A Drop Of The Hard Stuff...

Break of Day in the Trenches

2011-11-11T16:50:00.000-08:00

The darkness crumbles away.
It is the same old druid Time as ever,
Only a live thing leaps my hand,
A queer sardonic rat
As I pull the parapet's poppy
To stick behind my ear.
Droll rat, they would shoot you if they knew
Your cosmopolitan sympathies.
Now you have touched this English hand
You will do the same to a German
Soon, no doubt, if it be your pleasure
To cross the sleeping green between.
It seems you inwardly grin as you pass
Strong eyes, fine limbs, haughty athletes,
Less chanced than you for life,
Bonds to the whims of murder,
Sprawled in the bowels of the earth,
The torn fields of France.
What do you see in our eyes
At the shrieking iron and flame
Hurled through still heavens?
What quaver -- what heart aghast?
Poppies whose roots are in man's veins
Drop, and are ever dropping;
But mine in my ear is safe --
Just a little white with the dust.

June 1916
Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)

Choice of Words.

2011-07-31T22:52:00.000-07:00

I'll post re: the use of the phrase "Rhetorical Gang-Rape" in 2 - 3 weeks. It's crunch/exam time at present & I'm lip-deep in getting everything nailed down & handed in. Thanks in advance for your patience and good faith.

All the Best,
Smartpatrol.

Your Tax Dollars At Work, America.

2010-11-27T17:35:00.000-08:00

So It Begins.

2010-11-11T23:59:00.000-08:00

Remembrance Day.

I'm starting this blog on Remembrance Day because a) its an easy anniversary to remember, b) because the state of things on spaceship Earth is making me "mad as hell & I'm not going to take it anymore" & c) exercising our freedoms & responsibilities that go hand in hand with each other is the best way to show respect for those who fought to protect, preserve & expand said freedoms.

I've never fought in a war. I hope I never will. The way things are going I wonder if its something that can be avoided. Currently my country is mired in a conflict on the other side of the planet, a conflict that was founded on a pack of lies. At least 152 Canadians & tens of thousands of Afghans dead who don't have to be. Our Gutless Wonder of a Prime Minister can't get us out of this mess while his underlings run around playing dress-up in Canadian Armed Forces uniforms - work clothes of the same people they're working to screw over when they think no one's looking. Blasting any criticism of their chickenshit behavior as "attacking the troops" & then sacking the same guy they hired to look out for them because the man was doing his freaking job.

I can't say much on the subject that's already been said by others, so I'll let the Pouges say it for me.