Good evening!
Is it even possible for it to be any hotter here in New England. WTF!!! A place that can receive up to 8 inches of snow should never get to 100 degrees in the summer. This truly is a 4 season state.
So I am weaseling a bit of time just to give everyone an update on Ursula. She is finally out of ICU. She has had the breathing tubes removed and is eating solid food. Yet she is still bed bound. Currently, Hubby is saying everyone believes she will be coming home sometime next week. Yeah. That whole I will hear about not visiting her later thing is closing in fast. Wonderful. Out f-ing standing!
What I think I hate most about her condition is that everyone has nothing bad to say about her. It's like every ill dandelion seed that she spread via the wind crashed and burned only 2 inches away from the plant. Am I the only one who remembers the vile nature of this woman? Will her eulogy be comparable to Princess Diana's or Mother Theresa's? Does that officially make me the wicked one? I couldn't believe all the wonderful "memories" people are reminiscing on. It's like I entered the twilight zone. Whatever.
So I have decided that I hate liberals. Seriously, everyone one I've met in this state whines about everything: paying state tax, the price of gas, plastic, necessities should be free, war is wrong, etc. First of, I think people are seriously using the term "liberal" wrong. It is use to define some one's character. For most people that use it as characteristic, they should just change it to the word "stupid" because most of these yahoos are just not thinking. C'mon. No state tax? How the fuck do you pay for things then? There should be tax. The reason we can't afford shit now is because we keep lowering taxes. I for one would be willing to pay higher taxes to take care of our country. You know, health care, Social Security, Disability, Retirement, National Defense, Education. The "necessities."
War. The kinda had a good idea, but fucked it in the ass with nonsense. Chaos theory. If there is no war, then there cannot be peace. It's relative. Just like with out pain there's no pleasure. Wars change things that would not change on their own. It is a necessary evil. Sorry. Think of it as Darwinism. If there is nothing to fight for then what do you live for?
Let's just be real. Freedom isn't free. You get what you pay for. Stop whining and save all that energy for something worthwhile.
Have a great night!
Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reforms.
The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions, yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
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Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must pay for all they get. If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others.
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Frederick Douglass
The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions, yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
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Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must pay for all they get. If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others.
______________________
Frederick Douglass
From an address on West India Emancipation, August 4, 1857.
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