Recently listened to the audiobook “The Operator”
(Firing the Shots that Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior)
by Robert O’Neill
Not really the genre I’d listen to, however it was prominently displayed at the local library.
(Why not, I have 9 hours to kill each night)
Read by the author
Very well, I might add, giving the kind of vocal inflections that capture the essence of many various experiences.
Builds on his growing up in a small town recollections and reflections. On to seemingly detailed accounts of various military training.
Waxing eloquent, crescendoing to the main event, like if it were a movie, you could almost hear the orchestra music.
But like any climax, especially the ones, brought on by self. There is the head bowed contemplation, if that was really necessary.
Wonder if the following ever occurs to Robert? Of confessing to murder in print and implicating his boss, who “ordered” the hit in the first place.
That maybe, in hindsight, an out of the womb, grown fetus in a bunker did not impose an immediate threat, therefore making it unconstitutional.
Which in hearing the voice that relays this story, took on a reticent melancholy tone and no more hoo-haas, that preceded in the previous chapters.
Having also broken the “unwritten” code of taking credit as an individual, for what the whole “team” “accomplished”, distancing himself from his comrades.
I guess when the fever pitch of the previous administration, failed to kill the bogeymen that allegedly masterminded the (inside job) attacks on merikkka.
It was sustained in some hearts and smaller minds that retribution was a necessary means of soul cleansing to heal an open wound.
Which led to the bravado bragging of his / Seal Team # ? / Obama’s / American taxpayer’s kill.
While Robert may have been celebrated, receiving momentary and monetary accolades, am guessing in the end, there will be no karmic reward.
Just an observation
Maybe I need different glasses.
What do you get for a person
Who performs abortions?
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Not sure what they do
In the medical field
But in the military
They usually dole out……..
.
Medals
@ Ceremonies
With press coverage
.
Honoring what society
Allegedly despises
The killing of fetuses
Albeit grown ones
Out of the womb ones
Still the ones that
Once were fetuses
.
Corporate coerced
Military discounts
Parades, statues
Front of line access
Movies glorifying
Book deals detailing
Memorial buildings
Highways and parks
Dedicated to those
.
With that soul defining
Moral code of….
Just following orders
.
You know
Doing what they’re told
By a “superior”
Who “outranks” them
While getting paid
By the taxpayer
With death dollars
.
And still the collective
Wonders why we can’t
Stop pre or post natal abortions
Oh yeah
.
“Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.”
– George Carlin
Who although described as
Protecting your “freedoms”
Are tyrannically propagating
A consumptive lifestyle by
Strong arming control and access
Over global resources with the
Blank check from your tax dollars
By any means necessary which
Include killing noncombatants
Of all ages referred to as
Collateral damage……ooopsie
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“What matters, is that if you believe in the sanctity of life, then you believe it, for life of all ages.
//
You either love all people of all ages or you shut the fuck up.”
– Bill Hicks
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Maybe I just don’t understand
Why condoning one form is okay but
Condemning the other form, not okay
Seems to me, that is like wearing
Leather shoes and a fur coat
To a PETA rally, sure it’s comfortable
But it completely misses the point
.
“These people call themselves “right to lifers.” Don’t you love that phrase? And don’t you love the way these kind of people pervert the English language?
You realize that most of the right-to-lifers are in favor of the DEATH penalty? And they support the South American DEATH squads.
And they’re against gun control and they’re against nuclear weapons control.
When they say “right to life,” they’re talking about THEIR right to decide which people should live or die.”
– George Carlin
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Just an observation
Maybe I need different glasses.
The needle has long since
Worn out the vinyl groove
On that broken record cliche
Not so you would notice
As authority keeps playing it
To the deaf and to the right
Seemingly one in the same
Three sequenced words
Over and over again like a
Mindless mantra manipulating
The masses into malleable mush
Ironically giving up individual
Ones to the collective none
Why? Because it sounds good
Protecting freedom…..WOW whee!
That would be no small task
.
Free
3a: not determined by anything
beyond its own nature or being
: choosing or capable of choosing for itself
– m-w.com
Just not sure how protecting your freedom can get accomplished with weaponry, blood spilt or camera’s monitoring and no action taken.
Just an observation, maybe I need different glasses.
