Let Freedom Ring

I guess I was in gloom and doom mode...buying into an IDEA that the school yard bullies that seemed to have taken over this country, were here to stay. All their tricks worked in their favor in 00, 02, and worst of all, 04. I forgot one thing. I forgot where I live. I forget that this Amerca, ur, United States, can unite to overthrow any leadership that does not respect its true values. When Thomas Jefferson set the course with the reason we all are here, that "all men are created equal..." and we all have equil rights, under the law, in our neighborhoods, towns, states, the land we live in... Just like grade school history tells us.

Maybe I won't move to Mexico after all. Maybe the new shape of Congress will right some of these wrongs. At least, I believe it will try....

I was thrilled to read Frank Rich in the NY Times this Morning... I think you have to subscribe to the internet Times to get it... How undemocratic! (But thats all about the freedom to sell your brain produced work, part of what this all is about anyway....)

He talks about the fall of the Virginia senator, how he shot himself to death with a word: Macaca!!!

"The macaca incident had resonance beyond Virginia not just because it was a hit on YouTube. It came to stand for 2006 as a whole because it was synergistic with a national Republican campaign that made a fetish of warning that a Congress run by Democrats would have committee chairmen who are black (Charles Rangel) or gay (Barney Frank), and a middle-aged woman not in the Stepford mold of Laura Bush as speaker. In this context, Mr. Allen’s defeat was poetic justice: the perfect epitaph for an era in which Mr. Rove systematically exploited the narrowest prejudices of the Republican base, pitting Americans of differing identities in cockfights for power and profit, all in the name of “faith.”"

O Tempus O Mores

N.B. I still like Laura Bush, Stepford wive that she seems. She was the sweet kind lady at the door of the big banker's house, who gave you cookies and said sweet things to you as her husband was forclosing on your Daddy's farm!!!! And we all went to the same church!!!!!