The True Democracy Struggle

All some people have to fight for justice with is stones. Just look at the situation in Chile. Those countries where people are offered other methods sometimes forget about the desperado equality that makes their leisure possible. It is students with rocks and an ideal who hold the power of freedom, not governments racing off to fight wars against shadowy enemies so vague soldiers shoot civilians out of sheer confusion of who is the enemy and who is not. A nine year old girl, mentioning that she believed there would be a bomb could have been helping to harbor terrorists. Now her family is dead, seemingly massacred by marines seeking vengeance for a fallen comrade. Natural, considering that is what war truly is. A primal yearning for revenge, for wrongs to be righted by brute force, as it has always been righted ever since the first human grabbed a stick and threw it at another human being. I hate to believe that's all people are capable of, but since when has the noblest of ideas, or the sickest and most demented of them been enforced and protected by loving each other? Love is inclusive, it would require embracing an enemy, accepting the differances in beliefs. But nobody ever does that, do we? When have you ever run up and hugged the bully? Who would kiss the leper at school, or even give them a smile at lunch or move over and offer them a place to sit. And that 's all that's required. I know from firsthand experiance that even that little thing would have been tremendous for me. But it wasn't ever going to happen, because in the end, humans are nothing but divisive little monkeys trying to guard their precious fruit. One day, perhaps, things will change. But that day is too far in the future to be seen in my lifetime, and I am too young to remember any president before Clinton. Try to make it happen sooner than that folks. That's all I have to say for myself on this day.


Roman Wolf

A Riddle for Friday

What do valleys, barrels, sheep, and hammers have in common?


Anyone who answers this question gets a Wolf Point, valid for whatever game offers you can find on this blog.

Roman Wolf

A Menagerie of Events

There is good news in the animal world today and contrary to normalcy I want to chat about something happy. Maybe its the skirt I'm wearing. Ha ha

The Penguins of the New Orleans zoo have come home today, just in time for the new hurricane season. They have spent the last few months over in San Francisco. If I were the penguins I probably would have wanted to stay in San Francisco. But now the nineteen birds and two sea lions are home sweet home. Congratulations.

Barbaro is doing nicely, though he still has a fifty-fifty chance of survival. If he does make it, he'll never race again, but word has it he'll get some nice mares as a consolation prize. I wish that horse the best of luck and a speedy recovery. Any horse that wins the Kentucky Derby by several lengths as he did deserves better than a broken leg to start off the Preakness.

That's all the animal stories for today folks. Don't break any legs and steer clear the hurricanes.

Ta

Roman WOLF

Hey Folks

Hope you haven't been spied on or arrested lately. If I don't start getting more comments I might start to wonder (ha ha). Micheal Hayden's nomination is being met with some criticism I see. Sucks for him, but that's what happens when you want to be CIA director after running mass spy operations on innocent citizens. I don't really care that they are just monitering to see who calls who, that's none of their buisness. Employers can read any e-mail they want in hopes of nabbing some sort of sexual harassment, cities post cameras to watch cars run through red lights. The problem with that is there's no way to know who was driving, so the owner is automatically proven guilty. There's no point to that! Why don't we simply charge the cars with running red lights? Stranger things have happened in the world.


