Not Much to Say These Days

Last night (meaning Wednesday) I read a review of the immense damage done to the Alberta forests and other nature preserves and rivers and what have you, with all of this strip mining and defacing the land.  This Alberta tar sands issue was a non starter for me ever since I first heard about it on Sixty Minutes years and years ago.  Nature is being raped and she must “resist to the utmost” to use a legal term.  Any measure to block development of this land to exploit should be blocked no matter what form it takes.  FOX is concerned about terrorists coming across the border.  However this is a natural target with a bull’s eye on its back- - because the media has played up this pipeline as a big thing, for national security among other things and energy production to counter Arab and Russian oil.  Al Qaeda may argue that their whole way of life is threatened by this pipeline.  I read a lot of items in Washington’s blog going into the past and 2008 and how America needs a continued “war on terror” when charts show that only seven percent of “terrorist organizations” are put down and abolished by military force.  Sometimes (ten percent of the time) the terrorists win everything.  Often political accomidations are made with them.  A lot of the time it’s old fashioned police action which ends a groups influence.  We were repeatedly told “Terrorism is not a police action but- - some kind of a Holy Crusade - - of war that we should wage”.   In essence we are giving terrorists the status they have long sought.  One person made the statement “Being the object of terrorist attacks is a small price to pay for being a Super Power”.   There was talk of President Bush “allowing” 9 – 11 to happen.  How often have we heard that “God isn’t the author of evil; he just allows it”.   But when someone with unquestioned absolute power “allows something” it says a lot about the moral compass of that individual be he the President of the United States or God Himself.   I’ve been afraid this computer was going to crash any minute so have been saving frequently.

I watched Harry Reid, Chuck Schummer, Dick Derbin and that blond haired lady up on the platform advocating for the President’s immigration plan.  Later after dinner I watched the five governors on the Republican side speak on the matter.  John Kassech of Ohio was the most conciliatory of the five.  Walker, Perry, and Jendell were strident- - and the Indiana governor was a tad more moderate than those three.  The President spoke from the White House at five in a well delivered fifteen minute speech they announced ahead of time would not be on any over the air television stations.  Right now I turned on the TV.  That hiss from these speakers continues to get louder and I’m wondering why.  Those muffins gave me a vaguely sick feeling even though I ate fewer than usual when Terry brings them.  I feel feverish.  Tonight for dinner we had spaghetti and a green salad and cauliflour.  We had vanilla ice cream for dessert.  I made coffee just before five.  Even so I am not now up to doing any sort of blog post now.  The rate of blog posting had declined- - and I’m getting the feeling the rate will continue to decline further.