“I think of people who are innocent and a bit naive and it makes me want to protect them from life, like I think they have a chance since they have not been corrupted by violence and the reality that the world is a scary fucking place.”// posted by Travis
I’d like to think of myself as an innocent. I didn’t see the beheading clip. I didn’t want to. I don’t know if acynic can be an innocent too. I’ve heard very few statistics concerning the war(s) in Afghanistan and Iraq. I know about 200 American soldiers have died. And the public has clamored against the state to “pull our boys out!” Pull them out? What were we doing there again? Are we done already? I heard that one Dutch soldier died and the Netherlands thought it might be time to withdraw.
Can I still be an innocent if I think 201 men isn’t that many? 201 is tragic. 2 is tragic. The real tragedy is that the majority of Americans, I suspect the majority of soldiers sweating in the desert don’t understand. We will never win this fight. We can’t win because we don’t have the perseverance. It seems the American idea of “winning” a war is beating the loser into submission. Holding him down until he says “mercy” then we graciously let him up, and bandage his wounds, and teach him to “good way.” And because he understands our ways are better, he agrees to not pick on his neighbor because there’s always going to be a bully across the ocean. Big brother is watching.
But our opponents will never give up this time. They are wily and their words don’t match our meanings. They will never agree that “our way” or any compromise made is right for them—because it won’t be.
We lost Vietnam. We lost a lot, more money and men then people care to remember. We may have lost some power and influence—but what we lost in the jungle—I feel will not compare to what we will lose in the desert. I fear for my times.

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It seems I "can't think" and by showing offense at that kind remark, I was deemed "petty"

It's good I get these decrees from on high, else how would I know?

Happy Cinqo de Mayo! A Mexican holiday celebrated by more people in Texas than in Mexico. (any excuse for a Bar B Q)

I bought a book at goodwill for $1.00. It is called "The Indiana Mothers' Baby Book." I bought it because it looked pretty old, and I wondered what has changed in baby care since it was written. There wasn't a publication date, but these were free informative books given to new mothers in Indiana starting in 1913. The mother who recieved this book registered her child, Jerome Grenda, born August 27, 1917.

This book has much truth to despense, such as: "Those possessing inherited, and hense transmissible physical and mental defects should never become parents, unless it is thought desirable to multiply the physically and mentally defective."

"A mean, drunken, cruel or brutal husband, or one who does not do his utmost to give good and tender care to his pregnant wife, is a low specimen, his devoid of manhood and trhe law should
deal severely with him."

"Cessation of the "monthlies" is usually regared as the first symptom of pregnancy."

"It is a very great wrong to herself and her child for a mother to feed her baby artificially if she is able to produce healthful mother's milk. Such a mother is a deserter from duty."

Crying babies:
"Babies cry only when there is a cause. Find the cause and remove it.
Perhaps he has had too much food
Perhaps he is dressed too warmly
Perhaps he needs a clean diaper
(and my personal favorite)
Perhaps and enemy has given him a pickle."

I was telling my friend (who is expecting) about this book. She noted that alot of people are asking if she will be breast feeding. She said she feels people are getting kind of bold asking after her breasts like that, and sometimes she is temped to tell them that she has decided not to, but she has contracted a wet nurse for the detail.

I went to a lip synch contest at church this weekend-- Grandmas singing "We are Family" -- grooving like the Pointer Sisters we the best act for me, but the winner was a group of 30 something women dressed as old women singing "Lady Marmalade" Which was cute, but somewhat disturbing too, aside from the fact that they looked like old women dancing with canes, I found it odd that it was perfectly acceptable for them to sing "Will you go to bed with me tonight?" at a church function. I guess it's okay to be a prostitute as long as you make your propositions in French.

Voulez-vous couchez avec moi, ce soir?