Roman Wolf

A brief discourse

Though less brief than the previous, I assure you.
Will the world end in fire or in ice? Discussion of the end of the world seems to be peaking lately. Will Armageddon happen? I am not a Christian, or any other organized religion, nor a cultist, unless you count libertarian. They (Christians) say there will be seven years of plague. Famine, death, and the AntiChrist. There's also an obscure reference to blooming deserts and an Jewish state in the Holy Land. Now, the anti-Christ is hardly anything to look at for a sign of Armageddon, if he arrived when the Church thought he would every single time the world never would have gotten past Emperor Nero of Rome. Famines and mass death happens, and has happened before, so the horrid conditions in Africa are hardly solid proof. Death, well, that is simply an offshoot of plague, famine and war, all three of which are present in abundance right now. Only a hundred or so humans have died, out of a total of approximately 6 billion on Earth, but this is just year one. Who knows, maybe it will wipe out a quarter or so of the Earth's population, no bible reference I can think of specifies Homo Sapiens, but I am neither Bible Scholar or Christian, as I have stated before. That brings us to plague, there are a couple options here. AIDS or Bird Flu. Bird Flu I rule out, otherwise Armageddon would have occurred in WWI. Maybe it did. Enough people died there for it to have been the end of the world for millions. And there shouldn't be a war involved. There weren't any arrows in the AntiChrist's bow. At least I think it was the antiChrist's bow. The Jewish state and blooming deserts, well, they go hand in hand because Israel is the country trying to spark life in the desert. Either way, not being a believer in the MonoGod I am either doomed to roast in hell or my belief in other things will lead me to that end which is fitting for my beliefs. That is what I think happens after death. Whatever you want. That's why so few people get that on Earth, because if they do the Afterlife would be a very repetitious place.

See you there

Lobolius

A Contrast from the one Below

I want to write a short blog? What should I blog about?

Me

Flaming Pen/2/diem

Twice in one day. You nonexistant frequent readers are lucky. If you happen to exist, please leave a comment now, so I can keep track of my membership. I wish to move on in my conversation from earlier today with another topic I wished to discuss on this twelve of May. What do you think of pizza? No, just joking. Are Americans so accostumed to living in a fairly safe and luxuriant society where there are no massive famines or truly great risk of dying of starvation day in and day out that we have decided not to fight for what is our own anymore? Can the awestricking possiblilities Emerson and Thoreau spoke of when they talked about a budding nation, concieved not in the old European mold but in a fresh one, the child of wilderness and liberty still be in store for us today? Or is all of that just a bunch of rambling from some guys nobody can understand anymore and therefore not worth our time? I disagree. The idea of Thoreau, his idea of a government where even the malcontents could be free to think and act on their own in keeping with the structures of civilization cannot and must never become an outdated idea of some garbled thinker by a pond. Did any of you even know that he went to jail rather than pay taxes to a government that acted on a preemtive strike for more land and to suit the greedy desires of buisnessmen? Did you know that part of the reason behind the acquision of Texas and the war America started with Mexico was so that the railroads wouldn't have to waste time and money burrowing through a mountain? Now all of that was for nothing, it seems. 7% in a recent poll said that we should just sell the southwest back to Mexico so we don't have to deal with their immigrants. That won't solve anything! Get at the root when you want to take out a stump, a weed! Dig it out of the ground, toss it aside, spray it, but don't just wall off the entire garden because of some unwanted things! That is all we ever seem to do in this country where once ideals of liberty and justice for all were planted in the soil where people like my ancestors dug and plowed, and millions came by the hideous storage of boats just to have a chance! A chance. That is what every immigrant who struggles to come to this country throughout it's history has wanted, nothing more, nothing less. Shame on all who would deny people that chance and would wall it off in the name of whoever you want. Border Security! Ha, I spit on that convienient excuse. What terrorist of 9/11 snuck across the dangerous border of Mexico, where so many people have died trying to make it to America? What terrorist even would? Lot of good your bones will be doing in some jihad if the buzzards are picking at them. So what are those people in power afraid of, with these people coming across the border? What has any nativist been afraid of throughout America's history? In the 1920's it was communists, the Red Scare, Sacco and Vanzetti. Now it is terrorists. Even that was not a threat to the average American, just the powerful buisness owners who feared worker's rights would ruin their profit margin, so anyone who stood up for them was a godless commie. Today, what danger do immigrants wanting a job pose to me, the average American? When they stand before my work, gun in hand, ready to shoot me over a paycheck, there is a danger, but I insist-IT HASN"T HAPPENED! So what do they fear, those who would attack anyone differant? A piece of themselves, the unknown element of desperation they hope they and their families never have to face.

