Man, it's been a while. I am now at the Powell County Health Department. I am the Public Health Preparedness Planner. I'm supposed to prepare the Health Department, and the community when really, really bad shit happens. Let's just hope it doesn't happen.
[In the interest of getting along with my wife since we did not divorce this post was edited on June 23, 2005.]
I think I'll cut and paste a couple of opinion pieces I have done lately. I'm thinking of starting my own political micro-party, as a subgroup of the Democrats.
[Conservatives privately want to prevent gay marriage because it permanently locks gays into the gay "lifestyle". They believe that as long as you keep them single, they may eventually settle down with a partner of the opposite sex. As crazy as this sounds, it is often true. I know a few people who are or have been openly homosexual and now are married to a member of the opposite sex. Of course these marriages are usually rife with depression, alcholism, and physical and emotional abuse, but hey, they're straight, right? I think as a society we need to accept the differences of others, and make a climate where they can accept those differences within themselves. That is the only way for people in general to grow happier, and for society to be less riddled with social problems, and alcoholism and domestic violence are legitimate social problems. Men having sex with other men doesn't much bother me, and why should it as long as I am not one of the two of them?]
That's my gay marriage spiel.
"Hey. I checked it out. While I can certainly appreciate Mr. Zimm's point of view in some aspects my real problem comes from the left and its total smugness and arrogance when it comes to KNOWING what the intent was. I don't think it has been proven either way to a satisfying extent. The left and right alike are guilty of grabbing on to any minute shred of evidence that supports what we already think and try to glorify it as the only possible truth. I think this is too important an issue to not call us on that and encourage people toapproach it with bipartisanship in mind. This should be more than an election year mud slinging topic. We owe it to the gravity of the issue to stop being uninformed and yet arrogant about it. Don't you think?" - Bobbi Jo
[I suppose what it amounts to is that we really think that Bush is just a puppet president with no real sense of his own, and we want him out of there. The Republican agenda in general is the main problem, and when it looks like their "leader" fudged evidence in favor of his agenda, and his buddies' agenda, it is more a way to get him out than an outrage in itself. To be honest, I don't care that much for Iraqis, and really I think maybe the US should be a police force for the world, and maybe we should have killed Saddam's regime in the first gulf war, when we had real reason to be pissed. Bush is not good for this country, though, and if he ends up with pie in his face because he made an error in judgement that got lots and lots of people killed, it's a terrible tragedy, but at the same time, maybe it will remind people that we need moral leaders. That's right, you heard it here first. The liberals want moral leaders. But for us, morality has nothing to do with abstaining from extra-marital sex, or going to church every Sunday, or much of anything except always, always, always looking out for the cumulative good of the American people. Is it moral to kill terrorists? Hell, yes. Is it moral to kill Saddam and everyone who was part of his regime? Probably so. Is it right to do something that makes us looks like fools and assholes in front of the whole world, thereby undermining our defensive position, and our general license to do "the right thing" on the world stage, and get permission later? No way. Our license has been taken away. It may not be long before we have the UN sanctions against us, if we keep following this path. We want Bush out of office, because right now a lot of smart people who also happen to hate us as a country will hate us a lot less if we get respectable leaders. There is a big number of crazy moslem fools willing to blow themselves up to harm a war-mongering Bush-led America, a chunk of whom might not be so willing if our policies were a little bit more even-handed, and if our finger wasn't always on the trigger. That's not to say terrorism would cease to exist. I think we should continue to pursue terrorists with wild abandon, hopping borders like they don't mean a thing. We could have had that, too. Nobody said anything when we went to Afghanistan and destroyed the Taliban, because that is where the terrorists lived. We would have had that power to go and do where we need to go and do forever, because we had suffered a greater cost at the hands of terrorists than anyone else in the world. We were the world leader. We were the only superpower. Not now. Not after we invaded another country with little more justification than that they had pissed us off, they were in the same region, and some of them were the same religion. Will the world turn a blind eye to us ever again? Will we ever be able to build a real coaltion of real countries? Maybe, but not with this leadership. If we are to have a hope of ever resuming our place at the leadership of the world, we need new leadership in this country. We need to let the world know that they can trust us, and obviously nobody can trust George Bush.]
