Ty Bluesmith the III tells me to be the bear. Thanks man for the ear. You're right I should be the bear. I looked in the mirror this morning and yeah there was a black carpet of hair sprouting on my back. This afternoon I tried to pick up a dumbell and it slipped out of my hand because I'm growing claws. My teeth, oh yeah, you should see my fucking teeth...
Oh yeah and Hell yes I would buy her flowers, the wild ones, the ones that smell like laundry sheets and pale in comparison to the way she is who she is.
This is life on the run. This is the world where the spiked toothed weasels dwell. A day in the life...
Sunday, April 24, 2005
Friday, April 22, 2005
Luch is in the decorating division of the Air Force. Here we see him in Baghdad scoping out a room which he plans to furnish in the latest American bachelor pad style. He said that, "I, uh, think a kegerator would like nice in this corner. Over by the window I would put..uh, another kegerator. For a TV stand I would use..urh, uh, a kegerator. For a coffee table I would use cases of beer." Okay, I think we get the point. 
Monday, April 18, 2005
Thursday, April 14, 2005
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Richard Peabody
Nationals return poet to his youth
By Erik Brady, USA TODAY
Check it out here:
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/nl/nationals/2005-04-03-poet-timeout_x.htm
This is the guy that taught me at JHU and has been working on editing my first book.
By Erik Brady, USA TODAY
Check it out here:
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/nl/nationals/2005-04-03-poet-timeout_x.htm
This is the guy that taught me at JHU and has been working on editing my first book.
Monday, April 04, 2005
Billy Bob on the Border. Yeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaawwww!
'Minuteman' Volunteers Help With 18 Arrests on Border By BETH DeFALCO, AP
Read it here: http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050403003809990001
This kind of bothers me. This is about a group of citizens who have volunteered to patrol the Mexican border. They may have good intentions but it seems to me this is the kind of thing that could get out of control very quickly. Supposedly, they won't apprehend any illegal aliens but will merely report their goings on to authorities. Why the Hell then do some of think they need guns? I picture a pickup truck full of beer bellied hicks doing donuts in the sand and throwing empty Budweiser cans over the border fence. Cooter is in the bed of the truck waving the rebel flag. Pedro peaks his head over the border fence and Carl lowers his deer rifle. BAM! "Damn,' Carl says, "I thought that was a hoot owl." Guffaws.
Those that "volunteer" for these types of endeavors seem to be people that don't have enough authority over others in their lives (rental cops) so they get involved in policing type activities to gain the power they so desperately desire. It makes them feel important. They can exert this "power" over the helpless Mexicans who cross the border and they are no longer at the bottom of the food chain.
Maybe next there will be volunteer groups to do the policing in your cities. Why pay cops when Earl and Jessie will do your policing for a six pack of Old Milwaukee? A militia forms. They are only there for your protection, to watch over you and makes sure everyone obeys their law. Oops, did I say their law? Silly me
Read it here: http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050403003809990001
This kind of bothers me. This is about a group of citizens who have volunteered to patrol the Mexican border. They may have good intentions but it seems to me this is the kind of thing that could get out of control very quickly. Supposedly, they won't apprehend any illegal aliens but will merely report their goings on to authorities. Why the Hell then do some of think they need guns? I picture a pickup truck full of beer bellied hicks doing donuts in the sand and throwing empty Budweiser cans over the border fence. Cooter is in the bed of the truck waving the rebel flag. Pedro peaks his head over the border fence and Carl lowers his deer rifle. BAM! "Damn,' Carl says, "I thought that was a hoot owl." Guffaws.
Those that "volunteer" for these types of endeavors seem to be people that don't have enough authority over others in their lives (rental cops) so they get involved in policing type activities to gain the power they so desperately desire. It makes them feel important. They can exert this "power" over the helpless Mexicans who cross the border and they are no longer at the bottom of the food chain.
Maybe next there will be volunteer groups to do the policing in your cities. Why pay cops when Earl and Jessie will do your policing for a six pack of Old Milwaukee? A militia forms. They are only there for your protection, to watch over you and makes sure everyone obeys their law. Oops, did I say their law? Silly me
Friday, April 01, 2005
Screwed
I'm so mad I could chew through the steel gate outside the Circuit City store. Those bastards got me again...
