Friday, April 22, 2005
Senate
The US Senate is presently considering legislation that would create a Federal Marriage Amendment to the Constitution, banning same-sex marriages in all 50 states. Ironically, the bill is being co-sponsored by MY senator (needless to say, I've already written and asked her to reconsider her position on the subject). I thought some of you might like to know that our conversation about same-sex marriage has ceased to be a hypothetical problem, so now is the time to figure out where you come down on the issue and write to your senators. Another issue that the senate is currently deciding (the House already passed this nifty bit of legislation) is whether to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. They tacked that on to an energy bill that is currently being debated in the upper house, so if you have any strong feelings about that, you'd better make them known post haste. [I feel like such an activist... almost like Ryan Schiffer or something!]
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Wow, Grady that is a great point, I agree completely. Actually, I think there is a historical argument to be made that the Industrial Revolution marked the obsolescence of extravagances like Wildlife Refuges and national forests. Our country would be better off finding ways to extract oil from those beady-eyed owls and fish than keeping them alive. What for, really? Just so we can have more animals? I, for one, think that we have plenty as it is.
And the unemployed! And the uneducated! And the poor idiots who get fired on The Apprentice!
That would certainly make the show interesting:
Trump: Your Fired!
Poor Idiot: No! Nooooooooo!
Robotic Arm: *thunk!* *Swish* *Suck!*
(Suddenly the boardroom lights get quite a bit brighter)
Trump: He He, I just love that! Ah, what the heck, your all fired!
All the rest: Noooooo! . . .
(Camera-view changes to NYC, the city lights-up quite a bit brighter-music comes on)
I appreciate the sadistically ironic comments (I really do! I hurt myself laughing just now), but did you also write to your senators?
Oh, and uhhh, Dave, I'm, uhh, I'm having a hard time VISUALIZING this Apprentice scenario you've written out here... I'm just having a hard time PICTURING exactly what that would LOOK like... it does sound like a very active and engaging and ANIMATED sort of program... hmmmmm...
Um, Coye... who was being ironic?
Coye, despite your wordsmithing and brilliant debate. I don't have a major problem with a marriage amendment, although it doesn't seem to be the sort of thing that the government should meddle with.
My bigger concern is that Republicans seem to have their heads so far up their butts that they can't recognize that they have more important things to do, such as clean up the budget mess, encourage Americans to save to end our trade deficit, deal with North Korea, diffuse the escalation in China over Taiwan, finish the job in Iraq responsibly. Instead they're quibbling over social security (not nearly as big as the medicare/medicaid mess and trying to wipe out the filibuster, which is a valuable tool, which they'll wish they still had when they fall out of power, which will happen sooner than later on their present course.
I do not like the Christian right. Republicans use them as pawns, and Christians try to create a theocratic party that for some reason is environmentally unfriendly, and generally unconcerned with caring for the less fortunate other than unborn infants. Granted I'm generalizing big time, but this piece is more about emotional sentiment and exasperation with lack of political options when you're conservative on some issues and liberal on others and you don't want to support the rest of the bull that the two parties stand for. While Christians are needed in politics, I'm sick of putting up with Christians who don't think about their political positions and just regurgitate party lines as their own thoughts. That felt good to get off my chest.
Some days I just want to start my own political party. Let me know if you want to help with the platform.
Amen!
Actually, I wrote one of my senators about the filibuster thing, too. I think I've written 4 or 5 letters to legistlators this week. The depressing thing is realizing that it won't matter and doing it anyways...
once again, Amen.
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