The good times ahead
Bring on the nutjobs.
It's starting to look like we are almost to the point where a Scopes Monkey Trial wouldn't cause a majority of Americans embarrassment. Someone hold me, I'm scared.
Tuesday, November 09, 2004
Monday, November 08, 2004
God Bless Neal Pollack
He wrote this today: "I've got your asexual stealth phrases right here, pig fuckers.
On an unrelated note I am thinking of moving my journal to Live Journal. Maybe I can use both and just cut and paste? What do you think?
He wrote this today: "I've got your asexual stealth phrases right here, pig fuckers.
On an unrelated note I am thinking of moving my journal to Live Journal. Maybe I can use both and just cut and paste? What do you think?
Friday, November 05, 2004
Seymour Hersh is my new hero
From an article in the San Francisco Chronicle: "Ask him why the Abu Ghraib scandal is important, and you'll get an earful. "Why are you asking me that question? Are you trying to torture me? Is that a torture question? If you can't answer that question, I'm not going to answer it." He's picking up speed. "Why is it important? It's important because -- let me tell you why it's important, in a nutshell! It's important because it's a symptom of a lack of care by the people at the top," he said.
"The president and (Vice President Dick) Cheney and (Defense Secretary Donald) Rumsfeld dehumanized the opposition from the beginning -- out of fear, out of anger, out of want of payback."
A disastrous consequence of that dehumanization, Hersh says, was a tacit agreement to overlook the Geneva Conventions.
"You don't mistreat people for the simple reason that you don't want to ever treat a soldier any different than you want your soldiers treated.
"People say Abu Ghraib was just horseplay, what am I worried about? But it's a symptom. When we learn about Guantanamo, we're going to be shamed. It's as bad as Andersonville," he said, citing the notorious Civil War prison where soldiers were starved."
From an article in the San Francisco Chronicle: "Ask him why the Abu Ghraib scandal is important, and you'll get an earful. "Why are you asking me that question? Are you trying to torture me? Is that a torture question? If you can't answer that question, I'm not going to answer it." He's picking up speed. "Why is it important? It's important because -- let me tell you why it's important, in a nutshell! It's important because it's a symptom of a lack of care by the people at the top," he said.
"The president and (Vice President Dick) Cheney and (Defense Secretary Donald) Rumsfeld dehumanized the opposition from the beginning -- out of fear, out of anger, out of want of payback."
A disastrous consequence of that dehumanization, Hersh says, was a tacit agreement to overlook the Geneva Conventions.
"You don't mistreat people for the simple reason that you don't want to ever treat a soldier any different than you want your soldiers treated.
"People say Abu Ghraib was just horseplay, what am I worried about? But it's a symptom. When we learn about Guantanamo, we're going to be shamed. It's as bad as Andersonville," he said, citing the notorious Civil War prison where soldiers were starved."
Thursday, November 04, 2004
A quote from our prez
"To make this nation stronger and better I will need your support, and I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust."
You know what? Screw that. Screw him and his supporters. This guy is the most dangerous person in the world right now. There is no way in hell I am going to get behind this clown. He has nothing to offer me. My fellow countryman turned their back on a good and thoughtful politician in order to hide behind this right wing idealogue. Screw you guys that voted for him and screw him. This is not a time for reconciliation. This is a time to get angry. How can you possibly support someone who created a concentration camp in Cuba, created a policy that allowed Iraqi civilians to be tortured and killed in our military prisons and is personally responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis? Fuck him. As Liz Winstead quoted Gil Scott Heron on Air America Radio a few minutes ago, "Mandate, my ass."
"To make this nation stronger and better I will need your support, and I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust."
You know what? Screw that. Screw him and his supporters. This guy is the most dangerous person in the world right now. There is no way in hell I am going to get behind this clown. He has nothing to offer me. My fellow countryman turned their back on a good and thoughtful politician in order to hide behind this right wing idealogue. Screw you guys that voted for him and screw him. This is not a time for reconciliation. This is a time to get angry. How can you possibly support someone who created a concentration camp in Cuba, created a policy that allowed Iraqi civilians to be tortured and killed in our military prisons and is personally responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis? Fuck him. As Liz Winstead quoted Gil Scott Heron on Air America Radio a few minutes ago, "Mandate, my ass."
Wednesday, November 03, 2004
Thank you, hillbillies
I guess it's pretty amazing, after all the fear-mongering and the false "war president" stance, that Kerry made it as close as he did. If you think about it Bush pretty much had the election won as soon as he established himself as a war president in the minds of the people.
Did you see some of the percentages in the redneck states? My god, I had no idea inbreeding was such a serious problem.
I see Fox "News" is the first network to declare Ohio for Bush. I guess there's no need to even pretend to be fair and biased at this point in the game.
Unless a miracle happens in Ohio it's gonna be four more years of shitty sytax, massive killing of foreign-type people and overall crappy governing from the Whitehouse. Jesus fuck.
Personally I thought that if the election was even close and Kerry won then it was a sad day for this country. The fact that Bush could bamboozle so many people. People like my mother who on the phone the other day admitted that Kerry was superior to Bush in many ways but she still felt she should vote for Bush because he was strong on terror. There is your difference in this election: a totally false belief that Bush is somehow strong on terror.
I guess it's pretty amazing, after all the fear-mongering and the false "war president" stance, that Kerry made it as close as he did. If you think about it Bush pretty much had the election won as soon as he established himself as a war president in the minds of the people.
Did you see some of the percentages in the redneck states? My god, I had no idea inbreeding was such a serious problem.