I purchased an HP laptop there on 2/16/05 after my Dell exploded in a mushroom cloud earlier that morning. The advertised rebate for the computer I purchased was $200. With the rebate calculated into the price I thought it was reasonable so I decided to buy it.
At the checkout I received four long receipt like printouts. Glancing at the top “Redemption Form” I noticed that it indicated the rebate had to be postmarked by 4/2/05 in order for it to be valid. I had over a month to get it in, no sweat. So I stowed this paper work away in my desk for a few weeks. Everything was cool...
Fast forward to today. This morning I began filling out the “Redemption Form” (I like to call them Rip-Off Forms), which by the way denoted that you must also provide the bar code from the packaging box. How many people throw away the box and realize that now they can’t get their rebate? I’d imagine quite a few. This wasn’t my problem but it very well could have been.
As I filled out the form I noticed that there were actually two rebate forms, not one long one as I had originally assumed. Upon further examination of the second form, I noticed a post mark due date of 3/19/05. If I hadn’t already thrown my box out and lost my UPC code there was this little snafu to keep me from collecting my rebate. After ripping a phone book in half with my teeth and taking several tranquilizers I was able to calm down.
Let me recap here.
I was given the two “Redemption Forms” and as most consumers with little spare time do I glanced at the top sheet and saw a post mark due date of 4/2/05. I think it was reasonable to assume that this was the due date for the entire rebate and I believe a lot of people would assume the same thing. Conveniently the top rebate form was for $50 dollars and the postmark due date was 4/2/05. The second rebate form with the postmark due date of 3/19/05 was for $150 and was on the bottom.
It is my contention that the order in which you are given these two rebate forms is not a coincidence but a strategy to keep the consumer form cashing in on said rebates. Given the nature of the forms I don’t think this is an unreasonable assumption. Is it just coincidence that the top form was for $50 dollars and had a later postmark due date and the second form was for $150 and had an earlier postmark date? Knowing the nature of big business I cannot believe that this is simply a coincidence but I will let you draw your own conclusions on the matter.
It behooves these companies to make it as hard as possible for consumers to cash in on their rebates. Every rebate you don’t turn in is profit for Circuit City or whatever company you may have purchased from. So why then wouldn’t they make it as hard as possible for you to turn in a rebate?
So, what is the lesson here? Never trust the man…well, yeah that’s a given. First of all, as soon as you get your rebate information read over it and find the postmark due date. Second of all, don’t throw any packaging from the product away until you are sure you do not need it in order to cash in on your rebate. Thirdly, if you do feel you were mislead with rebate information write a letter to the store or company and tell them you will no longer shop at their store if they do not honor your rebate. Fourthly...is that a word? Anyway, if you really want to get them send yourself in your computer box and address it to store headquarters and when they go to open it up jump out wearing nothing but a keyboard and give them a scare they will never forget.
I formally challenge the CEO of Circuit City to a no holds barred steel cage wrestling match and no I will not be wearing a Speedo with the American flag depicted on it. I will however kick that fucker's ass for stealing my rebate so he can buy another ski house in Aspen. Better yet why don't we wrestle for that house you bastard? I await your reply.
I purchased an HP laptop there on 2/16/05 after my Dell exploded in a mushroom cloud earlier that morning. The advertised rebate for the computer I purchased was $200. With the rebate calculated into the price I thought it was reasonable so I decided to buy it.
At the checkout I received four long receipt like printouts. Glancing at the top “Redemption Form” I noticed that it indicated the rebate had to be postmarked by 4/2/05 in order for it to be valid. I had over a month to get it in, no sweat. So I stowed this paper work away in my desk for a few weeks. Everything was cool...
Fast forward to today. This morning I began filling out the “Redemption Form” (I like to call them Rip-Off Forms), which by the way denoted that you must also provide the bar code from the packaging box. How many people throw away the box and realize that now they can’t get their rebate? I’d imagine quite a few. This wasn’t my problem but it very well could have been.
