about once a year since i was 14 i get these little bumps on me. particularly in between my fingers. when i was younger it was intense. we actually went to the doctor at one point. they had no idea - said i must be allergic to something. but it doesn't come at the same time every year and every year it gets less intense.
so i got more crazy right wing "humor" emails this morning. from a friend who said she couldn't read my blog any more because of my politic opinions. i think right wingers just aren't as used to hearing opposition to their views. again i say - we liberals need to be far more 'in your face'. if you do happen to be reading this my friend - i'm not mad about it and you are one of my most favorite people in the world which i don't say lightly. but none of that changes the fact that friends and coworkers alike seem to see nothing wrong with sending me these emails that range from silly to straight out insults (you don't agree with the war then you hate the troops - that kind of shit). anyway, meanwhile, just as an example, a bunch of people are having a chat about how 'blacks get away with everything' in the lunch room and when i (finally) say "oh yeah, it's easy being black" then I'M the one who is controversial. grrrrrr
so i'll give you a good example of stuff i think but don't send emails about - yes, "under god" should be removed from the pledge of allegiance. why? because we are NOT one nation under god. we are one nation under the constitution. the preamble states that our creator endowed us with certain rights after that point the creator is removed from the equation because among those rights we were given the right to ignore said creator if we so choose. we are a nation joined together by laws and those laws apply to godless as well. i am horrified to think how many people think that the godless are not entitled to freedom and liberty. even worse is the idea that those with a different god are entitled to nothing. it was 1954 when it was changed - thank you joe mccarthy. there are anti-choice advocates who want to add "born and unborn" to the end of the pledge. i really might have to leave if that happens. the best part is that these people really feel like they are the ones being oppressed. it is a clear point of law that no one should have to say "under god" -as i know i told you before i stopped when i was 9 years old and i was HYPER christian then. but children are forced to say it in public school. and people argue all the time - it isn't forcing religion well, if you don't think saying it promotes religion then why worry about it. one email i got on the subject said that 90% of people believe in god and that's what makes it all right (and ends with 'the rest of you can sit down and shut the fuck up'). the thing that is so great about this country is that even minorities are given rights.
okay - let me move on now. kim gives birth . . . hmm, can you still call it that with a baby that big? next week. i was supposed to go visit but i don't think i am now. a little bit because it concerns me to bring my child to a place where her cousin was held at gunpoint and another reason to be disclosed later but the point is i'm disappointed that i won't be seeing the gigantic child in person.
one more political thing - when the HELL is norm coleman gonna give it a rest. good goddess man - oh, and the GOP has spent nearly a million to help him take that seat illegally. all of a sudden all that anti-acorn talk means nothing.
think i should buy a raffle ticket from the franciscans?
alright - see ya- i must gather some energy so i can GET SOMETHING DONE!! it isn't like i do nothing and yet - i drown. le sigh.
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I posited once that by definition, a liberal is someone who feels he must listen to you before he disagrees and a conservative is someone who doesn't feel he has to listen at all.
that tracks to your point about liberals lying down- in the mainstream, its kind of the hallmark of basic liberalism, a person has to at least present an appearance of tolerance and consensus even if they think you should be boiled in oil, wile a conserative has zero problem taking batshit straight to the masses.
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