Gibberings
Dad told me never to use XTREE when he wasn’t in the room.
August 19, 2008 ~ 11:04:19 PM * -07:00ST
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Log # 97
The End Times
My father writes to me:
If you got a ballot, sit down and vote now, please. If I don’t vote ahead of time, I forget to do it at all. I can’t believe those bastards actually got a measure on the ballot that would remove the estate tax from estates valued at over $2 million. And the proceeds from that tax go to state schools. How do they do it? Bill Gates’ father was on NPR this week speaking out against it. We can’t let them get away with it.
I finished my first calling stint with MoveOn dot Org. Here is the
comment I left with them:Dad gum this was a depressing experience. I got a young woman who said
her husband made all the political decisions in her household, then
proceeded to tell me that we were fighting Satan in Iraq and that the war
would be ‘without end’ and that Bush was doing the right thing. MoveOn
ought to have buttons saying [Too drunk to have an opinion] and [Illegal
alien, can't vote] and [Duh]. Out of the 34 calls I made I only got ONE
intelligent answer, a lady who had already voted by absentee ballot.But I have to say that that after I got used to it, it became a lot easier,
and I got over my reluctance. The MoveOn software was really good, and I
can start calling again anytime I want to. I think I will.
When a Vietnam veteran says that current politics are depressing, you know something is truly amiss. Go see Jesus Camp if you haven’t. I left the theater making plans to leave the country.
