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Wishes 2005:
By Willie Gaffer / William E. Steinman:
January 3, 2005:

Time out for my wish list.
If wishes were dishes, I'd be a china shop.

I would like to talk about what I wish for my world and the folks in it. That's all of you. The good, the not so good, and the down right mean. I have hopes and wishes for everyone. Some of these wishes have not changed over the years. Some are new.

First and most important, I wish for a real cure for AIDS.
I don't want a therapy or a drug cocktail which will prolong life by mitigating the damage. Those are good, in that they are better than nothing, but they are not good enough. I want a complete and final cure. This cure should include a simple preventative tool or method. I believe in science. Scientists did it for Polio, they did it for Smallpox and I know they can do it for AIDS. It's a matter of investing the resources.

I wish Kmart would go belly up.

I wish our government would start to punish corporate crime instead of colluding with it.

I wish all of those who want to outlaw the word Christmas would get a life.

I wish all of the people who want to force our school children to pray would have to live in Saudi Arabia.

I wish our scientific community would give their attention to the real needs of humanity.
It really makes me angry to see scientific research funds being wasted to grow hair on bald, vain, stupid men. I'm totally bald and its really okay. It's okay with Mrs. Gaffer and all of my friends. It jerks me off to see funds being dibbled away to give emotionally and intellectually dysfunctional men an artificial sexual function. Is that really what life is about? Quit being dishonest and your hardware will probably start to work naturally. I also wearies me to see funds being spent on methods for making more babies when we already have millions of hungry unwanted children in this world. I get particularly angry to see physicians helping rickety egomaniacal old broads have babies that they will not be able to care for. We don't have research dollars to waste. It is not only the AIDS epidemic which is left wanting. There is enormous research work to be done in, Alzheimer's, Cancer, Heart Disease, Stroke prevention and recovery, and countless other areas of real human suffering.

I wish Bill Gates would fix all of the dysfunctional software he has foisted off on us before he tries to market any more new software.

I wish George would not smile. It really frightens me.

I wish Linux would evolve into a viable operating system. I think Corel and Adobe can do it and I think they have an obligation to do it. I think their management simply lacks the courage and integrity.

I wish Jessie Jackson would become religious.

I wish all of the officers of Kmart, Enron, and Merck were in prison.

I wish our government would stop betraying us.

I wish George would stop to think before he starts another war.

I wish Americans could be persuaded to stop using drugs.
I know it's dumb, but spending billions of dollars and numerous American lives trying to stop drug trafficking is even dumber. As long as Americans want drugs there will be drug traffic. It cannot be stopped. There are not enough people or money to stop it. There never will be. I would much rather see that effort going into realistic treatment and educational programs. "Just say no!" is not enough. That's not a program, it's a copout. Our government is still failing in this area.

I wish the HMO industry would get so honest that our government would not want to bother regulating it.

I wish Osama Bin Laden was dead!

I wish everyone in the world had enough to eat.
I wish that no one would ever go te bed hungry, or cold, or frightened again. The thing that is sickening about this is that there is enough food. There really is no shortage. There is an enormous shortage of human decency. There are locally powerful, evil people with territorial and power goals who are in the way of feeding and caring for millions of desperate people.

I wish the book publishing industry would revert to what is was 50 years ago when literary merit was their focus rather than marketing.

I wish Michigan had a democrat in the governor's office.

It is said that the times produce the man. I wish Russia would produce a man or woman of the times to lead them out of chaos and into a viable democracy.

I wish the same for China.
I wouldn't even care if they had dumbocracies like ours.

I wish the United States Government would commit for the long haul by putting a military governor in Afghanistan and keeping him there until those people can create a viable democracy.
A coalition of bandit chiefs is not a good solution. When we put something like that in place and go away, we have failed. Once again that country has become a breeding ground and hiding place for terrorists.

I wish all of the worlds religions would stop pretending that they have a complete explanation and complete understanding of the divine mystery.
I wish they would stop teaching bigotry, fear, and mistrust.

I wish all kids were nurtured by their parents, to the point that they could not even conceive of committing murder. Parents must come to realize that nurturing is not something you can buy at Toys ‘R' Us.

I wish that everyone who wanted one could have a garden.

I wish people who hate to cook would stay out of the kitchen.

I wish the major corporations of the world would stop polluting our water and soil.

I wish for a human colony on the moon and another one on Mars.
I also wish for a better way of getting people into space rather the having them sit on the ends of huge bombs and blowing them off.

I wish I had or could get enough investment capital to develop a portable fusion reactor. I'm sure it is possible. It just needs the effort.

I wish everyone in the world had one good friend they could count on.
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