Steve Irwin - A Saint for the Wildlife

A true hero. A man among men. A champion of earth's wild creatures.

Living the life that every boy dreams of.

These are the things of Steve Irwin.

One thousand years into the future, with whatever Christian/Catholic/World-Religion evolves, I hope that Steve Irwin will be designated as a Saint for all mankind. He should be.

I hope they make little statues of him and place them on dashboards and have little shrines to St. Irwin. His image should include a snake around his neck, a crocodile along-side him, and a lizard in one hand and a bird in the other with maybe a monkey or a koala bear on his back. He should be gazing forward with a courageous but loving look and a wide-eyed wonder for all things alive.

I would vote for him for Sainthood if I could. He could replace St. Francis of Assisi.

And whatever creatures we have left running around in whatever minimal wilderness we might have left at that time - we could then pray to and thank our God for the inspiration left behind by Saint Steve Irwin for all the future ages to come.

May wildlife continue for as long as man rules this earth.

God Bless Steve Irwin.

(And may God have mercy on what's left of our wildlife.)

Notes From an Underground Drunk

I'm being channeled

Lesson #1:
[set to music]
THERE ARE MANY SOULS OLDER THAN ME

Rule #2
It don't matter how far it goes out, as long as it comes back

I'd hate to impregnate the third hippy (infiltration, revolution) generation

Thought:
I never had so much fun in 10 years

"No. I [am] stronger than Adam."

One of the major rules of the game is - "If you're not that good - step off to the sidelines."

How can I be so romanticized by the hippie legend?

I'll do that because I'm robotic enough.

I'd rather have something 5 times as good, than 5 things 1 times as good.

The trick is to live like you could not live tomorrow.

Everyone wants to get away from everywhere they're feeling watched.

Which would you rather be?
Samson or Delilah?
- for to me.

I hope that was a good enough excuse - I was drunk!

I can't decide till tomorrow (laugh)

The '70s: We realized it wasn't gonna work - so we just got high. ('it' referring to the 60's revolution)

Promoting democracy and modernisation in the Middle East is not a solution to jihadist terrorism

Neoconservatism has evolved into something I can no longer support

"Promoting democracy and modernisation in the Middle East is not a solution to jihadist terrorism. "

huh? did i read that right? i thought Bush just said last night on tv that that was the answer?!

who said this?

-one of neo-conservatism's charter members and a scholar most responsible for establishing its post-Reagan policies - Francis Fukuyama.

I have to agree:

What we need are new ideas for how America is to relate to the world - ideas that retain the neoconservative belief in the universality of human rights, but without its illusions about the efficacy of US power and hegemony to bring these ends about.

HOW TO LOSE THE WAR ON TERROR PART 5: The politics of indignation

HOW TO LOSE THE WAR ON TERROR PART 5: The politics of indignation

There is a growing angst presented in this article that somehow we in the west still aren't "getting it" and thus have this nasty feeling in our gut that though we know the evil the caused the towers to fall on 911 was sheer evil, we do not know still how to fight it.

The assumption has been, that just like the Soviet Union fell because it was a house built upon hollow principles the radical Islamists will also fall from implosion with just a little continued pressure and military might.

What if we are wrong?

The Blanco River is Dry

We're in a 2 year dought now here in central Texas hill country. The river behind my house is all dried up. We went down and tried to save a few fish from the buzzards. We caught one maybe 7 lb. Appaloosa type catfish and a few bass and perch. We took them to a bigger hole.

All this area for the last 3 years I've been here has been swimmable water over your head in a lot of places.

Chief Dan George

Chief Dan George: "If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other."

I just like this quote. I didn't know Chief Dan George - the humourous indian who acted in "Little Big Man" with Dustin Hoffman (a great movie by the way) was an actual chief.

The rest of the quote goes on to say "...if you don't talk to them, you will fear them. And what you fear you will destroy."

Have you ever known anyone who was actually at Woodstock in '69 ?

dude... so i've finally met someone who actually was at theWoodstock Festival in 1969 ... we partied last night with some friends and it came out that Tom Mullen, a quiet unassuming obvious old hippie, was there... he recalls it as "we were just hanging around and we heard about this concert so we went to it ..."

he remembers hearing the "FISH" call out... but we asked asked if he was naked and he just smiles and says "probably".... i asked him about the rain... (kind of a test question) ... he just looked down kind of said drearily remembering and says, "yeah... it rained a lot." :)

for the record.... he didn't really remember Hendrix or Joplin ... but he remembered Joe Cocker. (Which in fact when I look up the hisotry in Wiki was the opening act the third day at 2:00 PM... right before Country Joe and the Fish.)

Later, Tom - this counter revolutionary living remnant of Americana past, tells me he was also a biker (he mentioned San Bernardino, CA) and did some hanging out with the "Angels" but "never got his colors" he shamefully admits.

He remembers this writer that liked to hang out with "the Angels" at the time.... says he was writing a book. His name was Hunter S. Thompson but didn't think much him at the time.... "he was just a writer" is all he says.

I quizzed him with all I knew and he seems straight up. I'll quiz him more tonight and this weekend over a Margarita and whatever (and whoever) else shows up. If he wasn't so non-chalant about it and didn't actually look like a remnant hippie/biker type of guy, I probably wouldn't believe him.

Which conviences me even more, that all the hippies settled down in Austin and then the best of them moved on finally to Wimberley.

:)


Should be fun :)