News

So classes are done, and exams are here. My fingernails are already gone so now I have nothing left to chew off. And I don't bite my pens, so I've turned to candy. And maybe I'll look into some beef jerky. God do I ever love beef jerky...

The other night we got hit by a shitstorm of snow here in London. Cars were snowed in, buses all around town were off the roads, and without a lie we were wandering around balls-deep in it. A few of us in the house got out to play some football in the wee hours of the morning, which was fun.



From the BBC I've come across some interesting tidbits lately:

• Apparently size does matter.
  

• Thankfully this asshole is getting the boot.

• I wouldn't feel comfortable letting my jubblies near these things.

• Just a single domino in the line doesn't mean much.
  

• The U.S. of A. -- bringers of freedom, democracy, and... oh wait.

• The U.N. -- bringers of peace, stability, and... oh wait.

Anyway, it's getting late. Really late...

It only took the better part of 4 months...

At long last I posted my Top 5's of the year.

And here's what I'm currently listening to:





































In other news, I've had a headache for the better part of a week, and it's generally in the same spot. Plus I've been having some pretty weird and bad dreams lately. Dunno what it all means.

KKKramer and "How to Get Away With Murder"

No doubt everyone has heard about the unbelievable breakdown Michael Richards recently had onstage at a comedy club. When I first saw the clip I: A) didn't believe it was him, because the video quality was shit B) couldn't believe the words he was saying, and C) thought instantly that he was either wasted or on some sort of drug.

But it's pretty damn clear now that it actually was him. And apparently he wasn't on anything, he just snapped.

Now everyone's up in arms, people are disgusted, yadda yadda... (no pun intended)

You see black social leaders standing on soapboxes holding forks, in reference to one of the insults Kramer yelled that night; everyone's asking Jerry what he thinks; Richards is on Letterman apologizing with the audience laughing; jokes are being made at his expense, etc etc.
It's the talk of the day and everyone's pitching in their two cents.

Personally I don't even care anymore. Cuz let's face it - everyone's at least a little bit racist. Yes, even black people, including the guy at the club that night that called Richards a "cracker-assed motherfucker". Nothing quite like fighting fire with fire.

It's sure as hell not going to stop me from watching Seinfeld or buying the DVDs.
He made a mistake, he's sorry, let's move on.


Another story of late has been the upcoming release of OJ Simpson's book "If I Did It". And if you haven't heard of this yet, you will soon.
He is actually publishing a book that details how he would have killed his wife back when it all happened.

If this isn't an indication of just how sickening the money-hungry West has become, I don't know what is. The moral character of the United States in particular is going to be held up to the barometer when the book hits the shelves - and no doubt it'll sell like crazy. First of all to the celeb-idolizing idiots; secondly to the sickos who actively seek circumstances in life that are gory or morose; and thirdly to the flat-out curious.

Not only is this a sad attempt to profit from a tragedy (much like that movie about Paul Bernardo), it puts all of his ex-wife's family through torment again - as if OJ getting away with murder wasn't enough in the first place.

Oddly enough he's probably just trying to make enough money to pay off the civil suit that actually found the fucker guilty of the murders! And we call this justice eh? Apparently she's not only blind, but deaf and dumb too.

Contrary to my comments about buying Seinfeld DVDs, I'm not even going to give a second thought to this bullshit.

Today we take the Whitehouse and paint it a poor man's grey

"I never vote for anyone. I always vote against." - W.C. Fields

I've been wearing a shit-eating grin for the past week. At least on the inside anyway. After all, who actually eats shit, then smiles about it? No one, that's who.

Of course I'm referring to the recent changes that have taken place in the US government.
Not only did the Conservatives lose power in the House of Representatives, they also lost the Senate (a rather impressive feat considering the relative stability of the Senate compared to the House).

Democrats took hold of ridings that were considered GOP strongholds for years and years; for the first time in American history the speaker of the House will be a female; Rummy is finally out of office; Bolton will likely be prevented from any further advancement towards the UN.
And there are no recounts to save the Neo-Con's this time around.

After all of the bullshit and lies the Bush administration has fed the American people and the world beyond, the people have finally awoken from their slumbers to say "enough of this shite" in their best Irish accents.