As I filled out the form I noticed that there were actually two rebate forms, not one long one as I had originally assumed. Upon further examination of the second form, I noticed a post mark due date of 3/19/05. If I hadn’t already thrown my box out and lost my UPC code there was this little snafu to keep me from collecting my rebate. After ripping a phone book in half with my teeth and taking several tranquilizers I was able to calm down.
Let me recap here.
I was given the two “Redemption Forms” and as most consumers with little spare time do I glanced at the top sheet and saw a post mark due date of 4/2/05. I think it was reasonable to assume that this was the due date for the entire rebate and I believe a lot of people would assume the same thing. Conveniently the top rebate form was for $50 dollars and the postmark due date was 4/2/05. The second rebate form with the postmark due date of 3/19/05 was for $150 and was on the bottom.
It is my contention that the order in which you are given these two rebate forms is not a coincidence but a strategy to keep the consumer form cashing in on said rebates. Given the nature of the forms I don’t think this is an unreasonable assumption. Is it just coincidence that the top form was for $50 dollars and had a later postmark due date and the second form was for $150 and had an earlier postmark date? Knowing the nature of big business I cannot believe that this is simply a coincidence but I will let you draw your own conclusions on the matter.
It behooves these companies to make it as hard as possible for consumers to cash in on their rebates. Every rebate you don’t turn in is profit for Circuit City or whatever company you may have purchased from. So why then wouldn’t they make it as hard as possible for you to turn in a rebate?
So, what is the lesson here? Never trust the man…well, yeah that’s a given. First of all, as soon as you get your rebate information read over it and find the postmark due date. Second of all, don’t throw any packaging from the product away until you are sure you do not need it in order to cash in on your rebate. Thirdly, if you do feel you were mislead with rebate information write a letter to the store or company and tell them you will no longer shop at their store if they do not honor your rebate. Fourthly...is that a word? Anyway, if you really want to get them send yourself in your computer box and address it to store headquarters and when they go to open it up jump out wearing nothing but a keyboard and give them a scare they will never forget.
I formally challenge the CEO of Circuit City to a no holds barred steel cage wrestling match and no I will not be wearing a Speedo with the American flag depicted on it. I will however kick that fucker's ass for stealing my rebate so he can buy another ski house in Aspen. Better yet why don't we wrestle for that house you bastard? I await your reply.
Sick of the Lies
An excellent read is George Lakoff’s Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives. Among the things he discusses are class action law suits and the framing used by the right wing to make Americans believe that the current government is going after “frivolous” lawsuits to protect our interests, ie, keeping prices down for us. In reality “frivolous” lawsuits make up well under 5 percent of all class action lawsuits. The objective of the right wing in stopping many of the filings of class action lawsuits is a “strategic initiative.” According to George Lakoff strategic initiatives are "a plan in which a change in one carefully chosen issue area has automatic effects over many, many, many other issues areas."
In Jack Dalton’s article Bush, The Republican Party, and Eliminating Competition Through "Strategic Initiatives" he states that “at the core of Bush and the Republican Party wanting to "cap" or, if possible, eliminate liability lawsuits by individuals and especially class action lawsuits, is a much broader strategy to "de-fund" the Democratic Party. A substantial portion of the Democratic Party's funding is donations from trial lawyers and their associations. These are the lawyers that generally speaking are the ones that hold the practitioners of bad medicine and companies that violate the law accountable by representing those that have been harmed. In short, eliminate the lawsuits, you eliminate a chief source of funds for lawyers and therefore their ability to donate to the Democratic Party. Lose enough funding sources and you might as well hang a sign on the door saying, "Gone fishin' don't know when, or if I'll be back.”
Dalton further says that, “Then there is the issue of liability lawsuits. Stifle the lawsuits; make it more difficult to get into court by switching from state courts to federal courts; end these lawsuits (which the Bush cabal refers to as Tort reform) and with one stroke of the pen they will have eliminated all the potential lawsuits that will be the basis of future environmental legislation and regulation.”
In a nutshell the right wing wants corporate America to be able to do as they please to us without repercussion to poison our water with chemicals, ignore labor laws, stop lawsuits where a faulty product injures or kills a consumer, etc and to "de-fund" the Democratic party among other things. What does the right wing and corporate America get out of this equation? PROFIT at the cost of your well being.
