children.

Personally I have no faith that the world’s intelligence services are good enough to prevent this from happening.  Without going into any politics, I can tell you the following facts:

a) there are monkeys out there that want to do this

b) we can’t account for all the nuclear materials around the world or the monkeys who play with them

c) the technology exists for people to make this happen

d) clearly we don’t prevent people from crossing our borders

e) Our government can’t manage to prevent a city’s destruction from a forecasted natural disaster, which we knew could happen for many decades, let alone an unpredictable large-scale attack

f) America would wreak some ill vengeance on some part of the world to get even

Put all this together and I fear for what could happen.  I’m not sure if mankind will be able to escape a nuclear disaster, or even holocaust, forever.  We were very very lucky that the Cuban missile crisis was diffused.  We’ve only been playing with this nuclear stuff in the last seven decades or so, a small moment in the history of man.  The technology continues to get better every day.  Yes, I’m being cynical today and you know that I’m usually not the cynic.

Enough on the doomsday $hit.  I have faith that there is a plan of some sort for the universe.  Be well.