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Moving Leftward.
Jul. 12th, 2004 08:33 amI'm starting off great. I just microwaved the air in the device as the frozen sausage biscuits sat there thawing on the counter.
The last two days I spent cleaning out my parents house. We'd lived there since 1989, and I was realizing that we has stored a ton of things we should have thrown out the last time we moved. There was actually a good deal lost years ago when Dad made a bad business decision, and much of my toys and other things that were in storage were lost, but we had plenty of things still in the current house.
One of the things they still had was my (and later Laura's) baby crib. Given that this was bought about 37 years ago, it doesn't really stand up to the safety standards today. I asked why they kept it, and Mom said they she held onto it for our kids. Sigh. Mom's just coming to grips that it's unlikely I will ever have a child. It's not that I think I would be bad at raising a kid, or that I wouldn't want to, but I'm not going to (adopt) a child just to do so. I won't do it without a partner that would want to, and I probably never will, because I'm getting a little old to do it. I'd rather not be 60-something getting their son or daughter ready for the prom.
I think my mother really wants to be a grandparent. Unfortunately I think it's more to keep up with her peers than to actually be for the child. It kind of reminds me of Edwina Monsoon on Ab Fab thrilled that Saff is going to have a baby so she can show it around.
I'm also finding a bigger divide between me and my parents on this years election. They can't see past the homeland security thing. My parents live in a bedroom community and are much less likely to have any worries about a terrorist attack than I do living in the city, but everything hinges on that one issue. The Dems don't seem to give much lip service to the issue, which means they think a Democratic president would leave us vulnerable to attack. I keep telling them that there are many other good issues this year and they should think beyond that.
I'm trying to tell them that the current leadership of the Republican party has been taken over by such religious right people like James Dobson and Jerry Falwell who are out to create a theocracy. Mom said she didn't see it. There's a blind eye being turned by people who are being scared to death here, where they can't even see what's happening.
I could have, but didn't go into the attack on me, and my friends by this party. The words said by Rick Santorum and company that outright attack us, and divide the nation. This will be a topic for another time. I'm going slow with them, but their seeing a change in my politics, while they stay put. It's going to take some time.
I left mad. Not at them so much, but that our country has gotten to this state of disrepair, and so few are doing anything about it. People are scared so much that they can't see further, or understand that the path their on is harming everyone. There are other ways.
I'm starting to believe that the current holder of the whitehouse keys is the anit-christ. If he tries to delay the election...lord help the man. Sad enough that he can't say "homosexual", "gay" or "lesbian". If he did, I think he'd grow horns.
In other news. I saw the premiere of the 4400 on USA. It's good, worth a look folks.
The last two days I spent cleaning out my parents house. We'd lived there since 1989, and I was realizing that we has stored a ton of things we should have thrown out the last time we moved. There was actually a good deal lost years ago when Dad made a bad business decision, and much of my toys and other things that were in storage were lost, but we had plenty of things still in the current house.
One of the things they still had was my (and later Laura's) baby crib. Given that this was bought about 37 years ago, it doesn't really stand up to the safety standards today. I asked why they kept it, and Mom said they she held onto it for our kids. Sigh. Mom's just coming to grips that it's unlikely I will ever have a child. It's not that I think I would be bad at raising a kid, or that I wouldn't want to, but I'm not going to (adopt) a child just to do so. I won't do it without a partner that would want to, and I probably never will, because I'm getting a little old to do it. I'd rather not be 60-something getting their son or daughter ready for the prom.
I think my mother really wants to be a grandparent. Unfortunately I think it's more to keep up with her peers than to actually be for the child. It kind of reminds me of Edwina Monsoon on Ab Fab thrilled that Saff is going to have a baby so she can show it around.
I'm also finding a bigger divide between me and my parents on this years election. They can't see past the homeland security thing. My parents live in a bedroom community and are much less likely to have any worries about a terrorist attack than I do living in the city, but everything hinges on that one issue. The Dems don't seem to give much lip service to the issue, which means they think a Democratic president would leave us vulnerable to attack. I keep telling them that there are many other good issues this year and they should think beyond that.
I'm trying to tell them that the current leadership of the Republican party has been taken over by such religious right people like James Dobson and Jerry Falwell who are out to create a theocracy. Mom said she didn't see it. There's a blind eye being turned by people who are being scared to death here, where they can't even see what's happening.
I could have, but didn't go into the attack on me, and my friends by this party. The words said by Rick Santorum and company that outright attack us, and divide the nation. This will be a topic for another time. I'm going slow with them, but their seeing a change in my politics, while they stay put. It's going to take some time.
I left mad. Not at them so much, but that our country has gotten to this state of disrepair, and so few are doing anything about it. People are scared so much that they can't see further, or understand that the path their on is harming everyone. There are other ways.
I'm starting to believe that the current holder of the whitehouse keys is the anit-christ. If he tries to delay the election...lord help the man. Sad enough that he can't say "homosexual", "gay" or "lesbian". If he did, I think he'd grow horns.
In other news. I saw the premiere of the 4400 on USA. It's good, worth a look folks.