So before you start supporting the end of “frivolous” lawsuits know exactly what is at stake. There is more to this issue than what meets the eye. If you don’t care about workers rights, laws that protect consumers and our environment then by all means support these selfish, self serving bastards. When will the majority of conservatives learn that George W. Bush and his cronies don’t care about you? Their God spells his name M-O-N-E-Y.
And for the religious out there that believe the right wing conservatives are on your side I might ask you which side of this debate Jesus would be on? Huh? Do you think he’d be on the side of the big corporations? Think about it.
In Jack Dalton’s article Bush, The Republican Party, and Eliminating Competition Through "Strategic Initiatives" he states that “at the core of Bush and the Republican Party wanting to "cap" or, if possible, eliminate liability lawsuits by individuals and especially class action lawsuits, is a much broader strategy to "de-fund" the Democratic Party. A substantial portion of the Democratic Party's funding is donations from trial lawyers and their associations. These are the lawyers that generally speaking are the ones that hold the practitioners of bad medicine and companies that violate the law accountable by representing those that have been harmed. In short, eliminate the lawsuits, you eliminate a chief source of funds for lawyers and therefore their ability to donate to the Democratic Party. Lose enough funding sources and you might as well hang a sign on the door saying, "Gone fishin' don't know when, or if I'll be back.”
Dalton further says that, “Then there is the issue of liability lawsuits. Stifle the lawsuits; make it more difficult to get into court by switching from state courts to federal courts; end these lawsuits (which the Bush cabal refers to as Tort reform) and with one stroke of the pen they will have eliminated all the potential lawsuits that will be the basis of future environmental legislation and regulation.”
In a nutshell the right wing wants corporate America to be able to do as they please to us without repercussion to poison our water with chemicals, ignore labor laws, stop lawsuits where a faulty product injures or kills a consumer, etc and to "de-fund" the Democratic party among other things. What does the right wing and corporate America get out of this equation? PROFIT at the cost of your well being.
So before you start supporting the end of “frivolous” lawsuits know exactly what is at stake. There is more to this issue than what meets the eye. If you don’t care about workers rights, laws that protect consumers and our environment then by all means support these selfish, self serving bastards. When will the majority of conservatives learn that George W. Bush and his cronies don’t care about you? Their God spells his name M-O-N-E-Y.
And for the religious out there that believe the right wing conservatives are on your side I might ask you which side of this debate Jesus would be on? Huh? Do you think he’d be on the side of the big corporations? Think about it.
Thursday, March 31, 2005
The New Futile System
A paragraph from Noam Chomsky’s book Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (The American Empire Project)
What remains of democracy is the right to choose among commodities. Business leaders have long explained the need to impose on the population a "philosophy of futility" and "lack of purpose in life," to "concentrate human attention on the more superficial things that compromise much of fashionable consumption." Deluged by such propaganda from infancy, people may then accept their meaningless and subordinate lives and forget ridiculous ideas about managing their own affairs. They may abandon their fate to corporate managers and the PR industry and, in the political realm, to the self-described "intelligent minorities" who serve and administer power.
* * *
My Take On the Matter
From the moment children in the United States can comprehend their surroundings they are bombarded with advertisements for toys, junk food, video games, movies, and on and on and on. When I was a child there were few commercials that so relentlessly targeted children. The mindset of my parent’s generation was one of moderation. My family of six wasn’t destitute but we children knew that other than rare occasions such as Christmas or a Birthday we would not get gifts. Junk food too was a treat doled out along the same moderate guidelines. We rarely had Coke or sugar coated cereal and if we did we burned it off playing outside. I can think of only a few fat kids that I went to school with threw my entire career in public schools and even these were not morbidly obese like some of the children I see today.
At the age of nine I remember wanting a new bike because mine had been a hand me down from an older neighbor and was getting rusty and worn out and it was PURPLE! To my chagrin I didn’t get the black dirt bike I saw in the Sears catalog. Instead, my mother and father bought me a new dirt bike seat, handlebar grips, handlebars and paint and together we fixed up my bike. Could they have afforded a new bike? Probably but that wasn’t the point. The point was that I didn’t need a new bike mine was fine, it got me around. Did I feel less fulfilled because I didn’t have the new bike? I might have been slightly disappointed but I was too busy being a kid to dwell on it. I found happiness in other things; sports, reading, playing games, exploring the world, not in “fashionable consumption.” My generation had not yet equated consumption with happiness because the PR industry and corporate managers had not yet waged war against our consumer souls.
