Day: August 27, 2013

What Price Syria

Okay the news is in….chemical weapons have been used and it appears it was the Assad people that did the dirty deed….and now all the neocons are screaming about the US needs to do something and soon…….Assad has to be punished for this breach of civility…….one of the most loud people is Corker from Tennessee…..

The alleged chemical attack in Syria continues to reverberate today, with members of Congress hitting the Sunday talk show rodeo to call for action—or restraint, reports Politico. Leading the charge for action was Bob Corker, the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who said he believes chemical agents were used and “I think we will respond in a surgical way. Something that gets their attention, that causes them to understand that we are not going to put up with this kind of activity.” Corker’s Democrat counterpart in the House, Eliot Engel, was equally hawkish, saying, “We have to move, and we have to move quickly. Congress needs to be involved, but perhaps not initially.” There were calls for caution, however: Rhode Island Democrat Jack Reed said he wants to “verify that it was directed by the Assad regime because that will allow us to build an international coalition,” while Texas Republican Mike McCaul worried about public support for action, saying, “I don’t think that American people have an appetite to put troops on the ground in Syria.”

First let me say…..I am tired of the douche bags saying “boots on the ground”……we are talking about American lives and to use that offensive term is just a way to pretend that they are talking about something other than humans….

Next, here is an idea….all you dorks that are so willing to send in the Army need to take one of your famous fact finding missions to Syria….they won’t…they are cowards and do not want to put themselves in harms way but are more than willing to send others to do their dirty work….sicken pricks and that goes for ALL of them Senor, Bolton, Cheney and any other asshat that are quick to jump…..

Time for the rest of the “free” world to step up and do what is needed and let the US watch while they succumb to the hype….but for now ….we wait….we wait to see just how far the US will push itself on Syria….will it become yet another war or will it be a limited excursion?

A Beautiful Voice Silenced

I am breaking with my policy of not commenting on gossip and such but this one has a personal component to it and I feel I must comment…….

I will admit it…..I am a child of the 60’s….yes I did my share of drugs and stupid pranks…..and then there was the music……the greatest music ever recorded……Cream……Hendirx….Dylan……Electric Prunes and so many more…….but there was one voice that always got to me……Linda Ronstadt….it was perfect….it was beautiful….and she was a gorgeous flower child……okay I will cop to it…..I had a large thing for her!

I got my shot back in the days of the Jazz Festival when it was held at city park….there was this one time and I will not date myself for I am old and do not like to be reminded of it, Ronstadt was one of the featured acts….I was there and it was in the days when rock stars could walk among us mere mortals without the need of a mountain sized bodyguard……anyway I made my way to the stage that she was to perform on and waited for the magic to start…….and there she was walking through the crowd shaking hands and schmoozing with us….anyway I got to shake her hand and immediate proposed to her…….she got a good laugh out of it and I in turn got a great hug and a kiss on the check…..I did not wash that cheek until I got married for the first time….but I always remember the one that got away….well that is the way I tell it!

I do not usually go in for gossip….I detest that sort of thing and most of it does not deserve a mention much less a post on my blog….but this is the exception to the rule……why?  We have lost her voice for ever…….

LINDA Ronstadt, the onetime ‘First Lady of Rock’, is no longer able to sing because of Parkinson’s disease.

The 67-year-old, who has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide and is regarded as the most successful female rock singer of the Seventies, said she was diagnosed eight months ago and “can’t sing a note”.

In an interview with AARP Magazine, the singer said she began to show symptoms eight years ago.

“I couldn’t sing and I couldn’t figure out why,” she said. “I knew it was mechanical. I knew it had to do with the muscles, but it didn’t occur to me to go to a neurologist.”

She was “completely shocked” when finally diagnosed. “I wouldn’t have suspected that in a million, billion years,” she said.

Ronstadt now uses sticks to walk on uneven ground and a wheelchair when travelling.

It breaks my heart to get this news….I wish her well and to let her know she will be sadly missed……..and to me she will always be a love and the one that got away.