Soap Box 4

The family is well this Memorial holiday and I salute those who are standing on Freedom’s frontline. I ask God to bring you home safe and sound.

I heard a news report the other day that just boggled my old mind. A man raped a 12 year old girl and was found guilty by a jury. The expectation was that due to the brutalness of the crime the man would get the maximum of 10 years. Utter shock and my confusion set in when the judge gave the man only 10 years of probation. The reason -- since the man was only 5 ft 1 inch, the judge felt "he was too small to survive in a state prison." Excuse me he was big enough to commit the crime. Besides, he might get a better understanding of what he did when a bigger man forced himself upon him. Even sadder is these judges that have no concept of reality in making these cockamamie judgments. There ought to be some Judge Review board so if a judge loses touch he can be removed.

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Have you ever wondered what a newborn baby dreams about? As I sit here today holding Julian as he sleeps, I couldn't help wondering what he was dreaming about. My dreams come from life and what I experience each day. Hmmmm.

What that new HBO series last night where they show the life of a Surgical Hospital in Baghdad. They made it very real. Several times I could feel the emotion they were showing as our brave men made the ultimate sacrifice. What it also did is make me wonder why we are playing around with the insurgents. Make it an area under martial law, seal it off and then sweep all the weapons from it. Anyone after that carrying a weapon will have deadly force used to remove it. The same goes with explosives. If they like car bombs -- then get ride of the cars, trucks and such until the insurgent threat is over with. You say the civilians won't like it -- so what -- it is war. If any attack comes from a mosque then obviously there is no religion there so raze it to the ground so it can't ever be used for war again. Once the clerics get tired of their mosques being destroyed because they are used as staging areas for attacks then maybe they will step forward and help stop the attacks or at least help us stop them. It is time we get serious about the conduct of this war on terrorism or we should get ready to receive more good men and women hope with wounds or in flag draped caskets. War is horrible and full of death .. Let’s stop it now by executing it to the best of our ability.

Work continues to be fun but it has its frustrating moments. One project gets completed and another is started up. There is a never ending supply of projects to be done. You would expect that people would pride themselves in the use of their tools, i.e. computers. I also love how everything they need fixed is a crisis of earth shattering importance but after I fix it, it is two weeks before they even use it again. Or the ones who love to say I need this for Boss X today only to find out later Boss X is off or out of the office. Oh well, life never changes and in two weeks the paycheck will be delivered and all will be forgotten.