First VisualAngst Rant
This subject that a biggie for me. Freedom and what few rights and protections we have left under the bill of rights. Here we go again, those who would decide our best interests based on their hypocritical values are attacking our rights and our freedom. No, I am not talking about terrorists, and the cowards who brainwash and use them, I am talking about our government, Primarily Bush and all his fascist pals. They are using the terrorists as the latest lame reason to strip away our freedom. They prey on the public's fears, and exploit the common persons poor education to offer safety in exchange for freedom, while in reality offer an illusion of safety in return for true safety. To those who actually study or studied history, and understand government there is only bad outcomes when freedom is surrendered for any reason, but for "safety" worst of all. It was not all that long ago the entire free world paid the price for the empty security Hitler offered Germans if they gave him their free will to decide right and wrong for them. It was even more recently demonstrated again in Cambodia, and so many other countries. We already lost so much to the "war on drugs" by allowing our fourth amendment rights to almost cease to exist for nothing. Well not nothing, as our prison population increased %1000, and billions of our tax dollars got redistributed to people that most of us wouldn't willingly let within 100 feet of our children, wives, girlfriends, etc. The only thing you should "just say no" to, is the policies our current administration wants to shove down our throats. I hate to point out the obvious, but a shit sandwich is a shit sandwich, no matter what you call it, and it will taste like shit, no matter how many people tell you otherwise. Bad enough that we got stuck with Bush and Co. under normal circumstances, but about when people were starting to understand what these hypocritical, thieving liars intended to do, while still saying that they were not doing it, along comes Al Queda, pulling this monstrous cowardly act, which if not bad enough on it's own, provided a smokescreen and "reasons" for Bush to hide behind and then justify his lies. I live in Texas, so I knew what his being president would mean. This is a man who's leadership turned Texas into a state who leads the nation in executions, prison population, ranks at the bottom in education, child services of any sort, mental health care, justice of any sort for anyone not able to hire a real lawyer, and yet people still believe when he says he cares. Newsflash folks, the only children he cares about at all, and that isn't much are his and his friends kids. He supports the law for everyone, except him and his family and friends. If his daughter were poor and black, Mexican, hell not one of his waspy circle, he would have been the first screaming to throw her in jail. His youthful mistakes are the same things he preaches zero tolerance about for the rest of us. He has no respect for anything, but lining the pockets of his friends and himself. Wake up, pay attention, and speak out, or one day you could be the next victim of his type of safety, security, or values.
what a relief to finally finish a new piece, esp one that i have been trying to complete for months...these last few months have been frustrating in so many ways...having to devote so much of my time and myself to getting myself and my g/f through the trauma of selling her ranch...and then having several graphics that i can visualize the completed lokk as clear as day, and having no clue how to get it there....just fumbling about and frustrating myself totally which only made dealing with everything else harder...times like these last few months i wish that every person in my life that proved their total lack of comprehehsion of how difficult being bipolar makes life by uttering any one of the hundreds of things people tell you thinking it helps when at best they only annoy and often increase those lovely feelings of being about 1/2 step out of synch with the rest of the world...sometimes i am amazed that the suicide rate for bipolar people is only %25...seems like it should be around %50 or more...i know a large reason i am still walking around is the i am not into following trends...i almost never like in any way or have an urge to participate in popular or hot things....fuck, maybe i am really out of synch with the rest of the world
TANSTAAFL
*sigh*....been ages since i had time to log on to the net and do more than delete spam in my hotmail account....bleah....craziness abounds on the homefront due to preparing the house to be listed and showable...be a few more weeks b4 things slow down unfortunately....can't any new graphics finished either, which is driving me nuts....got two might have done in a week if i can find the time and inspiration....hoping i do
rant time:
wtf is up with all this flamewar bs in the forums....seems that got to wade through tons of replys submitted consisting of little or no more than an insult to the original poster or a reply. If you don't like someone else opinion, behavior, art, etc that is your right. If you want to offer a dissenting opinion, also your right, if done intelligently at least in my opinion...however this "you suck" or "this sucks"(insert any of the many variations in the quotes), especially when off topic or at best marginally related is spam, and no more useful or desirable as any other spam we are bombarded with...surely there must be something better for them to waste their time doing