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Well, my goodness!
Quite a weekend for people who have some vague idea of what's going on in the world.
Myself, I powered through over 11,000 words on the new draft. It is still kicking ass. Gonna try and catch up on marketing stuff this week. Need to put up a new podcast ep, a ZZN interview, a DHD article, and a Parablog. That's going to take up most of my week, I'm sure, since I'm back at Ye Olde Day Job. Fie. Worse yet, today I have Voicemail--my most hated of all mails.
So...Obama released his birth certificate. (BTW, it's quite common for people not to be able to get their own birth certificate. It so happens, I can't get mine) You see, the state of Hawaii doesn't release long-form birth certificates, EVER. So those twits at FOX news et al thought they were being pretty clever pretending that Obama must be hiding something if he doesn't produce it. Then, the most uncharismatic rich guy in the world decided to get involved, ultimately making himself look like a huge(r) fool. If you didn't catch the ripping at the White House Correspondents Dinner, do feast your peepers on it!
This morning, I wake up to the news that Osama Bin Laden--remember him? He's been shot in the head and thrown into the ocean and ding dong the witch is dead. (though frankly that gets my conspiracy sense tingling--lets hope the soldier who shot him doesn't also turn up dead) The bulk of the internet is cheering and thanking Obama and talking about how great America is. This leads me to conclude that we have not learned a goddamn thing from the clusterfuck that was 9/11.
If I may, we started out this thing completely oblivious to why so much of the world hates us. We talk about how we help other countries and Oh gee...we're the only ones who do. Oh woe is we for nobody helps us spread democracy which everybody wants--and wants ONLY our way. We never quite mention that we only help countries and people who have something we want, or is otherwise politically advantageous to do so. So no...other countries are not going to be lining up to send their soldiers to die so we can drive bigger cars and have more oil. Have you gotten a load of the "democracy" they have in Iraq now? Though they do have a better health care program than we do.
After the various bombings, the American people turned into a seething bastion of hate and fear. I won't bother listing all the ways we followed Bush into a quagmire (giggity) of warrantless wire taps, sanctioned racism, torture, secret prisons...yadda yadda yacketi blah. We were so fearful as a nation that we took Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and the Teabaggers seriously. We also turned a blind eye to an obviously stolen election. We allowed restricted town hall meetings. We were told the US wanted to question Bin Laden, and less than a month later we were at war with Iraq, despite them having nothing to do with the attacks, or the Taliban. *sigh*
Here we are, 10 years later. We're still as anti-anyone-who-isn't-just like us (whatever THAT means) as ever--if not moreso. I'm not aware of another house of worship that was protested in my lifetime. Our soldiers and schools are still underfunded, and our economy is completely in the toilet as we still haven't recovered from the work of the oh-so fiscally responsible GOP. I'd like to think that we're going to treat these soldiers better once they get home--but given the state of the handful of Gulf War vets I know, I'm not holding my breath. Oh yeah, and we still hate anyone who doesn't speak English--despite Facebook proving that many Americans can't write it worth a damn.
We elected the first black president, and the first one with any respect for atheists. We went on to make witch-doctor jokes, compared health care with Nazism, foreign aid to Nazism, and eating healthy food with Nazism...or is that socialism? I can't remember.
So now that the big bad turban guy is dead, and everyone has made their little jokes about how great it is--please do remember that we, as a nation, have become no smarter, more compassionate, less hateful, better able to discern fact from bullshit, or better able to remember what we were told 6 months ago than we were before. Shame, that. It's also a shame that we can't get any information from Bin Laden, or his people.
I watched a crazy horror movie called Otis last night. It started out really scary and good, then turned into a screwball comedy about 3/5 of the way in. Too bad.
Myself, I powered through over 11,000 words on the new draft. It is still kicking ass. Gonna try and catch up on marketing stuff this week. Need to put up a new podcast ep, a ZZN interview, a DHD article, and a Parablog. That's going to take up most of my week, I'm sure, since I'm back at Ye Olde Day Job. Fie. Worse yet, today I have Voicemail--my most hated of all mails.
So...Obama released his birth certificate. (BTW, it's quite common for people not to be able to get their own birth certificate. It so happens, I can't get mine) You see, the state of Hawaii doesn't release long-form birth certificates, EVER. So those twits at FOX news et al thought they were being pretty clever pretending that Obama must be hiding something if he doesn't produce it. Then, the most uncharismatic rich guy in the world decided to get involved, ultimately making himself look like a huge(r) fool. If you didn't catch the ripping at the White House Correspondents Dinner, do feast your peepers on it!
This morning, I wake up to the news that Osama Bin Laden--remember him? He's been shot in the head and thrown into the ocean and ding dong the witch is dead. (though frankly that gets my conspiracy sense tingling--lets hope the soldier who shot him doesn't also turn up dead) The bulk of the internet is cheering and thanking Obama and talking about how great America is. This leads me to conclude that we have not learned a goddamn thing from the clusterfuck that was 9/11.
If I may, we started out this thing completely oblivious to why so much of the world hates us. We talk about how we help other countries and Oh gee...we're the only ones who do. Oh woe is we for nobody helps us spread democracy which everybody wants--and wants ONLY our way. We never quite mention that we only help countries and people who have something we want, or is otherwise politically advantageous to do so. So no...other countries are not going to be lining up to send their soldiers to die so we can drive bigger cars and have more oil. Have you gotten a load of the "democracy" they have in Iraq now? Though they do have a better health care program than we do.
After the various bombings, the American people turned into a seething bastion of hate and fear. I won't bother listing all the ways we followed Bush into a quagmire (giggity) of warrantless wire taps, sanctioned racism, torture, secret prisons...yadda yadda yacketi blah. We were so fearful as a nation that we took Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and the Teabaggers seriously. We also turned a blind eye to an obviously stolen election. We allowed restricted town hall meetings. We were told the US wanted to question Bin Laden, and less than a month later we were at war with Iraq, despite them having nothing to do with the attacks, or the Taliban. *sigh*
Here we are, 10 years later. We're still as anti-anyone-who-isn't-just like us (whatever THAT means) as ever--if not moreso. I'm not aware of another house of worship that was protested in my lifetime. Our soldiers and schools are still underfunded, and our economy is completely in the toilet as we still haven't recovered from the work of the oh-so fiscally responsible GOP. I'd like to think that we're going to treat these soldiers better once they get home--but given the state of the handful of Gulf War vets I know, I'm not holding my breath. Oh yeah, and we still hate anyone who doesn't speak English--despite Facebook proving that many Americans can't write it worth a damn.
We elected the first black president, and the first one with any respect for atheists. We went on to make witch-doctor jokes, compared health care with Nazism, foreign aid to Nazism, and eating healthy food with Nazism...or is that socialism? I can't remember.
So now that the big bad turban guy is dead, and everyone has made their little jokes about how great it is--please do remember that we, as a nation, have become no smarter, more compassionate, less hateful, better able to discern fact from bullshit, or better able to remember what we were told 6 months ago than we were before. Shame, that. It's also a shame that we can't get any information from Bin Laden, or his people.
I watched a crazy horror movie called Otis last night. It started out really scary and good, then turned into a screwball comedy about 3/5 of the way in. Too bad.
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Since Bush, I liken us to a frat party where instead of actually having conversations and studying and stuff...we just party and chant about how great we are for no other reason than we're USA.
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I am aware that they make "all weather flags" that it's supposedly okay to hang in the rain. I was taught that we don't hang a flag in the rain because it's disrespectful--not because it's bad for the fabric.