| National Championship Game |
[Jan. 5th, 2006|06:10 pm] |
I'll keep this short. Overall it was a great game. I salute you if you stayed up to watch all of it and I give you a double salute if you stayed up to watch Penn State win the Orange Bowl. Since Penn State kicks ass.
I didn't really care who won the game, I just wanted a good one, but Southern California should have won the game in my opinion. Here's where they went wrong:
1. Bush's lateral: Truthfully, if it worked he would be a hero today. But in this modern age of football, laterals that aren't from the quarterback to his tailback rarely happen, and rarely work. It doesn't happen in a normal game, and the Rose Bowl was the wrong time to try it.
2. Vince's lateral: The refs reviewed just about every other close call. I don't know why they skipped this one. I've heard arguments that it wouldn't have mattered, Texas still would have scored. Possibly, but possibly not also. We'll never know.
3. Carroll's calls: I know it's easy for me to sit here and question coaching decisions, and I'm sure coaching is much harder than I think. But on Texas' second to last drive, the USC defense was playing too preventively. It's almost like they were willing to give Texas the touchdown, as long as they took a long time to do it. Conservative defense won't win games, Penn State got burned on this in their only loss to Michigan when they lost on the last play of the game.
On USC's second to last possession, Reggie Bush was never on the field. I agree with Carroll on going for it, just because I thought wherever Young got the ball, he'd score. But USC was trying to make passes, one of them was incomplete, and Bush was never on the field. I don't care if LenDale White is your power running back. The Heisman winner needs to at least run one play.
Good game though. |
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| Happy New Year |
[Jan. 1st, 2006|10:57 pm] |
I know I keep promising to post. And I do leave comments, so at least I'm participating. So here's a New Years Resolution, and normally I don't make these because I don't have any goals that I can do anything about until after High School. I will post more. I don't know how often, or what about, but I waste a lot of time on random crap. That wasted time could be better spent here. I don't necessarily know why, but it would.
I encourage comments, that would get me to do more stuff, but I probably also need more people reading it in order to get comments so Packer people, you can tell other juniors or whatever, it wouldn't bother me. Unless rumours about me started spreading around Packer about me. I will not have my title besmirched. Now I'm just going on about nothing, so here's to my next post containing something meaningful.
Shout outs to Andrew for having a Festivus pole and for his year in review thing, for some reason that inspired me to start posting again. |
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| Last post in Memphis |
[Jun. 21st, 2005|12:37 pm] |
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| | Neck of the Woods- L'il Wayne ft. Baby | ] |
So I got back from basketball camp on Saturday. I personally improved a lot, however neither JV or Varsity won any games. We were missing a lot of people. So tomorrow I go out to Nashville for our 2nd basketball camp. I leave early on Friday to go to State College for my grandfather's 80th birthday. Then on Sunday, I get a ride back from one of my NJ relatives, hopefully they'll take me all the way into the city.
And then I'll be around until August boooyyyeeeeeee.
Okay, so if you want to contact me, my cell phone number is: 1-901-270-6917
If you wanna organize something, I'll only be unavailable from the morning to like 5 o'clock Mondays to Thursdays. Any other time I'll probably be free.
So I'm getting pretty damn excited, I probably won't post until I get to NYC, and I probably won't post a whole lot while I'm there because I can actually see you guys! Unbelieveable.
Okay, here's to me returning
Later |
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| Back for June |
[Jun. 5th, 2005|08:58 pm] |
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| | Spaceship- Kanye West ft. Consequence, GLC | ] |
So I got back from Myrtle Beach this morning at 10. We had a flight at 6 in the morning. You're probably wondering, "why the hell would you do that?"
-Answer: Punk-ass frequent flier mile rules
Unless you have like a trillion miles, you have to play by the airline rules. These rules involve non-senseical connections, for example: we were flying with Delta. Instead of taking the logical connection in Atlanta, they sent us up to Cincinatti.
The rules also involve leaving at crazy ass times, for example: We left Memphis last week at 7:40 saturday night and got in to Myrtle Beach at like midnight. And today we left at 6 A.M.
So now I'm getting kind of bored with myself. I'm still keeping my eyes on June 26. But basketball starts on Wednesday, that should pass the time fairly quickly.
