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1月19日 What a bitch !!The great American worry for tomorrow? Our cell phones may not work in DC on inauguration day because too many people will show up and dial up whoever cares to tell them they're at the mall and it's crowded.
On the other hand, HBO's failure yesterday to air a prayer by Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire wasn't due to a lack of available bandwith... it was a conscious choice not to risk being politically incorrect. Goddamn you, HBO.
1月16日 Chew on ThisIt's not necessary to have a degree in rocket science or American history to comprehend that GWB (scheduled to leave office and take his pension, his secret service force, and his legacy with him within the next few days) was the most destructive president ever elected. Elected twice he was. By us and the Supreme Court, b-god. We got exactly what we collectively wanted, didn't we?
We got secrecy, fear, erosion of our constitutional rights, rendition, a failed economy, a huge deficit, record national debt, 7% unemployment, a decimated housing market, corporate welfafe bale-outs, an administration that acted unilaterally and selfishly rather than globally, and an Imperial Presidency based more on executive privilege than on legislative right.
Ok, so what? Ok, so who do we turn to?
The Democrats? The same Democratic party that refused to vote against the Iraq war, that refused to impeach the President or to hold Rove, Rumsfeld, or Gonzales accountable for their crimes, that will assume "command" within the next week, that plans to give another $350 billion to the banks and the auto industry as part of the "economic recovery" bail-out program and withdraw a couple of divisions from Iraq only to redeploy them in Afghanistan?
Excuse me if I don't share the current PC view of "Yes, We Can."
We certainly can, or rather, we could have if we had the balls to act as we should have, as Thomas Jefferson did, as Thomas Jefferson hoped we would act.
Sorry, Tom. We're not what you expected. We're not revolutionaries. We're reactionaries. 21st Century Americans want the status-quo, the easy way out. We would rather follow than to lead. We don't want to make waves. We don't want to be remembered as the generation that dumped foreign tea into the harbor. The revolution you fought is over. Most of us take what we get without question. We seem to prefer to go out with a whimper rather than with a bang....
The next few years will tell you (and history) a lot about us. Stay tuned... Maybe the future is not as bleak as I think; then again, maybe the future is our worst nightmare come true.
No answers here.
This ain't a Nostradamus Burger franchise. Nothing comes easy, does it?
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