I may be an old woman but they ain`t seen nothin` yet. [View All]

PLEASE NOTE: This may be a good time to use your ignore feature, because I`m going to let it rip.


After more than six decades on this planet, I`m about to begin a one-woman Spectacle Program. Forget the knitted potholder routine, I`m going to erect the biggest lawn sign I can safely install, fire off as many letters to editors as I can handle, call Bernie Sanders, Jim Jeffords and Patrick Leahy. When that`s done, I`m going to build a giant peace symbol out of wire and Christmas lights, rebuild my anti-war sign and head over to the town next door for an anti-Bush rally tomorrow night. I`m going to upgrade my volunteer hours at Democratic Headquarters and sign every single anti-Bush petition I come across. I`m going to cut back on my groceries between now and the mid-term elections and send $10.00 a week to whichever Democratic candidate I think needs the most help. My coin jar will get emptied and the contents sent to the ACLU. Best of all, I`ll wear my NO IRAQ WAR button 24/7. I`ll sleep with it. I`ll wear it to the laundramat. I`ll take the trash out in it. I`ll display it proudly for all Bush supporters to read...."Here, feast your eyes on this. There`s another one on my other coat."

After listening to Johnathan Turley on KO last night, I got a chill. To be honest, I put my face in my hands and cried. The fascists in power (that`s right, fascists) may be celebrating The Military Commissions Act of 2006 along with their horde of submissive Gumby Dolls, but I`m not going to sit idly by and take it. Let Norah O`Donnell cackle on about weak-kneed Democrats. Let Wolf Blitzer babble on about Madonna and her adoption. Let Joe Scarborough caw about "Hollyweird." My boots are made for walking and I`ll not stop until I`ve done every damn thing I can.

I`m going to devise an imaginary "X-it-out" and transfer it to my remote. Tony Snow on? Mute. Bush stumbling onto yet another stage? Mute. Ken Melhmann bragging about the R`s big up-and-coming win? Mute. The relief is going to be my new best friend. I do not want to hear any more from these liars.

I have been so very sad about the horrific mess in Iraq, our shredded Constitution and a brazillion other Bush-related issues. That sadness has now turned to red, hot anger and I don`t care who knows it. A decade from now, I don`t want to be one of those American citizens in the history books. You know, the ones who nodded approvingly as their government destroyed every last principle the country was founded on.