So tomorrow is June 6th, the 61st anniversary of D-Day. This is one of the most important days in WWII and world history. The losses incurred in one landing are staggering, but it was one of Nazi Germany's last gasps. As you go about your day tomorrow, think of those who actually died protecting our freedom 61 years earlier. |
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| Don't Be Alarmed |
[May. 28th, 2005|03:28 pm] |
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| | The Greatest- T.I. ft. Mannie Fresh | ] |
I'm not gonna post for a week because I'll be in Charleston/ Myrtle Beach until Sunday next week. It's a family vacation thing.
So we finished our exams on thursday, it was glorious. I squeaked out an A in English by .4 points which delights me. I did a lot worse in the second semester than I could have, but not all of it was my fault. And in the classes I didn't get A's I got pretty solid B's. (Note: there are no + or - at my school, i.e. no B+ or A-).
Really looking forward to the summer. I'm hoping this week in South Carolina will go by quickly because when it's over, I've got two basketball camps and then June 26 will be here before you know it.
So yeah, see you in a week. |
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| Sooo close |
[May. 25th, 2005|10:23 pm] |
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| | What U Gon' Do?- L'il John and the Eastside Boys | ] |
So today I thought would be my hardest day of exams, just because I had two: English and Algebra. I heard horrible stories about English, but I think I did all right, as I do with math, which is not one of my better subjects. Now all I have left is spanish, which I have a 95 in. Spanish is naturally easy to me and it should be very easy. So at 9:30 CT (10:30 ET), I will be on summer vacation. And as the song says, What U Gon Do? Shit. (If you don't know the song, you wouldn't get that)
So I just saw Star Wars 3. Honestly I've never really watched episodes 4,5,6. And if I have, I was probably really little. I mean I know the plot and I remember bits and pieces but the only movies that I remember seeing full length were the first 3. I'm afraid to go and watch the next 3 episodes because I know they're much better, but I know the graphics aren't going to be nearly as good. I feel like I'm in a lose-lose situation.
Episode 3 was the best of the first three by far. But a few things pissed me off:
-The droids are worthless. The jedis mow down the droids like they're fighting against mannequins. And it kind of pisses me off that the droids have human emotions. Like they go "Oh no" when the jedi are about to kill them, and others run away screaming. You're a goddamn robot engineered to kill. Shut up and do your job.
-I'm not going to complain about the acting, good acting can not be expected from Star Wars. What I'm complaining about is the cheesiness. The one exchange in the beginning between Anakin and Padme when he's like "I love you more" or something like that: a friend of mine already told me about that scene. It angered me when she told me, and it angered me even more to actually see it. They would have been better off not even trying.
There was one thing that made me incredibly happy:
-Jar Jar Binks hardly had a part. Lucas must have realized what a shitty character he created so he smartly didn't use him. His only appearance was with other members of his species, whatever they're called, looking sad for two seconds and Padme's funeral. He didn't even speak! It was glorious! When I look back on it, Jar Jar Binks cheapened the entire first two episodes with his pitiful attempt at comic relief. It wasn't funny, it was annoying and I think the movies would be much better if they didn't try to make them funny with Binks. He pissed me off with his "Me sah Jar Jar Binks." Not anymore bitch, you're done. |
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| Exam Story |
[May. 23rd, 2005|09:27 pm] |
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| | ASAP- T.I. | ] |
So today was my French IV exam. The exam started at 10:15, so I showed up at like 10. Now our exams work like this: You have like 2:15 minutes to do the exam, and the earliest you can be let out is an 1:30 into the allotted time. So I'd been studying a fair amount for this exam, which also involved an essay that we needed to write over the weekend. We already did the listening and speaking portions. So I'd been expecting a fairly difficult exam. I open up the exam and the entire thing consisted of two things:
-Every true or false section from each history exam this semester
-Identifying quotes from literature we read (which I expected)
We all finished the exam in like 25 minutes and spent 10 minutes trying to remember the names of the pieces of literature. So at 10:50 I was on my way home, almost an hour before we were legally allowed to leave. Quoting Will Ferrel from Kicking and Screaming, which I haven't seen "It's so sweet!"
SO I still haven't seen episode 3, and I really wanna go. My mom won't let me see it with anyone else otherwise I probably would have went today. But I'm really going to have to study tomorrow night so I'll probably end up going on wednesday.
