First, Robert. I got your letter telling me what every damn fool with two brain cells that fire even once a week already knows: "Bush is escalating an all-out effort to cripple our environmental laws and plunder or natural heritage." Just like his father did and Ronnie Reagan did and kinda like our forefathers did to the Native Americans, only not nearly as bad if you really think about the comparison.
I see in Wikipedia you were born in 1954. I was born in 1947. So I'm seven years older than you. Which means I have a lot of trouble with this idea: I wrestled with the thought of having one child in the late seventies, seeing how fucked up the world was then. Why bring another human being, who would himself consume vast quantities of natural resources, into a world that was already barreling down the railroad tracks to hell?
You on the other hand, something like seven years after that, had no trouble cranking out six children. So your progeny, who I'm sure are very nice people, are consuming at least six times the resources that mine consumes. I say "at least," because mine is living on something like the income of a chipmunk in Costa Rica, while he finishes his degree in environmental geography. (I will ignore the fact that I come from a family of seven, and you from a family of eleven, since that was evidently beyond our control, and more likely related to the fat ass in the Vatican with a penis looking hat on his head. But I won't name names, because I don't want to offend anyone.)
Now here we are in the Year of Our Lord and yet-to-arrive Savior, 2007, and I don't hear so much as a squeak from you about overpopulation and the carrying capacity of Planet Earth. Honestly, Robert, I'm the kinda guy who likes to see 2 + 2 = 4, and unless you can explain this sort of stuff, I'd say you're the kinda of guy who likes to see 2 + 2 = 3. Or 5. Or 3.9. Or 4.1. But I think you get the idea.
And what about your opposition to the construction of the Cape Wind Power Project, on the grounds that it would destroy the scenic view from seaside homes? Shit, Robert we wouldn't even see the damn thing from here, where people in the culturally diverse school I work at barely scrape by well beneath the poverty level. Why don't you sell one of the goddamn homes and send a donation our way?
So although I don't particularly care about your heroin use and the needle they found stuck in your arm, while you were unconscious in an airplane bathroom in 1983-the same time I was busting my balls teaching third grade-and building an earth-sheltered, solar-heated and powered home on two teacher starting salaries, my suggestion is that you go find another needle and stick it up your ass.
Now Frances! If you'll check your records, you'll discover that I have, not so long ago, made a donation to the NRDC. I like the fundamental idea of protecting our natural resources. Hell, I've been arguing that we should do that since 1970 or so.
But now you want me to sign a petition to the President and to the Senate?!
Jesus Christ on a firecracker!
Are you guys so dumb you have yet to figure out that George Bush is insane? I mean literally insane? Absolutely disconnected from reality, and doing the same damn things over and over and hoping for different results?
Dude, he is a deranged 12 year-old child in a 60 year old body, screaming for attention. He enjoys killing. I mean can you imagine, mocking a woman pleading for mercy on death row? And did you see the article the other day where he almost ran over a bunch of reporters in a huge tractor, while he was laughing his ass off way high up in the plush mini-environment of the cab?
And that's not to mention starting an insane war (all wars are insane, but this happens to be the most insane) that's killed well over half a million people. And now he's champing at the bit to do more killing! As I said elsewhere, this cretin of a child WILL use nuclear weapons like firecrackers. Protecting our resources is great, but not when we're using them to blow the shit out of our fellow humans halfway around the world.
George Bush is a very sick, sick and pathetic soul, and he has attracted many like souls around him. Or didn't you know that?
Sadder still is that he is the penultimate spoiled rich kid. He was handed every material item he ever cried for, right up to this day, but he never got the love and attention he needed as a child. That alone is a troublesome statement about our society and its values, but that ANYONE takes him for a functional adult really is a few light years beyond my comprehension.
And I see that you'll also bring the petition to the senate... well, I won't even go there. It would waste too much electricity on this here computer, burning coal and adding to global warming.
And now you send me six pieces of paper, valuable natural resources obtained by grand larceny from the next generation-assuming there is one-that go from my mailbox to my garbage can, with a brief stop at my computer (when I could have seen the same "information" in my inbox?)
