calimary
calimary's JournalWhat a tangled web we weave...
especially when we're mitt wrongney, busily figuring out all the sneakiest ways to deny America the support he should provide as a wealthy taxpayer and alleged patriot and lover of country. He's a fair-weather friend of America if ever there was one.
But if she loses, we STILL need to keep an eye on her. She won't go quietly.
Any more than sarah palin has faded back into the obscurity she deserves. michele bachmann will not take a defeat lying down. She'll be back in some form. Probably a talking head. Probably on Pox Noise. And she'll use whatever pulpit she can build - to continue to make trouble. COUNT ON IT.
CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!! Like Mad-Eye Moody warned Harry Potter. With good reason. We're surrounded by Death Eaters. For real.
Especially eyes that view anything ONLY through the lens of what's good for business.
To hell with how it impacts families. What does it do for business - especially if the business isn't "comfortable" with a couple or a family that "doesn't look like them."
SHEESH.
You don't run a COUNTRY with a mind focused ONLY on cost-benefit analysis. You run for-profit outfits on cost-benefit analysis, because the reason for being is profit. The government is NOT built on for-profit motivation!!!!
Why thanks, Lyin' ryan! If I weren't keeping closer track of this one, you've simplified it for me!
How thoughtful of you! If I knew nothing else about this - than which side you're taking, that'd be enough.
Whichever side you pick, I will go and stand with the OTHER side.
Sometimes that's actually helpful when I look at my voter pamphlet and check out who's supporting and opposing ballot measures and lesser-known candidates. Follow the money. VERY instructive. Sometimes that decides it for me - all by itself.
And I think that's well worth remembering in the biggest races like the one for President. REMEMBER: It's not ONLY the candidate you're voting in. It's all the other people that candidate brings in with him/her. AND the unseen, under-the-radar agendas that get in, too. For example, who cares if romney's saying he'd make an exception for the life of the mother (at least during this quarter-hour), when you also remember that his chosen second-in-command - and all HIS little friends and cohorts - are rabidly anti-choice. WHO do you think will have the close and PRIME access to blow in the ear of the decider in chief? Somebody who shares your own pro-choice views, or the opposite?
Always look at whose around them, and who they hang with. Remember "by thy friends art thou known."
Gotta be modeling the Pants Pilot. From "The Man Show" of old. Worn to light farts.
Because there's such horrendously stinky stuff emanating from these two that it might as well be coming directly out through their individual assholes!
ASIDE from the fact that this perfectly documents their lifetime membership in the "Pants on Fire" Club!
All the MORE reason not to get complacent! We have battles to fight there, too.
Obama won't be able to get much done if he has another obstructive Congress. And they can be counted on to turn even more pigheaded and Sore-Loserman than before, judging from the track record of their reprehensible, disgusting, disgraceful behavior.
I know what you mean! INFURIATING!!!
We warned about ALL these things, because we here on DU and elsewhere in the blogosphere bothered to take the time to look stuff up and dig and read other sources than the superficial or agenda-driven ones like Pox Noise and the New York Post. There WERE other sources. I liked the UK Guardian a lot. And THEY were telling the truth. Of course NOBODY here in the US media listened. NOBODY here bothered to dig, or even to interview opposing views! NOBODY gave a damn. They were all like lester holt on NBC and others who were nothing more than frickin' CHEERLEADERS for war. And they were proud of this. They helped ramrod the rest of us into war with Iraq - that made NO sense, and was based in NO truth.
I've felt really sour about this. I'm tired of being correct about something, and being ignored and slammed and insulted and attacked (mostly verbally), and then I and others who were activists on this score turned out to be correct. WE were correct. WE were the ones shunned and shut out of the media, never invited to be commentators or talking heads or guests on shows. It was all republi-CONS, CONservatives, neoCONS, and more GOPers. Most of them chickenhawks, too - NEVER had bothered their pretty little heads about enlisting in the military, wearing their country's uniform, and maybe even seeing combat, close up. They all were home in their comfy chairs surrounded by their many excuses and deferments and other cop-outs. But they sure liked to talk tough - and they had a mighty big Wurlitzer behind them, amplifying everything they said, every false claim they made, and every lie they told. They got listened to, and paid attention to, A LOT. They ran the table as far as that went. There was no room nor was there any time, face time or otherwise, in the media for the growing number of objectors and experts and opposing views. NONE.
And we lost more than 4,000 American troops - who died for a lie.
There was a news story here in L.A. yesterday about a large fish die-off in the Salton Sea.
The report described this smell of sulfur that permeated the air all over Southern California, and said that people were calling in about it. When I heard that, before I heard word about the suspected cause, my first reaction was - "what happened? Did cheney die?"
Well, that shows how inspiring she is!
I like "her ladyship ann of dressage." But ayn romney works. As does "mrs. SMUG"!
Or maybe ayn/ann WRONGney?
Gee, ya think?????
Sigh - yet another case of "we knew and tried to warn everyone," and nobody listened. Everybody scoffed. Some among us who spoke out and tried to convince people that "bush KNEW" suffered for it. We were slammed in the media and in our neighborhoods. Some who tried to tell the truth and wake people up were fired from their jobs. Others were shunned and denounced as traitors or Saddam-lovers or al Qaeda lovers. We were denounced on hate radio and called names, many of which we continued to hear thrown at us when there was no radio on within earshot. We saw through the excuses to pile on Saddam Hussein when we knew what had been going on. I still have my bumper sticker, "bush KNEW." And somebody keyed my car and sliced one of my tires. So many of us here at DU and elsewhere in the progressive underground tried to wake people up.
It was hard and frustrating, and INFURIATING sometimes! Even when you'd talk to people and they'd begrudgingly admit, after awhile, that they were getting the wrong information or "well, I dunno..." sometimes they were still unreachable. People hate to be wrong. They REALLY hate to have it proven to them and then to have to admit it. So some of them, the non-adult, less-evolved, lower life forms, will deliberately REFUSE to do so, clinging to their denial as though it were a life preserver they found floating by after the Titanic went down.
We were correct - yet again. And of course few listened. And most ignored.
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