Oh my...

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

I just read on someone else's Lj regarding this silly "protest" by some unhappy with the election results that consists of not spending any money tomorrow on Inauguration Day. Why anyone who claims to care about "the little guy" would stiff the protelariat for some futile symbolic purpose is beyond me, but I lived in the D.C. area for 14 years through three inaugurations. Were there conservatives protesting on the streets during Clinton's inaugurations? Was Rush calling for all Republicans to boycott businesses to show the right's displeasure? No, of course not. Anyone who disagrees with President Bush had their chance to "protest" November 2. Beyond that, all you're being is a petulant crybaby. It's like Jets fans taking to the streets in protest because the Steelers beat them. Ditto for the whining about security costs (as though it would have cost less if Kerry was the one being inaugurated), the glitziness (but the Golden Globules went on without protest as will the Oscars and Grammys), and so on.

Then there's something else I'm sure many of you can relate to...the liberal fan(s) on your message board or list who just can't keep politics out of their posts. This drives me nuts. If I wanted political debate, I'd go find it elsewhere. Otherwise I'm there to talk about fandom stuff. I don't beat people over the head with my political, social, or religious beliefs. It's less stressful that way. Yet some of these fans either want political debates or they think everyone actually agrees with them. Not all liberal fans do this and sometimes there are fans on the right who insist on pushing their views on everyone. But geez, can't people keep politics out of things just for once?

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[phoenix-starr.livejournal.com]

No it isn't a legitimate criticism. The inauguration they are talking about is FDR's FOURTH one, and he didn't have a big one because he was sick. Also, it was his 4th for goodness sake.

As far as aid goes, we are sending pots and pots of money over there now. We don't need to send more money, we need to send people to manage it. Take a guess just how much of the relief aid will actually GET to the people needing it. It's about 30 - 50 cents on the dollar. The rest is skimmed off or stolen. Just go back and look at all the despots that became rich because they stole all the "relief aid" that was sent to their countries.

Then again, I rather like your example of we'll do it as soon as they cancel the grammies and golden globe and donate that money.

[phoenix-starr.livejournal.com]

Oh, and something else of interest speaking of "stealing" and the tidal wave damaged countries. Did you know the the European Consortium is blackmailing poor devastated Twain? Yes they are. They are telling Twain that they have to buy 2 or 3 of their new Air Busses (new super luxury plane they France/Spain/Britain has built). These planes only cost a few million dollars too. If Twain doesn't order these things, they are saying they will slap a tariff on all fish imports from Twain (which must be a big industry). To add to the irony of this is that this plane (which only has the prototype built so far) has yet to leave the ground and fly. Not saying that it can't (I don't know) just it has yet to.

[laizeohbeets.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, umm... My Conservative Kansas brother-in-law works for Airbus, and I'm pretty damn sure we're making them over here, too.

[phoenix-starr.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they will sell quite well over here. They seem like the hedonistic thing that we American's would love. Nothing against Airbus, I just don't like the way the Europeans are twisting the proverbial arm of Taiwan.

[sopdetly.livejournal.com]

Ahh, I hadn't heard which inauguration they were specifically speaking of, and I did qualify my acquiescence with "might" ;) If that's the one they're talking about, then no, that's not a similar situation and we've got apples and pinecones and STFU already!

And I know we're sending plenty of money (I especially liked when the gov't first came out and said one number and the libs bitched about how uncaring Bush is...and then he upped it *tenfold* and they complained that we didn't have that kind of money. Yeah. Way to sound intelligent, folks), but it's still an obvious argument. Not necessarily a good one, because I say live it up, man! But it's one of the less inane gripes the left has had over the inauguration ;)

Help with the logistics

[carbonelle.livejournal.com]

Mission Aviation Fellowship (maf) (http://www.maf.org/) needs money for fuel and food/water for their pilots who are volunteering to fly supplies in to the folks that need it. Check it out here (http://www.maf.org/aceh/index.html)

But I can and will vouch for these guys - I know some of them personally.