"THE UNIVERSE AFLAME WITH ANGELIC EJACULATE. I-I-I-I......"
Hey hey, look who's actually updating. No back story, lets just plunge right in.
So this morning I woke up to the exclamation "America is victorious!" Wondering what in the fuck people were talking about, I trudged upstairs to find out what had happened. We caught Saddam, congratulations, lets all pat ourselves on the back. I'm struck dumb by how naive people are. I went out before Mother Nature sent another blast of demon weather our way and heard things like "It's the end of our troubles in Iraq" and "There will peace there, finally!" It's so aggrivating that people could allow these thoughts to cross their minds. Hussein was a brutal dictator, a monster, an oppressor etc. but most of all he was a figurehead. A figurehead for a brutal regime, with very few components that George Bush, for all his bumbling about and going "Hurr, duh...zuh?," has managed to eliminate. The believers in this regime still in Iraq are pissed off and killing themselves, american troops, and their fellow countrymen. They're not laying dowm their weapons just because their mascot is in custody. How this little fact has escaped the attentions of most people I've talked to today boggles my fucking mind.
ONWARD WITH THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF IRAQ! Mmmmmkay, I kind of feel like this part of the process has become some twisted game. Weren't we in the process of installing a democracy in Afghanistan right before Dubya went and decided to start another war? People are still dying there every day, the country is still divided in what it wants. You can hardly call their government a democracy, but then, most people wouldn't know that would they? Bring up the subject of the "situation in Afghanistan" and see how many blank stares you'll get, I dare you. In today's world of sensationalized journalism this kind of just gets pushed into the background to make way for the next atrocity.
I'm a journalism major, god help me.
The saddest part of this is that people who were just starting to question what was going on with the world are going to be lulled back into complacence. Maybe I'm a bit doom and gloom but thats all I can see happening. I can feel people thinking "Well, he must be doing something right." I guarantee that that the next time they do the poll, his approval rating will have gone up.
For a long time I've refrained from putting anything too overtly political in this journal because of a comment I received on my old lj. Apparently, my views of Bush fucking the environment with his big corporate cock upset someone greatly. The entry quietly dissapeared and since then I've kept my mouth shut for the most part. That stops here. If you agree with anything I bring up, rock on. If it angers you, at least I'll have provoked a reaction. If you don't believe as I do, thats cool too. I'm not going to force my views upon people, its wrong of anyone to do that. Thats not what an entry like this is about, its about me venting. Period. And my rant is done.
On to life. And life is...hopeful. I've got an interview/test tommorrow at Commerce Bank. I think they needed to ask me a few more questions and I've got to prove my proficience (speed) on a computer and calculator. Easy as pie, I think I've got the gig. The guy who interviewed me was cool as hell and seemed to like me. The gig would suit me perfectly. My position would be check encoding. 5pm - 10pm Monday to Friday and one Saturday a month. $9.00 an hour. As you see, the pay is decent. I'd be able to schedule my classes in the morning, have time for whatever I needed to do after that, and then work. Wish me luck.
I feel like I've had a constant hangover for the past week. Holiday parties in my family are potentially deadly happenings. Their are the stuffy and formal ones with all my aging relatives and such. The drinking that results from those comes from suddenly realizing that all the grandmotherly types are sitting around discussing what your genitalia looked like when you were a baby (i.e: my cousin downed a gargantuan tumbler full of Sambuca Romana (so disgusting) when he realized they were talking about his little baby "ciccelino") and laughing hysterically. Then come the ones with all of the younger family members sitting in a room trying their damnedest to drink everyone else under the table. Tis the season for my sister to stumble around proclaiming that her husband was great in bed and then falling down the stairs. Ho hum.
We got our X-mas tree yesterday. We put it in the stand, decorate it, the stand breaks and tree and all fall on top of my mother and grandmother. My mother went on an emergency shopping mission and has been screaming from the top of the stairs for me to "come hang my festive balls" for the past hour. Anyone want to come and volunteer some festive balls of their own for my perusal? I'd be very grateful.