And then Thursday is our last, and easiest exam, Spanish. So at 9:30 C.T. I'll be free from school while you guys are still sweating it out in class. No complaining people, this is my gloating season. You can gloat in August. But we'll see who's lauging last in 2007. |
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| Bullshit bullshit bullshit |
[May. 19th, 2005|06:26 pm] |
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| |  annoyed | ] |
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| | Stunt 101- G-Unit | ] |
So exam "review week" is over and our exams actually start tomorrow. However this really wasn't a week entirely devoted to exam reviewing. It seems at Packer that you guys have a full week or something that is purely devoted to reviewing for exams. Not the case at Lausanne. On Monday I had a test in history. Tuesday I had a test in Chemistry. All week in English we were actually learning grammar that would be on the exam. We were even learning grammar today! The only two classes where it seems like we actually reviewed was algebra and chemistry (oddly enough). In French IV and Spanish II this week was our listening portion of the exam and then us just sitting in front of our laptops and being self-motivated to study the respective language. It was the same thing in history. Thankfully I don't really need to review for history or spanish. I need to do terrible to lose my A. But in classes like English and French where I need an A on the exam to get an A, I'm just bitter. We've already done a good amount of our French exam, but our teacher still could have prepared something for us to look over that goes into more detail about the exam. And English is just a bunch of shit. We had grammar hw each night, and she finally gives us back our research papers that we had to revise for today. I'm supposed to do all this on exam review week?? Teachers have to finish all their assignments last week, or we need to have another freaking week of school. It's like the teachers go from "holy shit, I gotta squeeze this last thing in" to "whatever, study yourselves." I don't understand it and frankly I think it's absurd. I dunno, something needs to be done. |
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| Getting Excited |
[May. 15th, 2005|12:28 am] |
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| | excited | ] |
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| | Yo Voy- Zion y Lennox ft. Daddy Yankee | ] |
So we only have 4 days of classes left. The only problem is that I have all this crap I need to do. Then we have exams. I just wish I could fast forward two weeks. After that we have a family vacation to the South Carolina coast (Myrtle Beach and Charleston). Then for the month of June I have two a day basketball practice and two team camps. During the 2nd team camp I'm going to fly out from Nashville to State College for my grandfather's birthday on the 24th. And on the 26th I'm going to hitch a ride back to NYC which will begin the month+ party. Mark your calendars: June 26, the savior returns. (Yes, I know I'm not a savior, I just like to think I am).
So seriously it should be a whole lot of fun. I'm thinking parties every other night? No, joking, but yeah I want to see as many people as often as I can. A great time should be had by all.
Our soccer season was mercifully ended the other day in like a 8-0 loss to Evangelical Christian School. God's hand came down and he threw the ball into our goal. There was nothing I could do, there was a streak of fire behind the ball and- I swear to God- I couldn't even see it. No that didn't really happen, we just can't compete with the bigger schools. I've found out the hard way that soccer is not like basketball where one person can carry the whole team. But we improved, I improved, I got co-MVP of the team and I'm looking forward to the next two years.
So that's about it
REMEMBER JUNE 26
Spread the word |
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| Look at me, I wear my K-Swiss |
[Apr. 19th, 2005|09:52 pm] |
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| | Song Cry- Jay-Z | ] |
This is directed at the ad agency at K-Swiss.
Congratulations on continuing your stupid "I wear my K-Swiss" campaign. First there was that song version: I- Wear- my K-Swiss- I wear my K-Swiss. I'm sure you remember. Now it's people from different parts of the country sounding all elitest going "I wear MY K-Swiss."
Good job. You wear your pair of sneakers, as opposed to what? Not wearing them? Baking cookies with them?
Generally people try on a pair of shoes before they buy them to make sure they will actually wear them. It rarely happens that someone buys a pair of shoes and doesn't wear them. So K-Swiss, what were you thinking? The only logical deduction is that you take us all for idiots who will transfer obvious phrases into buying your "dope, ghetto, fly" shoes.
