[lit-ideas] Re: Lit-Ideas Taking a chance
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 19:31:36 EST
If you went to the link when it was posted by Ursula, you got Michael
Moore's first entry on that site, saying "My First thoughts after the election"
(or
something similar) followed by a listing of every name of every dead
American soldier from Iraq and pictures of their faces. Apparently Michael is
updating his site frequently, something like a blog. I have posted a link to
Riverbend's website several times because each time there's something new on
it I
want to share with people. Marlena's link was not a duplication of material.
Julie Krueger
========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Lit-Ideas Taking
a chance Date: 11/6/04 6:09:07 PM Central Standard Time From: _gd2@xxxxxxxx
(mailto:gd2@xxxxxxx) To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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A link to the exact same content found below was posted to this list on Thu,
04 Nov 2004 at 17:34:39 (about 48 hours ago) by Ursula Stange
<Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx> under the subject-line "the faces of the fallen..." --
Maybe some folks out there in cyberspace are always so busy writing more
posts that they don't have time to read or retain the content that others
post to their target list(s).
In RL (it does exist! mirabile dictu) the rules of thumb for deciding
whether or not to publish something include, among others: (1) it hasn't
already been said and isn't already widely known, (2) it is worth saying and
worth asking many other people to read, and (3) one is able and willing to
say it with maximal concision. Those are good rules of thumb for the
internet, too.
Greg Downing
At 05:50 PM 11/6/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>HI,
>At the risk of offending GD <sigh> I am passing this on to you. [I
dislike
>offending anyone...]
>
>I received it, actually, from one of My academic lists <g> and the poster
>there gave this as his rationale: there is, "enough truth buried within
his
>his comments to give us more data to use and a larger vision of what will
>happen in the future".)
>
>I send it out to all of you, as well, so that we can have more data to use
>and a larger vision of future possibilities.
>
>I found it rather humourous, as well, and since I've been trying to study
>humour these past few years, I hope that bodes well for my studies....I'm
not
>sure. Maybe that is what I ought to examine...
>
>love and laughter hoped for you,
>Marlena in Missouri
>
>11/5/04
>Dear Friends,
>
>Ok, it sucks. Really sucks. But before you go and cash it all in,
>let's, in the words of Monty Python, 'always look on the bright side of
>life!'
>There IS some good news from Tuesday's election.
>
>Here are 17 reasons not to slit your wrists:
>
>1. It is against the law for George W. Bush to run for president again.
>
>2. Bush's victory was the NARROWEST win for a sitting president since
>Woodrow Wilson in 1916.
>
>3. The only age group in which the majority voted for Kerry was young
adults
>(Kerry: 54%, Bush: 44%), proving once again that your parents are always
>wrong and you should never listen to them.
>
>4. In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the
country
>is headed in the wrong direction (56%
>_http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Presidential_04/direction_of_country.html_
>(http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Presidential_04/direction_of_country.html
) >
>), think the war wasn't worth fighting (51%
><_http://www.pollingreport.com/iraq.htm_
(http://www.pollingreport.com/iraq.htm) > ), and don't approve of the
>job George W. Bush is doing (52%
>_p://www.realclearpolitics.com/Presidential_04/bush_ja.html_
>(http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Presidential_04/bush_ja.html) > ).
>(Note to foreigners: Don't try to figure this one out. It's an American
>thing, like Pop Tarts.)
>
>5. The Republicans will not have a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in
the
>Senate. If the Democrats do their job, Bush won't be able to pack the
Supreme
>Court with right-wing ideologues. Did I say "if the Democrats do their
job?"
>Um, maybe better to scratch this one.
>
>6. Michigan voted for Kerry! So did the entire Northeast, the birthplace
of
>our democracy. So did 6 of the 8 Great Lakes States. And the whole West
>Coast! Plus Hawaii. Ok, that's a start. We've got most of the fresh water,
all of
>Broadway, and Mt. St. Helens. We can dehydrate them or bury them in lava.
And
>no more show tunes!
>
>7. Once again we are reminded that the buckeye is a nut, and not just any
>old nut -- a poisonous nut. A great nation was felled by a poisonous nut.
>May Ohio State pay dearly this Saturday when it faces Michigan.
