I spent all day yesterday running errands and painting my upstairs hallway. My lovely mother came over and brought six gallons of water from her well in Big Lake - the best water on Earth - so that I would have something better to drink than the dirty-tasting crap that comes out of the tap.
It was my Tatianic Companion's 24th birthday as well. I remember when I turned 24. I still lived with my parents in Big Lake back then. It was a few days before I found my first apartment at 3536 Emerson Ave in Uptown.
I just finished reading an excerpt from "The Great Unraveling," a book by Paul Krugman, published in this week's Rolling Stone Magazine. I also heard Paul Krugman interviewed on MPR, my favorite radio station.
In it, he discussed the manipulative nature of the Republican Party, of how it speaks to the moderates in this country, but it's true goal is for a serious ideological revolution that would change the very way America operates. The evidence is in all of its actions, how it tells us one thing, and as that one thing comes to be false, it tells us another. As that becomes false, it will tell us yet another. For example: The first reason given to topple Saddam Hussein was his weapons of mass destruction, particularly nuclear weapons which we were told time and again he was seeking out. That Saddam Hussein wanted to have nuclear weapons. The evidence was in Aluminum tubes and documents found in Nigeria. After those Aluminum tubes turned out to be too small for any such purpose and the Nigerian documents proven to be falsified, it became his connection to the events of September 11th, of which there are none. At one point, Bill Moyers Journalist of PBS's Now series, pointed out that over 50% of Americans believed that Hussein had something to do with the attacks of September 11th, a strong testament to how brilliantly ignorant most of my fellow Americans are.
When it became clear that Saddam Hussein's only support of terrorism was to donate large sums of money to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers in Israel, well then came the argument that a democratic Iraq would spread democracy throughout the Middle East. All we need do to see how that's going is take a good look at the state of things in Iraq.
So, if all these reasons were false, why did we invade? Why have we broken the peace? And this isn't the only area the Bush numbfucks are sucking off the moderates. How about taxes? The tax cuts will help the economy, then they will bring money to working families, good for wartime economies, etc. But they aren't helping. The only thing that's helped is lower interest rates.
No, none of the things the Bush Administration has done has been for any reason sparked by events happening in the real world. All Bush Administration decisions have been made from an ideological standpoint. No matter what the state of the world, their neoconservative agenda would call for them to 1) Ignore the United Nations in favor of their own authority. America has always supported the UN and has stood strong for its existence and authority. This move will help bring the United States closer to it's neoconservative goal of becoming the greatest world empire in recorded history on Earth. 2) Completely destroy taxes as we know them so that poor in America are ordered to pay more and rich much less. 3) Bankrupt the government in order to destroy social spending. This administration believes in spending money on the military and nothing else. "Redistribution of wealth" scares them more than Darth Vader, nevermind how prosperous we have been when living under this system in the 90's. 4) Lastly, unite church and state so that those conservative Christians who blasphemously claim to know the will of the God can assist in dictating law and lifestyle across the country.
If things are safe in the world, they'd still push for unilateralism. If we were prospering, they'd still cut the taxes, if all churches were seeing record numbers of partitioners in attendance, they would still call for the union of Church and State. Why? Because it's the ideology of a bunch of Harvard graduate book-worms' whose silver-spoon-in-the-mouth lifestyle buffers them from having to see how the real world works. That's who's in charge from Mexico to Canada. That's who calls the shots from Atlantic to Pacific.
Moderates fool themselves when they think that these are modest changes that the Administration is pushing us towards. Not so. They will go further and further and further, as long as moderates continue to be their complacent selves.
Lowering taxes on the rich has caused tremendous deficits and will continue to do so. Bankrupting the government will lower our credit in the world, causing interest rates to soar - the rich will be richer, the poor, poorer. With no social spending, the poor will become even poorer. Making the United States into an empire will corrupt us and make all other countries in the world hate us at the same time they are dependent upon us. Unifying Church and State will cause all our civil rights to be lost.
Like Chris Martin of Coldplay asks us, "Open up your eyes." If you are a moderate, join me in removing the neoconservative phallus from your anal cavity and standing tall again! Let us NOT let those of us in the Bush Administration manipulate the term "patriot" to suit neoconservative goals and let us NOT allow our great country be destroyed!
I like these two guys:
John Kerry: http://www.johnkerry.com/
Howard Dean: http://www.deanforamerica.com/
Both would make great Presidents and stop all this bullshit from happening.
Kerry seems to me more likely to defeat Bush in my eyes, but I like Dean. Check them out.
