Failure Of Diplomacy

terrible news this morning from Ukraine
and they are blaming all the wrong people as usual...
who shot down that airliner?
I don't know...
right now they say it was the rebels...

but I know what bothers me about all these war type situations
my question

What are the diplomats doing?
I see them having a job...keeping the peace...
which they fail at over and over again.

My take on Ukraine...
NATO is being pushy
Russia feels threatened

and violence breaks out

who is to blame?

I blame the diplomats. They should be smart and wise and clever and
they should advise all parties to be moderate.
Compromise
be patient
all the good stuff

so what are they doing?
I don't know.

Distracted Living

You've heard of distracted driving...the real epidemic is of distracted living.

If You Are OK With Not Being OK Then You Are OK

logical I say
who would not want to be OK?
who is really OK?

You really are OK...that is the truth...
who ever told you that you were not OK?
they were wrong
that was bad advice

so just be OK

that is all

so simple

similar to don't worry be happy...
sure...you stepped in shit!
but shit can be fertilizer

you are going to die...and that is also OK
it is OK when you choose to believe that it is OK

YOUR CHOICE

Grabaducci

Just wanted to share this word with you.
GRABADUCCI

I wonder what it means?

It means grace and corruption are two sides of the same coin.
So you might say that the mercy of a Presidential pardon was a grabaducci.

The governor displayed a wonderful grabaducci when he let John Evil walk a free man!
Or the saying people have when someone is rescued from a collapsed building after a week of being buried.

Another one of God's grabaducci's! What a miracle!

Or

Sterling the racist is being punished out of proportion to his crime. But now the whole NBA is under investigation! Grabaducci!!

Compare Libya to Crimea

What we did in Libya was infinitely worse than what Russia has done in Crimea.
We systematically aided a violent revolution.
Countless lives were lost in this operation.
They still are far from having a civil society in Libya.

So far the transition in Crimea has been mostly peaceful.
Why are we so outraged?

Nice To See You

Good morning!

Are We Really Better Than Putin?

OK, so the story is not over yet, but there has recently been a change of government in Ukraine and Russia has sent in some troops. Our leaders expressed outrage over this!
But so far it looks peaceful and like the troops are really peacekeepers during a time of potential anarchy.
In contrast, what our government seems to have been doing for the last many years is to foment revolution and then stand back and be appalled by the bloodshed! We say shoot first and ask questions later. We sneak in and murder our enemies without any attempt to capture them!
We are arrogant in our superiority. We see the enemy as subhuman. 

Count the dead in
SYRIA
EGYPT
LIBYA
IRAQ

We keep supporting and encouraging rebellions! This seems crazy to me!

And the word I would throw out is

PATIENCE

sure the world could be a better place, but guns are not likely to get us there, and rebellions are not likely to get us there and secrets SECRETS are not likely to get us there

A big dose of PATIENCE and TRUTH would work nicely thank you