Trying To Move On In Many Ways
Nov. 4th, 2004 08:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eggwardsIt's a cool 46 degrees here. Finally some fall. Mom actually called it winter the other day.
Last night I got about three-quarters to half way through a post about my feelings about where Kerry's campaign failed, and Bush's succeeded, and you know, I couldn't finish it. I just got so tired of the subject that I had to stop writing and said I'd pick it up this morning, and now I can't get into it. What I wanted to do is do one post looking back, look at what happened, and then make a new one asking, "where do we go, from here?". Maybe this has been covered by enough other people now. I'm not sure I'll do it, or maybe I'll just save it for the weekend when I can think more clearly about it.
That being said, I'm not planning to leave the US over Bush being elected. It's not that dire, it's just tougher. Hopefully the Democrats, and the Moderate Republicans can finally get shaken up enough to start making some waves and kick out the people who've placed them in this position. Take a page out of the Christian Coalitions' books, and get people started in local elections and start growing them up into higher positions of leadership. You need fresh voices, now.
One thing that annoyed me yesterday was the use of the word "mandate" by conservative radio. sorry, wining the presidency by one state, and the popular vote 52%-48 is not a mandate. It's a majority. It's 4%. That's not that far of a divide, and still, more than half of the country didn't vote at all. Yes, I heard Bush say he needed the support of all Americans, that's a good thing, and you radio pundits can shut up, crying about him saying that. Your gloating when there is no reason to gloat, just makes you look stupid. I remember the day before how worried you were that Kerry would win, and how much you were pounding on the president that he had run a horrible campaign, and now you're saying that he shouldn't try to reach out to the nearly half of the electorate that voted for his opponent? Screw You!
The Christian Coalition has already started calling for the Federal Marriage Amendment again, saying that the vote was a mandate. No, it was a get-out the vote trick - why don't you understand that you were played? When will you understand that as much as you want your agenda, that you, and the black community, the latinos, the gays, and everyone else will be used by the politicians and the political machine to keep them in power. Good luck, but here's one piece of legislation that should stay right where it was left last session.
OK STOP!
Let's move on today.
My sister came into town yesterday for a job interview. How odd would it be if she came back to Houston as I'm trying to get to Dallas? She started looking, quietly for a new position with a new firm a couple of weeks ago, and darn it if she hasn't been on three interviews already. I haven't had a call since this summer. Very frustrating.
I guess there's a call for architects these days. She stands to do very well, and really doesn't have to move from Dallas, but the Houston firm is run by people she knows, so she's giving them the benefit of the interview. Lord knows Ed won't move for long, so it wouldn't be a permanent thing.
So I got a few minutes to talk to her, driving her back from the interview site, in a building close to my office to the airport, and then I went to a bookstore trying to look for a book to help me with more information about the job search. I decided to pick up What Color Is Your Parachute?, the long-standing job search book. We'll see if it helps.
Still, I found out something at work that won't help me, I will likely get a cost of living raise this year. Just making it that much harder to take a new job with lower pay and fewer vacation days. Man. I know that there won't be the dream job out there, but it's going to be hard to find something good, I guess.
Still, the search goes on.
Last night I got about three-quarters to half way through a post about my feelings about where Kerry's campaign failed, and Bush's succeeded, and you know, I couldn't finish it. I just got so tired of the subject that I had to stop writing and said I'd pick it up this morning, and now I can't get into it. What I wanted to do is do one post looking back, look at what happened, and then make a new one asking, "where do we go, from here?". Maybe this has been covered by enough other people now. I'm not sure I'll do it, or maybe I'll just save it for the weekend when I can think more clearly about it.
That being said, I'm not planning to leave the US over Bush being elected. It's not that dire, it's just tougher. Hopefully the Democrats, and the Moderate Republicans can finally get shaken up enough to start making some waves and kick out the people who've placed them in this position. Take a page out of the Christian Coalitions' books, and get people started in local elections and start growing them up into higher positions of leadership. You need fresh voices, now.
One thing that annoyed me yesterday was the use of the word "mandate" by conservative radio. sorry, wining the presidency by one state, and the popular vote 52%-48 is not a mandate. It's a majority. It's 4%. That's not that far of a divide, and still, more than half of the country didn't vote at all. Yes, I heard Bush say he needed the support of all Americans, that's a good thing, and you radio pundits can shut up, crying about him saying that. Your gloating when there is no reason to gloat, just makes you look stupid. I remember the day before how worried you were that Kerry would win, and how much you were pounding on the president that he had run a horrible campaign, and now you're saying that he shouldn't try to reach out to the nearly half of the electorate that voted for his opponent? Screw You!
The Christian Coalition has already started calling for the Federal Marriage Amendment again, saying that the vote was a mandate. No, it was a get-out the vote trick - why don't you understand that you were played? When will you understand that as much as you want your agenda, that you, and the black community, the latinos, the gays, and everyone else will be used by the politicians and the political machine to keep them in power. Good luck, but here's one piece of legislation that should stay right where it was left last session.
OK STOP!
Let's move on today.
My sister came into town yesterday for a job interview. How odd would it be if she came back to Houston as I'm trying to get to Dallas? She started looking, quietly for a new position with a new firm a couple of weeks ago, and darn it if she hasn't been on three interviews already. I haven't had a call since this summer. Very frustrating.
I guess there's a call for architects these days. She stands to do very well, and really doesn't have to move from Dallas, but the Houston firm is run by people she knows, so she's giving them the benefit of the interview. Lord knows Ed won't move for long, so it wouldn't be a permanent thing.
So I got a few minutes to talk to her, driving her back from the interview site, in a building close to my office to the airport, and then I went to a bookstore trying to look for a book to help me with more information about the job search. I decided to pick up What Color Is Your Parachute?, the long-standing job search book. We'll see if it helps.
Still, I found out something at work that won't help me, I will likely get a cost of living raise this year. Just making it that much harder to take a new job with lower pay and fewer vacation days. Man. I know that there won't be the dream job out there, but it's going to be hard to find something good, I guess.
Still, the search goes on.
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Date: 2004-11-04 06:11 am (UTC)*HUGS*
It's not like we weren't thinking about the move before, but this definitely doesn't give us a reason to stay.
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Date: 2004-11-04 07:04 am (UTC)Now, Michael, you're right...we should move on, but with the mind that we should start mobilizing against this rising force. People like yourself, moderate republicans, are especially important to that cause. If we can all stand together and say that we will take no more of this, perhaps we can truly make a difference.
*hugs* of all sorts to you.
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Date: 2004-11-04 08:56 am (UTC)No kidding -- and that state almost certainly being a stolen one (actually, at least 3 states were probably stolen, thanks Diebold!). But forget not that these are the crooks who acted as if they had a "mandate" four years ago, when they lost the popular vote and had to steal a state's electoral votes to get into power.
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Date: 2004-11-04 11:32 am (UTC)As far as I see, the division in this country is getting bigger. Will made a point that middle ground is slowly going away. We can't even argue anymore because what the other thinks is so radical to the other.
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Date: 2004-11-04 05:10 pm (UTC)Late last year the Liberals had a scandal involving questionable ad campaigns. There were endictments all around but the old Prime Minister managed to dodge the bullet by finding scape-goats. He of course resigned from politics and his replacement had to try to win the government with such a tarnished rep. Quite a circus here.
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Date: 2004-11-06 08:38 pm (UTC)I know about the Bloc. That's an interesting group, as is the whole Quebec situation in general, and something that always piques my curiosity. Montreal is the only Canadian place I've visited so far!
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Date: 2004-11-06 09:15 pm (UTC)