What if the US just hired the North Korean Rocket Scientists?

Some days RantWoman's penchant for peculiar mental excursions just should not be let out in public.

More in a moment.

First, RantWoman's Christmas cactuses always make her absurdly happy. Hence a recurrence of this week's photo.



Christmas Cactuses Week of Nov 27

Now back to our program. Congress is trying to pass the most outrageous bill ever perpetrated by the plutocrats holding sway over the Republican party. Congress is trying simultaneously to increase military spending and slash social programs. Between the State Department losing over 60% of its career ambassadors, and whatever rumors of Rex Tillerson's exit as Secretary of State mean, nothing good is happening at the State Department, just when we need MORE diplomacy, not less.

Also, this week North Korea launched ANOTHER missile. This is getting old, and the thought of a desperate parasite infested starving soldier defecting does not help: if a member of the military is in that bad shape, imagine the rest of the population. But Hallelujah: the missile they launched could be launched at a different angle and ... Don't panic. DO NOT Panic.




Now back to our program. Congress is trying to pass the most outrageous bill ever perpetrated by the plutocrats holding sway over the Republican party. Congress is trying simultaneously to increase military spending and slash social programs. Between the State Department losing over 60% of its career ambassadors, and whatever rumors of Rex Tillerson's exit as Secretary of State mean, nothing good is happening at the State Department, just when we need MORE diplomacy, not less.

Also, this week North Korea launched ANOTHER missile. This is getting old, and the thought of a desperate parasite infested starving soldier defecting does not help: if a member of the military is in that bad shape, imagine the rest of the population. But Hallelujah: the missile they launched could be launched at a different angle and ... Don't panic. DO NOT Panic.

This afternoon's dance of despair on Facebook took RantWoman's internet streams toward...Tom Lehrer. At first RantWoman was thinking about how quaint the lyrics are: a whole bunch more countries have nuclear weapons. The world's population is more than double what it was when the song was written. Lots of flavors of war are perking along quite nicely BUT at least we have not so far turned the whole planet into a cinder.

RantWoman is not quite up to the task of updating the song for example with references to North Korean dictator Kim Jun Un, but mention of the US swooping up a rocket scientist formerly employed by a truly odious dictator does fill RantWoman's head with weird ideas about how to save money: just hire the North Korean missile development team. They are obviously getting the job done for a whole lot less money than the Pentagon spends on its military hardware. It would be very Trumpian just to hire them and replace those overpaid folks from the US.

And if US spending priorities continue in the direction they seem to be headed the North Koreans could soon  feel right at home.  :-(((