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Wishes 2006, 021:
By Willie Gaffer:
January 2, 2006:
If wishes were dishes, I'd be a china shop.
Last week I reconfirmed my own resolutions for the coming year.
They are my personal plans and wishes for maintaining my own self
respect, an interest in life, and a sense of humor about it all.
That was for me. This week 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 are the same as last year. Some are
new. I also removed some of last year wishes and created addendums
to others.
I wish we could get all of our kids home and safe this year.
I know they are great warriors, but they are our kids too, and
I want them home. If we must go to war, we should send old bastards
like me, Bush, Cheney, and the senior Bush. If we got killed,
so what? It‘s no great loss. We will die soon anyhow.
I still 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 we could get smart enough to elect a real honest president and congress who would honestly take the real needs of the American people to heart and act accordingly instead of acting in their own short term self interest.
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 Linux would evolve into a viable operating system.
I wrote about this before. 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 America would again produce the kind of corporate leadership that one made us the leaders in technology and industry. It's been a long time.
I wish Jessie Jackson would become religious.
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 Mexico would become such a good productive country that there would be no reason for their people to become illegal aliens in America.
I wish someone in America would create machinery that would do for our farmers and growers what the wetbacks now do.
I wish the HMO industry would get so honest that our government would not want to bother regulating it.
I wish everyone would finally realize they are not separate. There is only one.
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 arms makers of the world would stop supplying Croatia,
Ireland, and the Middle East.
Let them fight with sticks and stones if they wish.
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 hope the mess we made in Iraq gets cleared up in favor of the Iraqis.
I wish George would stop trying to substitute the very visible Saddam Hussein for Bin Laden and just admit that he bungled the Afghanistan situation.
I wish that someone would bring Mohamed Bin Laden and all of his officers to the final bar.
I wish all of the worlds religions would stop pretending that
they have a complete explanation and complete understanding of
the mystery of our being.
I wish they would stop teaching bigotry, fear, and mistrust.
I wish all kids would be nurtured by their parents, to the
point that they could not even conceive of committing murder.
I also wish people would stop muddying the water with ill conceived
easy solutions. The issue is not guns. Focusing on the guns is
stupid and wasteful of energy. The tools of choice are irrelevant.
This issue is criminal pathology in children. It's the cause of
that which we need to address. We need to investigate the problem,
find what causes it, and act to prevent it's occurrence. When
we do that, we will find that the cause is lack or positive nurturing.
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 everyone in the world had one good friend they could count on.
I wish the government would put Ken Lay in prison even though he has friends in the administration.
I wish I could get a big time publisher interested in manufacturing and marketing my five book philosophy series.
I hope Iraq turns out well even if it makes King George look good.
Finally, peace on earth, good will to and from all people.
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