belladonna
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Tue Oct-10-06 01:38 PM
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So during our poetry presentation last night, a sheeple spoke up |
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I read my poem and talked some about the parallels I saw to our current Boy King and his merry band of thieves and the war in Iraq. The teacher, who is very obviously a huge liberal and seems to feel much the same way about our so-called leadership, brings up Youtube and the videos that you can see on there. Specifically, the ones from the soldiers that show people what it's REALLY like over there.
This woman, probably my age or a little older, pipes up and says, "I just don't think that's good for America. I wish it were like it was back in World War 1, when people back home didn't see what went on in war. I just don't want to know all of that"!
What the FUCK is wrong with people like her? What's sad is that I'm beginning to feel like she's in the damn majority around here. Fucking assholes, too caught up in their everyday bullshit and too stupid to give a flying fuck about anything but their own precious lives and delicate sensibilities :argh:
"end of rant" :cry: :scared: :mad:
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Tue Oct-10-06 02:03 PM
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Too many people are just like this out of sight out of mind, hopefully by the end of this class she will be asking questions about her feelings.
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Tue Oct-10-06 02:08 PM
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2. I wish we could send people like that sheeple back to WWI |
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What a humongous idiotic "moran"!!
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Tue Oct-10-06 02:18 PM
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3. Obviously doesn't want to clutter her "beautiful mind" |
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How can it not be "good for America" to know what's really going on in the world? :banghead:
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belladonna
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Tue Oct-10-06 04:15 PM
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9. That's the first thought I had when she started talking |
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Barbara Bush and her "beautiful mind" :puke:
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Tue Oct-10-06 02:22 PM
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4. The idolization of ignorance |
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that's what's so frustrating when dealing with people like this, which is the bulk (all?) shrub supporters. To us lack of information, making decisions without all the data is a BAD thing. To them information is bad! It's not good to "know to much".
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Tue Oct-10-06 02:34 PM
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5. Maybe it's a self-awareness thing |
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Maybe she's afraid that if she was confronted with the bloodshed and death that the psychos in Washington are causing every day she and people like her might not have the stomach to continue to support them.
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belladonna
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Tue Oct-10-06 04:16 PM
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10. I wish I'd had longer to talk about it with her |
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Although, I get the feeling from this woman it wouldn't have done much good anyway :shrug:
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Tue Oct-10-06 02:42 PM
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Soldiers from the US go off to a foreign land to fight for freedoms that will be taken away from under their noses by the time they come home. Gertrude Stein would say that ours is truly a Lost Generation.
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Tue Oct-10-06 02:45 PM
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7. she missed Pearl Harbor and 9/11 |
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Tue Oct-10-06 04:17 PM
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11. Doesn't it just amaze you sometimes? |
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That people can even say shit like that without feeling deeply ashamed? Shit, if I were that selfish and shallow, I think I'd keep it to myself.
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Tue Oct-10-06 03:55 PM
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"All Quiet on the Western Front".
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Tue Oct-10-06 04:18 PM
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12. She needs to see a lot more than that |
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Unfortunately, I think she's only interested in Survivor and Wife Swap :shrug:
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Tue Oct-10-06 04:22 PM
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13. Did anyone answer her? |
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Seems like she should do some volunteer time rehabbing wounded troops.
Ignorance may be bliss; but it sure is stupid.
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Tue Oct-10-06 04:31 PM
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14. which poem did you go with? weren't you thinking about doing |
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Pink's "Mr. President" or am I confused:blush::yoiks:
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belladonna
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Tue Oct-10-06 07:18 PM
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15. I went with the one by Margaret Atwood |
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Backdrop Addresses Cowboy... mostly because I felt it was more subtle. I was surprised to find that most of the class got exactly what I did out it. I'd post it, but I'm at school at the moment :cry:, on a quick break. If my boss didn't send me a ton of dictation to do, I'll post it when I get home.
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Wed Oct-11-06 10:06 AM
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21. yes, I remember now....cool, that is the one I thought, too!! |
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:woohoo:
and you got the freeper, too:bounce:
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Wed Oct-11-06 10:11 AM
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23. Haha, she couldn't resist the bait |
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I guess if there is an upside to it, it's that I figured out who the freeper is and, thank gawd, there only seems to be one of them :D
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Wed Oct-11-06 10:15 AM
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Tue Oct-10-06 07:31 PM
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16. did she have bad-dog-grooming white hair and bulging eyes? |
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her poor beautiful mind...
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Wed Oct-11-06 09:55 AM
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17. Nope and that's what's kind of messed up |
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Before this girl opened her mouth and that crap spewed out of it, I could almost have believed that she was a fairly intelligent person :shrug:
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Wed Oct-11-06 10:00 AM
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18. well -- tell her to love it or leave it. |
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Edited on Wed Oct-11-06 10:00 AM by xchrom
it's painful to live in a democracy -- because you have a PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY to be educated and informed about issues.
and here's the real kicker -- the government has a resposibility to the people to keep them educated and informed.
other wise there is simply no point to elections.
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belladonna
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Wed Oct-11-06 10:05 AM
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20. Personal responsibility seems to be a long forgotten value |
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And sadly, I see a lot of this in MY generation. I truly do think my generation was the "all about me" generation sometimes. So much for any speeches about kids these days... the younger kids in class all got "it" right away and seemed very well-informed.
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Wed Oct-11-06 10:13 AM
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24. conservatives and their media minions warped |
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the meaning of personal responsibility.
that's just a phrase used to describe the character defects of poor folk today.
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Wed Oct-11-06 10:03 AM
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19. She should read "Dulce et Decorum Est." |
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On second thought, why bother? People like her provide one of the primary disconnects leading to the fall of nations and empires. She might as well have said "Let them eat Cake!"
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Wed Oct-11-06 10:10 AM
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22. Strangely enough, that was the first poem of the night |
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One of the guys did it and did a very good job with it. I have a feeling it flew right over her head though.
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Wed Oct-11-06 10:15 AM
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25. No head to fly over: an optical illusion. |
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Nature abhors a vacuum: in the case of her cranium She made an exception.
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Wed Oct-11-06 11:37 AM
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27. "We'd still be fighting WWII if we had worried about 'collateral damage'" |
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...another variation on this basic Repuke talking point I saw posted recently on another site, that we shouldn't concern ourselves with what actually goes on in the name of "defending our way of life"... :puke:
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Wed Oct-11-06 11:43 AM
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28. Exactly what made my skin crawl about her statement |
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It's perfectly okay with her that our soldiers are dying in huge numbers or coming home missing limbs and/or with post traumatic stress disorder, all the innocent Iraqi citizens who died because Bush has Daddy issues and wants to make his friends even richer ... as long as she doesn't hear about it. How can anyone be that callous and uncaring?
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