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  • Friday, March 21, 2003
    This is what I heard when I turned on the news tonight. Good ole' Peter looking almost happy as behind him you see part of a city being destroyed said, "Tonight, pay back! A city full of ground zeros."

    Payback?? When did a differant man in another country become the one who deserved 'payback!'? I know that the man of this city is bad. He kills hundreds of his own innocent people each year. He isn't the only one in the world like that. Are we going to roll into country after country and liberate the innocent? What about the man who runs the island not to far from our own southern coast. Isn't he a murder? Doesn't he do basically the same thing? Why don't we stop him? How about all the cleansing going on in countries just north of the country we are attacking now? Are we going to stop that?

    No?

    Guess we only help liberate countries on a need to have their stuff bases. Too bad for you if you are being tortured and brutalized by a cruel leader and your country has nothing. The knights in dusty armour will never come through your streets. Our men and women will never crash and die in your countryside while trying to 'help' you out. Our men will not get shot and killed by any one trying to resist.
    Shock and awwwwwwww...won't hear that repeated over and over again by the buzzards who circle with their camera's to get every explosion to show the world. We won't see the sad and defeated faces of men who have surrendered in tight close ups so that no dignity can remain.

    I don't want our soldiers to die. I don't want innocent people to die. I want those people to be free, but can someone explain why not all people are worthy of our help? We spend thousands upon thousands of dollars in just the first two minutes of bombing that city. How many of our poor would that have feed and given shelter to? How many would that have given comfort to as they waste from uncured sickness?

    Why can't I understand the reasons? Am I blind? Am I stupid? According to 75% of this country I must be. Cause they support this.

    Once again I support our troops, because they are doing their job...I just wish they were home. Calling them knights was not meant to be snide towards them. I just mean that is how the press and our goverment tries to spin this thing.
    Wednesday, March 19, 2003
    After my Granny died family members descended on her house like locust and grabbed anything and everything thing they thought had value. I was not there as I had no money to fly home and my mother would not loan me the money, saying there was no point of me being there. Yeah, no need for me to be there to show respect for one of the few people in this world that I really loved. Funny how much that still hurts me after all these years. Anyway, I'm rambling, but, it's my blog and I can do that if I want to...I would not have wanted to see my cousins squabbling over trinkets and coats...my mother and sister said it was disgusting and just sat on the couch watching it happen. My mother made sure that I got a couple of quilts that my Nanny had made and Christmas ornaments that had been my Granny and Grandpa's. She also made sure I got some of the little statue's that my Granny loved. She knew that I would rather have those kinds of things, cause I could look at them and remember how much Granny loved them.
    Last week at around 5:00 in the morning the cats were fighting in my room and they pulled down the quilt stand holding my Nanny's quilts and broke it and knocked it into the cabinet I had the statues on...Only two of them came away un broken...just a carnage of broken statues on my floors. As I sat crying my eyes out as I picked up the pieces, I knew that I was being stupid. There are so many bad things in this world, so many bad things have happened...what are a few statues.
    Tuesday, March 18, 2003
    I've been home from work with a cold for two days. I hate being home sick. I feel like I'm just being a big baby and should be tougher and get myself to work. Only problem is that I have been having dizzy spells due to the congestion and I really didn't feel like being at work and not be able to lay down when I need to. There was what felt like an explosion in my right ear a while ago and after the pain faded, I actually started feeling better.