Worrying about the newest trends as a child takes the fun out of being a child. Mindless hours playing video games and stuffing their faces with ice-cream are not substitutes for the feeling one gets when they hit a homerun in a baseball game or when they’re reading a book that is so good they can’t put it down. I remember a lot of books that gave me that feeling and a lot of homeruns I hit but I don’t hold one memory of playing a video game and having the same feeling elicited.
I feel bad for kids today because they are victims of a system and government that does not have their best interests in mind. They don’t get to truly enjoy what it is like not to have worries. Should a five year old really have to fret over the fact that she doesn’t have a pair of Nike sneakers? I would think not but you know that there is an epidemic of children out there that do worry about such matters. Is it a wonder that so many people are depressed in this day and age? How do we combat these blues? How about prescription drugs! That is a topic for an entirely different article but is more evidence of government’s close relationship with corporate America.
I am thankful for my childhood of moderation. To this day I rarely eat junk food and although I have fallen victim to some of the PR industries gimmicks (I do have a book buying habit, which as far as habits go I guess isn’t too bad.), I haven’t mortgaged my life away so I can have a Hummer and stainless steel kitchen appliances.
Is it possible today even with good parenting for children not to fall prey to this trend of consumption? I would hope so but admittedly it is a hard battle for parents to wage. They are up against industries that spend billions of dollars to suck their kids in to the buying machine. I don’t envy their job.
As we grow older the insatiable quest for consumption is fed by the credit card companies, who feed our addiction for the product advertisements we are inundated with. They know we’re addicted to buying and they feed off of us and it is obvious from the passing of the bankruptcy reform bill (which benefits credit card companies only and not the people of this country that it is supposed to protect) that government is complicit in the feeding of our buying addiction and with the passing of the legislation has effectively ensured that some portion of credit card debt will have to be paid back and a “clean slate” will be much harder to come by. People will effectively become indentured servants to these credit card companies and the credit card companies will thrive as quality of life continues to decline. Does this sound hopeless? It sure does to me.
I for one want my life back. It is not hopeless and I do believe I control my own destiny and I have started to curb my spending. Freedom from the oppression of “intelligent minorities” and their greed is a matter of choice and while I still have choice I chose not to support them like the mindless consumer they believe me to be.
What remains of democracy is the right to choose among commodities. Business leaders have long explained the need to impose on the population a "philosophy of futility" and "lack of purpose in life," to "concentrate human attention on the more superficial things that compromise much of fashionable consumption." Deluged by such propaganda from infancy, people may then accept their meaningless and subordinate lives and forget ridiculous ideas about managing their own affairs. They may abandon their fate to corporate managers and the PR industry and, in the political realm, to the self-described "intelligent minorities" who serve and administer power.
* * *
My Take On the Matter
From the moment children in the United States can comprehend their surroundings they are bombarded with advertisements for toys, junk food, video games, movies, and on and on and on. When I was a child there were few commercials that so relentlessly targeted children. The mindset of my parent’s generation was one of moderation. My family of six wasn’t destitute but we children knew that other than rare occasions such as Christmas or a Birthday we would not get gifts. Junk food too was a treat doled out along the same moderate guidelines. We rarely had Coke or sugar coated cereal and if we did we burned it off playing outside. I can think of only a few fat kids that I went to school with threw my entire career in public schools and even these were not morbidly obese like some of the children I see today.
At the age of nine I remember wanting a new bike because mine had been a hand me down from an older neighbor and was getting rusty and worn out and it was PURPLE! To my chagrin I didn’t get the black dirt bike I saw in the Sears catalog. Instead, my mother and father bought me a new dirt bike seat, handlebar grips, handlebars and paint and together we fixed up my bike. Could they have afforded a new bike? Probably but that wasn’t the point. The point was that I didn’t need a new bike mine was fine, it got me around. Did I feel less fulfilled because I didn’t have the new bike? I might have been slightly disappointed but I was too busy being a kid to dwell on it. I found happiness in other things; sports, reading, playing games, exploring the world, not in “fashionable consumption.” My generation had not yet equated consumption with happiness because the PR industry and corporate managers had not yet waged war against our consumer souls.
