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Really Deep Thoughts Right Now Volume 04 : Issue #1919
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Tori Amos, "Thoughts"
In this issue:
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Garrison's words on the election [ "Beth Coulter" <betheqt@voicenet.co ]
what's my major? [ Roxanne Rieske <rokzane@comcast.net ]
concert ticket prices. [ heidi maier <s376184@student.uq.edu ]
Re: RDT Right Now #1918 [ PersephonesReign@aol.com ]
Re: RDT Right Now #1918 [ PersephonesReign@aol.com ]
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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:51:57 -0400
From: "Beth Coulter" <betheqt@voicenet.com>
To: "RDT Right Now" <rdtrn@torithoughts.org>
Subject: Garrison's words on the election
Hey All,
One of my profs sent this on to me. It says what needs to be said. Please
read this, it's pretty awesome.
BC
Something has gone seriously haywire with the Republican Party. Once, it was
the party of pragmatic Main Street businessmen in steel-rimmed spectacles
who decried profligacy and waste, were devoted to their communities and
supported the sort of prosperity that raises all ships.
They were good-hearted people who vanquished the gnarlier elements of their
party, the paranoid Roosevelt-haters, the flat Earthers and Prohibitionists,
the antipapist antiforeigner element. The genial Eisenhower was their man, a
genuine American hero of D-Day, who made it OK for reasonable people to vote
Republican.
He brought the Korean War to a stalemate, produced the Interstate Highway
System, declined to rescue the French colonial army in Vietnam, and gave us
a period of peace and prosperity, in which (oddly) American arts and letters
flourished and higher education burgeoned-and there was a degree of plain
decency in the country. Fifties Republicans were giants compared to today's.
Richard Nixon was the last Republican leader to feel a Christian obligation
toward the poor.
In the years between Nixon and Newt Gingrich, the party migrated
southward down the Twisting Trail of Rhetoric and sneered at the idea of
public service and became the Scourge of Liberalism, the Great Crusade
Against the Sixties, the Death Star of Government, a gang of pirates that
diverted and fascinated the media by their sheer chutzpah, such as the
misty-eyed flag-waving of Ronald Reagan who, while George McGovern flew
bombers in World War II, took a pass and made training films in Long Beach.
The Nixon moderate vanished like the passenger pigeon, purged by a legion
of angry white men who rose to power on pure punk politics. "Bipartisanship
is another term of date rape," says Grover Norquist, the Sid Vicious of the
GOP. "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the
size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub." The
boy has Oedipal problems and government is his daddy.
The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of
hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists,
fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of
convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking
midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts
in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks,
Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong's moonwalk was
filmed in Roswell, New Mexico, little honkers out to diminish the rest of
us, Newt's evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid
man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions,
whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk.
Republicans: The No.1 reason the rest of the world thinks we're deaf, dumb
and dangerous.
Rich ironies abound! Lies pop up like toadstools in the forest! Wild swine
crowd round the public trough! Outrageous gerrymandering! Pocket lining on a
massive scale! Paid lobbyists sit in committee rooms and write legislation
to alleviate the suffering of billionaires! Hypocrisies shine like cat turds
in the moonlight! O Mark Twain, where art thou at this hour? Arise and
behold the Gilded Age reincarnated gaudier than ever, upholding great wealth
as the sure sign of Divine Grace.
Here in 2004, George W. Bush is running for reelection on a platform of
tragedy-the single greatest failure of national defense in our history, the
attacks of 9/11 in which 19 men with box cutters put this nation into a
tailspin, a failure the details of which the White House fought to keep
secret even as it ran the country into hock up to the hubcaps, thanks to
generous tax cuts for the well-fixed, hoping to lead us into a box canyon of
debt that will render government impotent, even as we engage in a war
against a small country that was undertaken for the president's personal
satisfaction but sold to the American public on the basis of brazen
misinformation, a war whose purpose is to distract us from an enormous
transfer of wealth taking place in this country,
flowing upward, and the deception is working beautifully.
The concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the few is the death
knell of democracy. No republic in the history of humanity has survived
this. The election of 2004 will say something about what happens to ours.
The omens are not good.
Our beloved land has been fogged with fear-fear, the greatest political
strategy ever. An ominous silence, distant sirens, a drumbeat of whispered
warnings and alarms to keep the public uneasy and silence the opposition.
And in a time of vague fear, you can appoint bullet-brained judges, strip
the bark off the Constitution, eviscerate federal regulatory agencies, bring
public education to a standstill, stupefy the press, lavish gorgeous tax
breaks on the rich.
There is a stink drifting through this election year. It isn't the
Florida recount or the Supreme Court decision. No, it's 9/11 that we keep
coming back to. It wasn't the "end of innocence," or a turning point in our
history, or a cosmic occurrence, it was an event, a lapse of security. And
patriotism shouldn't prevent people from asking hard questions of the man
who was purportedly in charge of national security at the time.
Whenever I think of those New Yorkers hurrying along Park Place or getting
off the No.1 Broadway local, hustling toward their office on the 90th floor,
the morning paper under their arms, I think of that non-reader George W.
Bush and how he hopes to exploit those people with a little economic uptick,
maybe the capture of Osama, cruise to victory in November and proceed to get
some serious nation-changing done in his second term.
This year, as in the past, Republicans will portray us Democrats as
embittered academics, desiccated Unitarians, whacked-out hippies and
communards, people who talk to telephone poles, the party of the Deadheads.
They will wave enormous flags and wow over and over the footage of firemen
in the wreckage of the World Trade Center and bodies being carried out and
they will lie about their economic policies with astonishing enthusiasm.
