Brilliance (at Breakfast...)

Well, Yeah...I don't even eat breakfast most days and I'm only on cup 2 of coffee so far, having literally fallen asleep while publishing the post below last night.
I woke this morning in a panic that I couldn't remember what the fuck I wrote, and that maybe I said what I REALLY thought and my facade of a world had fallen apart as I slept; a waking nightmare...or a sleeping dream...but no...
It made sense and it is, in fact, me, such as I am, with the sinus still in a vice and the lung chunks getting ready to explode...doing laundry and cleaning....Just need to remind myself that I am still in here every once in a while.
So, here I am with McLaughlin (...and Eleanor is just screaming...like, is she gonna have a heart attack or something?...someone help this woman out a little!)...and I've been reading the blogs...

Here is a little something for youse all tough guyz , on this father's day: Jill , in talking about the Chris Matthews to Fred Thompson fake tough guy act, by the likes of our very President, in what she hilariously calls "wingnuttia" (which may be available for a fee to the Colbert writers if they approach her gently,) speaks from the gut and the heart about what these guys are really made of in the face of actual heros who go to war and survive!...It would be one thing if the people getting us into these messes were those who were actual vets...or even who knew a vet.
But no....even McCain seems to have forgotten what it was about in the rush to power.
Lets keep this in mind when we are choosing leaders and judging what leaders do in the future: Its not what you say, its what you do....Though both are pretty well lacking in this gang:

Good luck getting a plan in action in place -- and funded -- by this bunch. This country is led by a guy who couldn't even lay off the blow long enough to show up for his cushy stateside National Guard assignment and a guy with a bum ticker who "had other priorities" when it was his time to serve, and who thinks doing the quail equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel makes him a tough guy. These guys are cheerled by a wizened little Jewish man whose idea of being in combat is to pump his fist at the screen and shout "Yeah!" and "All right!" while watching a fictional portrayal of American troops in Bosnia and a cadre of talk show heads not one of whom has ever served.

In the faux machismo world of these chickenshit politicians and the pundits who worship them, PTSD is a sign of weakness -- and flies in the face of the myth of the American soldier. Military training may be designed to turn human beings into killing machines, but when even those killing machines have what remains of their souls after the military tries to pry them out of them ripped from their bodies, we owe it to them to try to help -- and to speak out against those who would continue to worship the kind of dick-waving bullshit that brought them to this state.

Thanks Jill...we all have to keep speaking out until these suckers are out of power and all of our soldiers are home and cared for...and then beyond that so that this doesn't happen again....
What a mess!