Re: Tammy, midwestern girl

"* dangerous me*
i read somewhere that albert einstein once said "if the bee population were to die out, humans would have four years left to live". or something like that. and even if that's an exaggeration, well, ten years still isn't enough warning for the end of the world as we know it.

so then i came across

this:http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/04/22/vanishing.bees.reut/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

and i got a little worried. cuz, you know, there's not enough to worry about already. basically- the article says the bees are dying- disappearing, poof- bees gone all over. "missing" as one article said. (missing? like, on-a-milk-carton-missing? or missing, like, "i can't find my keys" missing?)

and i see that some grown child who wasn't loved well enough shot some students at a college, press kit included... but i also see that thousands of people are dying already, everyday. VT happens everyday, just not at VT. someone walks across some ground, to point a gun directly at another. BLAM. dead. already happens. why are we so surprised when it happens in front of us? others live VT every day. i probably sound like i don't have much compassion for these people at VT... not true, i do indeed have immeasureable sympathy for these people.... i also have empathy for non-americans.

i would like to think that GOD (whomever, wherever, whatever) doesn't have Heaven divided up into nationalities. (chinese on one side, english over there, saudi's next to the salad bar...) i'm hoping GOD loves us all, each of us, because that theory increases my odds of being loved by GOD myself, flaws and all. so as blood spills from continent to continent, i'm feeling pretty bad for everyone out there. my side, their side, our side, your side, upside down cake.

whatever.

each day that a crisis arises with our shitty government, i look deeper into the newspaper- somewhere on the back pages there has to be news that isn't self-serving, news that isn't one man's version of the game "Telephone": where it doesn't matter what was really said first- it only matters what the last person "repeats"-- and all too often the info is never relayed accurately. and people are calling that journalism.

on the red carpet the other night, we were asked about the Recent Hot Thing from american idol. when we were stumped for an opinion (we don't watch the show), Reporter Twig had a look of horror, like i'd just peed on her pumps. so i brought up halliburton moving to dubai: "that's more along the lines of what we're interested in" i said into her empty eyes. she replied, "yeah, we don't really cover that".

wtf.

where is everyone? tell me what to do? i can't get to dc to march, and i can't really leave my family for too long- but as a woman, as a mother, as a wife, as an American, there has to be SOMETHING i can do. ecology, war, terrorists (and the ones abroad, too)... i feel mute as everyone screams
"freedom of speech!!!!"

help. lead this lady to a somewhere, people, lead us all. somebody has to take charge, organize something. right? somebody tell us what to do, where to mail the postcard, who to call...

i wish gloria steinem had a daughter. (hell, i wish cheney's daughter was a real lesbian. but no-o-o-o-o-o... dick's daughter hides out in the white house wings like a light-skinned former slave in the days after the emancipation proclamation: "i loves dick! dick dick dick! go dick!" way to represent, mary.)

bees.

bees are disappearing, we are bombing country after country, but THEY'RE the terrorists?
i'm so confused.

well, at least i know one thing. if i were to be in a marriage that was recognized by the government, all hell would break loose. at least we're safe from that."

posted by Tammy, midwestern girl 22.4.07


I hear ya Tammy!
The bees are on their way out and so are we. If the lack of bees doesn't get rid of us in 4-10 years we'll probally kill ourselves off, or at least alot of us.

It is rediculous for people to support a movement to kill 100s, 1000s or more of other nations people then get shocked when it happens in their own back yard. If any child that has ever shot another human had never see the people incharge of their country ordering respected people to kill they would almost definantely not have chosen that path.

I come from a country where nuclea weapons are banned, few have guns or gun licenses, civil unions are allowed for gays and a woman is incharge. I'm so thankful for alot of these things, then I turn on the news to find Avril Lavigne stumbling over her words in the highlights! Along with a (kinda funny) slideshow of the various thing people have got in their eye lately (including a bar stole leg). Surely their are more importanat things in the world that could be taking up that space! It wasn't an entertainment show it was THE NEWS!

Whatever or whoever made us CAN'T love one nation more. We were all created the same internally and soulfully. No man is better than any other. yet some minds will never accept that.

I don't know who you write too or how you do it but I'm pretty sure you need alot of voices behind you! "freedom of speech" is given to everyone but then the people in power try damn hard to hide the instructions on how to use it.Short of getting yourself or someone with such clarity and knowledge into the whitehouse there may be nothing you can do.

Stop the bombing and start breading bees.

Why don't people fix themselves before they "fix" the rest of the world.

Stay safe from your government and you will come out on top!

Will I'm on the topic of Tammy, mindwestern girl, I tryed the whole pen under the but thing...unfortunitly my girlfriend looked up from her studies and saw...I don't think I'll ever live that one down...

I'll help you save the world! Just tell me what to do!