Musings on the news......

Lieberman on Iraq I just finished reading Lieberman's editorial in the Washington Post... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/28/AR2006122801055.html entitled "Why we need more troops in Iraq". His article is concluded by calling himself an Independent Democrat. It's fairly obvious that the war of misinformation has taken it's toll on all our sanity! I'm left to conclude that democracy is the first step towards a state of dissociative disorder.

Pelosi from the kitchen to the House I watched in amazement as the first woman to lead the House of Representatives took the gavel this last week! It's been a long road for women in this nation! We lag far behind other countries in terms of equal representation of women in our government. And like our dear Mr. Lieberman's claim to be a Democrat, equality is a label only! The ERA amendment fell short of passing and what we ended up with instead was the age of escalating plastic debt. It's no wonder we're faced with a government so adamant about marriage being one man and one woman! If two women get married, they can't pay the rent!

Oprah on innocence and being a celebrity Oprah defended her choice to start and fund a school in South Africa, because the children she met in American ghetto schools wanted I-Pods and Sneakers. So apparently one of the richest women in America can't abide by materialism and keeping up with trends! That's interesting.

me...... scratching my head Okay, so far this year is starting out to be very interesting, if not just a tad more dis-functional than usual!

Ford Farewell... dressing the stage for Democrats in '07

Another former President laid to rest. And of course, the attention paid to the "healing of a nation" still sticks in my throat as I listened to the words of praise for this man who stood on the national stage for so short a period of time. Imagine.... the only man to serve in both the highest offices of this nation, purely because the men who held those positions were such utter crooks and thieves! Amazing.......
How convenient that we can reflect upon this so called "healing" at this particular time in history! Or is that my 60's cynicism flashing me back to reality once again? Is this the stage being set to face the Democrats in a few days, to remind them of the dangers of impeachment and what that would do to this nation? Imagine.... such an UnChristian like thing to bring up, impeachment! We just had numerous sermons on how sinful such a thing would be!

Buffalo Springfield
For What It's Worth
Stephen Stills, 1966

There's something happening here

What it is ain't exactly clear

There's a man with a gun over there

Telling me I got to beware

I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound

Everybody look what's going down

There's battle lines being drawn

Nobody's right if everybody's wrong

Young people speaking their minds

Getting so much resistance from behind

I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound

Everybody look what's going down

What a field-day for the heat

A thousand people in the street

Singing songs and carrying signs

Mostly say, hooray for our side

It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound

Everybody look what's going down

Paranoia strikes deep

Into your life it will creep

It starts when you're always afraid

You step out of line, the man come and take you away

We better stop, hey, what's that sound

Everybody look what's going down

Stop, hey, what's that sound Everybody look what's going down

Stop, now, what's that sound Everybody look what's going down

Stop, children, what's that sound Everybody look what's going down