mixed feelings

now playing: train, "hopeless"

so i heard a story this morning on NPR morning edition about an owner of a textile plant in north carolina who had taken an active role in letting his employees know where they stood politically. apparently, he called his 1200 employees into a meeting and addressed them and told them directly about the 200,000 jobs lost in north carolina alone since dubya took the reins, among other things, and that he was going to personally ensure that every employee was given an opportunity to register to vote, and that he'd provide transportation to the polls for employees who needed it.

now, in my head, on one side, there's a tiny little voice that's saying that this business owner might be leading his employees a little bit...

but on the other side of my head, there's a 500 member choir, backed by the london philharmonic orchestra that's playing and singing what i feel much more strongly, which is...

FUCKIN' A, MAN!

all euphemisms aside, i feel pretty good that someone is trying to break through the haze that the people that elected this jackass in the first place are walking around in. dubya carried the south 4 years ago, and i'd like to think that some of the people who are living on unemployment and welfare due to the "jobless recovery" we're in the midst of would be open to getting information from somewhere other than the bumper stickers on the trucks parked outside the bar. more power to him, i say. if just one little light bulb went off over someone's head during that speech, then he did a good thing, as far as i'm concerned.

in other news, another helicopter went down yesterday in iraq.

if this is what they mean by "supporting our troops", then the world really has gone fuckin' insane. we cut their VA benefits and send them to die in the desert so that dick cheney can hand out no-bid contracts to his cronies.

if i were still enlisted, i don't think i'd feel very "supported" right now.