I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO THINK!
December 22, 2005
As Robert DeNiro said in the movie, Analyze This, “I’m conflicted!” Continue Reading »
WAR IS…WELL , WAR IS WAR or HELL
December 22, 2005
I happened to catch a few minutes of the Donald Rumsfeld’s press conference Wednesday afternoon. And from time to time, I have the same feeling as I did today, when a news commentator asks a stupid question. Can you just get a life!
But since being politically correct is so IN these days, there has to be another approach of course. So, how about this? War is a last resort, because war is hell. In war you try and make “war rules” to replace “civil rules”, that weren’t working anyway, and which got you into war to start with. Did you follow that?
It’s as though reporters and commentators don’t realize that in war very little that you have planned works out, and when you get down to it, war is a matter of adjusting to every situation. Of course reporters seem to think everything that happens in war should have been thought out ahead of time.
Why didn’t we plan on Iraqi’s throwing down their arms and not fighting at the start? Why didn’t we think about IED’s ahead of time? Could it be because they didn’t exist? Why didn’t we have better steel on our vehicles, even though we’d never neeeded it before?
And then today’s, how could we let the suicide bomber in to the mess hall and blow himself up? Ahh to be an arm chair quarterback-reporter in America and not an embedded reporter in Mosul or Fallujah. In our “instant society” where we order from Amazon today and get it tomorrow (most often), in our work world where thanks to FedEx, UPS, and others we live on JIT concepts, and in a world where everything is at our finger tips when and how we want it (Have It Your Way burgers), it’s hard to adjust to conditions that where we’re not in control.
War is just one such place: where we’re not in control of everything. Get used to it- and say a prayer for our brave men and women who are dying and bleeding so we can ask our stupid questions.
THE TESTING OF OUR WILL!
December 21, 2005
The biggest problem for the insurgents in Iraq is the man who will be inaugurated as President a month from now: George Bush. If we were looking at making JFK president on January 20th, the odds of a quick pullout of our troops would be substantially higher.
The insurgents, the French, Putin, and Democrats here at home are dealing with a president who seeks God, follows His Christian faith, and as we found out yesterday, even became the first President to send out a Christmas card with a Biblical Scripture.
I think most Christians are just about fed up with having to take a back seat, if any at all, when it comes to public recognition. I don’t think we will see nearly as much “outing” of Christ from Christmas next year. The Secularists have made their run, and it ain’t gonna happen!
The insurgents in Iraq are making a run as well and it ain’t gonna happen either (poor English on purpose!). I expect Bush to make some MAJOR announcement before January 20th: something unexpected. And, you can bet he won’t be backing down. Short of an impeachment, Bush is going to LEAD boldly, and forcefully for the next four years.
Go head on! Test our will, and see what you get!
WHAT’S THE TOP STORY OF 2005?
December 21, 2005
The Associated Press has come up with their decision which was far away ahead of anything that might have been compared to it, which was the Papal Transition. Garnering 242 of the 288 first-place ballots was KATRINA! But, with some of the new information that has just come in, we may have to revise history! After all- revisionist history has been in for decades in America. Continue Reading »
TWENTY FOUR DEGRESS YOU SAY?
December 20, 2005
I am not talking about the low for Houston, but New York City. When all of those New Yorkers wake up to WALK to work Tuesday morning, the temperature will be in the lower TWENTIES! Did I mention the wind chill index will be SINGLE DIGFITS? Continue Reading »
THE NEW SOAP OPERA SEASON!
December 20, 2005
Today officially opened the new soap opera season. There wasn’t any big announcement that you could find. Sweep Weeks are past, so why bother.
The Scott Peterson trial finally ended and cable news producers were fretting over what to do. What would Greta have to talk about in the 9pm CST slot for Fox News? Ahh, but it was a short down time as the new season got underway today in LA of course. Where else but California?
I am talking about the nearly three and a half year old Robert Blake (Baretta) trial. How do we let things linger on like this, this long? Did he or didn’t he murder Bonny Lee Bakley? The suspense begins to build (NOT!).
Then over in that other time zone (other world) known as Iraq, the first of many trials have begun, leading up to the “mother of all trials”- Saddam Hussein himself. In the meantime, you’ll have to get along with the suspense of the Chemical Ali trial that’s now underway. Of course Iraqi justice is different than ours, so maybe it won’t be as engrossing.
I was impressed today though when China announced that they would begin having trials by juries in 2005. They say it is just a part of the overall court reforms, but I know better. They just felt left out of the “trial soap operas”.
PS. And Bush (#43) is the first president to send out Christmas cards with a Biblical Scripture?
IT IS DEFINITELY ‘ON’ NOW BABY!
December 19, 2005
The “bully pulpit power” of the U.S. presidency is now being exhibited in full frontal attack. I am sure the Democrats are glad we’ve got two holidays coming up. Something needs to slow down the Bush presidential machine. The Democrats have been cruising for a fight and they just found it. Continue Reading »
CAN I GET A WITNESS?
December 19, 2005
What table manners? You want polite? Having eaten with my hands all my life, you’re asking me to sit upright at the table, and be something I have never, ever been in my life? Yep, that’s what America is essentially asking millions of Iraqi’s to do.