>
>8. 88% of Bush's support came from white voters. In 50 years, America will
>no longer have a white majority. Hey, 50 years isn't such a long time! If
>you're ten years old and reading this, your golden years will be truly
golden
>and you will be well cared for in your old age.
>
>9. Gays, thanks to the ballot measures passed on Tuesday, cannot get
married
>in 11 new states. Thank God. Just think of all those wedding gifts we won
't
>have to buy now.
>
>10. Five more African Americans were elected as members of Congress,
>including the return of Cynthia McKinney of Georgia. It's always good to
have more
>blacks in there fighting for us and doing the job our candidates can't.
>
>11. The CEO of Coors was defeated for Senate in Colorado. Drink up!
>
>12. Admit it: We like the Bush twins and we don't want them to go away.
>
>13. At the state legislative level, Democrats picked up a net of at least
3
>chambers in Tuesday's elections. Of the 98 partisan-controlled state
>legislative chambers (house/assembly and senate), Democrats went into the
2004
>elections in control of 44 chambers, Republicans controlled 53 chambers,
and 1
>chamber was tied. After Tuesday, Democrats now control 47 chambers,
Republicans
>control 49 chambers, 1 chamber is tied and 1 chamber (Montana House) is
still
>undecided.
>
>14. Bush is now a lame duck president. He will have no greater moment than
>the one he's having this week. It's all downhill for him from here on out
--
>and, more significantly, he's just not going to want to do all the hard
work
>that will be expected of him. It'll be like everyone's last month in 12th
>grade -- you've already made it, so it's party time! Perhaps he'll treat
the
>next four years like a permanent Friday, spending even more time at the
>ranch or in Kennebunkport. And why shouldn't he? He's already proved his
point,
>avenged his father and kicked our ass.
>
>15. Should Bush decide to show up to work and take this country down a
very
>dark road, it is also just as likely that either of the following two
>scenarios will happen: a) Now that he doesn't ever need to pander to the
Christian
>conservatives again to get elected, someone may whisper in his ear that he
>should spend these last four years building "a legacy" so that
>history will render a kinder verdict on him and thus he will not push for
>too aggressive a right-wing agenda; or b) He will become so cocky and
arrogant
>-- and thus, reckless -- that he will commit a blunder of such major
>proportions that even his own party will have to remove him from office.
>
>16. There are nearly 300 million Americans -- 200 million of them of
voting
>age. We only lost by three and a half million! That's not a landslide --
it
>means we're almost there. Imagine losing by 20 million. If you had 58
yards
>to go before you reached the goal line and then you barreled down 55 of
those
>yards, would you stop on the three yard line, pick up the ball
>and go home crying -- especially when you get to start the next down on
the
>three yard line? Of course not! Buck up! Have hope! More sports analogies
>are coming!!!
>
>17. Finally and most importantly, over 55 million Americans voted for the
>candidate dubbed "The #1 Liberal in the Senate." That's more than the
total
>number of voters who voted for either Reagan, Bush I, Clinton or Gore.
Again,
>more people voted for Kerry than Reagan. If the media are looking for a
trend
>it should be this -- that so many Americans were, for the first time since
>Kennedy, willing to vote for an out-and-out liberal. The country has
always been
>filled with evangelicals -- that is not news. What IS news is that so many
>people have shifted toward a Massachusetts liberal. In fact, that's BIG
news.
>Which means, don't expect the mainstream media, the ones who brought you
the
>Iraq War, to ever report the real truth about November 2, 2004. In fact,
it's
>better that they don't. We'll need the element of surprise in 2008.
>
>Feeling better? I hope so. As my friend Mort wrote me yesterday, "My
>Romanian grandfather used to say to me, 'Remember, Morton, this is such a
wonderful
>country -- it doesn't even need a president!'"
>
>But it needs us. Rest up, I'll write you again tomorrow.
>
>Yours,
>
>Michael Moore
>_MMFlint@xxxxxxxx
>(http://us.f519.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=MMFlint@xxxxxxx&YY=82792&order
=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b)
>www.michaelmoore.com <_http://www.michaelmoore.com/_
>(http://www.michaelmoore.com/) >
>
>
>
>
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