Centrist Musings
My thought on this whole thing is pretty clear. I am not here to sway middle of the roaders. People who sit on the fence and speculate. I have no interest in people who cannot make up their minds about something so incredibly obvious. It’s only those that are removed from the situation that have the luxury of a long, leisurely paced stroll to opinion. I have to visualize standing in the middle of some Iraqi street with gunfire, bombs, screams, cries, chaos and thinking – well, I don’t really know if this situation, this war situation is something I am ready to form an opinion about. I can’t imagine how someone could watch another human being having gasoline injected into his penis and still feel the need for contemplation on the whole notion of torture. It boggles my mind. If you are for the war, if you think it is a good idea, fine. Say so. If you are against the war, if you think it’s a bad idea, then by-gum, say something. These hemmers and hawers are driving me insane! Hillary got booed because the huge majority of people who lean towards the left are not interested in making nice and slowly, cautiously come to some middle ground. This is a war and they want it over with. Period. You can talk about destabilization, you can talk about chaos, you can talk about anything you want, but as it stands now – Iraq is the poster child for instability, it is chaos and there are ways to get the heck out of there without making it worse. It’s just not easy to boil down to the nauseating prose of Sean Insanity with his cut and run nonsense. It means getting all the people who live in the surrounding areas to work towards stabilization. Think about it. If say…Oklahoma was in chaos and all crazy, don’t you think it would be best for those states surrounding Oklahoma to go in and say, let us help? Doesn’t that make more sense than say, Uzbekistan rolling in with tanks and artillery to bring about peace?
I have pledged to use clean energy. I am doing it.
I have pledged to see an Inconvenient Truth. I am going to see it.
I have pledged to use those energy efficient light bulbs. I’m doing it.
I have pledged to not vote for anyone who does not put getting out of Iraq in his/her top 5 priorities. I am so doing it.

It seems to me that when the neocons took over they made no effort whatsoever to bring the country together. It was all about dividing. When the dems/liberals come in, it’s all they talk about – mending a torn nation, blah blah blah. I say, no. An unbridled market is an out of control market. An unregulated corporation is a destructive corporation. An unmonitored, cloaked in secrecy government is no longer for and by the people.
Get with the program or step aside. We are working to make things better for EVERYONE, not just your people, friends and family, everyone. For all the people, the animals, the land, the air, the water. For all of them we can make this country and this world a lot better. We just need a regime change.

Slimy Musings
And now to rove. I have to say that I didn’t expect anything to stick to this personification of a slug. What a horrid little man he is! Although rove is out of the crosshairs, I do believe that cheney is still in the top three for indictment. That’s just my amateur opinion, but judging from all the buzz out there, well, let’s wait and see.

I went looking to try and figure out how all this works and I found this to be incredibly revealing.

Lee Edwards, a distinguished fellow at the Heritage Foundation, said other administrations have "flinched or blinked or said 'we've got to do more in response to this or that crisis.'"

"Rove and everyone else has been under enormous pressure and yet they have been able to stick to it and that's remarkable," said Edwards


Flinched. Blinked. Respond to crisis. Nope! Not here. Is this something to be proud of? That he went all this time lying about a conversation he had, and then he finally comes clean to the FBI and, that’s noble? Yeah. They’ve been under enormous pressure because they keep lying about everything and covering stuff up and trying to torpedo other people’s credibility. And this is something that a distinguished fellow at Heil Hitler Heritage Global Supremacy Foundation thinks is “remarkable”? Wow. Unbelievable. I guess it is all in one’s perspective.

Hannah Musings
Like the drama that unfolded today with Darryl Hannah and the largest urban farm located in South Central Los Angeles that – no! say it isn’t so! How…how can it be??!! A take over of land being used by 350 farmers to sustain themselves and their families for what?
A warehouse.
But of course! Because there simply aren’t enough warehouses, especially when one compares it to the number of inner city farming communities which, as we all know, are running rampant and it’s is HIGH time someone stopped that runaway train!
Sheesh.
Personally, any movie that has had Darryl Hannah in it was one that made me wrinkle my nose and subtly but briskly shake my head in rejection. I don’t consider her to be a very good actress. But activist? Oh yeah! She is a rock star. She speaks out for all the things that are important to me. And anyone, ANYONE, that goes and climbs a walnut tree in the middle of LA and ties herself to the tree in protest goes straight to the ROCKSTAR section of this blog….which of course is under construction, i.e. nonexistent.
But that’s ok, because DH has taken a stand about local farming. Considering that this is the direction this country should be heading – moving towards local growers as opposed to growers from whom we must transport produce and product driving the price up because of the exorbitant cost of fuel – I say well done DH! She has so stepped up to the plate on this issue.
I did like her in Splash. And as she gets older, and takes more roles with content over kewpie, she gains credibility, acting wise.

Conflict Musings
And now to the recent statements out of Israel regarding the bomb that blew up the picnicking family. Now they say that Hamas (oooooooh, rilly?) planted that bomb to keep Israeli commandos off the strip.
Hmmm.
Considering Israel has sent over 6000 missiles into the Gaza Strip as of late, this is a little questionable, especially considering their initial response of regret for the incident.
I am reluctant to give my point of view on this. It’s like touching an infected splinter. Pain all the way around no matter what you do.
I don’t think we get all the information in regards to Palestine and Israel. I had no idea that Israel was bombing the crap out of Gaza. I had heard about some incidents, but it isn’t until we saw that little girl running around looking for her family on the beach that this stuff gets revealed. And then it’s turned back around on Palestine? Huh? This is a country with no income, that has its police and civil servants protesting because of no pay? I think because the US supports Israel, we get a skewed version of Israel and Palestine. Israel is more powerful that Palestine, but if relations continue like this, the other Muslim nations are going to throw all their weight behind Palestine – because in their eyes it looks like a big bully is just smacking the crud out of a little guy, and no one likes that. Do they?

Git-mo’ Musings
After dozens of attempts, and suicides were finally achieved at Gitmo Bay, with Tony B. making cutting gestures across his neck in reference to the “enemy combatant and other made up names to bypass law” house of shame as well as the entire WORLD telling him to "shutterdown!", bush says – gosh, y’all, I’d like to but we have to wait on the court case. OMG. This guy. This crazy mixed up, head up his ass, guy. Stop. You are killing me! Ten. TEN out of the 500 have been charged with a crime.
10.
The prisoner accounts are going to be bad, once lockdown is lifted, and all the lies about “secret prisons? Wha? What secret prisons?”, about rendition, about torture, about who’s freaking responsibility it all is , is going to come to the fore and it is not going to be pretty. Because this administration has a tendency to hunker down, refusing to come clean, wince or blink. It is going to be like pulling teeth. But the teeth will be pulled, and the abscess that is this administration will be expunged. We will get through all the foulness, filth and embarrassment at being so gullible for so long, but we will emerge stronger and wiser.

It will be a glorious new day.

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