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The Geek's Raven
[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Saturday, July 09, 2022

A Communist invasion of South Korea may be imminent

The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seems a bit odd, somehow. I mean, the Japanese don't use guns. Even criminals don't tend to have guns, in Japan. It's not a gun culture. Also, the Japanese haven't really had political assassinations since the 1930's, when the military took over the country. It's a very stable society, very respectful of authority in general. Also, the population in Communist China was dancing in the streets over Shinzo Abe's murder. He was a militarist, a Japanese Hawk. And, the Chinese still remember what happened the last time there were hawks running the show in Tokyo. Possibly as much as 10% of the total Chinese population exterminated by the Japanese Devils, from 1937 through 1945. Indeed, the Communist Chinese government actually told the people to stop dancing in the streets over Shinzo Abe's assassination. It was bad manners, you know. Not good for international relations. Not good, at all. Still, that doesn't entirely rule out the possibility that Chinese military intelligence might have had something to do with Shinzo Abe's death, does it? After all, they're not likely to brag about it. And, no doubt, they're perfectly capable of covering their tracks, and not leaving any fingerprints that might tend to incriminate them. The timing seems a bit coincidental with all the threats and counterthreats flying between Beijing and Washington, regarding Taiwan, the war in Ukraine etc. Is it at all possible that the Chinese might be trying to send a little message, here? Like "get the Hell out of our faces, or you'll wish you had!" During the Korean War, just prior to full scale Chinese intervention there, Chinese forces made limited small scale assaults on American forces moving up towards the Chinese border. They were trying to get the Americans to stop. Is the assassination of Shinzo Abe anything like that, by chance? I think we've reached a point where nuclear weapons are totally unusable. It's not just MAD, mutually assured destruction. It's that any use of nuclear weapons at all, ever, against anyone, might lead to an escalating pattern of use of such weapons, that, ultimately, would exterminate the human species. And, no one really wants that, do they. So, it's just a matter of who has the best conventional weapons, and who has the best disciplined armies. We can have all the conventional wars we want, again. And, may the best nation win! Now, the Chinese definitely believe they are a better nation than the U.S. is. So, why not simply drive the U.S. off the Asian mainland, in South Korea? What's stopping them? What a great opportunity to get the U.S. out of their faces. And, I don't think there's any question that combined Chinese and North Korean forces would totally crush the U.S. and South Korean forces there. The 8,000 artillery pieces trained on Seoul would annihilate the South Korean capitol in days. And the communists could just roll in. Just like the Russians are doing in Ukraine.

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