[Vision2020] Why I didn't vote for Brady

[Tom Hansen]

No offense intended, at all, towards (I didn't even think it existed) the
Liberal Arts Department of MIT, but quoting Shakespeare's "Macbeth" from an
MIT website seems just a tad ironic.

 

Just a thought.

 

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

 

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
sideways, chocolate in one hand, a drink in the other, body thoroughly used
up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO. What a ride!'"

  _____  

From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Ted Moffett
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 10:19 PM
To: debismith at moscow.com
Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Why I didn't vote for Brady

 

 

Debi et. al.

 

"Which way to the egress?"

 

I could attempt an answer... I rehearsed, with poetic inspiration and lofty,
passionate ideals, philosophical dissection and illumination, scientific
precision and wonderment, the complexities of political and economic
systems, the universals and particulars of spiritual struggle, the Eros of
human compassion and empathy, the unthinkable and horrifying depths of evil,
cruelty and deception, and... 

 

"The Earth is our mother, and we are all her children, down to the most
infinitesimal living being...We live or die insofar as we respect this
truth"

 

This ridiculous, laughable, simpleton, childlike statement will be dismissed
my most...It suggests more than I am capable of articulating.  But if all
that this statement implies was "respected," this might be an answer to your
question, which for some reason felt I should answer seriously, and simply,
however silly my response... 

 

Despite my all too human need to feel I have the human condition, our place
in the universe, figured out, that I can make sense of it all, really, I
have no clue!  

 

Which way to the egress, indeed!

 

http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/macbeth/macbeth.5.5.html

 

MACBETH 

She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day 
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player 
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing. 


--------

Ted Moffett
 

On 1/14/07, debismith at moscow.com <debismith at moscow.com> wrote: 

Ted, very true. Anyone who believes his or her own bull can lie with a
straight face, dissemble
until dawn, and give you a Hale-Fellow-Well-Met firm handshake while picking
your pocket. 
Politicians have to believe their own BS to get elected. They also have to
be able to baffle with
their BS all those voters who will fall for a con.

I met both these men when they were candidates--I knew Brady wouldn't get
elected because 
he was a real person. While being near Butch raised the hair on the back of
my neck, I looked
at the folks around him and knew they were believing everything he said and
inventing wonders
he hadn't said, and I knew he was gonna get elected. People love to be lied
to. Just look at 
those (fewer than six months ago!) Bushites---they know he's a damn liar,
but they don't care.
They will invent their own story to justify his lies because they can't
admit they were conned.

Also keep in mind that the easiest person to con is a con artist...they do
believe there is a 
quick fix, a magic bean, a real get-rich-quick scheme. Bushites, and
Otterists, and
ChickenHawks, oh my....Barnum was right! Which way to the egress?

Debi R-S

 

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