tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-362754732024-03-16T00:08:44.551-07:00Coyote AngryRanting at Assmonkeys from the Mojave desertNot Your Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18318206435043475411noreply@blogger.comBlogger274125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36275473.post-9044840521607699442009-04-19T18:08:00.000-07:002009-04-19T18:11:40.985-07:00The Rare and Miraculous FreebieJust found out that due to the changes in Canadian citizenship law as of April 17....I am a Canadian citizen!!!<br /><br />Still in shock. I've been upset over this my entire life, to suddenly have it handed to me...I don't know what to say.Not Your Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18318206435043475411noreply@blogger.com46tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36275473.post-71063753322253309172008-11-05T11:03:00.000-08:002008-11-05T12:36:21.449-08:00BittersweetLast night was one of those brief shiny moments when we actually get the majority of people to do the right thing but much as I will always treasure the moment of pure joy I was able to experience, today it is once again tempered by reality.<br /><br />Don't get me wrong, I'm still more pleased than I can adequately express that we've elected Barack Obama. If I were to live another half a century I sincerely doubt that I would have the opportunity to cast a more important vote and if I never did a single other thing in my entire life I would call it all still worth it for no other reason than I was alive to cast that vote. (Yes, it was that important to me).<br /><br />But...there's always a but isn't there....aside from all of yesterdays problems still being very much with us, a simple glance at other election results is a cold reminder of how far we still have to go. <br /><br />Anyone mistakenly believing that America has suddenly become a land filled with enlightened human beings should take a deep breath, that has not happened. We did just take a giant step and it is a good start but 60 million of us did not miraculously embrace a vision for a greater future. More likely about 20 million of us did, another 20 million just decided the "other guy" was worse and probably another 20 million looked at their wallets and bank balances and took the plunge. I don't know what the actual numbers for those categories are and there is no way to know for certain but I'm confident they more accurately depict what just happened than the more romantic version that would have us believe 60 million Americans had a dream. <br /><br />That we have progressed enough to have made last night possible is a beautiful thing and in no way to be discounted but this is no time to rest. Take a few moments to remember the millions who still haven't been invited to the party. Just saying.Not Your Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18318206435043475411noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36275473.post-19800951105231477402008-10-29T14:28:00.000-07:002008-10-29T14:36:26.537-07:006 DaysI'm exhausted with this. More important, I'm really exhausted with being angry....please, please, please let Obama win so I can be at least a little bit less angry for a few years. <br /><br />I'm just too tired for another 4 years of kicking everyone in the shins, I just wasn't born with Michelle Malkin's innate gift of hatred which flows naturally from her every oriface. My hatred had to be cultivated over many years and many tears and seriously folks...it takes a huge toll on me. <br /><br />If you haven't already voted (I have) please do.Not Your Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18318206435043475411noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36275473.post-20136503001316985452008-10-28T16:43:00.000-07:002008-10-28T18:23:12.818-07:00The Universe Can Be Fair, Who Knew!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlyhyphenhyphenqq8ES4FqPmHjBv1_2rwUYaaLj2Suj-ueq_XXL4DV-hfwBU9JT90mbXoeaYnmiYW5iJ9fRHtTp4OiZmY69zEOVJOC5lpOmJ8yQ2EXoQrYSIc4X6S2a_ZOyL0JzACLvgBki/s1600-h/stupidtwat.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262363723574627650" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 390px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlyhyphenhyphenqq8ES4FqPmHjBv1_2rwUYaaLj2Suj-ueq_XXL4DV-hfwBU9JT90mbXoeaYnmiYW5iJ9fRHtTp4OiZmY69zEOVJOC5lpOmJ8yQ2EXoQrYSIc4X6S2a_ZOyL0JzACLvgBki/s400/stupidtwat.jpg" border="0" /></a> If you've already seen the "woman chains self to home to avoid foreclosure" bit on the news you may recognise this woman. Sadly I could not locate a picture of her equally retarded cockroach of a spouse or I'd be making custom dartboards out of the pair right now.<br /><br />What do we learn from this story? Hopefully we learn that when we hit rough financial times ("rough" being relative here since I've never known anyone going through "rough" times who could afford a french manicure much less a house in Mira Mesa, CA) that we probably should NOT run out and take out an ARM on our nearly-paid-off home of 19 years that 90% of Americans could not have afforded in the first place. <br /><br />You just couldn't deal with the idea of selling and downscaling to a less expensive home in a "less desireable" location, could you? I'll tell you a little secret Mr & Mrs Dumbass: my home is paid for, been paid for a very long time and one of the reasons we decided not to "move up" was because of people like you. See, we just weren't real keen on spending a lot of money to live in a neighborhood filled with twat-brains like you. That would have been "less desireable" to us. <br /><br />Mr & Mrs Reyno you'd laugh at my little house I'm sure, my 8 year old compact car would not impress you and my unmanicured fingers would certainly be fodder for a lot of jokes but you know what, I'll still have a home and money in the bank and food in my belly when you and your kind are sitting on a street corner waiting for the next soup line to open. The truth is I've been waiting my entire life to see scavenging pond scum like you in this position and was only afraid I wouldn't live long enough to see it. Your tears are like lemon balm to my heart and probably to the hearts of all the people you "helped" out of their homes over the years. <br /><br />Sadly you'll probably be okay, more than likely end up still better off than the thousands who lost everything in Katrina or the millions who never had anything to lose in the first place. You should be extremely grateful I'm not running the universe or you'd spend the rest of your waste-of-airspace lives trying to decide between buying Top Ramen or toilet paper. <br /><br />So what did I learn from this? Not that I'm meaner than a junkyard dog, that I already knew. I learned that it is entirely possible to be mad enough to spit nails and laugh till you pee your pants all at the same time.Not Your Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18318206435043475411noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36275473.post-69250432107606292512008-10-24T15:26:00.001-07:002008-10-24T15:38:38.103-07:00No Good Words<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1nUsziM9_xaJHOOrxQnHbTh1SNFOgtnHsu0M0QP97JPm0zHf2TWxBQNg5WgW8mzCoZvaZ4soZramt43yTRwr25VC8RANv84rYGB7UjtAj7Ddf52cYqivan8734wC2tQS_Mm-Z/s1600-h/todd1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260850539215479522" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 299px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1nUsziM9_xaJHOOrxQnHbTh1SNFOgtnHsu0M0QP97JPm0zHf2TWxBQNg5WgW8mzCoZvaZ4soZramt43yTRwr25VC8RANv84rYGB7UjtAj7Ddf52cYqivan8734wC2tQS_Mm-Z/s400/todd1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Definition of "<a href="http://www.11alive.