'i heard' and 'people are saying'....

now playing: jennifer warnes, "shot through the heart"



so i got the email in question here the other day...i'm sure some of you got it too. my ex-girlfriend sent it to me, someone whos' no fan of the current administration - thus my surprise in getting it from that direction.

but the good folks at sadly, no got the same email...and took the time to issue some great responses to the points shabbily made in it.

put a smile on my face this morning.



there's a forum that i belong to that started a presidential poll recently that has bush ahead of kerry by a margin of two to one...although i think that's heavily indicative of the demographic that participates in it...i got a good old fashioned flaming there some months ago when the subject of iraq came up and i dared to speak my mind about it, and in the time since, i've laid off posting almost entirely, and only lurk once in a while...but this poll showed up, and someone actually posted that the democratic party had endorsed the communist and socialist parties, and i had to open my mouth and ask for a source on that one. the only reply thus far has been a post declaring that "it's 100% true" and nothing more.


i continue to be amazed at peoples' blind willingness to believe anything they hear.


i mean, it's not that different from the mob mentality that arose around king herod and pontius pilate and allowed themselves to be goaded into screaming for barabbas' release, thus sending jesus christ to the cross for his crimes against the church.


hitler said that if you make the lie big enough and repeat it often enough, it will become the truth.



i mean seriously, come on...who would believe some shit like that?


this asked incredulously from someone who, in the wake of 9/11, listened to a friend as he swore up and down that the FBI had stormed a local restaurant owned by a man of saudi descent and had taken the kitchen help into custody, even though nary a word of this came up in any of the local media...but he heard it from a friend who knew the guy who sells them their restaurant supplies.


i love my country, but i'm not feeling very proud of it at the moment.


i'm keeping my fingers crossed that the real purveyors of hate in this country get their hats handed to them in a few months.