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20 juli 2004
And Then What?
The Demos are good at pointing out Bush's faults...or at least they do it a lot. But have you noticed they mostly do it in the past tense?
Republicans, on the other hand, play the spoiler before the fact. The spectre preceeds the fact, so why not go after that? Get a bit of a head start, right? Best way to deal with a Present that's not going exactly your way is to sabotage potential futures by stirring up hysteria and fear. Don't wait for that smoking gun, cuz then it's too late.
Does this ring any bells?
The one question I've yet to see the so-called liberal media bring up is...."And THEN what?"
I doubt I have many conservative readers, but I'd really like to know:
- So you keep gay people second-class. What does that get you?
- So you get that tax break. Where's the pay off beyond the extra money lining your wallet?
- So the world can totally suck. How would you actually set out to make it better, instead of just bitching that the liberals are only making things worse?
- The FoxNewsAnnCoulterSeanHannityBillO'Reilly crowd will give you 10-word sound-bytes as to why the liberals are of the devil. What are those next 10 words telling us exactly how YOU people are?
You guys have been screaming about nothing at such a volume for so long that people forgot to do anything other than try to pull you back to Reasonable.
Fuck that noise. C'mon Conservatives...YOU tell ME why you're better. You tell ME what contributions you can offer, ideas you have, that will make the world a genuinely better place, instead of just telling us why the liberals have ruined it.
Maybe that will shut you the fuck up, but I'm not holding my breath.
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Clean Bathroom and Feet
Life, like evolution, seems to subscribe to the notion of punctuated equilibrium. That is to say, that thing seems to be fairly stable for stretches of time, then flux comes to town and washes away quite a bit of the old while ushering in (or clearing space for) the new.
Such was Lazybear weekend up in Guerneville. You won't hear me mocking martinets or bitching about the bears. No, not at all. This weekend was just a terrific time with terrific people.
I feel so much closer to FTP and to D., so much more relaxed and settled-in with Sam, so much more familiar with my friends, so happy to have met some terrific men (especially the Kiwi/Aussie hotties).
We left on Sunday afternoon instead of Monday morning as we'd planned, because we missed the Internet. Seriously, we did, but there were other more reasonable....reasons like, as Shan said, "I miss having a private bathroom...and clean feet."
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