Frustrated Inc.

It feels like forever since I've written anything of consequence on here, and not for lack of having things to say, but for my inability to sit down and actually write. If I had a laptop and I could write anytime I felt the urge, I'd probably update this thing a few times a week. But whenever I get the time at home I just get bored with things and never seem to follow through.

It occured to me recently that this page might exist decades from now - hell, someday my grandkids could hypothetically be reading everything I write. But somehow that's not enough motivation to say anything.

See, I used to be funny.
I used to be clever and witty.
I used to have opinions.
I used to get out and do fun things.

Now I'm just boring.
I hope I can get my head out of my ass and my hands out of my pockets more in the future.

Even still...

I read the entirety of Bush's State of the Union address last week, and even though it seems to be fashionable in the blog-world to refrain from commenting on it this year, I did have alot to say.
Though the time to comment has come and passed, there were a few things to note:
A) Katrina victims and New Orleans didn't receive any attention whatsoever
B) The alleged victories that Bush claims to have captured over the "terrorists" are fairytales,
and
C) those stories of "heroes" doing great deeds within America... what the hell was that? Despite their irrelevance, Bush basically tried to bestow credit upon himself for how good these people are.

Unfortunately I missed the address on TV - if only to witness the President's struggle to spew out the bullshit in coherent sentences.

Anecdote

Back in World War II a man was asked to figure out a way to better protect planes and pilots by adding more armor to Allied aircraft.
So he basically drew out the planes and looked at all of the bullet holes in the planes that returned from missions. Every bullet hole meant a dot on his drawing of each respective plane, and eventually large areas of the pictures became dotted.

Now, you'd think he'd have said, "Put all of the armor on the spots that seem get hit the most."

Instead he said this - put the armor on the spots that we never see bullet holes, because those holes are only found in the planes that never make it home.

Boring things. And nipples.

Every year it seems that Christmas loses more and more of the meaning it used to hold when I was a kid. This year was no exception.
Over the past few years my parents have acquired the annoying habit of picking up a tree on Christmas Eve. So for the first few days that I was home it just felt like any other day. Add to that the fact that it was so bloody warm this year right through til January, and you've got the makings of a meaningless trip home.
Not to say that it wasn't good to see friends and family and everything, but the season is just losing its lustre.

Because of the weather it suddenly seems that every single person in the land believes in global warming. Probably a good thing, even if it was just a freak year that won't be repeated any time soon.

As soon as I got home I was greeted with an array of cats that set my allergies off. My parents have 3 cats and my bro has 2, so there was no avoiding it. That was one reason I was itching to get back home, the other one being the boredom that goes along with my hometown.


A bonus from my time at home was the day that I was checking the weather on TV while the weather girl was doing the national forecast. She was a large-chested girl, and I almost bore witness to both of her nipples, I swear to god. It was just a combination of the shirt she was wearing and the angle of the camera I suppose. Good stuff though.

Only killers call killing "progress"

Yesterday it was announced that Saddam Hussein's partners in crime (Barzan al-Tikriti and Awad Hamad al-Bandar) were sent to the gallows like their old friend was a short while ago. And wouldn't ya know it, they fucked it up again.
Considering the debacle that was Saddam's execution, the hangmen really should've appealed to common sense (to keep the "peace" between factions in Iraq if you will), the calls from the global community, and mercy itself in this matter. But more fundamentally, these executions should've been held of until all of the trials were finished. Even Saddam should've had his execution at least postponed until his other crimes had been put before a court. (And not just a clown court.)

But justice isn't really what anyone wanted in this case, is it? I mean, these three men were put to death for the murder of 148 Shias back in the 80s. But that's hardly the extent of their crimes. Everyone just seemed to want these guys dead, especially Bushy. After all, if you keep Saddam out of a legitimate trial and get him dead ASAP, odds are the US won't be made to look like the hypocrites they are. Let's not forget Saddam was funded by the US back when he was considered an ally, and Hussein committed some of his worst crimes while the US just turned a blind eye. Now that Hussein is just a scapegoat for the hatred and greed of helluvalot of Americans, all anybody cared about was seeing him dangle.

Or in the case of al-Tikriti, seeing his head pop off as the floor fell out beneath him. Apparently the whole thing was filmed again, but this time it was done so in a controlled manner. Nothing like the Saddam disaster, which lead to international criticism and deepened divides between those fighting in Iraq right now. No no, this time the video was only shown to a few reporters to defend the fact that the decapitation was "accidental". But from what I've read, the length of the rope is related to the weight of the person being hanged. So unless these fools can't do math, you pretty well have to assume it was done for effect.

As an interesting aside, I guess you could say the US got what it wanted out of Iraq - the governemnt has agreed to forfeit control of their oil to Western companies. All's well that ends well, right?
Oddly enough, back home we're still willing to spend $1.49 at Mac's on a bottle of flavoured water. It's a mad mad mad mad world kids.

In other news.... Over the break America reached the 3000 tally in lives lost in the battle on terror. Sounds impressive, but a number is only a number and you can't put a value on any of that. Still, it is strange to think that not even that many people were killed in 9/11.

Also, Bush is taking alot of flak over his new plan for Iraq, not to mention his idiotic plans for Iran. Olberman does a fantastic job of ripping the asshole out of that idiot, so I'll let him do the talking. (There's also a synopsis of his show if you can't watch the video)

Oh, and over the break James Brown and former President Gerald Ford also died. At least those events took up some air time in between the special reports on TV that were showing exactly how to hang a dictator, and how his neck will actually break between vertebrae X and Y rather than the rope strangling him. Interesting stuff! Not...

That's all I've got time to say for now, but I do have some news from my own life over the Christmas break and such, so I'll have to update that later.