No apology, no excuses I just haven’t written.
Let me see what I can rustle up for you.
Passed into 63’hood quietly, got health insurance coming April 1st, getting a preliminary indication of a tax refund,still on this side of the grass, and according to my wife I’m getting much more “cranky”.
Friend of mine who was a full bird Colonel in the USAF sent me some footage of a C-130 aircraft attaching a bunch of insurgents. Damn have we gotten sophisticated. All I could think of was the scene from the Tom Clancy movie “Patriot games”, the little moving white figures and the shaded grey visuals of trees, fences, vehicles and buildings and the little white tracer rounds and “poof” trucks disappear, little stick men evaporate, a voice over of the “fire controller” with comments like “to your left, behind the water tower,….he’s running,…smoke ’em.” And poof another stick man goes to meet his 70 Virgins.
(Here comes the cranky part!) If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a hundred times, if we are doin’ war, …let’s do war!
I am not a “hawk”, but neither am I a “dove”, I never ran from a fight, but then again I don’t pick fights either. If you attempt to rain on my parade you WILL get a bolt of lightning right up your ass. So what does that make me?
‘Nother subject, this election. It scares the shit out of me. First time in my life I ever saw not a single winner poossible! Sure someone will win, but the election is about our Country winning,….and no matter who is elected we are going to lose!
(Another cranky point here!) I blame the root cause of poor leadership in this country solely on the damn media. Even I wouldn’t run for dog catcher! We are all human beings, and at some point (except for Jesus Christ!) we’ve all done something stupid, dumb or hurtful to others. Does that make us evil bastards who don’t deserve to live? Hell no! But our media feels obligated to expose every scrap of humanity in our being regardless of it’s impact, simply to make a profit, be it selling newspapers, getting more for commercial time on TV or Radio, or just plain pushing an agenda.
Now I’ve always voted, and I try and think it through and make my vote count. But this year, which also feels like a “Star date 34756.8 we are continuing the Election process”, I have a real severe case of “Electile Dysfunction” I really don’t give a shit who is elected, it’s a loss for our Country.
And the next “terrorist attack” well it’s not an “if” as a friend of mine said, but a “when”.
Ok, baby steps I started writing words again, maybe more tomorrow, time to go to work and be cranky. (Got one co-employee who constantly says “I’m sorry” and my patience is about done. Maybe today iis the day I reply, “Don’t be sorry either do your job right or tie a concrete block to your leg and go swimming!”
Owwww! I am cranky!
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So is it politicians generally you’re not a fan of or just the general one’s in this years primaries?
I’m actually quite excited about the US elections, we’ve just recently changed government after 12 years of a more conservative party and the change is just so refreshing it makes me feel hopeful for the first time in a long time.
Also, Happy Birthday Alec!
By: lucy on February 29, 2008
at 1:14 am
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