An End to Opposite Day

[KurtNYC]

We're entering year five of opposite day in America.

You know the drill: More mercury emissions means cleaner water. More sulfur and carbon dioxide in the air means clearer skies. Cutting old growth trees means creating healthier forests. Less money for expensive education programs means better education for every child. Abolishing initiatives for equal pay and restricting reproductive freedom is pro-family. Waging pre- emptive war is defending the "culture of life." Imprisoning suspects indefinitely without due process is protecting our democracy. Being pro-war, pro-gun, and pro-death penalty is being not only Christian, but pro-life.
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Unlike their historical predecessors, the new conservatives are hyper-consumers who deplete the world's resources with impunity, ravage the environment without concern, and wage war without either provocation or planning. The new morality defines non-marital and homosexual sex as sin, uttering a four-letter word as a crime, and torture of "detainees" as a necessary tactic. The Geneva Conventions are dismissed as quaint and civil liberties an indulgence we can ill-afford if we are to defend our way of life.

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Children are masters at magical thinking; they can suspend disbelief and argue quite convincingly that it is nighttime in the middle of the morning or that they are SpongeBob and you are Patrick or that their good friend Gwendolyn is living in the closet, which is actually a portal to Shirt World. In fact, my son introduced the concept of "opposite day" to our household when he was five. On opposite day, I would be him and he would be me and everything we said would be the opposite of what we actually meant. It was magical thinking at its hilarious best.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0107-32.htm

Reality will not be denied forever.

[goddess40]

1. I hope you're right

I can't stand this crap, the worst part is that those that think bush is telling the truth. I guess there are a lot of worst parts.