Thursday, November 04, 2004
It's Safe To Say That We're Fucked
I've long thought about starting a blog, and I think I have just become pissed off enough to do so.
Yes, we have the best country in world. So why complain about Bush being re-elected? 1) While being the best, we are easily the most dissappointing country in the world. 2) Because Thomas Jefferson would. 3) It is Patriotic.
I even crossed my own party lines, The Libertarian Party, to vote for Kerry so we could end this abomination of an administration, so we could end this spreading of intolerance, so we could keep religion from interfering with policy, so we could take advantage of stem cell research, so the American people would have a better chance of keeping their social freedoms, so we could stop our country from continuing on this imperialistically dangerous path, and so we could finally concentrate on the real terrorist, Osama Bin Laden. So Fuck Bush and his god and his business interests and his oil and his ineptitude. He is erasing any progress we have made.
What needs to happen in this country for people to roll over in the morning and think to themselves, "You know, things just aren't moving in the right direction right now." C'mon people, at least 51% of you, wake the fuck up.
Scary doesn't even begin to describe what happened on Tuesday. This is our generations "Day of Infamy," the day when the Republicans took a 55-45 seat lead in the Senate, the day when they took control of the House, holding 230 of the 435 seats, the day when they won the presidential election, electing a, to use the most simplistic of parlance, bumbling idiot with too much interest in the self and not enough in the betterment of the country. To drive the dagger deeper, at least one and potentially three Supreme Court bench seats will be opening, and with a Republican President, Senate, and House, you can be sure that we will see a conservative named to the bench, a bench that already has a conservative slant.
What does all this mean? It means that the church and state will continue to get closer every day, it means that advances in stem cell research will not be made, it means that many of our freedoms and rights are in danger, such as a women's right to choose.
Something that people don't think about nearly enough is our freedom from things, not our freedom of things. This is important. Freedom of something should automatically imply freedom from something. We have freedom of speech, but we also have freedom from speech - it's called the 5th amendment. While we have freedom of religion, we need to also have freedom from religion. I demand to be free from President Bush's and the rest of the Religious Right's religion. I should not have to sit and listen to the President and Senator Kerry talk about their faith on a nationally televised presidential debate. It should not matter and damn the moderator for asking, that bastard was asking questions to give Bush the edge all night, and Kerry still won the debate. Someone needs to give the country orders to not take "God Speak" into consideration when deciding who will receive their vote. It is like in a jury trial when a lawyer or witness divulges information that has been deemed inadmissible by the court and the jury is instructed to disregard that information in their deliberations. It happens in movies and on TV quite often; I believe it does in Runaway Jury. But even though the jury is supposed to pretend they didn't hear it, they still did. The judge's orders will affect some jurors and others will blow it off, but at least he is getting through to some. This is what needs to happen, someone needs to come on TV after the debates and remind the American Public about where church speak is appropriate and where it is not. Church, faith, God, etc, has no place in a political debate in America. It is plain and simple, yet so hard for some to understand.
That's heavy shit and these are heavy times. America, in its current form, has been going strong for 200+ years. How many other countries can you name that have gone as strong as we for as long? It is going to end sometime and the next four years will be crucial in deciding when. Will Bush keep blowing off allies? Will he keep unjustly "going on the offensive?" If so, sorry kids, but we're fucked. We have the greatest democracy to ever exist, even as corrupted as it is. But what we need is a politician to step forward and show some balls - cast down religion in politics, tell the special interest groups to go to hell - this person needs to have a high profile, they need to debate anyone willing to challenge them. I am sure there are many people out there who would be awesome for this position, but there are two problems, this person would need to be independently wealthy and elected as a Democrat or Republican (probably Democrat) and good luck getting those guys to do what needs to be done. They need to be able to reach into the minds of Americans and stimulate that duty to country obligation so they will look at things as Americans should, with respect to the constitution and their fellow countrymen. Instead we have people looking at things with respect to their own interests and their god. God, I hate God.
We need to make progress socially, economically, and globally. Socially we need to hand the homosexual community their rights on a silver platter. Get married; receive all the benefits heterosexuals do, good for you. People, this is only a matter of time until it happens. Look at what happened with Civil Rights and Women's Rights, it took some time, but they eventually receive all the rights that white men have. Do we really live in a country that is this insensitive? For you gay bashing Jesus Soldiers out there, your church doesn't need to recognize the marriage, that's completely up to them, as granted by the constitution, but the government certainly needs to. It is only a matter of time, after this administration passes through, of course.
From anger to utter bafflement, how does the Democratic Party lose this election? With the amount of anti-Bush sentiment that is out there, it seems like they should have been able to run Ted Kennedy and win the presidency. But nope. And here is why, we see and hear all the anti-Bush stuff because protesting speaks louder than assembling in support of something. Also, because the major media outlets are located on the coasts and the coasts tend to be liberal, excluding Fox, of course, so we see much more of it. You don't see people in Oklahoma or Wyoming on national TV much.
