Author: spierzchala

The ZenWife found this in the Best of Craigs List. I post it here, verbatim. The metaphor is fantastic.

The Country is bound for one LONG walk of shame. America, the once beautiful, is slowly making its way back to its apartment, still wearing last night’s clothes. The country has sex hair, and can taste its own breath.

Yes, there’s nothing like an election to make you feel cheap and used, and you just KNOW that W, much like the deranged Frat boy that he is, is high-fiving his buddies, retelling the story of how he fucked the country so hard, and damned if he doesn’t think that he could probably goad her into giving it up again, only next time he’ll get her so drunk and confused he’ll be able to take her in the ass.

We, the few, the proud, the 48%, sit here scratching our heads, considering our country for the naive sorority sister that it is. America, you knew better. You’ve seen him do this before. You’ve been this girl before. And you know he’s fucking Iraq right now. Doesn’t that make you feel cheap? To Give yourself up this smug idiot when you know the whole time that he’s sticking his dick where it OBVIOUSLY doesn’t belong. Do you really think what you did was safe? I mean, we know outright that you didn’t protect yourself last night.

But We have to bear in mind that last night was not a one shot job. He didn’t slip the country a good old fashioned dose of ruhypnol and let her fall unknowingly into his arms. This time around there was no rape, no theft. No my friends, we’ve been watching this for months. Convincing her that he had her best interests in mind. Convincing her naive fly-over states that they might be the next ones to be targeted by terrorists (yeah Jim-Bob, because its your fucking Walmart that Osama Bin Laden wants to blow sky high, because he “Hates Your Freedom”. Right. And on that “Hating Democracy and Freedom” point, why have none of the neutral nations been attacked? just asking. but back to extended metaphor).

You should have listened to New York America. We were the ones hit hardest by 9/11. And we could have told you, in fact DID tell you all night last night as you were eyeing him across the room not to do it, that he was a prick and a liar, and would most likely just steal from your purse to buy some coke, fuck you and leave you worse off than you already were. But like a woman with an abusive husband, America fell for the lies, fell for the promises that things are going to get better, that he only abuses us because he really loves us (and God forbid, that Jesus told him to do it). America fell for the bullshit.

And now, she’s on the way home. Sore, tired, and with considerably less self respect than she had yesterday.

I don’t know what the future holds. but after a night like last night spent with a dirty prick like Him, you have no idea what manner of political genital warts you may have contracted, no idea what might be lying latent just waiting to pop up and threaten your safety, your way of life, your well being. I mean, there are plenty of other countries out there to start a war with! and I’m willing to bet that none of those we choose will be home to Osama Bin Laden (who was that again? oh yeah, the guy we were supposed to find 4 years ago. But again, I digress.)

So, my fellow Democrats, we weep. Let’s be big about it though. It’s over. Lets get back to watching him destroy the country, the economy, our status in the world, our Constitutional rights. Because in 4 years (Provided we’re all still here) we can look all of our fellow Americans who just HAPPENED to have voted for him (because, like our slutty friends who take one night stands with abusive men, we can always forgive our fellow americans) in the face and say “Hey, I Told You So”. Cold comfort, but the asshole in me sees it as the best I can hope for right now.

And Shame on You America. You let yourself be used. Get your ass home, take a shower, and put on the hap-hap-happiest fucking face you can. Cause Tomorrow you have to face the world, and they ALL know what you did last night.

Link: Bob Shrum – Disinfopedia.

Bob Shrum is the worst thing to happen to the Democratic party since “Southern Democrats”. The party has this completely bizarre faith that this person — who is now 0 for 8 in campaigns — can lead them to the promised land.

GET YOUR HEADS OUT OF THE SAND.

Karl Rove has your number, has you cornered, and this dinosaur from the Kennedy era has got to be retired.

It’s over. The New Deal is dead. Camelot is gone. Carter is a great “statestman”. Clinton is eating fries and taking aspirin.

I vote that we send Bob Shrum somewhere where he can do a lot of good for democracy — Iraq. Then the Democrats will be able to start with a clean slate.

I keep hearing that the latest and greatest wave in technology for the home PC is the ability to have more powerful file and data search tools to help you find grandma’s picture which got stored in some oddball directory last year.

I would use these in an instant, except for two concerns.

1. Google Desktop Search. My recent feelings of animosity towards Google aside, the concept of a Web-based local search is so backwards. And then you spook us by injecting local results into Web seraches? That app got round-filed in less than an hour.
2. CPU and Disk Thrashing. Some of the other search tools that I have tried thrash my hard drive and lock-up my teeny PIII/500Mhz Thinkpad 600X. Not everyone has a monster machine with a GB of RAM. I demand Auto-Indexing of all new content, so I am not taking advantage of the gentility that these processes can bring. But I also demand instantaneous results. So either the desktop search companies can by me a new machine, or clean up their indexing.

Link: Firefox 1.0 fans clog Mozilla site | CNET News.com.

Yours truly quoted in the article. Kudos to Ryan Breen for coming up with the memorable “success crisis” tag, which he claims he stole…borrowed from somewhere he can’t remember.

On the positive front, the site appears to have returned to some semblance of normal. The Updates page is still suffering, but I can wait a few days for new themes and extensions.

Link: No Longer a Christian.
Read this. Understand.

I was told in Sunday school the word “Christian” means to be Christ-like, but the message I hear daily on the airwaves from the christian media are words of war, violence, and aggression. Throughout this article I will spell christian with a small c rather than a capital, since the term (as I usually hear it thrown about) does not refer to the teachings of the one I know as the Christ. I hear church goers call in to radio programs and explain that it was a mistake not to kill every living thing in Fallujah. They quote chapter and verse from the old testament about smiting the enemies of Israel. The fear of fighting the terrorists on our soil rather than across the globe causes the voices to be raised as they justify the latest prison scandal or other accounts of the horrors of war . The words they speak are words of destruction, aggression, dominance, revenge, fear and arrogance. The host and the callers echo the belief in the righteousness of our nation’s killing. There are reminders to pray for our christian president who is doing the work of the Lord: Right to Life, Second Amendmendment, sanctity of marriage, welfare reform, war, kill, evil liberals. . . so much to fight, so much to destroy.

Amen.

Link: andrewcoyne.com: It’s the Hispanics, stupid.

In my opinion, the Democratic Party is a dinosaur. It has lost the evolutionary battle to the Republicans, and no longer represents a viable entity on the US National scene. Harsh, but true words.

Their power-base has been shrinking since 1976. They have yet to latch onto the new vision that Americans have of themselves. They are a party of the urban dis-enfranchised, minority  and university-educated voters, especially if you look at the county-by-county electoral map in the 2004 election.

The Democratic Party, if it is to survive, must abandon the National scene, and return to the local scene to try and survive.