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Friday, 28 January 05 :: things that make me angry these days.

the election in iraq. yes, it makes me angry. why? because its a farce. the idea of an election when there is an occupying army still there just isn't right.. further the idea of an election taking place with the threats of violence that are happening isn't right either. the fact that the international observers are going to be watching from jordan is laughingly ridiculous. the fact that, and the fact that.. ferfucksake. how stupid is the world? well, apparently over half of america is even more stupid than george bush. and the world.. well, i think the world has a lot on the average american.

the conversations about how bad it could be if the democrats are seen as the anti-war party. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, someone tell me why it is bad to be seen as anti-war. if everyone says we go to war for peace, WHY IS IT BAD TO BE ANTI-WAR? because if we just skip the war crap, don't we have peace??? to hear democrats belittle the anti-war movement is stomach curdling. to hear it on air america radio makes me want to rip my stomach out. WHAT IS SO WRONG WITH BEING A PACIFIST???? lets go to iraq, lets ask some of those innocents about how fun it is to live in a war riddled zone. ask them if they want peace, ask them if they want it to stop. goddess knows if i were living in a war rattled country i'd want peace.

listening to county commissioner anna morrison speak about how we need to reach out and care about people at the tsunami beneft. this is a woman who wants to cut county human services, and health care benefits for county employees. how can she stand up there and speak at a benefit for people, how can she stand there and talk about caring about people half a world away, when she doesn't give a shit about people in her own back yard? that woman needs to become disabled, she needs to go bankrupt, she needs to know what it is like to struggle each day.

and lastly... an amusing, to me, conversation.

brooke's friend b: did you know that laura bush smokes, a lot, like chain smoke??
brooke: goddess knows i'd be a chain smoker if every time my husband got up and spoke he either lied through is teeth, made an idiot out of himself, or did both at the same time.

posted by brooke at January 28, 2005 08:55 PM

comments

I totally agree about the elections in Iraq.

And I'd be a chainsmoker, too. Sigh.

posted by: chasmyn at January 31, 2005 06:18 PM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.