Enough for now.
[In the interest of getting along with my wife since we did not divorce this post was edited on June 23, 2005.]
I think I'll cut and paste a couple of opinion pieces I have done lately. I'm thinking of starting my own political micro-party, as a subgroup of the Democrats.
[Conservatives privately want to prevent gay marriage because it permanently locks gays into the gay "lifestyle". They believe that as long as you keep them single, they may eventually settle down with a partner of the opposite sex. As crazy as this sounds, it is often true. I know a few people who are or have been openly homosexual and now are married to a member of the opposite sex. Of course these marriages are usually rife with depression, alcholism, and physical and emotional abuse, but hey, they're straight, right? I think as a society we need to accept the differences of others, and make a climate where they can accept those differences within themselves. That is the only way for people in general to grow happier, and for society to be less riddled with social problems, and alcoholism and domestic violence are legitimate social problems. Men having sex with other men doesn't much bother me, and why should it as long as I am not one of the two of them?]
That's my gay marriage spiel.
"Hey. I checked it out. While I can certainly appreciate Mr. Zimm's point of view in some aspects my real problem comes from the left and its total smugness and arrogance when it comes to KNOWING what the intent was. I don't think it has been proven either way to a satisfying extent. The left and right alike are guilty of grabbing on to any minute shred of evidence that supports what we already think and try to glorify it as the only possible truth. I think this is too important an issue to not call us on that and encourage people toapproach it with bipartisanship in mind. This should be more than an election year mud slinging topic. We owe it to the gravity of the issue to stop being uninformed and yet arrogant about it. Don't you think?" - Bobbi Jo
[I suppose what it amounts to is that we really think that Bush is just a puppet president with no real sense of his own, and we want him out of there. The Republican agenda in general is the main problem, and when it looks like their "leader" fudged evidence in favor of his agenda, and his buddies' agenda, it is more a way to get him out than an outrage in itself. To be honest, I don't care that much for Iraqis, and really I think maybe the US should be a police force for the world, and maybe we should have killed Saddam's regime in the first gulf war, when we had real reason to be pissed. Bush is not good for this country, though, and if he ends up with pie in his face because he made an error in judgement that got lots and lots of people killed, it's a terrible tragedy, but at the same time, maybe it will remind people that we need moral leaders. That's right, you heard it here first. The liberals want moral leaders. But for us, morality has nothing to do with abstaining from extra-marital sex, or going to church every Sunday, or much of anything except always, always, always looking out for the cumulative good of the American people. Is it moral to kill terrorists? Hell, yes. Is it moral to kill Saddam and everyone who was part of his regime? Probably so. Is it right to do something that makes us looks like fools and assholes in front of the whole world, thereby undermining our defensive position, and our general license to do "the right thing" on the world stage, and get permission later? No way. Our license has been taken away. It may not be long before we have the UN sanctions against us, if we keep following this path. We want Bush out of office, because right now a lot of smart people who also happen to hate us as a country will hate us a lot less if we get respectable leaders. There is a big number of crazy moslem fools willing to blow themselves up to harm a war-mongering Bush-led America, a chunk of whom might not be so willing if our policies were a little bit more even-handed, and if our finger wasn't always on the trigger. That's not to say terrorism would cease to exist. I think we should continue to pursue terrorists with wild abandon, hopping borders like they don't mean a thing. We could have had that, too. Nobody said anything when we went to Afghanistan and destroyed the Taliban, because that is where the terrorists lived. We would have had that power to go and do where we need to go and do forever, because we had suffered a greater cost at the hands of terrorists than anyone else in the world. We were the world leader. We were the only superpower. Not now. Not after we invaded another country with little more justification than that they had pissed us off, they were in the same region, and some of them were the same religion. Will the world turn a blind eye to us ever again? Will we ever be able to build a real coaltion of real countries? Maybe, but not with this leadership. If we are to have a hope of ever resuming our place at the leadership of the world, we need new leadership in this country. We need to let the world know that they can trust us, and obviously nobody can trust George Bush.]
Enough for now.
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