Miscellaneous Ramblings

I have been under the weather lately; that is, I somehow managed to lock my right shoulder while stretching out to pet one of our dogs. The pain, which started to manifest itself the next day, reached up into the 8.5 on a ten-point scale for me. I’ve visited my chiropractor twice and a pain management therapist trying to ease the pain and regain control of body movements. One of the things it literally hurt to do was type and move a computer mouse. The pain management therapist inquired about some of my habits and I mentioned this blog. She asked if I wrote with passion and I said I thought there was some of that in here. She then asked if it was passion with tension. I had to think about that for a moment and then realized she was correct. Therefore I will attempt to continue with logical passion minus any tension. But I am becoming aware of a tightening in my right shoulder trying to make me notice it.

First off, can’t thinking adults admit there is nothing wrong with the word Merlot? The recent flap over one man’s personal license plate using the word and another’s self righteous object is beyond me. In the opinions of both Lewis Black and George Carlin there are no dirty words. By the by, after tens years of use of said license plate hasn’t some sort of legal precedent be made? How does the State Tax Commission decide one plate’s worthiness and another’s non-worthiness? Is it at least two out of three votes against or does one person yield all that power? My brother indicates to me, based upon his professional professor status that his students have a completely different understanding of the term “milk shake” than you and I do. Do the students understand the meaning of these two harmless words in the context I think they do? If so, where are the word police?

To the Utahn with the under developed math skills who attempted to justify President Bush’s mid term removal of several federal prosecutors with President Clinton’s “mid term” removal of all sitting federal prosecutors on March 23 1993, my I remind mister wizard that President Clinton’s term started on January 20, 1993. Sixty days into his term, President Clinton cleaned house just like most Presidents have after taking office. This can hardly be deemed mid term. The real trouble here is not the firing of the prosecutors, but the reasons for the actions and any attempts to undermine the U S Justice Department by turning prosecution into a politically partisan exercise. By the way, isn’t lying about all of this under oath a federal offense? Isn’t that the reason they impeached President Clinton? Will you all take a closer look at this one?

How many of you have noticed George and Tony’s latest adventure. Two U S aircraft carrier groups off the coast of Iran are playing war games. Iran is holding fifteen British soldiers as captives. We have dueling GPS units establishing where said troops were when Iran detained them. I’ve always thought one of the military’s main goals was not to get captured by the bad guys. Not to be flip, but the report I saw of the detainees showed a group of young folks that looked like they were at a Friday night social. Where were the hard core military operatives who should have been tasked with this mission? Is it just me or is there something wrong with this picture?

That’s all for now. My back is indicating I’m not completely back in form.