So you can suck it K-Swiss. I'll stick with my Fubu's thank you very much. |
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| The Triumphant Return! |
[Apr. 18th, 2005|09:49 pm] |
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| | Take Me Out- Franz Ferdinand | ] |
Yeah so in case you haven't noticed, I haven't posted in a reaaaaaaaaalllly long time. I mean I've been watching and writing and stuff. Just look at how I owned everyone about the NYC Olympics (count it). So a lot of stuff has happened since I last posted which was...um maybe in December? I don't remember.
1. I got my driver's license
I think I've had that since February 11. At first it was one of the coolest things ever. Now it has been demoted to pretty cool and quite convinient. But thinking about it like this makes it pretty cool again! Sweet!
2. We had Harvard Model Congress
It was a lot of fun. Got to debate, hang out with Ray, Jere, Jones, Andy, Murch, and Foretek. It was a pretty cool thing to have happen.
3. Soccer season started
We haven't won yet. We are so outclassed it's not even funny (seriously, it's not). Picture this: my school is actually smaller than Packer. There are 210 upper school students. Every other school is much bigger. Some are even all boys, makes it even harder. So most schools are just simply better at soccer than our team. I'm doing pretty well and I'm happy to say that all the goals I let up are my defence's fault, not mine. It's a soccer Goalkeeper thing, you probably wouldn't understand. But seriously, everyone says I'm playing pretty well. Believe it!
4. NYC Visit this summer
Turns out I'm going to be in NYC this summer. Probably from like around June 26 through the end of July. I'm going to be there to be an intern at the CUNY Graduate Center. It's going to be a lot of fun, obviously. If you wanna put me up at your house for a few nights, hey no problem, just let me know. Spread this around cause I wanna try to hang out with as many Packer people that will be around.
That's it for now, I think. Hopefully we will speak again soon.
Yeah! |
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| Incredible |
[Dec. 22nd, 2004|08:21 pm] |
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| | Fit But You Know It- The Streets | ] |
It's freaking crazy. It started raining in the morning. At 2:00 the rain started turning to freezing rain and sleet. And snow began accumulating on the ground! I couldn't believe it. So there's probably like 1 or 2 inches and it's apparently freaking freezing outside. It's 20 degrees but it feels like 8, according to the internet.
So we had basketball practice in the morning. The forecast of impending snow had already been made. So coach is like "I'm not going to make a decision about having practice tomorrow until tomorrow morning. I'm going to wake up at 6:30 and send an e-mail to all of you. Because hey it might snow like a mother from 4 to 9 but it could be gone tomorrow. And we might try to have practice later in the afternoon instead of in the morning like usual."
So he sends an e-mail later in the day that says "No practice at all tomorrow."
That's how bad it is fools. It's not supposed to go back above 32 for a few days. I'll probably go out tomorrow and use up all the snow. So yeah, it's cool.
The day after Christmas we're going to a basketball tournament in Carbondale. So I'm probably not going to post until next week. Have a good holiday if I don't post before that.
Oh and post if you want me to write something good about you. I'll eventually get around to it. |
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| More lists Fools |
[Nov. 17th, 2004|09:36 pm] |
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| | Crossing the Boundry- Immortial Technique | ] |
I hate movie commercials. In general, they totally suck. I swear to god, they give away the whole damn movie. I could just watch the review and see exactly what's going to happen in the movie. For example, judging by the commercials for "National Treasure", they're going to successfully steal the Declaration of Independence (they're worried about pulling it off) their journey will eventually lead them the the Pyramids. And that's the movie! That's what's going to happen! If someone sees it, reinforce my theory and let me know about it. Why would I want to see this movie now? Seriously, there's no more surprises, I don't understand why people are still going to go see movies when they give away the plot on their commercials. It's really stupid, fool.
So we've got our first basketball game on Monday the 22nd at ECS (Evangelical Christian School). I'm semi-nervous but you know, whatever. I've got a friend there so I think it'd be cool if I saw him. And for those who didn't know, Jonnie West (Jerry West's son) goes to my school. And the other day I got a ride home from him, and his car is sweeeet. I hope it'll become less novelty as the season goes on. And next time, I'm coming after cual quiera.
