GEEZER DROPPINGS

It’s a bit snowy and chilly today so I thought I’d just sit here and ramble for a while.
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This is the fourth day since my cataract surgery, so I’m still feeling my way along life’s path. I had the left eye done Thursday, and the right will be done on Feb. 6 — in the meantime my glasses are as useless as breasts on a firetruck.

The vision in my left eye is really coming along nicely. It should be healed and ready to go in another week or so. It’s already much better than the pre-op vision.

By the way, if any of you kiddies ever have to have such surgery, don’t sweat it. Despite the fact that they were inside my eye chopping the old out and sticking the new in, it was totally painless. I’ve had more discomfort while getting a haircut.
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I’m upset by the announcement that we are selling 84 of our fancy jet fighter planes to Saudi Arabia. We will also give (SELL) them helicopters, missles, bombs, delivery systems, radar, and night-vision goggles–and they will pay us 60 billion dollars for all those deadly toys. Who gets all that money? Does any of it come to you?
It makes me nervous when we sell boom-booms to Muslim nations. Too often they come back to bite us on the ass. Most of the arms that bin Laden used against us were made in the USA, back when we considered him one of the good guys. Even if the friendly purchasers don’t use the armament against us directly they seem to like selling the stuff to people who are inclined to look upon us with disfavor when we invade their country and kill their men, women and children — and then pee on the bodies.
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Have you ever taken a close look at bird’s eyes? They are proof that they are the direct descendants of dinosaurs. Look into the eyes of an eagle, owl or hawk and you see something that would like to gobble off all your most tender appendages.
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I’m always anxious to excuse some of the silly things we do, and to believe that we are still the greatest country on Earth. Then I see the TV ratings and learn that most Americans get their news and analysis from Fox News! FOX NEWS! No wonder most of the rest of the world thinks we should be kept in a cage.
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When I wrote of Christopher Hitchen’s great quotes I forgot to include one of my favorites: “If Jerry Falwell had been given an enema at his death he could have been buried in a matchbox.”
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I read this morning that four more of our soldiers were killed over there. It was reported that “Our brave boys gave their lives…” Bullshit. None of those kids wanted to give their life for that foolishness..Those young lives were TAKEN not given.
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Don’t forget your coat.