jcc fall semester, 2004/rage against the machine che guevara/pancho villa t shirt inspired rant
monday wednesday:
Intermed Algebra with Applications (aka 083 yet again) 12:00 - 1:15
History of Colonial Latin America 1:25 - 2:40
tuesday thursday:
American Government 10:35 - 11:50
The Solar System 1:25 - 2:40
having to take 083 again is pretty hey alright, but the fact that i'm taking the most how is it possible for jcc to offer something this random/ultra specific class ever (history of colonial latin america) which also offers a trip to guatemala each summer is pretty sweet. if i have enough money by next summer, i'll have to go. the funny part about the whole guatemala thing is that i was reading (in noam chomsky's rogue states: the rule of force in world affairs, a book i suggest everyone should read) about the brutal repressions and widespread murder that has been going on there for more than twenty years (if i went there, what would they do, kill me? i'm an american, aka a representative of the people who keep the killers in power and they don't wanna fuck that up by any means, that would be a retread of the whole "hey in the 1980s let's support saddam hussein and ignore the fact that he's gassing kurds and torturing dissidents in his own palace, but the second he goes against us orders in the form of invading kuwait and placing our oil supplies in jeopardy, let's call him the butcher of baghdad" bullshit that's still going on to this very day), and has been widely supported by major figures in the american government all throughout that time. in the mid forties when the guatemalans overthrew their previous government and set up a new free democracy, the us government intervened ten years later, trained hardline elements of the armed forces, supplied them with weapons, and instructed them on how to overthrow the government.
yes i have been obsessed with the newspapers lately. some kid in my english class had a copy of that day's new york times a few days ago, and i got excited when he let me have it. i watched the president's national address last night. i took a test in world politics class that had questions such as "who is maqtada al-sadr?" "name one thing president bush said in last night's address," "vice president dick cheney visited two countries this week. what are they?" (answers: 1. shiite extremist cleric operating in fallujah iraq commanding a militia of some several thousand iraqis all pledging to fight occupying us forces to the death, also has a warrant out for his arrest. 2. basically say anything about iraq, my answer was "i will send more troops if the situation calls for it". 3. south korea (i'm almost certain) and japan.) someone else get into this shit so i can have somebody to talk to about it.
Intermed Algebra with Applications (aka 083 yet again) 12:00 - 1:15
History of Colonial Latin America 1:25 - 2:40
tuesday thursday:
American Government 10:35 - 11:50
The Solar System 1:25 - 2:40
having to take 083 again is pretty hey alright, but the fact that i'm taking the most how is it possible for jcc to offer something this random/ultra specific class ever (history of colonial latin america) which also offers a trip to guatemala each summer is pretty sweet. if i have enough money by next summer, i'll have to go. the funny part about the whole guatemala thing is that i was reading (in noam chomsky's rogue states: the rule of force in world affairs, a book i suggest everyone should read) about the brutal repressions and widespread murder that has been going on there for more than twenty years (if i went there, what would they do, kill me? i'm an american, aka a representative of the people who keep the killers in power and they don't wanna fuck that up by any means, that would be a retread of the whole "hey in the 1980s let's support saddam hussein and ignore the fact that he's gassing kurds and torturing dissidents in his own palace, but the second he goes against us orders in the form of invading kuwait and placing our oil supplies in jeopardy, let's call him the butcher of baghdad" bullshit that's still going on to this very day), and has been widely supported by major figures in the american government all throughout that time. in the mid forties when the guatemalans overthrew their previous government and set up a new free democracy, the us government intervened ten years later, trained hardline elements of the armed forces, supplied them with weapons, and instructed them on how to overthrow the government.
yes i have been obsessed with the newspapers lately. some kid in my english class had a copy of that day's new york times a few days ago, and i got excited when he let me have it. i watched the president's national address last night. i took a test in world politics class that had questions such as "who is maqtada al-sadr?" "name one thing president bush said in last night's address," "vice president dick cheney visited two countries this week. what are they?" (answers: 1. shiite extremist cleric operating in fallujah iraq commanding a militia of some several thousand iraqis all pledging to fight occupying us forces to the death, also has a warrant out for his arrest. 2. basically say anything about iraq, my answer was "i will send more troops if the situation calls for it". 3. south korea (i'm almost certain) and japan.) someone else get into this shit so i can have somebody to talk to about it.