Through any tragedy
A group arises to the top
And yes certainly the
Health care professionals
Are deserving everyone’s praise
No doubt, I could not do
What they are doing
The extremely long hours
The daily risk of death
The sheer emotional exhaustion
Before or after Covid-19
Still tragedy or no tragedy
The ones who never get recognized
The people at the core
Of making life / existence possible
So that every group gets
Their day in the sun are all of the
Farmers and ranchers
Loggers, miners and drillers
Nothing happens without them
Nothing no food no buildings
No heat or cool, no roads or light
No communication, no connection
Everything everyone gets to do
Starts with those five groups
So here’s my little shout out
Thanks, am very grateful
You are the unsung heroes
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“We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler,
Machine gun hand
We got (closed) department stores
and (no) toilet paper
//
Got a man of the people,
Says keep hope alive
(Yes, that’s Mr. # 45)
Got (cheap) fuel to burn,
Got (bad) roads to drive.
Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world”
– Neil Young
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Bidding death away
To the highest bidder
Need some PPE
Or a ventilator
To live another day
Pony up and pay
Or the shell
Of your being
Will be put
In a casing
6 feet in the ground
(Ultimate social distancing)
As 45’s administration
Has secured
Pallets of masks
To send them to……
No, not hospitals
Rather a
Distributor / broker
Who can then
“Auction” them off
To whichever
Customer or county
Wants them the most
Because that is how
Capitalism…….works??
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From White House Press Conference 4 2 20
REAR ADM. JOHN POLOWCZYK, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF VICE DIRECTOR OF LOGISTICS:
The 200,000 is going out as we speak.
MIKE PENCE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:
Very specific about that.
POLOWCZYK: It will be – it will be delivered tomorrow.
REPORTER: Question –
PENCE: Let me be clear on that. What Jared announced, what the admiral said is pallets are being loaded right now to send 200,000 N95 masks to New York City to the public health hospitals.
POLOWCZYK: To the public health warehouse in New York City.
PENCE: All the health care workers, help is on the way.
POLOWCZYK: This product that we`re moving is primarily commercial product that would enter the commercial system and be distributed through financial business transactions between hospitals and these distributors.
REPORTER: But just to clarify, that explains why states say they are bidding like eBay because the supplies are going to the private sector and they have to go there.
POLOWCZYK: That`s normally how things work, right? So I`m not here to disrupt a supply chain.
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(Am thankful did not have to call Pence a weasel, his dialogue and manner, did that for himself)
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Wonder if that is how
The casket makers
Will cash in or if
They’ll be competing
With bulldozers
Digging mass graves
Which is really
Capitalism @ its finest
Well…..certainly nothing
To sneeze at
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Yes, my soul is
Much darker
Than it “should” be
Actually though, according
To this blog’s title and subtitle
“Looking at the world through a windshield”
The observations are from
“The loose nut behind the wheel”
In other words I didn’t make this stuff up
I am merely an observer
Making observations
Thanks for stopping by
If what was then
Was then which
What is now
Considered normalcy
That seemed more
Like lunacy
For what we have now
Is insanity
Neither a place
I want to be
What was then
Might have been
More familiar
Hardly normal
Merely acceptable
Because it was what
We’d grown up to
Expect and accept
As long as we could
Maybe kinda sort of
Navigate our way
Through the maze
However given
A choice of either
Neither would be one
One would return to
As the new normal
Builds in its comforts
Although not quite
As comfortable
Still not normal
The best would be to
Create a better normal
One where everyone
Is fed and sheltered
Has universal
Global healthcare
As obviously what
“Starts” in a “different”
Country affects all
The countries, why
Cause they are all
On the same planet
Duh……
No impervious barrier
Is protecting anyone
Regardless where the
Flag is waving
Religion practiced
Skin color or gender
Bank account value
The grim reaper
Knows none of those
So since governments
Can’t solve the problem
What can we do…….but
“Imagine”
“Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…. Aha-ah…
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace… You…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world… You…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one”
– John Lennon
“Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.”
– Rick Bragg
“All Over But the Shoutin'”
.
Shouting
Immediately
Excludes
Reason
.
Repetition
Automatically
Eliminates
Listening
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Found this unfinished in drafts folder
I can only assume it had
Something to do with Sean Hannity
