Sunday, January 16, 2005
Political Perspective
I have a guest Blogger this evening. I don't even know his real name. He belongs to a small email group I occasionally interact with, and he wrote a piece the other night as part of an ongoing political discussion among the group. I was dazzled by the clarity and insight he offered about the results of the last election, and I think you will be, too.
Interestingly, several members of that group are highly intelligent people, and I've already invited another of them to have his own space on here for HIS views to be aired over a wider area as well. If this works, and readers are interested, whether they agree or disagree, I'll probably continue to have these two on as long as they're interested, and probably others as well.
Without further comment, here is Herzog Von, astute political observer:
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"THE PEOPLE" ( Studs Turkelian emphasis ), did NOT vote to "cut their own throats" as stated. This elitist view is typical of a bitter left, who thought they could ram their agenda down America's throats by placing a spineless, pitiful John Kerry against the Oilman. That they failed is their own fault, in as much as they tied their agendas - including "Gay right's"; every bit the same sort oxymoron as "animal rights" - to the legitimate beefs against the muddled Bush policy. No, some zealots - far more than I am comfortably willing to acknowledge - were taken in by the God, country, George and Jesus bullshit. But -- and this cannot be emphasised enough - the Dem's lost when they resorted to their old 1960s radical tricks. They insisted upon tying their pet social peeves - canonzation of the homosexual lifestyle and the whole Holywood / Showtime enchilada - to an honest message about Big Oil, the environment, and greed. In other words; accept the whole doctrinaire package and march with us, or you are an uncaring boor. A decisive number of the public rejected this "inclusive" coercion. Good for them!
Had the Dems had the guts and foresight to choose a clearly anti-war candidate who was willing to take a stand against Neo-Con Zionist inspired "kill the Arabs for Israel" insanity - as Howard Dean at least appeared ready to do, they would, in all likelyhood, have won. Instead, they gave us the weasel. Thanks, but no thanks.
So, don't blame the American public for rejecting the patrician - Tee's word - John Kerry. They smelled a rat, and they chose not to vote for it. Rather, blame the Michael Moore / Holywood idealogues for attempting to shove their boy with all of THEIR baggage down our throats. "I can kill the terrorists better than he can", indeed! The anti-war people never had a candidate other than Ralph Nader. That they rejected Kerry's patronizing elitism at a time when Bush was SO beatable is to their credit, as well to the Left's everlasting shame.
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Kinda kicks you in the ol' Gonads, huh?
Moving on. It's COLD in Florida! Not like what most of you are putting up with, but DAMN! I'm back in jogging togs pretty much 24/7, and I may start wearing sock with my flip-flops! EVEN a HAT to keep my head warm. I'm keeping my hair extra-long till late spring, too.
Making great strides in the cleaning process at my house. I should have taken pics, but I probably could have been arrested for the condition it was in!
I'm noticing the Tsunami press is letting up now, though there was a huge telethon on TV, which I was happy to see, and though I'm a mad conservative, George Clooney did a brilliant job of telling Bill O'Reilly to put up or shut up on the subject. From what I've read, that package of clothes I donated isn't really needed that much, but the blankets and sheets I included were.
A local church, bless them, organized a drive to gather stuff up and get it to a larger group in Orlando, who would forward it to either Bangladesh or Thailand.
I can't give blood right now till the doc certifies I'm disease-free, but that should happen later this month. I just hope with the clout of some of the people involved, like our two ex-presidents, that there's still enough publicity to keep the UN honest, Khofi Annan's greedy bastard of a son's hands out of the till, and as many others as possible along the line to stay honest and get the stuff to where it's needed. I'm sure SOME stealing at least won't be wasted. Poor soldiers grabbing a little for their own poor families, I can see it. It's the fat-cats above them I worry about. But you can go back to my archives and get plenty of places to keep donating to, including groups not affiliated with the UN.
Over 150,000 dead. That's staggering in itself. It's almost ironic, people with money were affected, people who HAD something suddenly have nothing. No jobs, no tourist dollars flowing in, no industry functioning, nothing to do but scrounge to survive. The ones who've always had nothing are almost a step ahead. They know how to dig up pieces of scrap and junk to make a hovel to keep out the worst of the weather; they know where the limited natural food sources are. But even those people relied on SOME trickle-down to buy things they couldn't grow. It's a bitch to process wheat, for instance. Where do you get milk if the cows and goats are all drowned or living in the wild somewhere inland? It's hard to picture that without living it. You do NOT want to experience it, though. Believe me. And the water consumption! Everybody's gotta have it, and when the only water source is polluted and gross? You'll drink it anyway.
I had a friend who was stationed in Thailand during the VietNam war. He kept coming down with these massive kidney infections, and was driving the doctors crazy trying to find the source. They SCOURED his life, and the answer was most interesting; there was a small stream flowing behind his favorite bar; he always ordered ice with his drinks. The bartender got water from that stream to make ice. The stream was also used by private individuals and other local businesses as a restroom. Solution? Give up iced drinks. Stop drinking the local urine, and the kidneys just healed right up. Imagine your only water source being the same water where several dead things are busily decaying. Yeah. Send water. Send that guy with the monster water filters that do 3,000 gallons a day. This isn't an overnight fix, a month-long fix. This is a YEARS fix.
Debonair Suaveroot, Babbling Blogger,
Signing off.
