there's a very narrow class of ideological pacifists that can balance this, and i may not always agree with them, but i think it is imperative that they exist. medea benjamin enrages me more often than not, but i strongly support her right to express herself, and think it's imperative that her and others like her continue doing what they are doing, even when they are clearly overwhelmingly wrong and when action is necessary and just. but you have to hold to your pacifism. you have to be rigid. you have to be honest.

...and this point should be made to phony leftists in the west who clam to stand for perpetual revolution, or against colonialism, or for whatever angle they articulate when challenged: you might support the kurds, and avoid being hypocrites. you don't. you stand with regimes that represent, practice and enforce everything you falsely claim to oppose. you make me fucking sick.

i clarified in an earlier post that i'm not in favout of carpet-bombing iran or reducing it to rubble so much as i'm in support for providing air cover for radical left groups on the ground, which i realize is unlikely, unless we help the kurds carve out a bigger area. i would support air support for the kurds, to help them control a larger amount of iran. and i think that might actually destabilize the regime enough to take it down.

i would not imagine that american bombs are going to help.

however, i think that if you let the jews operate freely, as they have been, the result will be beneficial to every actor that i'm in solidarity with, at the expense of those i oppose. i consequently would not support direct american intervention, except with the kurds, or in careful alignment with jewish strategic aims.

the problem is that the americans don't like watching. it makes them look bad in front of the russians. 

my tuesday meal was the red potato bacon-sour cream-dill-gravy-cheese thing.

my wednesday meal was plate two of nachos for this cycle, but without the salsa and in two stages. first stage was the regular nachos recipe, without bacon and without salsa. the doritos were also substituted with the the spicy garlic flavour to try it, and i found it underwhelming. this was consequently pretty basic nachos:

- doritos

- hemp seeds

- nutritional yeast

- cheese

microwave, then add ceasar, hot sauce. that's it.

my bacon was saved for later in the night, and consumed with the remaining gravy from the poutine in something that was similar to french onion soup. remember that the "gravy" is actually beef soup broth. i took my two slices (usually used with nachos) and put it in a bowl with the gravy, dill, nutritional yeast, frank's, hemp seed, the rest of the monterrey jack and the rest of the onion bread. this was a good little bowl of soup for very early on wednesday morning.

the thursday meal was a reprise of the previous salsa meal, doubled up as before, to compensate for the remaining two missed salsas, and with the remaining mising glass of juice.

the friday meal began the next cycle with a ceasar salad without substantive subs (white bread for brown bread. that's it.).

and saturday is repeating the poutine.

there are still 2 pasta meals from the previous cycle before i can move to the next cycle and i still need to make some broccoli soup. i will get a third poutine out of this bag of potatoes but not a fourth.