Florida Afterglow
Home now from W's brothers state. Home to Ohio. Hard to believe that I could be so glad to get back to a state that is ever so slowly turning into Mississippi but after a good taste of Fla. that is still how I feel.
Here are three anecdotal pieces from our trip to Fla. that made me want to kiss the ground on return to the Akron-Canton Airport.
Number one. Traveling north on Route 41 from Delbor Wiggans State Park towards Cape Coral there is a very large billboard on the east side of the highway the likes of which I haven't seen (yet) in northeast Ohio. On the lit billboard is what appears to be a 6-12 month old crawling, diapered baby. A large telephone number to call on the right bottom and four large block lettered words on the top right. Those words?
"Please don't abort me."
Now to each their own and all that. And of course I believe in totally free expression, however, that billboard made me ask myself who are these people and what in the fuck are they really trying to accomplish?
Number two. Perhaps my favorite. Wife and I walked 1 block from our hotel to a Subway for a late afternoon sandwich. After we were in line I noticed a white SUV backing over, yes over, a concrete parking curb from an adjacent parking lot thusly presenting anyone inside the Subway with a clear view of the SUV's rear window. On said window the owner had placed two lines of block letters. Not a decal. Not a bumpersticker type of thing. The owner obviously felt passionate about what those two lines said because he had customized the letters. What did those lines say?
Line 1: "Reagan made us strong"
Line 2: "Bush will keep us that way"
My reaction? The same as with the billboard. Who are these people and what in the fuck are they trying to accomplish?
Number three: As mentioned in my other post the local paper The News-Press appeared to have a right bent (big fucking surprise). However, late in the week even I was a tad surprised in seeing a full page ad advocating, if you can call it that, against the service workers union. "Don't be trapped" read the ad with pictures of large cockroaches on the page. The ad was saying if a person joined the union, much like a trapped cockroach, they couldn't get out. A full page, large block lettered ad against the service workers union. Now set aside the obvious comparison of service workers to cockroaches which is a story in itself, what kind of people are these and what the fuck are they trying to accomplish?
Intimidating and silencing opponents comes to mind. Much as the "Support the Troops" magnetic decals program (saw a bunch of those too) was intended to pre-empt any opposition to invading and killing brown people in foreign countries and takiing their stuff, so too these three examples. When ideaology holds positions which are faith based and devoid of facts this method of communication must be employed. Everyone who understands the facts knows that women do not abort 6 month old babies, Reagan and Bush did not make us strong and unions don't trap people like cockroaches but that doesn't matter to those who would silence all opposition.
Nice place to visit but wouldn't want to live there? Nope, not really even a nice place to visit. Fuck 'em
Home now from W's brothers state. Home to Ohio. Hard to believe that I could be so glad to get back to a state that is ever so slowly turning into Mississippi but after a good taste of Fla. that is still how I feel.
Here are three anecdotal pieces from our trip to Fla. that made me want to kiss the ground on return to the Akron-Canton Airport.
Number one. Traveling north on Route 41 from Delbor Wiggans State Park towards Cape Coral there is a very large billboard on the east side of the highway the likes of which I haven't seen (yet) in northeast Ohio. On the lit billboard is what appears to be a 6-12 month old crawling, diapered baby. A large telephone number to call on the right bottom and four large block lettered words on the top right. Those words?
"Please don't abort me."
Now to each their own and all that. And of course I believe in totally free expression, however, that billboard made me ask myself who are these people and what in the fuck are they really trying to accomplish?
Number two. Perhaps my favorite. Wife and I walked 1 block from our hotel to a Subway for a late afternoon sandwich. After we were in line I noticed a white SUV backing over, yes over, a concrete parking curb from an adjacent parking lot thusly presenting anyone inside the Subway with a clear view of the SUV's rear window. On said window the owner had placed two lines of block letters. Not a decal. Not a bumpersticker type of thing. The owner obviously felt passionate about what those two lines said because he had customized the letters. What did those lines say?
Line 1: "Reagan made us strong"
Line 2: "Bush will keep us that way"
My reaction? The same as with the billboard. Who are these people and what in the fuck are they trying to accomplish?
Number three: As mentioned in my other post the local paper The News-Press appeared to have a right bent (big fucking surprise). However, late in the week even I was a tad surprised in seeing a full page ad advocating, if you can call it that, against the service workers union. "Don't be trapped" read the ad with pictures of large cockroaches on the page. The ad was saying if a person joined the union, much like a trapped cockroach, they couldn't get out. A full page, large block lettered ad against the service workers union. Now set aside the obvious comparison of service workers to cockroaches which is a story in itself, what kind of people are these and what the fuck are they trying to accomplish?
Intimidating and silencing opponents comes to mind. Much as the "Support the Troops" magnetic decals program (saw a bunch of those too) was intended to pre-empt any opposition to invading and killing brown people in foreign countries and takiing their stuff, so too these three examples. When ideaology holds positions which are faith based and devoid of facts this method of communication must be employed. Everyone who understands the facts knows that women do not abort 6 month old babies, Reagan and Bush did not make us strong and unions don't trap people like cockroaches but that doesn't matter to those who would silence all opposition.
Nice place to visit but wouldn't want to live there? Nope, not really even a nice place to visit. Fuck 'em
posted by bluester | 9:18 AM
1 Comments:
i was in florida w/ my newsy friend from the FLORIDA TODAY about three weeks ago. Fla has the toothless backwater hillbilly, the Yukon driving suburb mommies with two kids in back, the homosexual tax attorney pulling down $200,000 plus a year and dressing like Carmen Miranda every other Saturday, the "I think I'm a cowboy, cuz i got a pickup and belt buckle, just my HOA at my condo won't let me have a hound-dog", and they are ALL voting Republican because the PR machine has convinced all of them they are getting something in return.
Greed powers humans. An altruistic belief of: helping each other will better the country or world, resulting in a better place in the long run ,though I may not see the end results in my lifetime, Is NO way to get votes.
Lie to them, tell them the will get money, and give them a little taste with a check mailed to them as a reward for having voted for you. The future will always seem good if you just say "everything will be all right" over and over and over. You are not judged by your inderect actions, only the most direct straight line behaviors are atributed to the do-er.
People only care about their offspring in the most direct sense: ie. they are drowning, a dog is biting them, they are hungry. Not in long term abstracts like pollution, or social security, "If I can get little Johnny a new XBOX 360 with my tax return, he'll be just fine in 50 years."
I hate Florida too, but I think the Republicans have tapped into an essence of our being (we are after all animals, and yes animals do have greed, it's means instantanious survival, though in humans we have the ability to take it to the Nth level) and really capitalized. It isn't just florida it is the whole US and soon the world.(look at china, a repressive regime, brutal corrupt officials, no freedom of expression [speach or otherwise], thousands arrested and disappeared [murdered] every year for words they have spoken. But, it's all good because they have a rising middle class, a booming economy, status symbol cars for citizens to own and drive. The U.S. and China will have an evolutionary convergence.)
The only way Dems can use it is to remake themselves into Rove-ian Republicans. So, brush up on your linguistics, clean out the extra space in the garage for the third or fourth SUV, and start selling .
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