Editors Note: According to the METOC Weather Guessers, we are officially in Fall. We thought a quick note on Greenland would be useful, since it won’t be sporting anything except white and some soot from jet engines until Spring! What a week!

Greenland

This was not intended to be a summary of the disparate diplomatic antics of the week. The number of significant issues fell into about e three. Or four if you count the Climate Crazies who are losing their minds over the inconvenient truth that the climate is gradually changing, it is gradually getting more benevolent to those of us who intend to live on it, and the next Inconvenient Truth is likely to be our failure to deal adequately with the idea of intelligence, whether it starts with “A” or “S.”

The Smart Guys already had their messaging spools wound up, and they were all over. We intended to have a quick update on that Greenland thing. just to get it out of the way before we started to interject Taiwan into the discussion. Here is the deal with Greenland:

It is a Big Rock, covered, for the most part, in a mile thick sheet of ice. It is, BTW,
directly between us and under the arc a ballistic missile might travel in about seven minutes.

Why would you want it? That is what they asked Secretary Seward when he was asked about purchasing Alaska from the Czar.

”Seward’s Folly” is what they used to call it. The elections in November will line up the American position for the fight to the next time we have a chance to ask someone to run things in a way more beneficial to all concerned.

That Old Deal had worked, at least for Washington and Anchorage, even if some taxpayers were in opposition.

Their echoes continued through the morning, before the Trillium bus loaded us up to go vote while the lines were short at early voting. It was a splendid little adventure with old folks and those who need a little time to get through the lines, wade through all the languages, and be able to feed the ungainly long ballot into the machine that tabulated our absentee ballot. We thanked the people who volunteered to help explain a Fairfax Ballot printed in four languages before they got too tired.

We are glad that our part in the mid-terms is now complete.

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian was all over as well, though he did not vote here. He said his government would continue to hang on in a fight against an enemy three times the size of his, well resourced with and with a certain adversary from Queens. But with one party hoping to hold on for 39 days and the other willing to use “annihilation” as a term in public conversation.

You can see why the Conference Room still has the three people from the afternoon shift who agreed to stay while the antics went on overseas. The rest of us watched the flat-screen and played cards on our phones. Some just drank to make it allege a little less light infused.

The only sensible thing to do was make something we can grill, since the big Nor’Easter is supposed to rake the coast tomorrow and nothing will be dry until next week! Holly and I think ribs on the grill would be perfect!

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