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Lets face it…War is a racket!

President Obama has, I suspect in order to relieve his incredible work load, turned over the war to the generals. (Eventually he was bound to follow the path of least resistance.) The generals will, without question, continue GWB’s domino plan. His plan, if you’ll recall, was to go from Muslim country to Muslim country on a Christian Jihad dedicated to eradicating the Taliban. (More truthfully
perhaps, eliminating Muslims.) Evidently, that’s still our plan.

What should have been a rabbit hunt, where a few thousand of our elite special forces troops chase a few hundred of the 9/11 perpetrators into the mountains and caves, will be blown into $100 billion annual expenditure. The generals will attempt to justify a MacArthur style sweep throughout the Middle East. The fact that
Osama bin Laden, the ALLEGED target of our pursuit, has been dead these last 8 years doesn’t seem to dim the generals enthusiasm to hunt down and capture him.

The generals will fight this war phony with overworked, worn-out, suicidal troops. At least one soldier, when faced with yet a third tour to the Middle East, elected to end his own life rather than return. The suicide rate among the military is increasing monthly!

We will pay for this war on credit at our most critical economic point, when the stability of the nation’s economic and financial well-being is still in question. We will neglect the needs of this nation in favor of another useless and unproductive war on the other side of the planet. In spite of what our leaders tell us, it doesn’t take a big brain to realize what’s going on outside our borders has nothing to do with our national security. No country on the map today is crazy enough to take on the USA.

If our national security is weak it is because our National Guard is overseas. The rationale behind sending our national defense troops overseas is as substantial as fog. The really stupid part of what we are being expected to swallow by the war council is that the people in these countries subjected to our bombarding appreciate us. It really
takes a complete moron to even consider we may be able to win over the hearts and minds of a people by using guns and bombs on them.

We might stand a chance of winning over a nation’s people if we helped them to build schools or hospitals. If we helped the poorest of the world’s nations with their infrastructure; their roads or electrical grid or water resources. If we did so I suspect they would learn to love us in double quick time. As long as we abuse their country they will never love or even appreciate us. But imagine the noise and uproar the good citizens of this country would create if it were known we were upgrading their country before upgrading our own infrastructure. It is much more politically correct to bomb them first.

The insanity of continuing to do over and over what has failed in the past will continue to plague our future.

The people in this once great nation are either too poorly informed, too misguided, too greedy, or too apathetic to care what is done in their name.

We follow blindly the actions of our leaders for one overarching reason. We all believe our nation’s deciders know more than we do. We sincerely believe they have secret knowledge which, were we privy to it, would convince us the course we are on is true.

However, after watching the Bush/Cheney parade of people spouting the same lies over and over, I am convinced otherwise.

Fact: we are alienating the very people we are supposedly liberating. By indiscriminately killing them we couldn’t possibly do more harm to our long-term interest.

We have allowed our generals to bring to full living color the popular board game RISK. One huge difference between a game and real-life is at the end of the game the troops, with no enemies to face, presumably get to go home. Our troops will never come home.

How much would you pay yourself …

if you were in charge of your own salary?

HYMM

If the truth were told I suppose most of the good,
hard-working, honest, God fearing people of this
nation would be embarrassed to pay themselves
more than $100,000 per year.

They would dedicate their life and limb to doing
the best job possible for that kind of money. They
would pay their taxes, make their mortgage
payments, pay their bills on time, send their kids
to college and in general be good neighbors and
good citizens.

Unfortunately, there aren’t enough 100 K jobs left
to support a village anymore. In fact, there aren’t
enough 40 K jobs, or 20 K jobs, or minimum wage
jobs either. You can still find plenty of work to do
for free.

The top dogs make an average of 400 times the
average base pay per hour. That means if you
make $10 an hour they make $4000. Heck, that’s
still less than $1 million a year. That’s mere pocket
change to the boys with the big appetites on the Street.

