Some thoughts...

Ok, so I was sitting here in BS this morning trying to figure what I should blog. Then it dawned on me that I needed to write something about balance. I was sitting around the other night talking about how balance can affect events around the globe in almost a chaos theory event method. When one balance is thrown off, the pendulum that maintains the balance is thrown off. When this occurs, odd things happen, presidents appoint radical judges to circuit court positions, and countries invade sovereign nations for unknown reasons or reason based on lies. People forget that our leaders lie, it's almost as if our country's regime has figured out how the Jedi mind trick works. But what is really concerning, is that a radical leadership in our country can overturn our civil liberties that men and women fought so hard to earn over the past 50 years.

Go back to the invasion of Iraq, we went in to rid the region of the weapons of mass destruction and insure that we rid terrorist from that country. Well, instead of weapons of mass destruction, we found nothing to support that theory, yet we are still there. When we got there, there was little or no terrorist activity and now Iraq is a hot bed of terrorist activity. Our military leaders tell us that we have the insurgents under control, yet the American causality rate continues to grow and the Iraqi causality rate has sky rocketed.

Our leaders do not apologize for these lies, instead, they retread their stories and say that we invaded Iraq to free that nation from Sadam, we were liberators and the people of Iraq welcome us with open arms and lay flowers at our occupying soldier’s feet. Well, that's not quite true either. The people of Iraq despise our presence there. The only reason we will remain there with the blessing of the Iraqi's is because if we leave they know that the country will fall into civil war between the Kurds, Shiite's and the Sunni's. The men in power, the Shiite men, know that if they bide their time, they will have a trained force and the ability to control the people in Iraq themselves. Once this happens, we will get the boot and an unceremonious boot at that. And when our soldiers come home, we will love them, as we should for they are not the people that decided to invade a country and remain there for years as an occupying force. Maybe if we actually listened to the soldiers, maybe our leaders would understand why we don't belong there and how important it is for us to return home.

Now we look at the judges that have been appointed to the circuit courts. This president has appointed over 200 judges since he has been in power, more than any other president in the past 20 years. Yet the republican leadership cries foul when the democrats block radical judges, 14 to be exact. 14 out of 200 isn't a big number compared to the 35 that were blocked in Clinton's time. Lott, Ashcroft and the other republicans that were involved in blocking those judges on Clinton's watch are the same men that are complaining that the democrats are blocking these right wing radical judges and telling us that we are facing a constitutional crisis with the filibustering that the democrats are doing. I'm sorry, but your lies and insinuations are insulting to the thinking American's, republican and democrat and especially independent. Just because you have to repay your dues to the Christian conservatives that helped you get elected doesn't mean that you have cry wolf and say that we are having a constitutional crisis. These men must remember that old proverb, be careful for what you wish for, you might just get it. And when they do, it might just wake the people of this once great country and remind them of what we once had has now been taken away from them by radical right wing judges, politicians and radical Christian clerics. And if they do awaken, the wrath may be greater than the leadership of the right wing will watch their power slip away, hence the pendulum swing.

It was once very important for our leaders to be in the middle, but since this pendulum of momentum has swung so far to the right, when it swings back, it just might tear this country apart...