Journal perfessor multigeek's Journal: Am I STILL Supposed To Pretend That I Consider Bush's "Elect 15
Ya know, when I keep coming across things like this while /. itself features things like this, I simply no longer have the patience to consider this anything less than an unlawful occupation of our government.
The White House is occupied by criminals. The GOP is run by criminals. Our government policies, foreign and domestic, are in the hands of criminals. Not in minor, "somehow an illegality can be found" way, but in terms of the fundamentals of what they do and how they do it.
Here in NYC the media is having a party with the Martha Stewart case. Anybody care to tell me why the many offenses of Al D'Amato have yet to see trial?
Fifty thousand dollars in questionable gains while "Kenny boy" and buddies are still being softpedaled.
The Resident in Chief has indeed built quite a record for himself and his entourage.
Makes it easy to understand the appeal of all that "John Titor" weirdness. Easy to get caught up in the romatic appeal of all that doomy storytelling about brave farmers with their small arms defeating the big bad central government.
Yeah, sure. Count me out.
I'm tired of protests. Never thought much of them in the first place.
I never supported the militias. Their macho fantaties always somehow assume a government that will "fight fair" like bad guys patiently and politely assaulting Jean Claude Van Damme one by one in a third-rate action movie.
I'll fight by getting strong and loud and cutting their support and funding out from under them.
Added two new clients this week, one politically active, the other in an international family of filmmakers.
Have been asked to help build a new lobbying campaign by a local PAC.
Have hired my first assistant who wasn't a friend or acquaintance brought in as needed, been asked to find *way* more hours for a woman who's been working for me in dribs and drabs for six months.
Working on cleaning up my much-neglected dbases, some of which will be getting circulated at a local energy teach-in next weekend.
There are an awful lot of us getting mighty pissed off and I intend to help tear the Bush crowd a new asshole, and I don't intend to use a gun to do it.
Rustin
The White House is occupied by criminals. The GOP is run by criminals. Our government policies, foreign and domestic, are in the hands of criminals. Not in minor, "somehow an illegality can be found" way, but in terms of the fundamentals of what they do and how they do it.
Here in NYC the media is having a party with the Martha Stewart case. Anybody care to tell me why the many offenses of Al D'Amato have yet to see trial?
Fifty thousand dollars in questionable gains while "Kenny boy" and buddies are still being softpedaled.
The Resident in Chief has indeed built quite a record for himself and his entourage.
Makes it easy to understand the appeal of all that "John Titor" weirdness. Easy to get caught up in the romatic appeal of all that doomy storytelling about brave farmers with their small arms defeating the big bad central government.
Yeah, sure. Count me out.
I'm tired of protests. Never thought much of them in the first place.
I never supported the militias. Their macho fantaties always somehow assume a government that will "fight fair" like bad guys patiently and politely assaulting Jean Claude Van Damme one by one in a third-rate action movie.
I'll fight by getting strong and loud and cutting their support and funding out from under them.
Added two new clients this week, one politically active, the other in an international family of filmmakers.
Have been asked to help build a new lobbying campaign by a local PAC.
Have hired my first assistant who wasn't a friend or acquaintance brought in as needed, been asked to find *way* more hours for a woman who's been working for me in dribs and drabs for six months.
Working on cleaning up my much-neglected dbases, some of which will be getting circulated at a local energy teach-in next weekend.
There are an awful lot of us getting mighty pissed off and I intend to help tear the Bush crowd a new asshole, and I don't intend to use a gun to do it.
Rustin
Do I repeat myself? Hell, yes! I repeat myself! (Score:2)
Hey, it's my journal, for crying out loud. Once in a while allow me the luxury of repetitive and superficial rants. After all, most
Am I making any great new policy points in this little rant?
uhhhhh.....No.
Feel even more free than usual to click the URLs (or not) and move on.
Rustin
Cliff wrote about it (Score:1)
Ahhh well. What can you do, such is the nature of a republic.
What keeps me up nights is.. that i think no matter how well we scream or protest or try to convice, and no matter what we do... it might not make a lick of difference.
What let's me goto sleep is, I know it's just got to be better in no more than 4 more years...
Only... I know better.
Re:Cliff wrote about it (Score:1)
Sez you. My mother's theory is this:
GWB wins this fall.
Republicans maintain control in 2006.
Cheney retires shortly thereafter.
Jeb appointed VP.
Jeb runs in 2008.
Maybe. It would take some supreme artistry by Rove to pull it off, but it's probably doable.
'No more kings'?
Re:Cliff wrote about it (Score:2)
Re:Cliff wrote about it (Score:2)
Re:Cliff wrote about it (Score:1)
Must be getting slow in my old age.
Re:Cliff wrote about it (Score:2)
Bush royal family (Score:2)
[GOP victory] in 2006.
Cheney retires...
Jeb appointed VP...runs in 2008.
Now that is really f*cking creepy. I'm not sure that I would rule it out either. It has never been wise to dismiss anything as undoable by this crowd merely on grounds of transparent sleaziness.
With the way things are these days, if the entire cabinet were to be caught on network television giving handjobs to a row of oil executives, Fox would call it "heroic, lifesaving medical care for patriotic advisors", AB
So what *can* you do? (Score:2)
I don't.
I just don't think it's about any variation on screaming or protesting and the people we should be trying to convince are our peers.
We're not children. We shouldn't limit our response in a crisis to trying to get someone else to make it better.
If this is to get fixed, we'll have to do the job ourselves.
This means routing our money and that of those we influence out of corporate hands.
It means undermining the monopolies of the ruling corporations
Re:So what *can* you do? (Score:2)
By the same token, I hate what's been happening to our country and I despise the criminals in the capital that claim to be
Re:So what *can* you do? (Score:2)
letters to editors (Score:2)
Think about the amount of time you spend posting to slashdot. How many people could you potentially reach if you spent 1/4 of that time composing and sending lett
Re:letters to editors (Score:2)
Re:So what *can* you do? (Score:2)
Volunteer for a political campaign. I know you say you don't like politics but this isn't the same as debating here on slash or watching the talking heads on the news. Don't knock it 'till you try it. Besides being involved at the grassroots level of your chosen party gives you a heck of a lot more influence than you might realize.
Encorage canidates for office to rely on small donors rather than a handful of rich people. Whatever
please see... (Score:2)