[lit-ideas] Re: Lip slip
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 11:39:14 EST
<<pick this as the #1 reason why people didn't watch. I listened and
have been depressed (okay, more depressed) ever since, so I just may skip
it, too.Why do something that you know will make you feel your own
helplessness more acutely while irritating the hell outta you?>>
There's a trickle-down effect too, unfortunately. Missouri's newly elected
(youngest ever, I think) Governor has the IQ of a squirrel. It's like
watching a little kid with a loaded gun waving around -- somebody's going to
get
hurt. The day after announcing massive cuts in Medicaid state-wide, Blunt
announced his latest brilliant idea. Apparently he's been hearing noises
about
his beloved Commander in Chief privatizing social security and has been
running
around in circles muttering, "privatization. privatization. I've got to
find something to privatize." So he announced that he wants to "privatize the
Department of Motor Vehicles". I'm not even sure what this means to him.
It's the most cock-eyed wildly ludicrous notion I've heard in some time. Does
anyone live anywhere where their DMV is run by a variety of competing
for-profit corporations?? (The report strongly indicated that was the
goal...). I
can't even imagine the implications...
Julie Krueger
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2/5/05 2:08:34 A.M. Central Standard Time From: _carolkir@xxxxxxxxx
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>because there is nothing they can do anyway,
ck: I pick this as the #1 reason why people didn't watch. I listened and
have been depressed (okay, more depressed) ever since, so I just may skip
it, too.Why do something that you know will make you feel your own
helplessness more acutely while irritating the hell outta you?
Bush does what he wants. He always gets his way. Haven't we learned that by
now? As for the Iraqi election, if the Shiite clerics continue to show their
strength, can we expect to see an increase in violence by "insurgents,"
perhaps even some political assassinations of The Newly Elected?
arghly,
Carol
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From: <Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 2:26 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Lip slip
> Hi,
> So, was Pres Bush's speech the least watched of such State of the Union
> talks because people don't care, because people thought they might get ill
> watching it, because all is well and they think he is doing a fine job
> [but thank
> you very much for asking!], > because people think that abolishing social
> security as we know it is a great
> idea, because people really were watching the basketball game or listening
> to
> jazz <g> and too focused to switch?
>
> Why was this?
>
> Musing,
> Marlena in Missouri
> (exhausted after dealing with driving all around getting the prerequisites
> for a Merit Badge Academy...specifically those for the architecture merit
> badge--but thankful that there are helpful people in the world...and
> really
> wondering what her child will do with his life as after each badge he has
> done he
> states "I have found my career, Mom!" and wondering when everyone else in
> the
> world chooses a career to pursue [for at least a while])
>
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