Ooooo, I got 'em back GOOD!

[Oeditpus Rex]

I got the "One ticked off New Jersey housewife" right-wing spam today — the one that goes, "'Are we fighting a war on terror or aren't we? Was it or was it not started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001? <snip> And I'm supposed to care that a copy of the Koran was 'desecrated' when an overworked American soldier kicked it or got it wet?...Well, I don't. I don't care at all. I'll start caring when Osama bin Laden turns himself in and repents for incinerating all those innocent people on 9/11." Etc. etc. etc.

The sender was She Who Took My Virginity, who tracked me down on MySpace a few months ago and, upon seeing my religious preference listed there as "atheist" said to me, "You don't mean that, do you??"

So, I sent this to everyone on the list, many of them friends and family of SWTMV:


This was actually written not by "a housewife from New Jersey," but by Doug Patton, a right-wing hack associated with Talon News, the now-defunct (and then-bogus) "news" site that was also responsible for Jeff Gannon, aka Jim Guckert, the male prostitute-turned-White House "correspondent." It first appeared two and a half years ago at gopusa.com, which created Talon News and whose stated mission is "to spread the conservative message throughout America."

Always check your sources. They'll tell you a lot.

Here's something written about 33 years ago that I think has a much more powerful and appropriate message. Some of you on this list may remember it. (I'm quoting from memory, but I don't think more than a word or two may be wrong.)

One morning while I was feeling just swell
I got a letter in the mail
The letter was from Uncle Sam
He was sending me to Viet Nam
So I hopped onto the military truck,
Wishing me the best of luck
Now I lie here on the ground
From my body passes not a single sound
Lying down in bloody pain
Now who am I to blame?

The author was one (SWTMV's brother). He was 12 at the time.



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