It was the summer before last and I was at this "day care" place, as they call it called Green Harbor and a guy named Larry responded to one of my innocent comments saying "Yeah, the wheels are really coming off the wagons around here". My last time at Green Harbor was August 1st. 2005, and if Valerie is out there, please ring in. We now have a national situation that qualifies in my mind as inexplicable. I had kind of thought that after George Bush and the Republicans got wiped out in the congressional races, and all the other races, that George would "See the light" like Gov. Swartzenegger did and realize he couldn't go on the way he'd been going but "get religion" and make some dramatic changes, like Nixon or any other president would. But what's happening is that expert after expert is telling us that the Mideast War is lost. If we try A then B will happen, chich isn't good. If we try C then D will happen, which is even worse. That type of thing. The only way that is really open to us now is the Exit door. Bush only met with Malachai for two hours. My guess is that if it had been a really fruitful meeting, he would have met with him five or six hours, and perhaps more than one day. I don't think we have any assurance that the troops that get trained by the Iraqi government will be loyal to our side. Indications are they will be either loyal to the Sunis, Shiites, or Kurds. We can't run a war like that! We have lost three thousand troops. Let's look on the bright side. That's a lot less than in Viet Nam. If we leave now we can save ourselves a lot of Misery. This war has now lasted just longer than World War II for America. That's long enough. Everyone is saying how the military is taxed to the limit, and I really don't think the American public will except a draft. In this current age of equality, that may well prove to be women, too. Are we ready for that? There is a Captain Queeg like obcessiveness to George Bush's thinking now. You know in the Bob Woodward book, Rumsfeld says he didn't want our troops to be bogged down in Iraq like as are in Bosnia and Kosevo. Larry Elder doesn't hesitate to criticize that war for its humanitarian goals. (According to Larry, genocide is not sufficient reason to go to war) Clearly there are other uses those 135,000 troops could be put to besides being in the middle of a Civil War. We are so without a clue we don't even know which side we want to win! How can we participating in the fighting of it? Give our troops the bext Christmas present they could hope for and make an announcement that we are pulling most of our troops out, "with all deliberate speed".
Anne Richards made such a great Keynote speech at the Democratic convention in 1988. We all mourn her passing. She said that George Bush was a man who was born on third base and thinks he hit a tripple. She also said that a dead fish stinks from the head down. There is no doubt that moral darkness pervaided the final years of the Reagan adminestration. That congress did something I hope the current congress does not repeat. I didn't know till yesterday that Dick Chaney was actually a congressman back then during the Iran Contra hearings and that he was minority chairman of the committee. The majority chairman was a man called Lee Hamilton. I remember that name because Bob Dornen had said that the senator reminds him a little of Abraham Lincoln. My curiosity was peaked. I also heard that Lee Hamilton was against abortion. He was pro Life. But Lee Hamilson has another habbit. He likes to roll over and play dead. This democratic senate newly elected in 1986 refused to take the bull by the horns are possibly bring impeachment charges against Ronald Reagan for treasonous acts. Instead Senator Lee Hamilton sought to be "Bi-partisan". So he gives Oliver North immunity and gives him a microphone to let him spiew his propagandistic garbage to the American People on TV. And he's allowed to wear his military uniform. Pathological liars don't deserve to be rewarded with Immunity and given a microphone. Of course they don't deserve being a Presidential pardon either, along with Poindexter. Lord only knows what William Casey knows. He took the easy way out. He died. There are stories of drug dealing along with the bit about getting Isrial to sell Iran missiles and giving the money to the contras. But Lee Hamilton decided to delete that portion of the final report. I just hope this current new congress doesn't piss away its oppertunity to get George Bush. I don't think they should make any promises of what they will or won't do. Keep your options open. Callers on 1150 say, "I don't just want to see George Bush impeached; I want to see him in jail".
The wheels are coming off the wagons for the religious right in this country. Chuck Smith must be popping a lot of Elaville and Prozac these days. I know depressed he gets about these troubled times. You know- the right wing is like a desease. My first exposure to it goes all the way back to July of 1965. I was in a pre Algebra math class at Crescent Jr. High and people were talking about Jeane Dixon and how infallable her predictions were, and how she had predicted a bad earthquake for California or Colorado in June of 1965. All of these people seemed to look to an "End of the world" scenario about the year two thousand. The seeds were planted in my mind. That fall in 1965 I heard my first sermon on Revelations, from Harry Green, who usually doesn't dabble in "last times" theology. I remember what he said. He said that there is just as much possability of retrogression as there is in progression in society. As a liberal I had formerly thought that the wheels of progress moved inevitably forward. A liberal or progressive does see things "moving forward". But not the reactionary. Many of them such as Larry Elder seem to want to turn the clock backward to sometime in the Victorian age. Of course if we can't have that there's the idea that God will look down on society and End It All out of sheer disgust. This belief in a sudden end of things is called nihilisum. It's a belief that whatever life you have now won't go on much longer. It's kind of a belief that global warming and the ozone layer don't matter really. It doesn't matter how many trees we chop down or Amazon forrests we wipe out because after all God will be there to bail us out, and besides, we won't be around that much longer so talk about what our children will face is irrelivant.
There's one guy out there who seems to think I can make nine hundred dollars and have "fun" in the process. Maybe I could get a currier job for a criminal like Sean Brady and earn a lot of money quick. There is another character I'd like to comment on from that series and that is Bonnie Lockhart. She's like a money vacuum cleaner. She's like Colonel Tom Parker. She's got this nack for being money grubbing but with a tallent for making any money she gets to disappear. She kind of reminds me of the soul of Christianity. Christianity says "give me love and total devotion". But after being around them a while it's like being around a vacuum cleaner. They just suck you dry. Any devotion or spirit you have- - they now have it. And they keep coming back and they want more. You can only pronounce your love and devotion to God so many times and never quite be believed, before it's one game you get tired of.
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