"You can fuck me if I'm wrong! "
--Fannie
So much to write, so little time.
So I was thinking on the way in this morning, with my cat wailing spastically next to me (hooray for ear plugs!), that there are quite a few topics i could highlight for journal entries, both today, and going forward. Should I stick to happy things, so as to not bum anyone out who might read my journal? Or should I not shy away from life, the good and the bad, regardless of the mood that might put people in. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I choose the latter. Because part of life is pain, for how else can we truly enjoy the good without experiencing some of the bad?
Once upon a time, there was a young man in love. So in love, in fact, that he married the apple of his eye so to speak and they lived happily ever after. Wait.. did I say "happily ever after"? What I intended to say was, "for a brief time in happiness then she got inoperable cancer and died at the age of 24 leaving enormous medical bills and a broken heart".
So the young man, not wishing to declare bankruptcy, chose to join the National Guard to help pay off the debt incurred and, perhaps, distract him from his woes. Time passed.
The young man, now a bit older in dog years and much older in spirit, was fortunate enough to meet another woman. They fell in love, got married and lived happily ever after with her child from a previous marriage and adding two of their own kids to cherish forever more.
Well, not exactly. Somewhere along the line, a country full of scared, dumb people (sort of) elected a power hungry coke-fiend man-boy as their president and he took the country to the middle east to fight a war against a country who had never attacked his own. Depending upon which day you ask, this was either to a) "free the Iraqi people from their ruthless dictator leader-type person, b) to rid the country of WMD, c) to avenge the attack on the US, d) secure future oil supplies or d) secure the legacy of man-boy's daddy who had tangled with the aforementioned dictator-type person in the past. Or some muddled combination of the above.
Well, long story short, in the course of this muddled mess, the happy young-ish man was called up to serve in this middle-east country and to shoot at people who lived there. During the course of his stay, his convoy came across a roadside bomb and the Humvee in which he was riding was blown apart, ending his life. I would say "the end" but unfortunately, this is not. His wife and children must live on without their loving young man.
So what can we take out of this? That one should secure for oneself good insurance? Perhaps. That one should declare bankruptcy vs. joining the military? Maybe. That perhaps we should all push for better government-subsidized/universal health care and leadership that doesn't feel that preemptive attacks on foreign nations is good foreign policy? Absolutely.
(P)resident jackass will sign into law a bankruptcy bill very soon that will make it even more difficult for people with legitimate financial problems (i.e. like the young man) to get out from under their debt. And we still don't have health care policies that might help to protect people from this type of problem in the first place.
Think before you vote and call and write your representatives often to let them know that you are watching. That is the least we can do.
--Fannie
So much to write, so little time.
So I was thinking on the way in this morning, with my cat wailing spastically next to me (hooray for ear plugs!), that there are quite a few topics i could highlight for journal entries, both today, and going forward. Should I stick to happy things, so as to not bum anyone out who might read my journal? Or should I not shy away from life, the good and the bad, regardless of the mood that might put people in. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I choose the latter. Because part of life is pain, for how else can we truly enjoy the good without experiencing some of the bad?
Once upon a time, there was a young man in love. So in love, in fact, that he married the apple of his eye so to speak and they lived happily ever after. Wait.. did I say "happily ever after"? What I intended to say was, "for a brief time in happiness then she got inoperable cancer and died at the age of 24 leaving enormous medical bills and a broken heart".
So the young man, not wishing to declare bankruptcy, chose to join the National Guard to help pay off the debt incurred and, perhaps, distract him from his woes. Time passed.
The young man, now a bit older in dog years and much older in spirit, was fortunate enough to meet another woman. They fell in love, got married and lived happily ever after with her child from a previous marriage and adding two of their own kids to cherish forever more.
Well, not exactly. Somewhere along the line, a country full of scared, dumb people (sort of) elected a power hungry coke-fiend man-boy as their president and he took the country to the middle east to fight a war against a country who had never attacked his own. Depending upon which day you ask, this was either to a) "free the Iraqi people from their ruthless dictator leader-type person, b) to rid the country of WMD, c) to avenge the attack on the US, d) secure future oil supplies or d) secure the legacy of man-boy's daddy who had tangled with the aforementioned dictator-type person in the past. Or some muddled combination of the above.
Well, long story short, in the course of this muddled mess, the happy young-ish man was called up to serve in this middle-east country and to shoot at people who lived there. During the course of his stay, his convoy came across a roadside bomb and the Humvee in which he was riding was blown apart, ending his life. I would say "the end" but unfortunately, this is not. His wife and children must live on without their loving young man.
So what can we take out of this? That one should secure for oneself good insurance? Perhaps. That one should declare bankruptcy vs. joining the military? Maybe. That perhaps we should all push for better government-subsidized/universal health care and leadership that doesn't feel that preemptive attacks on foreign nations is good foreign policy? Absolutely.
(P)resident jackass will sign into law a bankruptcy bill very soon that will make it even more difficult for people with legitimate financial problems (i.e. like the young man) to get out from under their debt. And we still don't have health care policies that might help to protect people from this type of problem in the first place.
Think before you vote and call and write your representatives often to let them know that you are watching. That is the least we can do.
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i am not sure that i can ever adequately express the shame and disgust i feel towards this present administration and its abuse of the powers that it has been entrusted with by the american people.
btw i am doing fine though i do get tired of the waiting at times. i just want to hurry up sometimes so i can start to get better but doctors never seem to see it that way.
hope you guys are doing well on that front yourselves. take care!