Weeping and gnashing of teeth

In the meantime, let's not fall for that passive, national unity, all one nation, koombaya crap. They never did, why should we?

In the words of Joe Hill-- Don't mourn. Organize!

Several month ago the CEO of Exon/Mobil was on Charlie Rose (a PBS talking heads show) what was interesting about this guy was that he had an almost religious faith that technology would find more oil. That it was out there and all we had to do was make the correct investments to find it.

These people have their heads in the sand and they are going to take us with them. I have never been so despairing in my life. If you look at the history of warfare as a universal human behavior, in almost all cases the ultimate cause has been over access to a scarce but crucial resource.

Respectfully, I disagree. We can waste time and energy wailing and beating our collective breasts or we can suck it up, put our shoulders to the wheel and get on with the business of taking back our country. Four years will go by in the blink of an eye, time's a'wastin'!

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In the meantime, let's not fall for that passive, national unity, all one nation, koombaya crap. They never did, why should we?

I agree with you, blacksmithin, absolutely about the getting busy. I told myself and everyone else I know that all day yesterday (until they told me to please shut up -- and some didn't say please.)

But I'm not finished feeling sad and angry just yet. The loss is real and I'm still upset about it. I don't think of it as whining, although it's tempting to call it that. Depreciating myself, feeling angry and rushing into action are all tempting methods at a time like this. (These are three of my favorites.) But I think, after a night's sleep, I'll admit extreme disappointment and a sense of loss and a need to talk to others who feel the same.

This doesn't mean I'm not already plotting in my head for the next time. I'm more motivated than ever to stop the movement to force religious beliefs on those of us who do not agree.

But I think this isn't the thread for plotting. Maybe I'll start a new thread for that. And george and the other thread crashers can visit there. I don't think it's too much to ask that we have a thread for the purpose of consoling each other. But it is typical (I just have to say this, naughty me) that these religious fanatics think such activity as mourning and consolation are "childish." It's a fine example of exactly what we have to fight against for the next four years.

Thomas, Soz, FreeDuck and the others have said it very well already. Leave us alone here. We can argue on another thread.

Elizabeth Edwards has announced that she has breast cancer.

Not sure when she found out, but how heroic of her to continue as she did. Must have been a rather tough thing to keep up appearences, by both her and her husband.

Will go check out Joe's organize thread now.