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05/16/05
Mainly this is just a day off, let's face it, most Americans think it's a signal that summer is here. Airfares go up, the sun is back, and the BBQ gets fired up. I got dead FAM, have some in my circle with recent war dead. When you have dead that you knew by eye contact Memorial Day is every day. These dead and especially this war, the freshest war, is painful in so many ways;are the recent dead the deadest?
The War ON Iraq is still going on and wracking up bodycounts for next year right now.
Numbers in the opinion polls show most of us don't believe the war was worth it.I resist the 'I told you so', well I guess I didn't but that's not it. Without being ashamed you supported the wrong team now is the time to get vocal in the halls of school, at work and yes even at the family back yard BBQ.
Today is the day to say, "I support the troops, stop sending them to die!" Lets craft a foreign policy and an economy that makes the world love us. That really reflects the values that America still stands for. This is a bloody and documented event in human history. It's embarrassing but understandable how turned off to talking about it all layers of American society are. While Star Wars tours the country and we mourn the dead for wars that meant delivering people from evil and not handing profits to oil companies, now is the time to say Stop this War!
It's easy to point and laugh; yes this is a simplistic concept. I understand that the instability in Iraq is going to take half a generation to quell. That's not an excuse for me that's a reason. We don't have any time to waste. We have to quit laying low in America, it's going to take more than a few pop songs, blogs and commentaries to bring it about but we must use what's in front of us. Start remembering what Memorial Day is about. People died because the people let them. We can turn it around, heal the warriors as they come back to us and change our communities and ourselves until one Memorial Day there will be no fresh graves to dress.
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Scripture in the toilet; now that's news! Flushing the Koran!? What's the counterpunch; garbage disposal the Bible, shred the Sutras and Vacuum up the Vedas. Looks like the World Conflict Inc. marketing department is working overtime.
This is an open letter to the children of Abraham. Okay I know I'm goyish and an infidel, hell I'm even from the left coast of America but stil... You Abrahamites have a family fight going. We can see since Sarah conceived the rift began, or so we're told. By the time Abraham got to the sacrificial alter the trend had been set. You don't even agree which child he dragged up the hill to sacrifice. It is the same voice from the clouds isn't it? Ultimately do you think you're speaking to the same God?
Not one damn dime? Divest from the economy for the day as a method of sending a message? Believe me, I'm behind all protest to the coronation of King George Bush, the 44th President of the US. I'm going to stock up at the farmers market, invite friends for food but my divesting will not bring much satisfaction or I believe much influence on the powers that be.
Death and destruction, birth and evolution; these are our daily polarities. These are more than interesting times. We set records every day as a species. Of all in the animal kingdom we prey on our own more than any other animal.
C'mon if you could rub a cream on your butt that shifted you to being smarter, pain free, sexy and strong would you lather up?
What sort of meal would it have been if the Iroquois nation had a terror alert of red and stopped the pilgrims at the beach, searched them and checked passports?
So you think Kerry took a dive? Like Sonny Liston, took the hope flickering in the hearts of the poor, the unemployed,
disempowered, young and old and flopped onto the canvas. After that whole time telling us it was on the way. That it got way closer than they thought they would get.
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Lies straight into the face, vote spoiling in battleground states, the knowledge that our village is ripped down the middle and still I Love America.
To the attention whores out there masquerading as 'undecided' voters in America: find a new pick up line.
Nine one one. Numbers here in the usa you call for emergency. It's now a wobble in our calendar.
If you bought some orange juice futures in august stop rolling in your dividends and hand someone a century note!
Golden temples smokin' in Najaf, gold medals danglin' in Athens. It swirls at the pace of a surprise hurricane.