Masopher's Mind

This should be changed. It should be a changed to “just don’t fuck and we don’t give a fuck.” I will probably always come across as a little homophobic. Being raised in one of the more conservative parts and times of the world, homosexuality is something I tend to relegate to the times of the Greeks and some over populated types of animals. On the other hand the military is an institution that lumps tough women and scores and scores of even tougher men together for months maybe years on end. They are lumped together to make war, not love. I remember this lecture from  Alain de Botton about employers and sex. Essentially employers don’t want people having sex not because of the complications or the relationships but simply because the employer needs the employee focused on the given and unnatural task of labour and not on the innate and natural task of arranging for going into labour.

The Congress is worried when it finds out that 13000 gay men and women have been discharged from the military just because they happen to be gay. This is 13000 people less that could be discharging their weapons at the Taliban, terrorists and Russians. Given that a typical military weapon can discharge around 800 rounds per minute this means an infantry loss of 10 million bullets a minute not fired. If these people who volunteered to murder for their country were still hard at work, the military would be able to kill the entire world in around 10 hours with just the gays!

Wear the uniform correctly, kill who and when I want and keep your dick in your pants when on duty. These are my only conditions for a soldier of any sexual predilection. I would lay this rule down indiscriminately. Issues like HIV have to be addressed as a separate issue but again this is another universal norm.

“Sailors wives” and cabin boys are euphemisms that the navy has kept hidden away for longer than ships went over the oceans, when the greatest of fleets puttered around the coasts of the Mediterranean. Even in land campaigns squires enjoyed a certain, air of mystery as they served the generals in the tents at night while the soldiers had to satisfy themselves with pillage and the raping of village wenches.

It’s modern times in Afghanistan, so modern that generals are following in the steps of Alexander and going head to head with a nation where “every man is an Alexander”. The great Persian knew that a bit of man-love did not soften fighting spirit so perhaps it is time the new invaders from the West adopt his proven tactics?

People still haven’t gotten used to recycling. Throw away the old, get something new. They’ve made the “mistake” of recycling a Bush Whitehouse and they don’t want to make the mistake of recycling a Clinton. With the dirt that was dug up on the Clintons and Rodhams back in the 90’s I’m surprised that this dolled up Hillary dared resurrect herself with her “war stories” and animated gestures. It looks very unnatural for her to do that, because people with long term memory or footage of her from the 90’s know that Hillary Clinton is nothing like that. She has never been in danger and she doesn’t have a dynamic personality no matter what her PR manager makes her up to be. Those with memory remember how “cold” she was and I am pretty sure that we genuinely speculated of the purely strategic nature of Hillary and Bills relationship. If America genuinely wanted a woman in candidacy they would have forced Oprah to run. Biologically Hillary qualifies as female but so do cadavers and blow up dolls.

Let’s not forget events like Whitewater, role in controversial presidential pardons, her relationship with Walmart, and her strategic bandwagon hopping along with the entire Democratic party. I don’t accuse Mrs. Clinton of anything other than being part of the wallpaper of a boring unmotivated and equally corrupt democratic house. She has currently painted herself as a door to somewhere else but it’s just paint there is nothing behind it.

The question on everybody’s mind is: will she pick up the marbles and go home? Will she kill the Democratic Party’s chance for presidency if she is unable to lead it? Masopher believes that she will. The Democratic Party has suffered infighting for many years now, even when Bill Clinton was in power the party could not hold it together to lock the Republicans out of congress. Their previous nominations have been abysmal and the current “rerun versus mystery box” ticket is another example of their inability to say anything other than, we won’t do what the other guys are doing. Jumping on the war bandwagon, hopping off it when things looked bleak; using anti-war as their platform to gain congressional power, remaining silent now that they are in charge of it; voting according to personal agenda and opinion polls rather than for what is right. A divided house cannot stand.

Clinton may lose nothing for the party if she locks Obama out with her delegates. Many of her supporters will refuse to vote Obama further reducing his opportunity at presidency. John Edwards has done so and Hillary may be looking beyond the horizon to being the hero of the Republican Party and returning to being a senatorial power broker. Her tenacity is dogged and true to form, if there is still an ounce of modern woman left in Hillary Rodham Clinton, she will make this fight dirty and disgraceful and Masopher eagerly awaits this.