I really enojy this blog by Mike02. Really I enojy all his entries, even though he posts so often in the course of a day, sometimes I miss a few. He says the things everyone else is too afraid to say about the news and politics. If Mike was running for president, I’d vote for him. He’s like the George Carlin of the blogging community.
Currently he’s commenting on the Consitutional Amendment that Bush is trying to foist on the public. This isn’t a new topic. People have been talking about it for weeks, but Mike made note of some ulterior motives that come into play with this nonsense. He says, “Bush knows that he will never get a CA [constitutional amendment] passed, it’s very difficult, through the congress, ratified by the states, yadda, yadda, yadda. When Newt and company tried passing the Contract with America in the early 90′s they threw in term limits as a CA [constitutional amendment] knowing full well it wouldn’t get anywhere. Bush is doing the same.”
Mike02 intimates that Bush is doing this to please his loyal religious/homophobic supporters and motivate them to vote for him. And he’s also doing it to link Democrats with gay marriage so that anyone who would have voted democrat will vote republican if gay marriage displeases them.
I can come up with at least one more reason.
Notice we haven’t heard about Bush’s actions in the Middle East of late. All this gays shouldn’t marry nonsense is clearly a distraction. Really, so long as they’re not hurting anyone, gays should be allowed to do whatever the heck they want. This is supposedly a free country after all. But maybe it’s just a little freer for some folk than others.
They (Bush and his regime) used 9-11 as an excuse to launch a war in the Middle East despite the fact that they knew something was going to happen long before that moment and intentionally failed to prevent it. They wanted something to happen so that they would have a superficial reason to attack people who had nothing to do with 9-11. Boy did they mess up.
Yes, the terrorists came from the middle east and needed to be stopped, but waging war on innocent people who just happened to share their religion was just as much a violation of human rights as Saddam’s inhumane rule and Bin Laden’s actions against us.
This needs to be remembered by anyone who might think to vote for Bush in the upcoming election. I don’t care who the heck you vote for, just don’t vote for him.
The only reason he is not as big a sociopath as Saddam and Bin Laden is that his hands are tied by social conformity. He is a hate-mongering bigot who should not be given the power to control other people’s lives, ours or the lives of people in other countries.
We (everyone I’ve ever spoken to) didn’t vote for him the first time. We sure as heck don’t want him in again. I really don’t see how he can get re-elected short of fraud (everyone remembers Florida, yes?). Is this all a conspiracy to undermine our faith in the electoral system so everyone stops voting entirely? I wouldn’t be surprised.
I will say finally…
There is no reason to limit the rights of gays, any more than there is reason to limit other minority groups… like African Americans, non-Christian religious groups, unwed mothers, etc etc etc etc.
Really if you want my opinion, I’m heterosexual (for want of a better label) but I can say without irony that we should probably encourage homosexuality. We have some 6 billion people on this planet… eating up resources, destroying natural wonders like the rainforest and the oceans, killing one another over territory and supplies. Don’t you think homosexuality is a reasonable choice over abortion and birth limitations like you find in China? Not everyone can be a thirty year old virgin like me. heh
Never fear!)
