Family and other odd collections
Last weekend I went to my dad's back in Lone Jack for my sister's 21st birthday and something deeply and profoundly disturbing happened - I was looking at property and thinking "You know, that'd be a nice place to live, if it weren't out the middle of ass nowhere." Given how much I hated living in my hometown, it was similar to meeting your cousin after several years and the thought crossing your mind "Oh hey she's hot now." At first, it was a half second of appreciation, followed by what is now a week and a half of revulsion at myself.
There's a forum on which I used to post regularly but have been just haunting off and on now. I didn't go there for a few weeks until recently, where I found this, which I think is a pretty accurate microcosm of how most of America reacted to Hurricane Katrina (or Hurricane Corrina, for those of us who are married to the President but don't have the time to familiarize ourselves with events destroying the country). It's like some sort of script from a horror movie, where we see nothing but intermittent communications that start with "Hey there's a hurricane coming, in other news I need cereal", move on to "Whoah holy fuck did you see that picture of the flooding?", then on to the opening salvos shot from Americans, at Americans - both in the literal and figurative sense. While looters and overzealous property owners were "protecting" themselves with shots fired, the Left and the Right began shouting "heartless conservative!" and "clueless liberal!" at each other.
Mostly I was engrossed by the scope of drama that was unfolding in the south. I really made an effort to ignore the whole political hoohah until I heard the amazing breaking news that the government was handing out $2k debit cards to people who were uberfuct by the disaster. On one hand, yes, these people need money and I don't begrudge anyone for attempting to help them in any way, regardless of motive. On the other hand WHERE THE FUCK IS THIS MONEY COMING FROM, SIRS!? This is the same administration that has cut the bajesus out of taxes, swearing up and down that "it's your money" all the while making sure we're going into a war that we haven't been able to properly fund since its inception. This is what we call "failing to plan for a rainy day" (no pun intended, but fuck me if it's not appropriate). Sadly, all this means is that Bush and his administration, after failing to run the nation with any fiscal responsibility or forethought at all, gets to hand out money to people, pretend to be the hero, and in a few years some other poor bastard is going to have to poke the American people and say "Oh hey, yah... about those taxes." Hell, Bush got to baldfacedly stand in front of America during the last election and say "No we haven't cut spending, we've actually increased it, and we're cutting taxes so this increased spending is being made with money that doesn't exist," and all that was heard by his supporters was "OMG HE CUT TAXES HE IS LIKE SOME SORT OF JESUS-ACCOUNTANT YAY!".
Anyway enough of that crap.
Patch day in WoW is up! I'ma go beat up things.
Anjin-san off.
There's a forum on which I used to post regularly but have been just haunting off and on now. I didn't go there for a few weeks until recently, where I found this, which I think is a pretty accurate microcosm of how most of America reacted to Hurricane Katrina (or Hurricane Corrina, for those of us who are married to the President but don't have the time to familiarize ourselves with events destroying the country). It's like some sort of script from a horror movie, where we see nothing but intermittent communications that start with "Hey there's a hurricane coming, in other news I need cereal", move on to "Whoah holy fuck did you see that picture of the flooding?", then on to the opening salvos shot from Americans, at Americans - both in the literal and figurative sense. While looters and overzealous property owners were "protecting" themselves with shots fired, the Left and the Right began shouting "heartless conservative!" and "clueless liberal!" at each other.
Mostly I was engrossed by the scope of drama that was unfolding in the south. I really made an effort to ignore the whole political hoohah until I heard the amazing breaking news that the government was handing out $2k debit cards to people who were uberfuct by the disaster. On one hand, yes, these people need money and I don't begrudge anyone for attempting to help them in any way, regardless of motive. On the other hand WHERE THE FUCK IS THIS MONEY COMING FROM, SIRS!? This is the same administration that has cut the bajesus out of taxes, swearing up and down that "it's your money" all the while making sure we're going into a war that we haven't been able to properly fund since its inception. This is what we call "failing to plan for a rainy day" (no pun intended, but fuck me if it's not appropriate). Sadly, all this means is that Bush and his administration, after failing to run the nation with any fiscal responsibility or forethought at all, gets to hand out money to people, pretend to be the hero, and in a few years some other poor bastard is going to have to poke the American people and say "Oh hey, yah... about those taxes." Hell, Bush got to baldfacedly stand in front of America during the last election and say "No we haven't cut spending, we've actually increased it, and we're cutting taxes so this increased spending is being made with money that doesn't exist," and all that was heard by his supporters was "OMG HE CUT TAXES HE IS LIKE SOME SORT OF JESUS-ACCOUNTANT YAY!".
Anyway enough of that crap.
Patch day in WoW is up! I'ma go beat up things.
Anjin-san off.