Hi Sir starkers and Adrenochrome!
*sigh
It's good to know I don't have to keep dodging hate threa*s. I've always tried my best to be congenial but I sometimes do (and did) get blunt about certain things...bigotry, bias, hate...the incessant refusal to care for the poor, the diabled, the unfortunates...and what it does to the rest of us...how it makes us feel...how it affects our lives...and the lives of those across the globe that we care so much about despite the horrible decisions of those in power that cannot and will not see beyond their own greed for more money and more power.
I think it's great that people strive so hard to be in business...like the folks here, for example. Entrepeneurs and artists, those organizing and running it, the techs, and all the researchers and everyone that makes it a viable market offering a popular and desired product.
Isn't that supposed to be what good governance means? Trusted heads of state in office as servants of the people, by the people and for the people?
This Cheney incident is just another in a long line of 'Above the Law' events of the current administration. Not one of the 'little people' would ever be able to just say 'Gee I feel bad I shot my friend' (while illegally hunting)...we'd get kicked around and thrown in jail.
But of course... the big people don't have to worry about that. They're 'Above the Law'
The corruption in the government has been insidiously inserted into every corner of all three branches...but I still believe there are some good guys up there...and although I don't believe in war, I support our men and women at arms...except the bad ones (the ones that torture people and beat up little kids.) But there are bad apples and good ones. The bad ones belong in jail, but they don't belong tortured. The nastiness inside the mind of someone that could do that to another living thing...
Thank you for making me feel like it's not a lost cause to fight to try to get back a good and just country for our country and our world. My voice, I've learned, is just a very small note among many that cannot and will not tolerate the abhorrent corruption, discrimination, greed and self-serving hypocrisy that has taken over how many of those in power run our lives.
