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An actual blog about this event, probably with more pictures, coming soon!
Just found this poem that I wrote a couple of years ago. It makes sense in my head, but…. it might not make sense to anyone else. Anyway. Thought I would post it here just to see!
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if i fail to mention the feathers
i’ve faith you’ll forgive the fault of
frequency and offer a forgiving smile.
please. don’t look at the goat.
i’ve faith you’ll forgive the fault of
fairly futile flights of fancy.
please. don’t look at the goat.
its form’s so flimsy in this light.
fairly futile flights of fancy
foster feather fuck-ups when
its form’s so flimsy in this light,
and the fatal flaw is framed by favors.
foster feather fuck-ups when
your fashionable figure flies,
and the fatal flaw is framed by favors,
but in a way that flatters.
i’ve faith you’ll forgive the fault of
all my feather fuck-ups.
please. don’t look at the goat.
you’ve always been a faithful friend.
- W
I will write again soon, but this my friends is SCARY. SCARY. SCARY.
So nice to have Jennifer back. Guess you just couldn’t stay away. I guess though that you still lack the courage to actually own your comments by using your name. That’s too bad.
This bit of commentary by Rachel Maddow is pure genius.
I’m not sure that I have enough energy to keep writing about politics. The blatant lies that people seem to be all to ready to believe are making me crazy… really, really crazy. Google “Sarah Palin Iraq.” Sarah Palin told everyone that she had been to Iraq during the war. This was touted as part of her “international experience.” Well, actually, to be more specific, Sarah Palin has only visited a military checkpoint at the Kuwait-Iraq border. So, yeah, she’s been to Iraq…about 3 feet inside the border for maybe half an hour.
The blogger Lesbian Dad (see link at right) has a nice article up today about Palin, inclduing discussions about her desire to BAN BOOKS, and she points out one essential fact. It is a fact that anyone who knows a fundemntalist is well aware of. This is not a world of compromise. Calling an area “gray” is more or less a sin. The Biblical worldview does not allow for any such thing. Something is true, or it isn’t, right or wrong. And the fundamentalist believes that she alone has all the answers. She does not need advice (see, as an example, President Bush), and to question her own sense of right and wrong would be to question God Himself [sic]. Because all she needs to know about the world is in the Bible! And if it is not in the bible DIRECTLY one should divine the answer through prayer. To ask someone else for advice is to betray a lack of faith in god. The fundamentalist is not at liberty to engage in conversation, debate, dialogue, discussion, deliberation, baragaining, anything at all. Because they are right. You are wrong. End discussion.
I could go ON and ON about this particular subject, but I won’t. I’m going to stop typing. I am going to take a very nice glass of wine and a Joyce Carol Oates novel and go take a nice, hot bath. And I am going to be thankful that I live, for now, in a democracy. And I can only hope that it stays that way.
I am tired and achey tonight… and yet, I cannot not speak about some things. Mostly, hypocrisy. The hypocrisy being expressed minute by minute at the Republican National Convention is making me slightly crazy.
Having said that, my great fear right this moment is that in the midst of discussing Sarah Palin’s pregnant teenage daughter or her troopergate isssue… the media is forgetting to bring to our attention the fact that she is incredibly unqualified to be vice president… and possibly president… of the United States.
But! Back to hypocrisy.
1) Hillary Clinton. Republicans were quick to demonize Clinton for being too aggressive, too militant, and at the same time, too soft, too emotional. When the media shines a similar light on Palin all we hear is a resounding “FOUL!” from the right.
2) Teen pregnancy. Honestly, I don’t care that Palin’s daughter is pregnant. She is right that that is family business and not mine. What I do care about is the Republican support of this pregnancy… support in the face of “teenage pregnancy” being a huge platform of the Republican party. Support that it is MORE RESPONSIBLE for a 17-year-old girl to marry than to be taught how to use a condom. In fact, this is somewhat personal… growing up in a conservative household like those voting for Palin this year, I was taught that sex before marriage was not just a mistake.. it was the RUINATION of the rest of your life. Forgiveness for such a great sin was something that could only be hoped for, maybe, one day, if you were good enough in the years to come. But ultimatey, no matter what forgiveness meant, you should expect to be miserable and desitute all of your life for having premarital sex. Fornication. There is no hope for you after that. The same people who taught me this are rallying around the young Palin for her pro-life stance. Believe me… having lived among those people… it is not a CHOICE she was given. This is not a decision that was made. In the fundamentalist world, abortion would be tantamount to the fires of everlasting hell and damnation. That she “chose” to keep the baby is more accurately describes as having chosen to save her own soul. Hardly much of a choice, to my mind.
3) The senator who has made it a part of his legacy to campaign against earmarks and “pork barrel” spending has teamed up with a woman who, as governor, was the recipient of multiple millions of dollars in government earmarks. Actually, her earmarks were programs which McCain specifically said MUST GO.
How about that?
