Once upon a time a U.S. president looking for re-election lost in no small part to a clever slogan, “It’s the Economy, stupid”. Here we are again in the middle of another economic “crisis”, kreppa if you will. 
When the man on the street is asked about what is important for politicians to focus on most are unanimous in their feelings about the economy. Pick any day and any self proclaimed news outlet and after they have exhausted all possible angles on the latest pointless fluff such as a balloon boy or celeb crisis they will ironically spend the next day asking if we as a people focus too much time on the trivial and less on important things. Of course the important topic should be the economy and what ‘they’ are going to do to fix it.
Not that tough economic times aren’t serious issues but for most people it is at worst a crisis of luxury. Nothing that requires a panic mode. And if your country is involved in a war then shouldn’t that be the most important issue at hand? Your children are being killed in far off lands and the most important topic is the apparent devaluation of your house? Or worse, the state of affairs going on with this week’s celebrity gossip?
We let politicians argue over whether to pull out or stay and the million other arguments over ideology and other stalling tactics. Shouldn’t the common goal be to finish and go home? We can disagree over how, where, and what for but the common good is to not have your children in uniform die no matter what your politics happen to be.
Bring the boys and girls home from the horror of war before spending more time arguing about it. Bring them home now. Unfortunately for that goal it is the very people with the power to achieve this that do not have their children in the line of fire. For the rest of us, we are not the “Fortunate Son“.
So forget about how I personally feel and in turn I won’t give a crap about your opposing view. But can’t we agree that ending it one way or the other is a common feeling? There is no nice way to run a war so why spend months arguing over the fine line between war crimes and honor? If you are going in then go all in and be done with it. Time to bring them home. And then talk to me about your economy. But I’ll still not care about your celeb gossip. (FYI, Elvis and MJ are still dead)
The short version of what the sun feels like on an early winter day near the arctic.
It is like a sunrise that lasts for a few short hours and then spends the same time in sunset.
To the more equatorialzed visitor it is very noticeable that 9:30AM is still black as the darkest night. The sun finally rises after 10AM and gets later each morning, it stays low giving a prolonged sunrise that changes by the minute but lingers into lunchtime. At the peak it may still appear with morning like patterns and colours. Depending on your own position you may easily be the shadow of clouds, fjords, and buildings. More often the clouds and fjords. A tree shadow is rare though.
And then the long sinking to sunset. But not long enough, the fleeting light was brief and now it is leaving us. The sunset is slow and equally as interesting as the sunrise. It is only early afternoon and already the light is fading. The sunset comes earlier each afternoon. And then darkness. Very dark.
13:41 19 November
MJ is dead. He’s still dead. He’s not pinning for the fjords. He’s not resting. The ghostly image on CnN was not him, he’s dead.
Stop tweeting about it. Get over it. He’s still dead. He’ll always be dead.
Over on page 6 I see that more of our soldiers in real uniforms are also dead. They died so that you loosers can have the freedom to not have anything more important to do than to loose your tiny minds over a dead pop tart/star.
In Iceland there is a high potential for the ground to shake and for lava to flow. It has happened over and over again. However it is also true that thunder is very rare but rainbows are very common. Is it coincidence that the people there are both outwardly stoic yet emotionally optimistic?
Some have called them delusional when they proclaim a bright future for themselves. As if they should spend/waste a lot of time analyzing details and extrapolating the future on a pie chart. Simply get on with it. What do you want and how do we get there while attempting to be fair to all? Learn from but don’t wallow in the past. Respect and acknowledge history but look ahead and remain flexible.
Thunder due to the speed of sound is about the past. Rainbows are about right now and point to the proverbial Eden in the future.
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