gimme that gas can

I see a lot of emails these days about how pernicious Barack Obama is. That's the main line of personal attack and I'm weary of it. So here's something you can stick in an email and send around to all your conservative so called friends. These friends of yours don't give a SHIT about this country. They don't care AT ALL. They have no regard for the truth even though they claim to. So give em a taste of the piles and piles of manure they've been forcefuckingfeeding us for almost forty years.

Yeah? YEAH?? Forward this to your so called friends. I'm so sick of the lies and disgusting shamelessness of people who are pampered and upheld by the oil elites, and who give money by the fistful to men who already have 95% of the wealth in this world, who lie and send young men and women to die to add a few percentage points to their bottom line. They can dish it out, and most of it is exaggerations or outright lies. Can they take it? Can they take the TRUTH? Let's find out...

( feel free to copy and paste into emails next time you get one of those fucking junkpiles of lies. it'll make you feel dirty. in a <em>good</em> way. )

Dear Livejournal

This is just a short note to my friends. The number one—and I mean it seems like, it's the most used phrase by far—the most used post topic or sentence starter I have seen on my friends page today is some variation on "I'm not usually very political here but..."

Most of you know that I'm very political here. And this week has been me ratcheting it up till maybe you're sick. So I just wanted to say something to you people who are not usually very political.

They did this to you. They did it to all of us. We're all in this boat together, because they chewed up our civic life and shat it out over the last 40 years (not just eight, forty). Now is the time. We cannot survive as a people, possibly as a human race, unless you, reluctant though you may be, become engaged. Now is the time to be engaged. Now is the time to rage back. Now. I'm sorry, I'm sorry you're sick of it. I'm sorry I'm so angry. We are running out of time.

We are only dimly aware of the great foreboding that any day now the weather and the climate will reach their tipping point. Or that someone will decide to force a decisively terminal conflict among nations, using atomic weapons. Or that any day now the boot of oppression will finally be lowered.

But before those things happen, it is just as likely that this nation will enter an economic depression. Not a recession. Not a downturn. A real depression. If and when that happens, if we do not engage the principalities and powers that are present in our world now, when that happens we will be cast out into a clawing howling madness. If we, including you who are not "all that political" do not engage, no one will apologize. No one will create a works progress administration or a conservation corps. No one will medicate our children or heal our broken old parents. No one will build the bread lines this time. If we are not engaged, we will be devoured. By ourselves. Now is the time. Not a moment too soon.