"You can't always get what you want..."

But if you try sometime, you just might find... you get with what you need.

I have been listening to election tweets since before it was officially announced. I have kept quite quiet and opinion less because I like my Tweeple and do not wish to offend anyone. I don't feel that is what Twitter is about. I am certainly not going to get all "up in someones face" just because I don't agree with their political views. They are entitled to their opinion and some of my best friends are of hum.. humm.. "another party".
But on the eve of the election I just wanted to have my say. All at once and all in one place. First I can't have what I want. What I want is a conservative party with Jack Layton, or someone with his charisma, as the leader. I am not a big fan of Harper as a man, but I have to say I like M.I. even less.
I am not a party person. I have voted for different leaders of the "big 3" at different times over the course of my long voting career. My vote changes with the times and I was even partially responsible for Bob Rae's fiasco.
With the end of my job approaching and a hopefully short life of abject poverty (Employment Insurance) looming in my future one would think I would be voting Liberal or NDP, but that is not the case.
My cousin from the U.S.A. calls me a functional Democrat and a government Republican. I don't know what I am here... maybe a small c Conservative. I am very Liberal when it comes to personal freedoms. If you want to marry someone of the same sex, what does it have to do with me, it is between you, your family and your deity if you have one. Same for abortion, etc. I am certainly not going to judge you or change my personal opinion of you because of something you did or do in your private life. I am even a Conservative atheist. However don't make it a big thing where my tax dollars are going to have to support your opinion and don't tell others they don't have the right to think otherwise. That pendulum should be able to swing both ways.
I am however Conservative where spending, crime, immigration and the military are concerned. Wars have to be fought. Where would Hitler be today if we had this same "don't fight it" attitude then. Rape used to be a capital crime that got you either a full life sentence or a death sentence, not a slap on the wrist or small commuted sentence. There used to be a lot less of this kind of crime when people knew something serious would happen if they got caught. Immigration... well I am all for opening my arms to anyone who wants to come here and be Canadian. However if you want to come here to change us into what you left. No! If you came here to blow us up... HELL NO!
So as much as I am not really excited about Harper, and as much as I could use all that spending in my favour... I really believe we need the fiscal belt tightening that the Conservative government will bring. Remember it was under the Conservatives that we rode the recession so  much better than our neighbours. Also I am looking at the big picture and seeing that money put into industry and tax cuts for big business will in the long run get me the job I need to pay those taxes to stop the deficit.
Yeah a politician may end up lying to me but I am a big girl now and it won't be the first time or the last time.
But that's just my opinion.

Well There Goes My Childhood Ideaology Shot To Hell

This was in the Washington Post this morning and comes from the release of information after 40 years.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/04/new-light-shed-on-kent-state-killings/?page=3

Sigh! I was always, even as a young child, under the belief that Kent State was one of the worst things to happen as a result of the war in 'Nam. But as a older and wiser adult you have to ask the question. "If soldiers really believe that they are being fired on... then will they not shoot back."

The involvement of John Mitchell, one of the biggest snakes in Watergate, and the only United States Attorney General ever to be convicted of criminal charges makes matters so much worse. After all he was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury so what's another bit of lying added to the pot.

Also frightening is the fact that all names of FBI interviewers and interviewees were kept out of official documents.

We may never know the whole truth of this story, but even the possibility of justification in the shootings puts a whole different spin on what we have believed to be gospel for 40 years.

At No Time Do Two Wrongs Make A Right!!!

Mosques and Burning Books - How far have we digressed here.
Hum let’s go back to Kindergarten… if I hit him it gives him the right to hit me back.
Two wrongs still don’t make a right. Both the building of the mosque and the burning of the Koran are legal and a right under American freedoms, but that doesn’t stop them from being morally wrong.
The only good thing is the fact that Americans everywhere are protesting this book burning, just like Muslims everywhere are condemning the building of the mosque as being fundamentally in bad taste, though legal.
Oh wait… I just figured out the difference here. Shows you who the more mature child is!

Keep On Tweeting It Might Be Doing Someone Good

My latest Tweet was in reference to my ex husband’s uncle Eddy. Eddy would have died about the time that computers were something you saw in a huge truck at the fair and they could print your portrait using x’s and o’s.
Eddy had Muscular Dystrophy and lived out of two rooms in his home, his bedroom and his bathroom and had difficulty dealing with just those rooms. It was a great effort to get him to the Doctor or hospital if it became necessary.
Not being rich his wife had to leave him every day to go out and work and he was alone for hours on end. What a horrible life to be shut away like that in a broken body with a mind that was sharp as a tack.
He killed the hours with Ham Radio and CB. He was loved by all the truckers in SW Ontario and they would stop by the house to see him. Because he monitored all the radios there were a couple of times he aided in the rescue of people in accidents and snow storms.
As I was sitting here reading a great tweet from a columnist in BC, joking with a bunch  of zombie killers in AB, receiving tweets from some of the famous or soon to be famous and Facebooking with my son and daughter-in-law in MI and my cousin who could be in either Michigan or Chicago I can’t help but marvel at the wonders of communication that those younger than me take for granted.
How wonderful it would be for Eddy to have been able to see this. How many more people’s lives could he have become a part of with just a laptop, mouse and an internet connect.
Keep Tweeting, Facebooking or whatever boys and girls you never know who that Night Elf is your walking with in WOW might be.