An embarrassment of riches
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amari_zI used to laugh at those people who had emergency bunkers in their backyards, but no longer. Unfortunately, I have no backyard.
As was no doubt predictable from the moment O'Connor resigned: A state is about to pass legislation banning all abortions (and by the way, no exception for rape or incest, although I suppose women should be grateful that they'll still be allowed to choose whether or not to have an abortion or to die). Let the slide into religious theocracy continue. (Because, as we've seen from other examples around the world, it is, after all, a truly excellent form of government--just check out the Taliban--no question everyone behaved themselves under their regime. But, oh, wait, I thought we hated them (didn't we blow the shit out of them?)--but I guess it's really all about what kind of theos you have in your cracy.)
Oh, and since our government is so concerned about spreading democracy (and we all know from social studies class that a free press in the cornerstone of any democracy), the U.S. government is continuing to use my tax dollars to pay for pro-American articles in the Iraqi press (and btw, Rumsfeld, "just misstated the facts" when he said last week that the U.S. had stopped this practice--and that's not a lie exactly how?). But silly me to object to this, since while we are trying to spread "democracy" it is the new, improved version of American "democracy" in which the first principle is that the administration gets what it wants and the media should be its propaganda machine. And the Constitution is just, like the Pirate Code, more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules.
And if the recent election was not clue enough, Canada is looking less and less likely as a sane line of retreat. You might need your own bunkers soon, Canadians, because the Christian right is turning its eyes in your direction. Be afraid. I'm not kidding.
And don't feel too smug, Brits. Apparently, your government is trying to pull a Bush and award itself powers to literally do anything it wants. Again, I'm not kidding. Parliament, following in Congress's footsteps, may soon just be another residual but useless organ (like your appendix).
And I'm not even going to mention ports, the ongoing Katrina cover up, how the illegal wiretapping has basically successfully been brushed aside, the attack on the Samarra shrine, the ongoing voting machine fiasco (because even when you've stacked the deck in your favor, stuffing the ballot box is the only guarantee), how Cheney was most likely drunk when he shot his hunting buddy (who has now extended his profuse apologies to Cheney for his inconsiderate act of getting himself shot in the face), and . . . and . . . .
As was no doubt predictable from the moment O'Connor resigned: A state is about to pass legislation banning all abortions (and by the way, no exception for rape or incest, although I suppose women should be grateful that they'll still be allowed to choose whether or not to have an abortion or to die). Let the slide into religious theocracy continue. (Because, as we've seen from other examples around the world, it is, after all, a truly excellent form of government--just check out the Taliban--no question everyone behaved themselves under their regime. But, oh, wait, I thought we hated them (didn't we blow the shit out of them?)--but I guess it's really all about what kind of theos you have in your cracy.)
Oh, and since our government is so concerned about spreading democracy (and we all know from social studies class that a free press in the cornerstone of any democracy), the U.S. government is continuing to use my tax dollars to pay for pro-American articles in the Iraqi press (and btw, Rumsfeld, "just misstated the facts" when he said last week that the U.S. had stopped this practice--and that's not a lie exactly how?). But silly me to object to this, since while we are trying to spread "democracy" it is the new, improved version of American "democracy" in which the first principle is that the administration gets what it wants and the media should be its propaganda machine. And the Constitution is just, like the Pirate Code, more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules.
And if the recent election was not clue enough, Canada is looking less and less likely as a sane line of retreat. You might need your own bunkers soon, Canadians, because the Christian right is turning its eyes in your direction. Be afraid. I'm not kidding.
And don't feel too smug, Brits. Apparently, your government is trying to pull a Bush and award itself powers to literally do anything it wants. Again, I'm not kidding. Parliament, following in Congress's footsteps, may soon just be another residual but useless organ (like your appendix).
And I'm not even going to mention ports, the ongoing Katrina cover up, how the illegal wiretapping has basically successfully been brushed aside, the attack on the Samarra shrine, the ongoing voting machine fiasco (because even when you've stacked the deck in your favor, stuffing the ballot box is the only guarantee), how Cheney was most likely drunk when he shot his hunting buddy (who has now extended his profuse apologies to Cheney for his inconsiderate act of getting himself shot in the face), and . . . and . . . .
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Date: 2006-02-23 11:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-24 12:19 am (UTC)Yes, but unfortunately, the way we're heading, we may soon not be.
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Date: 2006-02-24 02:59 am (UTC)Let freedom ring, my ass.
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Date: 2006-02-24 04:34 am (UTC)If you had left out the comma, that would have been even more of a statement. :p
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Date: 2006-02-24 03:42 am (UTC)Stupid people making stupid choices = a giant cubicle in a giant corporation with no vacation days.
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Date: 2006-02-24 04:46 am (UTC)One amusing/scary story I read recently was about how the government was monitoring the activities of vegans (dangerous, violent subversives, those vegetarian types--have you heard they don't eat meat?). If you're curious I can probably dig up the article. There was also one from further back about the undergrad who requested a copy of Mao's little red book through inter-library loan for a paper he was writing and was visited by federal agents (although apparently the government denied this story--but we all know they're in the truth business). I kid you not. You could not make this shit up if you tried.
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Date: 2006-02-24 01:48 pm (UTC)Jen
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Date: 2006-02-24 07:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-24 08:36 pm (UTC)Anything to not have to work - I KNOW you KNOW what I am talking about :o)
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Date: 2006-02-24 08:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-24 07:16 pm (UTC)The world is turning into an uglier place every day.
The worst thing about all of it is that U.S. is the most influent country in the world - every shit done there is repeated all over the globe. And it has to be this way, 'cause if we don't play by the American Government's rules (rules, by the way, that protect the american economy interests and fuck the interests of our people), they may "find out" that we have biological weapons hidden in our ass...
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Date: 2006-02-24 07:57 pm (UTC)We should all just shut up and trust them, because, God (and Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and Co.) knows, this country was founded on principles of keeping quiet and trusting the government. Especially a strong executive named George.