The Icon Faerie

Election day. Woohoo. ::faltering whistles and kazoos::

I don't like politicians. Don't like them, don't trust them.

Why do humans feel the need to screw each other over into the point of oblivion? The Christian in me says its the original sin, Eve ate that damned apple and boom. The scientist in me says that some people are just bad, same as some are good. The idealist in me says that people are not bad, but are flawed.

To: George W. Bush
From: Liz
Re: Stop being a fuckwitted imbecile.

Mr. Bush, I supported you in the 2000 election. I'm not sure why, perhaps I was too scared of my freshman geography teacher to disagree with him. Either way, I supported you, so STOP BEING A MORON AND RUN OUR FUCKING COUNTRY LIKE AN ADULT.

No love,
Liz

P.S. Start another war on my birthday? Heads will roll.

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To: penny_clear; lucid_h2o
From: Me.
Re: Argh

Go away.

A little love,
Me

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To: Me
From: Myself
Re: SQ Summit

Stop being such a fucking chicken. Take the bulls by the balls and TALK dammit.

No love if you don't do something soon,
Me

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To: Katie
From: Me
Re: Can I kill them, please?

No, Katie, you may NOT kill everyone.

Love,
Liz

I Am The Nation
by Otto Whittaker

I was born on July 4, 1776, and the Declaration of Independence is my birth certificate. The bloodlines of the world run in my veins, because I offered freedom to the oppressed. I am many things and many people. I am the nation.

I am 250 million living souls -- and the ghost of millions who have lived and died for me. I am Nathan Hale and Paul Revere. I stood at Lexington and fired the shot heard around the world. I am Washington, Jefferson and Patrick Henry. I am John Paul Jones, the Green Mountain Boys and Davy Crockett. I am Lee and Grant and Abe Lincoln.

I remember the Alamo, the Maine and Pearl Harbor. When freedom called, I answered and stayed until it was over, over there. I left my heroic dead in Flanders Field, on the rock of Corregidor, on the bleak slopes of Korea and in the steaming jungle of Vietnam.

I am the Brooklyn Bridge, the wheat lands of Kansas and the granite hills of Vermont. I am the coal fields of the Virginias and Pennsylvania, the fertile lands of the West, the Golden Gate and the Grand Canyon. I am Independence Hall, the Monitor and the Merrimac.

I am big. I sprawl from the Atlantic to the Pacific -- my arms reach out to embrace Alaska and Hawaii. I am more than five million farms. I am forest, field, mountain and desert. I am quiet villages -- and cities that never sleep.

You can look at me and see Ben Franklin walking down the streets of Philadelphia with his bread loaf under his arm. You can see Betsy Ross with her needle. You can see the lights of Christmas and hear the strains of "Auld Lang Syne" as the calendar turns.

I am Babe Ruth and the World Series. I am 110,000 schools and colleges and 330,000 churches where my people worship God as they think best. I am a ballot dropped into a box, the roar of a crowd in a stadium and the voice of a choir in a cathedral. I am an editorial in a newspaper and a letter to a congressman.

I am Eli Whitney and Stephen Foster. I am Tom Edison, Albert Einstein and Billy Graham. I am Horace Greeley, Will Rogers and the Wright Brothers. I am George Washington Carver, Jonas Salk and Martin Luther King Jr.

I am Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman and Thomas Paine.

Yes, I am the nation, and these are the things that I am. I was conceived in freedom and, God willing, in freedom I will spend the rest of my days.

May I possess always the integrity, the courage and the strength to keep myself unshackled, to remain a citadel of freedom and a beacon of hope to the world.

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Of course, they forgot to mention that we're also Timothy McVeigh, Richard Nixon, Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold, Jerry Falwell, the Brady Bunch, and big companies that use overseas child labor because its cheaper. Oh well, you can't have everything, I guess. Take the good with the bad.

Hope you all have a good 4th, even if you're not American. Go drink some tea (hot or otherwise) and blow a few fingertips off with firecrackers. :P