Quote of the Day
"There are some who feel like that conditions are such that they can attack us [Iraq] there, my answer is: Bring them on. We have the force necessary to deal with the situation."


-- President Bush's message for Iraqi militants attacking U.S. troops.

July 2, 2003

It occurs to me that the world is beginning to go into a tailspin on many levels. Shouldn't the rapture people be lifted to the heavens around now. It would make traffic lighter and lines shorter.

It amazes me. How can so many people go on and on about the tragedies of 9/11 year after year while ignoring our place in the world. How many Iraqi lives does it take to equal one American death? Because if they wre looked at as humans everyone would be screaming for the bloodshed to end.

Empire
U.S. Invasion Responsible for Deaths of Over 250,000 Civilians in Iraq?

More Here

Suicide bombers infiltrated a line of police recruits and a crowd of Shiite pilgrims Thursday as insurgents killed 125 civilians and five U.S. soldiers, escalating attacks while political factions worked to forge a coalition government.

Please make it stop. So much blood on our hands.

Wallow in the shallow
We all are a sum of our parts. And we decide what parts are the most important in our life. We decide what parts to nurture within ourselves and which parts we let whither on the vine. The most important ability we have in this existence is the power to define our lives. It is harder to nurture the small blessings in life and not take them for granted. Nurturing, true nurturing is never easy. It needs care, honesty and sacrifice. It is far easier to be distracted by our pain ridden wounds. Pain is the least complex emotion and is far easier to accept than the rest.
So what do you chose? Do you start living a real life or keep reheaving the lived one? The excuses are running out. You dramatically jump from one catastrophe to the next impressing the outside observers. You survive and cling to life and claw yourself along in a dramatic fashion. But as we have already established, surviving isn't living. Breathing is a biological function that even the least sentient among us can accomplish. So? is it gonna a be a half-assed attempt that inevitably collapses under all the minutia? Think about it. But not too hard.

Bird Flu Jump?

A respected Japanese scientist, who works with the World Health Organization, says 300 people have died of H5N1 bird flu in China, including seven cases caused by human-to-human transmission.

The rest of the scary article is here.

I now must schedule srs. It scares me because if things go wrong the consequences can be worse than death.