Something great happened last week and then I read a few more stories

I was so damn excited when I heard that Scott (Let's completely f**k the planet) Pruitt resigned as the head of the EPA....and then I looked at the record of the guy taking his place and threw up on my new blue suede shoes.

Of course I don't have new blue suede shoes but every chance I get to reference Elvis I will do and never apologize.

One of the strange things I noted in the article, referring to his resignation, was the fact that his odd ball behavior regarding personal matters, such as the phone booth dealio and flying first class and helping his wife get a job or a chick dick franchise, was the main focus of the story.

NOT THE FACT THAT HE HAS ATTEMPTED TO REVERSE 

EVERY CLEAN WATER, CLEAN AIR AND RENEWABLE ENERGY GESTURE THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA HAD MADE DURING HIS ADMINISTRATION.

(by the way in case you are wondering.....YES I am now shouting)

SCOTT PRUITT IS A NON-BELIEVER IN CLIMATE CHANGE AND FULLY SUPPORTS THE INCREASED USE OF COAL AND FOSSIL FUELS TO SUPPLY OUR NATIONAL ENERGY NEEDS.

Remember this is the dipshit who sued the EPA 14 times on behalf of oil and coal companies when he was the Oklahoma Attorney General.

THE POINT OF MOVING FORWARD INTO A SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FUTURE IS TO MOVE TOWARD THAT SUSTAINABLE FUTURE BY CHOOSING DIRECTIONS THAT WE KNOW WILL WITHSTAND THE TEST OF TIME.

The SUN is the main direction in which we should be traveling.

WIND is the second direction in which we should be traveling.

ELECTROMAGNETIC is the next direction and possibly more important than the first two as far as making machines operate.

And then comes WAVE energy and GRAVITY.

(making something operate by GRAVITY seems too obvious)

THOSE FORMS OF ENERGY WILL RESIDE ON THIS PLANET LONG AFTER ALL THE COAL HAS BEEN DUG OUT OF THE EARTH AND ALL THE FOSSIL FUELS HAVE BEEN

CONSUMED. HOW THEY BECOME AFFORDABLE COMMUNITIES IS WHAT THE HUMAN SPECIES DOES BEST.......we figure stuff out.

SCOTT PRUITT WAS A MAN WHO DIDN'T WANT TO FIGURE THINGS OUT BUT INSTEAD JUST WANTED THINGS TO STAY THE WAY THEY ARE.

WE ALL KNOW THAT CURRENTLY FOSSIL FUELS ARE IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEY DOMINATE THE CONSUMPTION SCALE OF WHAT WE USE TO MAKE THE SYSTEM (often referred to as society) OPERATE ON A NORMAL BASIS.

BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE HAVE TO IGNORE BUILDING A BASE SYSTEM FOR SOURCES OF ENERGY THAT ARE FOREVER.

For an example that I've often used.....Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House in 1977

Ronald Reagan removed those panels in 1981 and set the solar panel industry back 25 years.

A very similar situation happened in the 1950's when the oil industry put the ca-bosh on mass transit in Southern California.

By the way....Let's gently disgust that term forever and try not to scare the crap out of anyone.

I've always thought that NASA exploring space was extremely important for the continuation of the human species even though I know the demise of our SUN isn't scheduled for about 5 billion years.

It's not like you and I are going to benefit from discovering a new planet in a new solar system within a new galaxy but I always considered that one of our jobs as human beings was simply to help avoid extinction.

Which is actually part of Neo-Illumination #17....and if you don't know about Neo-Illumination then you don't know anything about me and or you just think I'm bonkers.

Both options are part of my ongoing reality check.

What I've been thinking about lately is the true reality of the future of the human species.

Two things don't bode well for permanent occupation of the planet Earth.

The Sun's eventual inability to heat our planet

and

The collision of the Milky Way Galaxy with the Andromeda Galaxy. 

As I stated before the Sun's next phase( which is not good for anything living on Earth) will take about 5 billion years.

The collision of the two galaxies will happen in about........huh?

Before we reveal that number let's look at the facts.

Both galaxies are traveling at around 300,000 miles an hour TOWARD each other.

At the current time The Andromeda Galaxy is about 3 MILLION light years away.

Each single light year (as in the number 1) is 5.9 TRILLION miles.

My calculator doesn't have a big enough screen so I called my math guy Butch, who happens to have 8 degrees and he quickly said to add about 18 0's  to 1 and that would be the distance.

The problem with survival is that we have  a very long time to find another planet but if the nearest galaxy is going to collide with us then we need to find a galaxy that is further away and then figure out if that galaxy is on a collision course with another galaxy before we settle in.

I think what I'm trying to say is that we need to make the best of what we have and do as much as possible to make this planet the heaven on earth that it is suppose to be.  The problem I see is that when human beings( like Donald Trump and Scott Pruitt) come along who wield power and only direct that power to the satisfaction of those who control the current power cords, such as big oil, then we aren't doing our very best....and in fact we are ignoring the one element that makes us unique.

WE ARE A PROUD SPECIES OF PROBLEM SOLVERS and if we simply follow a status quo because that's the easiest path then we are asking for trouble.......and the trouble isn't millions of years off.  

The problem of clean air, clean fresh water, healthy oceans and abundant pollution caused by massive irresponsible consumption is HERE.....NOW.

A few generations down the road simply means your children and their children will face extreme conditions generally caused by US.

When a man like Scott Pruitt comes along and says clean air and clean water inhibit big business from rewarding their share holders then WE REALLY HAVE A PROBLEM.

Yes I am extremely happy that he is gone.....but the next guy got appointed already by the main guy who sits in the White House and just doesn't give a f**k about anything that doesn't directly affect him. 

And then I just read a story about LIMA, Ohio where they have started refurbishing mothballed Tanks so that the town can have people working.  President "Biff" has increased the defense budget so that we can have more TANKS?

WHERE WILL THE NEXT GROUND WAR WITH TANKS TAKE PLACE?

I'd love to see how long a tank war would last with Drones and Missiles being launched from thousands of miles away by techies sitting in an air conditioned suite underneath NORAD.

This might be the stupidest thing DJT has done so far.

Even dumber than hiring Scott Pruitt....and that probably wasn't actually dumb but more hostile toward policies that Obama had put in place.

I'm trying to bring my emotions down to Earth so I can help solve issues now.  It's hard because I've always been species orientated and extinction never appealed to me.

Maybe I should just accept the inevitable and try to laugh more.

That would be funny.

For now....good riddance Mr. Pruitt and I hope they make you take that phone booth home where you can install it in your bathroom.

Michael Timothy McAlevey