+ sorryeverybody.com
A SNOTTY VENTING MESSAGE TRANSCRIBED AS AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PLANET,
Dear Morocco and Tanzania, Kenya, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Spain and Mexico.
Dear France and Italy and Switzerland, Australia, Portugal...
Dear Madagascar and all the other wonderful countries who have been welcoming and splendid to me as an American traveller in the past... and also, Dear Thailand, Laos, New Guinea, and Turkey, Ethiopia, Tunisia, Mali, Indonesia and Japan, and all the lands I would love to visit in my lifetime yet...
Please try to understand:
this is not America. We don't all support G.W.Bush. Please know, dear planet earth, that nearly a solid half of America's voting population rejects this president and his policy with disgust, even with venom. Yes, and with distrust and fear.
As for the Americans who voted for him... Oh, dear foreign lands, please consider this: Maybe they won't choose to travel beyond their borders. Perhaps, planet, they are comfortable in their suburbs and their exurbs... Possibly they will stay home.
But, please open your doors to those of us who, as American travellers, will value your culture and your differences... We need to occasionally escape the US now more than ever. Please, please accept us and realize we don't all discriminate against gays, we don't all reject the reality of science, we don't all interpret the bible as doctrine for governance, we don't place corporations before families and have disdain for planet earth our environment.
And George Bush. Please don't be mistaken. You are not our leader,
sincerely,
— Half Of US.
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Whew. I hoped that scathing release would help, but I still don't feel much better. With enormous apologies to loved ones who supported Bush. (Do I think you are
all evil? No. Do I understand your perspective? Not so much. Do I fear that your vote is going to damage our country and the world? Unfortunately yes.) But with equally large apologies to the rest of the world.
+ As always, Graham expresses it all so much more eloquently.
As did Thomas Jefferson:
"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt...If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake."
—Thomas Jefferson, 1798, after the passage of the Sedition Act.
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+ KERRY WON
+ OHIO VOTING MACHINE GIVES BUSH 4,258 VOTES IN PRECINCT WITH ONLY 638 VOTERS. GOOOOO DEMOCRACY!
+ ELECTRONIC VOTING PROBLEMS EXCEED 1,100 IN INCIDENT
+ AMERICAN COASTOPIA, ANYONE?
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SUCKY:
A new study found that Iraqis are 58 times more likely to die a violent death than before the American invasion; the study concluded that 100,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the invasion, and that coalition air strikes, which mostly kill women and children, were the primary cause of civilian deaths.
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