Mexico's Drug War?

I am watching "60 Minutes" and their segment on Mexico's "drug war." This, evidently, in addition to OUR drug "war."

First the phrase "drug war." All kinds of wars we have, eh? War on terror. War on drugs. War on liberals (they don't put it that way but ........ you know that's what it has been). Why must everything be a "WAR"? Negative never works. Never. Education works. Ignorance = evil. Even though I don't, as a benchmark of thinking, believe in "evil", per se. EDUCATE people with much of the money used for these "WARS".

Educate people on how to live, how to solve problems, how to WAIT for a reward, how to work to get what they desire, how to live in a community, working together.

Kruschev put it well, and I think of it every time I see these reports about the horrors of what is happening in beautiful Mexico right now. Kruschev said: “I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.”

He may not have foreseen the way in which we will bury ourselves, but he was right. The greed of Wall Street and the need of the greedily dissatisfied masses.

What does this have to do with Mexico? Well ....... who do you think imports much of the Mexican drug trade which is at this very moment, as you read this, causing the deaths of many, many good people in our neighboring nation? We are!

There are too many reasons for drug use to go into all of them in this brief composition. But not to be denied is one cause: that of parents who are UNinvolved. Parents who park their children in front of the TV. Parents who do not have discussions with their children. Parents who have no expectations for their own children. Communities, made up of parents, who do not police or even particularly care about the children of their communities. Stay off my lawn, go somewhere else, don't bother me.

We don't wonder why many children turn to drugs as their way of solving their problems, do we?

We don't wonder why Mexicans, who for decades have suffered a poor economy and lack of jobs, have found their salvation in sending their drugs here, making billions of dollars from this trade export, do we?

Yet we think it's not our problem.

I just can't get enough of our new President

Y'all know how I feel about our new President. My life's goal is to have a slow dance with him. Is that strange?

In the interim, watching from afar will have to do. LOVED this:

I love it ...... just love it

All the hubbub that Parah Salin has made over David Letterman's silly jokes (aren't all his jokes silly jokes?) has brought him just about his highest ratings ever. Not that it's saying much since Conan O'Brien was such a POOR choice to assume "The Tonight Show" duties ........ but he's beating out Conan by hundreds of thousands of viewers.

Click on the link in the blog title above to read the story.

All thanks to Parah Salin!



She just makes this so damn easy.

Good First Amendment News

"A federal appeals court has handed down a ruling that a monument displaying the Ten Commandments outside a courthouse "has the primary effect of endorsing religion.""

Why yes, it does. The analysis of this ain't rocket surgery.

I have nothing against Christians (unless or if they are persecuting Pagans - or anyone else for that matter) or the ten commandments. They are, respectively, a religion and religious statements. A plaque of the ten commandments, from the Bible, belongs at the church where people believe and want to worship what has been written in the Bible, translated properly or not.

A small, yet significant victory over those who wish to force their beliefs on everyone else.

The first amendment does not include specifics regarding the separation of church and state, it protects religious freedom (among other things). Its intention is to keep government out of religion, keep a free press, right to free assembly ....... and more.

The argument (right wing radio) has been made that, therefore, a federal court has no business telling a lesser court that it may not have religious monuments placed on or about its (public) property. The argument (love it or leave it syndrome) has been made that the people of that town who do not want the ten commandments placed outside the door of their courthouse may simply leave town. Go somewhere else. Get out if you don't want one religion (possibly not your own) being endorsed over another.

To those who produce this type of (anti) (hateful) logic, I ask if that is how you would feel were we to place a Pagan symbol outside our courthouse. This would not appear to be endorsement of OUR religion?

Again, come on, it ain't brain science. Keep your religion in your personal lives and at your churches. Use it in your daily life to become a better, kinder, more loving and spiritually enlightened person.

But, please, keep your religion away from "justice for all."

Amen.



And in other, yet related, yet better, hugely more enlightened, humorous news:


Pastafarians Rule!




Click on the video below for a TERRIFIC, related story:





Note that the above does NOT hang outside the Hannibal, Missouri courthouse. Or any other, as far as I know.

The Never Ending Babbleon

Watching Palin News this morning:

How does one vote enthusiastically, one might wonder? Just quoting Gov. Palin once again, regarding representatives of her state who voted for a new pipeline.

Maybe they SHOUT out their vote with vim and vigor? Is that how one votes "enthusiastically"?

Hmmmm .... ok, same ol' same ol'. She wants more oil out of aLASka. OIL OIL OIL. Renewable energy sources are, evidently, not a consideration in her world.

Ahhhhh ...... another quotable statement, "Take it however you want to," referring to her previously released press statement that David Letterman could not be trusted around her daughter.

Ooh, ooh ..... another, "The Candidate who must be obeyed," referring to Barack Obama. Hmmm. Must someone actually give clues to Ms. Palin regarding her ability be equally respected?

Ok, here goes. Perhaps, if she were as intelligent, eloquent, knowledgeable and aware as President Obama, she, also, would receive the respect she so ferociously seeks. Instead, she is continual fodder for late night comedy. In stark contrast to our President. It's so dang TRICKY to make fun of someone who actually makes sense!

