everything is not froody right now

[theladyrose]

It suddenly struck me during dinner that we're going to be stuck with a conservative Supreme Court for the next twenty years or so because Rehnquist is retiring. Goodbye civil rights and liberties; I will miss you! I was horrified to hear that all of the state gay marriage bans passed; to be honest, I'm not too optimistic about the civil unions thing either. Can someone please explain to me why we keep denying homosexuals their Constitutional rights? I've been trying to understand this for ages, but it still doesn't make any sense to me. We're all human beings (unless there are some closet extraterrestrials out in the audience, whose identity cannot be easily confirmed by me); why the hell can't we always treat each other as such?

It suddenly struck me also that I might've offended more than one person with my previous comments earlier about liberals, and I apologize. I just dislike how people supported Kerry on the rather immature assumption that "anything is better than Bush." And I hate the Bush-Hitler comparisons; we are not talking about mass genocide here in the US. Saddam Hussein is more of an appropriate comparison with Hitler. Bush may be misguided in his actions, but I don't think it is his intention to purposely ruin the fate of America. But nevertheless, I'm deeply worried about what will be happening to this country these next few years. I hate to find out what's going to be added on the Patriot Act. Canada is looking lovelier than ever, but then again, I've always had a funny feeling that I'd live there someday.

I'm taking my driver's test tomorrow, and I'm really nervous because I'll probably forget to look over my shoulder when making a right turn or something. And I just know that the weather is going to be lousy. It actually hailed yesterday while I was driving home on 280. I've never seen cars move so slowly on any highway ever, but I've never been up to Lake Tahoe in the middle of winter, either.

The positive aspects of today: my grandmother did not have another stroke two days ago though she'll be in the hospital in HK for two more days. My veteran neighbor is not dying, though he's still in delicate condition. He was an army lieutenant who was seriously injured while on duty in Honduras two or three years ago and later became addicted to painkillers after his operation. He overdosed on them about a month ago and was in really critical condition for awhile, but he's doing better now. A specialist for his condition made a diagnosis today, but I didn't have a chance to talk to Jane Ellen, his mum and my neighbor, about it today. I hope that he's doing alright.

Bell choir is sounding lovely, too, and I'm ringing Sara tomorrow for good.

Comments

[horosha.livejournal.com]

Rehnquist is a conservative, so at least it's not going to be too bad starting out with. I can't really picture a world where everyone treats everyone else like a human being. I mean, intellectually I can, but it's a strange thing to picture-like a fourth dimension.

a comment on militant politics...

[(Anonymous)]

you think that because we (i) live in p.a., most people are liberal. you assume, or at least i do. i'm not saying that my neighborhood has the same kind of intolerance/whatever for conservatism that our school does, but i generally assumed that we were of an opinion.

isn't it funny that my car has been egged twice this week? we took down our kerry sign at the recommendation of a lady jogging by who said she'd had related problems, and we haven't been egged since.

two points for bush??... it's disturbing.

(tess)