There seems to be a certain chemical in the ink just before elections. Although it is as black as the kettle that the pot claims it is, it is also quite similar to another color: bullshit.
It is difficult to go through life without an opinion, just as it is without the other end of the body. But there is certainly a limit to what I can listen to without making my own comments.
There is little use in declaring what I believe and what I don't believe, since the factual basis of belief means very little to any "true believer". On the other hand, it is also cowardice to remain sitting on a fence. My life was never lived according to fear, and usually I lived on the edge of chaos. Wherever I might work or live, no matter what the penalty, I usually spoke my mind.
They warned me that my life would be miserable forever after. But that was just more crap. My life may have had its ups and downs, but nearly everything was better than being in a Marine brig.
Which brings up the latest pile of bullshit colored ink, the best that big-money can buy. I am not a D and I am not an R. That supposedly means that I am an I. But I really don't belong to any letter club whatsoever. I don't care who is on the ticket -- if they're full of crap I'm voting against them. So can you guess who is the most full of crap this time around?
Here's a clue -- who can afford to buy more bullshit colored ink? Here's another clue -- who is destroying the future of our children? Who claims that science knows nothing, and that religion knows everything and that global warming makes nicer golf courses? I don't give a damn who screws who or what or why. That just doesn't matter.
Of course, it doesn't really matter who we vote for. The religious nuts will always be nuts, the warmongers will always make wars and the oil and coal companies will always pollute the world. And science is no better than religion if such knowledge only gives us bigger populations, which consume more food and produce more crap.
That's just the way it is. If you are a politician, no matter how much bullshit colored ink you got -- I'm voting against you.
It is difficult to go through life without an opinion, just as it is without the other end of the body. But there is certainly a limit to what I can listen to without making my own comments.
There is little use in declaring what I believe and what I don't believe, since the factual basis of belief means very little to any "true believer". On the other hand, it is also cowardice to remain sitting on a fence. My life was never lived according to fear, and usually I lived on the edge of chaos. Wherever I might work or live, no matter what the penalty, I usually spoke my mind.
Sinclair Lewis' famous quote: "When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."In the US Navy this led to a tortuous stint in a Marine Brig. That is where 2+2=5 and pigs can fly -- because they say so. But I was not one to believe such crap. To me, crap = crap, and that = that. This eventually resulted in my discharge from the Navy, whereupon I danced as if on a near-zero-gravity asteroid - my feet could barely touch the ground I was so happy to get out of there.
They warned me that my life would be miserable forever after. But that was just more crap. My life may have had its ups and downs, but nearly everything was better than being in a Marine brig.
Which brings up the latest pile of bullshit colored ink, the best that big-money can buy. I am not a D and I am not an R. That supposedly means that I am an I. But I really don't belong to any letter club whatsoever. I don't care who is on the ticket -- if they're full of crap I'm voting against them. So can you guess who is the most full of crap this time around?
Here's a clue -- who can afford to buy more bullshit colored ink? Here's another clue -- who is destroying the future of our children? Who claims that science knows nothing, and that religion knows everything and that global warming makes nicer golf courses? I don't give a damn who screws who or what or why. That just doesn't matter.
Of course, it doesn't really matter who we vote for. The religious nuts will always be nuts, the warmongers will always make wars and the oil and coal companies will always pollute the world. And science is no better than religion if such knowledge only gives us bigger populations, which consume more food and produce more crap.
That's just the way it is. If you are a politician, no matter how much bullshit colored ink you got -- I'm voting against you.
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