Later. |
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| Advertising |
[Nov. 11th, 2004|06:14 pm] |
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| |  restless | ] |
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| | Matrix Theme- Rage Against the Machine | ] |
I don't know how much you guys watch Comedy Central, but if you watch some of it, I'm sure you've seen ads for their new show, Drawn Together. If you don't know what I'm talking about, ask someone else about it, that's your punishment for not watching Comedy Central. But on like every commercial for this show, they hawk the one scene where the two girls french kiss in the hot tub. The first few times I was like "Hey cool" but from the 5th time until the 10000th I was not so excited with it. How many times do you need to hawk one segment from a show? I've seen that segment so many times that I don't even need to see it now, I'll just watch the damn commercials.
And congratulations to all owners of an Xbox. You now have 2 cool games for your system.
So from my birthday to now I've gotten a lot of cool new CD's. They've all been gifts actually, sweet. I recommend all of them:
Franz Ferdinand- Franz Ferdinand
Chronicle Vol. 1- Creedence Clearwater Revival
Shangri-La- Mark Knopfler
Combat Rock- The Clash
Cross Road- Bon Jovi
Any questions, just ask. |
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| Here's some Foreign Perspective |
[Nov. 5th, 2004|09:33 pm] |
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| | I Put a Spell On You - Creedence Clearwater Revival | ] |
Here's an article written by Brian Reade of the UK's Daily Mirror:
GOD HELP AMERICA
Nov 5 2004
THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN..
THEY say that in life you get what you deserve. Well, today America has deservedly got a lawless cowboy to lead them further into carnage and isolation and the unreserved contempt of most of the rest of the world.
This once-great country has pulled up its drawbridge for another four years and stuck a finger up to the billions of us forced to share the same air. And in doing so, it has shown itself to be a fearful, backward-looking and very small nation.
This should have been the day when Americans finally answered their critics by raising their eyes from their own sidewalks and looking outward towards the rest of humanity.
And for a few hours early yesterday, when the exit polls predicted a John Kerry victory, it seemed they had.
But then the horrible, inevitable truth hit home. They had somehow managed to re-elect the most devious, blinkered and reckless leader ever put before them. The Yellow Rogue of Texas.
A self-serving, dim-witted, draft-dodging, gung-ho little rich boy, whose idea of courage is to yell: "I feel good," as he unleashes an awesome fury which slaughters 100,000 innocents for no other reason than greed and vanity.
A dangerous chameleon, his charming exterior provides cover for a power-crazed clique of Doctor Strangeloves whose goal is to increase America's grip on the world's economies and natural resources.
And in foolishly backing him, Americans have given the go-ahead for more unilateral pre-emptive strikes, more world instability and most probably another 9/11.
Why else do you think bin Laden was so happy to scare them to the polls, then made no attempt to scupper the outcome?
There's only one headline in town today, folks: "It Was Osama Wot Won It."
And soon he'll expect pay-back. Well, he can't allow Bush to have his folks whoopin' and a-hollerin' without his own getting a share of the fun, can he?
Heck, guys, I hope you're feeling proud today.
To the tens of millions who voted for John Kerry, my commiserations.
To the overwhelming majority of you who didn't, I simply ask: Have you learnt nothing? Do you despise your own image that much?
Do you care so little about the world beyond your shores? How could you do this to yourselves?
How appalling must one man's record at home and abroad be for you to reject him?
Kerry wasn't the best presidential candidate the Democrats have ever fielded (and he did deserve a kicking for that "reporting for doo-dee" moment), but at least he understood the complexity of the world outside America, and domestic disgraces like the 45 million of his fellow citizens without health cover.
He would have done something to make that country fairer and re-connected it with the wider world.
Instead America chose a man without morals or vision. An economic incompetent who inherited a $2billion surplus from Clinton, gave it in tax cuts to the rich and turned the US into the world's largest debtor nation.
A man who sneers at the rights of other nations. Who has withdrawn from international treaties on the environment and chemical weapons.
A man who flattens sovereign states then hands the rebuilding contracts to his own billionaire party backers.
A man who promotes trade protectionism and backs an Israeli government which continually flouts UN resolutions.
America has chosen a menacingly immature buffoon who likened the pursuit of the 9/11 terrorists to a Wild West, Wanted Dead or Alive man-hunt and, during the Afghanistan war, kept a baseball scorecard in his drawer, notching up hits when news came through of enemy deaths.
