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December 23, 2005

My Grievances...

Not since the F***K you Awards from Don Fox's classic Blog, have I seen a better year end post than this one from John Cole:

The Airing of Grievances is the traditional time of the year when families gather together and tell one another how they have disappointed them in the past year. Thus begins my disappointments:
1.) The Republican Party- I will never forgive the shameless display during the Schiavo affair, elevating a personal family tragedy into a cruel farce loosely reported to be concern for the "culture of life." Hands down the most disappointing thing that happened this year, and the event that finally made me see the current GOP for what they are- shrill opportunists who think divisiveness, intrusion into personal matters, and cheap demagoguery are core leadership principles. And I don't want to get started on the spending.

2.) The Torture Advocates- For taking every opportunity to paint those opposed to state sanctioned torture as little more than terrorist coddlers or people whose position is not one of principle but one of moral preening. You know who you are. You can go to hell.

3.) The House Republican Leadership- The House GOP started the year in a blatant attempt to loosen ethics standards to save their embattled leader, and ended the year with the reputation of the GOP in tatters, as much of the leadership is embroiled in the Abramoff mess, DeLay is under indictment, and "Duke" Cunningham is a felon. Well done.

4.) The Bush Administration- For failing to articulate any coherent policy, and in the rare cases they do embrace a coherent policy, having it be the wrong one. Add to that the Libby/Rove/Plame mess, and the idea that governance comes on the cheap (just get people fighting enough and no one will know what we are really up to), and you can see why I am disappointed.

5.) The Democrats- A full accounting of the gross incompetence of this party would require more bandwidth than I am willing to purchase, but what can be said about a bunch of partisan nitwits so inept that the GOP self-destructs in front of them, and all they can do is triumph the loony views of Cindy Sheehan and advocate for immediate withdrawal from Iraq?

Read the whole thing, it is a classic, and has inspired my own effort. Read on..

My DISSAPOINTMENTS:

1. The failure of MOST decent conservatives to acknowledge ONE failure of the Bush administration, despite overwhelming evidence that at BEST, this is a defective Presidency, lacking direction, integrity and leadership. (See John's 1-4 items, I am pretty much in agreement with them.
2. The Democratic Party, for failing to provide an alternative vision for America, instead of making it, "All about the other guys."
3. The MSM for being cowards.
4. The Progressive Blogsphere for failing to UNITE in a way that will effectively counter the Rightsphere. Instead of building alliances and supporting each other, progressives continue to play the vanity game, with some blogs rising in popularity, while some great smaller voices go unsupported and unacknowledged.
5. HBO, see John's item number 14, My God I think we were twins separated at birth.
6. The Costa Rican Government which taxes the hell out of the people and provides the worst services of any government I have ever lived under.
7. Costa Ricans for failing to do anything about it. Apparently heading towards electing Oscar Arias for President, when it is apparent that Oscar is a dinosaur.
8. The Oakland Raiders, for continuing to SUCK. Al Davis needs to go.
9. My wife, for abandoning me at Christmas time, to spend time with her mother on our farm, and for putting about as much effort into choosing my Christmas gift, as she does determining how much sugar to put in her coffee.
10. My guest bloggers, who all volunteered to guest blog, and when I needed them the most, went MIA.

Posted by David A at December 23, 2005 01:29 PM
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Comments

That is the thing about blogs and blogging, most people expect you to post on your own blog and not expect other people to carry your content. Though, I think you have some "guest bloggers" that have never posted or have only posted once or twice because I don't recall ever reading anything they have written over here.

But, I will be nice and will start posting over here a bit more often when I actually start blogging again. Though, I doubt many people will like what I choose to share ... but that has never stopped me. :)

Posted by: Rogue at December 23, 2005 03:40 PM

Hehe... Okay, I got the point. Dont you see I have been writing more. ;-)

Posted by: David Anderson at December 23, 2005 03:45 PM

Yes, I do. And, it is about time! :)

Posted by: Rogue at December 23, 2005 04:11 PM

Hey David,
I just want to say, as one of the guest bloggers who hasn't been MIA, that I appreciate the opportunity to post here. Salamat, kapatid na lalaki! Thanks , Brother!

Posted by: zencomix at December 23, 2005 07:26 PM

D, it is you who I OWE a thanks. During the time I was occupied in Guatemala, you kept ISOU from going Dark, thanks Bro, and Merry Christmas!

Posted by: David Anderson at December 23, 2005 08:36 PM

One thing I've learned about running a blog and needing guest bloggers is that full time bloggers, like you and I, are pretty much insane. :) We're the ones who will write for hours and hours on end and seem like we always have something to say. Taking a step back and looking at blogging from the eyes of somebody else(ie: normal, not insane, etc.), it must look like a daunting task, so I use that as my understanding for why guest bloggers tend to come and go. Blogging gets to be difficult. Hell, I think I took 2 months off from blogging this year just to collect my thoughts and regroup...

When I did guest blogging at ISOU, my main objective was to make sure that the blog was updated every couple of days. If I saw a post from somebody else, then I held off. I can't say I'm as prompt with my current guest blogging status at liberalavenger.com, but that site is updated everyday so I'm allowed to be lazy and post once a month. Still makes me a lazy guest blogger, though. Heh.

Posted by: tas at December 24, 2005 04:18 PM

I think my reasons for light posting are self evident:

http://www.jmgrant.net/WP/

And this isn't counting moving back from France to the US on short notice...

Posted by: Jack at December 24, 2005 11:44 PM