Roman Wolf

Greetings.

I hope all of you out there are not AT&T Bell South or Verizon customers, because the government once more has records of your phone calls just before a major nomination. Has anyone else noticed a pattern in this? Supreme Court Justices, and now the CIA director, all nominated just before a leak so they can be questioned hard about them. Hm. Fascinating coincidence, isn't it? Call me a conspiracy theorist if you like, but I am a bipartisian one because I will accuse both sides Pro and Anti Bush of the same thing. This is truly a time of conspiracies. I agree with this one bumper sticker I saw the other day, "Bring Back Monica Lewinski". At least the lies there didn't lead to anyone innocent's private information being given out, if you want to have sex with some intern Mr. President, go right ahead, but don't rape and don't violate my constitutional rights.

THE RIGHTS HEREIN SHALL NOT BE ABRIDGED EXCEPT IN CASES OF INVASION OR REBELLION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have you ever read the constitution? I have, and especially the bill of rights among other amendments. Read them please, and after you finsh 1984 move on to Animal Farm, and pay close attention to their bill of rights, and what happens when the animals are too ignorant to read what they were promised.

Ta

Best of Luck to You all, and the Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan too. You need it.

Roman Wolf

The Politically Sniffing Wolf Returns to You All

Today I return to discussing politics. Have you nameless commentless Lobolians missed that esteemed subject? Putin called the United States a wolf the other day. In my world, that is a complement, there it is an insult. "Comrade Wolf" he said. Was that what they were called when he was growing up in the Soviet Union? Anyway, he felt that America shouldn't be using his domestic policy against him when deciding if he should join the world trade organization, as some Senators visiting Moscow apparently threatened to do. Now, if Putin were intelligent he would know that American Senators lie a lot. Quite likely they were lying then, because it is in their nature. Especially Republicans seemed to have formed a habit of lying like crazy to cover things up and dishing out empty threats. Now, maybe all powerful politicians do that. Even the John Adams presidency got the power bug, and they were smart enough to make the Sedition Act end before the other party, the Anti-Federalists of Jefferson, seized political power by the ballot. He did, and democracy survived yet another century. Now that was over two hundred years ago. Who has placed a permanent limit on the current threats, not just the Patriot Act, but the root cause of the fears which are leading this country into a deep pit of viciousness and dislike? The odd thing about this war is that it is so Orwellianly perfect from a power hungry person's point of view. How can one defeat their enemy, when their enemy is fear? That will ironically keep the people fearful forever, because very few things breed more fear than war. Read George Orwell's 1984, please. That will inform you far more eloquently than one lone wolf on a public computer.

Roman Wolf

Hello out there good folks. I apologize for the ferocity of my last blog, I was having a horrid morning and wanted to expel my inner demons and chose to chuck them out at my blog. The title is Lobolian Rant after all. So, I am just over here because the crazy life I lead has left me at a dead end for yet another morning. I've been trying to get at this one book that I'm going to review but it hasn't shown up yet. Oh well. I hope things are better out in the world, or if they're not, keep trying to make them better, okay folks? That's all I have to say for this am.

TTFN, Ta Ta for Now!

(Remind you of a certain bouncy black and orange character from our collective disneyfied childhood?)

Lobolius

Oddiest of them All

Warning:

Do not be alarmed by the strangeness of this blog. Many things in life are strange. I am trying to make them stranger.

There are only 206 bones in the human body.