"Liberals are Moderates who don't like to suck the Right Wing's diseased cock. Ain't nothin' wrong with bein' a Liberal." ---Me
It was my Tatianic Companion's 24th birthday as well. I remember when I turned 24. I still lived with my parents in Big Lake back then. It was a few days before I found my first apartment at 3536 Emerson Ave in Uptown.
I just finished reading an excerpt from "The Great Unraveling," a book by Paul Krugman, published in this week's Rolling Stone Magazine. I also heard Paul Krugman interviewed on MPR, my favorite radio station.
In it, he discussed the manipulative nature of the Republican Party, of how it speaks to the moderates in this country, but it's true goal is for a serious ideological revolution that would change the very way America operates. The evidence is in all of its actions, how it tells us one thing, and as that one thing comes to be false, it tells us another. As that becomes false, it will tell us yet another. For example: The first reason given to topple Saddam Hussein was his weapons of mass destruction, particularly nuclear weapons which we were told time and again he was seeking out. That Saddam Hussein wanted to have nuclear weapons. The evidence was in Aluminum tubes and documents found in Nigeria. After those Aluminum tubes turned out to be too small for any such purpose and the Nigerian documents proven to be falsified, it became his connection to the events of September 11th, of which there are none. At one point, Bill Moyers Journalist of PBS's Now series, pointed out that over 50% of Americans believed that Hussein had something to do with the attacks of September 11th, a strong testament to how brilliantly ignorant most of my fellow Americans are.
When it became clear that Saddam Hussein's only support of terrorism was to donate large sums of money to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers in Israel, well then came the argument that a democratic Iraq would spread democracy throughout the Middle East. All we need do to see how that's going is take a good look at the state of things in Iraq.
So, if all these reasons were false, why did we invade? Why have we broken the peace? And this isn't the only area the Bush numbfucks are sucking off the moderates. How about taxes? The tax cuts will help the economy, then they will bring money to working families, good for wartime economies, etc. But they aren't helping. The only thing that's helped is lower interest rates.
No, none of the things the Bush Administration has done has been for any reason sparked by events happening in the real world. All Bush Administration decisions have been made from an ideological standpoint. No matter what the state of the world, their neoconservative agenda would call for them to 1) Ignore the United Nations in favor of their own authority. America has always supported the UN and has stood strong for its existence and authority. This move will help bring the United States closer to it's neoconservative goal of becoming the greatest world empire in recorded history on Earth. 2) Completely destroy taxes as we know them so that poor in America are ordered to pay more and rich much less. 3) Bankrupt the government in order to destroy social spending. This administration believes in spending money on the military and nothing else. "Redistribution of wealth" scares them more than Darth Vader, nevermind how prosperous we have been when living under this system in the 90's. 4) Lastly, unite church and state so that those conservative Christians who blasphemously claim to know the will of the God can assist in dictating law and lifestyle across the country.
If things are safe in the world, they'd still push for unilateralism. If we were prospering, they'd still cut the taxes, if all churches were seeing record numbers of partitioners in attendance, they would still call for the union of Church and State. Why? Because it's the ideology of a bunch of Harvard graduate book-worms' whose silver-spoon-in-the-mouth lifestyle buffers them from having to see how the real world works. That's who's in charge from Mexico to Canada. That's who calls the shots from Atlantic to Pacific.
Moderates fool themselves when they think that these are modest changes that the Administration is pushing us towards. Not so. They will go further and further and further, as long as moderates continue to be their complacent selves.
Lowering taxes on the rich has caused tremendous deficits and will continue to do so. Bankrupting the government will lower our credit in the world, causing interest rates to soar - the rich will be richer, the poor, poorer. With no social spending, the poor will become even poorer. Making the United States into an empire will corrupt us and make all other countries in the world hate us at the same time they are dependent upon us. Unifying Church and State will cause all our civil rights to be lost.
Like Chris Martin of Coldplay asks us, "Open up your eyes." If you are a moderate, join me in removing the neoconservative phallus from your anal cavity and standing tall again! Let us NOT let those of us in the Bush Administration manipulate the term "patriot" to suit neoconservative goals and let us NOT allow our great country be destroyed!
I like these two guys:
John Kerry: http://www.johnkerry.com/
Howard Dean: http://www.deanforamerica.com/
Both would make great Presidents and stop all this bullshit from happening.
Kerry seems to me more likely to defeat Bush in my eyes, but I like Dean. Check them out.
"Liberals are Moderates who don't like to suck the Right Wing's diseased cock. Ain't nothin' wrong with bein' a Liberal." ---Me
Anyways....you sure do type til' the cows come home. That has to feel pretty good.