With the death (or as the Republicans say “starvation”) of Terri Schiavo’s and the imminent loss of the Pope it may seem like the end of the world. Let me reassure you that we have a couple of more years.

Over the last couple of weeks the news has really been inundated with Schiavo’s struggle to die. I have heard both sides from the family and the husband. I have seen the media spin this in so many directions, I think many times last week even they didn’t know what the fuck was going on. I have in my life seen some pretty messed up shit, but what the media and the courts have done to this woman not to mention her family is fucked up.

Let me state right now, if I am a vegetable who can smile and move my eyes, PULL THE PLUG. Game over right, that’s not living. To make it even worse you are going to fight with my no good husband to keep me alive for what I see as selfish reasons. Then put my picture in that state, on national TV. What a nightmare! That poor woman, if there is a heaven she is there, because someone who had to endure such great agony deserves something better.

This is a shinning example of why politics, where it is involved in everything we do, should keep the hell out of this type of situation. White men with power and bad hair should not be allowed to mingle in the affairs of families. When politicians or men with great power see the chance to not only forward there own political future but to elevate other political agendas, evil ensues. They used this woman and her family’s misfortune to build a case for Republican re-election, abortion, the right to die, Jesus and the Presidency of the United States. I am not going to deny the fact the family used the media in the same fashion, to help promote their case. But I would like to think it was out of love and not for power?

Don’t get me wrong, or do see if I give a shit, I feel for the family. I think it would be hard for me to pull the plug on my child. But I would like to think, that I would do the right thing for him/her. To be in that state the whole of your life with no way out. Is that anyway to live?

To my friends the Republicans and the Right to Life crowd, I hope you all end up in some vegetative state trapped in your own minds. Lying there going crazy, blinking your eyes and moving your mouth. As you are trying to tell us to kill you, to end your misery so you don’t have to live like this anymore. I will come and visit you and fight for your right to have the tub removed, because unlike you, I am human and I have respect for all humans not just White Christens.

Schiavo
The Pope

Looks like it might be that time again. The Pope has been hospitalized with a “breathing crisis”? Maybe I will finally get my chance. I have always wanted to be God on earth!

Pope Nytimes

Read this article in the Times and maybe you will see what I think I see. Yes, dead people, a lot of them all over the country. But that’s not it. No, look, I have been saying it since the start of this mess. Iraq is just the stepping stone to total control of the region. We have the troops and the resources in place. All we have to do now is prove to the American people these countries are dangerous. I am not talking about just evil or some kind of terrirost threat. You are going to have convince this post Weapons of Mass destruction America it can’t go on unless it rids the world of these non-Christian heathens. It won’t be as easy as last time; we have become a smarter country?

Wait its going to be really easy. We love killing others in the world and doing it with a clean slate. I love this God fearing nation.

Iran helping insurgents!

It seems a DOD employee has been accused of giving secrets to the Israelis. There is an investigation underway. The employee in question has been known to be pro-Israel. Has ties to various groups and has been involved with them in the last couple of years.

I am sure we will get to the bottom of this whole secrets debacle. These kinds of incidents are happening all the time. I am also sure it will cost us an arm and a leg. What I really want to know is what secrets have we not already given them.

Let us look at the short list. We have given them the BOMB and a good portion of our military equipment. We share intelligence with them on a regular basis as they are our stepping stone and foot hold in the Middle East. This along with the billions of dollars we give this country every year in aid. I think this is quite a lot. Do they really need to know more about what we are up to?

Now I know, in this age of information, it is always good to know what everyone is doing. Especially if we suddenly decided to sluff off our closest ally and back, I don’t know, Iran?

I guess the old adage rings true. Keep your enemies close and your friends closer. In the end I guess we spy and steal things from them all the time too. The kicker is, we probably provide the initial training to them way back in the late forties.

Department of here you go Israel

There are two big stories leading the news today, I don’t see the Olympics as one of those stories. I mean, come on is a guy or gal breaks some time record going to change my life? Better yet, will I think of this record breaking moment ever again? No I doubt I will, well at least not until the next Olympics. I am going to hold off on the Olympics bashing for its own blog.

