Month: January 2009

I just noticed today’s date — January 22nd.

Another “Alive Day” comes along. Two years now, still cancer-free.

It brought about a lot of changes — I now get paranoid about every possible ailment (is that lower back discomfort just a muscle ache? etc.), and a lot of people I thought were “big F” Friends turned out to be “small f”, or not even that (long, ugly story).

Still, though — still here. That’s something.

President Obama just signed executive orders which direct the CIA to shut down its network of “Black Site” secret prisons, orders the closing of the Guantánamo detention camp within a year, and prohibits the use of “coercive interrogation methods” (i.e. torture)– requiring that all U.S. interrogations of terror suspects must now conform to the U.S. Army Field Manual (policies derived under the Geneva Conventions).

After signing he said:

“The message we are sending around the world is that the US intends to prosecute the ongoing struggle against violence and terrorism and we are going to do so vigilantly, we are going to do so effectively, and we are going to do so in a manner that is consistent with our values and our ideals … We intend to win this fight, and we intend to win it on our terms.”

I have a suggestion, to pre-empt the revision of history that you just know will be coming. Let’s make our true feelings about the Presidency of George W. Bush be clearly heard.

With luck, we can start a meme here — hopefully getting enough momentum going that it gets media coverage.

The George W. Bush Foundation is prepping the enshrinement of the fiction surrounding his so-called legacy, so let’s donate objects which TRULY reflect his legacy.

Go to your closet, grab one of your old shoes, and mail it to the Foundation:

George W. Bush Foundation
PO Box 600610
Dallas, TX 75206

Flood their office with a massive wave of symbolic disapproval… virtually throwing our shoes at this shameful stain on our nation’s history.