Roman Wolf

A Brief, non Greek Dialouge

So. Moussaoui has been sentanced to life in prison. Kalid Sheik Mohammad sits, very much alive, in jail as well. How awesome. The only one who has been charged for a few thousand deaths was the bumbling fool who didn't even understand the laws of gravity. Not even the simple one that states what goes up must come down. The reason he was caught was that a flight school in Eagan got suspicious of a man who wanted to learn how to fly a plane, but not how to land. What was he thinking, that the teachers would believe that Allah would grace him with the power to land a plane on command? Clearly, being a terrorist conventional wisdom would tell us he couldn't think, that he was simply a killer without conscious or mind. I think the opposite. The terrorists have to have some degree of cunning, or else we'd have caught them by now. Of course, that also assumes that military intelligance is something other than a folk tale told to reassure little kids by the campfire.
"But never fear. The ghost of Old Bin Laden cannot strike while the mighty Texans roam the hills of Iraq."
"But mommy, I thought Bin Laden wasn't IN Iraq"
"Don't talk like that my son. The soldiers need our help."
"To do what mommy?"
"Don't ask me what I cannot know. Do you want me to tell the story of Pecos Bill again?"
"Yes mommy. I'd like that very much."

Okay, the other one from this day was simply a test to see if the dratted thing will publish. I lost a blog yesterday, luckily it was a sickly little thing and not much credit to Lobolian Rant. But still, it was my blog which I spent a whole five minutes on and it deserved better than to die in a technical malfunction.

Oh Yea which die so sadly
A miserable little rag dirty and soiled
Have you no feelings, no love
For that which cannot be yours?
There are some in this world
For whom there can be no friendship
Nothing of the emotions
Blazing in the hearts of humans
Eternally beautiful, ever aggravating
Are there not some who would whisper
Hateful slander, malicious anxiety
Windswept plains glow in sunlight
Mania cannot approach
The nearest thing to knowledge
Farthest things from joy
Though that is what I'm given
To dance away the night

That is a poem I just wrote, obviously. By the way, in addition to being a freelance astrogator I happen to be a poet. Bitsy Run is hardly a classy poem, but that's not the one I wrote today, skim down if you want to read it.

Have you skimmed down?

Ta Ta For now
Roman Wolf

Ignore this slight little blog

Test blog to see if it works this time.

Greetings this spring

Greetings once more my pals. it is a gorgeous spring day, get outside and enjoy it. I won't be. Because I have to work away my glorious spring day, yippee day OOOOOHHHHH! Yeah.
So.
I really don't have anything to talk about. The Epic Hero by Miller. I'm in a library right now so I'll write whatever I can think of about that book. It is about Epic Heroes.
Oh I give up on this today. I have places to wander, planets to explore, buddies to visit. And I am refusing to write about G_A_S_O_L_I_N_E P_R_I_C_E_S

There's been WAY too much focus on that. So I refuse to add to the chatter.

Adios Amigos

Lobolius
(No translations today)

Greetings this spring

Greetings once more my pals. it is a gorgeous spring day, get outside and enjoy it. I won't be. Because I have to work away my glorious spring day, yippee day OOOOOHHHHH! Yeah.
So.
I really don't have anything to talk about. The Epic Hero by Miller. I'm in a library right now so I'll write whatever I can think of about that book. It is about Epic Heroes.
Oh I give up on this today. I have places to wander, planets to explore, buddies to visit. And I am refusing to write about G_A_S_O_L_I_N_E P_R_I_C_E_S

There's been WAY too much focus on that. So I refuse to add to the chatter.

Adios Amigos

Lobolius
(No translations today)

Greetings once more my pals. it is a gorgeous spring day, get outside and enjoy it. I won't be. Because I have to work away my glorious spring day, yippee day OOOOOHHHHH! Yeah.
So.
I really don't have anything to talk about. The Epic Hero by Miller. I'm in a library right now so I'll write whatever I can think of about that book. It is about Epic Heroes.
Oh I give up on this today. I have places to wander, planets to explore, buddies to visit. And I am refusing to write about G_A_S_O_L_I_N_E P_R_I_C_E_S

There's been WAY too much focus on that. So I refuse to add to the chatter.

Adios Amigos

Lobolius
(No translations today)