Yes, the first big story is the hand over of some masque in the “holy city” of Najaf in Iraq. Now I know as an American I should give a shit about this particular hand over and the end of violence. I do care about the end of violence in this region but my optimism for the true end is a little waning. I like most Americans are ready to get out and be done with this debacle. I am going to sing a little song about it, here goes.

This land is their land, from the tigress river to the southern oil fields, from ousted dictator, to the puppet government from the hostile factions to the debunked army, to the mass corruption to the poor planning cause this land was made for them not me.

I know we are not leaving and we will have to endure even more causalities as this “transition” to a free Iraq continues. I guess I am just tired of hearing about the mess that is Iraq. Maybe I am just tired of reading about the death and destruction of a whole country. When I read about all the things, billions of dollars gone missing, oil prices on the rise, innocent civilians dying, American military coming home in body bags. This situation ways heavy on my mind as I am sure it does for the rest of the country. It is not just about the people, it is about the state of affairs in the country. I am still hopeful that all will work out in the favor of these proud people. I hope we can make it to the real election and the out come will help bring peace and stability. Come on you can have hope with me.

The other big story, I know there are many, oil prices. Yes as an American who is use to paying 19 cents for gasoline. This jump in crude oil prices has got me itching in my pockets. All I keep think is, wait we have gone to war against another nation for better oil prices. What the hell happened? I know that was not the “real” reason? But a warning I put out months ago to my friends in the white house still stands. If you cannot get this oil thing under control, it will become a campaign issue. I know that none of us want that to happen. Plus I would really like to drive my 34 foot SUV to Mexico this year. I hope they work it out before November.

I know I have said to many a person, can’t we all just take the month of August off from our lives and be happy. I think this month should be designated, you can’t kill anyone or do wrong month. I have other ideas for this month too. No clothes month, pay me not to work month, lie on the beach month. I am sure you all can think of a few.

Today is already the 20th of the month. If you have not got your summer grove on yet, do so now! Stop reading these blog’s for a day, turn off the TV and get your ass outside. There will be plenty of time to worry about Iraq, Nuclear Weapons, mass killings, food shortages and so on, later. For now, be happy; run around in the summer air and think of me on the beach with your girlfriend.

Happy Friday all!!

OIL $650 a barrel
Get Away!

These Unions will not stand!! I heard the god talking to me, or maybe that was nothing more than the wind. Either way I know in my Christian heart these damn gays should not be entering the blessed union of marriage.

As if this were any great surprise, the California Supreme Court made all the gays very unhappy yesterday. It reversed all the legal marriages declaring them void. Well at least until the appeal process. So once again, people are starving and being killed and we are worried about marriage. I think sometimes this country’s head is firmly placed in its own ass.

Gays/Marriage–NO

Neo: New; recent: Neolithic; new and different; new world.
Conservative: One favoring traditional views and values; a supporter of political conservatism.

We have all heard the press go on and on about the neo-conservatives (neocon) in this country. It is one of the buzz words we as Americans love to use when it comes to politics. Matter of fact we just love to label people, makes it easier to put them in a box. You know the labels rich, poor, old, young, punk, liberal, conservative, dickhead, square, motor head, geek, pompous fuck, loser, know it all, miss-speller and so on. Neocon is just a better way of saying war monger. That might be a little over the top for the term. It might be easier to say, the White House, but then again they would probably take it as a compliment.

You are asking yourself right about now, “what the hell is he talking about?” Don’t worry I am going somewhere with this, you have to keep reading.

So all these neocons in top positions of government, some say, are the reason we are all mixed up in Iraq. They wanted a war that would bring more oil and a better footing in the Middle East. Some of the more liberal among us have suggested there might be a money trail. As in the men running the show were going to make a pile of dollars? But that seems on the fringe, I mean come on a war to make money? Oh, almost forgot, “they tried to kill me daddy”, he had a say in this also. So given the team, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield, Wolfowitz and the bunch, this is what they have given us in the last four years.

