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docwebster(PLEASE read all the way through to the end and let pissed off feelings cool before you react to this if such is your reaction. This is just me scratching a major league itch of the soul and should not be construed as anything but, nor should it be construed as an attack on any one person. In short, I'm venting.)
An otherwise dear friend of mine said the other night he was tired of being demonized because he believed in fiscal responsibility and national security.
You want to know what I'M tired of being demonized for?
I'm sick and fucking tired of being demonized because I care about people first, and orally servicing big business ranks as a priority somewhere below reorganizng my non-existent Wayne Newton collection and collecting snail droppings.
I'm sick and fucking tired of being demonized because I too believe in national security, I just don't believe that means kicking the shit out of small brown countries so the Resident of the White House can save face for not catching Bin Laden. For God's sake, people, the man made (and continues to make)us look like Tom chasing Jerry. So to show them turrists we mean bidness, we went and staged an invasion that would have made the Wehrmacht envious for it's speed on a country that couldn't put up a decent fight against a Girl Scout troop.
I am sick and fucking tired of an administration so filled to the brim with arrogance and drunk with power that it ashcans a couple's life and an entire branch of an intelligence network solely to punish a man for speaking the truth about what he saw (or, rather, didn't see) just to slap him around and show him his place.
Now.. just to show I'm not entirely one-sided in this, let me assail a group that is currently displaying the subtle social dynamic of a nursey school recess. To wit, the current field of Democratic presidential hopefuls. In brief, the strategy seems to be - attack, attack, attack. Of course, this is followed swiftly by mudsling, mudsling, mudsling. Frankly, both major parties are guilty as proverbial sin of this and I, for one, am sick and fucking tired of it.
People, wake up. For the love of all that's holy, wake up. I love America. Too many good people have given too much on far too cosmic a scale to recount here. I reiterate: I love America. But what the "United" States are devolving into is something very frightening. People, we just flat cannot go around the world beating hell out of anybody that looks like they might someday be a threat possibly kind of maybe. We can't afford it, and dammit to hell we need to recapture some of that wonderful outpouring of goodwill and charity that existed after a certain event of a couple years back.
HAVING SAID ALL OF THAT.. I urge you - even if and maybe ESPECIALLY if what I've said pisses you off - to do something about this country we live in. In short, that means getting off your asses and voting. Vote for whothehellever or whatthehellever you believe in, come election day. If you believe in everything I've railed against, then speak out with your vote! If you believe as I do, then dangle that there chad!
But DO NOT sit there like a lump and not take part in something so very basic, so very vital, so very necessary.
I, for one, will NOT sit on my well-cushioned ass while (in my mind, at least) one of the most crucial and influential times in my country's history is unfolding around me. The things I've mentioned above DO piss me off no end, so I will use the single most powerful weapon an American citizen possesses - a vote.
Thanks for listening, and I love you all. Even you !_)@**& conservatives. ;)
An otherwise dear friend of mine said the other night he was tired of being demonized because he believed in fiscal responsibility and national security.
You want to know what I'M tired of being demonized for?
I'm sick and fucking tired of being demonized because I care about people first, and orally servicing big business ranks as a priority somewhere below reorganizng my non-existent Wayne Newton collection and collecting snail droppings.
I'm sick and fucking tired of being demonized because I too believe in national security, I just don't believe that means kicking the shit out of small brown countries so the Resident of the White House can save face for not catching Bin Laden. For God's sake, people, the man made (and continues to make)us look like Tom chasing Jerry. So to show them turrists we mean bidness, we went and staged an invasion that would have made the Wehrmacht envious for it's speed on a country that couldn't put up a decent fight against a Girl Scout troop.
I am sick and fucking tired of an administration so filled to the brim with arrogance and drunk with power that it ashcans a couple's life and an entire branch of an intelligence network solely to punish a man for speaking the truth about what he saw (or, rather, didn't see) just to slap him around and show him his place.
