It's the same in any lingo

בַּת-בָּבֶל, הַשְּׁדוּדָה: אַשְׁרֵי שֶׁיְשַׁלֶּם-לָךְ-- אֶת-גְּמוּלֵךְ, שֶׁגָּמַלְתּ לָנוּ
אַשְׁרֵי שֶׁיֹּאחֵז וְנִפֵּץ אֶת-עֹלָלַיִךְ-- אֶל-הַסָּלַע


How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? If not now, when? ~ Rav Hillel, Pirke Avot

This Red Sea Pedestrian Stands against Judeophobes

This Red Sea Pedestrian Stands against Judeophobes
Wear It With Pride

15 April 2009

You're The Dream Operator

Today was the day of the Tax Day Tea Parties. Pretty tremendous knowing that Americans of all political persuasions decided to get up off their keesters and make their voices heard in the face of rampant political corruption.

Regardless of who people voted for, most of us wanted change. Not, "Change," but change. But many of us understood that we were not going to get it. We were going to get a third Shrub term regardless of who won. The only difference is who gets to play on the team, and who is getting the free deluxe box seats. With the Shrub it was Haliburton, Bank of America, AIG, and selling our economic soul the the Chinese. With Tushy Obama it's...the aforementioned, plus all his new little piggies come to suck at our taxpaying teat, and screw us. McCain at least was more like dancing with the devil you know, as opposed to the demon you don't. But still, that's just choosing evil isn't it? I've always said so, which is why I have cast the majority of my votes for President for animals, fictional characters, and dead relatives. At least then I didn't feel like a fucking tool.

We had a couple friends over to dine with us. One of them, whom I have known for nearly eight years, tried to convince me tonight that I should look at the glass as half full; that our choice in November was between watching Death of Salesman, and La Cage Aux Folles on Broadway. He would rather watch La Cage and feel entertained and happy, than bitter and depressed over the breaking of Willie Loman. "The glass is half full," and I should stop seeing the glass as half empty. What I have not been able to get him to understand is that I see the glass as neither.

The glass is broken and no longer holds water. I want a new fucking glass.

The zombie media can say what it likes about the Tea Parties being run by domestic terrorists, and that our Iraq and Afghanistan vets are coming back as domestic terrorists (the final insult in a long chain of abuses, from sending our men and women into harm's way to line the pockets of American corporations, to chipping away at their benefits until the current administration had the audacity of dope to suggest that disabled vets should pay for their own insurance, while the new First Lady came to North Carolina to tell soldiers and their families that she was going to make them a priority), but this is why Americans took to the street today:

We want a new fucking glass. A new fucking glass so we can drink cool clear water again. We're tired of oligarchs and autocrats who spend our money, don't heed our voice and, in the end, could care less about our wants, needs, dreams, or desires. Our government was designed to keep things together on a national scale so that we would be free to pursue our dreams, not be told what our dreams should be, and what we have to do to make them come true.

Today was a day for Americans to stand up and tell the government that they are not the Dream Operators, we are. Fucking deal with it.



5 comments:

Logistics Monster said...

A brand new glass. I LIKE IT!!!

This would never happened if they hadn't been fuckin' around and shattered the glass. There is a silver lining to every cloud.

Thanks Shtuey!!

Shtuey said...

These buttfaces just don't know when to leave well enough alone.

navyvet48 said...

I think the people who attended Tea Parties will be sending an even more important message next year...and it will be in the voters booth...that will be when they send some of the corruptocrats from DC home! At least that is what I am going to encourage people to do!

Mary Ellen said...

I couldn't have said it better, kiddo. I can't tell you how angry I am with those who voted for Obama, and that includes my husband and kids who voted for him. They betrayed our country...they betrayed our freedom.

seattlegal said...

Well... I am so thankful that my husband and kids voted McCain and Green Party after mourning the loss of Hill. It was a close call with my older daughter who was in the middle of O-ville in Santa Fe and couldn't bring herslef to vote for the Repubs. She finally checked out the other party candidates and at least didn't give her vote... the FIRST she has ever made... to that one. Thank the Goddess.

Anyway, I digress.

Tea Party here in Seattle (also O country) was absolutely fantastic. The organizers told the state patrol there might be 500 in Olympia at the Capital. Somehow that "500" morphed into a solid 5 thousand people... of all walks of life.

Seattle Times headlines this morning read TAX RALLIES SAY ENOUGH ALREADY... Crowds Angry Over Soaring Government Spending.

I'm so glad they got the angry over spending part correct. So many others seem to want to make it up that all this is about is taxes. It's not just taxes. For me it's actually the least of it.

IT'S THE BERZERKO SPENDING, STUPID!

Anyway, Hi Shtuey. Just thought I'd stop by. Thanks for the article...

A broken glass is a broken glass is a broken glass. Trillions of dollars of debt won't fix it.