2 posts tagged “war”

And nothing much has changed.
Or everything has.  Depends on how you look at it.

We're down to one chinchilla, one cat and one guinea pig and the guinea pig isn't feeling well.  After Bandit we lost Skeeter and Gizmo.  A mated pair of chins.  The female passed after some illness and her little mate simply could not live without her.  He died a week later.  Very sad indeed.

The war in the middle east is ongoing.  The US military is all but spent and so is the treasury but that's ok with the reslug dictatorship that runs the place like their daddy's business.  I wouldn't care so much but they're like a neighboring willow that has it's tentacle roots wrapped around our own, strangling us slowly.  It's very much a "If we go down we're taking you with us" kind of relationship now.
It's been more than obvious that our government was bought and paid for by 'merkan reslugs ages ago.  Piglet harper and his porcine posse have yet to force Canada into a major commitment in the middle east but they are still playing the public with that bullshit about how our soldiers are "Peace Keepers".  Yeah.  Show me how you keep peace in the middle of a war zone? 
We get it.  It's the best lie you could bother to come up with.
Fuck you too.

We've been to the states twice to visit.  It's usually a major health crisis that sends us flying down there.  This time was no different.  DH's mom gave us her old car.  That was nice of her.  She can't drive any more so she thought we could use it.  It made it all the way back here and then promptly died.  We scraped the money together to get it going again only to have it fall to pieces two weeks later.
I'm glad it's getting warmer now.  At least it won't be freezing cold while we're walking.  For a while.

Gas is hovering at $1.30/L. depending on where you buy it and the warm weather is only just upon us.  I can imagine it will go a lot higher once the summer travel season is upon us.  The result of that being no travel for most.  We'll be lucky if they continue to truck to retail outlets if it gets much worse.  There are already problems with the supply line due to the fuel crisis.  Then there's Monsanto and it's seed empire and the fact that some idiots want to replace all our food crops with corn for totally inviable biodiesel.
You'll forgive me if I lack optimism.
But I do not welcome neofeudalism.  Where we're all just serfs to the global megamarkets and their owners.

In a previous post I remarked that I was going to ignore the rest of the world and focus on my own reality.  Not an easy task I will tell you.  In fact it's pretty much impossible.  But I suspect I could do without most of the propaganda spew that is blasted at me daily via TV.  So I have stopped watching it almost altogether.

My husband and I do have some shows we enjoy but we both find the commercials and constant interruptions so offensive that we simply can't bear to watch any more.  So we download all our viewing material and avoid the rest.  No news, no commercials and other than the questionable viewing we choose, no crap.
I have to say it has helped.
I recommend it to everyone.  I'm not missing a thing.  Anything I'm that desperate to see I can find on Youtube any way.

I have no idea if I'll maintain this blog any better than I ever have. So I might be back tomorrow and I might be back sometime next year.
Either way I've got to go now.  I've got to try and find the cash to get the POS car towed to a junk heap.  It really is painful losing your only means of transportation but I'll be glad to be rid of the bloody miserable thing.

That's what I've decided.
It's my reality and I don't have to acknowledge anything else if I don't want to.
Why not?
I mean that's what the neocon thugs who run the dictatorship in the states do.  Don't try to tell me otherwise.

"Friends of his from Texas were shocked recently to find him nearly wild-eyed, thumping himself on the chest three times while he repeated “I am the president!” He also made it clear he was setting Iraq up so his successor could not get out of “our country’s destiny.”

If that isn't absolute proof that the draft dodging, coke snorting, alcoholic, misogynist, racist, xenophobic chimp they elevated to dictator has lost what tiny little piece of brain it had left I don't know what is. 

The point is that no matter how horrible things get, no matter how many people suffer and die, none of these eliteist thugs seem to notice.  It does not register in their reality.  The displacement of 2 million people isn't even a blip on the radar and the death of thousands of american troops is more a cause for annoyance than concern.  Mostly because they don't like having to deal with grieving families.  It slows down the pillage and looting of the foreign country they are occupying.

My problem is this: I happen to be one of those strange people who actually gives a damn.  It matters to me that Iraqi people are being murdered.  It matters to me that service people are dying for no reason.  It matters to me that the slave owners in charge enjoy all the benefits and none of the costs of war.  It matters to me that they seem to want to pretend that none of it is even going on and worse, that it's none or our business and we should just leave them alone to do whatever they like.

Well after years of fighting against it I am taking the recommendation seriously.  I'm done.  I'm conducting my own withdrawal.  I am retreating into my own reality.  If shrub can do it why can't I?  The major difference being that in my reality it's not cool or funny when people die.

I'm lucky in a lot of ways.  I'm married to a guy who really cares about me.  We are kindred spirits.  We have pets we love and we have a warm, cozy, wonderful place to live in a small, quiet little town located just slightly east of the middle of nowhere.  In the winter there's skiing and in the summer there's a beach.  We are extremely limited in our means which is a polite way of saying we are dirt poor but we always have enough to eat and the ten year old car is still on the road. 
It's really a pretty nice little reality and I feel fortunate to be part of it.  I'm glad I will be living here full time from now on.

Goodbye to war.  Goodbye to propaganda crap that passes for news.  Goodbye to world, politics, country, war, genocide, pandemics and global warming.  In my reality, none of these things exist.
What is the point in living in a reality where I can effect no change and no one gives a damn what I do or say when I can live in a reality where it actually makes a difference when I volunteer and help out?  Think small is my new motto.

I will do the very best I can to make my little slice of reality the best it can be.  Everything within the sphere of my existence will be important.  Anything outside of it will be discarded.
And I feel better already.