The Wee Democracy

get up, stand up

well, its clearly been far too long since i've gone on my political soap box, and i think its high time i offended the right and alienated me some conservatives!! i'm concerned about more than a few things in these last couple of weeks. censorship, privacy issues, the 9/11 commission, which is clearly only for show, and so i guess i'll tackle them in reverse order.

the 9/11 commission is a joke. richard clarke got up there, admitted that they made mistakes, that there were serious shortcomings and apologized. and he's the only one so far. i suppose what really busted my chops was condoleeza rice getting up there and spewing all manner of just foolish nonsense at the commission to no end. i was right there yelling "booyah!" when that one commissioner, bob kerry said that he wouldn't be filibustered, cause that's exactly what that woman was doing. she wasn't interested in letting the truth be known. she wanted to go, and get it over with, and went in with a strategy of winding down the clock.

then bush and cheney go in together -- well, the puppet can't talk on his own, can he? someone's got to be there to hold the strings. and this whole business about not being allowed to be sworn in? please. that's like a license to lie. which i'm sure they did...in spades.

none of this is an original argument, by any means. but what bothers me is that this commission was set up to find out what happened and it never will. not until the current president is replaced. the entire country deserves to know the truth, and several thousand who deserve to know it more than anyone else. and they won't get it. because bush wants to play president for a few more years.

privacy issues. now someone like me, who does alot of shit online -- paying bills, buying stuff, yada yada yada trusts those little lock icons at the bottom of the IE window to keep my shit private.

little did i know that my bank can turn right the hell around and sell my private information unless i expressly forbid them to do so? how is that legal, one might ask, and rightly so. the answer: lobbyists.

like the wee democracy that is my body, america's under the rule not of a true democracy, but rather an oligarchy of the powerful and wealthy. i'm not painting myself as a class warrior, and i'm certainly not averse to making money and success, and i sure as shit would love to be rich, but i mean, damn. banks make shitloads and shitloads of money off us, off investments, credit cards, overdrafts, interest. but they still stoop to low and ethically questionable means to make more.

it's like the oracle said in the matrix reloaded: what do all men with power want? more power.

but i don't want power. i want a nice house, and an endless supply of hawaiian punch.

and censorship. rush limbaugh is free to say the most asinine and offensive and inflammatory...and often incorrect things, but because he is allied to those most in favor of censorship, this admitted junkie stays on the waves. actually, i'm just going to link you up to roger ebert's essay on the matter, because he puts it far more eloquently than i have.

either way, i'm terribly scared that this whole fcc/obscenity/censorship thing is going to affect how many thong clad honeys i am going to see on elimidate from now on. it better not!

ok, i'm stepping off the soapbox now.

shit! i fell.



feeling: sorry for myself and my mavs
thinking of: NY next week, baby!
song of the day: the times they are a-changin' - bob dylan
come senators, congressmen, please heed the call. don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall. for he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled. the battle outside ragin' will soon shake your windows and rattle you walls, for the times, they are a-changin'

...sing it, bob