Trying to keep at it..

I walked out of a hotel room in Washington DC last week and saw the USA Today staring up at me with the headline that the Bush administration knows who I'm talking to on the phone. My first urge was to crawl back into bed. We have a president who has forgotten what we're supposedly all about as a country, who's forgetten what we're supposedly fighting to give to the Iraqi people and who has no understanding of what 25,000 people died for in 1776: freedom to be secure that their possessions, beliefs and loved ones can't just be rifled through by a paranoid government looking to crack some skulls.

We have a president who professes a distaste for government, but expands it in ways that seem larger than any of us could imagine (every single phone call?).

We have a vice president who, when awake, believes that power, dominance and military muscle flexing are the ultimate objectives of our government, who's completely forgotten that those tools are only necessary to the extent that they're protecting the liberties that the revolution was waged for.

We have a HUD Secretary who believes that only people who support President Bush should get government contracts (isn't that how the Baath Party grew so large?).

What has happened to this country?

All of this - and this is just what's happened in the last few days - makes me wonder what is the point of even trying to speak out about anything is - hence the radio silence on Blue Language the past few weeks. But, this is all too important to ignore, and if 25,000 people can die trying to set up a country that embodies the best human ideals, the least I can do is type a few sarcastic words to try and preserve it. So, I'm going to try to keep at it - at least I know the NSA is paying attention....