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=122772&catid=8">lying cunt</a>". Oh, and fuck you Fox news.Not Your Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18318206435043475411noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36275473.post-10546229930174100522008-10-23T11:29:00.000-07:002008-10-23T12:12:15.123-07:00While We Were SleepingCanada and the EU have begun working on a "free trade" agreement which would include the free movement of workers and reciprocal recognition of professional licenses and India is actively pursuing free trade agreements with both Japan and China. <br /><br />Just in case anyone was still confused enough to believe that our current financial crisis would be resolved with a return to "business as usual", that is simply not going to happen. <br /><br />I realize this hasn't gotten much (um, try <em>any</em>) media attention what with oh-so-much-more weighty matters in the headlines like Sarah Palin's clothing budget and what the latest ill thought out remark Joe Biden just made but in real-world terms this is likely to have a whole lot more impact on all of us than either of the above. I'm not going to waste anyone's time writing a thousand word essay on <em>why</em> this is relevant to us, a simple look at who buys our goods and who sells us goods and some basic mathematical calculations ought to make it all crystal clear to everyone except maybe Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich. <br /><br />The days of the US dominating the world economy are done, we screwed the pooch on that one and frankly there is absolutely nothing we can do to change that. So what's left? Try for a seat at the table. A little humility could go a long way here folks.<br /><br />There is the big question: are we going to start dealing with reality or are we going to continue pretending we are the lords of the universe in spite of all evidence to the contrary? I hope for all our sakes we choose the first option. Or we could just become a giant tax-haven destination offering fine restaurants and cheap real estate to the rest of the world. You choose. <br /><br />Just something to think about.Not Your Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18318206435043475411noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36275473.post-51547523144335900362008-10-10T13:50:00.001-07:002008-10-10T15:28:42.682-07:00Wading Through Pig SlopWell I certainly pushed someone's button with the last post so let's clarify a couple of things. <br /><br />Numero uno and most importantly: I have no intention or even any desire of shushing every voice of opposition. What I am saying and will continue to say is that in the name of "freedom of speech" and being "fair and balanced" we've actually ended up sponsoring lunatics.<br /><br />If you cannot tell the difference between Peggy Noonan and Sarah Palin or George Will and Bill O'Reilly then you are part of the problem. Joe Scarborough may annoy the hell out of me but he is neither dangerous nor an idiot, I'd never mistake him for Lou Dobbs. If the differences listed aren't apparent enough for you then consider the fact that I have heard all of the above express the very same concern I am expressing, albeit in politer terms, over the last couple of months. They are, if anything, more horrified than I am at what the "Republican base" has become, a conglomeration of extremists of nearly every type. <br /><br />The same comparisons can be made on the left, try Dennis Kucinich versus Al Gore for starters. Sorry fellow Lefties, Dennis is King of silly season and would have us all in soup lines left to do his thing. The difference is no one has given crazies on the left their own television shows, much if any media air time and thus far anyway they aren't holding rallies where followers feel free to call for death to their opponents nor is there a chance in hell I'd support it if it happened. I'm sure that will earn me no love from the left but see that's the thing...I don't care. If the only love I can get is from the deranged or the hopelessly naive then I'd call it a job well done to be detested. On the other hand I'm not inclined to declare war on them for the very simple reason that they aren't advocating for or attempting to incite violence upon anyone nor are they in any position of power to do so. If Cindy Sheehan got her own talk show and gathered the faithful to rally for some crazy agenda would I call for her removal? You betcha. <br /><br />I didn't sign on to live in Crazy Extremist Land and I'm going to do whatever little I can do to stop anyone trying to lead us down any path heading us in that direction. That ought to get me on just about everybody's kill-on-sight list.<br /><br />This brings us to the Bill Ayers versus the Alaska secessionist movement. A lot has been made of Obama knowing and working on the same board with Ayers and only a few whispers regarding Palin and the secessionists. In a perfect world neither candidate would have these associations but welcome to the real world where it often becomes necessary to work with, to some extent even socialize with, highly imperfect and sometimes even dangerous individuals. <br /><br />Blowing up people you disagree with regardless of your intentions is never the correct answer, I know that, most Americans know that and for damned sure Sen. Obama knows that. If you believe Sen. Obama would actually sympathize with such action or in any way facilitate such actions then I have no problem at all saying you are as crazy and dangerous as Mr. Ayers was at his worst. Unfortunately for Sen. Obama, he like most of us, did not get to hand pick who he worked with or who he lives near. <br /><br />Alaska seceding from the US to form it's own independant nation is kind of a no-brainer for anyone with even half a brain though I confess it would be amusing to see them try to go even 6 months minus their federal subsidies. Even Sarah Palin knows this and if you're thinking she is secretly plotting to gain office to free Alaska then you are also insane. The even sadder truth is that these secessionist movements are neither brand new nor isolated to Alaska and as the public discourse has become increasingly vile they have gained momentum. These groups and their sympathizers are scattered all across the country, in nearly every state and are often heavily concentrated in rural and semi-rural communities. Trust me on this one because we have them here in Pahrumpistan. You'd have a tough go of it getting elected to anything without "making nice" with at least some of them. <br /><br />Kind of makes my original point: our complete lack of discrimination between "free speech" and "crazy speech" led to a situation in which Gov. Palin would never have been elected mayor much less become the Republican VP candidate had she not been somewhat cozy with a pack of insane secessionists. As much as I do not like Palin and consider much of her rhetoric dangerous even I understand this. You were wondering why we struggle to find decent leaders? <br /><br />The old saying that "cream always rises to the top" is true when you're talking about a pail of milk but doesn't work out so well when you throw it in a trough full of muck.Not Your Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18318206435043475411noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36275473.post-40854025932107953562008-10-09T14:42:00.000-07:002008-10-09T16:04:10.962-07:00Blood In The StreetsNot yet anyway but that would be next if we continue. <br /><br />I'm not quite certain why I'm writing this at all, certainly it is highly unlikely anyone will listen to me anyway and in all fairness I'm not even certain I care. Maybe it just seems fair that I at least put this out there so I can say I tried to tell you and then laugh at the carnage with a clear conscience. <br /><br />You need to stop. Now. <br /><br />It doesn't matter if you're a conservative who blames irresponsible borrowers or a liberal who