Pray and slay

It's enough to make one wonder what the other 85 did to keep their jobs...Lo and behold, another story out today that in, I think Michigan or Wisconsin, that the conviction of a Democrat is overturned because there was NO EVIDENCE of any wrongdoing, and the Attorney in that case is reprimanded.

40,000 + people die every year in this country in cars, hundreds of thousands more injured, many critically. The exaust from cars probably contributes to the death of untold numbers of others.

Every month, in Iraq, a number in the range of 31 American soldiers die.

More kids die every year drowning in pools that from incidents like that yesterday. (Credit Freakonomics)

Many countries, including our neighbors to the north, have many more guns and lower crime rates.

31 people dead is chump change. Let it not distract us from the larger issues. More to the point, Don't let our politicians and the media distract us. The sky is falling and all we see is something shiny.

I appreciate your objection to my words, and I would not use them in speaking to the family of those who were killed, and if they read them here, so be it. I would hope that you, and they, would read them in the context of my letter. In the presence of grief, the rules of engagement are different than when taking a clear look at the real world.

I have two small boys at home, and they are more likely to be killed by the events I describe that by events similar to those on Monday. Millions of times more likely. The shootings that took place on monday, were, in my view, less preventable than the deaths that take place from cars and pollution and war, all of which with proper political will could be significantly alleviated. Unless this fucking war is still going on when they turn 18.

So much death is preventable, and yet so little of it is actually prevented. Could these deaths have been prevented? Not through legislation, but rather by us a human beings actually being in touch with one another.

Even then, probably not - Crazy people live among us. I think that the toll that they exert on us is one of the hardest things, and least preventable things, to accept about being in a free society.

The amendments in the Bill of Rights all have one thing in common - They are geared toward protecting the people from the government. Not the other way around, nor people from people.

The more this administration tilts to the right, the more I think we need rights like these

That's how many months I believe should be available for terminating the life of your child. I'm not really wrapped up in setimentality over life and death. As we've seen, people die all the time, for nothing, or for a bunch of lies. Babies come out all fucked up, use them for research.

And no, I'm not being sarcastic.

I'd rather the war be micromanaged than mismanaged

Marine on the front lines is, in fact NOT really the best person to ask. Does this marine know what happens in every corner of the country? Is this marine really that well informed about what we spend on the war, what the body count is, how many Iraqis have been killed...Does he see the nightly news...Or is he just a brainwashed scrificial lamb.

And the next question should be "Why was there a vaccuum to fill"?

This goes back to the whole Sadaam-AK connection, which is fiction. The difference between the two is religion - AK has, Sadaam did not.

and not answered, time and time again

Blame Petraeus? No, but what he is saying is still the same kind of solemn head nodding rhetoric that echoes Bush-speak, but when it comes to action, their plans (and I usethat term loosely) does not reflect the complexity of the situation.

After he realized that it was not going to be as easy as he thought, Bush, also, uses much of the "long hard fight" language, simulating a request for actual sacrifice.

"When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything begins to look like a nail"

Somebody famous said this. I think it sums up the relentless myopia that is the Bush world view

Ummm...I think that job description would fit the, ummm, president of the United States

is on our hands

Washington used the same tactics that the Iraqis are using against us, the same tactics that the Vietnamese studied and used against us.

Guess what - They work

That why England was wrong then, and we are wrong now. There is more than one way to win, but you have to pull your head out of your ass to see it.

depends on your definition of it, I guess (insert Clinton reference here).

But really, Calmer, that's my point above, although I don't think your question poses ideas that are mutally exclusive - rather the opposite.

Nobody wins unless everybody wins

Nobody is free unless every body is free

A Martial arts instructor doesn't teach by beating the shit out of his students, and we should not look at teaching democracy the way Bush seems to be teaching it.

I'm rambling, but it's only because I'm wicked sick.

for the current situation is a matter of perspective and opinion.

Don't cut and run

1. These theories are all related and they all lead to the white house

2. The illeagality in it is that no one seems able to tell the truth about it. Getting a blow job isn't illeagal either.

3. Our democracy, and the ability to trust the behavior of the white house, is an important matter. Not to republicans, though, apparently

Sadaam was clearly never a threat - We had him strangled with sanctions

There weren't any terroists in Iraq until we got there

That doesn't make you a war criminal, it makes you a sheep.