Hello again, during this off season.

Plenty to write about, for much has changed. I'd like to bring up a topic that I've been covering in my separate pseudo-publication, "Political dialogues", which is a tiny newspaper I've printed off a couple times as a more editorial piece. (By the way, that's the point of this blog, hence the term "rant".)
How could you have guessed, Lebanon!

Can there be a number placed on the number of lives one life is worth? The president's life, in any country, is worth more than the life of one of his or her guards, that's why the secret service and the Swiss guards exist. The life of a mother is worth less, in her eyes, than the life of her children. On the Titanic, women and children were worth more than the lives of men, so at the end they were the ones put onto the lifeboats. In a darker example, those same two groups were worth less than strong healthy men in Nazi death camps. And what about war? Whose life is worth more then-the soldiers or the civilians/possible terrorists? Israel seems to have decided that the death of civilians is a minor issue, compared to the greater good of attacking Hezbollah. The move that provoked this most recent spate of bloodletting was the capture of 2 soldiers held hostage. So two Israeli soldiers are worth more than peace itself. Now, I realize that there has been little peace in the mideast, but there was a vestige of it emerging. Hamas' political wing was growing more powerful, leading to the wild chance that they might act through peace, not war. Regardless of personal opinion on the matter, the war in Iraq has taken out a violent man determined to attack other countries or those outsiders in his own. So there was a moment, not so very long ago, perhaps a few weeks, when the middle east could've had the slightest opening at tranquility. Lebanon's infrastructure was returning with greater splendor than before. Now the only way out is on Greek cruise ships. Maybe Israel needed to prove its strength in a dangerous corner of the Earth, but really, did it have to buy that at such a devastating price?


Lobolius

July Blog #1

Happy "Belated" Birthday to you
Happy "Belated" Birthday to you
Happy "Belated" Birthday dear America
Happy "Belated" Birthday to YOUUUUUUUUUUU!

No, I did not actually sing that outloud, I am in a library and need to type fast and keep quiet because the only computer I have been able to snag after a half hour is a fifteen minute Expresso. Lots of folks have come here today, hoping to beat the heat in the air conditioned hall of knowledge, but for budgetary reasons the air seems to be off.

Hmmm. What to discuss now that I have reached my dear little Blog?

Somehow the fact that the CIA has shut down the main anti-Bin Laden campaign flew under my radar for a few days, I would have thought that would rank high on the media's attack list, but the move was timed well. Somebody had to come up with the excuses to send an anti-missle top of the line warship to Japan. I mean, who would ever suspect that sort of bizzare, random move, especially after NORTH KOREA now has the nukes. I can't say much for the military's accuracy in these matters.

Three Countries on an Axis of Evil.

One is test launching nukes, not very sucessfully, but still doing it.
Another is developing them.
The third wasn't even going to bother.

So which do our esteemed leaders choose to invade? Country #3. Why, my dear Lobolians, do you ask? Well, lets see here, the others actually had something to take us out with. Iraq was relatively harmless, so the military chose to take the easy one first. Now three years later, we see the price before our eyes.

Everyone be glad Korea's missle was a dud this round. One day one of those fireworks may go off.

Roman Wolf

The Great American Aqueduct

Again, my sincerest apologies for not contacting you for so long, but alack, the joys of summer are stronger than the bonds of a blog, even one so fine and dear to my heart as this, the Lobolian Rant. I would like to adress a plan I have come up with for resolving the difficulties of two regions of this country, Flood and Fire.
Say we were to build an aqueduct extending across the southern part of the United States from the hurricane ravenged southeast to the draught-plauged southwest. After each hurricane, the excess water could be pumped and channeled down the aqueduct to Arizona, Nevada, California, Western Texas, New Mexico, wherever the lack of rainfall is being felt the hardest. The system could be done easily enough, the Romans managed to build lots of aqueducts back in the day with far fewer resources than what 21st century technology could dredge up. Then whenever a hurricane strikes New Orleans again, which one easily could do, rather than dump the water back into Lake Ponchetrain as the US Army Corps of Engineers usually would do, it would be funneled to aid in drought relief where water is scarce. If the water is simply dumped back into Lake Ponchetrain, it could easily come back when or if the levys breach.


The ROMAN Wolf

The Ghost of Henry

Hey People out there (my lobolians!)

Sorry I couldn't blog again sooner, but I had to get to good internet first. I found it here, at the local library after a long quest through busy roads and gorgeous parks.
So back to buisness. I only have a few more minutes.

George Bush was talking today about his efforts to help the Iraqis trust and believe in their government. Look who's talking. This is the man who has acted for six years to destroy the bill of rights, Patrick Henry's gift to the generations, bit by precious bit. Give me liberty or give me death, PH declared, and he refused to support anything that failed to aid the people The PEOPLe of the United States of America. Now a hypocritical president of that very nation, my nation that I love and wish to serve forever, is speaking with PH"s voice while smashing silently. How dare that Bush.