Worrying about the newest trends as a child takes the fun out of being a child. Mindless hours playing video games and stuffing their faces with ice-cream are not substitutes for the feeling one gets when they hit a homerun in a baseball game or when they’re reading a book that is so good they can’t put it down. I remember a lot of books that gave me that feeling and a lot of homeruns I hit but I don’t hold one memory of playing a video game and having the same feeling elicited.
I feel bad for kids today because they are victims of a system and government that does not have their best interests in mind. They don’t get to truly enjoy what it is like not to have worries. Should a five year old really have to fret over the fact that she doesn’t have a pair of Nike sneakers? I would think not but you know that there is an epidemic of children out there that do worry about such matters. Is it a wonder that so many people are depressed in this day and age? How do we combat these blues? How about prescription drugs! That is a topic for an entirely different article but is more evidence of government’s close relationship with corporate America.
I am thankful for my childhood of moderation. To this day I rarely eat junk food and although I have fallen victim to some of the PR industries gimmicks (I do have a book buying habit, which as far as habits go I guess isn’t too bad.), I haven’t mortgaged my life away so I can have a Hummer and stainless steel kitchen appliances.
Is it possible today even with good parenting for children not to fall prey to this trend of consumption? I would hope so but admittedly it is a hard battle for parents to wage. They are up against industries that spend billions of dollars to suck their kids in to the buying machine. I don’t envy their job.
As we grow older the insatiable quest for consumption is fed by the credit card companies, who feed our addiction for the product advertisements we are inundated with. They know we’re addicted to buying and they feed off of us and it is obvious from the passing of the bankruptcy reform bill (which benefits credit card companies only and not the people of this country that it is supposed to protect) that government is complicit in the feeding of our buying addiction and with the passing of the legislation has effectively ensured that some portion of credit card debt will have to be paid back and a “clean slate” will be much harder to come by. People will effectively become indentured servants to these credit card companies and the credit card companies will thrive as quality of life continues to decline. Does this sound hopeless? It sure does to me.
I for one want my life back. It is not hopeless and I do believe I control my own destiny and I have started to curb my spending. Freedom from the oppression of “intelligent minorities” and their greed is a matter of choice and while I still have choice I chose not to support them like the mindless consumer they believe me to be.
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Fingertip in Chili Remains a Mystery at Wendy's
Yummy please pass the toes.
Check it out here.http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/business/article.adp?id=200503300734099900190073409990019
Yummy please pass the toes.
Check it out here.http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/business/article.adp?id=200503300734099900190073409990019
Monday, March 28, 2005
Chihuahua Terrorizes Ind. Postal Workers
I love these feisty little suckers. Chihuahuas have guts.
Check it out here:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Little-Terror.html
Anyone who is familiar with me knows that I have two Chihuahuas. The fiercer of the two is a very small thirteen year old named Flea (They were pictured on my blog back in Nov.). Last Halloween I let the dogs out and was doing some yard work out back when I heard some sort of ruckus in the front of my house. I hurried around to see what all the noise was about and saw Flea chasing a pack of ten or fifteen screaming Halloweeners down the street. It was perhaps the funniest thing I've ever seen. I guess those kids won't be coming back to my house next year...
I love these feisty little suckers. Chihuahuas have guts.
Check it out here:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Little-Terror.html
Anyone who is familiar with me knows that I have two Chihuahuas. The fiercer of the two is a very small thirteen year old named Flea (They were pictured on my blog back in Nov.). Last Halloween I let the dogs out and was doing some yard work out back when I heard some sort of ruckus in the front of my house. I hurried around to see what all the noise was about and saw Flea chasing a pack of ten or fifteen screaming Halloweeners down the street. It was perhaps the funniest thing I've ever seen. I guess those kids won't be coming back to my house next year...
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Where's the Superior Bush Morality?
