1.25.2007

Ex-patriots

I'm stealing a line from Guerra here... Matt, you've got prior use rights on this one, haha! So, yeah as we all know the Pats are now an ex.... as in they are no longer a team playing in the 2006/ 2007 season. The Colts beat 'em up pretty badly in the 2nd half of last Sunday's AFC Championship game, which the Colts won 38-34. Congratulations to the Colts, they were the better team for the duration of the game. Tony Dungy is a great coach, and seems like an even greater man. Seeing so, I think it's tough to ever root against a guy like that in life... never mind a football game. Peyton Manning is a great football player as well, and also follows in the classy, mature, good-sportsman mold. So, I hereby announce my intention to root for the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLI!

I wish there were heartwarming side stories a la last years blog post... but there really isn't. There were no superhuman-almost-game-saving-100yard-tackles made by a certain Benjamin Watson this year. There were no really egregious officiating blunders like last year either. And lastly, there was no real reason that the Pats deserved to win that game, seeing as they played so lousy after the halftime festivities.

I do believe that if they had won the AFC this year, that the Pats could have and would have beaten the Bears in the super bowl. Obviously, we will never know if New England would have hoisted trophy number 4 or not... and for that and in that vein of mystery, I will end this post. It's too painful to articulate the feelings I have for this particular end to this particular season....

Good luck Colts, Go Peyton and Tony!

Peace
AM Son

1.16.2007

Still Deeply Waged

Reason For War
(September 2006)


Men don't fight with swords anymore,
but bombs work pretty well.
Things have gone so far;
gotten so out of control;
the reasons for war anymore;
we can never even tell.

Faith for the sake of faith,
is a tunnel.
And those words, utterances, and actions;
stemming from that faith;
are vehicles.
All leading to destruction.

Send a dove to the West,
only to wage bloody war in the East.
Get on the megaphone;
blare lies to the electorate,
while whispering the ruthless truth,
to those in your pockets.

Mother nature won't stand in your way,
the affluenza that affects you,
is piss an' vinegar,
to her sweet gentle breath;
that you make bitter with your lemon spirit.

Oh;
you're an evil evil man.
Walking in the house painted white.
An evil grin you wear,
it matches;
that snarky persona so fine.

Reason for war,
it can be anything at all.
It can be nothing too small...
The reasons for war anymore;
we can never even tell.










The days go by, the years add up, and the death toll from both American soldiers and Iraqi citizens rises ever higher. The more this sorry excuse for a war drags on, the more that people pack it away to the depths of their consciousness. It's become background noise, it's become mundane (no disrespect to soldiers and their families) because it seems there is no result. There has been escalating conflict, fighting, and death in Iraq, and more and more developing issues extenuating to U.S and Allied involvement. And all for what...? That's all I'm saying here.
This war is nothing but a method for the current U.S administration to extend their imperialism across the globe. It's a facade, from the "WMD's" to the "democracy for Iraq". It's a vehicle for our President and his cronies to attempt to control the middle east... so they can control the oil. War makes money, and when our Vice President has a stake in a company (Halliburton) that directly benefits from war, construction, oil, and destruction; then there's no other conclusion to draw.
So, I say: what are the reasons for war? Check out more about Halliburton for yourself: here and here.