Besides have a party, what will you do if - WHEN - we win in 2004?

[carols]

And a follow-up question - will you still stay engaged in politics? I know many of you were politically engaged long before S-election 2000, but there are a lot of newly awakened souls too. I am one of them, and I have been consumed by the deteriorating conditions here for the past three years. I'm maintaining 2 websites, the actions pages on another, I've organized and participated in protest, I am campaigning for the candidate of my choice...it has taken over a huge part of my life and I know many of us are in the same boat. I know it is critical that we STAY engaged because not doing so was what caused the fiasco we have today. Have any of you thought about what you will do WHEN we win? What causes will you champion? (I think we have to start taking back Congress, myself :-) )
Carol

[JailBush]

1. Once all the Republicans are behind bars, I'm turning my guns on the

Democrats and Green Party of Seattle. It will take generations to fix our public schools - and we can count no nothing but resistance from Democrats and Republicans alike. I'll never rest until Microsoft and the National Education Association have been reduced to smoldering craters.

There can be no real victory in 2004. The best we can hope for is a reprieve from George W. Bush - one that gives us a chance to implement some real reform.

[carols]

3. Good answer - we have big problems in Florida schools too

My kids don't even have text books they can take home in Geography class because there aren't enough to go around. And as for MicroSoft - off with their heads!
Carol

[JailBush]

5. I like you!

It's amazing how many idiots defend Microsoft because of Bill Gates' phony philanthropy. I live in Bill Gates' backyard, and I lost my job after he took over my school district. Not to mention the dirty tricks he played on me the first time I ran for public office. Bill Gates is not at all like the smiling nerd people see on TV.

I'll have lots more to say about textbooks and Bill Gates when I finish my new education reform website.

[LastKnight]

6. the school problems arent just local things

practicly every district in the nation has major problems, be it in one subject or another, and the one thing no school district can get enough of, funding. dont get me started on 'no child left behind' which puts advanced students at a disadvantage by not offering any courses to them. bush is the worst president so far to contribute to the dumbing-down of america with just that one program

oh and on your questions... donno what i'll do other than party, probably just rejoice that our nation has been saved, as for staying politically active? probably, im seriously looking at some places in polotics as my dream job.

-LK

[JailBush]

8. Of course it isn't just local.

Public education is the victim of an INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY - seriously. Many of the problems and corporate fads afflicting the U.S. - notably teacher bashing - are repeated in Canada, the UK and Australia. I knew global corporations were pushing inernational education "deform" before I finally saw an article in The Guardian that said as much. That article was a real eye opener, and I don't think I've ever seen a similar article anywhere.

George W. Bush is indeed the worst, but Bill Clinton's Goals 2000 was also sinister. Al Gore wrote the foreword to a bizarre book written by the late retired general turned derelict schools superintendent John Stanford - arguably the biggest abomination in the history of public education. Stanford was publicly supported by the Clintons and Colin Powell as he was dying.

The Education Mafia may be America's biggest crime syndicate.

[carols]

7. Please let me know when you have your website up and running

I'll link to it over at The Fallout Shelter.

I'll have to see if I can find the link, but I have a great one about what platform the presidential candidates are running on - most of the Dems are running Linux on Apache servers and have some astronomical number like 359 days of uptime. Bu$h is of course running on MicroSoft for an average of about 3 days of uptime.

And you are 100% correct - Bill Gates is a BIG TIME FAKE philanthropist!
Carol

[JailBush]

9. Here are some links:

My old education website - which focuses especially on the Seattle School District and includes a lot of generaly political stuff - is at http://www.geobop.com/education/. I encountered some technical problems while moving it to a Linux server, so some of the links may not work.

The new site will focus exclusively on education and is headquartered at http://www.edrevolt.org/ I'm also working on a new site focusing on just the Seattle School District.

Most of my Bill Gates stuff will be at http://www.freedomware.us/ All that's online at the moment is the home page.

I'll also have a lot of stuff about politics and education at Kids' Politix - http://www.politix.us - which I'm working on right now. I'm hoping I might get the first draft online in a few days.

Home Page for my political sites (also unfinished): http://www.rep5.org/

Home page for my general audience sites, including Kids' Politix: http://www.geobop.org/

Also, I'm a charter member of the National Association for the Prevention of Teacher Abuse. I think the URL is http://www.endteacherabuse.org (I wish they would have taken my advice and bought www.napta.org!)

[carols]

10. Linked your old site until the new one is up and running

Good material there! You are in our featured website on Emergency Broadcast News page. Scroll down - right hand side, "Featured websites".
:-)
Carol

[JailBush]

11. Holy cow, and I thought I was fast!

That's the quickest link I've ever received! If you want to add a really volatile link, check out my Jail4Bush website at http://www.jail4bush.org/ I'm woring on a revision, but it will probably be a few weeks before I can finish it.

Thanks for the links, and I'll link back to your sites, too - but probably not nearly as fast. I'm scrambling to repair some damaged sites and get my new sites online, so I haven't figured out my linking system yet. But I'm getting there!

[carols]

14. ROFL - I love this line...

"That’s precisely why I do not advocate the death penalty for the greatest traitor in American history; it’s too easy. George W. Bush deserves to suffer for his almost unbelievable crimes—from treason to espionage against the American people, breaking international treaties and fabricating lies in order to sell Americans on a pointless war. Let King George be an example for other evildoers. Since Bush is primarily a figurehead, I advocate sending thousands of corporate executives, Republicans and Democrats along with Bush to Guantanamo, Cuba, where they can spend the rest of their pathetic lives enduring a diet of bread and beans and ten-minute daily exercise breaks as they wither and die."

It's linked - same section :-)
Carol

[Scottie72]

2. I will be clebrating

on an 8 day cruise, that my father has put together for my Mothers 60th birthday. (I actually will be voting and then leaving for Florida. I plan to be there when the polls open at 6am) Hopefully by the time I reach South Florida some 15 - 16 hours later I will have found out that *insert Dem nominee here* has beat Bush!

[proud patriot]

4. Tell my son "We did It We got bush out of office"n/t

[chookie]

12. My Plans

First of all, I will spend the first week after victory bouncing around like the bird who was "Cuckoo for Coco Puffs!"

Then I will sleep in peace for a few days.

Then, it will be time to take down Rick Santorum (Fascist-PA), and we are already beginning the grassroots organization to do it.

Gettings a Dem back in the White House is just part of the battle.
We have to expose and discredit the Neo-Cons who hijacked the Republican party who wrecked such havod on our beloved nation and the world.

[salinen]

15. Here, here!

Yes, booting mcasssuit out will be only the beginning. Let's not become intoxicated too long. We will take back congress as well from these traitorous prostitutes.

[Endangered Specie]

13. I'll be collecting

my $20 my republicain friend bet me that shrub would win.

[brainshrub]

16. What I will do on Nov 4th in order:

1) Sob violent tears of joy.

2) Make wild love to my gf.

3) Get piss drunk and part all weekend.

4) Taunt the Freepers and Fascists in the Yahoo chat-rooms.

5) Start dancing on Dean's head to implement the reforms he promised.

[CSI Willows]

17. Hmmm...

Well, I will be having a party, of course. But my website will be very hard to update because there won't be (as many) conservatives out there to make fun of. I think the 2004 election will make or break my year. I'd probably be so happy I wouldn't need anything for Hanukah or X-Mas or my birthday, just the satisfaction that we're back.