I'm excited to head to my political science class tomorrow, which is a rarity for me, for all classes. Our Prof has dedicated a day of class to the election so it will be good to hear some opinions on it there. I intentionally took this course this semester for this reason. I thought ahead, also a rarity for me, and I'm glad I did.
On to lighter subjects, The OC's season two premieres tomorrow night. It is the kind of show I usually despise, but the writing is smart and witty, especially for the characters of Sandy and Seth Cohen, played by Peter Gallagher and Adam Brody, respectively. They even give smart quips to Anna and Summer at times, characters who in most shows would be complete ditzes. In The OC they are only part-time ditzes. I hope they bring Anna back this season. And followed by The OC is CSI, which I love, and then after that tomorrow night Ray Liotta is guest starring on ER. I never watch ER, but since Shoeless Joe Jackson will be on it tomorrow, you can bet I will be there. Liotta is far underrated, one of the best actors America has to offer. See the movie Narc. I was also excited to see that NBC will have a show in 2005 called "Criminal Behavior" where Liotta will play Frank Nolan, a character specifically written for him by writer/executive producer Shane Salerno.
Also, running in my school's newspaper tomorrow is an article I wrote previewing the basketball season. It is kind of bland and not real exciting, but it is just reporting, take in info and spit it back out on the page kind of stuff. This is the second article I have written for the paper, the first was an article on playing poker, specifically Texas Hold 'Em. I liked the article I turned in, but I was pissed when I read it because the copy and managing editors took out a few paragraphs, destroying the article's continuity and making me look like I write like a fourth grader. I was pissed, really pissed. Hopefully tomorrow goes better and they don't mess around with my words. I don't mind if they make corrections, or minimal changes, but changing points I make and rearranging my words are what gets me pissed.
I will let you know how it goes.
I was just reading some shit online about Ray Liotta and I came across a message board where people were ranking other people's DVD collections on a scale of 1-10. Who gives a shit who owns what or what some knob you don't know thinks of your collection. Good for you, you bought a lot of popular movies and a twelve year old kid gave you a 9 out of 10 (you missed a perfect score because you own Pearl Harbor), go celebrate with a bag of popcorn and your right hand.
I shouldn't talk, I own over 100. Whatever. You're not ranking my collection.
Until Tomorrow.
Yes, we have the best country in world. So why complain about Bush being re-elected? 1) While being the best, we are easily the most dissappointing country in the world. 2) Because Thomas Jefferson would. 3) It is Patriotic.
I even crossed my own party lines, The Libertarian Party, to vote for Kerry so we could end this abomination of an administration, so we could end this spreading of intolerance, so we could keep religion from interfering with policy, so we could take advantage of stem cell research, so the American people would have a better chance of keeping their social freedoms, so we could stop our country from continuing on this imperialistically dangerous path, and so we could finally concentrate on the real terrorist, Osama Bin Laden. So Fuck Bush and his god and his business interests and his oil and his ineptitude. He is erasing any progress we have made.
What needs to happen in this country for people to roll over in the morning and think to themselves, "You know, things just aren't moving in the right direction right now." C'mon people, at least 51% of you, wake the fuck up.
Scary doesn't even begin to describe what happened on Tuesday. This is our generations "Day of Infamy," the day when the Republicans took a 55-45 seat lead in the Senate, the day when they took control of the House, holding 230 of the 435 seats, the day when they won the presidential election, electing a, to use the most simplistic of parlance, bumbling idiot with too much interest in the self and not enough in the betterment of the country. To drive the dagger deeper, at least one and potentially three Supreme Court bench seats will be opening, and with a Republican President, Senate, and House, you can be sure that we will see a conservative named to the bench, a bench that already has a conservative slant.
What does all this mean? It means that the church and state will continue to get closer every day, it means that advances in stem cell research will not be made, it means that many of our freedoms and rights are in danger, such as a women's right to choose.
Something that people don't think about nearly enough is our freedom from things, not our freedom of things. This is important. Freedom of something should automatically imply freedom from something. We have freedom of speech, but we also have freedom from speech - it's called the 5th amendment. While we have freedom of religion, we need to also have freedom from religion. I demand to be free from President Bush's and the rest of the Religious Right's religion. I should not have to sit and listen to the President and Senator Kerry talk about their faith on a nationally televised presidential debate. It should not matter and damn the moderator for asking, that bastard was asking questions to give Bush the edge all night, and Kerry still won the debate. Someone needs to give the country orders to not take "God Speak" into consideration when deciding who will receive their vote. It is like in a jury trial when a lawyer or witness divulges information that has been deemed inadmissible by the court and the jury is instructed to disregard that information in their deliberations. It happens in movies and on TV quite often; I believe it does in Runaway Jury. But even though the jury is supposed to pretend they didn't hear it, they still did. The judge's orders will affect some jurors and others will blow it off, but at least he is getting through to some. This is what needs to happen, someone needs to come on TV after the debates and remind the American Public about where church speak is appropriate and where it is not. Church, faith, God, etc, has no place in a political debate in America. It is plain and simple, yet so hard for some to understand.
