[clue-talk] Whiny Bitches

[dennisjperkins at comcast.net]

I find that I am usually voting against someone, or maybe I should say for the "least objectionable choice".  I don't think I have ever voted for a winning president yet.  That doesn't mean that I voted Democrat or Republican.


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "David L. Willson" <DLWillson at TheGeek.NU>
> The first quote I want in my memoirs is "I hate whiny bitches."
> 
> I have found that there is a group of people that find fault in everything.  
> Nothing is
> grand, glorious, and praise-worthy.  Everything is buggered some way.  Can't 
> stand 'em.
> 
> I have found that there is another, largely intersecting group of people that 
> describe
> problems in grinding detail and never suggest solutions to those problems.  
> Can't stand
> them, too.
> 
> I have found that there is a small group of people that always propose a 
> solution, a
> beginning to a solution, a thought for how to gain more information, or a 
> resource that
> ought to be consulted, whenever they observe a problem.  It seems to be 
> compulsive for
> them.  Whenever they see a problem, they seek a solution, or help toward a 
> solution,
> until they find it, and then they publicize what they've found, along with the 
> problem
> it solves.
> 
> I have found another small group, which largely intersects with those 
> problem-solvers,
> that sees things shining in the muck of every day life, like stones in the 
> bottom of a
> stream, and they're ever calling me over to see the shiny things they've found.
> 
> I like myself best when I'm able and willing to appreciate the shiny, able and 
> willing
> to contribute to the solution, and not so involved in my myriad of problems that 
> I just
> haven't the time to solve one of them, or appreciate the shiny thing embedded in 
> the muck.
> 
> Hm.  My prose is weak today, but you get the idea.
> 
> People learn best when they're told, and able to hear, what to ~do~, and we 
> learn very
> poorly what ~not~ to do.  Teachers, say, "stay sober", not "don't drink", or 
> "work hard"
> not "don't slack", or "vote for the guy who will accomplish what you want 
> accomplished"
> not "don't vote for that other fellow, (s)he sucks".
> 
> The problem I face today is that none of our candidates will fight my fight, so 
> I have
> to choose from tailings.  The fellow that will accomplish most of what I want 
> done in
> terms of establishing honorable behavior and social responsibility as norms, is 
> dead-set
> against protecting the unborn.  I can't vote pro-slavery, no matter how much I 
> agree
> with the rest of the man's alignment.  The only thing I find attractive in 
> McCain is his
> commitment to victory before withdrawal from Iraq, but he has yet to define the
> conditions of victory, so, like Bush, I distrust his ability and willingness to 
> seek
> closure for that situation.  Hillary...  Dear Lord.  I dislike Hillary as much 
> as I
> dislike her husband, and maybe more.  Maybe I need to read her writing, as I 
> have
> Obama's, so that I can understand her, and know what she says for herself, but I 
> haven't
> yet, and I see her as a political power monster with no true vision for our 
> betterment.
>  So, this time, I will abstain from voting, because the guy I would have voted 
> for
> enthusiastically is out, and the guy I might have voted for, I can't endorse 
> because of
> the depth of his betrayal to my own primary cause.  bleah.  The "gem in the 
> muck" here
> is that Obama probably will win, and we will be several steps closer to 
> realizing how
> stupid it is to divide ourselves, one from another, over conditions of 
> conception and
> birth over which we have no control and should exert none, like skin-color, sex, 
> and
> location.
> 
> David Willson
> 
> abolish abortion
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