That's it. I've fuckin' had it; enough's enough. I suppose everybody has a saturation point and I think I've just about reached mine. What am I on about now, you ask? Well, just about everything if you really want to know.
It can be pretty much whittled down to what's been in the papers lately. War, war, and just for an alternative how about some talk about a new war. Of course if you want a change in diet from war there's always religion, which usually leads to war, so you might as well just see above.
There are the daily reports from Iraq, or if you're really unlucky, about Iraq from the folk safely back home not getting shot at behind their podiums. We can win the war in Viet Nam; oh I'm sorry that would be Iraq. We will only bring the troops home when the job is done and not a moment earlier.
How do you know when that happens? Anyone figured that out yet? Does the body count have to fall below a certain level first, or is it when the number of troops that you've got left on the ground has dropped too far? How many lives were budgeted to be lost in advance? "Well if we want to take on Iran afterwards, we can only lose so many..."
Iran is the new war by the way. "Can't rule out the military option" is every one's favourite phrase this weekend. It will be easy; just change all those q's to n's and we're set.
Nobody pays attention to the names; as long as they sound Arabic, nobody will notice that it's the same speech you gave about Iraq two and a half years ago. Nuclear weapons – weapons of mass destruction; what's the difference? Not much really, or at least, not so anybody's going to notice.
Anyway, think of how easy it will be. Right next door to Iraq, all we have to do is just cross over the border and we're there. The navy and the air force are getting bored; they haven't had the chance to blow anything up from the sky in a while. The sailor types are just itching to launch more of those tomahawk cruise missiles and I'm sure the air force is looking at having to spend some of its budget if it wants to buy more toys next year.
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1 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
Gypstyman,
Well written as always. But I know a nice Jewish lady who lives in Windsor ON who could give you quite and earful and get your pressure gauges right back upt ot red again.
Me? I can't criticize. I have enough with trying to meet the bills, worrying if the Arabs are going to blow up the bus my kids ride, trying to meet the bills, worrying if the Arabs are going to blow up the bus my wife rides to work, trying to meet the bills, worrying that the government that allegedly protects me is going to screw us over yet one more time, trying to meet the bills.....did I mention worrying about paying the bills?
2 - A.L. Harper
Gypsyman -
Brilliant post and I agree with almost every word!
Thank you
3 - gypsyman
Ruvy:
Slitghtly off the topic, but I was thinking about you today as I wrote something else this morning. It's part of a fantasay/fictionalised retelling of the end of moorish empire in Spain, and the Jews are about to hit the road again/along with some gypsies.(there are records of Sephardic Jews and gypsies hiding out in caves around in and around Spain after the reconquest so as to avoid persecution and forced conversion)
This is the paragragph or two that made me think of you:
When he had protested that some families had been here over two hundred years and wasn't that sufficient time to give them a sense of permanence? The reply had shocked him to his core. "I don't know if a thousand years would be enough for our people to ever fell like they really belonged within someone else's world. We will always feel like we are here or there under sufferance until the time comes when we are our own state."
"Until that time, no matter how long we have lived somewhere, no matter how much it appears we are accepted, in the back of all of our minds resides the belief that we will have to move. Maybe not today, or even the day after, but someday we will have to start looking again for a place to live."
I figured that would make a lot of sense to you.
May you and your children stay safe and may you live to see peace in your home.
gypsyman
4 - Mary K. Williams
"This world is a pretty spectacular place and part of its charm is the diversity of thought, opinion, and belief. We all need to take more time to appreciate it, including me"
This remark is the epitome of simplistic thinking.
And bravo Gypsyman for closing in this style. The problems, so numerous and numbing, that we all face at times can often be distilled down to the basic - most simple concepts. Real basic simple common sense stuff that is at the heart of the all the Holy Books, no matter what the religion.
Like Robert Fulghum and H. Jackson Brown, Jr kind of words to live by, or my take on it:
Be Fair
Be Nice
Share
Laugh
Love
Lastly,Remember there's someone or something out there that's bigger and better than you. Trust in that someone or something - and life might not be as sucky as it seems.
5 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
Thanks, Gypsyman