Good grief.
Got a forward today proving that some people are completely incapable of avoiding that age-old fallacy of conflating Dubya and Jesus.
> This e-mail was written by someone in Enterprise. She is relaying a
> message
> told by an ABI officer who attends Ridgecrest Baptist Church in
> Enterprise. The officer was with President Bush when he visited.
> There is a man at Ridgecrest Baptist Church who is an ABI officer. He got
> up
> last night and told us about having the honor of being paired with one of
> the secret service men who were with President Bush Saturday in
> Enterprise.
> He said when they started walking through the rubble at the school they
> came
> upon four students waiting for the President. They were in an area where
> on
> the floor there was a emblem that read EHS Class of 65. When the President
> approached the students he asked which one of you is the president (I
> assume
> president of the student body)? One of the girls kind of raised her hand
> and
> said I am then she hung her head and started to cry. President Bush
> wrapped
> his arms around her and the other three joined them. Barry, the ABI
> officer
> said President Bush started to cry and said "It's tough being the
> president,
> isn't it." Barry said he talked with them a little longer. He said he was
> very close to the President but couldn't hear every word that was spoken,
> but he could tell that the President was quoting scripture. After a while
> the President started walking again and said he wanted the emblem
> preserved
> whatever it took. The Mayor then spoke up and said they would take care of
> it and President Bush turned to him and said "I was speaking to the
> President."
> I bet that the Mayor closed his mouth then!!! And then President Bush said
> "by the way where are my children"? The four students who were lagging
> behind came running up to him and walked the rest of the way over to the
> church with him. The media were sent to a different area Barry said. When
> President Bush got inside the church to meet with the families of those
> that
> had been killed the secret serviceman turned to Barry and said this is as
> far as we go. This is his time with them. Barry then asked him if the
> President was protected and the secret servicemen said yes, he is
> protected,
> but not by us. Barry could hardly contain himself as he was telling us
> this
> last night. He said he told the secret service man that he wished everyone
> could witness what he just did then they could see that the most powerful
> man in the United States was just another human being, a father, a
> comforter, a friend and had true compassion for these people. However the
> media does not portrait that, big surprise!
Interestingly, I seem to be more or less over rage fatigue. I think it's because I'm not a liberal--I recognise governmental shenanigans as absolutely nothing other than exactly what one should expect. Really, when you start matching your expectations to likelihoods, you get a lot less disappointed. Seriously--the people in charge HAVE to be the biggest bastards, because that's how you win. Really, those bastards have been killing people indiscriminately for 5000 years to get ahead... squelching a little speech here and there or imprisoning 1/3rd of the males in a single ethnic group because they are systematically punished more harshly for the same offenses is just to be expected. It's different from liberal outrage fatigue--it isn't a feeling of fatigue, but of foresight and expectation. Yeah, my senses of morality and ethics throb sympathetically a lot, but, really, the only new thing under the sun is whatever we come up with day-to-day to ensure that each century is worse than the one that preceded it.
> This e-mail was written by someone in Enterprise. She is relaying a
> message
> told by an ABI officer who attends Ridgecrest Baptist Church in
> Enterprise. The officer was with President Bush when he visited.
> There is a man at Ridgecrest Baptist Church who is an ABI officer. He got
> up
> last night and told us about having the honor of being paired with one of
> the secret service men who were with President Bush Saturday in
> Enterprise.
> He said when they started walking through the rubble at the school they
> came
> upon four students waiting for the President. They were in an area where
> on
> the floor there was a emblem that read EHS Class of 65. When the President
> approached the students he asked which one of you is the president (I
> assume
> president of the student body)? One of the girls kind of raised her hand
> and
> said I am then she hung her head and started to cry. President Bush
> wrapped
> his arms around her and the other three joined them. Barry, the ABI
> officer
> said President Bush started to cry and said "It's tough being the
> president,
> isn't it." Barry said he talked with them a little longer. He said he was
> very close to the President but couldn't hear every word that was spoken,
> but he could tell that the President was quoting scripture. After a while
> the President started walking again and said he wanted the emblem
> preserved
> whatever it took. The Mayor then spoke up and said they would take care of
> it and President Bush turned to him and said "I was speaking to the
> President."
> I bet that the Mayor closed his mouth then!!! And then President Bush said
> "by the way where are my children"? The four students who were lagging
> behind came running up to him and walked the rest of the way over to the
> church with him. The media were sent to a different area Barry said. When
> President Bush got inside the church to meet with the families of those
> that
> had been killed the secret serviceman turned to Barry and said this is as
> far as we go. This is his time with them. Barry then asked him if the
> President was protected and the secret servicemen said yes, he is
> protected,
> but not by us. Barry could hardly contain himself as he was telling us
> this
> last night. He said he told the secret service man that he wished everyone
> could witness what he just did then they could see that the most powerful
> man in the United States was just another human being, a father, a
> comforter, a friend and had true compassion for these people. However the
> media does not portrait that, big surprise!
Interestingly, I seem to be more or less over rage fatigue. I think it's because I'm not a liberal--I recognise governmental shenanigans as absolutely nothing other than exactly what one should expect. Really, when you start matching your expectations to likelihoods, you get a lot less disappointed. Seriously--the people in charge HAVE to be the biggest bastards, because that's how you win. Really, those bastards have been killing people indiscriminately for 5000 years to get ahead... squelching a little speech here and there or imprisoning 1/3rd of the males in a single ethnic group because they are systematically punished more harshly for the same offenses is just to be expected. It's different from liberal outrage fatigue--it isn't a feeling of fatigue, but of foresight and expectation. Yeah, my senses of morality and ethics throb sympathetically a lot, but, really, the only new thing under the sun is whatever we come up with day-to-day to ensure that each century is worse than the one that preceded it.