I see Fox "News" is the first network to declare Ohio for Bush. I guess there's no need to even pretend to be fair and biased at this point in the game.
Unless a miracle happens in Ohio it's gonna be four more years of shitty sytax, massive killing of foreign-type people and overall crappy governing from the Whitehouse. Jesus fuck.
Personally I thought that if the election was even close and Kerry won then it was a sad day for this country. The fact that Bush could bamboozle so many people. People like my mother who on the phone the other day admitted that Kerry was superior to Bush in many ways but she still felt she should vote for Bush because he was strong on terror. There is your difference in this election: a totally false belief that Bush is somehow strong on terror.
Tuesday, November 02, 2004
Book Lunch
Tomorrow I get to sit in a room with about 4 to 8 mommies and discuss my favorite book from the last year by Sheri Holman called The Mammoth Cheese. I recommend it.
Tomorrow I get to sit in a room with about 4 to 8 mommies and discuss my favorite book from the last year by Sheri Holman called The Mammoth Cheese. I recommend it.
Monday, November 01, 2004
Halloween Hijinks
The eastern border of Maple City is a ridge of glaciated hills that runs north to south. There is a road that cuts through a pass in the ridge that continues east for a couple of miles to another tiny town called Cedar. There is a two-track road you can access as you drive through the pass. It goes up steeply and at the summit is a dying cherry orchard that the former owner is allowed to harvest but not to maintain. Once the tree go wild and are no longer profitable the land will become part of the national park system. The orchard sits at the highest point in Leelanau County.
We were squatting in some woods near the bottom of the ridge on the outside edge of a curve that is the beginning of a nasty S-curve that emptied into the flashing light at the town's crossroads. It was Halloween night and it was dark and it cold. We had cartons full of eggs at our feet. We were outside the reach of any street lights. Across the curve from us we could see the small wooden Catholic church nuzzled into the steep knob the road curves around.
With me was Tony and Tony's cousin, Ray and a couple other neighborhood kids. The reason we were squatting in those woods next to the road is because we had already egged a few cars near the center of the village. We had moved to the outskirts because we were afraid the cops might show up.
Over the top of the pass a glow of oncoming headlights started to show. Some hissed "Car!" and we grab eggs. I had two eggs in my right hand and one in my throwing hand. When the car approached our position at the center of the turn we step out poised to nail this slow-moving vehicle. The car stops and a spotlight comes on. It's a fucking cop. We scatter. He hollered something like, "Hey, you kids!" I had no intention of allowing this guy to take me home to my step-father so I bolted across the road with Tony next to me. We split up when we hit the church grounds. Ray, who hadn't fully emerged from the woods, hit the deck and froze.
As I was flying through woods, dodging branches and hurdling fallen trees I had no idea if that cop was behind me or if I was a mile ahead. All I know is that I got to the point where if he hadn't caught me by then I was free so I stopped. When Tony, Ray and I met up a little later at Tony's trailer Ray said that the cop had stopped his car and got out but the rest of us scattered so quickly that he shined his light around for a couple of minutes and drove off. Ray couldn't stop laughing about how everyone bolted like cockroaches. "That cop stepped out of his car expecting to catch a bunch of dumb kids but as soon as he stepped out you were all fucking gone! God, that was funny." Ray was almost busted in his hiding place because he was having trouble with suppressing his laughter.
The eastern border of Maple City is a ridge of glaciated hills that runs north to south. There is a road that cuts through a pass in the ridge that continues east for a couple of miles to another tiny town called Cedar. There is a two-track road you can access as you drive through the pass. It goes up steeply and at the summit is a dying cherry orchard that the former owner is allowed to harvest but not to maintain. Once the tree go wild and are no longer profitable the land will become part of the national park system. The orchard sits at the highest point in Leelanau County.
We were squatting in some woods near the bottom of the ridge on the outside edge of a curve that is the beginning of a nasty S-curve that emptied into the flashing light at the town's crossroads. It was Halloween night and it was dark and it cold. We had cartons full of eggs at our feet. We were outside the reach of any street lights. Across the curve from us we could see the small wooden Catholic church nuzzled into the steep knob the road curves around.
With me was Tony and Tony's cousin, Ray and a couple other neighborhood kids. The reason we were squatting in those woods next to the road is because we had already egged a few cars near the center of the village. We had moved to the outskirts because we were afraid the cops might show up.
Over the top of the pass a glow of oncoming headlights started to show. Some hissed "Car!" and we grab eggs. I had two eggs in my right hand and one in my throwing hand. When the car approached our position at the center of the turn we step out poised to nail this slow-moving vehicle. The car stops and a spotlight comes on. It's a fucking cop. We scatter. He hollered something like, "Hey, you kids!" I had no intention of allowing this guy to take me home to my step-father so I bolted across the road with Tony next to me. We split up when we hit the church grounds. Ray, who hadn't fully emerged from the woods, hit the deck and froze.
As I was flying through woods, dodging branches and hurdling fallen trees I had no idea if that cop was behind me or if I was a mile ahead. All I know is that I got to the point where if he hadn't caught me by then I was free so I stopped. When Tony, Ray and I met up a little later at Tony's trailer Ray said that the cop had stopped his car and got out but the rest of us scattered so quickly that he shined his light around for a couple of minutes and drove off. Ray couldn't stop laughing about how everyone bolted like cockroaches. "That cop stepped out of his car expecting to catch a bunch of dumb kids but as soon as he stepped out you were all fucking gone! God, that was funny." Ray was almost busted in his hiding place because he was having trouble with suppressing his laughter.
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