Saturday, November 06, 2004 :::
 

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::: posted by bite me, kick me, make me scream at 6:34 PM

 

Looking back at the events of the past week concerning the election, I am feeling a bit manipulated. All of the hubbub about the race being sooooooo close was basically a lie. It wasn’t close at all. I had misplaced hope. I thought people had kept up with the reveals, they didn’t. In fact most of the folks I know seemed to use single-issue voting. Pro-gun people voted Republican even though the NRA is one of the strongest lobbies in this country and no matter who became president the hunters are not going to lose their guns. The Bible belt went Republican too since the Republicans are known as the Bible people. They have had actual candidates like Falwell. And I did hear that the Republicans did a mass mailing telling the southerners that Kerry was going to ban the Bible.
The other strong issue to many, particularly men, was not wanting to change commanders-in-chief midwar. I guess a president has never lost an election if he was in war, so if you want to do two terms it would be good strategy to start to draw blood.
The process, the actual voting, seemed strong and true this time (for the most part) as opposed to last time in 2000 when all hell broke loose. Maybe that was planned.
My friend who is a conspiracy theorist says everything is planned. I’ve pooh-poohed that idea for a long time. Now I am not so sure.
What made me think differently is a quote from an author John Shaara. He wrote a book on WWI. He answer to the question “What do you think is the most important legacy of WWI?” is “WWI showed the world the utter devastating horror of a war mankind had never witnessed before, on a scale never anticipated, and by inflicting so much punishment on the German people after the war, the seeds were sown for a burst of German Nationalism that lead to the rise of Hitler and WWII.”
I wonder how political seeds are sown, how things are manipulated, to foster change. The rich rule the world, as they always have. Some say Bush? Kerry? It doesn’t matter who won the election. America is an Imperialist country and things will go on as planned.

::: posted by bite me, kick me, make me scream at 10:01 AM

Thursday, November 04, 2004 :::
 

Light at the End of the Tunnel
One good thing: As of yesterday George W. Bush became a lame duck president. America will wallow through 4 more years of Neo-Fascism, more gifts to the rich, either directly or through business dealings, more fallout of an administration that did anything to win the election
but
in 4 years the Great Recovery will begin.
Stay tuned.

::: posted by bite me, kick me, make me scream at 9:08 PM

Wednesday, November 03, 2004 :::
 

November 3, 2004
There are an unusually large number of boats roaring up the river today. It could be Dems trying to forget the jumble of last night or Reps celebrating their victory. Something has stirred the people up so late in the year when most boats have already been put in storage for the winter.
So there you have it. The people have made a conscious mad dash toward Neo-Fascism. They chose a dimwit puppet over an intellectual. Instead of looking to a new dawn they chose repeat more of the same…an administration run on lies and deception.
One would think that the old adage “Once you know better, you do better.” would have ruled the choice of candidates. Yet even though facts came out about how nearly everything W did was based on untruths, the people chose to re-elect him.
What if this had happened during the Vietnam War? Back then the truth won out and people became very vocal and even the war hawks altered their opinion and changed the world for the better. They chose peace.
Yesterday the people chose a continuance of war. It’s a good thing that W doesn’t allow the viewing of the flag-draped caskets coming back from Iraq. Then you that voted for him wouldn’t be so disconnected from the war and you might have considered a different vote. Your hunger for blood…those of our troops and the innocent people in Iraq makes me question my fellow citizens. I am not you. Thank God.
And to think that this administration will continue to mine the children of the poor and middle class as little more than human fodder…how do you live with that? (I was going to say go ahead and mine the red states, those that went for W, for your troops, but I cannot find the callousness and cruelty in my soul to recommend anyone for slaughter.)
As for fighting terrorism, well your administration didn’t prevent anything. 9/11 happened on your watch. Own that. And since then the terrorists haven’t tried anything, so you haven’t stopped anything. But in your calculated? dimwittedness you have usurped the rights of Americans. If you make everyone a criminal then you surely will catch a criminal, even though that may be at the expense of 1000s of law-abiding
citizens. I guess that makes sense to some. Not me.
Lastly, let me speak to the economy: the chasm between the haves and the have-nots grows every day. The unparalleled erosion is at the bottom with jobs given to Mexican illegals and at the top of the middle class through outsourcing. If you take the stance that “I’m good, tough if you aren’t.” your head will be next. It is imperative that in a wise society those better off look after those beneath them on the socio-economic scale. It is the only way to create a brilliant world. Spinning happily around in your own little sphere does nothing to promote the nation. Your light will dim as you come up next on the chopping block. But you can look forward to one bright hope: capitalists need a vast legion of slaves to work, to produce, so they can earn infinite sums of cash on your back. The billionaires will always need you, just maybe not in the capacity that you desire.
The view from here is grim. I have money so I don’t have a lot of financial worries, still I have a heart, and I don’t find any satisfaction in seeing the crumbling of our society. The USSR imploded from the inside. The USA may be on a parallel track.

::: posted by bite me, kick me, make me scream at 7:23 PM

Tuesday, November 02, 2004 :::
 

Girl Bites Man
George Bush struts around like he has just been named prom king. Just how out-of-touch is he? WE ARE IN WAR! A war YOU started! Hello!
He doesn't want you to see the flag-draped coffins of dead soldiers coming back from Iraq.
Here look at this This is the reality.
Vote today.

