Woke Up This Morning And Found Myself ...
"IRAQ ATTACKS CLAIM 21; 70 DIE IN THREE DAYS
UN envoy casts doubt on election-- BAGHDAD
Twenty-one Iraqis were killed by insurgent attacks in northern Iraq on Sunday, bringing to more than 70 the death toll in a three-day spree of violence that has affirmed the resilience of the insurgency less than two months before scheduled elections.In the worst attack, 17 Iraqis employed by the government died when two civilian buses in which they were traveling to work were ambushed by gunmen near the northern city of Tikrit, according to the U.S. military. The Iraqis were employed at an ammunition disposal dump, officials said. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0412060169dec06,1,7496330.story?coll=chi-news-hed"
Maybe I should just re-post last friday's entry, "Safety?", until the end of my days.
A good friend of mine, James, recently expressed surprise that my recent three-cd compilation, Whorehouse Desert of the Patriot's Heart, is generally understated and "subdued," whereas " i was expecting some hard-biting, angry tunes considering the re-election of the communist and the contents of www.patriotwhorehouse.blogspot.com" James later noted that, "however the concise, intellectually invigorating lyrics more than portrays how you're feeling" When I compiled all of the songs for the compilation, it came at a time when I was just passing the post-election states of outrage, dismay and embarrassment, and I was just starting to grieve ... for the past, present and our future. Thus, the compilation represents a wide array of sentiments, stated and understated, so to speak. Anyone who knows me knows that this is not to say that I'm not prone to fly off the handle or, in the wake of the relentless, bountiful deaths in Iraq feel like -- as Chameleons' erstwhile great Mark Burgess once said -- "Everyday I'm crucified ... by everything I see."
Finally, had a fun time at good friend Mark's birthday party in Bucktown (Chicago area) on Saturday night. Although I was in a den of relative conservatives and many Bush supporters (there were even some Texans next door, proclaiming "George is such a good guy," great southern drawl and all, I was able to maintain my composure, placated in great part by Mark's purchase of my favorite beer (Molson Canadian) on my behalf. Politics aside, we discussed the predicament of baseball/steroids and what to do with the game, its players, records broken, and abusing players' contracts. Here, to me, is a big question in the face of talk that the NY Yankees are said to be inquiring whether to void/opt out of abuser Jason Giambi's contract: If, according to previous abusers dunderhead Jose Canseco and now deceased Ken Caminiti, a great percentage of players were/are using steroids and "everybody knows about it," should there not likewise be blood on the hands of the respective teams' ownership and/or MLB? In other words, teams shouldn't get to eat their cake and eat it too -- if they knew/should have known players were abusing steroids to put up bigger numbers (and, incidentally, win games) and thus obviously reaped the fruits of the players' offerings, then why should they get to void/opt out of the contracts to which they signed such abusers? The whole game is defaced.
UN envoy casts doubt on election-- BAGHDAD
Twenty-one Iraqis were killed by insurgent attacks in northern Iraq on Sunday, bringing to more than 70 the death toll in a three-day spree of violence that has affirmed the resilience of the insurgency less than two months before scheduled elections.In the worst attack, 17 Iraqis employed by the government died when two civilian buses in which they were traveling to work were ambushed by gunmen near the northern city of Tikrit, according to the U.S. military. The Iraqis were employed at an ammunition disposal dump, officials said. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0412060169dec06,1,7496330.story?coll=chi-news-hed"
Maybe I should just re-post last friday's entry, "Safety?", until the end of my days.
A good friend of mine, James, recently expressed surprise that my recent three-cd compilation, Whorehouse Desert of the Patriot's Heart, is generally understated and "subdued," whereas " i was expecting some hard-biting, angry tunes considering the re-election of the communist and the contents of www.patriotwhorehouse.blogspot.com" James later noted that, "however the concise, intellectually invigorating lyrics more than portrays how you're feeling" When I compiled all of the songs for the compilation, it came at a time when I was just passing the post-election states of outrage, dismay and embarrassment, and I was just starting to grieve ... for the past, present and our future. Thus, the compilation represents a wide array of sentiments, stated and understated, so to speak. Anyone who knows me knows that this is not to say that I'm not prone to fly off the handle or, in the wake of the relentless, bountiful deaths in Iraq feel like -- as Chameleons' erstwhile great Mark Burgess once said -- "Everyday I'm crucified ... by everything I see."
Finally, had a fun time at good friend Mark's birthday party in Bucktown (Chicago area) on Saturday night. Although I was in a den of relative conservatives and many Bush supporters (there were even some Texans next door, proclaiming "George is such a good guy," great southern drawl and all, I was able to maintain my composure, placated in great part by Mark's purchase of my favorite beer (Molson Canadian) on my behalf. Politics aside, we discussed the predicament of baseball/steroids and what to do with the game, its players, records broken, and abusing players' contracts. Here, to me, is a big question in the face of talk that the NY Yankees are said to be inquiring whether to void/opt out of abuser Jason Giambi's contract: If, according to previous abusers dunderhead Jose Canseco and now deceased Ken Caminiti, a great percentage of players were/are using steroids and "everybody knows about it," should there not likewise be blood on the hands of the respective teams' ownership and/or MLB? In other words, teams shouldn't get to eat their cake and eat it too -- if they knew/should have known players were abusing steroids to put up bigger numbers (and, incidentally, win games) and thus obviously reaped the fruits of the players' offerings, then why should they get to void/opt out of the contracts to which they signed such abusers? The whole game is defaced.
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