Some people don't, they believe that
they will live forever, so to say, and
they don't consider that today might
be the last day of their life. Most of
us don't live with a sense of the song
title, "Live Like You Were Dying,"
because we can't take the serious
nature of such a thought, or because
we just don't like the "down", sort
of melancholy type of mindset which
that type of thinking brings on. Perhaps you can add to the ideas here?
Do you think, first, that the world is
getting older? In other words people
are living longer? Second, do you
think that we have allowed for this,
in other words we've thought ahead
to what it means for all sorts of support
systems, that people will live longer?
You will remember a famous case in
America where a doctor was accused
of helping patients to end their lives
early? Do you think it's possible that
this case will impact upon that one?
Commander on the border says that the Mexican drug Cartels
are posting look outs along the border to spot troops and
that one of his troops has been shot by them? The situation
in Mexico with regard to this drug Cartel situation is
one that we want to believe will go away, but it doesn't
look like it's going to, does it?
Drug Cartels the AP copyrighted photo in this blog
shows a soldier who has had to engage them- a fight
with people in the streets, from windows in two
and three story hotels, it's a nightmare fight- the
soldier in the street is outflanked, and now it
seems in Mexico, they may be out armed as well.
This isn't a fight that we can avoid- Mexico is
bringing this fight to us, the Cartel's aren't going
to walk away from the profit, and they aren't
going to let the war die. Do you have any
ideas about what might be done?
So in the midst of this very real war, the head
warrior calls one of his best General's onto the
carpet over his words? Gen McChrystal has
been a great General in our history, a leader
who has affirmed some amazing strategies,
and so now, over some statements he made
in a magazine, the political correctness police
are going to call for his head? It does not
make sense, but then, how many things in
this administration do?
If you have some thoughts on this- we'd
love you to share them? Up front, however,
it seems to this writer that while you might
want to have a talk with commander of your
forces, it's relatively unreal to create the
kind of furor that has occured over this
review in the "Rolling Stone." The article
is by Michael Hastings, and, if you read
it, please tell me where in it is something
that would bear all this mess? Folks -
the top of the organization, the leader,
the followers in the organization will
always do less...so in President Obama's
administration- one has to ask,
would that be possible?
Yes Mexico and Afghanistan are worlds apart, and
true, Gen McChrystal isn't involved
in the drug Cartel conflict, at least not
directly, but remember, that this drug Cartel
war now places America in the unfortunate
category of fighting a war - now, on four
fronts- and when North Korea is thrown
in, five. No nation in history has ever been
able to sustain such, and what's really
scary is, this leader President Obama,
may not believe that history applies to him.
Have you noticed how lately everybody is
apologizing for things that went wrong?
Let's ignore the "went wrong," part for
right now, and just focus for a second on
the "gosh I'm sorry," bits? Have you
noticed how much of this is going on?
Are you about ready to say, "enough!"
Let's send Angelina in there to take
care of it, huh? (I know bad pun,
gosh, I'm sorry...) How many times
are things going to get just oodles
and oodles of messed up, and then
someone who is supposed to be in
charge come out with an "I'm sorry,"
before someone asks, "hey, isn't this
a bit of a pattern?"
Look I'm no business expert as you
well know- but my goodness, if you
were running a gas station and all you
heard form the employ was, "I'm sorry,
I'm sorry, oh oh...yes mam, I'm sorry,
well, uh, yes sir, I'm sorry..." Wouldn't
you eventually begin to wonder if the
manager at that station wasn't a mess?
Do we need some help here in getting our
two cents together? Even though her book
"Going Rogue," was written by her, Sarah
Palin, apparently the spokesperson for the
tea party movement (if she's not I guess I
can come back and say...I'm sorry...)
hasn't really impacted upon this much,
has she? Because while in reading what
she wrote I didn't hear a lot of apology-
which was good, don't think any was
merited- what did strike me was, how
are they going to make a difference-
there just aren't enough of them? Should
they apologize because they started the
fire in the kitchen but don't apparently
have enough goods to finish the pie?
Don't know about you but a good Apple
pie eats a whole bunch better than
no pie and "I'm sorry."
This latest with the general in charge of
Afghanistan saying his boss sucked- and
then getting called on the carpet for it-
because his freind ratted him out- is it
me- or is this a pattern? Do we need to
ask the question, "does the boss suck?"
When he was first elected my thoughts were
that my country had completely lost its
mind in not electing the premiere hero of
our decade, John McCain, who had the
best Vice Presidential candidate ever-
(sorry Al Gore, she's a writer to ...and if
he's upset I can always say...yeah you get it.)
didn't get elected, in my poor mind I said,
"well, now we got to get behind the winner,"
after all in the past that's the way it's always
been...but now...folks it pains me as a veteran
and as a person who dearly loves this country-
to have to ask, "does the boss suck?" See
he is the President, so actually it's very ill
mannered of me to call him the boss, but
he knows, I'm sorry.
