I want a do-over, and so do many others - thanks to repubs, they are screwed

[The Straight Story]

I spent a part of my afternoon on my front porch smoking and thinking. I do that at times, pace for a few hours pondering life, day dreaming, working on math problems, etc and so on. I was doing that yesterday and met a guy out canvassing for issue 3 here in ohio and got him to write down this website to check out, hopefully he joins soon.

I miss my mom. A lot. And even more now for reasons that are best left to a thread by itself (and it deals with growing up, fundies, repugs, and a huge realization I came to a few nights ago which really shook my world).

I missed a lot of time with her, life gets in the way you know. We did spend time together, there just was not enough of it and we all miss her. My brother got 5 more years than I did with her since he is older, lucky him. I did not spend enough time with her when she was in the hospital. I didn't really get to say good bye. And it f'ing kills me to no end.

I want a do-over. One more chance. One more day at least.

And then I sit here and think about the troops who have died in these damned wars we are in. And about iraqi families who have lost so many.

The misery and pain I am dealing with nearly two years after her death is magnified thousands of times because of one party. The party that helped create the alqaeda terrorists who snuffed out thousands of lives that september morning. The party that has killed more people since 2000 then I think one can really count with any accuracy.

The party who claims we are safer now - so safe they have to pass new laws and restrict our freedoms because the threat is still there. How the hell does that f'ing work???? The party which wants to erect a fence on our southern border, to try and make us 'feel' safer because they cannot make us safer due to their own incompetence.

The party that has let NK develop nukes without doing jack to stop em. The same damned party who has strained our relationship with the rest of the world and made it a much more dangerous place for us.

I can't have a do over with mom. Nor can the families of others lost due to this damned party, or the people without health care who lost someone, or the poor people who have slipped into a deep depression and lost so much.

But we can have a do over this election day. We can have a new start with our country and our world. We cannot bring back the dead and ease the suffering of loss. But we can prevent it from re-occuring.

We can, as Stephen King might say in his most well known novel, Stand.

The past has been written, the pen for the future is within our grasp. Let us take it this November, and start writing a better story.

[demwing]

1. Your heart

was obviously poured into this message.

K & R.

[JeffR]

2. Of many inspiring posts here recently

This is the best I've seen. Thank you for writing from the heart, a good heart in which your mother's memory still lives and breathes.

Here's to that better story! I consider what you've posted to be Chapter One.

[Suich]

3. Wonderful post...thank you for sharing!

:hug:

Recommended

[Parche]

4. post

Bravo, like the previous posters said, this is an awesome post......
Makes you realize that you need to spend as much time with the people you love

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"It is said that if you move a single pebble on the beach, you set up a different pattern, and everything in the world is changed. It can also be said that love can change the future, if it is deep enough, true enough, and selfless enough. It can prevent a war, prohibit a plague, keep the whole world... whole."

[Gregorian]

5. I just voted. And hopefully I made my stand.

We only have what we have.

I'm still pissed off about getting a world from the previous generation that is screwed. You might think it's trivial, but when I was a child you could get tomatoes from the store that were fantastic. Not cardboard crap. Little things like that. Want privacy without cars? Good luck! You better be rich so you can have a thousand acres.

And I've spent a lot of time with my dad lamenting what I don't have. Then one day he said, "Rome is always burning". Wow.

So I look around. Darfur. The holocausts. The Iraqis. The Afghanis. And you're right. We start from where we are, and take that step. The good one.

[glitch]

6. Beautiful! K & R nt

[JeffR]

7. Time to kick it up

So here goes.

:kick:

[The Straight Story]

8. Thank you kindly!

I have just gotten so mad at the repubs and govt the last few days I feel like pulling out my hair. Sure I was mad before, but so close to an election and hearing so many lie spewing ads by them is enough to make me crack.

[JeffR]

9. Keep it together

If you think it's tough on the left side of the aisle these days, imagine what it must be like to be fRepublican. It's gotta be awful. And it couldn't be happening to a more deserving bunch o' folks.

[The Straight Story]

11. You know, you just reminded me of something

From the movie the stand (which I watched again a few days ago) when Larry Underwood and the two fellows he was traveling with (After Stu got his leg broke) were confronting the dark sided goons he said something akin to 'can you feel it, they know their time is up, it's slipping away for them'.

Yeah, I can feel it. It might come in slow doses, but I do sense the end of Flagg (bush) and his type in a political sense of the word.

[JeffR]

12. I always figured Flagg for a Republican

same for the vampires in Salem's Lot.

EDIT: crap typing!!

[fooj]

10. Wow.

:grouphug: