Insult to Injury
Sep. 27th, 2006 01:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pameladeanNo, no, no.
The fiscally-irresponsible, morally-bankrupt, torture-loving, Constitution-shredding Republican Party has chosen the Twin Cities for its horrible national convention. May the earth open up and swallow the lot of them.
If you're a Republican and I hurt your feelings, that's a pity, but you should take a very hard look at your party. It does not deserve your support.
I am not entertaining the usual remarks like, "But the Democrats do or don't this or that" at this time. Just don't bother. I've never deleted a comment before, but I can sure learn how to. The Democrats have a horde of flaws, but their sins are secondary. I didn't want them here either; the national conventions are horrific impositions upon people trying to live their lives. But at least I wouldn't want to vomit every time I thought about it, if it were the Democrats.
UPDATE: Whoops, sorry, here's the link:
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2006/09/27/gopconvention/
People in St. Paul, I'm very sorry, but it's going to be at the Xcel Energy Center. How appropriate. *snarl*
P.
The fiscally-irresponsible, morally-bankrupt, torture-loving, Constitution-shredding Republican Party has chosen the Twin Cities for its horrible national convention. May the earth open up and swallow the lot of them.
If you're a Republican and I hurt your feelings, that's a pity, but you should take a very hard look at your party. It does not deserve your support.
I am not entertaining the usual remarks like, "But the Democrats do or don't this or that" at this time. Just don't bother. I've never deleted a comment before, but I can sure learn how to. The Democrats have a horde of flaws, but their sins are secondary. I didn't want them here either; the national conventions are horrific impositions upon people trying to live their lives. But at least I wouldn't want to vomit every time I thought about it, if it were the Democrats.
UPDATE: Whoops, sorry, here's the link:
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2006/09/27/gopconvention/
People in St. Paul, I'm very sorry, but it's going to be at the Xcel Energy Center. How appropriate. *snarl*
P.
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Date: 2006-09-27 06:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-27 06:54 pm (UTC)P.
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Date: 2006-09-27 06:57 pm (UTC)If I were living in Minneapolis, I'd make sure the press knew about how the police in NYC acted, and make use to document the inevitable abuses. I'd also try and talk with as many police representatives and see how they react to being ordered to help violate people's constitional rights.
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Date: 2006-09-27 07:03 pm (UTC)I was thinking more in terms of police beating up on people exercising their first-amendment rights.
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Date: 2006-09-27 07:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-27 07:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-27 07:06 pm (UTC)P.
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Date: 2006-09-27 07:07 pm (UTC)P.
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Date: 2006-09-27 06:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-27 06:56 pm (UTC)Maybe there's some cleansing ritual that can be done afterwards.
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Date: 2006-09-27 06:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-27 07:05 pm (UTC)P.
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Date: 2006-09-27 10:27 pm (UTC)Yeah.
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Date: 2006-09-27 06:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-27 07:02 pm (UTC)P.
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Date: 2006-09-27 06:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-27 07:03 pm (UTC)P.
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Date: 2006-09-28 02:11 am (UTC)You too?
Grin.
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Date: 2006-09-28 02:56 am (UTC)P.
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Date: 2006-09-28 01:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 08:34 pm (UTC)I don't really like spandex, though.
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Date: 2006-09-29 01:45 am (UTC)You could be "Literate Lass" & I could be... uh.... Oh, yeah! "Ellipsis Boy".
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Date: 2006-09-30 05:50 pm (UTC)P.
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Date: 2006-09-27 07:02 pm (UTC)Don't hold back...tell us how you REALLY feel!
Still, my sympathies. But we survived them in New York.
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Date: 2006-09-27 07:03 pm (UTC)P.
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Date: 2006-09-27 07:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-27 07:09 pm (UTC)I don't expect the city to burn down, but eeesh.
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Date: 2006-09-27 07:14 pm (UTC)OTOH, I really, really dislike the national party (I've voted for some local ones, but I *know* them personally)
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Date: 2006-09-27 07:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-27 07:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-27 08:05 pm (UTC)To be honest, though, my first reaction is the same as it was for the Superbowl...let's get out of town!
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Date: 2006-09-27 08:39 pm (UTC)The ghost of Abbie Hoffman would smile, smile, smile....
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Date: 2006-09-27 10:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-27 10:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-27 10:59 pm (UTC)P.
There is some hope.....
Date: 2006-09-27 10:42 pm (UTC)Hopefully history will repeat itself, the party currently in power will lose the election, and this convention will mark the start of a steep swift sure slide into oblivion for the GOP.
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Date: 2006-09-28 12:43 am (UTC)P.
Re: There is some hope.....
Date: 2006-09-28 05:14 am (UTC)K.
Re: There is some hope.....
Date: 2006-09-28 08:35 pm (UTC)Benjamin Harrison is an ancestor of mine.
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Re: There is some hope.....
Date: 2006-09-28 09:22 pm (UTC)K.
Re: There is some hope.....
Date: 2006-10-01 03:48 am (UTC)P.
Nooooo!
Date: 2006-09-28 12:56 am (UTC)- D
Re: Nooooo!
Date: 2006-09-28 02:55 am (UTC)I'd arrange to have my residence fumigated so that I had to go stay with friends, or maybe leave town altogether, I think.
You have my profound sympathy.
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Date: 2006-09-28 01:29 am (UTC)Still, I would advise anyone who wants to vote for the principles the GOP claims to stand for that there are a number of minor parties more likely to follow those principles. Starting with the Communist Party USA.
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Date: 2006-09-28 02:43 am (UTC)But for Christ's sake, vote for the Democrats. Who the hell cares who votes for the Communist party? If there ever was a time to start a third party, boy is this not it. Hate the Democrats all you want (though I'm rather partial to them), but please put your vote somewhere which will _defeat_ a Republican. Save the bitching at the Democrats until we're not being raped. Kind of like not bitching out the police while they're busy saving you, even if you're active in the anti-police brutality movement.
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Date: 2006-09-28 08:37 pm (UTC)P.
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Date: 2006-09-28 08:37 pm (UTC)P.
Couldn't agree more...
Date: 2006-10-04 02:34 pm (UTC)Re: Couldn't agree more...
Date: 2006-10-05 01:16 am (UTC)I'm so scared about this year's elections. I have no idea what's going to happen.
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