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Name: Al
Country: United States
State: Pennsylvania
Birthday: 10/10/1954
Gender: Male
Expertise: 49 year old disgruntled computer programmer, avid brewer, dutch oven cook, knot tyer, and scout leader.
Occupation: Computer related
Industry: Computers (Software)
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  Knot Geek
Member Since:
2/5/2004
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| And if you are still undecided as to whom to vote for, here is a scorecard:
American Soldiers Dead: 1122
American Total Wounded: 8039
Iraqi civilians killed in the war: 100,000+
Cost of the war to the US $130,000,000,000+
Weapons of Mass Destruction Found: 0
Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda discovered: 0
Osama Bin Laden: still at large and taunting America
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| What is your home town?
How do you define that? Is it the place you live now? The place you were born? The place you spent most of your life? The place where your 'heart' is?
I've always had trouble answering the question "Where are you from" since my family moved so much when I was young... I never felt comfortable or "at home" in any place, But I usually answered that I was from Louisville KY, since that was where I was born, where much of my family lived, and where I had some of the best memories of my youth.
Louisville has come through for me again. In a state which is strongly pro-Bush, the Louisville Courier Journal has endorsed Kerry. I'm sure this stand will cost them in the largely reactionary state. In fact, they have endorsed him in one of the most cogent and damning indictments of the inept Bush adminisitration I have read.
I am, again, willing to admit to being a Kentuckian. Thank you, Courier-Journal. | | |
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As usual, you can get more serious rants about the administration, as well as an occasional non-political post, at http://www.folsoms.net/blog/
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| Reuters is reporting that an independent estimate of civilian deaths in Iraq which are a direct result of the US war now exceeds 100,000.
Wonderful. We have now not only killed more civilians than were killed in the World Trade Center attack, we have killed more Iraqi's than Saddam Hussein did in his 12 years or so of power.
I am so proud to be an American these days.
What continues to floor me is that roughly 50% of the population continues to support the administration, and Bush. I would make some remark about knuckle-draggers, but that would be an insult to Gorillas and Orangutans, who somehow manage to live in peace with each other.
What cannot be disputed is that, by definition, 50% of the population is of below average intelligence. | | |
| I fear for my country.
There is a fundamental bias, which the right has encouraged, that believes that patriotism, or christianity for that matter, are the purvue only of the conservatives.
Recently I saw a truck with 8 different "christian" logos or bumperstickers on the back. Through the rear window, I could see two large American flags on the front window.
While I have no particular objection to either sentiment in the abstract, I can't help but wonder how Jesus would have viewed the juxtaposition. He taught, as near as I can tell, the acceptance of everyone regardless of nationality, the true worth of people based on their actions, rather than their rituals or professed beliefs, and the inconsequentiality of earthly kingdoms and nations.
When did patriotism and christianity become the captives of the conservative right?
I am a Christian. Maybe not in the context that many self-professed Christians would believe, but I believe Christ taught that the primary rule was to love your neighbor as yourself, and the fundamental worth of every human being.
I am a Patriot. I love my country (as I love all people), and believe that what makes my country worth that love is the respect and support of everyone, as written into our constitution; not the unconditional acceptance of whatever foolishness our leaders take us into.
I am a Patriot. I am a Christian. I am a Liberal, and I reject the attempt to limit these terms to the self-righteous right that has highjacked those terms.
My country is poised to re-elect (assuming he was elected the first time) a president who rejects reason, rejects the ruled of law, and rejects the basic teachings of Christ. God forgive us for what we are about to do to ourselves, and to the world.
I pray (literally) that the citizens of Wisconsin, Ohio, and Florida will see this election as it is, and reject the hatred and bigotry implicit in the current republican administration.
God help us all, God Bless America, and God Bless the rest of the world. | | |
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