![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
napoleonherselfWe1 live in a country where our once-beloved Constitutional rights are being signed away one by one.
Our soldiers are continuing to pay with their lives so rich oil execs can get richer and we can keep filling the tanks of our vehicular penis compensators.
Pharmacists are allowed to refuse to dispense prescriptions they don't approve of, and yet still keep their jobs, even though it means they are NOT DOING THEIR JOB which is TO DISPENSE PEOPLE'S PRESCRIPTIONS.2
The Vice-President SHOOTS A MAN IN THE FACE while possibly DRUNK and the immediate party response is to MAKE JOKES ABOUT IT.3
AMERICAN CITIZENS are being IMPRISONED WITHOUT CHARGES OR TRIAL, which is apparently OKAY because they JUST MIGHT be "enemy combatants".4
And what's the big news story that they keep coming back to on the news here?
Some basketball coach down in Bloomington resigned.
WHAT. THE FUCK.
Indiana, you LOSE at EXISTENCE.
1. Where "we" is "Americans". Everyone else, you get a free pass from the SUCK.
2. I wonder if people who don't believe in using any modern medicine could get pharmacy jobs? That'd be sweet. Sit there reading a magazine all day; someone comes up to the window, just say "nope, sorry, it's against my beliefs to dispense whatever it is you want." Apparently that would be okay!
3. Has he even apologized for it yet? It's been the better part of a week. Taking responsibility is not the same thing; it's perfectly possible to say "yeah, I did it, it's my fault, and I'm not a bit sorry and would do it again in a heartbeat".
4. Keep in mind, when other countries imprison people without telling them why or giving them trials, it's never okay. But we're SPECIAL!
Our soldiers are continuing to pay with their lives so rich oil execs can get richer and we can keep filling the tanks of our vehicular penis compensators.
Pharmacists are allowed to refuse to dispense prescriptions they don't approve of, and yet still keep their jobs, even though it means they are NOT DOING THEIR JOB which is TO DISPENSE PEOPLE'S PRESCRIPTIONS.2
The Vice-President SHOOTS A MAN IN THE FACE while possibly DRUNK and the immediate party response is to MAKE JOKES ABOUT IT.3
AMERICAN CITIZENS are being IMPRISONED WITHOUT CHARGES OR TRIAL, which is apparently OKAY because they JUST MIGHT be "enemy combatants".4
And what's the big news story that they keep coming back to on the news here?
Some basketball coach down in Bloomington resigned.
WHAT. THE FUCK.
Indiana, you LOSE at EXISTENCE.
1. Where "we" is "Americans". Everyone else, you get a free pass from the SUCK.
2. I wonder if people who don't believe in using any modern medicine could get pharmacy jobs? That'd be sweet. Sit there reading a magazine all day; someone comes up to the window, just say "nope, sorry, it's against my beliefs to dispense whatever it is you want." Apparently that would be okay!
3. Has he even apologized for it yet? It's been the better part of a week. Taking responsibility is not the same thing; it's perfectly possible to say "yeah, I did it, it's my fault, and I'm not a bit sorry and would do it again in a heartbeat".
4. Keep in mind, when other countries imprison people without telling them why or giving them trials, it's never okay. But we're SPECIAL!
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2006-02-17 02:04 am (UTC)#3 he appoloziged for it, and no, one beer 3 hours before an event doesn't mean he was drunk.
if not for #2 sorry.
no subject
Date: 2006-02-17 04:02 am (UTC)There is also the matter of pharmacies in hospitals like the Catholic one down the road, where they won't give medicines or do procedures they don't like, but that gets into more gray areas of private business vs public moneys and blah blah blah. All that takes more thinking than I feel like doing right now.
He actually said "I'm sorry"? I poked around and could only find him saying "I am responsible" and "if there is blame it is mine" and stuff. And yeah, one beer != drunk, but first they said there was no alcohol served AT ALL, and then later amended it to say "okay so there was a beer at lunch leave us alone about it". That's kind of suspicious and makes one wonder whether it's REALLY the true story now, or whether they're going to change it again. Especially given that the cops were kept from investigating for the first half-day or so. I don't know what Cheney was doing during that time, but waiting to be able to pass a breathalyzer is one possibility!