That's heavy shit and these are heavy times. America, in its current form, has been going strong for 200+ years. How many other countries can you name that have gone as strong as we for as long? It is going to end sometime and the next four years will be crucial in deciding when. Will Bush keep blowing off allies? Will he keep unjustly "going on the offensive?" If so, sorry kids, but we're fucked. We have the greatest democracy to ever exist, even as corrupted as it is. But what we need is a politician to step forward and show some balls - cast down religion in politics, tell the special interest groups to go to hell - this person needs to have a high profile, they need to debate anyone willing to challenge them. I am sure there are many people out there who would be awesome for this position, but there are two problems, this person would need to be independently wealthy and elected as a Democrat or Republican (probably Democrat) and good luck getting those guys to do what needs to be done. They need to be able to reach into the minds of Americans and stimulate that duty to country obligation so they will look at things as Americans should, with respect to the constitution and their fellow countrymen. Instead we have people looking at things with respect to their own interests and their god. God, I hate God.
We need to make progress socially, economically, and globally. Socially we need to hand the homosexual community their rights on a silver platter. Get married; receive all the benefits heterosexuals do, good for you. People, this is only a matter of time until it happens. Look at what happened with Civil Rights and Women's Rights, it took some time, but they eventually receive all the rights that white men have. Do we really live in a country that is this insensitive? For you gay bashing Jesus Soldiers out there, your church doesn't need to recognize the marriage, that's completely up to them, as granted by the constitution, but the government certainly needs to. It is only a matter of time, after this administration passes through, of course.
From anger to utter bafflement, how does the Democratic Party lose this election? With the amount of anti-Bush sentiment that is out there, it seems like they should have been able to run Ted Kennedy and win the presidency. But nope. And here is why, we see and hear all the anti-Bush stuff because protesting speaks louder than assembling in support of something. Also, because the major media outlets are located on the coasts and the coasts tend to be liberal, excluding Fox, of course, so we see much more of it. You don't see people in Oklahoma or Wyoming on national TV much.
I'm excited to head to my political science class tomorrow, which is a rarity for me, for all classes. Our Prof has dedicated a day of class to the election so it will be good to hear some opinions on it there. I intentionally took this course this semester for this reason. I thought ahead, also a rarity for me, and I'm glad I did.
On to lighter subjects, The OC's season two premieres tomorrow night. It is the kind of show I usually despise, but the writing is smart and witty, especially for the characters of Sandy and Seth Cohen, played by Peter Gallagher and Adam Brody, respectively. They even give smart quips to Anna and Summer at times, characters who in most shows would be complete ditzes. In The OC they are only part-time ditzes. I hope they bring Anna back this season. And followed by The OC is CSI, which I love, and then after that tomorrow night Ray Liotta is guest starring on ER. I never watch ER, but since Shoeless Joe Jackson will be on it tomorrow, you can bet I will be there. Liotta is far underrated, one of the best actors America has to offer. See the movie Narc. I was also excited to see that NBC will have a show in 2005 called "Criminal Behavior" where Liotta will play Frank Nolan, a character specifically written for him by writer/executive producer Shane Salerno.
Also, running in my school's newspaper tomorrow is an article I wrote previewing the basketball season. It is kind of bland and not real exciting, but it is just reporting, take in info and spit it back out on the page kind of stuff. This is the second article I have written for the paper, the first was an article on playing poker, specifically Texas Hold 'Em. I liked the article I turned in, but I was pissed when I read it because the copy and managing editors took out a few paragraphs, destroying the article's continuity and making me look like I write like a fourth grader. I was pissed, really pissed. Hopefully tomorrow goes better and they don't mess around with my words. I don't mind if they make corrections, or minimal changes, but changing points I make and rearranging my words are what gets me pissed.
I will let you know how it goes.
I was just reading some shit online about Ray Liotta and I came across a message board where people were ranking other people's DVD collections on a scale of 1-10. Who gives a shit who owns what or what some knob you don't know thinks of your collection. Good for you, you bought a lot of popular movies and a twelve year old kid gave you a 9 out of 10 (you missed a perfect score because you own Pearl Harbor), go celebrate with a bag of popcorn and your right hand.
I shouldn't talk, I own over 100. Whatever. You're not ranking my collection.
Until Tomorrow.
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