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July 18, 2008 at 22:39:40

When the Leaving Is Good

by gabby hayes Page 1 of 1 page(s)

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I'm not a great fan of Barack Obama and for all his eloquent oratory, he has promised very little other than to have republicans involved in the process--the poor guy doesn't realize that a republican "involved" in the process is a republican attempting to hijack the process. But perhaps he will discover this over time. I was aware of it in the early 1980s, but he's young and has a lot to learn about the party that used to be republican. The fact that he's fairly smart gives me some some small hope, but my expectation is that he will be quickly coopted by his republican "friends" and four or eight years of Obama will look very much like four or eight years of McCain, right down to banning abortion and birth control, appointing federalist society (read "fascist") judges, a hundred years of glorious war in Iraq, and opening wide the effluent valves at the factory hog farms, the power plants, the refineries, and the chemical plants.

My very good friend is leaving for New Zealand next week. It's breaking my heart to see her go. She finally admitted to me that she isn't coming back--this isn't an adventure or a sojourn or an extended vacation. She is giving up. As Kurtz writes home to his wife in "Apocalypse Now," "Sell the house, sell the car, sell the kids. It's over. I'm not coming back."

I don't know what I would do in New Zealand or I might follow her. I actually have herded sheep, so I could do that. Maybe I'll head for Europe, where I might be able to translate for a living.

Who knows how long it will take the government to realize what's happening and begin to restrict people from leaving the country? The American way is to leave when the leaving is good. It's how we all got here in the first place.

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Adherent to the cowboy way, eschewer of four-letter words and dental care, founder of the hippie movement, and failed prospector, Gabby Hayes can be counted upon to point and say, "They went thataway," and to develop plans to cut them off at the pass.
gabby hayesAdherent to the cowboy way, eschewer of four-letter words and dental care, founder of the hippie movement, and failed prospector, Gabby Hayes can be counted upon to point and say, "They went thataway," and to develop plans to cut them off at the pass.

Obama has already made abortion and birth control illegal.

I suddenly realized that the entire basis for legal abortions and birth control was the fourth amendment. Now that Barack Obama has assisted in gutting the fourth amendment, there is absolutely no constitutional basis for the right to abortion or birth control. Women are chattel again.

by gabby hayes (11 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 17 comments) on Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 9:58:22 PM

A retired Navyman who has ran for 1st. District of Tennessee as a Green with a primary plank of Impeaching Bush/Chaney and a secondary plank of listening to and serving people instead of corporations. He now has accepted the position of FOAVC Coordinater for TN. He also is a direct decendent both on his Mothers and Fathers failies of members of the Seneca Nation.
Robert N SmithA retired Navyman who has ran for 1st. District of Tennessee as a Green with a primary plank of Impeaching Bush/Chaney and a secondary plank of listening to and serving people instead of corporations. He now has accepted the position of FOAVC Coordinater for TN. He also is a direct decendent both on his Mothers and Fathers failies of members of the Seneca Nation.

I would leave, but where does a Native American go.

Congress and the Administration has worked hand in glove ever since 9-11 to strip the nation of Constitutional rule. It's not just the fourth amendment that has been trashed by Obama and other traiters. It's the whole Constitution. What bill of rights, our rights are what the government chooses to give us now. Except people like me who still see the Constitution as a workable if flawed document. Maybe it's time to throw all the bums out.

by Robert N Smith (10 articles, 0 quicklinks, 8 diaries, 112 comments) on Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 8:15:05 PM