A RADICAL Christian fanatic who decided the world was made up of the forces of good and evil, who invented a war on terror, and thus as author of it, believed he had the right to set the rules of engagement.
Which translates to telling his troops to do what the hell they want to the bad guys. As he has at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and countless towns across Iraq.
You have to feel sorry for the millions of Yanks in the big cities like New York, Washington, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco who voted to kick him out.
These are the sophisticated side of the electorate who recognise a gibbon when they see one.
As for the ones who put him in, across the Bible Belt and the South, us outsiders can only feel pity.
Were I a Kerry voter, though, I'd feel deep anger, not only at them returning Bush to power, but for allowing the outside world to lump us all into the same category of moronic muppets.
The self-righteous, gun-totin', military lovin', sister marryin', abortion-hatin', gay-loathin', foreigner-despisin', non-passport ownin' red-necks, who believe God gave America the biggest dick in the world so it could urinate on the rest of us and make their land "free and strong".
You probably won't be surprised to learn of would-be Oklahoma Republican Senator Tom Coburn who, on Tuesday, promised to ban abortion and execute any doctors who carried them out.
He also told voters that lesbianism is so rampant in the state's schools that girls were being sent to toilets on their own. Not that any principal could be found to back him up.
These are the people who hijack the word patriot and liken compassion to child-molesting. And they are unknowingly bin Laden's chief recruiting officers.
Al-Qaeda's existence is fuelled by the outpourings of America's Christian right. Bush is its commander-in-chief. And he and bin Laden need each other to survive.
Both need to play Lex Luther to each others' Superman with their own fanatical people. Maybe that's why the mightiest military machine ever assembled has failed to catch the world's most wanted man.
Or is the reason simply that America is incompetent? That behind the bluff they are frightened and clueless, which is why they've stayed with the devil they know.
VISITORS from another planet watching this election would surely not credit the amateurism.
The queues for hours to register a tick; the 17,000 lawyers needed to ensure there was no cheating; the $1.2bn wasted by parties trying to discredit the enemy; the allegations of fraud, intimidation and dirty tricks; the exit polls which were so wildly inaccurate; an Electoral College voting system that makes the Eurovision Song Contest look like a beacon of democracy and efficiency; and the delays and the legal wrangles in announcing the victor.
Yet America would have us believe theirs is the finest democracy in the world. Well, that fine democracy has got the man it deserved. George W Bush.
But is America safer today without Kerry in charge? A man who overnight would have given back to the UN some credibility and authority. Who would have worked out the best way to undo the Iraq mess without fear of losing face.
Instead, the questions facing America today are - how many more thousands of their sons will die as Iraq descends into a new Vietnam? And how many more Vietnams are on the horizon now they have given Bush the mandate to go after Iran, Syria, North Korea or Cuba...?
Today is a sad day for the world, but it's even sadder for the millions of intelligent Americans embarrassed by a gung-ho leader and backed by a banal electorate, half of whom still believe Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11.
Yanks had the chance to show the world a better way this week, instead they made a thuggish cowboy ride off into the sunset bathed in glory.
And in doing so it brought Armageddon that little bit closer and re-christened their beloved nation The Home Of The Knave and the Land Of The Freak.
God Help America. |
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| Game Over |
[Nov. 3rd, 2004|11:07 pm] |
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| |  depressed | ] |
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| | The End- The Doors | ] |
I'm going to try to keep this brief. I don't want to go on and on, I'll space it out over a couple of posts
I can't believe how stupid ther majority of America is. Do you idiots live under rocks? Can you not see what's going on? 1,100 soldiers dead in Iraq. For what? What have we accomplished? Don't give me shit about removing Saddam, that just made them more pissed off. We had more control of the country when Saddam was in power, we had him boxed in with the no-fly zones and the sanctions. Those were working! Jesus
The economy? He inherited a recession? Clinton gave us one of the biggest surpluses ever. EVER. And now we're in the biggest debt ever. EVER. How does one fuck up so badly? 9/11? Tax cuts? Not a good combination. Perhaps ONE tax cut for the CEO's was bad enough. But more? Has anyone in the lower and middle classes who voted for Bush notice that you didn't get a damn tax cut? And if you did it was like 10 bucks? Compare that to what the richest 1% got, then we'll see how pissed you get.
