Ode to Condi, and an open letter to Slick Willie
Why do I love Condoleezza Rice, you ask?
Because that woman has balls.
Rice hits back at Clinton claimsMs Rice responded: "What we did in the eight months was at least as aggressive as what the Clinton administration did in the preceding years.
"The notion somehow for eight months the Bush administration sat there and didn't do that is just flatly false - and I think the 9/11 commission understood that."
She also disputed Mr Clinton's statement that he "left a comprehensive anti-terror strategy" for incoming officials when he left office, including "battle plans" to go into Afghanistan, overthrow the Taleban regime and launch a full-scale search for Bin Laden.
"We were not left a comprehensive strategy to fight al-Qaeda," she said.
"For instance, big pieces were missing, like an approach to Pakistan that might work, because without Pakistan you weren't going to get Afghanistan."
And she went on to question the value of the entire argument.
"I think this is not a very fruitful discussion," she said.
"We've been through it. The 9/11 commission has turned over every rock and we know exactly what they said." -----------
Oh Bill, Bill, Bill.
You almost did it. You almost had the conservative trust.
While I've never been a fan of yours, I have been shocked in the past few years to hear quite a few of my conservative couterparts admit, "Ya know? He's not such a bad guy."
And then, you do this.
In a way, I'm relieved. At my Christian elementary school, I heard several murmurs that you may be the anti-christ. After all, he(she?) is supposed to be extremely charismatic, and you do have a knack for wooing everyone you come in contact with (sidenote: now is NOT the time for a blow job joke!). At least now you've managed to piss off a large portion of the population.
But really, you made yourself look like more of an idiot than anyone on Fox News could ever do by themselves. Not only did you defend yourself so voraciously that you even started attacking the current administration (did you FORGET what channel you were on??), but you were so angry that half of America thought you were about to have a heart attack, and the other half thought you were about to start crying.
And to top it all off, the Secretary of State called you a
liar. Ouch.
I know the whole thing was planned. I know you were just waiting for Wallace to ask the right question. But if you're smart enough to know the question was coming and to plan a response, why the hell couldn't you be smart enough to realize you're arguing on a network that is only being watched by Bush fanatics?
It's the same reason I don't go to Socialist gatherings and try to sway their ideology. No Bushie watching Fox News heard your hissy fit, gasped in awe, and changed parties.
In other news, I'm sure your wife is angry at you now as well. After all, she was going for that moderate image, and you were pretty much the most conservative thing in her life. Let's hope she finally divorces your sorry, cheating ass.
Don't Ask... They're Telling
My mom called me yesterday around noon with the update I was waiting for. “Matt just got arrested,” she informed me.
I knew it was coming, but it was hard for me to keep up with the events while sitting at my desk at work. My mother was watching it on the news, and taping it for me as well. “They told him if he didn’t leave, they would arrest him, and then the police moved in,” she told me as she watched it all unfold.
I was sad – sad for Matt, sad for America, sad that our society is still so unbelievably discriminatory that something like this would even happen. But at the same time, I was proud of him for having the guts to stand up for what he believed in, and for helping to bring about the change that we all know is coming.
You see, my friend Matt Hill Comer was arrested because he wanted to serve our country; he was denied that right because he refused to lie about or hide his sexual orientation.
At a time when America is sending our troops out on multiple tours because we’ve bitten off more than we can chew, at a time when people are murmuring about reinstating the draft because we have such a shortage of enlistees, our government is turning down able-bodied young men and women simply because they refuse to mask their homosexuality.
While discussing this issue, my mother brought up the typical anti-gay argument. “I know ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is seen as an attack on homosexuals,” she told me, “But really, doesn’t it apply to everyone? I don’t personally WANT to know what someone’s sexuality is. Gay, straight, foot fetish, beastiality… it’s not like that has any effect on anything you do in the military.”
But it
is an attack on homosexuality. There is no problem with soldiers sitting around talking about their girlfriends or wives back home, but let a gay man try to say the same about the partner he has left behind. Is their commitment any less significant? Why should a gay man or woman be forced to tip-toe around their personal lives, while everyone else speaks openly about theirs?
"Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" doesn’t pertain to everyone equally, and that’s where the real issue is. Society has embraced the idea that we should all keep quiet about our sexuality, and that sounds nice, but you can’t stay completely quiet about those things. Two men might kiss each other goodbye in the morning just like their straight next door neighbors, but the woman across the street will only be offended by one couple. The woman who puts pictures of her and her girlfriend on her desk will be doing no differently than the woman who puts a picture of her and her boyfriend up, but only one will cause controversy in the office.
When Matt and the other potential enlistees walked into the recruiting center yesterday, they told the recruiters they were gay, and they intended to enlist. They were refused. Had they walked in and stated they were straight and wished to enlist, there would not have been an issue. How is that equality?
Upon being told that they could not join, the protestors warned that they would be staging a sit-in, and they were refusing to leave until they could join. Police were called in, and Matt and the others were led away in plastic tie-cuffs.
Who was in the wrong here? The protestors knew they would be arrested for trespassing if they refused to leave, but they did what they had promised to do. They made their statement. The recruiters did not have the power to let them join, and the police had to respond to the trespassing call and arrest the defiant protestors. No one involved yesterday had much of a choice. It was all a small-stage production of the inequality that occurs silently every day that a homosexual is unable to participate in the same activities as their straight counterparts.
I respect Matt and the other protestors for having the courage to follow through with this plan. Change is coming, I know it, they know it, the rest of the world knows it. But it can’t come soon enough for those who are currently experiencing this discrimination.
The moral here is that it is impossible for a black person to be racist, right?
Today, a "Unity March" will be held in downtown Greensboro.
What is a Unity March, you ask? Well according to Channel 8's Noon News:
"The goal of today's Unity March is to eradicate racism. Participants are urged to shop at only black-owned businesses..."
Wait, what?
They are going to eradicate racism.... by ONLY shopping at black-owned business.
American Heritage Dictionary
rac·ism (rszm)
n.
1. The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race.
The amount of stupidity in this world hurts my head.