It just gets better and dumber. Republican spitefulness is backfiring. Most of us are onto them. Do you think they'll realize prior to the next election?

Java Jabber

I should know better than to sit here watching the news as I answer email and sip my ultra delicious Delta Mud Alterra coffee. I should, but I don't. So here goes.

HAPPY BIMBO DAY



First I'm treated to the announcement that Carrie Prejean has been fired as Miss California. I guess this is huge news in some circles. Golly gee, Cali got 'em a new beauty queen. Woo ...... who givesaflock.

Evidently not only can't this bigoted bimbo keep her mouth shut, she can't adhere to her bimbo contract, either. What a loss.



In further bimbo news it is reported that Gordon Ramsay, celebrity chef (never heard of him and what does that mean anyhow ...... he flips burgers for movie stars?), ran his obviously misogynistic pie hole off about an innocent TV news woman in Australia.

Public outcry has forced him to not only apologize but lie about the nature of his apology.

Glad she (the TV woman) stood up for herself but again, does anyone care about this celebrity burger man?

You want fries with that?




In more serious news, bigoted white supremacist (puts the first two to shame) James W. Von Brunn, 88, entered the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC yesterday armed with his .22 caliber rifle intending to do as much harm as possible.

Indeed he did kill one guard prior to being blasted into bigot hell by two others.

If you have the stomach for his racist diatribes, here are a couple of links:

Bigot Blather

Huffington Post Story

He's the famed (only in white supremacy circles) author of "Kill the Best Gentiles" (whew, I'm safe) and MENSA member. Wha? So intelligence has less to do with bigotry than I assumed? This will take more research .........

My take on this: there's more to this story than has yet been reported.

Addendum: I just checked my MENSA directory and James von Brunn is not listed. Seems he was an attention seeker so I'm guessing he did not hide his profile (i.e. the report of him being a MENSA member is wrong).




The bimbo news is never ending today .... or is it always like this?

WARNING, WARNING, WILL ROBINSON! Yet another "reality show" hits the airwaves ..... this time on WE television.

Ok, first of all, reality shows are never about reality. Reality is those of us out here actually living WITHOUT a camera shoved up our nostril.

So now we have another family with too many kids about to be thrown into the limelight (this may be an overstatement: it's on WE TV) a la the photo above of the (for now) happy family surrounded by photo umbrellas. Sure looks real to me.



I know, I know, that's Mighty Mouse. I just put him there because he's my favorite.

And finally (thank the Goddess, I've turned off the TV) on "The Early Show", a man (?) sitting next to the anchors, wearing a super hero suit and mask ....... with cape and codpiece. Something about going out to schools to teach children something or other. I blanked it.

I'm done.

Dear Goddess: PLEASE tell the Republicans to nominate Sarah Palin for Prez in 2012

“That’s pretty pathetic, good ole David Letterman.” Palin said Letterman was part of a media culture “where everything is commentary and facts don’t matter anymore.”

Ahhhhh ...... kinda like FOX News then, Miss Sarah?

Did you miss the big GOP blowout?

Last night the GOP had a good ol' Washington, DC fund raiser, accompanied by the usual right-wing blathering and unfounded attacks.

Jon Voight emceed the event. I quote: “Obama as a candidate portrayed himself as a moderate but turned out to be wildly radical,” Voight said, “Everything Obama has recommended has turned out to be disastrous.”

No wonder even his own daughter won't speak to him. I'd be mildly interested to know what he feels is a disaster. But only mildly. Perhaps he thinks that saving the country from a depression is disastrous.



Unable to come up with an original thought, Voight repurposed the campaign slander regarding Bill Ayers again. Well, I suppose when you don't have anything concrete to complain about you might as well go back to the same old harpy lies and innuendo, eh?

Newt Gingrich was the central speaker. This is the Newt Gingrich who hasn't held elected office for what ...... a decade now? He won the headlining speaker slot, beating out the ever in the background Governor Palin. Now there's a choice for ya. Both are hoping to receive the nomination for President in 2012. I'm hoping that Parah Salin will get the nomination ....... not only because she would ensure a Republican loss but just imagine the jokes based on her grammatical skills alone!



"I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't." --Sarah Palin, as quoted by former City Council Member Nick Carney, after he raised objections about the $50,000 she spent renovating the mayor's office without approval of the city council.

One might wonder if at some point the Repos will recognize the irony of having an actor emcee their event. All their harping criticism of "liberal Hollywood" and claims that actors should just "do their jobs" and stop talking about politics. Yet Jon Voight's opinions (rehashed though they may be) bring huge applause.

Hmmmmm ....... so actors are stupid if they're liberals and should just shut up ...... but if they are hate-minded conservatives their opinions are valid. Ok. I get it now. Repos hate actors who speak out, but elect their own to office (Schwarzenegger, Reagan, Thompson [Fred]). Does this mean that their actors should just "shut up and act", or ............ explain that one.

Although Gingrich is making attempts to appear as though he is pandering less to the radical religious right Republican minority (he knows that's the only way to get elected), when one reads their speech copy, it's just same ol' same ol'.

Sigh.