blames greedy corporations, you need to knock it the fuck off and accept that everyone had a part in this and no one from the riskiest low-income borrower to the most reprehensible corporate CEO did anything that over 90% of the human race would not have done given half a chance and more importantly, it's done and now we get to deal with it. <br /><br />So what can we do? First off you can stop panic selling. At this late stage of the game you are not only destroying yourself but you are also destroying the only mechanism that has any potential to save your asses from living in a cave with no toilet paper. <br /><br />I've done my part, I've bought up all I can afford to buy up while most of the public was busy locking in losses from which many will never recover but I'm only one person and I sure as hell am not Warren Buffet. Even he is going to give up on you if you continue on the present course of run-around-in-circles, scream-and-shout. <br /><br />If you think you are screwed now just continue panicking and find out what really screwed is. <br /><br />Next up, stop with the "neither candidate has the answers", "they're all crooks" blah, blah, blah, bullshit. Most of our elected officials are no better OR worse than most of us. We're truly fortunate that at least 1/4 of them are actually smarter than most of us. Believe me they have a vested interest in our survival and stand to gain nothing by impoverishing us all and eating our brains. While you're pondering that keep in mind most of you were more than happy to toss at least 25% of our population out with the garbage as long as you didn't think you were in that group. <br /><br />Most of us only behaved better than the average CEO or pol because most of us have never been in any position to get away with the things they do. Given the opportunity many of us would be eating each others brains, if you doubt that look at Somalia or Iraq or any number of countries where economies and governments have failed.<br /><br />Which brings us to point #2: understand that your neighbors survival is as critical to your well-being as it is to his. Probably has a lot to do with why I'm bothering to write this because I damned sure do not love most of you. Neither hard core conservatives nor hardcore liberals tend to get this (for very different reasons) but for the moment they had better at least try and fake it. <br /><br />Point #3 is take a tip from the ancestors. Humans survived and exercised social control in the very distant past by a very simple mechanism: social ostracism. I would suggest that we drop the PC bullshit of "oh, I respect John McCain even though I disagree" and "Palin is being abused because she is a woman". John McCain is an asshole and a bully and that is all he has EVER been and Sarah Palin is being dissed because she is a raving lunatic. Gay people are not destroying America nor are immigrants and no I will not "respect your belief" that the earth was created in 7 days and is only 8,000 years old. I will call you an idiot and I will shun you both socially and financially in every possible way. It's way past time we stopped politely coughing when our friends/family members/etc utter this nonsense. The next time someone says something utterly retarded within your earshot....call them on it. <br /><br />That pretty much wraps it up, stop tolerating and accepting stupidity and acting as though Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck have as much credibility and reason to be on the air as Tom Brokaw or the late, great Walter Cronkite. They don't and you know it and they've been allowed to spew their poison in the name of "fairness" and through our own inaction. I believe in free speech and fairness as much as the next person but providing airtime and a public forum for the basest and least intelligent among us is not "free speech", it's public sponsorship of insanity. No one is stopping these lunatics from getting their own blogs, there's no need to give them air time. If we're going to continue with this we might as well give Charles Manson his own talk show and let the insanity run its course. <br /><br />All of that may seem to some like it isn't even connected but it is, all of the above are directly connected to how we've gotten to where we are today. Naturally you do not have to believe me, can call me an idiot, and we can continue on the current course. Let me know how that works out for you.Not Your Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18318206435043475411noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36275473.post-9668676823899050792008-10-04T14:52:00.000-07:002008-10-04T14:58:31.722-07:00The Dangers of Channel SurfingMargaret Cho, Craig Ferguson, and Sarah Palin in a 3-way? Skip to the last few minutes of the video and hope your capacity for mental imagery isn't as good as mine.<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EipdbHT738E&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EipdbHT738E&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Not Your Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18318206435043475411noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36275473.post-64041825695187982412008-10-03T23:43:00.000-07:002008-10-04T00:15:06.517-07:00So You Wanted A Crazy Solution?So the "rescue" bill passed, the market farted and all is still completely screwed up in the world. I'm still neither happy or unhappy about it because truthfully I'm much more interested in the dynamics of who voted which way on both the first and second bills and more importantly...why.<br /><br />Fascinating that we had to add another $100 billion in fixin's to that crap sandwich to get supposedly "conservative" republicans to eat it, isn't it? Of course we had our own Democratic Congresswoman <a href="http://berkley.house.gov/">Shelley Berkley</a> who after being staunchly opposed to the first bill, eagerly gobbled up the second as quickly as my beagle eats his own turds. Nice to see irresponsible and capricious voting while the country is going down the poophole is bipartisan anyway. <br /><br />Meanwhile I came up with my own "rescue plan" for the economy which took all of, I don't know, maybe 15 minutes. <br /><br />1. Eagerly endorse and embrace same-sex marriage then launch an international ad campaign openly recruiting qualified gay and lesbian immigrants. We'd attract some of the best and brightest from around the world along with their assets both intellectual and worldly. Think of the lovely shops we'd get.<br /><br />2. Raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour, phased in over the next 8 quarters, thereafter tied to core inflation and adjusted annually. Bet you wouldn't see much inflation.<br /><br />3. Revamp the tax code. Close nearly all exemptions with the exception of home mortgage interest and dependent and medical deductions but lock in the 15% capital gains tax rate and lock in a 5% rate for anyone below the 15% tax bracket. Same for dividends. Investments would soar. <br /><br />Sounds pretty crazy I'm sure but it's about as sensible as anything that's been proposed and far less looney than anything the McCain camp will do given a chance.Not Your Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18318206435043475411noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36275473.post-48809692738738246722008-09-30T13:39:00.000-07:002008-09-30T14:31:12.924-07:00My Cup of Hate Runneth OverAs much as I normally detest "reality TV" this week has provided me with the most entertaining reality show I've ever witnessed. In an even stranger turn of events it has also made my perpetually-pissed-off self one of the least angry people in the country, the more hysterical the rest of the country gets, the calmer I feel. <br /><br />I'm not pissed off at the republicans for axing the bailout. They behaved predictably and the truth is that as stupid as their move was and as stupid and short-sighted as they are they represent even stupider constituencies. When the people you count on to keep your day job are willing to cut off their noses to spite their faces what else are you going to do?