Still Life

"There are two kinds of people in this world; those who think there are two kinds of people and those who are smart enough to know better"

- Tom Robbins, "Still Life with Woodpecker"

Many moons ago while walking in New Hope with Shiloh; I was recommended this book on the basic principal that it was about a pack of Camel cigarettes. I immediately walked across the street to the book shop (one of my all time favorites) and got it. And by golly got it…I like to think Got it. If not immediately…sometime thereafter.

I have two books that predominately mention Camel cigarettes… the other is Norman Mailer’s “Tough Guys Don’t Dance”.

I don’t mention this because I quit smoking recently. I mention this because well… I have yet to mention it. So whoop de do….

…..tha’s what I’m talkin’ about…

I want to say congratulation to Stansfield. I’m glad your back brother…

and we’ll give ole Heimdall a nod for bringing up Robbins tonight. It’s good to have you back too. Hopefully we’ll get Heimdall’s opinions walking these floors as well.

…yes… this is saddled with the past. The old Jersey days… the old smoking days… even the last time mentioned the old drinking days… as Willie once sang it…funny how time slips away… but I don’t bring it up for those reasons. Nope. Not at all…

I bring it up because well… the past is important to getting to the future. We cannot have a future without it…can we?

I say this because well… we have grand irritations, America does. Grand irritations indeed. Them Russians, Them Iranians and Them Koreans…and prob’ly Them Chinamen… they want to take away our color TVs…

Today Crazy Legs was telling me that I’m an Isolationalist and that a tyrant is a tyrant. I don’t argue with the latter. And Crazy Legs… I’m not an Isolationalist…okay?

so That being said….

Iran is dangerous. Iran is very dangerous, but only as dangerous as we let them become. We have gone around kicking the bear for five years. We have managed to overturn all the damn goodwill that we garnished. …and when it’s all said and done??? What in Sam Hill have we accomplished?

I can give this much to the administration… Iraq was a course correction. It should have happened a long time ago. Bush I is to blame and Clinton well, if they had let him conduct policy instead of worry where his pecker had been… he might have beaten the hell out of Saddam twelve years ago and a generation wouldn’t have grown up hating America.

But we have what we have. Now… we’re getting ready to go to Iran. Bush wants to be able to say that “diplomacy didn’t work”.

Karl Rove is going to paint the world black with his Doom and Gloom “what if the Democrat’s win?” philosophy.

We need to worry about What if they don’t win???

…but don’t talk about it on your phone…

and really…for crying out loud… please please please…understand that if we go into Iran to save Iraq… we will end up like some Three Stooges caricature…

Yes ~ Iran = Crazy. Yes ~ G.W. Bush = Crazy.

But as the Wiseman once said…two wrongs don’t make a right…

George W. Bush is a B-U-M – BUM.

Dick Cheney is a Woos-ee.

Donald Rumsfield is a Paranoid Schizophrenic.

Condoleezza Rice is a Push Over.

We Need New Blood.

We need to apply some lessons of the past. The Cold War/Cuban Missle Crisis and exactly what has this country/Iran done… so far? Are they trying to recreate the Persian Empire? …THINK…

I have these links from BullMooseBlog

With All Our Might

PPI