A salute to my fellow veterans.
Hope slowly dies that sanity will prevail and our troops be home alive in 2005. Democrats are no better than Republicans on Iraq. No matter how we should have done it, we can not just put away our guns and be peace makers. We failed from the git go and our presence there serves no useful purpose. We are just killing people, ours and theirs, for no reason.
I have a young friend who wants to join the National Guard. I pains me. I cry for him and for the many young faces I saw that died in Vietnam. I salute him his willingness to join when the the privileged of this country who support the War, won't join. They are like our gutless, immoral leaders who could not be bothered to serve when it came their turn.
My young friend want to be a police officer and is from a large family with modest means. Today the military is a way for genuinely good and decent young men to get training and an education. My friend will be a good police officer, the type I want to deal with when needing to be protected or being stopped for a minor violation.
I hope and pray that the Liar Bush doesn't send this fine and honorable young man to a needless death. Over the past few years in this awful exercise in hubris, we have lost over 2000 good and honorable men and women who should have come home to really make America Strong by being Policemen, Firemen, Teachers, Mothers, Fathers, and all the other things that we as Americans needed them to be.
If you really want to honor a veteran, thank one and then commit yourself to working for the day the last veteran is buried and there are no more. To the day that we stop seeing War as an instrument of policy and stop electing to office those who do.
I Feed You All
Poster for the Granger Movement 1876 to 1886
Friday, November 11, 2005
Friday, September 23, 2005
You Are On Your Own
You know, Life does not come with an insurance policy. From the time you pop out of the womb, you are on your own. You have to breathe for your self and while food at that tender age might be placed in front of you, you still have to grasp onto that nipple and suck it.
Bad things happen in life. When they do, there are not automatic reimbursements for your trouble. The world does not owe you anything. It is no one’s responsibility to tell you that bad things happen. It is no ones responsibility to tell you when those bad things are coming and how to prevent them.
When you enter this cold cruel world you are on your own.
Now some people looked around after a while and figured out that if they work with some one else life get a little easier. Then a little later some one figured out that groups of people working together made life even easier. That did not change the truth that you are on your own, it just meant that when everyone takes responsibility for their part in the group, the group does better.
Personal responsibility. If you live on the Gulf Coast, you are going to get hit by a Hurricane. There have been hurricanes for centuries, big ones like Katrina and Rita. If you live on the Gulf Coast it is your responsibility to pay attention and be prepared.
The Government of the United States does not owe you anything – you are the Government of the United States. You owe yourself to take of yourself, your family, your friends, your Town, your County/Parrish, your State, and your Country.
If you are not happy that George Bush is a Elitist that has no idea what it means to have to work or actually take care of himself, then get off your butt and get involved in the process of Governing yourself. If you like George Bush because he takes care of your pampered little over-paid butt, you might want, like Michael Brown, to start looking for a different appendage from which to succor.
Did anyone really think you could phase 2 million people out of a metropolitan area in 24 hours without some major problems?
Anyone who pulled there head out of their rear end in the last couple of weeks and saw chaos and disorder as the earth continued to exist despite our attempts to deny that physical reality, just needs to get about making some constructive actions toward fixing the problem or stick there head back in that outhole where they have comfortably kept it while we accumulated over 3 million people in the midst of some of the deadliest chemicals and toxins dispersed along the path of regular and often destructive natural disturbances.
Headlines screamed “Houston Gridlocked”. Well, guess what, Houston is Gridlocked everyday. Houston is a city where geniuses like Tom Delay fight tooth and nail to keep mass transit away so myopic Oil companies can continue to sell gas to self indulgent people who ride to work each day, one person to the vehicle, AC blasting, Radio blaring, Ear stuck to a cell phone, and Starbucks overpriced black water or Mc Donald’s fat laden breakfast being guzzled or shoved down their greedy gullets, like that is reality and not the stifling heat and choking exhaust that surrounds them.
What happened in Houston was a lot of people had, not the Winds of Rita blow over them - that will happen later today - but the Winds of the reality drive then straight in to the realization that we have designed a really bad way to co-exist with our planet.