::: posted by bite me, kick me, make me scream at 8:29 AM

 

I had a dream, an Arcadian dream, just like Martin Luther King Jr. did. I dreamt of a world better than the world we now live in. A world where we institute a program to align and create social justice in America. (See my plan below.)
Here are some fine tuning elements:
I ‘d find out how to implement the plan with Alan Greenspan taking a look at it. I’d start with the A’s and work toward the Z’s. As each billion was paid out and fed back into the economy I’d move onto the next group of people.
The working have-nots could buy a house, send their kids to school, repair their living spaces…the money would go into the communities not into some CEO already over-bloated salary. The money would not go to war profiteers.
And I would base the program not in insulated out-of-touch Washington, DC. I’d have it run out of Wisconsin, a state where character counts for more than political affiliation, a state where good schools and good roads are given priority, a state that gave the people back state tax when it took in too much, a state that uses it’s lottery earning to give the people real property tax relief (unlike a state like Illinois, where I live, that says it gives the money to schools, which it does in a back-handed way by taking away the original school funding and replacing it with the lottery earning).
We can change. We can become more than the sum of our current bad character traits. We can become an Arcadian dream that spreads our glory out into the world by the echo effect. We can align ourselves with something positive, less filthy, less vulgar.
We can do this.

::: posted by bite me, kick me, make me scream at 8:07 AM

Monday, November 01, 2004 :::
 

I think we may live in a country where a citizen can still offer up an opinion without fear of prosecution.
Here’s the idea I would like to put out into the world:
As of today we still have a president who favors the rich and gave the millionaires a BIG tax cut. I say that is old-school Reaganesque tickle-down-theory. It didn’t work then and doesn’t work now. Last year 1.3 million people fell below the poverty line and I am quite certain that when the stats come out for this year, 2004, the numbers will be even more alarming. I am basing this on what I see happening to the economy directly within my little sphere of this country.
I would jump-start the economy in a fresh way. I would give every family in America $100,000.
Now since we have liars, cheats, thieves, and goofballs in our midst I would do this instantly so no one could change the numbers on which I would base my financial relief.
I would go by the 2003 tax returns and give the $100,000 to any family that earned less than $100,000. Any family of two or more would designate a family. If you are a couple that just cohabits, well sorry, but no cash. If you are a woman with a child, bingo, you get it.
And the earning amount of $100,000 is based on the GROSS income of the family. Because we all know that if that is your gross income you actually earned far less since you have social security and state tax deductions. And deductions can be very large from a say $250,000 income you could end up paying taxes on very little money. So the money goes to those who have not had a chance to live a real life.
Now this would equal a huge amount of money, billions of dollars, but we have at least that amount invested in the Iraq War.
But ALL of that cash from my program would be fed back into the economy almost instantly. These are folks who need a house, a car that doesn’t break down, insurance, health care policies, and a lot of necessities the rest of us take for granted. I would like to see the working poor get a leg up. Plus this would benefit those on welfare so those social programs would need less funding.
Just consider how this could benefit our planet.
We live in a country that is seen as one of the wealthiest in the world. By helping our own citizens and creating a better, healthier…both financially and physically (because of better health care) these disenfranchised citizens could reach beyond the struggle to merely survive, and when people are released from the basics. They can begin to read, to become educated, they have time to volunteer, they give to society, and as the country as a whole rides on a more glorious platform, these people can begin to reach out to others in this country and in the entire world to make the entire planet a better place for ALL.
Isn’t this what we all want? A world of understanding and help when necessary for any problem that arises. Don’t we want a magnificent glittery world where problems like AIDS in Africa can’t get the foothold that it now has? Where people don’t live in fear under oppressive governments? A world where we don’t take pleasure in the ridicule of those less fortunate. Because if you do have it, I bet you received it from your parents. Some didn’t. It’s time we become willing to open up to a better, less critical world.
I say, go ahead, to whomever is the next president after tomorrow; let’s try something radically new. Step outside the current me mindset. Let’s see what we can create. Get ready for something beyond our imaginations.

::: posted by bite me, kick me, make me scream at 9:51 PM

Sunday, October 31, 2004 :::
 

The rabid right has tried to besmirch Kerry’s military service. If you saw the Koppel report you know that what happened was factual and to have other vets with such a will-do-and-say-anything attitude to get Bush reelected is pure puke. And to say that Kerry is against the U.S. because he changed and went antiwar, well remember the times. When the people found out the truth many people took an antiwar stance. When we know better, we do better. Much of the rah-rah was simply a political diversion. Bush skirted service to his country.
Last night I was at a Halloween party. There were many 18 to 21 year old. Fresh faces striking out into the world. And all I could think of was of those that have died in Iraq. Young lives wasted.
Kerry served in a war. He knows firsthand the horror and loss. He would be hesitant and far less eager to send in troops to start a war. I have no taste for blood. No one should.


I once thought Michael Moore was a clown. I didn’t see “Bowling for Dollars” or “Farenheit911”…until recently.
He is far more sophisticated than I had imagined. He is not simply a provocateur to the far left, in a single issue way.
He is a man of ideas. “Think about this” is really what I think he is saying. He is able to take an issue and get down to what it is really about.
“Bowling for Dollars” is really about why America has so many shooting when other countries have as many guns and far less murders. It is about social issues. How the upper classes use their own lives, their means, to judge how poor people should be running their lives. The bias is an enormous compassionless chasm.
“911” gives you the facts, things you probably already knew if you are a newsy person. The poor fight our wars. That is truth. I personally know of a school that has been targeted for military recruitment. The rich feed off the poor.
The clown in this story is George Bush. A man who was unsuccessful in 4 businesses, got the governorship of a state where the governor is little more than a figurehead, then became President where the little unsuccessful man is a willing puppet for the warlike Vulcans in his cabinet. He is on top of the world, finally, the son that can say, “Dad are you proud of me now?” while begging on his knees, and he can make the have-mores his best buddies. A little man given power, a cocky strutter, when we are in war. He doesn’t even have the decorum to “act” presidential. He scares me as much as Hitler.

::: posted by bite me, kick me, make me scream at 10:36 AM