Too Polite!
Okay,
I am a political person. There, I said it. I had to stay away form the news during my pregnancies because i would get so stressed out and I would cry and cry and cry at the ever building horrendous injustice that has become our federal government.
I live in an area with Bush/ Cheney stickers on cars. Who doesn't? Some friends even voted for Bush. Close friends? no, but we really do enjoy spending time with them and share many common values. For so long I have been the polite good friend who doesn't ask the uncomfortable question of these friends and *yes* some family members. that question being : WHAT THE FUUUUUCK WERE YOU THINKING WHEN YOU VOTED FOR THIS HORRENDOUS ASSHOLE?!?!?!?
Well, maybe that is why I have not asked the question. I am too charged on that topic to expect to have a conversation. That and (I must admit) I do tend to play the good annonymous neighbor that doesn't bring up politics... as it is like religion, sex, and bowel movements... a private issue. But I can't do it anymore!
Was it losing my privacy? My civil liberties? My sense of safety? My belief my children would grow up in a ladn where Martin Luther King Jr. would be remembered? surprisingly, no.
Yes, New Orleans was the straw that broke the camel's back. Our country (meaning the lives of predominantly minority and NOT upper class citizens in our armed forces! HELLO!) are so spent on dying in Iraq and all over.. we cannot even help our own anymore. Yes, I will send diapers, formula, clothing etc along ON MY OWN Thank you Michael Moore. Yes, I have made my donation to the rip-off of a red cross. I can't get into what I am feeling over that disaster.
BUT ANYWAY..... here are urls for bumper stickers and t-shirts I like.
simple
goodie
thoughtful
there was one I can't find today that I really liked that said (paraphrase): If you voted for Bush, your yellow ribbon means nothing.
anyway.... lack of being eloquent ends this posting