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thessalianReading in the news today that all this lovely money that they're taking from the arts, education, medical and this hydrogen fuel thing? The money that's going to rebuild large chunks of the US? Guess who it's going to.
A company whose high-up employee roster once included Dick Cheney. That's who.
The cronyism. It kills. It burns. Hell, from what I've read thus far, cronyism got FEMA into this mess in the first place, and now they think that they're going to solve the thing with more cronyism? They're trying to cut money from people who really need it so they can throw it at old business buddies. Does this seem right to anyone else? Fine, there's enough shit going on in our own country, but some of this has some fairly global implications given that the US government just recently approved a budget of $440 billion on the military and the war in Iraq.
For examples of the shit going on in our own country, what's up with high-ranking British government officials turning around and enforcing higher 'Britishness' on the immigrant population? I'm sorry; I wasn't aware this country had actually voted in the BNP. Yes, it's good that people are encouraged to learn the native language of the country in which they are living, but from what little I could tell from the teeny-tiny sidebar this travesty of multiculturalism got, that's not where they're stopping. The whole thing smacked of what I got told when I was a kid, to wit: "Well, if you were more like everybody else, people would stop picking on you". It's not fair and it's not right. People should learn to live together and admire and appreciate the differences, not have the government wandering around like Locutus of fucking Borg.
And again I am pissed off at the Metro. Terrorists in Iraq dressing up like policemen, walking into schools and shooting teachers? Page 2 sidebar. What's on page 1? Some West Yorkshire hospital banning anyone from cooing at the newborns or complimenting the new mothers. To "protect the babies' human rights" (they were calling the infants 'little people', which as I recall is already a PC term in use for dwarfs and midgets, so they need to come up with something else), with infection prevention as a tiny sentence at the end of the article, so obviously an afterthought. Yes, the NHS is wasting resources on enforcing this, but that was not the tone of the article. The tone was, "Baby rights! Parents want people to coo over their babies! Ooh, look at the new thing!" and not, "Why are they wasting their time with this utter garbage anyway?" So the Iraq mess, the fact that the IRA has finally disarmed and the homogenisation of British culture are crammed into one mass on page 2 and there's no mention of the proposed US budget decimation at all, but they can devote page 1 to this crap.
I've been asked if I'd ever considered that my anger is a contributing factor to my recent spate of illness. I said no, because anger and illness can both be rooted in stress, which is my actual problem (and given the past few months, can you blame me?). Still, I have to say that this whole thing that I'm getting angry with does make me sick. It makes me want to go totally Spider. It makes me want to spew vitriol and profanity throughout the public forums, stuff myself with something speedy (caffeine counts) and build me a bowel disruptor. I want to hear some Secret Service spook cry out, "Help! The president's shat himself!", and know a) that it was George W Bush doing the shitting and b) that I was responsible. That would make me happy. Particularly if Blair was next, and both twerps were followed by every media mogul I could get in my sights.
A company whose high-up employee roster once included Dick Cheney. That's who.
The cronyism. It kills. It burns. Hell, from what I've read thus far, cronyism got FEMA into this mess in the first place, and now they think that they're going to solve the thing with more cronyism? They're trying to cut money from people who really need it so they can throw it at old business buddies. Does this seem right to anyone else? Fine, there's enough shit going on in our own country, but some of this has some fairly global implications given that the US government just recently approved a budget of $440 billion on the military and the war in Iraq.
For examples of the shit going on in our own country, what's up with high-ranking British government officials turning around and enforcing higher 'Britishness' on the immigrant population? I'm sorry; I wasn't aware this country had actually voted in the BNP. Yes, it's good that people are encouraged to learn the native language of the country in which they are living, but from what little I could tell from the teeny-tiny sidebar this travesty of multiculturalism got, that's not where they're stopping. The whole thing smacked of what I got told when I was a kid, to wit: "Well, if you were more like everybody else, people would stop picking on you". It's not fair and it's not right. People should learn to live together and admire and appreciate the differences, not have the government wandering around like Locutus of fucking Borg.
And again I am pissed off at the Metro. Terrorists in Iraq dressing up like policemen, walking into schools and shooting teachers? Page 2 sidebar. What's on page 1? Some West Yorkshire hospital banning anyone from cooing at the newborns or complimenting the new mothers. To "protect the babies' human rights" (they were calling the infants 'little people', which as I recall is already a PC term in use for dwarfs and midgets, so they need to come up with something else), with infection prevention as a tiny sentence at the end of the article, so obviously an afterthought. Yes, the NHS is wasting resources on enforcing this, but that was not the tone of the article. The tone was, "Baby rights! Parents want people to coo over their babies! Ooh, look at the new thing!" and not, "Why are they wasting their time with this utter garbage anyway?" So the Iraq mess, the fact that the IRA has finally disarmed and the homogenisation of British culture are crammed into one mass on page 2 and there's no mention of the proposed US budget decimation at all, but they can devote page 1 to this crap.
I've been asked if I'd ever considered that my anger is a contributing factor to my recent spate of illness. I said no, because anger and illness can both be rooted in stress, which is my actual problem (and given the past few months, can you blame me?). Still, I have to say that this whole thing that I'm getting angry with does make me sick. It makes me want to go totally Spider. It makes me want to spew vitriol and profanity throughout the public forums, stuff myself with something speedy (caffeine counts) and build me a bowel disruptor. I want to hear some Secret Service spook cry out, "Help! The president's shat himself!", and know a) that it was George W Bush doing the shitting and b) that I was responsible. That would make me happy. Particularly if Blair was next, and both twerps were followed by every media mogul I could get in my sights.