Sunday, November 07, 2004
Wonderful Weekend!
Our friend Jack visited from Mpls this weekend for opening weekend of the whitefish/cisco netting season and we had pretty good success considering that the water is still 46 degrees, a few notches too warm to have the run in full swing. We did get 20 cisco and a whitefish this morning and they are in the brine and should be in the smoker by Tuesday. Jack and I also got out our fishing rods Saturday afternoon and had an amazingly confortable trip for November. Caught a few small northern pike and a couple really nice largemouth bass (photo below). Even got some work done for a change and almost felt like a normal human being!
On Wednesday afternoon while waiting around BSU for my night class, I composed a very long and rather vitriolic venting about the election. After better than an hour of writing, my diatribe disappeared when I attempted to post it -- probably just as well but at least I did have the cathartic experience of putting my anger and disgust into words. Bottom line? This is no time for our nation to unite behind a smirking incompetent and his Halliburton etc henchmen -- it is time to wage a campaign of relentless and critical dissent. Bush got about 50% of a 60% turnout and 30% is no mandate (the outcome is not as bad as it looks!) In addition, I would guess that at least half of all Bush voters were primarily motivated by irrational fears fostered by snake-oil salesmen of various stripes -- which suggest that only about 15% of eligible voters actually support this regime. Finally, we have all those under 18 to consider since they will spend at least the first half of their working lives (plus their blood) paying for the reckless excesses of Bush & Company's so-called "conservative" agenda. /dps
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Dann, Congrats on getting out on the water. I think water is a healing elixir, which is what is motivating me to build my Tolman Skiff faster. The ocean is calling me.
I've been writing down little snippets of rants everyday since the election, and I'm trying to understand what happened.
1. The Gay Marriage and Abortion thing was purposely inserted into the election to gather up the votes necessary to put Bush over the top. It was a calculation that Karl Rove made months and perhaps years ago. I seriously doubt that these issues mean that much to the Bush people. Even the Vice President (shudder) has a gay daughter who is out of the closet. I think that while it was a campaign issue to get Bush elected, it was also a smoke screen. We are all busy being outraged (either side of the issue) that we are missing what is really happening in Iraq.
We are in Iraq for one simple reason. The Oil. It's not to free the people of Iraq, no it's to control their oil. I think it's tied in to the secret meetings that Cheney had with oil executives, where they probably warned him that we are running out of oil, and that it is going to happen faster than we thought, because of the huge industrial growth of China, India and other countries in that part of the world. Steel prices have been going up because China can't get enough. The next war will be over Oil. Can you imagine what will happen when Gas starts to noticeably disappear in our country?
I can't stop thinking about this stuff. Our kids are going to be paying for this debt, but I think they're gonna pay for oil with their lives. Maybe Bush isn't so dumb after all.
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I've been writing down little snippets of rants everyday since the election, and I'm trying to understand what happened.
1. The Gay Marriage and Abortion thing was purposely inserted into the election to gather up the votes necessary to put Bush over the top. It was a calculation that Karl Rove made months and perhaps years ago. I seriously doubt that these issues mean that much to the Bush people. Even the Vice President (shudder) has a gay daughter who is out of the closet. I think that while it was a campaign issue to get Bush elected, it was also a smoke screen. We are all busy being outraged (either side of the issue) that we are missing what is really happening in Iraq.
We are in Iraq for one simple reason. The Oil. It's not to free the people of Iraq, no it's to control their oil. I think it's tied in to the secret meetings that Cheney had with oil executives, where they probably warned him that we are running out of oil, and that it is going to happen faster than we thought, because of the huge industrial growth of China, India and other countries in that part of the world. Steel prices have been going up because China can't get enough. The next war will be over Oil. Can you imagine what will happen when Gas starts to noticeably disappear in our country?
I can't stop thinking about this stuff. Our kids are going to be paying for this debt, but I think they're gonna pay for oil with their lives. Maybe Bush isn't so dumb after all.
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