The fox and the scorpion

[Timbuk3]

2004 is a make or break year, for me.

You've probably heard the story of the fox and the scorpion:

It seems that a scorpion wanted to cross a river, but scorpions can't swim. He saw a fox nearby and asked the fox for a ride across the river, but the fox refused. "You would sting me and I would die," said the fox.

"But you will be carrying me across the river, and if I sting you then I would also drown and die," reasoned the scorpion.

The fox was convinced. The scorpion jumped on his nose and the fox began swimming across the river. Halfway across, however, the scorpion stung the fox on his nose. As the fox began losing strength and slipping beneath the river's surface, he cried out to the scorpion, "Now we will both die! Why did you sting me?"

He answered: "Because I am a scorpion, and that's what I do. You knew that before you agreed to carry me across."

I can understand Bush lying to start a war (or going along and being a mouthpiece for the liars of PNAC, if you prefer that storyline), I can understand those who have a vested interest in the military industrial complex bankrupting the government, and I can understand politicians using fear to intimidate the American people into doing their bidding like dumb slaves.

What I won't be able to understand is if the American people allow the scorpion to sting them, again.

Of course, there are differences...

The Fox AGREED to give the scorpion a ride without supreme court intervention.

The Fox KNEW that the scorpion was a venomous killer because the scorpion didn't advertise itself as a "compassionate conservative".

If the scorpion is re-elected he's already stashed enough of our cash to not worry about drowning, himself. Only WE will go under...