<br /><br />I'm not pissed at the dems for bringing it to a vote. They were going to catch flak any way they played it whether it was for voting prematurely or for "fiddling while Rome burned". I have no idea if it was by design or pure happenstance but as it turns out the move was brilliant because like it or not the Republican party now owns this mess. Yeah buddy, after decades of never owning a m'fcking thing and always pawning off any messes on everyone else they just inherited the biggest mess of the century. That just makes me feel kind of warm and fuzzy all over.<br /><br />I'm not even pissed at the far left or the whacked out Ron Paul folks who are utterly convinced the bill was to "save the rich" and were willing to oppose it with their dying breaths. Reality is about to teach them so much more than I ever could.<br /><br />Watching the hysteria emanate from the likes of everyone from Bill O'Reilly to Joe Scarborough to Jane Doe retiree who still thinks John McCain is "a true leader" has been a rare treat I could only have dreamed of. See you all in hell. <br /><br />What I want to know is where was the panic, the urgency to "do something", to "take action" while our children have been gunning each other down in our streets? I don't recall hearing you when people were arrested for picking through garbage looking for recyclable cans they could sell to buy food. I never heard a peep when 1 out of every 100 of our citizens were imprisoned, many for "crimes" consisting of no more than substance abuse. Not a word did I hear while literally millions went without even the most basic health care. <br /><br />Meanwhile nearly half of the voting public is still actually contemplating voting for the Mad Munchkin and Pahrump-Barbie-of-the-North. Oh please do, the unmitigated joy of watching you all go down in flames would almost be worth it.<br /><br />Do you honestly expect me to have so much as an ounce of sympathy for any of you?Not Your Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18318206435043475411noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36275473.post-46210784637873938972008-09-26T06:26:00.000-07:002008-09-26T06:58:24.732-07:00Bailout, ShmailoutOkay, I admit it, I'm just really not all that upset about the financial meltdown. I've been telling anyone bored enough to listen to me for two years that this was coming, I battened down my hatches so to speak and quite honestly losing money seems to be the only thing that gets many peoples attention. Once we have their attention maybe half of them will be capable of learning something. <br /><br />Oh no, she did not just say that...what about all the poor innocent people who are about to lose their life savings? You know what, most of the people who are truly innocent in this mess already had no "life savings". They already had nothing and now they'll have lots of company. So how the hell does it feel anyway? <br /><br />Sorry people, I don't blame "Wall Street" or the politicians because it was you, middle class voters, who put those people in the position to do this. It was all good with you as long as you thought you were part of the club but damned if it doesn't suck to find out you are just as disposable as all the people you thought were disposable. <br /><br />Talk to me when you figure out that you are your brother's keeper and you do have a responsibility to the least among us, I might be willing to listen then.Not Your Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18318206435043475411noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36275473.post-69857641804191938492008-08-29T08:56:00.000-07:002008-08-29T10:19:13.620-07:00Still Pissed at Pissed-Off VaginasIn spite of my current inclination to only watch news in 5 or 10 minute bites before becoming extremely nauseous the convention sucked me in and I confess to spending the entire time glued to the coverage.....right down to checking the coverage on other channels during commercials. <br /><br />Yes, yes, I <em>know</em> this was a political show calculated to elicit exactly this reaction, what can I say, it worked. For me anyway it worked at least in part because over and above the hoopla and theatrics and regardless of how much any opponents may hate it, it was a stunning moment in our collective history. If you grew up in this country and you ain't feeling it, you're already dead, stop reading, go get in your coffin and faggedaboutit. <br /><br />'Nuff said.<br /><br />Round two. Whoopee, McCain selects a woman to be his running mate. Now every woman who would rather "make a point" than use her brain can vote to take away womens right to choose and make both the NRA and oil companies ecstatic all at one shot. Have fun explaining that one to your granddaughters. <br /><br />As a woman and the mother of two wonderful daughters and grandmother of two beloved granddaughters I have to congratulate <a href="http://nevadamojo.blogspot.com/">Nevada Mojo</a> for the coming up with the best description I've seen yet of what has kept me too disgusted to even bother to post these past few months: some womens' "sense of vagina entitlement". Clinton wasn't "entitled" to win because she has a vagina any more than Obama was "entitled" to win for being an African-American. Both candidates worked their asses off to win and Obama won...fair and square whether you like it or not. Had it been otherwise and Clinton had won I'd have to suck it up just like I've had to suck it up nearly every election in my life. <br /><br />If you're running around wondering why you "don't get no respect" maybe you should consider the fact that you can't recognise a good man who both loves and respects women from one who would laughingly offer up his wife for a topless biker "beauty pageant" on national television. I'm going to tell you the same thing Obama tells the African-American community: yes, there is some discrimination but at some point you have to take some responsibility for your own choices.Not Your Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18318206435043475411noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36275473.post-13139321977127910952008-08-13T16:32:00.000-07:002008-08-13T17:00:42.816-07:00Fell in a Black HoleOr something like that anyway. Kind of began with my frustration with the blogosphere in general, grew considerably over something a fellow blogger did and then we lost a family member in the tornados that hit Missouri back in May. At that point I could not bring myself to care if we managed to blow ourselves to smithereens much less what the talking heads had to say about anything. <br /><br />Life goes on though, in spite of my continued struggle not to simply see us as a failed species. <br /><br />Soooo....I'm going to try over the next week to catch up on reading my favorite blogs and um, yeah, try not to say "I told you so" about John Edwards. At least not too much anyway because really aside from some idle interest on how poorly most people read character, I don't especially care. I admit to laughing my ass off at anyone using the name "McCain" and the word "gravitas" in the same sentence after offering up his wife for a topless biker beauty pageant. Do not speak to me of anything Clinton unless you would like me to come unwrapped on your ass. <br /><br />No, I haven't been out stumping for Obama or anyone else. It all looks pretty simple to me, Obama will most likely win this and if he does not we are most definitely screwed and I'll send you a postcard from Mexico. We are likely somewhat screwed regardless because we are way too deep in the shit for any one person or administration to dig us all the way out, best we can hope for is we get one that at least has shovels and know how to use them.