CNN, ABC, NYT, WaPo, WaTi, MSNBC, NBC, and the rest of what has become known as the MSM., if you are just know figuring out that we cannot get people out of harms way in our major cities, then go back to the Caribbean and resume you search for missing coeds. Who needs you. Blogosphere, Right and Left, same goes to you.
If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem, just like George Bush. If you have made it to the top of the heap, that is not a position of privilege, it a position of responsibility. In case you have not noticed, you may be on the top, but you are still part of the heap, and that heap has slopes from which one may fall or be shoved.
So lets all take a deep breath. What happen in Houston yesterday was not pretty, but today most people who wanted out of the path of the storm are out. They will all return home and go on with their lives.
So the question becomes, so we go back to what we came from, or do we go back with an idea that maybe what we were doing doesn’t work so well. Do we quit complaining about the high price of gas or do we give George Bush and his Oil Buddies notice that we want a better way to live than this.
The idea is not to try to plan to get 2.5 million people out of a centralized area in an emergency – we need to do that for the short term. What we need for the long term is to plan a way to technology to move people to areas in which to live that are not disaster prone and not concentrate them in a stress ridden Gridlocked dysfunctional cities.
It starts with you. No one owes you anything; you are on your own. Can you look around and figure out that if you work with others life can be easier?
Bad things happen in life. When they do, there are not automatic reimbursements for your trouble. The world does not owe you anything. It is no one’s responsibility to tell you that bad things happen. It is no ones responsibility to tell you when those bad things are coming and how to prevent them.
When you enter this cold cruel world you are on your own.
Now some people looked around after a while and figured out that if they work with some one else life get a little easier. Then a little later some one figured out that groups of people working together made life even easier. That did not change the truth that you are on your own, it just meant that when everyone takes responsibility for their part in the group, the group does better.
Personal responsibility. If you live on the Gulf Coast, you are going to get hit by a Hurricane. There have been hurricanes for centuries, big ones like Katrina and Rita. If you live on the Gulf Coast it is your responsibility to pay attention and be prepared.
The Government of the United States does not owe you anything – you are the Government of the United States. You owe yourself to take of yourself, your family, your friends, your Town, your County/Parrish, your State, and your Country.
If you are not happy that George Bush is a Elitist that has no idea what it means to have to work or actually take care of himself, then get off your butt and get involved in the process of Governing yourself. If you like George Bush because he takes care of your pampered little over-paid butt, you might want, like Michael Brown, to start looking for a different appendage from which to succor.
Did anyone really think you could phase 2 million people out of a metropolitan area in 24 hours without some major problems?
Anyone who pulled there head out of their rear end in the last couple of weeks and saw chaos and disorder as the earth continued to exist despite our attempts to deny that physical reality, just needs to get about making some constructive actions toward fixing the problem or stick there head back in that outhole where they have comfortably kept it while we accumulated over 3 million people in the midst of some of the deadliest chemicals and toxins dispersed along the path of regular and often destructive natural disturbances.
Headlines screamed “Houston Gridlocked”. Well, guess what, Houston is Gridlocked everyday. Houston is a city where geniuses like Tom Delay fight tooth and nail to keep mass transit away so myopic Oil companies can continue to sell gas to self indulgent people who ride to work each day, one person to the vehicle, AC blasting, Radio blaring, Ear stuck to a cell phone, and Starbucks overpriced black water or Mc Donald’s fat laden breakfast being guzzled or shoved down their greedy gullets, like that is reality and not the stifling heat and choking exhaust that surrounds them.
What happened in Houston was a lot of people had, not the Winds of Rita blow over them - that will happen later today - but the Winds of the reality drive then straight in to the realization that we have designed a really bad way to co-exist with our planet.
CNN, ABC, NYT, WaPo, WaTi, MSNBC, NBC, and the rest of what has become known as the MSM., if you are just know figuring out that we cannot get people out of harms way in our major cities, then go back to the Caribbean and resume you search for missing coeds. Who needs you. Blogosphere, Right and Left, same goes to you.
