Trends

I've noticed a trend developing in Iraq. MORE DEATHS EVERY DAY.
Since a day after the elections the violence has increased every day. Face it. This kind of stuff takes planning. There must be a well organized department of suicide bombers over there. It is really scary. How do they get so many human beings to kill them selves for such a stupid cause.
I can't believe the majority of Sunie could support this kind of action just because they have lost power. They are thought to be the more sophisticated Iraqies. They should be trying to join the emerging government, but instead they seem to be freaked and frightened.
I think the insurgents are another group entirely.
I can't figure it out but it is an evil thing that is happening.
It is well funded, and well orginized and will be very hard to stop.
Adaven

Much Ado

There are many interesting things in the news lately.
A new report about 911. It seems the FAA dropped the ball on securing the sky. They were more interested in keeping the airlines in the air than watching for terror, but that is because they are a big bloated outfit that doesn't know it's ass from a hole in the ground, just like the FBI, CIA, and NSA, as has been clearly reviled since 911.
What is more interesting is that this report was withheld from the 911 commission, and not released until after the elections. How do these thing happen. I just can't figure where to place the blame. Who is holding up disclosure? The whitehouse? The commission, did they overlook or fail to demand full disclosure, is that big thick book anything at all?
Moving on. North Korea has an A-bomb program, Duh. They want to talk to the US about it, but we want nothing to do with that. It is a global problem and should be addressed with the globe. Well not really, just the countries that could be reached with missiles from N. Korea.
Why don't we just talk to them? Their King is a wacko. Can't we be smarter?
Could it be that our king is a wacko too?
Adaven

The Presidents agenda

I was relieved to hear from Rice that attacking Iran is not on the agenda. So what is?
It seems to me that the white house wants to rewind America about 100 years. They want to wipe out the social reform of the New Deal and every thing it became. Like social security and civil rights. Poverty programs and just about anything that helps to equalize the distribution of wealth.
But they have much more in mind. Evolution has to get out of education for as Bush stated "on the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the earth". Now that presidential opinion is having far reaching consequences for students in public schools. Science is becoming a tricky subject for educators who fear protests from bible brained school boards. Creationist dogma that Genesis has the "answers" threatens geology and ; well, every discipline. You can't have real science under that constraint.
There's more. The white house has no use for any environmental conservation. Restrictions on pollution have already been repealed or ignored. Wildlife be dammed we want to sell oil is almost a motto.
They don't care about people that much either. Women should worry. Roe vs Wade is a corner stone of the entire women's right movement and the white house wants to repeal it. They also challenge the first amendment with FCC indecency rulings. How far back do they want to pull that line. And don't forget the administrations all out war on alternate life styles.
There is more than war on the Presidents mind.
Adaven

State of the Union

It been a while since I've heard so much bullshit in such a short length of time.
Not just the State speech but also the rebutals that followed.
Speech writing is a craft. Great speech writing is an art.
No art tonight.
Our leaders clearly think that we are idots with no real understanding of the workings of government.
Maybe most of us are.
Nothing spoken tonight has any real relationship to what will happen.
Adaven

After the elections

I'm relieved that more people died on the highway than died voting in Iraq. Isn't it strange that we accept so many deaths from driving accidents so easily?
It is common to read how few Americans have lost there lives in our military endeavors compared the the death toll on American roads. We mourned the astronauts who died in the challenger and it stopped our manned space program cold, but more die every day from cars. Just an observation.
There will be a new government in Iraq, and staying alive will be part of their job. The insurgents will not stop violently opposing democracy and the Sunni , the former ruling class, will be angry at their fall from power, but there is hope.
Whatever happens it will not be easy or safe to be a politician in Iraq.
There is a unique opportunity here for a people to rise to the challenge of creating a brand new society, a clean slate upon which to build a new government for, and of it's citizens.
I don't think it will happen. And I remain opposed to our starting this war. But it is the reality and I will hope for the best
Adaven