Month: May 2005

Apparently, they held a Taps Echo up North of here. I wish I could have gone to it, but it’s got my interest. Need to see if there are any groups out here who I can hook up with for it. Yeah, I know how to play a trumpet too, and it’s something I can do, as they’re issuing a call for more people who can play taps, now to just learn to play it properly, well, having the instrument would be helpful, as well.

Yay! Thank you, fucking news media – all of you SOB’s, even you goddamned “conservatives”. Why? Because my Army boys can’t tell me anything about what’s going on over there anymore, because of the crap that you all choose to put into print.

Scorpio for this week:

Here’s your dream dictionary for the coming week. If you have a dream of walking through the mist at dawn and coming upon flamingos nesting in a rusty red 1959 Cadillac convertible in a junkyard, it means you should expand your ideas about where you might find beauty. A dream of baking a birthday cake for Buddha in the kitchen of a ship passing through the Panama Canal means you’re primed to upgrade your skill at expressing generosity. A dream of finding traces of marijuana in a seventeenth-century pipe found in the house where William Shakespeare lived means you should rethink your ideas about where your best inspiration comes from. A dream of a driver who doesn’t use his turn signal means you shouldn’t follow anyone too closely. (P.S. Even if you don’t have the dreams I described, you should still heed the counsel they provide.)

FreeWill Astrology

Again, the boy is behind. I think someone needs to get him some kind of upper, legal or otherwise.

Busy freaking day!!!!! And it starts again tomorrow! Rawr. Man, I love my down-time, too much and I’m realizing how attached I am to my computer. I almost felt naked today without it. The good thing is that today brings discussion with people who know how to discuss, I love those people. Why is the ability to discuss opposing view-points, and still walk away with opposing view-points, so difficult in today’s society? Is there some memo I missed that I have to be of like opinion with everyone else, regardless the side of the fence they’re on? Sheesh, it’s like the term Moderate no longer exists in our vocabulary.

Yes, this is actually pissing me off…

War is a giant field of gray, there is no black and white, period. As far as this one goes, when it started, I thought it was the dumbest thing we could possibly do, seriously. And the reasons justified to the UN were just so FUBAR it wasn’t even worth the TV time used to show them. The fact is, we invaded a country and completely obliterated the form of government that was in place, and now we have a responsibility to rebuild that country, whether we like it or not, and failure to succeed is a failure, not only to us and those we are now responsible for, but to the greater world.

Yes, the news likes to detail the horrors that happen in several parts of the country, including Operation Matador – which is to secure the Syrian border to keep outside insurgent groups, outside. The majority of this is happening in the Al-Anbar province, which is the biggest province in the country, and where the Sunni Triangle exists. There are 10 other provinces that are back up and running, several in Kurdistan, where their militia has maintained control, even pre-invasion.

The fact is, the bigger picture has to be looked at, you cannot focus on one aspect of this situation and make a judgement about the whole. The reason this country would fall into a hell hole, if we leave, is not because there’s massive amounts of fighting all over the country, but because this country still doesn’t have enough of a force to defend itself from those who will continue to attack until the current form of government is obliterated and a Theocratic dictatorship is installed, and run by those who are either Ba’athists, or members of the outside insurgency. While there are Iraqi’s who are members of the insurgency, more and more “front line insurgents” are from other countries, because the Iraqi’s are realizing that joining up with them is a guarantee of death, either by being a suicide bomber, or being the target of a US rifle round. They’re also seeing how this war is being fought by the non-US troops, by targeting groups of Iraqi citizens, who do nothing but shake the hand of a US soldier, or participate in the new form of government. That is a desparation that this group of people has reached, and those that want to use the US military death toll as justification to allow these people to be swallowed up in a sand pit of civil war need to be bitchslapped. These soldiers gave their lives defending innocent people on foreign soil. No, not defending US lives and freedom, but Iraqi lives and freedom. It’s those people that this war is about, not us, not oil, but the right of individuals for self-determination. If they, as a group, decide that they want their form of government to be more theocratic, then that is their decision and ours to respect it. However, it is not for a small group of foreign militant individuals to walk in and govern the people that live there. Question our motives all you want, our freedom grants us that right. Our ideals have also granted the Iraqi’s who protested the invasion, the right to form and protest. No US soldier blocked that right, in fact, they protected that right and allowed the protests to happen. Something that would not have happened if that group was protesting something Saddam did, while he was still in power.

Scorpio for this week:

Would you like to transform yourself from being a slave of your desires into being a master? It’s a perfect time to work on that worthy project. Here’s what you should do: 1. Keep talking yourself out of being attached to trivial goals and keep talking yourself into being thrilled about the precious few goals that are really important. 2. Whenever you are overwhelmed by a desperate longing to be loved, transform the feeling into a fierce determination to give love lavishly.

FreeWill Astrology

Interesting perspective, I must say, and very much fits with the way I like to live. Trying to do things that make me happy, including the making of other people happy. And trying to work back into the therapist mentality. So far, doing decent, still got work to do.