Lobolius

Death of a Terrorist

Hey

Al-Zarqaui's death probably will have relatively little impact on anything, except to lessen the civil war in Iraq, which is fantastic, but beyond that, I doubt it will change much. First of all, he was not too well liked by Osama because he was giving terrorism a bad rap in the Muslim world (Hmm, I wonder how hard THAT is to pull off) after killing fellow Muslims. Sure they may have different ideas of who shouldv'e taken over after Mohammad's death but that was over a thousand years ago. To a westerner, that is eternity. To a Muslim, it might not be, but who cares. Secondly, those who believed in him now have another Martyr on their hands and that the terrorists do believe in, regardless of sect. And if you recall, Saddam's capture was supposed to be a blow to the terrorists as well.
What interests me in all this is that the death came at such a convienient time. Just what us anti-war moderates need. More evidance of divine intervention to the rabid eyes of War Hawks.

Roman Wolf

Poem

One of these days I'll have to figure out how to delete the extra posts when my publishing goes GAGA.

However, the time has now been corrected. I cannot thing of anything pressing to blog about, but I can't think of anything to google either. So. How about a poem?

People gather together
Talking about what they think
But when one isn't gathered with them,
More thought arises
Quiet lingering has greater aid
Then boisterous gab and grin
It will be one with arrows who claims the world
On the last day of all
The guns would've given them away
In the stake for greatness
Nobody has won with sizzling flame
And routing smoke
One day they won't be so forgotten
Those who lie on the ground
Where their ghosts hover in glory
Drinking it as a mortal would wine
What glory will come to me in the afterlife?
What paths of the dead can I trod
I? Who rejected their own world
Everyone else's world
The good are claimed upon finding the grail
Leaving the cruel to rule this world
The others simply struggle to live on
Outside their bounds

One of these days I'll have to figure out how to delete the extra posts when my publishing goes GAGA.

However, the time has now been corrected. I cannot thing of anything pressing to blog about, but I can't think of anything to google either. So. How about a poem?

People gather together
Talking about what they think
But when one isn't gathered with them,
More thought arises
Quiet lingering has greater aid
Then boisterous gab and grin
It will be one with arrows who claims the world
On the last day of all
The guns would've given them away
In the stake for greatness
Nobody has won with sizzling flame
And routing smoke
One day they won't be so forgotten
Those who lie on the ground
Where their ghosts hover in glory
Drinking it as a mortal would wine
What glory will come to me in the afterlife?
What paths of the dead can I trod
I? Who rejected their own world
Everyone else's world
The good are claimed upon finding the grail
Leaving the cruel to rule this world
The others simply struggle to live on
Outside their bounds

Duke Picture

Below you can see a picture of my beloved golden retriever, Duke at his favorite place.

Duke Picture

The one below this is a picture of my dog, Duke.

Lobolian Rant

The one below this is a picture of my dog, Duke.

6/6/6

Happy Omen day everyone.

Steer clear black cats, broken mirrors, witches, horned men who don't look like perfect gentlemen, demons, dragons, black lagoons, gambling websites, abortion clinics, the white house, Hell (the city), haunted houses, and anywhere else a dark creature of the abyss might linger. Oh I nearly forgot-the mines of Moria. That's a biggie, even if there isn't another Balrog theres still orcs and goblins to deal with.
You might want to avoid -Godlessness:the church of liberalism- as well. If the lady who wrote it writes as stupidly as she talks on the today show, you might not have any brain cells left after the first page. Then you can't read my beloved blog. That would be a tragedy, wouldn't it?

Roman Wolf

The Posture Peedic

Good day to you all. I hear it's 120 at some parts of the country, glad it's not here. More political wrangling in DC over gay marriage, though why the president would choose to rally his ultra conservative base right before an election when republican polls are down is probably beyond ANY analysist. It should be obvious. This is a political move, in a political game, with politics at stake. What more do you expect out of POLIITICians. That's what they are. It's what they do and what we elect them for. Now, what I would like to see is some motions that are more than simple political wrangling. Something noble, elevated, intelligent perhaps. Maybe find a way to negotiate a better imigration policy with Mexico so that more immigrants can come from here to there legally and prevent others from feeling that their only chance is to risk a desert dash under the guns of border patrol. Or perhaps, oh anything would do really, just no more of this piss and posture. It doesn't help the country, and if more people saw through it, it wouldn't even help the votes.

Roman wolf

Lobolian Rant

Lobolian Rant

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According to that web site, I am Gustav Mahler, a fanatical german composer who was so scared of his own work that he went nuts and refused to let anyone hear it? Can you believe that? Well, guess what, it's partly true? Why else would I refuse to reveal my name here? To you, i am Lobolius, the Roman Wolf of the blogosphere. Just kidding. I love to get my ideas out there. That is the true reason. Or is it?

The Aforementioned wolf.

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