Wonderland or Not

Oh official blogwhore you do make me laugh even in a Veterans Day post

Heil Sarko, hein? Wasn’t it just yesterday we were talking about “freedom fries”? I suppose We the People have to find friends somewhere, having managed to hack off both the Brits and the Germans.

I’m in the middle of reading Harry Turtledove’s Southern Victory series of alternative history novels. In which the Confederacy successfully secedes from the USA - and both nations come to adopt fascistic leaders and perpetrate atrocities. It’s almost as if Turtledove knew what the post-9/11 USA would be like …

Pia: Official I am. I just wish I could remember that BL is not on Sunday evenings any longer.

OC: It is not unexpected - you reading alternative history novels. ;)

Here Here.

I don’t get mail, yet it’s not a “day off” holiday here.

Coop
Veteran’s Day always fell on the day after my B-Day . . . After a night of P**t**g, a day off to think about it all . . . Maybe that’s a little why I hate war so. Politics, lies and senselessness. Today I saw Cheney give a speech to the Vet’s, I thought I was going to be ILL. I wonder if we’ll ever get back our innocence? I know that’s not going to happen . . . Any way I am proud of our Vets . . . Dreams are yours to share. Dan

Many of my family have served, in the past.

War is not what it used to be.

Shame on Congress.

I like to think that Carl was right, hopefully someday WE will see that he was.

The guys I work with at the VA would appreciate this post, they seem to think they are just forgotten.

My grandfather, a vet, would have liked this post.

His favorite saying was “keep it short and to the point”.

There ought to be an Operation Fucking Freedom.

Dostoevsky of course had it right

Short. Semi-sweet. And to the Fucking point!!!

Every generation of my alcoholic, semi-sane clan has took up arms — going back to Revolutionary War, though that one I have little knowledge to sustain our families participation.

But my father (in absentia) related that we are related to the Sam Houston clan.
On my mother’s side, it’s very possible George Rogers Clark was in the crest.

But hell, I have no problem thinking we should be at war with everyone!!! (In jest)

I’m so sick of the assholes that run this country about to spend the holidays in warm houses with loving families, sit down and stuff their fat faces with delicious food and get a good night’s sleep while multitudes of our family members continue to risk their lives for Bush’s war.

I just continually try to stay focused on the soldiers and what we can do for them and their families.

dickless cheney giving a speech for a veteran’s day event is like david duke giving a speech about racial tolerance during black history month. it is so freaking oxymoronish. i’ve quite forgotten the number of deferments he received during the days of vietnam. he always seemed to have better things to do, e.g. hide his skanky ass from actually serving this country in the same way 58,000 americans served this country. so often during the past few years, when visiting the vietnam memorial, i’ve been sorely tempted to sketch his face and headline it with “dickless cheney wasn’t here.”

I’m tired of the we forget the Vets and Troops thing

Every frigging post I wrote in the past 3 years about Iraq, Nam etc–and I wrote many once had to be prefaced with “I support the troops 100%” or something similiar

I refuse to do that anymore as of course I do as I love this country

But we’re having severe problems at home that are being ignored by this admin

They actively encouraged Americans to spend money that didn’t belong to them and much more

Not one apartment contract was signed last week in Manhattan, according to Street Easy. That is big, real, and very very scary

People are blaming the media on stirring fear. I hate the media on general principle usually but this is one case where they were reporting facts and slightly underplaying it

I know this is off the subject Cooper but I can’t help but think we would be getting out of Iraq a lot sooner if this wasn’t happening

And we’re outsourcing body armor etc. How dare we? Then when it’s defective we can blame other countries for our troops deaths brain and spine injuries

I don’t have time for this. I have an apartment to sell. i might be in a very good position as its small and in a prime building/hood

But people are waiting and I can’t blame them

I’m trying to get over my paralyzing inertia–very unlike me but I have been told by many people in this case it might be a good thing

Once again I leave a comment that is both off topic and longer than the post. It’s that red & black retro border. Very soothing and beautiful–and gave me ideas for my new house

This is one of those nice, short and to the point posts with a tad of poignancy to it.

Congress has another bill on their hands today - let’s see what they do with it..

We finally got my grandfather to the WW2 memorial at the end of this past summer. It was a day worth living for. Thank god he didn’t have to rely on the government to post war, they done a terrible job.

G: Sorry about the day off.

Dan: Just reading about the speech made me ill, I’m glad I didn’t watch it really.

jacob: shame on them is right. What did war used to be? I wonder.

Vanessay: Here’s to Carl. It is unbelievable what and who we choose to remember and what we usually forget.

casey: For your grandfather then.

EW: Indeed I think he did.

Jason: War these days is senseless. It is a different time I think.

Sheila: You said it.

SK: I don’t disagree with anything you said here.

Pia: ha, ha, I am now anxiously awaiting the new decor.
I am trying to be significantly more upbeat, at least for a short period of time.

i think we (the United States) should be ashamed of what we have let the meaning of war become…it has lost its meaningfulness, its urgency, it necessary-ness…it has become a first attempt at resolution rather than the very last thing done…

To put our soldiers lives at risk for a war that has no rhyme or reason is totally unpatriotic…that is my opinion…don’t call me unpatriotic because I’m against the war…call me a person that loves my country because I care about the troops and their lives…I fully support them and want them home…