<br /><br />Will try to get back soon with something more coherent but you have fair warning, my misanthropic view of the world has only grown in my absence.Not Your Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18318206435043475411noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36275473.post-4654731380010534662008-04-03T06:07:00.000-07:002008-04-03T06:54:27.646-07:00Who Watches This Stuff?I've been trying to watch anything but the news this week and I've had way too much time on my hands minus the visiting grandchildren but this is not working out very well at all. <br /><br />Just a few random thoughts:<br /><br />Lewis Black ought to have stuck with stand-up because The Root of All Evil is about as smart and cutting edge as the writings in the average public bathroom stall. <br /><br />Do I need to even mention the major networks? Slop operas, reality shows or crime dramas ad infinitum. <br /><br />Daytime television should probably be outlawed. <br /><br />When did the slop opera lives of people operating a tattoo parlor become fodder for a channel calling itself "The Learning Channel"? Learning what, how to be a clueless dimwit? Not sure which is worse, that or the one where you follow around a couple of chunkheads with gazillion children. <br /><br />If there were a Jerry Springer Award I'd give it to VH-1. What I'd really like to see is a documentary on the people who actually watch this stuff, now THAT might be entertaining. <br /><br />Ladies, if you wonder why "men do not respect us" just flip channels for a bit. We're portrayed either half naked wearing naught but a pound of make-up or put together and successful but eternally whining. <br /><br />I finally watched The View. For an entire 15 minutes. Never again. <br /><br />Telemundo is about the only station that regularly features people who look like your friends and neighbors but that's assuming your friends and neighbors also dress like hookers. <br /><br />Japanese shows are terrific because you can make up your own dialogue. None of mine would make it past the censors. <br /><br />I'm off to watch stock tickers, see you later.Not Your Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18318206435043475411noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36275473.post-73647229367837021112008-04-01T12:12:00.000-07:002008-04-01T13:11:30.083-07:00People With Better Things To DoI remember posting last year when many were still cluelessly waiting for Al Gore to announce his candidacy that he is totally over us. Naturally my message did not get out there since now the same folks are cluelessly waiting for Gore to resolve the Democratic nomination. Hear this: <span style="color:#660000;">ain't gonna happen</span>. You'll be lucky if Gore even tells you who he's going to vote for because my bet is he won't. <br /><br />People, get a clue, we, the American people, threw this guy out with the garbage and we are about to do same once again to another, possibly even more outstanding, candidate. Gore is sitting back laughing his ass off at us and rightly so. Exactly why in the hell does anyone believe Gore is going to take time and energy away from doing what he wants to do to attempt to save fools from themselves???<br /><br />Following that train of thought I'm not at all worried for the future of Barack Obama. Worried about the future of the rest of us, yes, Sen. Obama, no. Gore and Obama are both great examples of People With Better Things To Do. Actually I'd include Bill Richardson in that group. All have a great deal to offer and all took the time to offer up their service but when rejected these are not people ala McCan't or Clinton who live only for the day they can be King of the Mountain. They are all people who will move on, do great things and simply shake their heads at the rest of us. They don't need us and they are not going to spend their lives trying to convince us that we need them, it's a one-shot, take it or leave it offer. <br /><br />Gore can't very well say it but I can: we, the American voters, are too stupid to find our assholes in the dark with a flashlight. So there it is, Gore is not going to jump back on his white horse to solve the current dilemma because frankly Scarlett, he no longer gives a damn what we do. <br /><br />Edwards will do what Edwards has always done, straddle the fence until he feels one choice or the other is "safe" for his political future. If that choice turns out to be wrong he'll offer up another of his now famous mea culpas. Repeat after me: never had a backbone and never will. The only truly smart thing the man ever did was marry Elizabeth. If you doubt that, watch<br />what happens when she's gone. <br /><br />The whole "Clinton needs to stop" thing? Count me out, let her run it right into the ground because I'm having my own "frankly Scarlett" moment. She could not run anything into the ground without the help of her supporters so if we are stupid enough to nominate her then we most certainly deserve to get exactly what we'll get. Let the chips fall where they may. If we had ever really wanted better government and better leaders we'd have them. <br /><br />Nations always end up with exactly the leaders they deserve and that includes the good old US of A.Not Your Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18318206435043475411noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36275473.post-60206849595306699052008-03-29T11:46:00.000-07:002008-03-29T14:17:50.328-07:00Alice Walker Says It BetterI was debating whether I wanted to post anything or not but this article by Alice Walker is too good not to at least try to share with as many people as are willing to read it.<br /><br /><em></em>I have a long personal history with Ms. Walker, one-sided as it is, going back 20 some years when she planted the seed that led me to end my first marriage and I still owe her for that one. Yes, sometimes it does matter if they can't understand what a book (or in the current case a speech or an essay) means to you or why.<br /><br /><em>When I was born in 1944 my parents lived on a middle Georgia plantation that was owned by a white distant relative, Miss May Montgomery. (During my childhood it was necessary to address all white girls as "Miss" when they reached the age of twelve.) She would never admit to this relationship, of course, except to mock it. Told by my parents that several of their children would not eat chicken skin she responded that of course they would not. No Montgomerys would.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>My parents and older siblings did everything imaginable for Miss May. They planted and raised her cotton and corn, fed and killed and processed her cattle and hogs, painted her house, patched her roof, ran her dairy, and, among countless other duties and responsibilities my father was her chauffeur, taking her anywhere she wanted to go at any hour of the day or night. She lived in a large white house with green shutters and a green, luxuriant lawn: not quite as large as Tara of Gone With the Wind fame, but in the same style. </em><br /><em></em><br /><em>We lived in a shack without electricity or running water, under a rusty tin roof that let in wind and rain. Miss May went to school as a girl. The school my parents and their neighbors built for us was burned to the ground by local racists who wanted to keep ignorant their competitors in tenant farming. During the Depression, desperate to feed his hardworking family, my father asked for a raise from ten dollars a month to twelve. Miss May responded that she would not pay that amount to a white man and she certainly wouldn't pay it to a nigger. That before she'd pay a nigger that much money she'd milk the dairy cows herself.