Putin Warned Trump...

Good evening! The midday sun has emitted a heat that I can imagine feels like frying in a kind of atmospheric convection oven. I could feel my exposed skin being slightly seared, as I puttered in the yard.

As we approach the coming holiday weekend, my thoughts turn to fall. Days of cool gentle winds and dark starless nights that leave me fearfully wondering, what changes tomorrow will bring. I do not fear the changing seasons because I know that they are merely the markers that G-d leaves for us to signal the close of one chapter of our lives and begin another fresh chapter we have yet to write, in this thick, torrid and leathery earth bound volume of our owned experiences--we call, "Our Life".

It has been a little while now... but I still remember all the delight and gaity of celebrating fall festivals, in small County Fair style.

When I think of fall, I automatically think of long ago County Fair events like "Punkin' Chunkin', blue ribbon pie eating contests and craft fairs that featured homemade quilts".

Fall is the national season of celebrating America's hometown fun. The kind of home grown fun ranging from high school football games and stock car shows, to the highly anticipated, "Oktoberfest!" Pitchers of German beer served under canvas tents with Bratwurst, Schnitzel, grilled pork sausages and plentiful sides of sauerkraut, complimented by fresh soft pretzels... and buzzing with more beer, farts and giggles, than the law allows!

The memories of perfectly performed and orchestrated Polka dance contests and the joyous noise of blue ribbon winners, perfumed the country air with the aura of simple, clean fun and excitement, not to be missed. The joviality would continue into the late evening as twilight would begin to fall at the edge of the world's horizon, beyond the walls of baled hay and  beer tent flaps.

Then tents would close and local musicians and the legendary, "almost famous" B-list performers, assembled on stage in the midway. Crowds of the young, almost young and young at heart, gathered to dance, romance and revel under the stars. It was glorious! Way better, than playing bingo at the American Legion Hall, on Friday night!

Tonight I go to bed, hoping I will dream about other cool nights, spent laughing and drinking German beer with friends. Re-living lost memories of youth, without a single care in the world, once again. Recollections, undisturbed by today's dangerously changing world that would threaten to butt in and shatter those beautiful moments in time, so long ago.


                                             "Good Night!" and "Sweet Dreams!"

                                                             "Boner Appertite!"

NORTH KOREA AND THE U.S. ARE ON ‘BRINK OF LARGE-SCALE CONFLICT,’ PUTIN WARNS

BY SOFIA LOTTO PERSIO ON 9/1/17 AT 4:20 PM

Russian President Vladimir Putin offered his view on the tensions in the Korean Peninsula, warning that the U.S. and North Korea were “on the brink of a large-scale conflict.”

Putin penned a statement published on the Kremlin’s website on Friday, ahead of a summit of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) nations in China next week.

“I have to say a few words about the situation on the Korean Peninsula, where tensions have grown recently and the situation is balancing on the brink of a large-scale conflict,” he wrote.

The Russian president said that focusing solely on pressuring North Korea to give up its missile program is “misguided and futile.”

Russia voted along with the rest of the U.N. Security Council to impose stricter sanctions on North Korea following the two missile test launches in July, even though Moscow rejects the claims, made by both North Korea and the U.S., that the rocket tested was an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

“Russian experts put most of the blame for this escalating crisis on the United States. They are skeptical that North Korea would ever attack the United States, seeing such threats as just a bluff,” Georgy Toloraya, Director of Korean Programs at the Institute of Economy at the Russian Academy of Science, wrote on 38 North, a North Korea monitoring project at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore.

Moscow has already told Washington that additional sanctions on North Korea could prove “counterproductive and dangerous.” In his statement, Putin invited all parties to reject belligerent rhetoric and instead engage in dialogue.

“The region’s problems should only be settled through a direct dialogue of all the parties concerned without any preconditions. Provocations, pressure and militarist and insulting rhetoric are a dead-end road,” the Russian president wrote, apparently referencing incendiary statements made both by North Korea, which claims to have a plan to strike the U.S. territory of Guam, and President Donald Trump, who warned Pyongyang that its threats would be met with “fire and fury.”

Russia’s position is similar to China’s, which also has backed U.N. sanctions against North Korea but has called for moderation from all parties involved. Russia and China, who both share a border with North Korea, are also both opposed to the U.S. carrying out joint military drills in South Korea.

Russia, which has repeatedly voiced concerns over the risk of a military confrontation on the Korean Peninsula, is also nervous about Japan’s plan to increase its nuclear missile defense capabilities with the deployment of the land-based U.S. Aegis Ashore system.

Nonetheless, Moscow recently unnerved South Korea by flying Tupolev Tu-95 bombers too close to Seoul’s airspace earlier this month.

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