Is a sacred day in most any year but this year particularly demands a special pause… Men, our sons, fathers and mothers are once again dying in numbers that should strike a cord in the hardest of hearts… In a hostile and increasly unpopular war, doing what they were ordered to do. Fight for our freedom, they deserve better. Not just from the country that sent them into harms way but from the leadership that has somehow managed to stall and drive this nation into an ever weeping field amuck.

First of all let me be clear, I for one never bought into any of this prade of lies that carried us into this field far astray from our founding fathers… But now that we are there and about to lose whatever is left of our self respect as a nation I feel it is incumbent to do all we can, as Americans, to avoid a widening Catastrophe that the present administration seems to have little problem in finding at every turn… Or so it seems it finds them. Never the mind that we could (The United States of America that is) fight this war for another 50 years if, that is “IF” we found the proper political will and motivation. It is clear, at least in my mind, that the present leadership is fairly oblivious to this fact but content to trudge on aimlessly into the ever darking field of their own void stupor.

Now, to just about everyone else in the free world its clear a change in direction should be followed by a change in Policy… It IS NOT winning a War but securing a Peace that is imperative. The change (the troop surge) cannot find a suitable outcome unless some one is at the helm that the people and more importantly the “people” in Congress feel we can trust… And its not “Condi” Rice at the World Bank

My short list in the best of all possible worlds is General Colin Powell, James Baker, or Sam Nunn. I’m sure it’s a bit much to ask of anyone but I think General Colin Powell deserves an apology from this administration and an opportunity to set the historical record right once and for the entire world to see. Would he take on such a awesome responsibility… Anyone else with an ounce of common sense would, in all probability pass, but General Powell has uncommon sense and the duty of a solider. The President should be man enough to admit that mistakes were made and offer the General the opportunity to set things right… He deserves it, the country deserves its, and lord know our soilders in the field need to know that they have “THEIR” man making the calls instead of a yes, man or woman. The World Bank needs a new direction and securing a peaceful future for all nations should be at the very top of everyone angenda. How about the real fight to save our planet from global climate Catastrophe… God bless America!

I’m sure there are none more compelled to find a solution to the present delimma than Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sen John McCain and Sen. John W. Warner. Perhaps these men might set the President’s ear on fire. Lord knows we do not need another Vietnam.

American Airlines made headlines the other day for posting a profit for the first time in many years and only the second airline in the country to post any kind of profit this year.  The friendly skies have been turbulent with most if not all the major carriers in some form of bankruptcy in one form or another.  Although earnings at American are good for the moment with fuel prices on the rise and idiots in charge at TSA, their time spent in the black is expected to be brief.

Certainly their rise from the depths of an ocean of red ink has been impressive the manner was found in the application of common sense a vanishing and rare commodity in the dark clouds of the not so friendly American skies.  This was no small feat by any measure, actually Box Car Earl is a cheesecake cake walk when compared to having passengers brave the gauntlet of barely literate morons in charge of this nations “First line of defense” as was pointed out to me recently in the local GSP International jetport as they also screamed they were “Just like the FBI!”… Lord save us from all those who cannot clearly read plain English or differentiate between a liquid gel and pimento cheese.  Is there any wonder why we are losing the critical war on terrorism with morons in charge of this nation’s security?  Surely it is not all the high school dropouts that are sent to Iraq or imbeciles called to serve as United States Senators in Massachusetts… No I don’t believe that for one moment as the small army of morons are mandatory as FEMA in protecting this nation’s skies from the steely determination of those set on doing us harm… Now that’s a scary thought!  Think about it before booking your next airline ticket.  You are a 1000 times safer riding the train with Box Car Willie and his Cheesy friend Earl And that you can take to the bank… And I’ll tell you why.
 
First of all Box Car and his buddies are not as likely to steal your personal belongings, strip search and inflict public humiliation or add insult to injury by an arrest that creates a terrorist record that can never be expunged from your record even if you are found innocent in a court of law.  In addition when you compare “hitting the ground rolling” with that to smashing into a  skyscraper or plunging from forty thousand feet from the skies (40,000 ft)… Well just try rolling away from that one.  Not to mention if you survive the gauntlet of imbeciles after being subjected to every form of public humiliation that the diabolical and twisted moronic mind might connive then there is the second test one must endure, no doubt in part seemly conceived by the producers from the same good people that brought us Abu Ghraib atrocities… Where first you are expected to place all your belongings into a stall not much larger than the glove compartment of a luxury VW.  Then you are to squeeze yourself into a seat the size to comfortably accommodate a NAZI death camp survivor and hold the pose of a contortionists for at least a couple of hours.  During which you’re  force fed  a cardboard boxed  meal in the area the size of a large match box, which some might call the Auschwitz lunchbox Special , if not for the fear of being sued by the guest of NAZI atrocities for giving  those who suffered such death camp fire hospitality a bad name…

Trust me you’re light years safer taking the train.  Still we might take a lesson from American Airlines and apply a little common sense to winning the war on terror…  (Yeah right, like how likely is the Tooth Fairy to shallow that one.:)