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Well, the other day I finished my first short story in nearly two years. Did I mention that?
And it is slam time, so yay poetry.
I finished my work with the company yesterday, so I have the next two days off (excepting the toddler, of course). So what I mean is, the next two days I am only Mom, Housekeeper, Wife and Cook, etc.
Scarlett's never heard the Star-Spangled Banner. I was explaining to her what an anthem is, and she didn't know we a) had a national anthem or b) that it was the formerly listed song. I sang it for her only to confirm that, "Nope, never heard of it."
Betcha she's heard God Bless America though. Thanks Bush.
Additionally, I told her yesterday about the little fiasco that happened when I was around her age. When Bush Sr went to Australia waving the peace sign. A little later I was talking to her about how some people internationally think they should get to vote for our president. She thought for a minute and said, "If there were two guys running for president, and one guy was really bad but no one knew it yet, and he never made the peace sign, and the other guy was the rightful president chosen by God, but he made the peace sign all the time, I bet people in Australia might accidently vote for the wrong guy."
This was pretty cute, actually, but my reason for bringing it up is the whole 'chosen by God' thing. That shit pisses me off (in general, not at my eight-year-old, obviously).
It's part of what's wrong with the retarted cowboy we've got in office right now. I'm not Christian, and it bugs me when my daughter talks about God (only because it's a continuous reminder of how her upbringing to this point has been out of my hands). But even if I did support the Christian agenda, I would have no ridiculous ideas about God putting the man in office. Wasn't that part of the point of our nation's government? To have a head of state that was not placed there by God or by blood, but by thinking men?
Yet how can a child think differently if not taught better, when our president himself spouts that vile garbage?
In blood w/luv,
qj
And it is slam time, so yay poetry.
I finished my work with the company yesterday, so I have the next two days off (excepting the toddler, of course). So what I mean is, the next two days I am only Mom, Housekeeper, Wife and Cook, etc.
Scarlett's never heard the Star-Spangled Banner. I was explaining to her what an anthem is, and she didn't know we a) had a national anthem or b) that it was the formerly listed song. I sang it for her only to confirm that, "Nope, never heard of it."
Betcha she's heard God Bless America though. Thanks Bush.
Additionally, I told her yesterday about the little fiasco that happened when I was around her age. When Bush Sr went to Australia waving the peace sign. A little later I was talking to her about how some people internationally think they should get to vote for our president. She thought for a minute and said, "If there were two guys running for president, and one guy was really bad but no one knew it yet, and he never made the peace sign, and the other guy was the rightful president chosen by God, but he made the peace sign all the time, I bet people in Australia might accidently vote for the wrong guy."
This was pretty cute, actually, but my reason for bringing it up is the whole 'chosen by God' thing. That shit pisses me off (in general, not at my eight-year-old, obviously).
It's part of what's wrong with the retarted cowboy we've got in office right now. I'm not Christian, and it bugs me when my daughter talks about God (only because it's a continuous reminder of how her upbringing to this point has been out of my hands). But even if I did support the Christian agenda, I would have no ridiculous ideas about God putting the man in office. Wasn't that part of the point of our nation's government? To have a head of state that was not placed there by God or by blood, but by thinking men?
Yet how can a child think differently if not taught better, when our president himself spouts that vile garbage?
In blood w/luv,
qj