Things that are highly improbable, but obviously not impossible

I really hate it when people state that something is impossible. For as infinite as the multi-verse is everything would have to be possible. Otherwise it would be really boring and very limited. I guess people feel better knowing that life has limits and rules that must be followed. If everything was possible in one spot in the universe, it would be crazy. Several billion beings would have to be existing in my fingernail. I have a hard enough time remembering to clip them as it is. What really bothers me though, are those who can only see two choices: black and white, right and wrong, damned and blessed. There are always more than two choices. There are not just poor choices and good choices. There are selfish choices, there are selfless choices, there is the choice to do nothing, to do everything, to just say, "Fuck This, I know what to do other than this." For example: Abortion. So far it seems that the only choices are Pro-Life and Pro-Choice. What about the other options? Yes, there is abstinence, but you're not thinking Bohemian enough. What about better birth control? How about realizing not everyone can be happy at the same time without sacrificing complete and utter joy for everyone forever and ever? This shall be continued later.

The Geneva Convention

http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/91.htm

The Monday Savior

Every once in a while I feel the need to find other people like me. Which is hard and nigh impossible. However, here are a few links for humour and companionship:

http://www.questionablecontent.net/
and
http://www.asofterworld.com/

Its a good dose of indie.

Benny Anderson

There are not many who are great in two languages, even less who are understood in two. A Danish humorist poet, born in 1923, Benny Anderson is someone to read.

IMMIGRANT INTO MY HEART

I met you as a stranger
but discovered that you knew me better than I did

You took me on a voyage into myself
you knew short cuts
to overlooked views
and underlooked coral reefs
What on my map said
DEAD END
turned out to be ways to the mind´s largest
and most loving airport

You took measurements of my daily horizon
and while I sat as on pins and needles
you saw your chance
to pull the pins and needles out
and use them in your pattern
you cut and pieced out
and expanded my old ready-made horizon
by several thousand kilometres
so it wasn´t too tight around life

Not until late into the night
you nodded satisfied:
"At first it will feel
a trifle loose around the past
but it is designed to grow in
and it suits you really well!"

My life´s redoubler
immigrant into my heart
with little too wide
slightly floppy horizons
I embrace you
on this intimate night of Spring.

Find more of Mr. Anderson's poetry and short stories here.

More, kind of, about the new bill.

Will yesterday was the new bill, today its Congressman Foley. Old Foley has been thrown in the mix as a red herring. As if no one would notice that Bush is still trying to make himself king of the world. His bill is still pending and will still allow him to interpret the Geneva conventions and suspend writ of habeas corpus for all foriegners. Yeah.

Also NSA is still monitering all domestic calls. Here is a link for you.

Thank you and good night.

WTF?

Bush wants to pass a bill that prevents him from being accused and tried for war crimes??!!? Wait, that's not suspicious at all, it seems perfectly reasonable to rush a vote on a bill that seems so non sequitur it could be a joke. This bill is the equilivant note from the parents that says little Dubba can't play dodgeball. Who knows why Bush is afraid of the possiblity, he says he has done nothing wrong.

The Laws of War should really be reviewed and revised. They do not mention "police actions." Police Actions are military action without declaring war. So far America can get by with the claim of "police action" like the current "police action" in Iraq and Vietnam. In consideration, I am surprised Bush hasn't pointed that out and when I say Bush I mean presidential lackeys and lawyers. Its a technicality, but his reaction shows he knows he's messed up and is unwilling to try to make things right.

I am thinking that the presidential seat is becoming more of a scapegoat position than a leadership position. Maybe the only reason its worked so far, is because of the Revolutionary War and wanting to prove to the world America is mature enough to hold its own. Its like a college student moving out of the parent's house then realizing just how dependent they were. Adolescent was a huge rebellion, fighting for the right to party. Now they are calling the parents for money, support and advice. And by parents I mean the United Kingdom, everything else doesn't need to be replaced.