Cinnamon Rolls

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Pop bought another batch of those heavenly cinnamon rolls. Monk is able to hold off on that frosted goodness and stick to his plan for having pancakes and sausages for breakfast. The cinnamon rolls make a great afternoon snack!

Little victories count and add up, too.

How about skipping the afternoon snack?

We are not looking for a revolution.

xXx

Cinnamon Rolls

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Pop bought another batch of those heavenly cinnamon rolls. Monk is able to hold off on that frosted goodness and stick to his plan for having pancakes and sausages for breakfast. The cinnamon rolls make a great afternoon snack!

Little victories count and add up, too.

How about skipping the afternoon snack?

We are not looking for a revolution.

xXx

Stuck in the Suck

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“James A. Baker III, the renowned foreign policy realist, looked realism in the eye -- and blinked. The Iraq report he co-authored with Lee Hamilton recommended many things, but shied from the most realistic one of all: Get the hell out as soon as possible.”

-- Richard Cohen for The Washington Post

All the discussion that we can get suggests that just bugging out is not a possibility. I have to respect that there is a certain morality in that: having broke Iraq, we must restore it - notwithstanding how Iraq was not all that fine before. It's just that short of a few hundred thousand troops and ruling with a colonization-like iron fist, I do not see how Iraq can be restored, and Americans continue to bleed and die in that Mesopotamian mayhem.

I now wonder what the politics of this bloody mess will look like when the 2008 elections come around. Maybe the Administration will get affairs in Iraq on track by then with these half-measures, but if they do not, will we have more policy commissions drawing up yet another new way forward - a new slogan? Considering what popular opinion was like on the Iraq war in the 2006 elections, one could fear revolution on the streets, unless a presidential candidate made a sure promise of pulling out the troops immediately upon election. Or might the public be inured to slogging through the Iraq quagmire?

Mr. Bush, you have two years to make something work, or at least to look like it is working. Godspeed! It must help to be a man of faith, for we have some mountains to move.

xXx

Stuck in the Suck

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“James A. Baker III, the renowned foreign policy realist, looked realism in the eye -- and blinked. The Iraq report he co-authored with Lee Hamilton recommended many things, but shied from the most realistic one of all: Get the hell out as soon as possible.”

-- Richard Cohen for The Washington Post

All the discussion that we can get suggests that just bugging out is not a possibility. I have to respect that there is a certain morality in that: having broke Iraq, we must restore it - notwithstanding how Iraq was not all that fine before. It's just that short of a few hundred thousand troops and ruling with a colonization-like iron fist, I do not see how Iraq can be restored, and Americans continue to bleed and die in that Mesopotamian mayhem.

I now wonder what the politics of this bloody mess will look like when the 2008 elections come around. Maybe the Administration will get affairs in Iraq on track by then with these half-measures, but if they do not, will we have more policy commissions drawing up yet another new way forward - a new slogan? Considering what popular opinion was like on the Iraq war in the 2006 elections, one could fear revolution on the streets, unless a presidential candidate made a sure promise of pulling out the troops immediately upon election. Or might the public be inured to slogging through the Iraq quagmire?

Mr. Bush, you have two years to make something work, or at least to look like it is working. Godspeed! It must help to be a man of faith, for we have some mountains to move.

xXx

The Sun and the Leaves

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Pop had an appointment this morning. It is a beautiful, cool, sunny morning, and Monk would have liked to take his walk, even without bread. He thought about pushing everything off a day, but his hair is writhing in its grease a little bit, so he decided to take a shower anyway, and go ahead and make it a full-scrub shower as it has been a long time since he did that.

He cut his morning reading a little short for this full-scrub shower, but he wound up masturbating to some old rape fiction. Afterward, he went to the kitchen and polished off the last few powerded donuts, intending to take Bo outside before his shower, and he started thinking that it has been a long time since he took Bo out back. Enough leaves have collected back there that it is discomforting to Bo.

Thinking about what a nice sunny afternoon it is, Monk found some ambition. He is going to get his little exercise, after all. After lunch, he will mow the back to pick up the bulk of those leaves, even though there is still another load to fall. He also wants to knock that bird's nest down from the porch, before he keeps putting it off and finds a new round of birds trying to make a home out of it.

This will knock aside the afternoon reading, but it is a good plan. And then he will have worked up more of an appetite for those cinnamon rolls. Now, if Monk can only stick to it. The weather and the stars are right.

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[1330]

Come on, you can do it! Be a man, be a man!

Monk straggles out of his sweats to change to his work jeans, "But I ain't. I just want to sleep and read."

xXx

The Sun and the Leaves

♠
Pop had an appointment this morning. It is a beautiful, cool, sunny morning, and Monk would have liked to take his walk, even without bread. He thought about pushing everything off a day, but his hair is writhing in its grease a little bit, so he decided to take a shower anyway, and go ahead and make it a full-scrub shower as it has been a long time since he did that.

He cut his morning reading a little short for this full-scrub shower, but he wound up masturbating to some old rape fiction. Afterward, he went to the kitchen and polished off the last few powerded donuts, intending to take Bo outside before his shower, and he started thinking that it has been a long time since he took Bo out back. Enough leaves have collected back there that it is discomforting to Bo.

Thinking about what a nice sunny afternoon it is, Monk found some ambition. He is going to get his little exercise, after all. After lunch, he will mow the back to pick up the bulk of those leaves, even though there is still another load to fall. He also wants to knock that bird's nest down from the porch, before he keeps putting it off and finds a new round of birds trying to make a home out of it.

This will knock aside the afternoon reading, but it is a good plan. And then he will have worked up more of an appetite for those cinnamon rolls. Now, if Monk can only stick to it. The weather and the stars are right.

___ ___ ___

[1330]

Come on, you can do it! Be a man, be a man!

Monk straggles out of his sweats to change to his work jeans, "But I ain't. I just want to sleep and read."

xXx