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Age: 37
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City: CLAREMONT
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Wednesday, May 18, 2005 

Current mood:  frustrated
I’m one of those people who likes to read the news every day. It didn’t always used to be this way, that I would care about politics and what was going on outside my neighborhood, but with age comes the awareness that one does not live in a bubble. You get to be a certain age (say, 30) and suddenly your peer group starts changing. Everyone starts hooking up, moving in, getting married, having kids; you begin to realize that you no longer have anything in common with your friends. And you realize that what goes on in Washington actually does have an impact in your life. For some, growing older means growing wiser; for others, it means clinging to the traditions of your past, whether or not they are good traditions. We can either become more open-minded and aware of what is happening around us, or we become jaded and judgmental and wonder why everyone doesn’t share the same values as we do. Most of us become a little of both. I know that my daily perusals through the LA Times have led to naught but frustration. How could our country be moving in this bizarre, imperialistic, right-wing religious extremist direction? Does the embracing of such insanity spell the end of days for America, the home of the free and the rational? Would our founding fathers be screaming in tears if they could look upon the nation they birthed? How could be people be so willing to give away their rights, their intelligence, and their privacy to our current government, which has its core foundation fashioned with lies and deceit? And yet every story in the newspaper is the same, the American people handing over their freedoms wholesale and with less thought than they gave last week’s episode of American Idol. They do it in fear, in the name of god, or for money. And what’s worse is the eagerness to hand over other people’s rights, and to impose extremist Christian mores on a country whose foundations rest upon among other things freedom of religion and separation of church and state. How can I not help but take my age-opened mind and still become jaded and judgemental?
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speedemon

 
Hmmm,

Have you read your Machiavelli? Did you watch the elections on TV? People voted for a safety mantra, not their political views and values. However, yes the world of the 18th century has vanished, in its place an overcrowded, aged, fearful nation.

The actual majority of Americans have said "screw it" and completely acquiesce from politics etc. They have given up on getting any representation. Most others are preoccupied with making ends meet, or getting the paycheck to move up to the 7 series BMW or 500 Mercedes to worry about stuff like that.

What's happened, is that the non-right wing political establishment has let you down. It has gone running, with no answer to the post 9/11 fear/unpatriotic onslaught of the Right. They may get their bearings in the near future, but meanwhile we are left to hope that no irreversable damage is done.

Additionally, give reading the posted comments on Blabbermouth a break...

Later!
 
Posted by speedemon on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 4:23 AM
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ben
ben chartier

 

I think that a core misunderstanding has occured in the way that many christians have percieved the faith that they say that they believe in. Jesus said that his kingdom was not an earthly kingdom, but a spiritual kingdom. that means that no political party, king or president has the right to supersede his authority, but that all are accountable to him.

Moreover, the example of Jesus' life was not of the hardcore fundamentalist right-winger,but of a man whose first principles were of truth and the respect of freedom. Jesus openly rebuked the religious authorities of his day for commandeering the faith of the Jews and using it for self-serving ends. If this is true as jesus was when he was among us, then it will be even moreso when he returns as God. Jesus didn't raise from the grave so that people could bomb abortion clinics-he did it to open the way to salvation for all mankind, and to end the reign of sin in mankind, and to create a way for mankind to experience permanent forgiveness in the sight of allmight God. That includes for Democrats(!)

I don't think that many of the self-righteous, Materialistic right-wingers in america would pass muster in the sight of the saints and angels when Christ returns. They are guilty of the very self-righteousness that caused the pharisees to crucify him in the first place.


 
Posted by ben on Wednesday, November 02, 2005 - 7:33 PM
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smylex

 
Hear here!  (Or however it's supposed to be written.) 

I wasn't paying much attention to politics until my Freshman English class when my instructor, Ellie England, had us doing our opinion pieces of the current events.  Spend enough time reading the newpapers, and you'll realize just how truly fucked up this country has become in the name of God, the holy dollar or just plain fear.

