Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Touching on politics

I was just reading my buddy Mike's blog and thought I'd add my own counterpoint to a few of his comments.
Go check out his blog here. Interesting blogger and all around swell guy, even when he's being a left extremist. ;-)

Anyway, here's a few of his comments (in italics) with my follow up after each:

3 bloody years later, what do we have?

A military operation called operation swarm, which is just a huge photo op to make us feel better about the Iraqi "military".

Save for the separatists, I'm sure most, if not all Iraqis would say they're better off now than they were when Saddam was in power.


A Democratic party which has no solutions to even offer for this quagmire.

Exactly. Plenty of bitching with nothing to bring to the table.


The beginnings of a true Civil War in Iraq.

I seem to recall a civil war a couple of hundred years ago after a country gained independence from a power. Democracy doesn't come without growing pains.


Extremist anti-American groups "democratically" elected in Palestine and Iran.

Not sure I understand what is meant by this. A country has to be pro-American to be democratic?


Still no WMD's and documents showing there never were any.

Really? On the daily show the other day, they had the former number two man in the Iraqi Air Force who reported directly to Saddam, who says that there were in fact WMDs (and still are) that were transported to Syria just prior to the inspectors arriving.
What are we doing about it? Got me.


Nice Job Mr. President. Whats the encore??

I'm with the rest of the country in thinking that Bush is an idiot, but I'm not so sure we would have fared much better with Kerry, which is why Bush got elected. Kerry also insisted that there were WMDs, and was totally supportive of the war. Sure, now he's recanted that and says he was wrong, but of course he's going to say that if he wants to save face in his party.
I honestly believe that Kerry is just as much of a dolt as Bush.


And for the record, had I a friend who was a right-wing conservative writing a blog, I would likely comment on his diatribe as well. :-)
I believe there should be a happy medium in politics. Neither party is any good in and of itself.
In fairness, Mike does have Democrat critiques on his blog as well. :-)

Peace

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Another Cameo

Not even going to bother trying to catch up on things, as it's been way too long since my last entry.
Not too much to talk about now either, but I figured 2 months was long enough, I may as well make an appearance just in case the few that read this are still checking in.

Had a real good night at bowling last night. In fact, the last few weeks have been good for me. Last week I shot a 687 series, and last night I bowled a 235, a 225, and a 266 for a 726 series. We also swept the other team in games which was an added bonus.
Next week we bowl the first place team, so hopefully I can continue my good run.
My average is up to a 202, and might go up to a 203 after last night. Not bad considering that as of my last blog entry it was a 198. :-)

In a previous post I mentioned signing up for the Nearfest patron program. I ended being number 119 in the lottery list. I snagged seat number A29, which is the first row of the orchestra, just after a 4 row "Pit" area.

I've been seeing Valerie again for the past 6 weeks or so. She's the one I was seeing last year around this same time. Both of us are in a different place emotionally this time, so things are going better now.
As for Romy....she abruptly cut all communication with me the day after Super Bowl. I have no idea why. Things seemed good. We were having fun. The last time I saw/spoke with her she was talking about future things we would be doing.
Funny thing is, we weren't really "dating", we were pretty much just friends (hence my starting to see Valerie...I'm not a polygamist, even in a casual sense). It's for that reason that I am so perplexed by her actions. You might ignore someone you don't want to "go out with" anymore (although even that is cowardly), but you don't just ignore someone you called "friend." Even if she was afraid to face me or even talk to me on the phone about whatever the issue was, I didn't even get the courtesy of an email. That would have been easier than ignoring me, because then I wouldn't have left phone messages and emails trying to get an inkling of what the hell was going on.
Whatever.

Anyway, I guess that's enough for now.

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