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katekatI'm profoundly grateful that many I know or read or snuggle up to on the computer screen are safely reporting in and safely away. Sad that there has to be a check in process, and that it's possible I can't tell if there are people missing. Part of the problem with the virtual world is that I don't recognize country markers like I used to. But I think you're all safe, and my thoughts are with all involved.
But we did this. By "we" I mean "America", and by "America", I mean "he" and by "he" I mean our dully "elected" President and his cronies... and by "elected" I mean ... that he stole it.
But I digress.
Annoyed - that's what comes next. Probably closer to pissed off, but it's with a hearty helping of guilt on the side. Maybe I should've been working harder to convince people not to vote for the bastard that sits in our White House and calls himself a peacemaker. The man who brings more violence to the world in the name of ideology. The man who practically encourages this kind of crap by screaming "no, we are strong! Just try us" The man that picks new targets for his anger over his breakfast table and force feeds them to the public and who seems to be both controlled by others and in so much control that nothing else escapes him. The conservative machine.
It's such a waste. Such a senseless, stupid, problematic, painful waste. And I don't care what cause it's for, killing is aboslutely not an option. Never should be. Shouldn't have to be.
I'm angry -- mostly at the climate that produced these people who thought they needed to do something as awful as this -- rather than the people themselves. If we lived in a different world... NO... if we changed the godddam world so it was different, if we made living matter, if we made the have-nots matter as much as we value the haves... I believe this kind of evil painful horrible thing wouldn't happen.
I have to believe that, because if I don't, then no change is possible and madmen will always rule us. And that sucks more ass than the knowledge that a madman rules us now.
But we did this. By "we" I mean "America", and by "America", I mean "he" and by "he" I mean our dully "elected" President and his cronies... and by "elected" I mean ... that he stole it.
But I digress.
Annoyed - that's what comes next. Probably closer to pissed off, but it's with a hearty helping of guilt on the side. Maybe I should've been working harder to convince people not to vote for the bastard that sits in our White House and calls himself a peacemaker. The man who brings more violence to the world in the name of ideology. The man who practically encourages this kind of crap by screaming "no, we are strong! Just try us" The man that picks new targets for his anger over his breakfast table and force feeds them to the public and who seems to be both controlled by others and in so much control that nothing else escapes him. The conservative machine.
It's such a waste. Such a senseless, stupid, problematic, painful waste. And I don't care what cause it's for, killing is aboslutely not an option. Never should be. Shouldn't have to be.
I'm angry -- mostly at the climate that produced these people who thought they needed to do something as awful as this -- rather than the people themselves. If we lived in a different world... NO... if we changed the godddam world so it was different, if we made living matter, if we made the have-nots matter as much as we value the haves... I believe this kind of evil painful horrible thing wouldn't happen.
I have to believe that, because if I don't, then no change is possible and madmen will always rule us. And that sucks more ass than the knowledge that a madman rules us now.
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Date: 2005-07-07 07:24 pm (UTC)The malignant half-wit who is currently calling the shots is making quite a show of leading us bravely through chaos that he created.
Fortunately, more and more Americans are (finally) coming out of their inexplicable sleep and smelling the coffee; I have high hopes that these extremely destructive neo-cons will get booted out permanently in 2008.
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Date: 2005-07-07 07:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-07 08:20 pm (UTC)Damn her for retiring! That scares me shitless.
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Date: 2005-07-07 08:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-07 08:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-07 08:34 pm (UTC)And yeah...this country scares me. I mean really...70 some percent of Bush voters voted primarily on RELIGION? WTF? All those preachers saying "A vote for Kerry will send you straight to hell"? OMG. So much for separation of church and state, anyway.
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Date: 2005-07-07 09:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-07 09:37 pm (UTC)Here's the thing I don't quite understand: why does everyone thing O'Connor was on our side? She was a conservative too; hell, she was appointed by Reagan! She has voted from a moderate perspective on a few items, like abortion rights and affirmative action, and I guess compared to Scalia she looks like a bleeding heart. But, honestly, she's no more 'ours' than any of the other justices...and my guess is that if we really reviewed her Supreme Court voting record, we'd find a lot of decisions in there that we don't agree with.
Granted, I'm not looking forward to letting Bush pick one, if not two, new SC justices...I can only imagine that the folks he'll pick will make Scalia look like a tree-hugger.
I'm not trying to hijack your thread here, or to be inflammatory...I just wondered why it seems that liberals consider O'Connor a like-minded individual when she hasn't really ever proven it. Is it just because she's a woman?
If anyone is curious, I found this to be a rather interesting mini-biography of O'Connor's political life (http://www.supremecourthistory.org/myweb/justice/o'connor.htm). And it is little nuggets like this: "Her opinions are conservative and attentive to detail, but also open-minded; they reflect no profound ideology and rarely contain any sweeping rhetoric." It also mentions how she "has endorsed affirmative action for minorities if 'narrowly tailored' to correct a demonstrated wrong, but not otherwise..." and makes it clear that she wouldn't be all that opposed to prayer in schools if the laws that had come in front of the SC had been tailored more towards free expression and not forced expression.
Anyway, I probably should have just posted all this on my own blog...but I had to get this off my chest now! =) Maybe I'll cross post too...
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Date: 2005-07-08 02:04 am (UTC)Also - it seems she was a safe justice as far as Roe-vs-Wade is concerned, so liberals were comfortable with her. Actually I think Bush is going to have a bitch with this process....because his base is not going to stand for anyone who isn't a diehard fundamentalist, and if the Democrats try a fillibuster they are going to be demanding they steamroll over them.
Republicans are on kind of shaky ground at present moment - and their base is Jonestown all the way, so I'm hoping for major backlash in 2006 congressional elections (especially with all the body bags coming home).
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Date: 2005-07-07 07:34 pm (UTC)People don't blow themselves and others up because they hate our freedom; they do it because their own situations are intolerable and/or they're being/about to be attacked by us.
WELL SAID!
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Date: 2005-07-07 08:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-07 08:28 pm (UTC)and I like the word assprick. That's nice.
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Date: 2005-07-07 08:32 pm (UTC)And wow...did I abuse the word "weren't" (as opposed to "wasn't") in the last comment or what?
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Date: 2005-07-07 08:35 pm (UTC)and nope, haven't seen it... too lazy to go rent. I will someday though.
Didya get my icon email? Just checking....
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Date: 2005-07-07 08:37 pm (UTC)