Turn Out the Lights... The Party's Over
No, I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
But the mother and child reunion
is only a motion away...
After 20 years of deadly destruction, the neo-cons in Washington have made their bank and are finally, finally getting out and leaving the Afghan people to pick themselves up from the foreign destruction after international funds have been cut, much of the brainpower and resources have been evacuated from the nation, and the "helping" is done.
Damn shame the boys didn't discover Jesus and Mary's helping power until the destruction was done, the lives lost, and the country further destroyed. You can't impose democracy by force, especially from foreign forces. It cost us a lot to learn that lesson -- some with dollars in their eyes still haven't learned -- but America has turned a corner on our use of our military for profit.
I don't suspect Washington sees it yet -- to the oldster empowered there it is business as usual -- but the youth of America have demographically ... changed. They won't accept 20 years of this, much less two.
If we have cheapened human life in these past decades here at home, and imported our notions abroad, nobody will stand for the destruction to the environment the military costs the world. We've got to find a more intelligent, more female, less destructive way of bringing about true change in the world than dropping bombs, sending in men with guns, and trying to buy our way abroad. (They take your our taxpayer money, but what did you we get in return, fellas? Not even a handful of magic beans...)*
Just so friends & foes alike understand me. I’m weaning myself off this site. I think it’s mostly bad for your brain and the country. But there are parts of it that are useful, entertaining & good. Still, if I had my druthers, I’d just tweet about my quadrupeds.
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* The answer is why they hate Donald Trump so much; he's quite honest and transparent about it, at least... "Money, money, money... money!" Enjoy porking out, and remember not to bulk up too much. Harder on the body in the long run... Hth. So long boys, and thanks for all the fish!
Responsive Reading: Matthew 5:43-48 You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrigh-teous.For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? All: Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
"We gonna love all our enemies 'til the mirror falls off the wall... We gonna rock em, we gonna roll em, we gonna teach em that Love will make em tall. That's cool! Cuz one day every day be Judgement Day... (we gonnna) Play in the Sunshine! Turn all the lights up to 10~! We gonna play in the sunshine... and do it all over again. (Drummer... do you thing! Drummer, drummer: do your thing! Let's get out of here.. yeah.) Play in the sunshine! Play, play, play (we're not afraid to...) Play in the sunshine! (we've got to...)" ~Prince.
And one more Prince song, for the boys...
Black day, stormy night. No love, no hope in sight. Don't die without knowing... the Cross. Ghettos to the left of us. Flowers to the right. There'll be bread for all of us, if we will just bear... the Cross. Sweet song of salvation, a precious mother sings, she knows the starvation: her children need all that... she brings. We all have our problems, some are big and some are small. Soon all of our problems will be taken by ... the Cross. Black day. Stormy night. No love, no hope in sight. Don't cry, He is coming... Don't die without knowing, the Cross...
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