Geery lived off the grid for 15 years in an earth-sheltered, solar heated home, while his kids learned in school that solar energy isn't feasible. NAPTA hosts a page on Geery's foibles in education, and explains how he got his butt fired from a tenured teaching position. Here's a short clip of his most recent solar contraption; for more on that project, and Geery's contention that the Wright Brothers took a wrong turn, please visit his airship page (hyperblimp.com). Apparently, Geery is the only one in the world to respond to Osama bin Laden, call bullshit on him and George together, and expose them for the pansy ass rich kids that they are. Unfortunately, bin Laden has been too scared to write back and explain himsself; and George is still working hard to finish his goat book.
I just think you're being a little too kind to Bush by putting his mental and emotional age at 12. He aspires to the 12-year-old level. He really is just a spoiled and petulant child. But he's also a sociopath, so he's a very dangerous child.
There is no chance of addressing environmental issues until the boy king is removed.
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Bob (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 34 comments)
on Saturday, February 3, 2007 at 10:51:55 AM
AMEN Daniel! Your article is so "on point" I would be wasting space to comment much further. There is certainly a disconnect between those who are provided voice by the corporate media as opposition to the insanity in which we live our daily lives. Anyone with the sense God gave a Lemur can see the lunatics are running the asylum. A Lesbian adopts a child and then supports her demonic dictator of a father who would ban that right to others. Liberals champion fascist anti-smoking laws that criminalize a free choice, while the tobacco companies debate with the same evidence that has been used for years to legalize the very drugs they have lobbied and financed the prohibition of. Am I the only one who feels like we are throught the looking glass at this point? I watched the campy sci-fi movie the other day to avoid the corporate mind dribble and depressing propaganda of fear that I normally partake in by watching the various cable news networks. Without describing the movie and it's plot I would encourage those who have never heard of it to look it up or rent it. I am hoping and praying somebody hands out the Ray-Bans the American Sheeple are in dire need of before it is too late.
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JohnNmissouri (5 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 40 comments)
on Sunday, February 4, 2007 at 6:29:53 AM
My apologies for posting with hast in an early morning rage. The Sci-Fi movie I meant to refer to was... "They Live" with Rowdy Rody Piper. Check it out.
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JohnNmissouri (5 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 40 comments)
on Sunday, February 4, 2007 at 8:30:43 AM
methinks the message might very well be lost amidst the angst and anger. This may very well have been most cathartic for you, and for many of us as well, but Im looking for solutions not tirades.
If common sense and reason must win out then we must convince those who are on the edge. I am afraid that this article, while witty, and maybe even accurate ( I know nothing about this heroin issue, nor care to frankly) is too far up the crackpot scale to be effective. No insult intended here, Dan, heaven knows I am just as guilty at times.
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ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2388 comments)
on Sunday, February 4, 2007 at 9:50:59 AM
I almost spoke like I really feel, except that I had to tone it down quite a bit.
From the replies above, it would appear I spoke for many-actually, probably a lot more than I thought, if you consider each letter actually written generally represents a great many more who thought that but didn't write in.
When common sense and reason fail, you still need to survive. I am a warrior, not a wus.
It is high time that EVERYONE start recognizing that Bush is truly insane, and unfathomably dangerous. If you were on a boat and you saw the drunk captain going full speed into the rocks, would you talk to him, or yank him off the wheel?
We are programmed for survival, though brainwashed otherwise.
My plan is to send this out to as many sites as I can when I get a bit more time, but change the headline to include something about Bush's total insanity.
If someone can't handle it, they goddamn well better wake up.
If I were teaching sixth grade, this kid would be on the phone calling his parents for a conference, writing me a letter of explanation and apology, discussing why it was important to make some changes, telling me specifically how he was going to change those ways, what was wrong with what he'd done, and how it affected other people. But I don't have that option, nor does anyone who wants to survive on the planet.
It's time to call bullshit, loud and clear, without remorse or remission.
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Daniel Geery (26 articles, 55 quicklinks, 121 diaries, 660 comments)
on Sunday, February 4, 2007 at 1:09:52 PM
While this stuff might make you feel better, it only persuades the already convinced, those who we dont have to worry about. Im looking to persuade the rest, see ya.
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ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2388 comments)
on Monday, February 5, 2007 at 11:39:24 AM