The Union is what needs defending this year. Government of Enron and by
Halliburton and for the Southern Baptists is not the same as what Lincoln
spoke of. This gang of Pithecanthropus Republicanii has humbugged us to
death on terrorism and tax cuts for the comfy and school prayer and flag
burning and claimed the right to know what books we read and to dump their
sewage upstream from the town and clear-cut the forests and gut the IRS and
mark up the constitution on behalf of intolerance and promote the corporate
takeover of the public airwaves and to hell with anybody who opposes them.
This is a great country, and it wasn't made so by angry people. We have a
sacred duty to bequeath it to our grandchildren in better shape than however
we found it. We have a long way to go and we're not getting any younger.
Dante said that the hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who in time
of crisis remain neutral, so I have spoken my piece, and thank you, dear
reader. It's a beautiful world, rain or shine, and there is more to life
than winning.
Garrison Kiellor
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The world's going to end sooner or later. Why not vote for Bush and get it
over with?
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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:58:12 -0600
From: Roxanne Rieske <rokzane@comcast.net>
To: RDT Right Now <rdtrn@torithoughts.org>
Subject: what's my major?
Simon asked me what my major was (of course it'll probably be a month
before he reads this *grin*)...
I'm majoring in liberal arts with an emphasis in communications with a
minor in Human Resource Management.
I'm thinking of cutting my schedule down to half-time enrollment..I am
so burnt out right now and a lighter schedule would do me a world of
good. And now I'm having a spat with the instructor I had for my last
class. I missed turning in one paper, which is usually no big deal with
anyone else (because of the weirdness of my job I sometimes end up
having to sacrifice a school assignment here and there), and since I
don't care much about grades, I just let it go and take the grade they
give me in spite of the missing assignment (I've never gotten anything
below a B). Now this instructor gave me the option of taking an
Incomplete and turning in the assignment later or taking the grade as it
stood with the missing assignment. I told her just to give me the grade.
What did she do? She gave me a friggin' IC. Since I don't usually bother
checking grades (through the school website), I didn't find out about it
until the school sent me a letter telling me I was on financial aid
probation because I failed to complete my required 9 credit hours for
that semester. Great. Just friggin' great. I really hate it when people
don't listen to me.
--
Roxanne Rieske (Rokzane)
rokzane@comcast.net
visit my webjournal: www.xanga.com/RokZane
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"They got the earth in a sling;
they got the world on its knees;
they even got your zipper between their teeth."
--Tori Amos "Sweet Dreams"
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"gonna build my own empire out of car tires and
chicken wire. I'm Queen of my compost heap,
and I'm getting used to the smell"
--Ani Difranco "Swan Dive"
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 14:08:52 +1000
From: heidi maier <s376184@student.uq.edu.au>
To: RDT Right Now <rdtrn@torithoughts.org>
Subject: concert ticket prices.
brian wrote:
> While I've heard that too many times before, it's actually a good chance at
> the moment. There's a glut of international artists coming to our shores,
> probably because our dollar is up so fans are more likely to part with
> their cash as they can keep ticket prices down. Though that doesn't stop
> some of the big names charging whatever they like. I'll sign the petition
> for what it's worth anyway, but won't be holding my breath.
i, too, have heard the tori whispers too many times in the past. i keep
thinking how odd it is that this november will make it a decade since she was
last here. i saw both of her brisbane shows and that it was a decade ago
feels so bizarre for some reason.
and you're right about the ticket prices: i'd have loved to go and see k.d
lang again ... i've seen her on her previous tours and she is wonderful
live ... but tickets were $175, which is really unaffordable to me, as a
student, and also a lot of others who aren't students, i'm sure!
the cher tickets that went onsale earlier this week are *insanely* expensive.
i'm not a fan, but my parents wanted to go, and the cheapest seat was almost
$100, which wouldn't be bad if it were a half-decent seat, but we're talking
in the upper most echelons of the entertainment centre here, where cher would
be nothing but a tiny spot in the distance. other than that, the tickets were
divided into several categories, with the most expensive [platinum]being
almost $500, gold almost $300, and silver $200. i think tickets for the
upcoming eagles tour were similarly priced.
it makes the $77 tickets for pj harvey's forthcoming tour seem like a bargain
and reminds me that i'd best start saving if the rumours that r.e.m will be
here next year are true ... !!!
warmly,
heidi.
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 04:29:50 -0400
From: PersephonesReign@aol.com
To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org (RDT Right Now)
Subject: Re: RDT Right Now #1918
In Re: to
>Not much to say just now, but I wanted to welcome Alex to the list. :)
Lately I've been listening to some odd stuff,<
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Hello ... I'm Carrie. I've been on this list for quite awhile now, just
havent spoken up much... i'm not sure if i'm even responding right or
whatever...
I've been listening to some stuff that i normally wouldnt pay attention to,
Modest Mouse... tis good stuff
For now
Bliss of another kind...
Carrie.
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 04:36:14 -0400
From: PersephonesReign@aol.com
To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org (RDT Right Now)
Subject: Re: RDT Right Now #1918
In re:
>The only thing I found amusing about drug commercials in the U.S. was that
more than half the ad seemed to be devoted to possible side effects.<
Yes!! I totally agree...and their whole dissertation of the side effects
takes up more time/words than the actual help of the so called drug- and I
love how they say.. see your doctor now.... F all that... shouldnt they
just say... hurry up, we want more money??\
grrr
the worst is for those heartburn pills- my gawd, i have heartburn , but
have to incorporate all these other symptoms on top of it, what kind of
shit is that/
ah well... i guess i cant change that
blah
Bliss,
Carrie
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