Wild Deuce, in the comments:

As long as a party can always count on your vote, they will NEVER be obligated to listen to or respect your wishes.

Continuing to vote for Republicans simply because they are not Democrats, is like the battered wife choosing her abusive husband over the rapist because the husband at least says, “I love you.” There are other options.

I happened across the following quote the other day, not long after my Appleseed posts:

“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” -Thomas Paine

Fitting, I thought, both for that topic and my whole philosophy on blogging in general.

The Inconvenience, playing Civilization: “Democracy is BULLSHIT!”
Me: “Aside from the obvious, why?”
TI: “Because. If I play as a democracy, I have a ton of money and technical advantages and stuff, but I can’t wage war.”
Me: “So…Why not just wage defensive wars when need be?”
TI: “Because I had an easy target and I wanted to take it out and then commit to peace!”
Me: “…………………….”

…on the Abigail standing picture, this one would have won:

Comment by Ride Fast

2009-07-02 07:40:03

“Having taken out the knit horsey with the yellow hunting club, the natural huntress prepares to pack her prize for the long crawl.”

And now the exploring begins! What a cutie.

Good one, RF! :)

While discussing the topic of bedding an M-14 stock:

The Inconvenience: “Remember that guy I met at the gun show?”
Me: “Which one?”
The Inconvenience: “The weird one.”
Me: “……………..”
The Inconvenience: “That didn’t really narrow it down, did it?”

The Girl Child and I just walked over to The Sister’s house. On the way, I passed a car parked at an apartment complex sporting this bumper sticker:

It’s a Che Guevara quote: “The true revolutionary is guided by feelings of love.”

I didn’t have a piece of paper, and I didn’t want to paraphrase, so when I got to The Sister’s house I looked up a couple of quotes I’m familiar with and wrote them down. I’ll be leaving this note on the car when I pass back by:

“I carried out a very summary inquiry and then the peasant Aristidio was executed. …It is not possible to tolerate even the suspicion of treason.” – Che Guevara 1956

“Hatred [is] an element of the struggle. …A relentless hatred of the enemy, impelling us over and beyond the natural limitations that man is heir to and transforming him into an effective, violent, selective and cold kiling machine. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy. We must carry the war into every corner the enemy happens to carry it: to his home, to his centres of entertainment; a total war.” – Che Guevara, “Message to the Tricontinental”

FEELING THE LOVE? STUDY HISTORY, not BUMPER STICKERS.
<3, A Revolutionary

This is better than the time I left a note because someone had a bumper sticker that said “It doesn’t take a war to power my bicycle.” The bumper sticker was on their truck.

The Inconvenience: “Don’t let him in! He’ll puke a noodle on your knee!”

EDITED TO ADD:

QOTD: Saturday morning afternoon:

The Inconvenience: “Babe? Can you get me some Advil and a glass of water?”

Soooooomebody’s getting oooooold…

The Inconvenience, on possible career paths if law school doesn’t pan out:

“I could start a museum. We need a real museum here. A museum about like… kickin’ ass.”

Grocery store PA announcement: “And be sure to check out our delicious California navel oranges, full of nutritious vitamin C!”
The Sister: “More like full of SOCIALISM.”

Mike and I were sitting here working on his résumé. I was jotting down some notes on changes he needed to make.

Me (trying to remember): “Humvee… That’s… H…M…M…W…V?”
Mike: “Yeah.”
Me (now trying to decode): “Highly mobile… multi-wheeled vehicle?”
Mike: “Yup.”
Me: *makes wow, did they really need an acronym for that? face*
Mike: “I know. It’s like… as opposed to what, Highly Mobile Combat Unicycle?”

Bwaha. In totally unrelated news, Changeling finally came to Pullman! Off to the cinema we go. And it’s snowing. A lot.