Chicken Little - Eagle BIG

But you aren't going to see many eagles go attacking chickens because eagles just aren't that large that they'll take on a sharp beaked, hook clawed little fighting bird that is a chicken. It just doesn't make any sense for them to do so unless they've got some variety of brain disease which prevents them from living by their strengths.

You ever cut off a chicken's head? I have. They don't just die. Their wings flap furiously and their claws rake insanely, which of course, makes sense, since there is no longer any brain connectivity to make their actions sane, but there is still energy and the autonomic functions of life which they've used to evolve to survive in fields of a large variety of predators, sans any ability to fly above the mammalian fray.

Action Alert on IRAN

Call the Capitol switchboard at 202-225-3121. We need to let our representatives know that Bush cannot attack Iran. GW will not go away quietly as his disastrous term comes to an end. I think most of us believe Iran is the next target on Bush and Cheney’s to-do list. Kristol, the equally insane Ledeen (read this madness) and all his Neocon, warmongering...

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(Ed's note: I'd starting writing this as a separate post, and clicked on the
button on Crooks and Liars. I think I've finally figured that little widget out!

Back to the story...)

Americans are good people. I know this. I live with them. I am one. I'm Lucky to be so and I know it and, quite frankly, I like it. We have got things So Good, that it's really tremendously difficult for us to acknowledge how heinously wrong have been the actions of our President and inaction of our Congress over the last four or five years.

But, like other Americans, I've got a life to live! Personally, I've got a date this weekend for the first time in nearly a year. Why would I want to be fiddling around, talking 'bout things over which "I have no control" such as politics and war? What I'm saying is that I can relate to folks not wanting to be bothered by the activities of our government. Just take care of it. Let 'em do their jobs. I've got my own life to handle.

Sure our gas prices have risen, and alright, consumer goods, food, utilities, etc, have seemed to have gone up a little or maybe stayed the same, but we just want to live the lives which we're trying to make for ourselves and our families. We don't want to have to call our politicians to task for failures which don't seem to be really making our lives all that much more difficult. I mean, that's just the way it is. Right? The sky isn't ever gonna fall!

Well, when an eagle comes soaring down out of that sky upon its prey, to say "the sky is falling" is about as good an analogy as one is ever gonna find. But it's only falling in Iraq, in Afghanistan. Not here for G's sake!

Did the sky "fall" on September 11th? I think that most folks would say it may as well have for those at ground zero.

And who gave the initial financing to the insane and brutally anti-American terrorists that committed those foul and world-shaking acts?

Thing of it is is, now our Dear Leader has the plans in plans to get another gaggle of chickens clucking furiously and fighting back, beak and claw, slowly and inexorably draining the resources of our country, regardless of the "necessity" of our government's actions. Because eagles don't attack chickens for their survival. They let them have their lives and search for other, less dangerous prey. They certainly don't throw them scratch and watch them grow into even larger, more tempting yet incredibly more dangerous prey.

I don't like that analogy, but I DO think it's apt. Americans like our symbol of the Eagle. Proud. Strong. Wise and ready to do battle in order to protect its territory.

But the Oil in Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia is not our property! And the "chicken" in this story is not gonna sit on the group and cry "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!"

Whatever the insanity of Iran's approach to Democracy, their reliance and primitive religious Sharia laws, their nuclear ambitions, the only way these things threaten the United States is if the U.S. can NOT keep its own house in order and find the resources and tools we need in ways which are NOT disruptive of other nations' rights to live as they see fit; no matter how anyone on our side of the World thinks about those ways.

Iran is a danger to our present Administration's Mission in Iraq. It will only become a danger to us U.S. Americans {rollin'eyes} if we continue in our apathy and willful ignorance to allow our government to unilaterally and even more insanely invade yet another sovereign nation without territorial provocation.


Call the Capitol switchboard at 202-225-3121. Call now!


H/T to Larry for the news about Amato's C&L post. I truly have enough trouble just dealing with being a silly human trying to live my silly life without having a government like Bu$hCo's forcing me to have to fear ever more war and even possible nuclear weapons attacks.

But I respect my duties as a Citizen. I want my Government back! I want peace to begin with freakin' me.