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Warning, political. Yet partly funny!
Aug. 31st, 2006 11:11 amMostly I'm selfishly using all your friends pages to remind myself to add the get your war on webcomic to my webcomics bookmarks when I get back on my own computer. Muahahaha!
But this provides me a convenient opportunity-cum-kick-in-the-pants for a couple of political things I've been wanting to blog about, even though I mostly use my LJ as a fannish vehicle more than as a blog in the loaded sense that term has come to have.
Cut from here down, partly because I get ranty and long-winded, partly for those who get hives from political stuff; I'm hippie enough not to want to harsh anyone's buzz, man.
( Firstly, Iraq )
( On to Hurricane Katrina )
Speaking of which, there's no cut-text for Lebanon (or anything else) because I am currently all ranted out.2
( About my choice of icon )
Speaking of *that*, those who want something political they can feel (mostly -- he does explain in some detail which crap it was that drove him to change his mind) good about might check out this Apology From a Bush Voter. It made me feel better.4
1. Part of the reason I got so involved in following, and posting about, the Katrina disaster last year was that, as a disabled person myself, I was acutely aware of the logistical impossibility facing most physically disabled people in Katrina's path even if they wanted to evacuate, and I began looking through reports of what was happening with the specific intent of finding out how many such people were left to drown, starve, dehydrate, or die from lack of medical care or due to violence when most everyone who could get out did so. There still hasn't been near enough reportage in this regard, but as we all know, many people who physically could not walk out were indeed left to die.
2. FOR NOW.
3. Or, for those with no inclination to reproduce or raise children, other young people in our families or of our acquaintance, once a generation born after 2010 grows up.
4. Of course, it also helped motivate me to rant at length...
But this provides me a convenient opportunity-cum-kick-in-the-pants for a couple of political things I've been wanting to blog about, even though I mostly use my LJ as a fannish vehicle more than as a blog in the loaded sense that term has come to have.
Cut from here down, partly because I get ranty and long-winded, partly for those who get hives from political stuff; I'm hippie enough not to want to harsh anyone's buzz, man.
( Firstly, Iraq )
( On to Hurricane Katrina )
Speaking of which, there's no cut-text for Lebanon (or anything else) because I am currently all ranted out.2
( About my choice of icon )
Speaking of *that*, those who want something political they can feel (mostly -- he does explain in some detail which crap it was that drove him to change his mind) good about might check out this Apology From a Bush Voter. It made me feel better.4
1. Part of the reason I got so involved in following, and posting about, the Katrina disaster last year was that, as a disabled person myself, I was acutely aware of the logistical impossibility facing most physically disabled people in Katrina's path even if they wanted to evacuate, and I began looking through reports of what was happening with the specific intent of finding out how many such people were left to drown, starve, dehydrate, or die from lack of medical care or due to violence when most everyone who could get out did so. There still hasn't been near enough reportage in this regard, but as we all know, many people who physically could not walk out were indeed left to die.
2. FOR NOW.
3. Or, for those with no inclination to reproduce or raise children, other young people in our families or of our acquaintance, once a generation born after 2010 grows up.
4. Of course, it also helped motivate me to rant at length...
