Flowings of Your Everlasting Taffyman

****PREFACE****HEY SO THIS IS A PREFACE TO THE UPCOMING POSTS

i recently found out my dad and step mother were attending the bush rally (meaning they are supporters) and this upset me to no end. but i figured that just meant i had to do something about it, so i decided i would talk them out of voting for bush. My first tactic came out of nowhere with a movie i happened to pick up from the uptown cheapo. it was a documentary (mostly interviews pushing a point) on the rise up to war with iraq and it was made by moveon.org which is a great organization, (though i dont follow up on a lot of their things). a sidenote to them is that they werent in fact created to get bush out but rather to push progressive agendas all around the country/world and so we can continue to expect more and more from them.
anyway this movie was brilliant, picking apart each speech for the lead up to war and using CIA agents and analysts, as well as political analysts and even white house staff members to contridct each statement made as a reason for war. it was actually quite amazing.
my step mothers response was irrational to say the least but illogical arguments followed and i became very frustrated. (my dad doesnt talk a lot during these arguments) my stepmother was raised wealthy catholic conservative BTW. anyway so after a hour or two i basically give up and she comes to the same conclusion as always which is "there is another side." though she feels no need to say what that other side is (because she chooses not to know about it, allthewhile believing in it)
her info comes from the post above this, her brother an ex military intelligence officer who was about to work for the cia but then had kids and didnt feel that would work. he writes her vague things with the overall assumption that she will listen no matter what (and she does)

her biggest thing from him is quote (cuz i have heard it so much) "there are things we dont know about, and they (the military and government) do. these are things we dont want to know, at least i dont" and thats a huge problem for me because the assissinations of former civil rights leaders were first proposed in those classified (need to know only) files and i think if that shit is continuing dont we want to know what our government that is for us by us is doing?
anyway on to her thing....