Word of the Day

Slurprise - The noise at the end of a drink.

We're at war! I've known for a long time but I only really woke up to the fact while HTP and I were in Italy on September 11th. Five years ago. And again when I hear the President of Iran claim that The Holocaust never happened and his country should be able to develop nuclear energy which he claims is for peaceful purposes. But then he says in the next breath, Israel should be wiped off the surface of the Earth. I believe he's made similar claims when it comes to The Great Satan...The United States. This President, a student then, who held hostages back in the day of President Carter. Hostages who were only released when Ronald Reagan became President. They waited so they could deliver this slap to Carter. Have we been at war since then? Have we been at war so long?

It struck me, when President Bush was giving his speech today, has there ever been a war before like this one? A war where the President of the United States has to remind the nation that we're at war? I didn't need reminding. I know GI Joe, DD Daughter and the rest of our troops, stationed here and abroad, didn't need his reminder. Those who sacrifice so much, never need reminding. It's really too bad, a shame. It seems at times like there's an invisible veil that keeps the sacrifices of the few who serve so many from being seen. All they see are sound-bites provided in newspapers or on the nightly news or numerous blogs that pontificate or the propaganda documentaries that spin this way and that.

We're at war and there's people who still deny it, will deny it until we win or we lose. We can win. We can lose. There are people in this world who have one goal. The death of Freedom, the death of the very foundation of our country. Maybe, just maybe, when everyone finds themselves sacrificing, they will finally awaken. I hope that they wake up soon and not too late. We're at war but the only sacrifice some make is to take their shoes off at the airport, pack their shampoo in their suitcase, and withstand the indignity of walking through a metal detector. Maybe if we made just a few of the same sacrifices made by the people who lived and fought during WWI and WWII, we'd finally wake up and realize. We're at war!

Murphyism of the Day

Lacopi's Law

After food and sex, man's greatest drive is to tell the other fellow how to do his job.