This billboard sign is located in Wyoming , MN heading south on 35 just before the Wyoming exit on the east side just before Stars & Strikes bowling alley.
I posted this last night, without comment, as soon as I found it in my email. In between pulling on my slippers and pouring my first cup of joe, the answer came to me:
Miss him? how can we miss him? He's still with us. Him and his bloody and expensive unnecessary wars and occupations. Him and his totally wrecked economy. Him and our record budget debts. Him and his regressive tax polices. Him and his Republicant Posse with whom he rode into power. He's still will us. And he will be for all of the days of my lifetime.
The Neocons never left. They are just wearing a different lapel pin, with a different beast of burden on it. The American citizens are their obedient beasts of burden. It is always our blood, sweat and tears. While they run to the elite trough of profit, and control.
It's this image, and others like it, than bring me back to why I blog.
#1, I am not a potted plant. I have feelings, values, ideals, hopes and loves which I cannot allow to be injured without standing up, speaking up, bearing witness, and making some kind of a record.
The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who loves his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.
Reverend G R Gleig, survived the First Anglo-Afghan War to write in 1843:
...a war begun for no wise purpose, carried on with a strange mixture of rashness and timidity, brought to a close after suffering and disaster, without much glory attached either to the government which directed, or the great body of troops which waged it. Not one benefit, political or military, has Britain acquired with this war. Our eventual evacuation of the country resembled the retreat of an army defeated.
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Yep need to adjust for cross wind.
ReplyDeleteNO, don't miss you at all
ReplyDeleteI posted this last night, without comment, as soon as I found it in my email. In between pulling on my slippers and pouring my first cup of joe, the answer came to me:
ReplyDeleteMiss him? how can we miss him? He's still with us. Him and his bloody and expensive unnecessary wars and occupations. Him and his totally wrecked economy. Him and our record budget debts. Him and his regressive tax polices. Him and his Republicant Posse with whom he rode into power. He's still will us. And he will be for all of the days of my lifetime.
So, how can I be missing him?
The Neocons never left.
ReplyDeleteThey are just wearing a different lapel pin, with a different beast of burden on it.
The American citizens are their obedient beasts of burden. It is always our blood, sweat and tears. While they run to the elite trough of profit, and control.
Yea, I miss you. Like I'd miss six backwoods hillbillies with huge dicks taking turns fucking my ass.
ReplyDeleteIt's this image, and others like it, than bring me back to why I blog.
ReplyDelete#1, I am not a potted plant. I have feelings, values, ideals, hopes and loves which I cannot allow to be injured without standing up, speaking up, bearing witness, and making some kind of a record.
(I forget what comes 2nd!)