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[By the time you read this, in about
two weeks, we may be at war. Or the war may already be over .
. . at least the overt shooting part. In either case, what ever
I, or you, write, bitch about, or pundit-like exclaim as THE way
to do anything, really doesn’t have much impact on the realities
of ‘TODAY’]
I recently joined a local ‘yacht club’.
More for a ‘lower cost option’ to ‘float my
boat’ and store it out of ‘Joanne’s Backyard’
than for the ‘comaraderie’. However, one of the proviso’s
of Membership is to put in about 10 hours of ‘sweat equity’.
Looking on picking up trash with the same jaundiced eye as I do
‘jogging’ and ‘treadmills’, I elected
to put my efforts into helping build the replacement dock floats.
There were about six of us in the ‘work crew’[about
9 total, if you count the ‘drifters’]; sort of like
the one in the movie, ‘The Crew’; a bunch of ‘geezers’.
Ex-Navy; a retired Marine; a couple of ‘civilians’;
and ex-USAF {me}. 5 foot-nothing to 6ft6in, the ‘Whitest-white-guy’
to a real ‘beaner’. Clean-shaven, moustache, and beards.
5 hours with at least 3 guys thinking ‘they’ are the
‘job boss’. However, everyone worked together, and
one of the 3 floats was 90% completed.
We left about 4PM . . . several of us lived a good
distance away . . . if you count evening traffic and bridges.
I’m driving home and testing a set-up of a ‘personal’
CD player and ‘tape adapter’ inserted into the radio
in the ‘new’ 1995 Rodeo. I didn’t care what
the CD was, just so it ‘played’ thought the speakers.
It happened to be a Nevell Brothers {‘Loo-ziana’,
‘Nw-lins’, Zydeco, you know, . Cajun stuff}.
Anyhow, I’m ‘goin down the road’,
window open {MY TURN to annoy the maximum number of people}. My
mind forms a picture of where this recording was made, what Aaron
Nevell looks like, and the people in a crowd in that part of our
country. It then shifts to how popular this type of music is,
and crowds in the North {New York} or the West {Los Angeles} aren’t
much different from the ones in Bayou Tesch. Another switch, and
I’m thinking of the group I just left.
As the CD ended, I popped out the adapter and the
news/traffic station automatically come on . . Iraq, the Middle
East, intense fighting between ethnic groups . . . in the same
country. Now I here our leaders telling us not to panic, but be
alert and aware. Report anything unusual or suspicious, but temper
it with reasonable judgment . . . ‘Hate Crimes’ will
NOT be tolerated. Not only are we preparing for war, but establishing
the sums of money required for US to HELP THEM after WE WIN the
war. Let’s think about this . . . THEY have the OIL {and
will have the income from it}, if we win, we spend OUR MONEY on
THEM . . . THEY can’t seem to get over Medieval ‘tribal
warfare’ and WE are the ones who are HATED !! WE ALLOW our
own people to VERY PUBLICLY disagree with our leaders, their individual
personalities and public policies . . . and even televise it to
the world. The leadership we are opposing [NOT the COUNTRY] allows
NO DISAGREEMENT. Anyone who attempts to protest is summarily shot,
imprisoned, tortured, or simply ‘disappears’ . . .
along with their entire family !! Where we often applaud our ‘ethnic
groups’ {the Cajuns, for example. Or Mexican food . . .
‘Taco Bell’ - whether you like it or not}, they use
theirs for un-acceptable weapons experiments . . . what happened
to the ethnic Kurds. Yet, WE are the ones who ‘must be stopped
because war is wrong’.
WELL, That’s IT . . . The ‘balloon just went up’
. . . The shootings started . . .
From information now being raveled, it seems the
French and Russians had large OIL CONTRACTS in place . . . to
be initiated when the ‘Restrictions’ were LIFTED.
Is that why they were against a change in the government {by force
or otherwise}? Why are the placards with “No War for Oil”
being displayed by ‘our’ demonstrators?
- - - - -
It’s now about 12 hours later; the surrenders
have already started, areas have been captured at all points around
the country, and the troops are almost half-way to Baghdad.
Me, I’m just getting my mooring rig ready.
I’m going to fit-out the canoe a local shop contracted for
{. . . “Friedman” - that’s Jewish, isn’t
it?}. I’ll begin to research the designs a couple of people
{“Pedrick” . . . German?; “Ripley” . .
. English?}asked me about. Almost forgot, the ‘yacht club’
I just joined . . . it was started about 200 years ago by a group
of Welshman.
“Homogenization” is a good thing for
milk . . . not people.
Ron Magen
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