January 26, 2004
Time is running out for the Resident and his "Evil Genius" sidekick. They are aware of this, so expect the dirtiest campaign you've ever seen.
I promised myself that I had to do something to fight the Bush/Cheney vision for America. So this is it!
A very small voice in cyberspace. I hope you find it worthwhile.
Without these sites the past few years would have been very dreary.
Most of these sites are published by a few people on a shoe-string budget. It is hard for them to put up new material daily. To that end, I thought I would maybe try to help others in the same fashion that the folks mentioned above have helped me.
Bush's voice sounded funny to me. Not funny "ha-ha" but odd. It sounded wrong. There was one word in particular that started catching my ear that seemed to some up the wrongness of his entire voice. Whenever he tried to say "America" it came out "Murka". I thought that I must be having hearing problems, because this man had just been selected pResident by the Supreme Court of the United States. Surely the leader of the free world was not a man who could not pronounce the name of his own country.
I conferred with my wife, who confessed that she too heard the odd-sounding word coming from the mouth of Bush. I couldn't understand what was going on. The United States of America had just finished a presidential election where the most qualified person to run for the office in my lifetime, Albert Gore, had received more votes in an election against possibly the most unqualified person to run in the history of the republic. Due to a little situation in Florida, the election results were overturned, and a Republican majority on the US Supreme Court had made this man Bush pResident.
It became clear what had happened. I had entered a parallel universe. I no longer lived in the United States of America. I now lived in Murka. Murka is very similar to the United States of America, but there are some seriously messed up differences.
I made the following chart to help myself understand the differences:
+Our leaders are qualified to hold office
+Our president can prounounce the name of the goddamned country
+Leaders fight terror by arresting the terrorists and putting them in jail.
+President is forced to endure the most dispicable attacks in the history of the country from his political enemies.
+Leaders lead country into war by lying
+Say "Murka" when they mean America. Never ever say "United States of America"
+Leaders fight terra by provoking wars of choice and implementing restrictions on civil liberties.
+President criticizes the patriotism of those who oppose him.
So, I have resigned myself to living in Murka until the next Presidential election, barely 10 months away. At that time, I hope that I can somehow find the way back to my own universe where I live in a country where freedom and democratic values are more important than the greed and hubris of a few evil men and women.
If you like this site, I would welcome your input as to what things you would like to see here in the future. I will do my best to provide what you want to see.
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