I saw something today on someone else's blog ranting about spics and chinks and kikes and statements like "faggots are the niggers of the 21st century" and general epitaphs reserved for the ignorant and weak of mind. Now I respect the right of ANYONE to free speech, whether their speech hurts someone else or not. I think its one of the essential tenets of our republic. In fact, it IS. But I wonder if the people writing those things feel better when they think they're putting someone else down? Or is it just because they really have nothing to say or remotely legitimate reasons for saying those things. I think its akin to the old adage that says, in essence, that showing off is the ignorant man's way of having something to say (or being interesting).
I cannot imagine, even as a recovered bigot (yes, believe it or not, The Voice was ONCE a dyed-in-the-wool Republican with false ideas so right that in my first presidential primary I actually voted for Pat Buchanan instead of George H. W. Bush!), I look back and see that I was saying derogatory things just to have something to say because I hadn't thought anything through in my own mind. I was a puppet to those around me, greatly my family, and hadn't even been allowed to form my own opinions.
I was just wondering aloud.
Can calling me a pinko, faggot, asshole, card-carrying member of the ACLU, liberal motherfucker actually make someone else feel better? If so, then as the bleeding heart that I am, let it be and fill your boots! I yield to that old childhood mantra: "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." (Unless, of course, they're inscribed in the United States Constitution and prohibit some rights guaranteed to all to some people!)
In the words of that wonderfully effective president, er, I mean First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent!"
Best wishes,
The Voice
Still licking my wounds from the 2000 and 2004 elections!
(P.S. Check out what Bill Clinton said about the Democrats and the presidential election. Sounds kinda like what I've been saying this last week! Maybe President Clinton reads The Voice) http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/914797.cms or http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041106-055531-3474r.htm to check out reports of President Clinton's true remarks.
Saturday, November 6, 2004
Thursday, November 4, 2004
ELECT NICK YAEKLE FOR CONGRESS
LEADERSHIP
with Compassion
with Conviction
with Constitutionality
with Competence
with Courage
with Candor
The Democratic Party has spun out of control. Agendas with credence and merit have been criminally painted as harmful and wrong and agendas of corporate interest, greed, and special interest have proliferated and infiltrated OUR government. Political redistricting, or gerrymandering, has run rampant across the nation, allowing solid unbreakable blocks of Republican voting, turning a once balanced House of Representatives to be a bastion of right-wing extremism. With threats and attacks to our nation from abroad, the most dangerous threats have been well hidden and largely undetected: the threats to democracy from within. The (un)Patriot Act rips apart the Constitution of the United States and all articles and amendments therein. The chance, notion, and idea to amend the very document which guarantees the same freedoms for all Americans is knocking on the doors of the once hallowed halls of Congress in the form of mandated discrimination against all Americans to marry whom they want. And the federal budget deficit, a thing President Clinton made a thing of the past, looms larger and larger with no end in sight. Globally, the proud reputation once reserved only for the United States has been rendered to shreds by this administration’s determination to mandate that the world agree with us lest the entire financial and military powers of the United States of America come crashing down upon you and your country.
Nick Yaekle represents the idea that a better America is an America where all Americans can proudly say, in our country or internationally, WE ARE FREE. An America where, before we oust dictators around the world, we mind our own factions of dictatorship. Nick Yaekle stands for lower taxes on the middle-class. NO taxes on the lower-class. Disciplined spending. Stronger, not larger, military force. Government provided health care for the masses. Business and corporate responsibility through federal mandates and watchdogs. Working and housing conditions that we wouldn’t allow to exist in other nations to be dissolved in our own country. And the guarantee enforced that ALL Americans share and enjoy the same rights! The ability to listen to all sides and form a better policy through consensus rather than one-sided, narrow-minded legislation. And to do this, this nation must set forth on a course of NEW leadership, tailored to the generation where all the burden is being placed, and elect COMPETENT leaders and servants of, for, and by the people. This leadership must start here, must start now. As broad as the shoulders are of this democracy called America, the girth is overtaking the seams. And it’s high time we stood, acted, and did something about it!
This is our democracy! This is our hour! This is our time!
The clock is ticking. . .
