(478) Memorial Day
The newspaper carried the obligatory picture of the grief stricken parents holding a picture of their dead son. Dead because of another stupid war.
In Washington there is a long black wall with the names of thousands of dead soldiers who died in Vietnam. The war was full of sound and fury, and signified nothing. Nothing except 55,000 tragedies of life.
Remember that most people are only capable of doing system one thinking. There is no critical thinking, only reaction. For some reasons that no one, including me, can cipher. John Q. Citizens gets an idea in his head, such as we have to install democracy in Vietnam, or the Middle East, or Korea, or Easter Bunnyville. After that everything that happens proves the premise vis-a-vis without democracy in Easter Bunnyville, the USA will be at great risk. By killing a few thousand of our finest young people and upsetting a few dictators here and there, we are much safer than we were before. The day after Memorial Day there was another story proclaiming that almost half of new vets seek disability. Good for them, they deserve it. Obviously the costs of war will be exceeded by the costs of taking care of the returning vets. The second half of the equation would never have happened if there wasn’t a war. When will they ever learn? Just ask the Republican standing next to you and you will learn how important it is to keep on fighting.
Meanwhile, back at the Vatican, the Pope’s butler wrote a book. The Pope has condemned the book. The nuns have condemned the church for its anti-woman stance.
Some nut case in some country protested loud enough that Lady Gaga canceled a concert. The protestor asserted that she was an instrument of the devil.
Linus Pauling once observed that before you can make a fact based decision you must have all of the facts. That premise served us well for decades. Now, not so much. For instance, the World Trade Center truthers pick up a new tidbit and instantly incorporate it into their sickness. The more facts there are, the more certain they become.
In Syria, the world is ablaze. The U.N. condemned the actions of the dictator. Whoop de do. Meanwhile thousands are dying. If there is any reason to worry about Syria, then we need to stop fooling around with the U.N. and get our Air Force, not Nato’s but ours, in the air, and kill the bastards or we can just stay at home.
Sorry I have not written in a while I have been in court.