A Personal Reflection on My Painful Contribution To Democracy

Personal Tale | 11/14/2002 | R Grizzle

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Bravo!

[Schmedlap]

Helium balloons destroy the ozone layer. NASA has recently discovered that Jupiter has a hole in its ozone, similar to the one on Earth. I hope you're happy. The entire solar system is now feeling the effects of your support for evil, environment-destroying Republicans.

[Eastbound]

Well, okay, I'll comment. Heeheehee! Hope your fingers get better and that you will not have bled in vain. What goes up must come down.

[End Times Sentinel]

With age has come wisdom. I now see that what my President had needed wasn’t more balloons. . . . He needed more electoral votes.

 

I'm sick of your excuses.  It's apparent to everyone that he needed more balloons, you let him down and bear complete and total responsibility for the 8 years of "The Arkansas Love Machine".

 

(Seriously, very well written!  Congrats!)

Owl_Eagle

" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"

[BikerNYC]

Democracy itself was beckoning me to service. I would not fail my nation.

Nice article, but I've been told we live in a republic, not a democracy, so please change that part.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Bush I would have won if he hadn't sold out gun owners.

Bush II will face the same situation.

[RGrizzle]

I know . . . .I know . . ."And to the Republic for which it stands. However, the wording just didn't flow. I apologize!

[Atlas Sneezed]

Bush I would have won if he hadn't sold out gun owners.

Bush II will face the same situation.

[88keys]

I "second" the bravo, both for writing, and allegorical implications!

(why I don't write better: I like big words too much, and am far too pretentious!! Let me try again: "Well done, RG! Freegards!") ;)

[88keys]

Who said anything about helium?!?

[buzzsaw6]

I was there, too. The previous night I had assembled with the local Republican gentry to make signs. We were in the City Ice building there on Browns Bridge Rd/Jesse Jewell Pkwy making signs like crazy. I saved several for myself since I liked my slogans better. When the time came to cross through the barricades at the train depot, the USSS wouldn't let me and my family bring in our own signs, even though they had been made at the same time and place as the others. Disappointed, we dropped any protest and picked up new signs. I stood at the back of the train with my wife and four small children, within 20 yards of the President. My wife got a picture of each child on my shoulders with the President in the background making his speech. We tried, we few, to swing the vote his way. To no avail. In November '92, I was on a field training exercise with my ANG Air Control Squadron in Savannah when the tragic results came in. Much angst was evident among the officers and enlisted. Even then we knew "bubba" was a bad deal for America.

[Schmedlap]

Just an assumption. I assumed that local fire regulations would preclude use of hydrogen.

[RGrizzle]

I'm not familiar with any party (Rep., Dem., Green, Periwinkle, Socialist, etc.) who has outlawed the use of helium in their political rallies. Had I known the ill effects of these balloons on both the ozone and my poor hands, rest assured my actions would have been dramatically different.

[RGrizzle]

To be honest, I am somewhat surprised that they made their way to Jupiter!?!

[Snidely Whiplash]

Nice article, but I've been told we live in a republic, not a democracy, so please change that part.

It's both. You could look at it like the scientific name of an animal - the genus of our government is a republic, while it's species is a democracy. The USSR was a republic, too, but of an very different species.

Snidely

[Auntie Mame]

Bravo! I love this!

And the replies are hilarious, too.

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[squash]

Those of us who take the time to educate ourselves on the truth of what is happening in our environment know that the hole in the ozone layer is smaller now than when it was discovered and that it may actually be a natural cyclic phenomenon. Be assured that the effects of helium on the ozone layer are negligible compared to the effects of bovine flatulence. Would you say the entire solare system is feeling the the effects of the evil, flatulating, environment-destroying cattle of earth?!

[Redleg Duke]

Schmedlap! Take the jeep down to the motor pool and get it serviced!