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Sep. 17th, 2009 12:32 pmAm currently struggling to rewrite the scene in "Freebird" between Liz and her mom. I don't think Liz's voluntary estrangement from her family is particularly convincing with her Athabaskan heritage; I'm not saying it's impossible, of course, but I don't think someone as apparently happy and well-balanced as Liz would be as distant from her parents as I originally wrote her. (If she were white, yes, I can see it, culturally speaking. Native, no.) So I'm trying to indicate more warmth between her and her mother. And I'm also trying to avoid pinning the vague political references down to any particular election cycle or even identifying where in the election process Gretchen is currently, because I don't want to sidetrack onto a subplot about Gretchen trying to get elected; I just want to indicate that she's in politics and for some dumb reason I used it as the lead-in to this scene. HARD.
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I am also struggling with the urge to sign the Oklahoma Citizen's Proclamation For Morality as "God". I wonder how long it would take to be deleted. (Their basic point is apparently that the current economic downturn is caused by the moral decay of the nation. Obviously abortion, pornography, divorce and same-sex marriage -- these are specifically listed -- will inevitably lead to a recession! This is perfectly obvious, if you have the IQ of a fruitbat.)
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In other news, Texan Tea Party protesters in DC are now protesting the overcrowded subway and insisting that more trains should have been available for their use. Their Rep. is all huffy about the government's failure to provide plenty of publicly funded trains for the protesters; of course, he vetoed a bill back in July that would have provided more money for the DC subway system.
Government spending, I guess, is bad as long as it's not for something that you yourself need, right now, at this very moment. Of course the rub is that you don't know in advance what you're going to need. But it's still bad right up until the point that you suddenly realize that you do need it, at which point it's the government's fault for not already having it ready and waiting for you. (I noticed the reference to "elderly veterans in wheelchairs" in the WSJ post ... any guesses on how many of those vets are accepting benefits from the government?)
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I am also struggling with the urge to sign the Oklahoma Citizen's Proclamation For Morality as "God". I wonder how long it would take to be deleted. (Their basic point is apparently that the current economic downturn is caused by the moral decay of the nation. Obviously abortion, pornography, divorce and same-sex marriage -- these are specifically listed -- will inevitably lead to a recession! This is perfectly obvious, if you have the IQ of a fruitbat.)
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In other news, Texan Tea Party protesters in DC are now protesting the overcrowded subway and insisting that more trains should have been available for their use. Their Rep. is all huffy about the government's failure to provide plenty of publicly funded trains for the protesters; of course, he vetoed a bill back in July that would have provided more money for the DC subway system.
Government spending, I guess, is bad as long as it's not for something that you yourself need, right now, at this very moment. Of course the rub is that you don't know in advance what you're going to need. But it's still bad right up until the point that you suddenly realize that you do need it, at which point it's the government's fault for not already having it ready and waiting for you. (I noticed the reference to "elderly veterans in wheelchairs" in the WSJ post ... any guesses on how many of those vets are accepting benefits from the government?)