Vietghanistan

Mistaking screams of
pleasure for sexual attack,
four teens assault her lover.

Well, it’s nice to know that things are going so well in Vietghanistan. The additional 21,000 troops Obama so thoughtfully provided are now engaged in a massive operation to clear an area of Taliban. I find this most interesting in that I thought our enemy in Afghanistan was Al Quaida, but over the years it has morphed into the Taliban. You might recall that it was the Taliban that rousted Al Quaida before, and would quite likely do so again if they were given a chance. This is not to defend the Taliban, they are far too conservative and nasty for my taste, but they are not Al Qaida. It does make me wonder what we are still doing in Afghanistan anyway, we don’t seem to be looking for Osama bin Laden anymore. I guess maybe we’re still trying to eventually install that pipeline (we probably won’t even be using gasoline by the time we get that baby going). Our campaign, or whatever it is, in Afghanistan has always been, and continues to be doomed to fail. Everyone seems to know this but we just go on anyway. It’s clearly Obama’s “war” now, and it will be his graveyard as well, just as it was for the Russians.

I guess everything is going to be okay on the Governor Sanford front. He has announced that he’s going to try to fall in love with his wife all over again, and she has announced that she will forgive him. What more could anyone want? I think she might have figured out that he doesn’t seem to know what the hell he’s even talking about, what with all these crossing of the lines, true love, and whatever. He’s just a confused little boy who needs more attention, or so it appears to me.

Of course things are still very active on the Michael Jackson front. Neverland is not going to become Graceland West (or is it). Michael’s mother will get custody of the children (or will she), Michael’s will may be honored (but it may not), there are videos of his preparation for his last big show that demonstrate he was in good shape and it was going to be a blockbuster hit (or was he, and will it). He is also now said to have had a secret girlfriend (or did he), some say he was addicted to drugs (or was he), he is not the father of his children (or is he), the mother is not the mother (or is she). Believe me, we’re not going to hear the end of Michael Jackson probably until the end of this century, so be prepared. The Rachel Maddow show, about the only one worth watching on TV anymore, was canceled in favor of a special on you-know-who. I like to believe that Rachel is too intelligent to want to participate in the Michael Jackson madness, but it probably isn’t true. I like Allison okay, but she’s not Rachel.

Sometimes I think the NRA is just pulling our leg, trying to see just how outrageously far they can get. I don’t know how else to explain their insistence that we should have guns in church, in the National Parks, and even in bars. These demands seem to me so basically irrational, to say nothing of unnecessary, that I cannot believe anyone takes them seriously, other than trying to see if they can get away with it. The same goes for their insistence that everyone should be entitled to their own machine gun. There’s no telling how far they might go if completely unchecked. I think we should go back to the happy days of the Wild West when men had to check their guns at the door. Naw, I guess that was too civilized.

I guess Bush/Cheney, and no doubt others in their failed administration are going to get lucrative contracts for their memoirs. I thought there was a law against criminals being able to capitalize on their crimes. Of course under the Obama administration laws don’t seem to be any more important than they were under Bush/Cheney. We certainly aren’t seeing much of the much-vaunted transparency we were promised. In some ways Obama seems more secretive than Bush/Cheney. I know, we should know better than to put any faith in campaign promises, but we don’t, every time we fall for them and every time they are broken. It’s just like Charlie Brown trying to kick the stupid football.

LKBIQ:
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Richard Dawkins

TILT:
The population of Uruguay is 94.7 % of European descent.