I guess I’m gad and alightly amused that my family and family of friends think ‘m so powerful I can personally change peoples’ minds. I can’t. It has to be a group effort–a very large group…..
And yes I’m very aware that my wrting hasn’t been great in the past year. I’m living in an apartment that has my furniture but not my colors–most of my things are in my storage cage–and I feel very very vulnerable as this change has taken so long. Yet I can’t apologize for feeling good that it’s going to end, I had great blood tests (which at my advanced age….) e-cept for the thyroid which did e_plain so much
This past week’s New York Times Book Review talked about the diminished influence of the radical right. Oh how complacent we become when we think we’re winning.
Nevada Jack, Sage’s sidekick wrote an e_cellent post about Palin’s speech and how demeaning and more it was.
Here’s a Yahoo news article about Palin’s speech and the true facts–yes I know that’s a frigging o_ymoron.
The First Amendment–I believe in it. All of it.
Up to four Supreme Court Justices will retire in the ne_t four years.
I believe in The entire Constitution. The one that has The First Amendment. I am not Christian but my rights are protected under that.
Sarah Palin doesn’t care about the rights of anybody who thinks or acts differently than she does
That’s not American. I refuse to become “undocumented” “illegal” in the country four generations of my family have been born in. She made it personal when she accepted the nomination. She continued to make it personal last night.
In October it will be two years since I got a comment telling me that I lack a moral center or ethics because I wrote a story about an older woman entertaining a younger man. Funny but I thought we lived in a country where people could pick their own story themes.
The radical right thought they ruled the blogosphere then. Many of us stood up to them. Many bloggers who came after us have never known what it’s like to have their morals and values denigrated.
Pure blogging isn’t like writing for a magazine or newspaper. Our comments aren’t censored. We do read the things designed to hurt us.
“What kind of mental illness do you have? I have a theory that certain types of mental illnesses go with far left thinking.”
I’m only “leftist” when it comes to some social issues. And I truly don’t believe that believing in choice is leftist.
I tried to be rational. I tried reasoning. I tried ignoring. I was always polite. It wasn’t a fun time in my life. I refuse to ever give them the dignity they tried taking from me.
I have been told to move to France, to stop occupying space on this earth and much more.
I don’t enjoy judging people. But so many people have judged me….
Radical right–allowed to say what they want about who or what. if Democrats call them on anything they will hide under “personal attack,” “Obama has no e_perience…..” It’s tiring.
I stopped blogging about politics for a reason. It made my blogging e_perience miserable. I’m the only blogger who hates comments and i have a right to hate them as so many were hate filled.
I got many phone calls this morninga about both Palin’s speech and the possible destruction of the Carolina’s. My head is spinning.
I hope people will see Palin’s speech for what it was. My friends and family are a bit hysterical. We have worked hard to change this administration. I can’t see clearly right now.
I deleted much of this post, and changed it.
Read The Who’s lyrics–they’re amazing.
We’ll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the foe, that’ all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain’t changed
‘Cause the banners, they all flown in the next war
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
No, no!
I’ll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I’ll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
There’s nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again
No, no!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
that song was written a long long time ago about another war another time. Unfortunately it’s more relevant today
I didn’t watch any of her speech, but one thing you said in this post I have to comment on.
Sarah Palin doesn’t care about the rights of anybody who thinks or acts differently than she does
My personal opinion – which can be different than yours and that’s fine – is that ALL of them feel that way. I don’t get the single impression from a single one of them that they care about anyone who is different from them. They are out for themselves, and themselves only.
I watched a little. Palin does come off as condescending, no doubt. Otherwise, it was same old same old…
I heard very much of “Democrats are the devil and hate America” and very little of here’s what we will do.
It seemed even more vicious and nasty than normal.
How is it that John McCain is a war hero, but John Kerry didn’t deserve a purple heart?
I just lost a long post here to somewhere in cyberspace– I was writing about abortion and how I often raise the ire of those on both sides: pro-life and pro-choice…
Thanks for the reference to Nevada Jack and maybe sometime in the future, I’ll try to summarize my thoughts on a subject that I try to avoid.
I think people will, if no one shoves it down there throat. The far right won’t of course. I was listening to NPR today on the way home. Zogby was on – yeah I know, but he said something I’ve always thought. This election will be won by winning the middle. Nasty crazy claims on either side true or not will not win the middle and may lose them. The middle wants to know what will you do for me and the country. He said 17 states are in play, with all oF them having the potential for a landslide victory right or left – depending on who gets their message to the middle.
It is what it is, may the band play on. and may it be rock and not bluegrass.
😉
I’m not a political evangelist, as you know, but I do wish that those who will vote for Obama would notice before they do so that John McCain is not George Bush.