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>I am a supporter of Obama because I believe he is the right person to lead the country at this time. He offers a rare opportunity for the country and the world to start over, and to do better. It is a deep sadness to me that many of my feminist white women friends cannot see him. Cannot see what he carries in his being. Cannot hear the fresh choices toward Movement he offers. That they can believe that millions of Americans –black, white, yellow, red and brown - choose Obama over Clinton only because he is a man, and black, feels tragic to me. </em><br /><em></em><br /><em>When I have supported white people, men and women, it was because I thought them the best possible people to do whatever the job required. Nothing else would have occurred to me. If Obama were in any sense mediocre, he would be forgotten by now. He is, in fact, a remarkable human being, not perfect but humanly stunning, like King was and like Mandela is. We look at him, as we looked at them, and are glad to be of our species. He is the change America has been trying desperately and for centuries to hide, ignore, kill. The change America must have if we are to convince the rest of the world that we care about people other than our (white) selves. </em><a href="http://www.theroot.com/id/45469/page/1">By Alice Walker -TheRoot.com</a><br /><br />Just a few highlights, she has much more to say and all well worth clicking over to read.Not Your Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18318206435043475411noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36275473.post-79291576177176587402008-03-27T11:23:00.000-07:002008-03-28T00:17:01.191-07:00Sometimes I Mistake My Granddaughters for SnipersI've been busy operating under sniper fire this week so haven't had much time to post. Err, sorry, I misspoke, actually I've been held hostage by a pair of toddling grandchildren. Small children, snipers, all the same thing right? Maybe I'm just sleep deprived. Sorry but I didn't have quite enough time to pencil in bringing peace to the Middle East or curing cancer.<br /><br />Meanwhile back at the ranch it looks like She-Who-Saved-the-Free-World has been busy with her good friends at Fox, reassuring asshats across the nation that she will not cease and desist until she has successfully destroyed any chance of a Democrat being elected in November. Excuse me for not getting overly excited about this tidbit, after all, what the hell did anyone suppose she would do? If she can't have it she'll do everything possible to make sure no one else can either. The only question remaining is whether or not voters will fall for it and I'm not going to try and guess that one. Bets anyone?Not Your Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18318206435043475411noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36275473.post-26489269224225242662008-03-19T09:42:00.000-07:002008-03-19T10:34:49.476-07:00The Assmonkeys ComethBarely 24 hours after what was <em>the</em> most definitive speech ever given on race and here come the assmonkeys attempting to chip, chip, chip away at what was possibly the finest example of true statesmanship we will see in this century. <br /><br />They just can't stand it, not five minutes after Sen. Obama's speech there was the Prince of Assmonkeys, Pat Buchanan, parsing every tidbit through his own personal hateful, racist, sexist fucktard filter on MSNBC. Pat, you might <em>think</em> Rev. Jeremiah Wright hates you but he's your biggest fan compared to what I feel for you. Trust me on that one. <br /><br />Obama spoke truths that I and millions of other American citizens have known almost since birth, if that was "shocking" or surprising to some then all it points to is how fucking blind and insulated some of you are. When were you planning to wake up? When the anger and violence has destroyed all of us? When we have no nation left to salvage? <br /><br />Sound extreme? You really think a nation as divided as ours can continue to function effectively while continuing to ignore the needs and feelings of at least a third of its citizens? How the hell has that been working out for us? Looking at the big picture any sane person would have to conclude "not very damned well". <br /><br />Anyone who didn't "get" the speech or doesn't "get" the bigger picture here, you're probably beyond human help and it's time the rest of us moved on without you because the time for holding back to appease you is past. Sure, "we" could lose the election but I can personally guarentee you this: even if you "win" the election, you lose, in fact we'll all lose. Chew on that fer a while Bubba-heads. <br /><br />Barack Hussein Obama, yes, I used his middle name because it is a perfectly fine name and there is not a motherfucking thing wrong with it, has given me and mine something we have never had to any great extent, pride in one of our leaders and pride in our country for being able to produce such a person. That is also correct, I said I have never had tremendous pride in my country until now and I am a white middle class woman. My name is not Michelle and I am not running for any office so I will not parse that for you nor will I apologize to a country that's done nothing but try to kick me in the teeth every step up from the bottom. I have more than a slight suspicion there are many others like me out there too so if any of ya'll are thinking this is just a "black issue", think again m'fers. <br /><br />I could not be prouder of Sen. Obama if he were my own son or father or brother. What he said yesterday reached down into the ugly ball of rage I carry with me every day of my life and I didn't cry that cute little cry so many women manage where a few tears escape while they artfully dab them away from their make-up, no, it was more like the nearly-choking-to-death cry that anyone who has ever felt real pain knows. Make-up be damned. <br /><br />Yeah babies, it's personal at a level I never thought I'd live to see. I'm just one but our names and faces are many. Stick that one in your pipe and smoke it.Not Your Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18318206435043475411noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36275473.post-60154336103280296302008-03-11T11:06:00.000-07:002008-03-11T11:34:45.145-07:00Hope She Has Small Feet<em>"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position," she said for an article aptly headlined "Geraldine Ferraro lets her emotions do the talking."</em><br /><br /><em>She went on: "And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept."</em> <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/03/ferraro-comment.html">LA Times</a><br /><br />Well...yes, and if I had been born a black man odds are good I'd either be dead or in prison and not writing this blog so what is your point? Oh no, for one of the first times in history being a black man is to at least some extent turning out to be an advantage and that is just driving you crazy. Deal with it.<br /><br />Spin it any way you please, there is no way you can convince anyone even remotely honest that Hillary Clinton being female has not worked to her advantage as well. Those long lines of old ladies never turned out for Dubya or even for Al Gore, if they had we'd probably not be having this conversation now would we?<br /><br />While we're on it, if Hillary had not been born a wealthy white woman would she be in the position she is in now? If she were not married to a former president would she and more to the point....if she had been born black would Bubba have married her in the first place?<br /><br />If my ass were a cash register I'd be sipping latte in Rome. People are born who they are and sometimes it works out to be an advantage and sometimes it doesn't and Barack Obama didn't make up them rules, the rest of us did so you're damned straight I'm caught up in "the concept"and I make no apologies for it.