In which the middle-aged Peacenik mouths off about War Drones--and all the other things that make him cranky.
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So some poor schlub tries to catch a baseball and denies a Cubby from making an out. The Cubs then go on to lose the game and later the series.
And this poor schlub gets all the blame and is now getting terrible harrassment from just about everyone in Chicago.
Hey Buddy - simple solution. Publish a letter in the papers. Get on the local radio. Get on local TV. Get your butt out there and loudly proclaim for all the Cubby Fans to hear:
"Leave me the hell alone or I will curse the Cubs to never, EVER win another World Series!"
The Supreme Court will look at the "Under God" controversy, that perhaps those words in our Pledge of Allegiance are some sort of religious affirmation.
I'm hoping that the Supreme Court finds the cajones to say that indeed those words do violate the Constitution and that the worsd should be removed from the Pledge and our money.
Some people feel that, heck, it's only two words and you don't have to say them. You don't even have to recite the pledge. Well then, to be fair, let's add "Under Satan" to the Pledge. It's only two words. You don't have to say them.
Some people feel that removing the words will remove religion from our our lives. Ridiculous. What it will do is remove religion from the Government. If the Middle East hasn't taught you anything it should. Religion and Politics are an extrmemely dangerous mix.
Some people feel that our country is a Christian country and that the words are appropriate. Like I just said above - Religion and Politics are a bad mix. Our Founding Fathers may have been mostly Christian but they understood and explicitly created a separation between Church and State.
"President" Bush and his Crusade. The Middle East and the screams for Jihad. Any real difference.
Besides, asking a kid to recite the Pledge of Allegiance always smacked me of sheer propaganda. Even when I was a kid in Elementary School it sounded fishy. What's going to happen if you don't recite the Pledge, will someone kick you out of the country? If you do recite will someone give you a gun and trot you off to war? Oh yeah, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Bush, Cheney...it's a reality. It's a bitch of a reality.
I got into blogging as a reaction to the postings of a close friend. Her rantings were an enjoyable read and since I usually disagreed with her viewpoints I'd find myself gnashing the remnants of my teeth and aching for some way to reply.
Recently at an end-of-summer party at my humble domain I mentioned to her that she'd sold out. That she didn't write so much as just post links and become a link whore. By her own admission she's out for page hits.
She posted that incident on her blog this past week and then proceded to blast me for having a Paypal link on my blog, meaning that I'm not out for hits but for money. She thinks I sold out for the green.
(How can we politely say hypocrite.) She then writes that she plans to put monetary links on her blog as well. So she's selling out for hits and the green. But it's OK for her, not OK for me. I can't figure out that one. She did get in a good jibe about my lack of readership. Thing is, I write more for catharsis. If someone stumbles on this site and enjoys the writing - great. If not, fine too.
Sadly, she completely misunderstood my original comment. By calling her a link whore, I meant (and thought I said so) that her bloggings had become unreadable because all they had were links. No original content. No rantings. No venom. Just - "Lookee! Lookee! See what site I've linked to or has linked to me." The problem is that it's boring. Most everyone else does that. Too many blogs are nothing but links. Great for upping the hit counts but boring reading. It's blog masturbation without the orgasm.
Any who. Little Miss Attila, your country needs you. In one of your very early posts, you stated that you had definitive proof that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction. Please forward this intel to our Government immediately because - shucks - they still can't find any after all this time and billions of dollars. You might get a reward!
If/when the U.S finally admits that there are no WMD will you be apologizing about the illegal invasian of Iraq? For anything? (I've noticed that gun-toting, right-wing Republicans don't apologize much when they do something outright wrong, illegal, or immoral. They'd rather posture and place the blame somewhere else. Something about Might and Right.)
P.S. LMM - I considered hiring you to clean the Zoo over here but (1) I wouldn't do that to you or 2) you'd take one look, get that "You're shitting me!" look, and quote me a price I couldn't afford without a 2nd mortgage. Heck, the necessary cleaning supplies would break me. Oh well, I'll clean when the kids move out.
