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catsittingstillOkay, this is such an amusing idea I need to go with it too.
A Letter To The President
Dear "President" Bush,
I don't want to be protected from gay marriage or pornography, thanks very much.
There are some things I *would* like to be protected from, though, as long as you're in the mood. By great good fortune, some of them are very close at hand for you and should be no trouble at all to eliminate.
I would like to be protected from:
Election fraud, and in particular electronic voting machines a teenager could hack and which are produced by a company whose owner has sworn to deliver his state to the Republican party.
John Ashcroft and The Patriot Act and especially Patriot II.
Packing of the US courts with hard line conservative judges.
Dick Cheny, Paul Wolfowitcz, Donald Rumsfeld and the Project for a New American Century. And especially from hasty decisions to invade countries that haven't attacked us and aren't going to. And *especially* from even hastier decisions to lie about the need for the above.
The two top Administration officials who exposed a CIA operative. (What are you messing around with secretaries and janitors in the State Department for? Pick up the phone and call your *top* staffers and ask them point blank.)
The proposal to use "smart" stamps to track the senders of every single piece of personal mail.
Now as I said--these are all close at hand and should be no problem. So next week, I'd like you to get started on protecting me from
People who talk on the phone while driving.
"Gift cards" whose money leaks out.
Telemarketers
The John Lennon song "Woman"
As a bit of truth-in-advertising that I expect you don't hear very much I'm just going to take this moment to tell you that even if you do protect me from all these things I probably won't vote for you. I'm sorry, but you've had your chance to demonstrate your ability to serve the country as President and you've succeded beyond my wildest nightmares.
Yours, respectful of the office, -Cat Faber
I wasn't sure how many trick-or-treaters we were going to get last night--we wound up getting maybe twenty in little trickles of twos and threes. One interesting demographic was that nearly all of them arrived by car. Okay, New Market is a small and spread out town, but it makes me wonder if more and more people are using their cars for *every* bit of travel.
Some of the kids arrived by bike (about 4). Most of these were not wearing costumes. I gave them some candy anyway, after first asking them what they were going as... but maybe next year I won't. I feel kind of cheated. I give out candy--that's my part of the deal as a grownup. But the kids' part of the deal is that they wear costumes. If you can't afford to buy one, it's perfectly okay with me to make a mask out of construction paper and string and pin a towel around your neck---but these kids didn't even *try*.
Hmpf.
A Letter To The President
Dear "President" Bush,
I don't want to be protected from gay marriage or pornography, thanks very much.
There are some things I *would* like to be protected from, though, as long as you're in the mood. By great good fortune, some of them are very close at hand for you and should be no trouble at all to eliminate.
I would like to be protected from:
Election fraud, and in particular electronic voting machines a teenager could hack and which are produced by a company whose owner has sworn to deliver his state to the Republican party.
John Ashcroft and The Patriot Act and especially Patriot II.
Packing of the US courts with hard line conservative judges.
Dick Cheny, Paul Wolfowitcz, Donald Rumsfeld and the Project for a New American Century. And especially from hasty decisions to invade countries that haven't attacked us and aren't going to. And *especially* from even hastier decisions to lie about the need for the above.
The two top Administration officials who exposed a CIA operative. (What are you messing around with secretaries and janitors in the State Department for? Pick up the phone and call your *top* staffers and ask them point blank.)
The proposal to use "smart" stamps to track the senders of every single piece of personal mail.
Now as I said--these are all close at hand and should be no problem. So next week, I'd like you to get started on protecting me from
People who talk on the phone while driving.
"Gift cards" whose money leaks out.
Telemarketers
The John Lennon song "Woman"
As a bit of truth-in-advertising that I expect you don't hear very much I'm just going to take this moment to tell you that even if you do protect me from all these things I probably won't vote for you. I'm sorry, but you've had your chance to demonstrate your ability to serve the country as President and you've succeded beyond my wildest nightmares.
Yours, respectful of the office, -Cat Faber
I wasn't sure how many trick-or-treaters we were going to get last night--we wound up getting maybe twenty in little trickles of twos and threes. One interesting demographic was that nearly all of them arrived by car. Okay, New Market is a small and spread out town, but it makes me wonder if more and more people are using their cars for *every* bit of travel.
Some of the kids arrived by bike (about 4). Most of these were not wearing costumes. I gave them some candy anyway, after first asking them what they were going as... but maybe next year I won't. I feel kind of cheated. I give out candy--that's my part of the deal as a grownup. But the kids' part of the deal is that they wear costumes. If you can't afford to buy one, it's perfectly okay with me to make a mask out of construction paper and string and pin a towel around your neck---but these kids didn't even *try*.
Hmpf.
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Date: 2003-11-01 07:55 pm (UTC)Rowan was dressed in a cheap pirate costume that Grandma (wisely) insisted on buying because she knew I wouldn't have time to make one as I had planned. The look was greatly enhanced however by his chainmail coif that he wore. Hee. (Ed had brought chainmail for me to wear as Joan of Arc but - let's just say that the shirt was definitely not "one size fits all" especially on my post-two pregnancies body. sigh) Corwin had a very cute "off the rack" dinosaur costume which he put on so we could snap a few pictures and then wore out the door and then before we even got to the first house proceeded to practically scream to have it taken off. Sigh. So since I wasn't wearing a costume anyway I took to sort of hanging it off my head and pointing it out to people saying things like "see - wouldn't he look cute if he'd wear this?" Sosenna also refused to wear her cow costume.
Now - as a fellow admirer of halloween costumes I appreciate your viewpoint and I imagine the kids you were talking about don't fit this category anyway but - trust me - sometimes you don't want to force your child to wear a costume if it means they won't have any fun. However I think if a teenager came to my door not in costume I'd at least say something admonishing to them.
My brother used to go out trick or treating in high school and my mom (who was a bit taken aback at the thought of her 6'5 son knocking on people's doors with his friends) offered to host a party instead thus was born a tradition for years of an annual halloween billiards tournement and party. But yes - they usually wore costumes. :-)
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Date: 2003-11-03 05:11 am (UTC)