I am so done now.
So this morning I woke up to the exclamation "America is victorious!" Wondering what in the fuck people were talking about, I trudged upstairs to find out what had happened. We caught Saddam, congratulations, lets all pat ourselves on the back. I'm struck dumb by how naive people are. I went out before Mother Nature sent another blast of demon weather our way and heard things like "It's the end of our troubles in Iraq" and "There will peace there, finally!" It's so aggrivating that people could allow these thoughts to cross their minds. Hussein was a brutal dictator, a monster, an oppressor etc. but most of all he was a figurehead. A figurehead for a brutal regime, with very few components that George Bush, for all his bumbling about and going "Hurr, duh...zuh?," has managed to eliminate. The believers in this regime still in Iraq are pissed off and killing themselves, american troops, and their fellow countrymen. They're not laying dowm their weapons just because their mascot is in custody. How this little fact has escaped the attentions of most people I've talked to today boggles my fucking mind.
ONWARD WITH THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF IRAQ! Mmmmmkay, I kind of feel like this part of the process has become some twisted game. Weren't we in the process of installing a democracy in Afghanistan right before Dubya went and decided to start another war? People are still dying there every day, the country is still divided in what it wants. You can hardly call their government a democracy, but then, most people wouldn't know that would they? Bring up the subject of the "situation in Afghanistan" and see how many blank stares you'll get, I dare you. In today's world of sensationalized journalism this kind of just gets pushed into the background to make way for the next atrocity.
I'm a journalism major, god help me.
The saddest part of this is that people who were just starting to question what was going on with the world are going to be lulled back into complacence. Maybe I'm a bit doom and gloom but thats all I can see happening. I can feel people thinking "Well, he must be doing something right." I guarantee that that the next time they do the poll, his approval rating will have gone up.
For a long time I've refrained from putting anything too overtly political in this journal because of a comment I received on my old lj. Apparently, my views of Bush fucking the environment with his big corporate cock upset someone greatly. The entry quietly dissapeared and since then I've kept my mouth shut for the most part. That stops here. If you agree with anything I bring up, rock on. If it angers you, at least I'll have provoked a reaction. If you don't believe as I do, thats cool too. I'm not going to force my views upon people, its wrong of anyone to do that. Thats not what an entry like this is about, its about me venting. Period. And my rant is done.
On to life. And life is...hopeful. I've got an interview/test tommorrow at Commerce Bank. I think they needed to ask me a few more questions and I've got to prove my proficience (speed) on a computer and calculator. Easy as pie, I think I've got the gig. The guy who interviewed me was cool as hell and seemed to like me. The gig would suit me perfectly. My position would be check encoding. 5pm - 10pm Monday to Friday and one Saturday a month. $9.00 an hour. As you see, the pay is decent. I'd be able to schedule my classes in the morning, have time for whatever I needed to do after that, and then work. Wish me luck.
I feel like I've had a constant hangover for the past week. Holiday parties in my family are potentially deadly happenings. Their are the stuffy and formal ones with all my aging relatives and such. The drinking that results from those comes from suddenly realizing that all the grandmotherly types are sitting around discussing what your genitalia looked like when you were a baby (i.e: my cousin downed a gargantuan tumbler full of Sambuca Romana (so disgusting) when he realized they were talking about his little baby "ciccelino") and laughing hysterically. Then come the ones with all of the younger family members sitting in a room trying their damnedest to drink everyone else under the table. Tis the season for my sister to stumble around proclaiming that her husband was great in bed and then falling down the stairs. Ho hum.
We got our X-mas tree yesterday. We put it in the stand, decorate it, the stand breaks and tree and all fall on top of my mother and grandmother. My mother went on an emergency shopping mission and has been screaming from the top of the stairs for me to "come hang my festive balls" for the past hour. Anyone want to come and volunteer some festive balls of their own for my perusal? I'd be very grateful.
I am so done now.