ELECT NICK YAEKLE for US CONGRESS
The Voice of the Disenfranchised
Ok, so I am not running for Congress. What I was trying to do was figure out how to create Adobe Acrobat files with Professional 6.0 to no avail. So I tried to convert this from WORD by copying and pasting and putting it here but still cannot seem to get the picture to post. Oh well. Even though The-Voice IS NOT running for Congress, the sentiment holds true just the same.
with Compassion
with Conviction
with Constitutionality
with Competence
with Courage
with Candor
The Democratic Party has spun out of control. Agendas with credence and merit have been criminally painted as harmful and wrong and agendas of corporate interest, greed, and special interest have proliferated and infiltrated OUR government. Political redistricting, or gerrymandering, has run rampant across the nation, allowing solid unbreakable blocks of Republican voting, turning a once balanced House of Representatives to be a bastion of right-wing extremism. With threats and attacks to our nation from abroad, the most dangerous threats have been well hidden and largely undetected: the threats to democracy from within. The (un)Patriot Act rips apart the Constitution of the United States and all articles and amendments therein. The chance, notion, and idea to amend the very document which guarantees the same freedoms for all Americans is knocking on the doors of the once hallowed halls of Congress in the form of mandated discrimination against all Americans to marry whom they want. And the federal budget deficit, a thing President Clinton made a thing of the past, looms larger and larger with no end in sight. Globally, the proud reputation once reserved only for the United States has been rendered to shreds by this administration’s determination to mandate that the world agree with us lest the entire financial and military powers of the United States of America come crashing down upon you and your country.
Nick Yaekle represents the idea that a better America is an America where all Americans can proudly say, in our country or internationally, WE ARE FREE. An America where, before we oust dictators around the world, we mind our own factions of dictatorship. Nick Yaekle stands for lower taxes on the middle-class. NO taxes on the lower-class. Disciplined spending. Stronger, not larger, military force. Government provided health care for the masses. Business and corporate responsibility through federal mandates and watchdogs. Working and housing conditions that we wouldn’t allow to exist in other nations to be dissolved in our own country. And the guarantee enforced that ALL Americans share and enjoy the same rights! The ability to listen to all sides and form a better policy through consensus rather than one-sided, narrow-minded legislation. And to do this, this nation must set forth on a course of NEW leadership, tailored to the generation where all the burden is being placed, and elect COMPETENT leaders and servants of, for, and by the people. This leadership must start here, must start now. As broad as the shoulders are of this democracy called America, the girth is overtaking the seams. And it’s high time we stood, acted, and did something about it!
This is our democracy! This is our hour! This is our time!
The clock is ticking. . .
ELECT NICK YAEKLE for US CONGRESS
The Voice of the Disenfranchised
Ok, so I am not running for Congress. What I was trying to do was figure out how to create Adobe Acrobat files with Professional 6.0 to no avail. So I tried to convert this from WORD by copying and pasting and putting it here but still cannot seem to get the picture to post. Oh well. Even though The-Voice IS NOT running for Congress, the sentiment holds true just the same.
A DEMOCRACY IN QUESTION
The Voice reluctantly, yet respectfully, concedes that George W. Bush has been elected the president-elect of the United States for a first legitimate term. While my scathing opinions will not change of his previous unlawful administration, nor will my regret for what he has done to our democracy, I will, from here forward, refer to him as President Bush, as I still respect the office which he will legally hold finally beginning January 20, 2005. While I recognize it is impossible that a divine intervention from God will occur and he will become, at least, slightly coherent and intelligible, I hope that he can manage to at least shake up his administration and appoint more able minded persons to the cabinet and senior staff.
Additionally, I am working on a self-commissioned report which will outline what the Democratic party MUST do in order to have any hopes in two years of reclaiming the House. God help our Supreme Court as well.
Finally, I must admit that it was exciting being in downtown Columbus yesterday where the international media outlets had set up outposts and satellites to report live from our statehouse concerning the Ohio election results, which are still not fully counted since our state law allows for provisional ballots to be cast but not even opened until November 11, 2004 and counted some time after. While there is very little chance that those 250,000 ballots would make a change, I suppose stranger things have happened!
