You Meet the Most Interesting People ....

On the golf course. 

Played the back nine with a fellow today who thinks the world is run by a few dozen people who get together each year to decide what will happen in the world. On returning home they buy off whoever needs to be bribed to secure the agreed to results. He thinks "they" paid off the Supreme Court to get Citizens United. He thinks "they" were responsible for planting explosives at the World Trade Center and shooting the missile into the Pentagon on September 11th, all to gin up fear to justify a massive military response. When I noted that two people I had known literally for decades told me they saw a plane hit the Pentagon (smoke was billowing out) a few minutes after the attack and before it was reported in the news media he demanded names and phone numbers. I thought better of it.

He ranted and raged about Monsato and GMO's.

"Chemtrail" 747.

He told me that I needed to learn about Geo Engineering, pointing out contrails in the sky, saying that's not condensation -- it's poison. Those are chemtrails. He wanted to give me a poster. I said, no thanks. I promised to do research.  Here is what I learned.

“The term chemtrail is a combination of the words “chemical” and “trail,” just as contrail is a contraction of “condensation trail.” The term does not refer to other forms of aerial spraying such as agricultural spraying (‘crop dusting’), cloud seeding, skywriting, or aerial firefighting. The term specifically refers to aerial trails … caused by the systematic high-altitude release of chemical substances not found in ordinary contrails, resulting in the appearance of characteristic sky tracks. 

“The chemtrail … trails left by aircraft are chemical or biological agents deliberately sprayed at high altitudes for purposes undisclosed to the general public and directed by various government officials.

“… the existence of chemtrails … phenomena as streams that persist for hours and that, with their criss-cross, grid-like or parallel stripe patterns, eventually blend to form large clouds. Proponents view the presence of visible color spectra in the streams, unusual concentrations of sky tracks in a single area, or lingering tracks left by unmarked or military airplanes flying at atypical altitudes or locations as markers of chemtrails.

Contrails dissipate. Chemtrails persist. Got it. The earth's future hangs in the balance. Now we know what that Air Force pilot who bought our home to back in Arlington has been up to ye, all these years. And here we thought that he transported troops and materials.

My new friend says the only politician "who gets it," is Bernie Sanders.

Point understood and well taken. Time to move on.