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2100 words, bringing the chapter to 2800 (rounding down that same fifty words) and the book to 19 000. Accomplished: got religion established in a couple of sentences and now the story can refer to it casually from here on out. Also got the "superstitious" old system explained. Got Yanek in the car and set up for the events that will get him mistaken for a servant boy at the Palace. The rest of the chapter will be about that and its consequences. And meeting the first, and less vile, tutor. And then I will be done with Yanek being ten years old.
On another front: the result of the knee exercises having been a worsening of the symptoms or rather the arrival of a new and worse one, I have been instructed to quit them and start using a stationary bike. Or go straight for the cortisone shot, but even if that's where I'm headed, I'd rather get stronger first. This is dumb. I'm not even trying to walk to work, and I feel idiotic having to drive four blocks.
In case you were not online last night and you haven't read the news yet, the Mississippi personhood amendment lost, but by far too narrow a margin (42-58 which I guess is not such a narrow margin, but it's too narrow for an issue like this: the bastards will be encouraged to try again), and also, in Ohio, they defeated "issue 2," the ballot proposition that would have limited collective bargaining rights for public workers and other anti-labor measures in the name of cost control. Since Ohio also voted to make public healthcare unconstitutional, it's hard to see this as a clear signal that the class war is turning. Yes, there is class war. There never has not been. Whenever the classes are seen to be to peace, it's an illusion: a ceasefire at best, and you can bet that the only side that's not fighting t those times is the "working" class (we really need a better word for it in today's world, where unemployment is so high and the richest people all claim to be workers because they go to an office when they're not running for an office).
Somebody should, however, take a moment to compare and contrast the current political movement with those of the twentieth century or even the nineteenth. There's something interesting going on. I'm looking at you, Mike.
On another front: the result of the knee exercises having been a worsening of the symptoms or rather the arrival of a new and worse one, I have been instructed to quit them and start using a stationary bike. Or go straight for the cortisone shot, but even if that's where I'm headed, I'd rather get stronger first. This is dumb. I'm not even trying to walk to work, and I feel idiotic having to drive four blocks.
In case you were not online last night and you haven't read the news yet, the Mississippi personhood amendment lost, but by far too narrow a margin (42-58 which I guess is not such a narrow margin, but it's too narrow for an issue like this: the bastards will be encouraged to try again), and also, in Ohio, they defeated "issue 2," the ballot proposition that would have limited collective bargaining rights for public workers and other anti-labor measures in the name of cost control. Since Ohio also voted to make public healthcare unconstitutional, it's hard to see this as a clear signal that the class war is turning. Yes, there is class war. There never has not been. Whenever the classes are seen to be to peace, it's an illusion: a ceasefire at best, and you can bet that the only side that's not fighting t those times is the "working" class (we really need a better word for it in today's world, where unemployment is so high and the richest people all claim to be workers because they go to an office when they're not running for an office).
Somebody should, however, take a moment to compare and contrast the current political movement with those of the twentieth century or even the nineteenth. There's something interesting going on. I'm looking at you, Mike.
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The Republican Party has a plan. The plan is to destroy everything. Look at these things (not in any order):
-- destroy the ability of working people to act in their own behalf
(abolish collective bargaining rights)
--destroy education
(abolish public schools)
(oppose national funding for school construction)
-- destroy modern medicine
(defund CDC's center for injury prevention and control)
(defund health care reform, but it goes farther than this)
(prevent vaccinations)
(disallow life-saving medical procedures for women)
-- destroy protections for children
("modify" -- that is, repeal -- child labor laws)
(oppose school breakfast programs in the name of economy)
-- destroy the environment
(really, so petty: end the capitol's own compostable dishware program)
(stop protecting wild lands from exploitation)
(redfine rape so it means nothing) (they backed down on this. Voluble outrage can make a difference!)
I can't do this anymore. But you get the picture.
It's not just that the Republicans don't have out best interests at heart. What they have at heart is actual harm and ultimate destruction for everybody and everything.
They want us to be poor, uneducated, ill, without rights or prospects. The war on women is part of a larger war on everybody.
I have my ideas about the ultimate motivation for this, but I am not certain of it. Perhaps it is the mindless instinct of a foul, dying beast, determined to take everything and everyone down with it.
-- destroy the ability of working people to act in their own behalf
(abolish collective bargaining rights)
--destroy education
(abolish public schools)
(oppose national funding for school construction)
-- destroy modern medicine
(defund CDC's center for injury prevention and control)
(defund health care reform, but it goes farther than this)
(prevent vaccinations)
(disallow life-saving medical procedures for women)
-- destroy protections for children
("modify" -- that is, repeal -- child labor laws)
(oppose school breakfast programs in the name of economy)
-- destroy the environment
(really, so petty: end the capitol's own compostable dishware program)
(stop protecting wild lands from exploitation)
(redfine rape so it means nothing) (they backed down on this. Voluble outrage can make a difference!)
I can't do this anymore. But you get the picture.
It's not just that the Republicans don't have out best interests at heart. What they have at heart is actual harm and ultimate destruction for everybody and everything.
They want us to be poor, uneducated, ill, without rights or prospects. The war on women is part of a larger war on everybody.
I have my ideas about the ultimate motivation for this, but I am not certain of it. Perhaps it is the mindless instinct of a foul, dying beast, determined to take everything and everyone down with it.