Sadly, though, I have become wary of anything being published in the American newspapers and have been forced to read news from foreign news agencies in order to find out what's going on in my own fucking country!  Remember, the major media in America is owned by only 5 major companies and, almost like in the Godfather with the heads of the 5 families, they all have business with the US government and they don't want it disturbed.

Is it any wonder that Al Jazeera in Iraq was bombed?  This adminstration doesn't want the TRUTH to get out.

Too late, now.  The first inquiry on whether we were lied into war in Iraq has already happened...it could just be the first step on the road to impeaching a third president in 35 years. 

 
Posted by smylex on Sunday, June 19, 2005 - 9:17 AM
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William

 

ahhhh yes. I agree with Chris. I take the L.A. Times about as seriously as People magazine. In fact, the best title I have heard for the L.A. Times is: "El Tiempo de Los Angeles", meaning that the newspaper is more of a Mexican socialist paper intent on making sure that Latino issues are almost always front page material.

Lastly, when it comes to reading the news, use your judgement. If it sounds kind of fishy, it probably is. I can't believe people aren't willing to use their brains when reading information. They take it at face value which is why something like Farenheit 911 was so popular. Michael Moore has his own agenda, and he is going to paint things the way he wants you to see it. Y, El Tiempo de Los Angeles is the same. 


 
Posted by William on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 4:51 PM
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West Side Dave
West Side Dave

 
Well spoken, Mel! Personally, I stopped reading the newspapers, as well as watching the TV news, ages ago. And I think I`m healthier for doing so. The "News" nowadays is not news, just drama and sensationalism designed to sell, sell, sell. At the point I stopped paying attention to it, I realized that I was no better informed watching/reading the news than before. A total waste of energy, really. "Infor-tainment" would be a better term. It`s not a case of "Don`t worry, be happy" or "Ignorance is bliss"; I just think my time and energy would be better served elswhere, not on things that I have no control over. However, I do admit to ocasionally checking news services from places OTHER than the states; sources where news reporters actually "report the news" sans overblown hysteria and rhetoric!
 
Posted by West Side Dave on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 10:57 PM
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bassbitch
Melanie Sisneros

 
You ever notice how CNN.com's latest fascination is to do overblown stories on missing persons? i swear I know more about abducted children in the US then I do about what's going on in Washington. :/
 
Posted by bassbitch on Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - 9:31 PM
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West Side Dave
West Side Dave

 
At the risk of sounding like a paranoid conspiracy theorist [is that a word?], I believe Washington prefers it that way. Give stories like those abductions you mentioned, or Michael Jackson, Scott Peterson, etc. TONS of coverage; bury any stories that might portray the government in a bad light. Keep `em distracted, keep `em dumb.....
 
Posted by West Side Dave on Thursday, June 30, 2005 - 10:21 PM
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Laurie Steele

 

So true. I get so frustrated by people sticking their heads in the sand. No wonder they never see the light!

The worst part is that while our rights are being usurped, they are being done so insidiously, and we are like the frog that doesn't realize it is being boiled alive because the temperature has increased so gradually.

So many people forget that this country was founded on the principle of SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE! The more I learn, the more I respect our founding fathers. While the world we live in now is different from theirs, true, so much of what they passionately believed in still holds true. Like one of my favorite Ben Franklin quotes: 

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Unfortunately those of us who do not want to give up our essential liberties are being swept along by the current of ignorance and fear...


 
Posted by Laurie Steele on Tuesday, November 22, 2005 - 7:42 PM
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Flying-V-Nut

 
I think if there was a lot less finger pointing and politasizing and a lot more unity and realizing that we are all on the same team, we would be in better shape. I am so sick of right and left!! How 'bout right and wrong? Both sides of the asile are as corrupt and self serving as the day is long and the mainstream media cannot be trusted whatsoever. I listen to a lot of talk radio (both liberal and conservative). I believe that talk radio is the closest we can actually get to the truth because of the dynamics between hosts (whom do have SOME facts) and callers. You hear from all slices of humanity and that helps you to process the info (facts?) and decide appropriatly. But you need to listen to all sides. The consevatives and liberals are both gonna say they are right and the other is wrong. 
 
Posted by Flying-V-Nut on Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - 10:30 PM
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