<br /><br />Unfortunately any advantage Clinton's marital ties or type of genitalia may have given her is negated by the fact that she also possesses both the personality and the character of a psychopathic troll. We've already had a slew of those and at least some of us are ready for something different. <br /><br />Personally I'm damned thankful Obama was <em>not</em> born a white man because it's true, he might not be where he is today and that would have been a tremendous loss for all of us.Not Your Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18318206435043475411noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36275473.post-89648282277087588352008-03-06T06:08:00.001-08:002008-03-06T07:03:47.285-08:00Deep Dark Depression, Excessive MiseryIt hasn't seemed worth talking about the results of the Tuesday primary because, well, it was all too easily predictable. Everyone and their brother has been trying to analyze what Clinton and Obama did or did not do but hellooooo....ever occur to anyone it was the HeeHaw vote in Ohio and Texas that determined the outcome? Yeah buddy, same demographic that will likely make for a Clinton win in PA. Doubtful it would matter much what she did short of take a crap on the steps of the capitol.<br /><br />So on we go to another several months of fighting and republicans are jumping for joy, one more time it looks like indeed we <em>can</em> snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.<br /><br />Tuesday night was just splendid at my house. Clinton won three states and began to speak, husband turned purple and threw up. Not sure if it was Clinton or a bad taco but you get the picture. Husband you see is in many ways Mr. Joe Average America. The saner variety. He doesn't hate women, in fact thinks in general they are usually better people than most men though they often confuse and confound him. He doesn't care much about race either, he cares what a person does and how they behave. In his book an ass is an ass is an ass whatever flavor it comes in. He's just shy of 50 and has never, ever missed voting (democratic) in an election in his entire adult life despite the fact that the nominee was usually about his 3rd or fourth choice but come November, should Clinton be the nominee, he will not vote.<br /><br />He's only one person so I suppose that doesn't matter much in the bigger picture but I have to wonder how many others will not vote if it comes to that? I haven't <em>quite</em> gotten there yet, I'm waiting to see what the majority of the African-American community decides to do if this is the outcome but I can tell you this...if they decide to stay home I'll stay home with them.<br /><br />I have serious doubts about any candidate being able to deliver on even half of their promises even if they truly intend to but I am absolutely positive Clinton can't so I don't really see where a Clinton presidency would be so much better than a McCain presidency. Add in the fact that I truly believe a Clinton win would be the death of the Democratic party....well, I'd just as soon muddle through 4 more years of pig shit.<br /><br />Why do I believe that? Think about it, does anyone really believe that Black voters will just fall in line and continue to vote democratic after the party that is supposed to be all about equality flings turds in their faces? I'm thinking not and frankly the party cannot survive as a viable entity without them. If Obama wins will we lose voters? Sure...mainly elderly women voting to avenge twenty year old wrongs and a lot of racists. I'm good with that. Really I am, I'm tired of catering to the lowest common denominator and bending over for assmonkeys. If I wanted to do that I'd vote republican.<br /><br />I've voted lockstep with this party my entire life despite our consistent record of backing the wrong horse but I'm just about at the end of my rope. This one is personal for many reasons and I'm just not certain at all that I can do it. I want change. I want <em>all</em> Americans to just be Americans because we've become much like our dear friends the Sunni and the Shi'a and I'm just not down with that. The Democratic party has always supposedly stood for equality and reaching out to <em>any</em> group of people that has been left out and here we have a golden shiny moment where we have the opportunity to put our money where our mouths are and not with just any old figurehead but an actual, bonafide, qualified, and outstanding candidate so if we can't do it, well, there goes the neighborhood as far as I'm concerned.<br /><br />I don't really give a goddamn who that pisses off because people, ya'll been pissing on my salad for 45 years.Not Your Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18318206435043475411noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36275473.post-12168060758276940612008-02-25T16:09:00.000-08:002008-02-25T16:46:09.049-08:00If I Had A Magic Wand I'd Shove It Right Up Your Smug AssYup, that's right, Clinton's picture is gone. I've had more than enough sarcastic, condescending, mocking people try to bring me down during the course of my life, I sure as hell do not need another. I did not accept it from Bush, Cheney and all their asshat crowd and I'm not about to break out the shit-eating spoon for any other person who would have me vote for them to lead my party and my country.<br /><br />Luckily I will not have to struggle with whether or not to vote for you come November because despite whatever may or may not pop up from your followers in the blogosphere as far as the majority of voters are concerned, you committed political suicide today. I don't need a poll to tell me that. Maybe you should reconsider a career with the GOP, insulting voters and trying to humiliate them into following them is more their line.<br /><br />Newflash for you Ms. Clinton: you don't know me and you sure as hell do not know what I have had to overcome in my life and I definitely did not have a magic wand either. I don't kid myself about anything being "easy" or "perfect" but there is a key difference between the two of us, in spite of my cynicism and in spite of the multitude of mocking assmonkeys like you I've had to step over on my way, I've never given up and I've never wasted my time whining about what could not be done but focused on what could. If that makes me a fool then I'm a fool but oddly enough it's worked quite well for me.<br /><br />Go ahead and keep insulting us, smirk some more and make your cute little sarcastic sound bites and let us know how that works out for you. Maybe you can land a co-host spot with Bill O'Reilly.Not Your Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18318206435043475411noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36275473.post-15057357952925068602008-02-22T14:54:00.000-08:002008-02-22T15:33:02.076-08:00White People Can't Hear?I've previously expressed my own feelings of alienation from "my own kind" or anyway whatever that is based on how I look, my age, my gender, my income bracket, blah, blah, blah and last night only confirmed it. Rather todays reading through of the blogs has confirmed it. <br /><br />Apparently just about every white blogger in the country only had their white-o-centric ears on when they listened to last nights debate. I had my Latino-mom-ears on and I heard Obama loud and clear and he spoke to me and to my children and to my sisters' children. He offered us all a seat at the table, not tablescraps. No, I am not a Latina, I just borrow the ears sometimes, same as I had my Black-mom-eyes on when I looked at Sen. Obama's little girls on the stage in Iowa surrounded by crowds of cheering white people. Both times I saw and heard the future and it was