Old Stuff

7-27-2006

Blogging...

Wow, as those early posts of mine illustrate, I didn't 'get' blogging when it first blossomed. I was still thinking forum, guestbook, etc.

This entry is about my sense of doom and foreboding. Living in the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld world is frightening. We are still kiling muslims in Afghanistan. We are still killing Muslims in Iraq. We are now helping Isreal kill Muslims in Lebanon. Oil is at $75/barrel. Gasoline is $3+ per gallon. Meanwhile, the oil companies are recording record proffits. They are enriched by this turmoil. They are stuffing their mattresses with the blood of poor Muslim Arabs. I read that oil companies are less interested in finding oil and more interested in finding chaos (war). Finding more oil puts more oil in the supply and lowers the price. War, turmoil, disruptions take more oil out of the supply and raises prices. Our oil co's know this. Our govt. knows this. Iran's govt knows this. Likewise Saudi Arabia.

I can see the world drawing closer to a nuclear exchange. Bush has publicly stated that he has considered nukes as a viable option concerning Iran. India and Pakistan are making noise. Isreal could nuke Lebanon or Syria. N. Korea could nuke Japan. As unbalanced and uncentered as Bush Co is, this could happen. They are driven by greed and sick Christo-centric arrogance that reads like "we are god's chosen people and as such we know what is right and good and we act with god's blessing....yada yada yada yada..."

The entire country is baking under record temperatures this summer. Likewise Paris, Europe, etc. The Amazon basin is drying up. Amazonia is dying in draught. The polar ice caps are melting. The Greenland Ice Shelf is melting. Last week I flew up to Baltimore for a week. The visibility, the haziness, the smog was so bad during the flight. It was scary. Baltimore looked like how I remember LA from the summer of '87; shrouded in a brown smudge. The mountains this summer are far more hazy/smoggy than last summer. I'm wondering when our atmosphere will reach the tipping point where it becomes so incredibly toxic that we all die from poison or asphyxiation. We are poisoning our planet beyond its ability to recover and beyond its ability to support life.

4-30-2004

Good Stuff by Norman Mailer as to why we went to war with Iraq....the wounded white-male ego...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,482-662789,00.html

4-29-2004
Boo's playing his 4th year of little league. He turns 8 on May 7th. I can't believe he's nearly 8. We had his bday party this past Sunday as we leave for Belize on May 8th.

Boo's a little upset about being on weak baseball team again. We're 0-2 after starting out against the two best teams in our division. Boo will play in one more game then miss the rest of the regular season as he and Loo plan to be in Belize for a month. He should be back right before the tournament starts.

He's practiced so hard. He's so good w/ his glove and so good w/ his bat....while he's at home. He falls off some in team practice, then freezes up more so during the games. He's playing for Richard Taylor...very nice guy, but not terribly organized. He's not really evaluated our team strengths/weaknesses. He's just put the kids in the field and hasn't changed many positions. He's stuck Boo out in left field, even though Luke clearly has the best glove on the team. He's letting Luke catch half the game and he's done great. Tagged a kid out at home each of the first two games. Got a hit his last game and scored our first run. He's such a cutie!!! I've been telling him how major leaguers who hit .300+ are having a great year..and that translates into 3 hits out of 10 at bats and how many teams start out slow. I just want him to experience success. Travis wanted him to play on the U-8 All Stars last year, but that was the same week Cassidy came to stay so we didn't let Luke do it.

I'm a little concerned about traveling right now w/ the SARS virus roaming the globe. So far, there is no confirmation on exactly how the virus is spread, but it is extremely contagious and often fatal.

4-29-2003
This article pointed me to the Project for the New American Century...the organization that is writing the scripts for our current government to follow.



"How NeoConservatives Conquered Washington and Launched a War
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/1598940_comment.php