Read it here: http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050321154309990003
According to Pam Easton of the AP in her article Neil Bush's Ex-Wife Settles Slander Case Neil Bush's ex-wife, Sharon Bush, was sued by Bush's new wife, Maria Andrews Bush, for slander. Evidently Maria was Neil Bush's mistress when he was married to Sharon and at the time the affair was going on Maria became pregnant. Supposedly Sharon Bush spread rumors that the baby was Neil's when in fact it turned out to that the father was Maria's former husband Robert Andrews. The case was settled out of court.
Okay, maybe I'm missing something here but does this strike anyone else as absurd? Here Neil was fucking another woman during his marriage and his ex-wife gets sued for slander when she purportedly spreads a rumor that Neil was the father of his mistress’s baby. Which crime is worse? Sleeping with a mistress or saying that the woman your husband was sleeping with, who became pregnant during this time, fathered her child?
Where are the morals that the GOP supposedly hold so near and dear to their cash register hearts? I frankly don't give a shit if Neil Bush was sleeping with his neighbor’s pet goat but when you are on the team that continually tears opponents apart for lacking "morals" then you deserved to be viewed through the same lens. Of course if Neil runs for the presidency the GOP will use framing to cover this little moral slip up. They will do something like focus on a mistake the reporter that brings this story to people's attention made (ALA Dan Rather) or they will make up some absurd story about how Sharon Bush was a drunken witch and abused little Neil and he had to run to the arms of his mistress (Sobs and tears). Give me a fucking break. The point is that Neil is an adulterer. End of story.
Some Democrats are no better and if they really want to win an election they need to get rid of the elitist agenda and start working for the benefit of the people of this country not big business like the Republicans. That's how you distinguish yourselves, that's how you win. You don't distinguish yourselves by sucking up to the pro life crazies, homophobes, religious loons, and the extremist gun freaks (NRA put another 10 notches in the door of your gun cabinet). THEY ARE AN EXTREME MINORITY NOT THE MAJORITY! Democratic Party if you stick together and take care of the people you will win but if you try to be "Republican Lite" you will get beat at their game.
I thought we lived in a democracy but I guess I was mistaken because if we did we could oust these politicians and begin anew. For many the "American Dream" will remain a dream because the powers that be have fixed it that way. There is plenty of wealth to go around in this country but greed is destroying the chance many have at a better life. The solution isn't nearly as extreme as communism but lies in true democracy where people have the ability to rise up and become rich but not at the expense of the middle and lower classes. For those that claim to have a monoply on "morals" I ask you if it is "moral" to let people freeze to death because you cut subsidized heating or that the infant mortality rate in a number of US cities is worse that in Cuba or other third world countries because of cuts to health programs. It is time to truly adhere to morals and I don't mean censoring every fucking creative outlet in this country but to do things that benefit the whole of this country, to give chairty when needed, and to bring prosperity back to the majority in a country that is sliding down the slippery slope of tyranny. Despite what those that have hijacked religion in this country think, morals are not found exclusively in the Bible or the Koran or any religious text, they are found in the heart and the heads of those who are compassionate enough to care about what happens to their fellow man.
So, Neil and other politicians, go fuck your mistress or fifty of them for that matter because I don't care. What I do care about are the lack of morals that are robbing people in this country and other countries of the American Dream. The pig can only grow so fat before it is slaughtered. In the new morning I wake to the smell of bacon and revolution brewing.
According to Pam Easton of the AP in her article Neil Bush's Ex-Wife Settles Slander Case Neil Bush's ex-wife, Sharon Bush, was sued by Bush's new wife, Maria Andrews Bush, for slander. Evidently Maria was Neil Bush's mistress when he was married to Sharon and at the time the affair was going on Maria became pregnant. Supposedly Sharon Bush spread rumors that the baby was Neil's when in fact it turned out to that the father was Maria's former husband Robert Andrews. The case was settled out of court.
Okay, maybe I'm missing something here but does this strike anyone else as absurd? Here Neil was fucking another woman during his marriage and his ex-wife gets sued for slander when she purportedly spreads a rumor that Neil was the father of his mistress’s baby. Which crime is worse? Sleeping with a mistress or saying that the woman your husband was sleeping with, who became pregnant during this time, fathered her child?
