More stuff. Kinda random.

[agilebrit]

Okay, I went to the other chiropractor yesterday, and he disapproves of the six-month plan thing that the other one wanted to do. He said that that's a form of "practice management," where you get people to commit to this big long thing and get the money up front, and it's basically a money-making thing. Which is what the Hubby figured. So, I called the first one back and cancelled all the future stuff with the receptionist. Then I got a call back from the doctor later. He was disappointed and said stuff about fixing the "underlying problem"...which I don't ever recall him telling me what that actually is. Heh.

I had slightly more movement last night before I went to bed. This is a good thing. Once I get my "normal" range back, we'll invest in getting my leg tendons lengthened and strengthened. I have another appointment to get my back cracked tomorrow. Today, ibuprofen and ice.

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Da Boy...has been an odd combination of a joy and a trial lately. Having me flat on my back and snappish from pain probably hasn't helped. He was really whiny yesterday, very annoying. I was ready to send him to his room for the rest of the damb day if he kept it up. You know, I never wanted to be one of those parents that parks their kids in front of the television, but if it wasn't for Thomas the Tank Engine and Bob the Builder, I think my sanity would have been gone by now.

That being said, he's done a couple of things in the last few days that have made me laugh. The other night, I was discussing with the Hubby what to make him for dinner. "O-A-T-M-E-A-L?" I asked. And then Da Boy said "Does that spell 'oatmeal'?" Hee! This is a kid, BTW, who has evinced negative (as in, he's actually opposed to it) interest in actually learning to read.

Yesterday, at the chiro's office, they had some wooden blocks for kids to play with while their parents get seen to. He set them up and then informed me that he hoped that "Hezbollah rockets wouldn't hit the houses." Which made me go o.O We don't watch much TV news, but I guess it's possible we've been listening to too much talk radio. The Hubby said that he had a rant about that awhile back that Da Boy seemed impressed by; maybe that was it.

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The radio that we've been waiting on for the airplane actually arrived when the Hubby was there, so that's a good. However, when he went to fly the plane, it wouldn't run up to power. Apparently it needed a new cable for the fuel mixture control, which should have arrived this morning. The weather doesn't look too good for his trip home; he may be stuck there an extra couple of days. *sigh* I wish I was there.

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Writing? What is this writing of which you speak? I signed up for the new round of the cya_ficathon; hopefully I'll be able to get something out of it. My prompt for friend_fic hasn't shaken anything loose yet. The ScruffDogFic still sucks.

Bah.

Comments

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Glad the back is a little improved - and I do hope the second chiropractor can help.

I think Bob the Builder and Thomas the Tank Engine are wonderful babysitters for short term use! Do they dub them with American voices for the USA or leave the originals?

It isn't Hezbollah rockets your son wants to worry about - it's the Israelis who knock buildings down en masse!

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

They dub them, I'm pretty sure. Funnily enough, the trains with Scottish engines get to keep their accents.

And if the Hezbos didn't put their rocket launchers in buildings, the Israelis wouldn't have to knock them down. The Hezbos started it by randomly firing rockets into a city and targeting civilians. I'm not sure that I blame Israel for attempting to finish it by targeting the actual rocket launchers.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to disagree, but Israel has acted outside international law by attacking another sovereign state without declaring war, when that other country has not attacked Israel. If having terrorists on your soil was an acceptable reason to attempt to wipe another country out in that way, the UK would have nuked New York in the 1970s with no sense of guilt - but civilised countries do not behave in that way.

The Bible states that you may take One eye for one eye, One tooth for one tooth, One life for one life. No where does it say that you may take ten of your neighbours lives for one of yours that they did not take anyway.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

So...what exactly should they have done, then? Waited for a UN resolution condeming the rocket launches? THAT would have been real effective, and we'd still be waiting, because the UN doesn't give a crap about Israel and is, in most cases, actively hostile.

Dropping a nuke would have been an overreaction. The terrorists hide behind civilians because "civilized countries won't hit back if we're hiding behind innocents like the cowards we are." I'm sorry, that doesn't fly anymore. And maybe I'm cold-blooded about it, but I'm getting sick and tired of terrorists who target civilians and send their own children to pizza parlors with bombs strapped to them taking the moral high ground when a few of their innocents die because they got caught in the crossfire. I don't think that terrorists who target civilians get to get all indignant when the people they're hiding behind get hurt. This probably means that I'm not an especially good Christian, but I'm to the point where I can live with that.

We're probably going to have to agree to disagree on this one. :)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

As Israel is the country with the most UN resolutions against it that it has failed to comply with, I would expect that any similar resolution against any of its neighbours might be met with 'after you'. However the UN normally deals with states and governments - and Hezzbollah is neither, therefore a UN resolution woud have been inapproptiate.

Dropping a nuke would have been an overreaction.

Well yes - but justified by your reckoning, as New York sheltered and funded terrorists who were lobbing bombs into crowds of civilians, houses, hotels etc, in Britain at the time. If you condone illegal over-reaction by Israel you should be grateful that the UK government at the time believed in sticking to the law.

Of course the murder of civilians by Hezbollah was not acceptable - but it was the act of an organisation who were freedom fighters when their country was illegally occupied by Israel, and would have become less and less influential the longer Israel stayed out of Lebanon.

Killing ten times as many Lebanese/Canadian/Italian citizens for every one killed by Hezbollah is not acceptable - it is collective punishment, in the same way that the constant bulldozing of houses (sometimes with people still in them) in Gaza is collective punishment. It is not the act of a civilised government but is no better than terrorism itself. If this behaviour was being carried out by any other country in the middle east your government would either have attacked them, or slapped sanctions on them - it is really no wonder that most of the people of the area (funnily enough, with the main exception of the Lebanon until a few weeks ago) consider the US to be biased against them.

We will just have to agree to disagree - I will continue to support, via my Church, the work of charities within Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Israel - you will continue to support your government and the export of arms to Israel. The strange thing is that we will doubtless remain friends despite this (As I have with beckyzoole) - which just goes to show how much more civilised we are here on LJ compared to governments! ;~)

Pity they dub the older Thomas's - the narration was done by Ringo Starr for years. Did you know that the Rev. Aubrey, who wrote the Thomas books, based the island of Sodor, on which the engines live, on the Isle-of-Man - on which I live? They actually made the film version, Thomas and the Magic Railroad, here.

The name of the fictitious island actually comes from the title of our Bishop - who is the Bishop of Sodor and Man - although the Sodor in his title refers to some of the Sudreys, or Southern Scottish Islands - which he doesn't actually have any jurisdiction over anyway! That is a piece of totally useless information you can use to stun people!

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Hee! That's awesome about Thomas. I've seen it narrated by George "Seven Dirty Words" Carlin, which weirded me out plenty, although he doesn't do them all and I think someone else is doing them now.

[crayonbreakygal.livejournal.com]

The scruffdogfic does not suck. I liked it.

Hope that the back thing gets resolved sooner than later. Stupid chiro.