eric gagne, that walking disaster disguised as a red sox reliever, just signed a 1 year, 10 million dollar deal with the brewers! shoot me. but please, use the gun where a white flag comes out with the word bang on it.
as i walked to work today, it was the fight of my life to stay on my feet. the ice on the sidewalk represented an obstacle course james worthy of double dragon. and, the cold! then, when i got to the school, a kid named "wit" (i don't think it's his real name. he is one of those "hip hop crackers" who thinks he's black because he's mastered a complicated hand shake, but sadly, has yet to discover the music of tina brooks. dig his "back to the tracks" album) is walking into the building. he is wearing only a t shirt. proof indeed that he is white.
a hillary clinton staffer was recently fired for suggesting that obama is really a muslim who will be used by muslims to take over the government from within. the staffer was fired, but not before those ideas got out to the public. this after mitt romney twice called obama "osama bin laden," supposedly a recurring accident. need i remind you a student i work with asked "isn't he the guy who blew up the towers" when i mentioned his name. i leave it to you to determine what all of this says about the racism, ignorance, and anti-muslim bigotry that pervades our culture. obama for president? maybe in 2308.
not that obama is any better than others. however, we should not look away when a man is caricatured in such a discriminatory way, for it is what such actions say about our society that make them compelling issues. the clinton scandal was evil not because clinton was a great man, but because it demonstrated the extent to which the far right would go in its attempt to eliminate even the pseudo alternative of the democratic party. the kennedy assassination doesn't prove that jfk was a great man, but it does show how far the business interests, the cia, and the military would go in their attempts to eliminate political dissent in high office. and the fact that political hopefuls are using such blatant name calling against obama demonstrates how inherent the sickness of fascist thinking is within our country. it is not a laughing matter.
osama for president.
questions: does iraq scare you? have they threatened to attack us? are iraqi planes bombing american cities? have napalm and cluster bombs been poured onto our soil? are iraqi security forces patrolling american cities, detaining citizens, kicking in doors, guarding checkpoints, shooting cars as they drive by in an attempt to get pregnant women to bombed out hospitals?
who are the terrorists again? when will war crime tribunals come to our shores? when will people write books asking where the good americans were while their government committed genocide? in the future, will people wonder why we were fascinated with reality tv and the demise of britney spears while said genocide took place? will it question our getting up at 4 in the morning on "black friday" to purchase cheap consumer products while our military conquered civilizations? years from now, will memorials be built with the names of the countless dead from our brutish bombardments? will some one intone "never again?" will the iraqi elie wiesel write a book that school children will read and cry over?
sadly, i know the answers to these questions.
and that says a lot, doesn't it?
does anyone know who is playing on monday night football?
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