Pike's Peak - Thoughts and Nonsense

This is a view of Pike's Peak from the Garden of the Gods, not far from Colorado Springs, which, incidentally, is the home of James Dobson's, Focus on the Family.

Hopefully, David and I and our friends will climb Pike's Peak in the spring which will be our second "Fourteener" at 14,109 feet above sea level. (Don't tell Dobson, though. He may push for a Constitutional Amendment to bar homa-sex-yalls from these national treasures. I mean -- as every hiker/mountain climber knows -- you gotta pee somewhere and just the thought of some sodomite soiling God's glory... )

A story in the New York Times this morning is not so much frightening for its content -- Iran's nuclear capabilities -- but, rather, that Iran is Dubya's next challenge ... Iran being, as our great leader told us some time ago, a wee little part of the Axis of Evil.

I wonder if he'll just decide to kill them all, like he's apparently decided to do in Iraq?

Oh, and did you hear that the third little notch on this Axis of Evil, North Korea, is wanting to sell weapons (probably nukes) to whomever has the bucks which, incidentally, might end up, in part, being Afghanian drug lords who, in 2004, had a pretty good year.

Yessir, Dubya's democracy in Afghanistan is pretty much being taken over by drug lords who planted 321,236 acres with poppy in 2004, a 64% increase over last year, we're told by the New York Times. The income from the trafficking of opium accounted for sixty -- that's 60 -- percent of Afghanistan's gross domestic product; a third of the total economy.

And, what's Dubya going to do about it? Apparantly, we, us, the good ol' American taxpayer is going to give this insidiously corrupt country $780Million to combat the drug problem there.

Makes sense to me.

Finally, I'll let you take a look at this one yourself. This piece about Senator Arlen Specter reminded me of a line from i sing of Olaf (which I provided in total a few posts back) just popped into my head: "...Olaf (upon what were once knees) does almost ceaselessly repeat 'there is some shit I will not eat.'"

Well, Arlen is certainly on his knees and he's not only eating a whole lot of shit, he's spreading it around to appease the good Christians he sorely offended by suggesting that modifying a woman's right to choose may be difficult in Congress. He's even suggesting that the filibuster rule needs to be changed so those damned ol' Democrats can't hold-up the neo-con/Christian agenda.

Then there's House Republican leader Tom DeLay whose buddies (Republicans all) have modified their rules to allow an indicted Congressman (DeLay) to retain his leadership position. (No indictment yet, but you can never be too careful in protecting those moral values!)

Oh well... Thoughts and Nonsense. And, what a ride we're in for during Dubya's next four!