Congratulations to the Republican party as they have embraced shrewd campaign tactics and managed to change what they've called the "liberal media" and turned a party once enshrined in the goodness that was smaller government and power to the people into a corporate owned vehicle of special agendas and interests. Nonetheless, in the tradition of dirty politics and respect for out-fucking-over the opposition party, my hat is off to them!
Lastly, congratulations are in order for a fine legislator and surely successful-to-be Senator-elect Barack Obama from Illinois. As strange as some may see it, I think he is the hope and future of the survival of the Democratic party and wouldn't be surprised if he someday is elected the first black president of the United States. Please, feel free to mark my words on that.
As far as my opinion as to what this does for the chances of Senator Hillary Rodham-Clinton to run for president in 2008. I don't wish to cast doubt as I think she would be as fine a president as her husband, but I think they would drag more things out of her closet, ah-hem, than she could fight off. But, an older generation will be smaller and many of those are of the mindset that a woman isn't capable of being president and that would be in her advantage. And the Republicans don't have a great deal of shining stars on the horizon either. Perhaps one of the most attractive candidates as far as political success goes is Senator Santorum from Pennsylvania and his tirades and attacks on gays have been so harsh that he will be viewed as more of the same and more divisive than most of his party.
My hopes are that the (un)Patriot Act is not expanded and that democracy isn't scarred so much that it can never have the same face it once did and that America will someday, and I may never see that day now in my lifetime, be the respected and powerful refuge of freedom we once were.
Speaking for Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John C. Calhoun, John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry (Give 'em hell Harry) Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and William Jefferson Clinton, The Voice says: ". . .one nation, under God, with liberty and justice FOR ALL!"
Additionally, I am working on a self-commissioned report which will outline what the Democratic party MUST do in order to have any hopes in two years of reclaiming the House. God help our Supreme Court as well.
Finally, I must admit that it was exciting being in downtown Columbus yesterday where the international media outlets had set up outposts and satellites to report live from our statehouse concerning the Ohio election results, which are still not fully counted since our state law allows for provisional ballots to be cast but not even opened until November 11, 2004 and counted some time after. While there is very little chance that those 250,000 ballots would make a change, I suppose stranger things have happened!
Congratulations to the Republican party as they have embraced shrewd campaign tactics and managed to change what they've called the "liberal media" and turned a party once enshrined in the goodness that was smaller government and power to the people into a corporate owned vehicle of special agendas and interests. Nonetheless, in the tradition of dirty politics and respect for out-fucking-over the opposition party, my hat is off to them!
Lastly, congratulations are in order for a fine legislator and surely successful-to-be Senator-elect Barack Obama from Illinois. As strange as some may see it, I think he is the hope and future of the survival of the Democratic party and wouldn't be surprised if he someday is elected the first black president of the United States. Please, feel free to mark my words on that.
As far as my opinion as to what this does for the chances of Senator Hillary Rodham-Clinton to run for president in 2008. I don't wish to cast doubt as I think she would be as fine a president as her husband, but I think they would drag more things out of her closet, ah-hem, than she could fight off. But, an older generation will be smaller and many of those are of the mindset that a woman isn't capable of being president and that would be in her advantage. And the Republicans don't have a great deal of shining stars on the horizon either. Perhaps one of the most attractive candidates as far as political success goes is Senator Santorum from Pennsylvania and his tirades and attacks on gays have been so harsh that he will be viewed as more of the same and more divisive than most of his party.
My hopes are that the (un)Patriot Act is not expanded and that democracy isn't scarred so much that it can never have the same face it once did and that America will someday, and I may never see that day now in my lifetime, be the respected and powerful refuge of freedom we once were.
Speaking for Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John C. Calhoun, John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry (Give 'em hell Harry) Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and William Jefferson Clinton, The Voice says: ". . .one nation, under God, with liberty and justice FOR ALL!"
Wednesday, November 3, 2004
!?#$&#%@*&$^!
ALLOW ME TIME TO SHED A TEAR FOR DEMOCRACY!
. . .but The Voice will not be silenced!
-The Voice
"May the powers that be driving the universe bless Senator John Kerry and Senator John Edwards and their families!"
. . .but The Voice will not be silenced!
-The Voice
"May the powers that be driving the universe bless Senator John Kerry and Senator John Edwards and their families!"
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