I’m not the first to suggest that maybe, just maybe
something is rotten in America. Somewhere over the
past century Denmark started smelling like tulips
and we started smelling like, well, industrial waste.
(Hello New Jersey)

The average serf hasn’t gone far since he crossed
the pond.

To a 20-year-old looking forward 20 years seems

like looking into eternity.

To a 60-year-old looking back 20 years seems

like looking back a few weeks, months at most.

To a 20-year-old the time till your 21st birthday

is forever. Time passes so slowly you can count

the seconds.

By the time you reach 60 time is moving so fast

the days are a blur. You wonder what became

of  last week or last month.

At 20 we have ants in our pants and can’t stay

still for more than a minute. At 60 we sit down

to read a good book after breakfast and the next

time we look up it’s lunchtime.

If we could only have that longtime perspective

during our youth and realize that 20 years down

the road is far shorter than it appears. Long time

is just a trick of time’s perspective.

Looking backward through time’s perspective is

similar to looking at things in your car’s rear view

mirror… Things appear closer than they really are.

Looking forward in time we get tunnel vision and

things seem much further away than they really are.

Somewhere in time we hope our perspective

balances out. Eventually our internal clock slows

down enough that things behind us in life are no

longer stretched out of proportion; and the future

isn’t compressed to the point where you think you

can just jump ahead in line in no time.

You mellow out.

You get to relax for a while.

Hopefully/Maybe.

Interesting concept.  Taken at face value I guess it could mean laundering the dirt from our brains.

But brains don’t have dirt.  I know this from watching Grey’s anatomy.  So it must mean something else.

How about this? Brainwashing means replacing either what was already in your brain with something else or placing something in a space in your brain formally unoccupied.

The result of washing anything is supposed to be a positive experience.  In actuality brainwashing never is.  I can say that because I know brainwashing either modifies ideas gained by your own experience, or brainwashing puts ideas of others in your head which you now claim as your own.

In either case you are now no longer your own man.  Pieces of you, or more importantly pieces of your brain, are now in the care and custody of other’s thoughts.

All people are good people at birth and most people manage to stay that way through life.  Most people just want to live and let live.

But some of us are really sick, and who can say why.  When good people fall victim to brainwashing from extremists and sickos and don’t have the advantage of contrary points of view bad things happen.

Fighting terrorism with an army is ridiculous.  Armies never get inside anyone’s head; they only destroy their bodies. Fighting terrorism is a one-on-one business.  You must win over people by example.  You can only show them a better way; you can’t force them to follow you.  We must lead by example, not try to force compliance.  One must show respect, not contempt, for people of different faiths and their beliefs.

Everybody has one.  Nobody’s is the same.

Some say let the sun shine in.  Others don’t

want anything more than a single ray to get

through their filter.

So what happened?  Who won?  I guess you

could say two opposites developed. Google,

on one side, said give me all your mail, spam

and all.  I’ve got storage for everything.

AOL, on the other hand, said they needed

permission from their client’s to forward anything

at all to their inboxes.  “Unless you, the sender,

are white-listed by our client, your mail will be

forwarded to the trash can”.

Every other mail service like Yahoo, MSN, AT&T,

etc. all have different tolerance levels.  This

spawned a whole bunch of bad grammar. All of a

sudden money became mo*ney, and free became

fr*e or fr.ee.  I am an agreeable guy but I don’t

like my lexicon mangled.

Here is my open letter to my provider:

Dear filter screen thwarter,

I like reading the Queen’s English.  I like to

connect with what I am reading and I don’t

connect with fr.ee, or fr*e or some other spam

filter frustrator abomination of the English

language.

If what you are trying to sell me you need to

sneak past my filter, I want your message to be

screened. If you can state your pitch clearly and

I like don’t like your pitch, I want you to be

spammed, damned, and banned forever more!

If, on the other hand, I like your message, I want

to be connected immediately to your server, so my

order can be processed without delay. 

And I expect you to know the difference.

Any questions?