Now.. just to show I'm not entirely one-sided in this, let me assail a group that is currently displaying the subtle social dynamic of a nursey school recess. To wit, the current field of Democratic presidential hopefuls. In brief, the strategy seems to be - attack, attack, attack. Of course, this is followed swiftly by mudsling, mudsling, mudsling. Frankly, both major parties are guilty as proverbial sin of this and I, for one, am sick and fucking tired of it.
People, wake up. For the love of all that's holy, wake up. I love America. Too many good people have given too much on far too cosmic a scale to recount here. I reiterate: I love America. But what the "United" States are devolving into is something very frightening. People, we just flat cannot go around the world beating hell out of anybody that looks like they might someday be a threat possibly kind of maybe. We can't afford it, and dammit to hell we need to recapture some of that wonderful outpouring of goodwill and charity that existed after a certain event of a couple years back.
HAVING SAID ALL OF THAT.. I urge you - even if and maybe ESPECIALLY if what I've said pisses you off - to do something about this country we live in. In short, that means getting off your asses and voting. Vote for whothehellever or whatthehellever you believe in, come election day. If you believe in everything I've railed against, then speak out with your vote! If you believe as I do, then dangle that there chad!
But DO NOT sit there like a lump and not take part in something so very basic, so very vital, so very necessary.
I, for one, will NOT sit on my well-cushioned ass while (in my mind, at least) one of the most crucial and influential times in my country's history is unfolding around me. The things I've mentioned above DO piss me off no end, so I will use the single most powerful weapon an American citizen possesses - a vote.
Thanks for listening, and I love you all. Even you !_)@**& conservatives. ;)
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Date: 2003-10-11 08:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-11 08:14 am (UTC)if only there were more Americans like you. Even more to the point, if only there were more Americans like you who were credible candidates for President.
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Date: 2003-10-11 08:37 am (UTC)I'm frankly rather tired of any demonization in public discourse. I see no reason why even vehement disagreement needs to be accompanied by vituperation or vulgarity. I've always said that disagreeing with me on the proper role of government in society doesn't make you a bad person.
It just makes you wrong. :-)
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Date: 2003-10-11 09:04 am (UTC)--- AND I VOTE! (I'm going to start ending every sentence with that. And I Vote!)
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Date: 2003-10-11 01:27 pm (UTC)Ah, I should be so lucky. *grin* But thanks muchly. :)
It's just that I cannot abide people who piss and moan about the problems of our country and won't get off their ass to do something about it.
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Date: 2003-10-11 10:24 am (UTC)And people will always be more important than regimes or NGOs in my mind.
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Date: 2003-10-11 12:01 pm (UTC)You should use your most powerful tool
Date: 2003-10-11 12:29 pm (UTC)Re: You should use your most powerful tool
Date: 2003-10-11 12:39 pm (UTC)Re: You should use your most powerful tool
Date: 2003-10-11 04:38 pm (UTC)At the end of your show during an election time tell people:
How to register to vote.
Where to go to vote.
I use to register to vote with my license. We don't do that anymore. I keep moving and apparently where you live affects where you go to vote and whether you can vote on certain things.
And of course - I never know where to go vote. Recently I had a friend show me.
But not many people have her for a friend.
Encourage Vote Parties. Get together - get pizza - go vote - go drink.
Have people meet you in a particular bar to posse up and go vote. Call it a Vote Crawl as opposed to a pub crawl. Or combined the 2.
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Date: 2003-10-11 12:39 pm (UTC)gooooo Doc!!
*loves*
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Date: 2003-10-12 01:04 pm (UTC)And, yes dear, I do vote :)
Wayne Newton????
*shudder*
;)
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Date: 2003-10-13 09:02 am (UTC)I agree 100%! I like that old idea from the '80's of "Bring a Friend" to the voting booth.
Let's just hope that the current Cartel doesn't get it's electronic, secure as a shredded condom, voting booths in place before next year or we're ALL fucked.