can't....speak

yeah, the voice is pretty much gone, folks. i think that justifies an entire day spent watching movies, right?
you are so wise...
dust and i are watching "hijacking catastrophe," another documentary-type thing that will just make the average joe/jane pretty angry and generally disgusted.
"i'm a war prezdent.....war on my mind..." gross. this makes me very excited to just escape into a movie theater.
last night while watching the first half of this movie, i asked dustin what he thought would happen if bush was re-elected. neither one of us thinks this will happen given the unity against bush.... but if suddenly, say in mid-october, osama is found or there is another catastrophic attack on america, well, let's just say neither one of us will be too surprised. nothing makes a country rally around its "leaders" like victory/catastrophe.

let's look at some things that really tick me off:

--if clinton had flown timothy mcveigh's family out of the country after the oklahoma city bombing, what would the republicans have done to him?
--if clinton had been a deserter during the vietnam instead of an admitted draft dodger, what would the republicans say about him?
--if rush limbaugh put out a movie, would people call him "anti-american," as they have about michael moore?

i'll bet that george w. busy would be a great neighbor; he'd grab our newspapers for us when we were out of town, he'd let us have that cup of sugar when we were short, he'd lend us the snowblower -- hell, he'd probably snowblow for us -- probably great with simple humor at bbqs and campfires and try to get us to go camping even though we didn't like camping...
why can't he just be a neighbor? do you think he's happy w/what is going on? do you think he has a clue what his dad's friends have gotten him into? or is he smarter than he lets on?

this i just said to dustin:
"now you have me blogging about this stuff..."
dustin responded with a slight smile of victory.

today is my first day of health/dental/vision insurance since....january? and even then i only had it for a day or two before i was laid off. no office/er/hospital copays. $3 prescription copay. hell, i'll be at the doctor's for a papercut, simply b/c i can.