Busy, Busy, Busy

I finally decided to take some time and return to my blog. Between trying to help my nephew with a paper, reading all of the articles for my masters course, keeping up with friends and other people, news, writing, my boyfriend and our cats, etc., I have let this slide for several days. Back to work!

There is so much to write about it feels as if my mind is backed up with all sorts of stuff. There is all of the terrible violence that has been happening in schools and the death of that poor 16-year-old girl, Emily Keyes. There has been all of the bombings and deaths in Iraq and the trial of that pathetic clown, Saddam Hussein. Also, the political maneuverings of Bush and company tend to keep me in a fairly constant state of righteous indignation. There are the more personal concerns about finances, deadlines for classwork, getting together with friends, housekeeping that desperately needs tending to, cats with medical problems and treatment schedules, more articles to read for class, and the list could go on and on but I am stopping it here. At least that has helped a little with the brain clog.

It is difficult to check the news and to be confronted with a photograph of a very sweet girl who is dead at the hands of someone who's sole aim in life was, apparently, to make himself as absolutely worthless as possible. It was not an accident that took her life, nor was it a person one might reasonably defend as "disturbed." The person who shot and killed Emily was a worthless creep, a pervert by his own choice, too lazy to give a damn about anyone except himself and his desire to screw young girls who, sensibly, would never have willingly wanted to have anything to do with him. The true tragedy is the loss of a younger person who was on her way to making a positive mark upon this world that seems so pathetically lacking right now. We all needed Emily to grow up and become a part of adult society but, instead, she is dead and we must all deal with the immediate and future consequences of that tragic loss. I cannot even imagine what her family is going through right now.

Another real tragedy is that all of the shootings stateside and bombings in the Middle East serve to distract attention from what Bush and his minions are up to politically. They rejoice when stuff like this occurs because they can move their plans to trash the United States up another notch. It gives them a screen behind which they can hide as they "reinterpret" (read that as "manipulate") the meaning of the Constitution to suit their ends rather than to allow the greatness it truly stands for to permiate their souls. They are the most reprehensible bunch of users and hypocrites to have ever come along in U.S. politics to date. I cannot begin to express the true depth of my contempt and loathing for such behavior or for such attitudes. I can only hope and pray that there will be a next election and that they will be, somehow, firmly and soundly rousted from their positions of control. It is the great tragedy of American politics that individuals such as these are able to gain that much power in the first place. I will always vote against them but what is actually needed is a revolution of thought; a major change in the way "we the people" carry out our political processes and definitely a new interpretation of the Constitution that keeps the true spirit of that document and its words alive while turning politics back into the "of the people, by the people, and for the people" process it was meant to be in the first place. It is not a battle that can be won with guns and violence any longer. It is a battle for hearts and minds that needs to be waged by every thinking, feeling person of conscience. The present crew do not have consciences, they have agendas and connections, blind trusts that are far from legally blind and the power to keep a lot of what they do under the hood and out of sight of the people they are supposed to serve but who are left out of all of their considerations and machinations except to be thought of in terms of being pests or necessary baggage, at best. Their arrogance and determination to trash every possible thing that could prevent their actions and choices of direction is only increasing and they are becoming fatter with their own sense of power each day. America is their piggybank and they are gouging out every penny and dime they possibly can before they throw the rest of us away. They are a curse to our country and a stain upon the documents and precepts they are supposed to be holding in trust for the American people. I wish there were a milder way to phrase these things, but there is not.

At least there is a little "comic" relief in reading about the trial of Saddam Hussein. He is the most pathetic soul upon this earth at the moment. I also feel strongly he is the primary reason we are in Iraq right now. I really wonder what kinds of wheelings and dealings went on between Bush and his family's compatriots in the oil business in order to oust Hussein from his degraded and perverted throne and I wonder how many others besides the Bin Ladens, the Bushes, and the Saudis were in on the deal. That must have been one very interesting meeting. Saddam is either dead or on his way to being declared irretrievably insane, I am not sure which yet, although I suppose they could let him go provided they all are convinced he has been properly castrated and subdued. We'll have to wait and see. Ah, the joys of world and local politics!

I wish my more personal list could be made nearly as interesting as the rest of what I have tried to discuss, but it is not, so I will not say anymore about it here.

May any and all who stop by this humble blog have a truly good day filled with the more normal sort of things like families and satisfaction from jobs, children, beloved pets, chores accomplished, etc.