Turning Left
Sep. 8th, 2004 04:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vovatI start out this entry with a recent quote from our beloved Vice President:
"It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again and we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States."
What a jerk. So terrorists are more likely to attack during a Democratic presidency than a Republican one? I somehow doubt that terrorists care that much about American party politics. John Edwards rightly pointed out that defense against terrorism "is not a Democratic or Republican issue and Dick Cheney and George Bush should know that." The Bush administration has taken an overly partisan approach to homeland security, and used the fear of terrorism to further their own agenda. Of course, I don't know how well John Kerry or any other potential future President would do at fighting terrorism, but I think Bush has made such a mess of things that he's definitely the "wrong choice."
On a lighter note, but still in the vein of annoying things, why do so many traffic lights at intersections where a lot of people turn left not have left-turn signals? I mean, how much extra money does it cost to put one of those on a light? It's annoying to have a wait for a whole bunch of people who are going straight.
I sometimes wish I could hibernate through the winter.
"It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again and we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States."
What a jerk. So terrorists are more likely to attack during a Democratic presidency than a Republican one? I somehow doubt that terrorists care that much about American party politics. John Edwards rightly pointed out that defense against terrorism "is not a Democratic or Republican issue and Dick Cheney and George Bush should know that." The Bush administration has taken an overly partisan approach to homeland security, and used the fear of terrorism to further their own agenda. Of course, I don't know how well John Kerry or any other potential future President would do at fighting terrorism, but I think Bush has made such a mess of things that he's definitely the "wrong choice."
On a lighter note, but still in the vein of annoying things, why do so many traffic lights at intersections where a lot of people turn left not have left-turn signals? I mean, how much extra money does it cost to put one of those on a light? It's annoying to have a wait for a whole bunch of people who are going straight.
I sometimes wish I could hibernate through the winter.
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Date: 2004-09-08 08:54 pm (UTC)maybe his point is that terrorists (wow, i almost wrote it "terrists"... freaking W) are republican?
i hate busy intersections without arrows, too. especially the real busy ones when you're still waiting and the light turns to yellow and to red and people are still going through it.
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Date: 2004-09-09 07:05 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-09-11 11:26 am (UTC)I tend to think that people who want the power of being in government are about the LAST people who should actually be governing.