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.

Friday, March 23, 2007

Some days I just need to laugh. . .The Onion


Thursday, March 08, 2007

I Thank You God ~ E. E. Cummings

i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth day of life and love and wings: and of the gay great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any - lifted from the no of all nothing - human merely being doubt unimaginably You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

~ E. E. Cummings

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

We can dish it out, but. . .

I love it when the truth comes back to slap us. As a country, we have this superiority complex, like we're better than anyone else in the world. We have "clean bombs", they have "dirty bombs". Both kill effectively, and truth is the "clean bombs" kill and maim a heckaofalot more people. Guess that's why they're clean. Accomplishes death much more effectively.

Today's blast by the Chinese doesn't say "We Chinese are innocent." What it says is "We have problems we are dealing with as a country, just like you do." Note that none of the Chinese accusations were made up in some dream like the US accusations usually are (Weapons of mass destruction being the most blatant - but others, like the NCLB act pretending to be real when it's really just money sucking scheme for a few rich folks).

All of the Chinese accusations came directly from US Government reports. Here's the link - enjoy. I did. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070308/ap_on_re_as/china_us_human_rights

Thursday, March 01, 2007

My Ignorance Is Bliss

Forgive me if I'm wrong. I often am, obviously. I mean, I've said from October 2001 that going to war against Iraq for no reason was wrong in the face of the terrorism that was facing our country. Well, since the war went so well and there is peace among all the countries in the middle east these 5 1/2 years later, I was obviously wrong and I apologize for that.

I also mentioned in those days how wrong it was that we go to war in Afghanistan. Sending troops into a nation that had no wish or desire to accept the United States even exists just didn't make any sense. Of course, the arrest, trial, and confession of Osama Bin Laden has proven that I was wrong on that account to. Apparently all the bad leadership and education in Afghanistan was all his fault, and now that everyone there owns Fords and Ipods we are one big happy world community, and I can accept that my predictions were way off base.

It still seems weird to me, tho, that even with the billions of dollars our government pours into Afghanistan each year, plus the thousands upon thousands of troops that we have there protecting the interests of the United States that we are still only able to raise poppy production by a mere 25% per year. With all our help you'd think they could double and triple their output of heroin to our needy country. How are we going to ever keep the poor people from rioting if we can't keep them forever high?

Opium production in Afghanistan reached record levels last year, the United States has said. Four years after the US and its British allies began combating poppy production, Afghanistan still accounts for 90% of the world's opium trade.