Shall we discuss the twin Gorillas?
Hulking giants capable of bending jailhouse bars. Not nearly as bright as some of us. Capable of limb ripping violence, though.
The Gorillas are Race, and Voter Fraud.
I don’t know what to do about election fuckery because I live in California. Evil has no interest in subverting our ballots. It can’t really. We’re a foregone conclusion, in national elections, Californians are consistently in favor of the better choice.
We’re kinda whacky.
Ohio is a long way from here, but it’s been going on there for eight agonizing years. Diebold. What a joke. CEO Wally O’Dell lives in Columbus and said he was “committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President” (Dumbya). -Mother Jones ’04
What kinda retard could possibly be in favor of a paperless system? No hard copy at all?
Check this: http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
What do I do from Los Angeles about this drooling, stinking Simian?
The ball is yours Ohio. So is the goddamn Ape. You’ve been cheated and lawlessly manipulated. Don’t believe me? John Conyers, a Congressman from Michigan wrote a book “What Went Wrong In Ohio”. Read it. By the way, this guy rocks. Easily one of the bravest members of the United States House of Representatives. If only He and Kucinich could mate.
This election may well be in your hands again and you guys really rolled the pooch over last time and allowed Republicans a violent sexual congress with it. As did John Kerry.
You and Florida are the poster children for polling malfeasance so I’m putting you both on notice. Only you can prevent forest fires. At least Gore, and some Floridians, put up a fight.
We’ll be looking for a little more than that this time around.
Race. The other Gorilla.
My stomach flops and fills with dirty moths. There is no way to alter minds indoctrinated for a lifetime with bigotry and baseless hate in less than sixty days without an aggressive campaign of shame. Probably can’t change many minds, yet embarassing them for it might be effective.
They should be embarrassed. It and they, are archaic and absurd. They are unfortunately, everywhere.
So ubiquitous.
They are us. Inside us all, regardless of pigmentation or country of origin. The conundrum is to own it of self and be unrelenting in recognizing it in ourselves and others. All while consistently swinging a quick bat against it, all the goddamn time.
If the course of human events is allowed to continue on it’s current trajectory because the tipping point is about the color of a single man’s countenance, perhaps humankind will finally reap what it’s sown. The seeds of fear and hate will be allowed to become vines that choke and starve life from the plants of hope and resolution; deliberately deposited pods in a once rich and optimistic Earth.
That would really suck. It would be a shame. Final evidence that humans are ultimately and fatally flawed.
Proof that we suck. More stupid than smart. Our own demise.
I want to remind all of you that this is big. Very big. Bigger than a lot of you can even guess at. If and when you take it upon yourselves to sincerely contemplate the next leader of the free world, please be honest with what you are and remember this is no time to fuck around.
Drinks for my friends.
Just wanted to say thanks for writing your blog. I feel like it’s one of the few things right now keeping me sane. I’ve been reading it for quite a while now (my sister told me about it) and have never left a message. I’m originally from CA so this post was of personal interest. I’ve been in VA for the last 15 years and have watched our political climate here change gradually to the point where we may just have a chance this election. I’ve been in the campaign office locally and made some phone calls, but finally today signed up to do whatever i can do to try to make this thing happen. I don’t think i could forgive myself unless i felt like i had done all that i could. Thanks for the motivation and glad you’re here.
Kelly
Well, thanks very much for reading.
I live in IL which won’t be a factor, but I work in MO which could be huge. Claire McCaskill beat out the incumbent GOP senator in ’06 but just barely. MO does have quite a few hardcore bigots in the south. Hopefully the holes in their wallets will speak louder than the Archie Bunkers in the back of their brains.
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Thanks be to flifishun and Max.