Quote:

We can remind ourselves that for all our social discord we yet remain the longest enduring society of free men governing themselves without benefit of kings or dictators. Being so, we are the marvel and the mystery of the world, for that enduring liberty is no less a blessing than the abundance of the earth.



At our current rate, this passage will not apply to us
in the near future. Americans in general have become
so apathetic that Bush would have to don a Nazi SS uniform
before anyone bothered to take notice.

If he did it under the ' War on Terror ' or ' Think of the
Children ' clauses, folks would pitch a fit for a day then
go back to their blissfully ignorant lives over a cup of
Starbucks.

HOLY SH*T He's wearing a Nazi uniform ! Get him !
Oh wait. . . it's for the children you say ? Well
then ! Belay my last ! Let's head over to the mall,
pickup some styling jackboots and begin practicing
our goose-stepping!

*chuckle*

We live in a society where the lawmakers could care less
about the will of the people who elected them. They happen
to hold the position because, at the time, they were the
lesser of two evils to choose from. This is a country where
your ' right ' to vote is restricted to candidates who are
handfed to the populace by corporate America, because the
candidates in question support their ' cause ' for lack of
a better word.

Think about it. If you don't have the backing of corporate
America on your side, you have a snowballs chance in hell
of becoming our next President. Simple as that.

About the only thing that Congress does reliably is to vote
themselves higher pay. *rolls eyes* Our current President
is considered amazing if he can get through a scripted speech
in one piece. Our current candidates are knifing their
competition over their qualifications ( or lack thereof )
for running this country.

Believe me when I say if we can elect an actor as a Governer,
( de Governator ) or a President ( Reagan ), endure the likes
of Slick Willie ( Bill Clinton ) or the current wonder as the
so called ' leader ' of the free world, then the following is
applicable.

Presidential qualifications can be boiled down to:

1) The ability to at least read a teleprompter.
2) Double digit IQ at the very minimum.
3) Be alive
4) Claim to be of the Christian ( lie if you have to ) faith

The only way we're ever going to find our way again is with
an independent President. Not a Republican, not a Democrat
, not someone on the corporate payroll.

The problem is, no one will EVER fund an independent. We
all know it takes all kinds of money to buy. . . er. WIN an
election and without it an independent stands no chance.

I know I shouldn't rant about politics, but I see what our
current regime is doing ( including our newly elected
useless-as-anything Congress who promised to fix the world )
and it doesn't impress me in the slightest. Yet another example
of promising the world to get elected, then conveniently
forgetting those promises the very next day.

If we don't do something to turn the country around, the
US will simply fade away. We will end up another Mexico,
Uzbekistan, or some other non-major player on the world
stage.

Thus endeth my rant. . . . .

Daye for President ! lol

*afterthought*

You know who I miss ? Toonces.

He could take a subject like this and turn it into
something that would make you fall out of your chair
from laughing so damn hard. Wonder whatever happened
to him ?