A Little Bit of Freedom
I'm out of jail for a little while... Finally finished that juggernaut of a web site design job I've been laboring over for the past 6 months. Promotional communications for the launch will need to be done shortly, but right now there's a tiny bit of breathing space. I used it to begin my office reconfiguration project. Very interesting, all of this purging and re-orgainizing. I started out with a loose plan but with every move I make, the plan changes. I'm not sure how this is going to end. It all started with me just wanting to plug in a string of Christmas lights that I had tacked up around the inside of the office window. I ran out of places to plug something in, even though the small room has no less than four power outles and two power strips, each with 8 plug-ins, and one super duper power surge thingie with 5 outlets that my computer stuff is plugged into... I started rearranging stuff and before you know it, was inspired to move everything in the entire room. This included removing the doors from the closet and painting it inside, building another shelf inside of it, and creating a built-in effect, with my printers and fax sitting on top of lateral file cabinets on the floor under the shelves. Looks fantastic but had an unintended consequence -- I was forced to move my big desk closer to the closet. To have it farther away will require creating a small network and I'm not sure I am ready to tackle that right now. Could bring more u.c.'s. Anyway, the remodeling so far has been a quite ambitious project that two unsuspecting friends got sucked into over the weekend. I was like a spider in my web, waiting for passers-by to Tom Sawyer-ize. Painting is so much fun, you know. I got one of them to carry all kinds of heavy boxes to the basement for me, too. Bwa-ha-ha. After all the re-wiring, I ended up with two empty wall outlets and one unused 8-outlet power strip. Go figure. Purging of the paper files comes next. I shall release copious amounts of recyclables into the wastestream.
But all of this happy freedom may be only a temporary illusion. I grow more and more concerned about the possibility of electronic voting fraud. Lately I keep having the sense that the only way to remove the Bush/Cheney cabal from office may be via impeachment, and that maybe we ought to get started with that ASAP. A dire statement, but possibly our best option. I see the 2004 election being a much bigger mess than the one in 2000. The country is still divided practically 50/50, if you beieve the statistics we are being given. Since the last election, the GOP has done its best to mitigate its chances of losing future ones by gerrymandering, messing with eligible voter data, hijacking elections via recall and other end-run activities all over the country -- it's covering itself on every front. And in addition to that, they will be able to count on getting a lot of fraudulent e-votes. But there are still states where old paper voting machines will be used --hopefully this will diminish the chances of GOP taking sweeping victory via e-fraud -- and those places will be where the election is contested. It will be hanging chads all over again, and I don't know if the country can withstand another bumrush to the oval office, another bull-in-a-china-shop power grab. There is too much at stake now. The question is, are we up to the task of stopping them, no matter what? I think a lot of people (on the liberal side) are in denial about just how dirty these folks are prepared to play. I think we're being incredibly naive sometimes, with our earnest attempts at logic and debate. Our opponents get their power from doing dishonorable, anti-democratic things. This doesn't mean we shouldn't play fair if we can, but we have got to realize that we might have to set aside the rules we thought we were playing by and get some other game plan. Haven't they done that? In fact it kind of feels like Republicans are playing pro football. Democrats are playing badminton and they think they can go out on the gridiron and win... We'll be put into a coma on the first play. In fact, we're already in a coma. We've been down on the sidelines since this match started in 2000. It's like the worst, most unfair contest in history, and the game is allowed to go on even though there is no opposing team. The score is something like 87 billion to one. The situation certainly looks hopeless.
Is the left prepared to do all-out resistance? I don't think so. I don't think that we are competent to fight back in the way that is required to beat this cabal. I think that we will be run over.
A bright sunny picture here from Fiona, but more and more I sense that our dream is disintegrating, and that we will not win. Our country is in decline and we will be so much food for the global elite. They are going to eat the USA for lunch, like they do to "developing" countries. Except I don't think the developing countries have enough resources right now to satisfy the ravenous economic appetites of the global power elite. They don't have enough mansions and Rolls Royces yet. So they're adding more countries to their "Resolve to Ruin" list. We are on that list. I've been reading Project Censored (the top 25 censored news stories of 2002-2003), enough to scare any sensible person out of their wits. Particularly Greg Palast. His style makes complex issues easier to understand. Here's a short one about the World Bank and IMF that should make you nervous: 3rd World Austerity Policies: Coming Soon To a City Near You.
Have a wonderful day!
9:19:29 AM 
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