Saturday, July 22

Proud

to be an American, where at least I have the 'right' to not know this
WARNING: It is not sanitized, Disney-fied, or Flomax-ed for your enjoyment. It is the graphic real deal.
Some time in the last week I found myself disgusted at the documentation (irony alert--I don't remember where--it could have been satellite TV or perhaps "Why We Fight", which I recommend), the living example of fellow Americans working in the arms industry. Especially a forty-something highly educated and intellegent Vietnamese-American who'd escaped Saigon as an adolescent in 1975. She worked for one of the giants making well, things explode better. She was excellent in her field.
Why?
Aside, the political not-doing of this Administration as regards Israel. Why would someone do this 'for a living'?!?! Here in America where we define ourselves from as much. Why?

America thinks (myth) of itself as many things. One of our realities is as the largest producer of arms and weapons in the world. From the bullet to the gun to the shell to the tank to the jet to the bomb.
Israel is raining our 'product' on Palestine right now. God bless us, every one.

Tuesday, July 11