We who live in the West,have experienced the best that life has to offer, and enjoyed the gift of democracy for centuries, are asking those who live in just opposite conditions to understand our lifestyle. A society that’s lived in fear of death from the government, has a hard time understanding, let alone trusting, any government.
Killing, mayhem, and distrust have been the mainstays of Saddam’s reign. Is it any wonder then that violence is seen every day in Iraq? It’s not so much about America as it is about Iraq. In the last few months, the majority of the people killed in Iraqi car bombings and the like have been their fellow Iraqis.
Sunday. two car bombs ripped through Karbala and Najaf. At least 62 people were killed and 120+ were wounded: all Iraqis! Iraqis killing Iraqis. If the U.S. pulled out, Iraq would implode into civil war.
Whatever ills there may be in our current foreign policy, we are at least witnessing to a people (more than one nation) of what democracy might look like. While the prison scandal hurt our image, the follow up
rule of law, showed how wrongs can be corrected.
THE PRESIDENT GETS REAL!
December 18, 2005
Where has this speech been? I don’t know about you, but I like straight talk. In fact, I’d rather know the worst case scenario than to be handed a bouqet of roses that will wilt in a day. It’s been said that Napoleon needed rest after fighting a war for days without sleep. His second in command asked him if he’d like to be awakened if victory was at hand. Napoleon said he should only be disturbed if things were going badly as victory’s announcement could wait til morning. Me too! Continue Reading »
IS SOMETHING IN THE WATER?
December 17, 2005
On December 15th, I bought my last Christmas gift: done ten days before Christmas! So what will I do this week? Is there something in the water. Am I taking the right amount of vitamins? What’s so different about this year?
In the Ukraine, the water is sure toxic. Yushchenko definitely had something in his water, soup, or juice. It’s amazing that he is still alive when you consider the levels of dioxin in his system.
In China, whatever they are drinking is causing their minds and thinking to go haywire. Yesterday, they crowned their first “Miss Plastic Surgery”. Say what?
A twenty two year old student, Feng Qian, won $6,000 for her astounding enhancements: fuller breats, shapelier nose, eyelid and cheek alterations. The $6,000 prize couldn’t possibly cover the cost of the surgeries.
Whatever is going on around the world, I like mine better- even though I don’t drink that much water!
BATTLE FOR THE LAST WORD
December 16, 2005
There is obviously a game behind the game: a sort of matrix within the matrix at work these days. Bush is set to give his FIFTH speech on Iraq Sunday evening. Five in two weeks after being silent most of the year. Continue Reading »
DIFFERENT KINDS OF 15 MINUTES
December 16, 2005
It’s been said that everyone some how or another gets their 15 minutes in the sun: limelight. In fact Robert DeNiro starred in a 2001 film entitled ‘Fifteen Minutes’ that highlighted just such a concept. George Patton quoted conquerors of old by saying that fame is fleeting: if we ever have any at all.
Then there is another kind of fifteen minutes. It’s the fifteen minutes that will save your life, or at least extend it greatly. Psychologists tell us that we spend too much time worrying. Our body lies in a soup of stress from the time we get up until we go to bed at night. There is always stuff to worry about!
So, I’ve encouraged people to write down on a sheet of paper whatever it is that bugs them, and then set aside a fifteen minute time slot once a week: say 4:15 on Thursday afternoon, to WORRY! Make sure you have your sheet with you, lest you forget what you need to worry about.
I believe it was Tom Sawyer who said, “Most of the things I’ve worried about never came to pass.” Let me illustrate two recent points, which I just posted on the ‘headline news’.
Everyone was worried about not having enough flu shots. It was a BIG election issue. What were we to do anyway? Well, it now appears that tens of thousands of flu shots will go unused- wasted. And then there were the Republicans who were freaking out that the Ohio election would be overturned. What would the Ohio Supreme Court do? We now know- they threw the case out.
I don’t know about my fifteen minutes of fame, but I do know I’m not wasting my fifteen minutes of worry!
WHAT’S HAPPENED TO HOLLYWOOD?
December 15, 2005
I can’t remember the last time that I saw two back-to-back terrible movies: and I mean terrible! I was not interested in seeing ALEXANDER because I don’t like Oliver Stone to begin with. I went because so-called friends wanted me too.
However, I have no one to blame but myself for seeing OCEAN’S 12. Oceans 11 was great, but how we wound up with the script in “12″ is beyond me. What’s happened to Hollywood anyway?
Have they gone so “political” that they no longer can ACT? And then we see this week that the Golden Globe Awards of course skipped The Passion Of Christ and added in Closer (a movie I did not see but heard it was awful).
Unfortunately, today celebrities determine our culture, and serve as our religious and secular philosophers. Is this the group we want to follow? Do you want your kids looking to them for role models in life? I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for Hollywood to concentrate on acting again, and leave religion and philosophy to others.
BREAKING UP, MAKING UP & JUST UP
December 15, 2005
Let’s look at my title as they would in the Hebrew and Arabic traditions- right to left. Continue Reading »
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