The Great Ones Get Away Too Often

I was out walking today. When I'm up in Maine, I usually try to get out and walk around the pond each day. It's about a five mile walk with some nice hills. It's solitary, relaxing and very enjoyable.

One problem that I have is that while I'm walking I have some good ideas about things to write or inventions or whatever. That's not the problem. The problem is that I usually don't have paper and pen, so they don't get written down.

I try to remember them, but by the time I finish my walk, the idea is long gone. So is my chance for fame and fortune.

Que sera, I guess. But, I'd really like to remember some of them because I think they were half decent. Starting tomorrow, I'm bringing my notebook and a pen with me on my walk.

A Good Pass To A Bad Player...

When I was in college, I played water polo. One of the other teams we often played had a really tough coach. He would berate and insult his players in many ways.

One time, he was commenting on a pass that was made and he said, "A good pass to a bad player is still a bad pass." Thru that statement, he really insulted one of his "bad" players.

In many ways, I think that's how Mr. Bush has handled the war in Iraq. I think the statement here could change to: "A good plan very poorly executed is still a bad plan."

The current administration has totally ruined the plan to invade and change Iraq and now we're about to fall into a civil war over there. A CIVIL WAR! This in a country that we seem to think we're in charge of. We can't get out of there fast enough and yet we can't leave.

And, our President and his mouthpieces seem to spend all their time telling us that we're being unpatriotic if we don't finish the job over there. This is a job that was poorly planned, poorly executed and will be poorly run indefinitely. And, yet, we're supposed to stand by and keep supporting his awful ideas.

Of course, the current democrats won't be able to get themselves supported enough to take over the House and Senate this fall because they're all so tainted and corrupted. So, we either have to stand up to it personally, or we have to sit and take it.

One thing that doesn't seem to get mentioned is how many more terrorists there are since the war in Iraq started. So, we should continue down a path that's causing a problem to get worse? I guess so.

Let's ask our President his plan for getting us out. Or maybe we should ask the men, Dick-Don-Karl, who are really running the country.