Sabinal Blue

Visiting The Thoughts Of Yet One More Person

Meanderings of an introverted dancer - a public school teacher with thoughts on music, politics, and life in the hills.

Monday, November 26, 2007

Chavez - looney tunes?

Every time I think I may regain my respect for Chavez he goes off the deep end. I'm beginning to wonder if the man isn't simply ready to be committed. My respect for him came from his ability to be honest and not accept the crap Bush was feeding him - and being willing to forego "American Aid" in exchange for freedom from the oppressive presence of America. I respect that.

But his inability to get along with anyone else, well, it makes one stop to ponder. I gave my 2 cents when he decided he wanted to be king. I thought that was way over the top, but now he's ending up toppling himself by being overly sensitive to criticism.

Jeez, dude. Hopefully you're just paranoid enough to keep checking out what people on the net are saying about you. My advice, lighten up a bit, accept some criticism from your friends and neighbors, and if it doesn't fit, let it slide off your back. If it does fit, then think about how to go about being a bit more down-to-earth and regaining some of the respect you're losing from your friends. -Rich

Saturday, November 17, 2007

More Chavez

While I am upset with Chavez for not trusting his fellow countrymen to vote for him and trying to set up a sorta monarchy for himself, I can sorta understand his lack of trust when watching our US politics. It's all about who has the most money and the best press instead of who has the best ideas. Ideas have no place in American politics, especially rational ones. So, while I wish Chavez would trust his fellow countrymen, I can see why he is paranoid - especially with world bullies using many methods of propaganda and brute force to keep ideas out of the political landscape.

All this came up because I heard Chavez' latest speech about how his country and others should "demand respect for the sovereignty of our nations" from the US. I cannot say enoujgh how much I respect and believe we should honor this statement. Our imperialism disgusts and saddens me, and it's good that there are countries standing up and demanding we stay out of their internal politics.

Fascinating

I am fascinated today by a long debate I heard. The crux of the administration side of the debate is that we MUST insist on political unity in Iraq before we start pulling our troops from there.

Fascinating coming from a leadership that does not seek political unity in our own country. Even such items as funding a stupid war cannot find unity. Nor should it. We who believe the war is not in our best interest would never agree to funding it without some evidence - anything - any little idea or proof - beyond stealing oil from the "dumb third world countries" - that it is in the best interest of the world for this war to continue. So, there will be no unity here. And that's okay. We can agree to disagree and simply not like each other here in the United States.

If a person is asking for "extra emergency funding" they should be able to show, in plain American English, what the emergency is. There is no emergency in my eyes, and they should not use my granchildren's tax money to pretend there is an emergency. If there's no emergency, then a sane person should not vote for emergency funding.

What's fascinating is that we're (the Bush administration represents the US people, which includes little ol' me) insisting on unity over there.

I love headaches. These idiots are giving me a huge one today.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Personality Insights?

Sabinal Blue Is An INTP

The Thinker

You are analytical and logical - and on a quest to learn everything you can.
Smart and complex, you always love a new intellectual challenge.
Your biggest pet peeve is people who slow you down with trivial chit chat.
A quiet maverick, you tend to ignore rules and authority whenever you feel like it.

In love, you are an easy person to fall for. But not an easy person to stay in love with.
Although you are quite flexible, you often come off as aloof or argumentative.

At work, you are both a logical and creative thinker. You are great at solving problems.
You would make an excellent mathematician, programmer, or professor.

How you see yourself: Creative, fair, and tough-minded

When other people don't get you, they see you as: arrogant, cold, and robotic

Thursday, November 08, 2007

A Victory Of Sorts

US Congress overturns Bush veto

This news article is a victory. It's easy to say too little, too late; but it finally shows that there is a backbone available in our senate and congress. When needed, and when it looks like they profit from it. This water bill encompasses profits for large corporations in almost every state of the nation, thus made it easy to override a Presidential veto. Now, if we can get them to stand up and be counted on issues where no campaign contributors profit, but the lives of their fellow citizens are made more sane. We shall see. There's a year left before the election and 14 1/2 months before the replacement.