Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Being Lazy is A Bitch
That definately slows down my writing here, but what's Bush's excuse for his speech tonight. Seriously... I swear he just recycled his greatest hits from the last two years and spit it back out again...
Everything is getting better ---except for the growing insurgency and the killings and the (lack of) infastructure
We fight them over there so we don't have to fight them here--- of course, better known as the "Red Dawn" defense. If we didn't maintain that embargo against Cuba, they're become a world power and take over the United States faster than you can suggest that China's already doing that economically. Let's be honest. You won't find a bigger red herring in the lake adjacent to Chernobyl. Just because they're fighting us in Iraq, doesn't mean they can't come here. Do you think Al-Qaeda really sits there in meetings and shoots down ideas to attack us here because they can't afford a plane ticket? I doubt it.
He also said our enemy's greatest fear is freedom...honestly? Freedom? Ten terrorists surround a single american soldier, he offers to take them with him to freedom....they drop their guns and flee...one kills himself, choking to death on his own tyranny. Please.
The worst thing about the speech, it lacked the candor that it needs to get people behind the war. Just be honest.
We lied to get into this because we thought it would give us an advantage in certain areas of the world...we did it for you...we were wrong. But we, unfortunately, can't leave now because Iraq would fall into chaos and that vaccum might create a dangerous situation in the middle east. It's gonna take us a couple of years, but eventually we'll jerry-rig something there that will allow us to pull a lot of our troops back home.
Again, sorry about that whole war thing.
Everything is getting better ---except for the growing insurgency and the killings and the (lack of) infastructure
We fight them over there so we don't have to fight them here--- of course, better known as the "Red Dawn" defense. If we didn't maintain that embargo against Cuba, they're become a world power and take over the United States faster than you can suggest that China's already doing that economically. Let's be honest. You won't find a bigger red herring in the lake adjacent to Chernobyl. Just because they're fighting us in Iraq, doesn't mean they can't come here. Do you think Al-Qaeda really sits there in meetings and shoots down ideas to attack us here because they can't afford a plane ticket? I doubt it.
He also said our enemy's greatest fear is freedom...honestly? Freedom? Ten terrorists surround a single american soldier, he offers to take them with him to freedom....they drop their guns and flee...one kills himself, choking to death on his own tyranny. Please.
The worst thing about the speech, it lacked the candor that it needs to get people behind the war. Just be honest.
We lied to get into this because we thought it would give us an advantage in certain areas of the world...we did it for you...we were wrong. But we, unfortunately, can't leave now because Iraq would fall into chaos and that vaccum might create a dangerous situation in the middle east. It's gonna take us a couple of years, but eventually we'll jerry-rig something there that will allow us to pull a lot of our troops back home.
Again, sorry about that whole war thing.
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Whoa
So I was driving today and saw a Cadillac Escalade with a biodiesel sticker on the back. See, now that's what I call compromise.
Saturday, June 04, 2005
Love
I was in love once, but it ended quickly after I asked for my money back. I just thought it cheapened things for me to pay for something so clearly performed in love. That hurt a bit.
Hey Kids
Sorry it's been so long. Was out of town for a bit and a little busy on the work and home fronts. Went to North Carolina for my Grandfather's 90th birthday. It was interesting. Stayed at this place out side of Ashville that lacked both phones and cable television. I didn't realize they made places like that anymore. In fact, I'm pretty convinced that a U-N Human Rights tribunal had banned such barbaric places...sadly since there was no phone I couldn't call anyone to report it.
There were two interesting things that occurred that weekend. The first was I gave golf a try for the first time. Only on the driving range, but it was not too bad. Hard time not smacking at the ball like I was playing baseball. My dad kept yelling at me to keep my head down, but I didn't think that was a good idea. I figured with the way I was hitting the ball, it would have been better for those around me if I knew where the ball was going to scream out a good "fore!" or even "Holy shit! Get down! For the love of god, please duck!"
By the time I was done, I was able to hit a ball quite a ways and stright for the most part. Not sure if I'm rich enough yet to do more with golf right now, but who knows.
The second thing occured while driving throught he mountains of Western North Carolina. They are beautiful hills, but I ran across a confounding sign along the way. It read: "You are now crossing the Eastern Continental Divide".
I did a double take and asked my brother if he'd seen the same sign. He had, but neither of us could figure out what the hell it meant. For those who don't know, the "continental divide" runs through the Rockies. It's the line of deliniation for the direction that rivers run. East of the divide rivers run east, west, they run west. So, what the hell does the Eastern Continental Divide do? As far as we were able to determine, east of the Eastern Continental Divide, rivers run east. West of the Eastern Continental Divide, the water pools until it hits the Rockies.
If you know any different, feel free to let me know.
There were two interesting things that occurred that weekend. The first was I gave golf a try for the first time. Only on the driving range, but it was not too bad. Hard time not smacking at the ball like I was playing baseball. My dad kept yelling at me to keep my head down, but I didn't think that was a good idea. I figured with the way I was hitting the ball, it would have been better for those around me if I knew where the ball was going to scream out a good "fore!" or even "Holy shit! Get down! For the love of god, please duck!"
By the time I was done, I was able to hit a ball quite a ways and stright for the most part. Not sure if I'm rich enough yet to do more with golf right now, but who knows.
The second thing occured while driving throught he mountains of Western North Carolina. They are beautiful hills, but I ran across a confounding sign along the way. It read: "You are now crossing the Eastern Continental Divide".
I did a double take and asked my brother if he'd seen the same sign. He had, but neither of us could figure out what the hell it meant. For those who don't know, the "continental divide" runs through the Rockies. It's the line of deliniation for the direction that rivers run. East of the divide rivers run east, west, they run west. So, what the hell does the Eastern Continental Divide do? As far as we were able to determine, east of the Eastern Continental Divide, rivers run east. West of the Eastern Continental Divide, the water pools until it hits the Rockies.
If you know any different, feel free to let me know.
