who was that riderless horse?
so i wasn't going to write about politics but the comments i got, for the most part, were about politics. sincity has the best point in that we need to rail against the puppet masters. those monsters in the military industrial complex who are running and ruining the country. some of my readers write directly to me and one of them said that we all need to keep involved by writing our congresspeople and speaking our minds. politicians are whores and their only loyalty is to getting re-elected so they can keep sucking on the public teat. by writing them about our concerns and if enough of us do it then they will respond...not out of love of country but love of self...they will do what they think will keep them in office. i, for one, will write all my congress people, democrats especially, and tell them that the promise was to GET US OUT OF IRAQ and that is what we expect. we are an occupying force in someone else's land. we bombed their cities, we killed their people, we ruined their lives, the least we can do is to get our bloody asses out of their country. if iraq disintegrates into civil war so be it. it is their country. let them have it and do with it as they will. i have said before the only way to insure that we will not have radical islamic terrorists attack us is for us to quit giving them reasons to attack us and we can only do that by getting out of the middle east.
anyway....lakers will take orlando in 5 or 6. i was pleased that the cavs were eliminated after hearing one of their players brag that they were the best team in basketball. no, you aren't. you may have the best player but you are far, far from being the best TEAM.
a guy at the poker tables today said that the last horse he bet on came in last and that was behind the horse whose rider fell off.
hit three teamer yesterday, dodger/cubs to go under, sf to win and the lakers on the money line. how sweet it was.
yesterday as well i got two people to put all of their money in when i had the best hand. how sweet it was.
dodgers to win national league pennant and the world series are two bets i also have.
anyway....lakers will take orlando in 5 or 6. i was pleased that the cavs were eliminated after hearing one of their players brag that they were the best team in basketball. no, you aren't. you may have the best player but you are far, far from being the best TEAM.
a guy at the poker tables today said that the last horse he bet on came in last and that was behind the horse whose rider fell off.
hit three teamer yesterday, dodger/cubs to go under, sf to win and the lakers on the money line. how sweet it was.
yesterday as well i got two people to put all of their money in when i had the best hand. how sweet it was.
dodgers to win national league pennant and the world series are two bets i also have.
posted by Ron Shock | 9:34 PM
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You embraced Obama's words, you campaigned for Obama, you berated others for not supporting Obama, so don't complain to us. Nobody cares what you think anymore.
apparently you do or you would not be reading this. on the other hand, based on the information i had at the time, i stick by my endorsement of barrack obama and still find him to be so much better than the three fools that preceeded him that there is no comparsion.
when a person steps into that office they are faced with situations and information that we, the people, have no real concept of that we can compare to in our lives and our situations. we, and that includes you, do not have any idea of what is really happening in pakistan or north korea or afghanastan etc etc.
obama's heart and head may be in the right place and yet he may, and i stress MAY, be being pushed into policies that you and i disagree with by information that you and i are not privy to.
we all must remember that he came into office with problems so huge that no comparison can be made to any other president since fdr.
am i disappointed? absolutely. but am i disappointed in everything he has done or is trying to do? absolutely not. stem cell research, health care reform, clean energy programs, etc are all things that mc cain would not have done.
so, am i ready to throw in the towel on this president? no. you, however, regardless of what "name" you write under have always been negative on almost everything so your attacks on me and on obama i take with a whole shaker of salt.
comparison is the correct spelling.
Almost every leader in history has made some "good decisions" or implemented some "good policies" in one respect or another, even in the worst regimes. For example, both the Nazis and the Stalinists provided unprecedented programs of recreation and self-improvement for ordinary, long-denigrated, long-ignored workers. Hitler designed and promoted one of the world's most efficient and affordable cars, which after the war provided millions of ordinary people with new freedom and mobility. Soviet communism brought literacy, electricity, education and modernity to millions of people mired in a brutal, brutish existence. Saddam Hussein's Iraq did much the same.
It is very easy to pick through the record of any leader in any system and find things worthy of praise. But when the system itself is pernicious, when by its very nature it produces terrible evils on a vast scale -- as, for example, a militarist empire is bound to do -- then such praise, however piecemeal, hedged or nuanced, becomes a kind of unwitting support, or justification, or legitimization of the system.
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