Support the troops ..

For a while now, as evidenced by the paucity of posts, I have been mostly paralyzed by utter helplessness. The kind you feel when a giant python has you wrapped, and really, you have to wait till he's done, either eating you or uncoiling himself because he finds you not tasty. I was really playing the waiting game, if still alive, then to pick up the pieces and try to stagger out of the morass. The python seems to have finally caught up with the lower extremities, non-cerebral, part of the organism (the country), and the pain is really being felt down there - if you get my drift.

All I can say is, Galatians VI. If you voted for this again in 2004 - you don't get to complain. If you are easily swayed by false promises, fake bravado, and disingenuous claims of supporting the troops without looking at the credibility of the person saying those things - then you are what Honest Abe referred to when he said "You can fool some people all of the time".