This conservative way of thinking has brought this country the biggest debt in history. Deficit spending has made a return. Finally, for the first time in our nation’s history we attacked another country without reason. I know what you are thinking, and there were no WMD. The connection between al Qaida and Iraq was non-existent. This is just the short list. Where does this leave us you ask? Iran, yes I said Iran. If you put your ear to the ground you will hear this sound coming from neocons, (whispering) we must bomb Iran!

My grandmother said it best, if you fail, pickup, try again and this time don’t fuck up. Maybe my grandmother said it without the profanity. I think what she was trying to say was this, if you make a mistake like invading Iraq; don’t try to make it better by invading another country. I am not sure what is traditional, conservative or Christian about bombing and invading another country? I am really not sure how anyone can think by doing this it will help get ride of the demons of the past. But given my most resent read and what has been flowing out of Washington. This seems to be the new thought? I am not sure how it works but the next time I am with some neocons at church or in a bar, I will ask.

This way of thinking has our little country in some hot water. We have done nothing but piss off the rest of the globe. I know the neocons among you would say, who gives a shit, we don’t need the world. I am sure they would end the statement with, I hate the UN! I know the UN is not perfect, but why is it necessary for ever conservative I know to hate the UN? I think I will save that for another blog. The fact of the matter is this; you can hate the UN and tell the world to piss off. But I want you to think about something the next time you are in a Wal-Mart or buying clothes at Nordstrom’s. Our economy is integrated into the world market. Everything you own or are thinking of owning has in someway come from somewhere else on the globe. The notion that we can simply bully the world into our way of life is folly. If this neocon way of foreign relations continues, bombing and invading every country on the planet, we will be all alone. Worse yet these policies are forcing us into a real war with high casualties. Maybe even nuclear?

In the end you have only one choice. If you want to continue fighting wars for, I don’t know WORLD DOMINATION, then stick with Bush and his neocon buddies. I think you can see the writing on the wall and it is written in the blood of American service men and women. I just hope come Election Day we put these boys and girls back in the black box they came in and shot them into the sun.

21 Reasons
Iran Factbook

Here is a little something that always gets under my skin. This is just what I am always talking about, we can not let the church and the state mix because the next thing we know we will have someone like that governor from Texas running things?

The piece below is about how Congress is passing a loophole law to help out church’s and their quest to become political movers and shakers. I guess this has always been the case, you cant have one with out the other. I just don’t think we should mix them to the point where they might become to powerful and integrated with the system. I think this is what the founding fathers were up to, but I will have to check on that fact….

Who should I vote for, call the Church

Ok so I have been asked too many times this week and for the last month how I feel about this Bishop here in the COS. As a recovering Catholic, as my friend Heiser calls us, I am not sure I give a shit about some powerless man and his ramblings. I mean this is a guy who has given up what almost all men, wait all men, are after and that is the affection of a woman. Ok, sex. I don’t know about you but it freaks me out a little bit, not so much the little boy thing, only a few are into that kinda thing…right?

My parents, those kind souls, are still bashing it out in the Catholic realm of boredom. They still go to church each week but I suspect that is the same reason everyone else goes. It’s for the free wine and bread they hand out. No, they go because it is a great social setting where they meet like minded people. Well all accept they are a rare bread of Catholics that somehow forgot they were once Democrats and are now REPUBLICANS!! My mom voted fat Nixon and all three of my family members voted for BUSH in the last election.

Anyway, Sheridan is the Bishops name and making a fool out of himself is his game. The big deal for Catholics is that this Bishop and others throughout the country have said if you don’t follow the Catholic doctrine you can forget the free bread. I am sure most of you have heard of the guy and read or seen it on the old TV. It is all the talk here in the greater COS and I thought I better bring myself up to speed. In doing this I will bring you too speed too. You can thank me later by sending some of that sacramental wine my way.

By the way he has since back peddled a bit with the article he made comment in yesterday. Also he is at the Vatican right this moment talking it up the Pope. So, stay tuned to more fun with Catholicism in the coming weeks!! YEAH

Here is the letter he wrote as well as a couple of news clips.

To My Peps
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