Duck and cover

[vicarz]

I anyone else noticing the 50s here? Sure radiation and chemical nerve agents are in the air - no worry, just duct tape the window, duck, & cover. Oh, and put those weird people in internment camps.

I used to say that as a child I never would have believed if you had told me the Soviet empire fell, the berlin wall came down, or that China would try free-market a little. Europe made moves to unite, wow. For a while the world looked like it might be getting better.

Now I can't believe the US is throwing civil rights away with both fists, mowing national parks, refusing to set environmental standards and relaxing the ones that exist, promoting insane non-scientifically based policies regarding anything to do with sex (let's lump abortion and abstinence in together), pushing for war with a country that asks not to fight, pissing off another country enough to make them brag that they can hit us with missles, alienating the world with their steam-roller of foreign policy...

The world is getting better, but the US is going to poop.

Comments

[eloquentwthrage.livejournal.com]

It's a shame I'm just becoming so numb to it all. The threat of terrorism, the rhetoric, the caca... I don't know anyone stockpiling supplies here, and I'm on the east coast, supposedly a prime target area. Apparently, I'm not the only one not buying it.

[alumiere.livejournal.com]

for better or worse, i tend to be on the same wavelength as you are; i'm not freaking out and stockpiling supplies; i'm trying not to let the ridiculously dumb things our government (particularly our oh so intelligent president) is saying/doing affect my life; but i am frustrated and angry about it, and hope that when the next election rolls around the american public will see "the light" and vote to make some changes

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[eloquentwthrage.livejournal.com]

"The next election"... you're kidding, right?? You think we'll ever see one of those again?? Ha ha ha ha ha ha......

hee

[telie13.livejournal.com]

the only thing I thought when I read this was "hee hee, jose said poop"
~Sara the mature

Similar levels of maturity

[vicar.livejournal.com]

P o o P ! p O O p ! Poopy!

Re: Similar levels of maturity

[telie13.livejournal.com]

In defense of my reputation I should point out that I was halfway through my second stiff highball when I wrote that. Is there anything so responsible as drinking when you are doing you grad school apps?