I hope you republicans are happy. You got what you wanted. 4 more years of pain, misery, and death. You'd think when things went this badly the first time you'd learn from it. But no, they want to see things go even worse. Go for it. At least Bush will have to clean up his own damn mess. |
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| Stuff That I Hate |
[Oct. 31st, 2004|09:55 pm] |
Hello folks, happy halloween and welcome to "Stuff That I Hate".
1. The goddamn school filter: At my school we have a freakin filter that leaves only two sites that I can check there: nytimes.com and my yahoo page which has all of my comics. I can't check my yahoo mail, I can't visit any sites that contain the word "dang" let alone theonion.com. Packer people apparently have a policy where they can do anything with their computers and it's their own fault if they fail. Hey, that's a good idea. Make us learn the hard way not to mess around in school instead of worrying about your freakin' ratings!
2. My Neighborhood at Halloween: I got one group of kids ask me for candy this year, edging out last year by 1 group. Obviously my neighborhood is inhabited by a bunch of old people with no kids. But apparently, 3 blocks down (In "German territory", i.e. Germantown) there's a whole slew of kids trick or treating. Dumb kids won't venture a few blocks this way. Halloween in Brooklyn was the best ever. The whole neighborhood came alive and I could go down past Hoyt Street without fear for my life. I'm kidding, I kid Hoyt Street!
3. George Bush's policies: I'm not in the mood.
4. Football Monopoly Networks: Let me explain this. If you watch football, you'll know what I mean. Say for example I'm watching the Jets vs. Patriots (Which I'll never be able to because they'd rather show me the fuckin' Bucanners vs. Carolina, a dumbass game with no meaning whatsoever) So I'm watching the game, and like in the middle of the 2nd quarter I hear ads for NEXT WEEK's games! Network prick, let me enjoy THIS game. I don't wanna think about next weekend, that means I have to think about the school leading up to it. So let me be ignorant of the school that I have to go to next week. Let me enjoy the damn game and on say Wednesday start hawking the weekend games. You already do it anyway
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| Stuff |
[Oct. 10th, 2004|06:40 pm] |
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I feel really bad for not posting like ever. Because I have a lot to write about, but I'm apparently incredibly lazy. So I'm sorry for that. I'm sorry to Andrew for not picking teams anymore. Andrew, you win by default.
So my birthday is 1 week from today. I'm going to State College Pennsylvania where a whole lot of my family is going to meet. It's gonna be a lot of fun and if anyone wants to visit, since you know S.C. is only 5 hours from NY, tell me and we'll see. I'm going to be there from THursday to Monday, and it should be a lot of fun.
The Yankees won yesterday, and I'm stoked for the series against the Red Sux. It's gonna be exactly the same as last year. I'm going to try to post more often because I feel an obligation to you guys to talk about myself. Seriously. But I can't guarantee anything.
Later |
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| Week 2 Picks |
[Sep. 18th, 2004|11:43 am] |
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Here are my week 2 picks. Hopefully they won't be identical to Andrew's like last week.
Of course Bold is my pick.
Record so far: 10-4 (71.4%)
Carolina- Kansas City
Chicago- Green Bay
Denver- Jacksonville
Houston- Detroit
Indianapolis- Tennessee
Pittsburgh- Baltimore
San Francisco- New Orleans
Saint Louis- Atlanta
Seattle- Tampa Bay
Buffalo- Oakland
Cleveland- Dallas
New England- Arizona
Miami- Cincinnati
Minnesota- Philidelphia
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| Results for Week 1 |
[Sep. 14th, 2004|10:21 pm] |
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| | Crossing the Boundry- Immortial Technique | ] |
Same as Schall, bold is my pick, italics is el winner.
Indianapolis at New England
Tennessee at Miami
Arizona at St. Louis
Jacksonville at Buffalo
San Diego at Houston
Tampa Bay at Washington
Dallas at Minnesota
Kansas City at Denver
Green Bay at Carolina
Baltimore at Cleveland
Detroit at Chicago
Seattle at New Orleans
Oakland at Pittsburgh
Atlanta at San Francisco
Last week: 10-4 (71.4 %)
Season Record: Look up)
No worries though. I may be trailing Andrew, but that's because he cheats.
And of course nobody but Andrew cares about this post.
Later everyone.
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