If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem, just like George Bush. If you have made it to the top of the heap, that is not a position of privilege, it a position of responsibility. In case you have not noticed, you may be on the top, but you are still part of the heap, and that heap has slopes from which one may fall or be shoved.
So lets all take a deep breath. What happen in Houston yesterday was not pretty, but today most people who wanted out of the path of the storm are out. They will all return home and go on with their lives.
So the question becomes, so we go back to what we came from, or do we go back with an idea that maybe what we were doing doesn’t work so well. Do we quit complaining about the high price of gas or do we give George Bush and his Oil Buddies notice that we want a better way to live than this.
The idea is not to try to plan to get 2.5 million people out of a centralized area in an emergency – we need to do that for the short term. What we need for the long term is to plan a way to technology to move people to areas in which to live that are not disaster prone and not concentrate them in a stress ridden Gridlocked dysfunctional cities.
It starts with you. No one owes you anything; you are on your own. Can you look around and figure out that if you work with others life can be easier?
Sunday, September 18, 2005
Out of Words
It seems that I am out of words. I have been here before. The total futility of trying to change anything, unless it is for the worse, just gets overwhelming.
The war drags on and we need to get the troops home before the disarray in the Bush Administration creates some kind of additional disaster like the bombing of the barracks in Lebanon.
The plain and simple fact is that the vast majority of Americans didn't much care about the poor people of New Orleans before Katrina and we don't much care about them now. We don't want them to drown - at least not all at once - but we really don't want them to move into our back yard either. So we are putting "No Room in the Inn" signs on our cities and the displaced have to move on.
The social fabric of our country is slowly becoming tattered and frayed and we have no moral leaders. Those in leadership positions in the Church have lost credibility because they stepped away form faith and moved into politics. There is not some grand conspiracy of the secular world to belittle Christians, unfortunately the James Dobsons and Pat Robertsons of the our country have done that on their own.
Leadership in the Political world is non-existent. As strange as it sounds if I were to be tasked with deciding who the next president would be, I think I would choose Maxine Waters and John Conyers as her VP. As far as I can see they are the only ones with any real leadership in the whole elected US Government.
The war drags on and we need to get the troops home before the disarray in the Bush Administration creates some kind of additional disaster like the bombing of the barracks in Lebanon.
The plain and simple fact is that the vast majority of Americans didn't much care about the poor people of New Orleans before Katrina and we don't much care about them now. We don't want them to drown - at least not all at once - but we really don't want them to move into our back yard either. So we are putting "No Room in the Inn" signs on our cities and the displaced have to move on.
The social fabric of our country is slowly becoming tattered and frayed and we have no moral leaders. Those in leadership positions in the Church have lost credibility because they stepped away form faith and moved into politics. There is not some grand conspiracy of the secular world to belittle Christians, unfortunately the James Dobsons and Pat Robertsons of the our country have done that on their own.
Leadership in the Political world is non-existent. As strange as it sounds if I were to be tasked with deciding who the next president would be, I think I would choose Maxine Waters and John Conyers as her VP. As far as I can see they are the only ones with any real leadership in the whole elected US Government.
Monday, March 21, 2005
Humpty Dumpty falls on Powell
One of the arguments for staying in Iraq is the Powell statement that "You broke, you own it."
I agree with that. That does not imply an obligation to fix or repair the broken item. It implies that you pay for it.
In the wreckage that is the Broken Iraq, we have paid already, 1850 lives of Soldiers and 190 billion dollars. The price increases every minute.
It is being proposed that somehow we are suppoesed to "fix" the Broken Iraq. Powell does not apply here. Humpty Dumpty does.
I agree with that. That does not imply an obligation to fix or repair the broken item. It implies that you pay for it.
In the wreckage that is the Broken Iraq, we have paid already, 1850 lives of Soldiers and 190 billion dollars. The price increases every minute.
It is being proposed that somehow we are suppoesed to "fix" the Broken Iraq. Powell does not apply here. Humpty Dumpty does.
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