Iraq, are you kidding me? Didn't little George learn ANYthing from his Dad's mistakes? Clearly not. I guess he's only human, which is why the founders of this country, the authors of the United States Constitution, made this a government of the MANY rather than a monarchy of a single person, or oligarchy of a small group of likeminded individuals. The many will balance, and come up with a group decision. While I am certainly skeptical of even the Congress's ability to act as a diverse, representative group, I am wholly in disbelief that El Dingbat and his cronies (Dubya et al) should be pulling executive strings to launch forceful attacks on Iraq.

And here's a little something that we can do to send a message. Go here and send an email. It's easy. Then send this link to someone else. Etc, etc, etc... Who knows what it does, but it's certainly better than sitting back in an armchair and wishing this bullshit government would wise up. Our allies are going to slip away, and leave us in our overweight, indulgent dust, whimpering about fairness and lack of support. Can you blame Europe for looking at us like the second coming of the evil they fought to defeat? We strut about the Middle East, directing traffic. We force genetically modified food on poor countries who can't compete with our glut of products. We slather our buttery drivel of a culture over thousands of years of collective wisdom throughout the world, and wonder why violence rages, and hatred reigns.

America needs to go to its room and think about what it is doing wrong, and not come down until it recognizes that it is being a big bully. Pushing around countries who don't agree with it, because it's ultimately afraid that maybe, just maybe, it's the US that has something to learn about peace, TRUE prosperity and happiness. Look around the world. We may just be the least happy country in the world, the least healthy and the least proud. It's not hard to imagine that we'll be left all alone if the rest of the world stops indulging our whims and sticks up for itself, or just turns a cheek.

Oh Lord. It's been a long time. I was just reading some very interesting and pleasantly inflammatory web-material on militia. And damned if he doesn't make many of the same points I'd like to make, only better. I mean, granted, this guy is going out on quite a limb here, and maybe he holds the mirror up to the world a little to boldly for my tastes (see that's me backing down already), but he's right on, and he definitely expresses some of my fears and puts voice to my outrage. Especially over this whole 9/11 shit.

I mean seriously, where does the US come off bullying (in the guise of warfare) Afganistan? I'm as loyal to my country's origins as the next. I believe wholeheartedly in the equal and inalienable rights of men and women, but I think this country's leadership is selling us down the river for a couple of bucks. I truly believe that our government's torment of Afganistan is about money and oil, and not remotely a "search" for a criminal. I mean, who the hell is Osama bin Laden? Why wasn't he on our super shit list before the attacks? And why does it matter if we destroy the Taliban government? Is it a statement about what happens to country's that "mess with the US"? Shit, this whole country isn't Texas, so far, but I don't like drift in that direction (no offense to my Texan friends).

I'm so sick of the yahoo gunslingers whipping around the world like gangsters, shooting up small towns that don't bow down and give us what we want. And I'm ashamed of the crap that seems to be going on at the top of all of the cozy community that seems to be running this place.

Shit, I can't say what I'm trying to say, except that there's an awful lot of corrupt bullshitters out there pushing people around, and an awful lot of people who seem to be okay just getting pushed around. And that makes me mad, helpless and disappointed. I don't feel like being some corporate bitch. But I also don't feel like scraping along like a pauper for the rest of my life either. Trapped, pathetic and angry. Makes me want to take my rifle in hand and make some changes. Not very Quaker of me, I don't suppose, but I spittin' mad and pissin' vinegar.