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...is seeming to be more and more impossible!
This past Friday and Saturday, Chicaazul and I were celebrating our son's 6th birthday. On Friday after school we took him to Governor's, which for the 99% of the country isn't from Maine is like a Friendly's with a bakery theme, and had the waitresses sing Happy birthday to him. On Saturday, we had cake, ice cream and PRESENTS!
On Saturday evening, while ChicaAzul and one of her friends went to a pre-arranged comedy show, I took our son to the movies to see "Ice Age Meltdown".
During the previews, I saw the trailer of an upcoming movie called "HOOT". The premise is how the "new kid" in school is befriended by a boy and girl, and they take up the cause of owls who are endangered by developers. The trailer ends with the 3 kids, who look to be about 13 or 14, standing in front of the bulldozer as the developer yells "What can YOU do about it?".
It amazes me that even on one of my son's and my "MEN'S NIGHT OUT" events, I was confronted by a sign of the malignant influence of this administration and their ass licking apologists in the media.
Seeing that shot of 3 kids standing up for what they believe in (yes, in a fictional work, I know) reminded me of times in the past when American children were taught that 1 person can make a difference and most people mentored their kids to stand up for their beliefs and principles.
What are our leaders CONSTANTLY preaching to us now? I saw a DUer post a cartoon that compared FDR's "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" to bush's "Be afraid, be very afraid!" line of bullshit. One recent outrage is Government talking heads inciting panic on the morning "news" shows telling us to put tuna, powdered milk and bottled water under our beds without a single challenging question from a "news anchor", including that space cadet Hannah Storm on CBS morning news saying NOTHING when an idiot woman advised keeping candles for the time that there is no electricity and almost immediately reminding us to keep plenty of DVDs handy to keep the kids occupied! Maybe they can watch Sponge Bob, who is funny, but an incredible IDIOT.
This is the world my son is growing up in.
When I was his age we learned about people like Rosa Parks, who believed that one person can make a difference. We watched Journalists like Walter Cronkite who had the courage to stand up and say that our Vietnam war policy was a failure. In 1974 we saw a VERY conservative Republican congressman named Laurence Hogan from Maryland take a stand against the most corrupt president (to that time) of his own party in the House Impeachment hearings of the Rodino committee.
My son is not learning to be afraid of his own shadow. He is learning this to stand on his own 2 feet and to think for himself. He is learning this because his mother and I are teaching him this. What about all those people who buy into this fear mongering? What are they teaching their kids?
I am going to be 51 in less than 3 months. I am roughly in the middle of the baby boom generation. When I look at the future, I see a HUGE job that our generation has to do to reverse the truly and monumentally FUCKED UP thinking that we've allowed to be perpetrated on our kids for the last 5+ years and have nearly 3 years left to counter. In this, we know that the media will not only be useless, but almost certainly malignant.
But you know what? Fuck the administration and double fuck their accomplices in the media.
I was raised to believe that 1 person can make a difference, 1 person at a time. That 1 person will be, for ChicaAzul and I, our son. Nobody will convince me that I need to cringe under my bed in fear. NOT BY ONE DAMN LONG SIGHT!
Anyway, thanks for reading my Monday morning rant.
PEACE!
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