MARY LYON FROM THE LEFT: The Season of the Middle Finger

[Tace]

By Mary Lyon -- World News Trust

I’m reading all this horrifying and thoroughly outrageous stuff about Dubya authorizing spying on quite a few of us unsuspecting Americans -- does that make us unsuspecting suspects, maybe? -- and, well, I’ve gotta admit, it hasn’t changed my opinion. I salute you, King George. With my middle finger.

Frankly, that’s something else that hasn’t changed much throughout your miserable reign of domestic terrorism. Just ask my husband. Any time, and I do mean ANY time Bush’s face comes onscreen, up goes my finger. Sometimes, if it drags on for any length of time, I turn my back to him, my finger goes down, and so do my trousers. By the way, since you’re now the Snooper-in-Chief, George, howdya like me so far? Reading this over my shoulder, or, somehow, through my computer screen? Can I expect your Gestapo at my door momentarily?

No, I haven’t gone to the library to fulfill a teacher’s assignment to research the teachings of Chairman Mao in the original Chinese. No, I haven’t scoured the internet(s) for ways to create public mayhem. Not interested in that. My only weapons for however long I’ve been writing columns like these have been mere words. Mostly rantings because, well, I’ve gotta vent, you know. Things are just too rotten in the state of the United States since the dawn of the Bush-Two era. Fitting, though, that he’s “Bush Two.” The codespeak behind that actually gives me something to chuckle about. Every time we take our dog out to do “his business,” we use the bathroom codespeak known to every preschooler throughout the land so as not to set the dog off before he’s outside. He does respond well, and instantaneously, to word cues, after all. One if by liquid and two if by solid, as it were. A most apropos metaphor for the Bush One and Two regimes (especially Bush Two), wouldn’t you say?

I’m proud to have been a resister of this incompetent, evil-minded pretender who would be emperor. I’ve been a resistor ever since the activist judges on the Supreme Court allowed him to steal the first presidential election in 2000 by stopping a count of the vote of the people -- so their votes and their views would NOT count. I’ve been writing liberal columns for about three years now, and the only thing I can remember praising Junior for was his fleeting interest in building up our space program so we could go to Mars. Even that was shortlived, though, because as lofty a goal as that sounds, and as much as I love the space program and hunger for more, I’m still forced to look an apparent gift horse straight in the mouth. If it’s Bush Two, the motives cannot possibly be pure. Besides, this guy doesn’t really believe in scientific advancement anyway. His God probably told him there’s no such thing.

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[babylonsister]

1. "Sometimes...my finger goes down and so do my trousers."

Excellent rant! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[mom cat]

2. Mine goes into spasms at the sight of his face.

The doctors tell me it is incurable.

[ixion]

3. interesting... I do this, too

nice to know I'm not alone. :-)

[DRoseDARs]

4. Funny, except for the Little Red Book prt; debunked, kid confessed hoax nt

[Tace]

5. I Thought About Changing It -- But Figured Although The Mao Incident...

was a hoax, that intelligence agencies ARE scruntinizing our library records. Cheers

[applegrove]

6. Didn't the middle finger salute come from British archers who were

threatened with having their middle fingers hacked off by the French - so they could not aim and kill on the battlefield. And when that particular battle was over - the archers had won the day and they all gave the middle finger salute to the French. As if to say "here you go - this is what my middle (arching finger) thinks of you - and we still have them"! "Fuck You" meant "Pluck Yew" (bows were made our of Yew trees).

Quite appropriate in these times.

http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/pluckyew.htm

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. And add to that Snopes debunking that in England, we insult with 2 fingers

index and middle finger, not just the middle finger on its own, traditionally (the middle-finger-only insult is starting to become more common now, spreading, I think, from the USA). But the same myth about having archers' fingers cut off exists for the two-fingered English insult too.