Where are the morals that the GOP supposedly hold so near and dear to their cash register hearts? I frankly don't give a shit if Neil Bush was sleeping with his neighbor’s pet goat but when you are on the team that continually tears opponents apart for lacking "morals" then you deserved to be viewed through the same lens. Of course if Neil runs for the presidency the GOP will use framing to cover this little moral slip up. They will do something like focus on a mistake the reporter that brings this story to people's attention made (ALA Dan Rather) or they will make up some absurd story about how Sharon Bush was a drunken witch and abused little Neil and he had to run to the arms of his mistress (Sobs and tears). Give me a fucking break. The point is that Neil is an adulterer. End of story.
Some Democrats are no better and if they really want to win an election they need to get rid of the elitist agenda and start working for the benefit of the people of this country not big business like the Republicans. That's how you distinguish yourselves, that's how you win. You don't distinguish yourselves by sucking up to the pro life crazies, homophobes, religious loons, and the extremist gun freaks (NRA put another 10 notches in the door of your gun cabinet). THEY ARE AN EXTREME MINORITY NOT THE MAJORITY! Democratic Party if you stick together and take care of the people you will win but if you try to be "Republican Lite" you will get beat at their game.
I thought we lived in a democracy but I guess I was mistaken because if we did we could oust these politicians and begin anew. For many the "American Dream" will remain a dream because the powers that be have fixed it that way. There is plenty of wealth to go around in this country but greed is destroying the chance many have at a better life. The solution isn't nearly as extreme as communism but lies in true democracy where people have the ability to rise up and become rich but not at the expense of the middle and lower classes. For those that claim to have a monoply on "morals" I ask you if it is "moral" to let people freeze to death because you cut subsidized heating or that the infant mortality rate in a number of US cities is worse that in Cuba or other third world countries because of cuts to health programs. It is time to truly adhere to morals and I don't mean censoring every fucking creative outlet in this country but to do things that benefit the whole of this country, to give chairty when needed, and to bring prosperity back to the majority in a country that is sliding down the slippery slope of tyranny. Despite what those that have hijacked religion in this country think, morals are not found exclusively in the Bible or the Koran or any religious text, they are found in the heart and the heads of those who are compassionate enough to care about what happens to their fellow man.
So, Neil and other politicians, go fuck your mistress or fifty of them for that matter because I don't care. What I do care about are the lack of morals that are robbing people in this country and other countries of the American Dream. The pig can only grow so fat before it is slaughtered. In the new morning I wake to the smell of bacon and revolution brewing.
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Free Speech is in Danger
According to Patricia J Williams in her article Grim Fairy Tales she learned on NPR that "William Poole, a high school junior from Kentucky, was taken into custody and charged with threatening to commit second-degree-felony terrorism for writing a story about a horde of zombies who wreak havoc in a school. It seems the boy's grandparents had been reading his journal, found a story he'd been writing for English class and promptly turned him in. According to a police detective, "Anytime you make any threat or possess matter involving a school or function, it's a felony in the state of Kentucky."
If this doesn't worry you writers out there it should. With the new laws passed to "protect" you i.e., the Patriot Act and others, the government can and will arrest you for whatever they want and deem it some sort of terrorism. Poole should be protected by his first amendment rights but evidently this doesn't mean anything in Kentucky. Big Brother is closing in...
The last Williams heard, Poole was “dispatched to jail to await mercy and a sense of perspective.” Jail for writing a fictions story? Stephen King wrote a book called Rage in which a character named Charlie Decker brings a gun to school, kills a teacher, and holds students hostage. Under Kentucky law if King’s grandparent’s had found a page of this story sitting in King’s typewriter they could have reported him to authorities and he would have been jailed. Sound ridiculous? It is but something like that could happen to you for doing nothing more than writing a fiction story that someone considers “threatening.”
I've also read the GOP is working on strategy to go after the Internet next. They won't to control what you say and they will do this by passing laws to control content and will do this under the guise of protecting you from something like terrorism, identity theft, etc. People laughed at me when I said we would lose rights with this Patriot Act crap, that these laws were not so much to protect us from terrorism but to control what we say and do. Keep laughing and you will find yourself in jail for writing something on your blog that the government doesn't like.
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