good. <br /><br />I don't know how to explain this to you my white brethren and some will never get it and we'll just have to wait on them to die off but for those who would call themselves "progressive" let me explain something to you: there is a world of difference between "sympathy" and "empathy". I've never wasted much time feeling "sorry" for anyone, if you want to even begin to try and understand someone try on their shoes.Not Your Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18318206435043475411noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36275473.post-15796067335188619042008-02-18T14:56:00.000-08:002008-02-18T15:46:12.783-08:00You Have Attained the Rank Of Harpy SlayerHere is my deep, dark confession....my part-time addiction to creating alter egos on my favorite MMORPG where I currently exist as a black, half-elf Templar with a faithful pet duck. For those of you who believe only children and ultra-geeks engage in this sort of activity, my current main playing partner is a 50 something Italian engineer who plays from his office in Rome. Granted we may both be ultra-geeks but children we are definitely not. <br /><br />The sad thing is that while busily slaying orcs, bugbears and harpies in our little fictional universe we actually manage to have more interesting conversations than I've been able to find for the most part in the blog world. Somehow I can't feature my game friend going on a rant about Bill Clinton's wagging a finger at someone idiotic enough to attend a rally just to heckle the speaker or engaging in the ultra-paranoid anti-Obama rants I've seen on some blogs of late. <br /><br />Even stranger we differ on which US candidate we support but manage to discuss politics without raising insane arguments. Truth is if I were stupid enough to raise many of the arguments I've seen written on blogs and flogged to death in the media he would assume I'd lost my mind and he'd be correct. <br /><br />At least two of my favorite bloggers, <a href="http://mixtersmix.blogspot.com/">Mixter</a> and <a href="http://the-vigil.blogspot.com/">Vigilante</a> have expressed similar feelings of disenchantment with the current, I hesitate to call it "dialogue" but whatever it is. Hang in there both of you, please. Take a break if you must but don't throw in the towel because we've had decades of lunatics running this asylum and it's time saner voices took over. <br /><br />I don't live in the blog world full time like some nor do I live in my fictional game world full time, most of my time is actually spent in the very ordinary real world and I prefer to keep it that way though both of the others are wonderful alternatives at times and I have no plans to quit any. The thing is that despite my ever present pessimism about the human race in general I've seen enough evidence of at least a sizeable minority of people capable of using logic and reason to make it worthwhile to keep trying. <br /><br />The alternative would be to just give up and disappear into some fantasy universe full time and that I am not prepared to do.Not Your Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18318206435043475411noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36275473.post-53048915504789965402008-02-14T15:49:00.000-08:002008-02-14T16:59:18.883-08:00For Some Of Us Character MattersSeveral people commented on the previous post that much as they would hate to do it they would vote for Hillary Clinton in the general election if she wins the nomination. I have to agree with them, they are right...we can't afford a McCain presidency so I know that I would have to find a way to make myself do it but on a really personal level this would be one of the most difficult things I've ever had to do.<br /><br />I have the same problem with Clinton as I had with Edwards: <em>she voted to kill my children in George's war.</em> <br /><br />At first I was willing to cut her some slack on the issue, I had to put myself in her shoes and really look at how I might have looked at it if I had been in her position. Now <em>assuming</em> I was ever gullible enough to believe Iraq presented a clear and present danger to the US or even assuming I could at least be willing to entertain the thought that I might be mistaken, the consequences of being wrong on that would not be something I'd be willing to live with. The possibility of putting thousands of lives at risk by making a wrong decision or, unthinkable as it would be for me, to score a political jab at Herr Bush would make it at least understandable why some may have voted to give him the green light on the invasion. Faced with even a slight possibility of this scenario I can understand why some would have erred on the side of what they may have seen as caution. <br /><br />The problem is that since then it came to light that Sen. Clinton <em>never even read the intelligence reports.</em><br /><em></em><br />Still wearing Clinton's shoes there is no possible explanation for that other than it was never about erring on the side of caution or fear of risking more innocent lives. It was about political expediency and keeping the vote amongst what was at that time perceived as the "center". There is just no other way to spin it and believe me I've turned this one inside out and looked at it from every conceivable angle and there is simply no way that if ones' concern truly was the safety and security of the American people that anyone would have simply voted without taking advantage of all available information and intelligence. There is just no way I would have done that and hopefully neither would any of the readers here. <br /><br />I know that's "old" news and supposedly the American voter has a 15 minute attention span. Maybe that's true but not always and not all of us. I don't care what pop psychology says about forgiveness, some things are not forgiveable and more importantly speak to the true character and motivations of a person. There is no way anyone can spin this for me, it is impossible to make a decision affecting the lives of millions without even looking at all the information then try to convince me it was because you believed it was to protect those very people.<br /><br />I'm a woman and I am a mother and I know better. <br /><br />So how am I going to make myself vote for Clinton if it comes to that? Only one way I can, McCain has made it clear he will not even attempt to put an end to this. As long as ending our occupation of Iraq remains popular with the general public, Clinton likely will. Don't bank on that though, John Q. Public can change with the wind and we'll have elected a leader who likes to run the way the wind is blowing. If it comes down to it I'll have to settle for that on the chance that I might help save someone else's child or husband or spouse so on that note I'll give her my vote then whatever happens, happens.<br /><br />Unfortunately it would be just one more time I had no real voice in this country, me and a few million other people for that reason and a dozen others. Yes, that's just one of them, I could write a 2000 page book on some of the other reasons but most people still would not get it and I'm pretty much tired of trying to reason with people that just want to turn this into a high school football team rivalry. <br /><br />This is about real lives and real people and I have to try and choose the candidate I believe most takes that seriously. At the most basic level it's all about trust and given a choice I always opt for the people who have not betrayed my trust. Sadly I'm usually left with a choice between two people who've betrayed that trust and trying to decide which will continue to do so less than the other. <br /><br />So you were wondering why so few people vote?Not Your Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18318206435043475411noreply@blogger.com7