A blow that the Republicans could've done without was the recent admission of Reverend Ted Haggard that he bought meth from a male prostitute, and had sex with him. He was once quoted as saying, "We don't have to debate what we should think about homosexuals, it's written in the Bible."
A man of God eh? Leader of millions of evangelicals you say? Friend of the President huh? Asset to the Right for securing the church-going God-fearing voters?

I guess not.

So now Bush is at the mercy of his opposition. At long last the reigns have fallen from his hands, and his dictator-ship like control of the country and military have evaporated overnight. After turning the country's largest surplus into the largest deficit they've ever seen, and letting the real perpetrators of the WTC attacks go free, he's left to scratch his head and wonder why everyone turned on him. (Well not everyone, I'm sure he still has alot of followers who believe that bombing someone into loving you is an effective tactic.)




And though all of this makes your average socialist weak in the knees, there's still a massive amount of problems to be addressed -- the debacle in Iraq, the ever-mounting anti-American sentiment around the globe, the disastrous Katrina response, the scandals and fake documents, the opaque wall of red tape that Bush has been hiding behind, the potential for another war with North Korea or Iran, the lies surrounding 9/11, the condoned abuses in Abu Ghraib and Gitmo, the recently passed "Torture Act", the horrific state of the media in North America, and the economy that's circling the drain -- just to name a few.

Impeaching the President and his constituents for the illegal war that lead to the murder of thousands upon thousands of innocent Iraqis, and indirect killings of thousands of American soldiers, must be addressed as well. German lawyers have already jumped at the opportunity to hold Rumsfeld accountable for multiple abuse cases - hopefully this is only the beginning.


After all, Bush is man who was ushered into his position by far more intelligent, evil, and greedy people than he -- all on the purchased say-so of Fox News. So don't believe for a second that these people had anything but self-interest at heart. No rich kids go to war, and no amount of money in the pocket is enough to satisfy.

And the Democrats are no exception in this joke of a political system we must endure. Now that the people are awake, let's hope they don't swallow another placebo and let the same old shit happen again. The Dem's allowed for the Patriot Act to be passed, and did little to stand in the way of the Rep's after 9/11. Just because the powers that be say we ought to be very afraid and trust every last word of the government says, that doesn't mean we ought to.

To end with another quote... "Mother should I trust the government?"

I emphatically reply "FUCK NO!!!"

It sure will be interesting to see what changes do happen though.

A Mediocre Rant

I've noticed a few things lately that have got me thinkin'.
And considering I'm inherently a thinker anyway, these things stood out so much that I decided to do a mini social-commentary on here.

A few weeks back I was watching TV in the midafternoon with my roommate, and while flicking through the channels he decided to stop on the Ultimate Fighting Championship reality show that basically leads to a student in the class being inducted into the UFC as an official fighter.
We watched the fight, which was incredibly boring, and one fighter came out the victor, while the other was left to pout about his loss. Let's call him "Cement Head".
In an interview, Cement Head was devastaed. He was crying. He was raving that he would rather have left the ring in a bodybag, than lose the meaningless fight. He was quoted saying "There were two ways I was coming out of there - the winner, or dead."

Guess what friend, you came out the loser. That's right, the LOSER. And you're still alive to bitch about it and claim that you'd rather be wiped off the earth than accept the fact that your opponent was a better fighter.
Ignoring the fact that being a UFC fighter is hardly something to aspire to in life, it's even more baffling that Cement Head would prefer death over life. I guess his life must be pretty horrible if the only thing keeping him going is a reality TV show, and a shot at a picosecond of fame.
I find it very difficult to believe that this toolbox actually meant what he said. But come to think of it, maybe society would be better off if such idiots were actually forced to fight to the death. Then again, that might be a little harsh.

I was in one of my 700-student classes a few weeks ago, and above all other voices and even the music from my headphones, I could hear a girl proclaiming idiocy at the top of her self-involved lungs. I overheard her talking to two of her friends (both of whom seemed utterly disinterested with her) about how great she was.
"I am SUCH a nice person!" she said, referring to the fact that she had wished her friend a happy birthday on facebook the previous night. She followed this up with a rundown of exactly where she had purchased all of the clothes that made up her outfit for the day. "I got this at the Store For Idiots, and these pants came from Slut's R' Us. Oh, and you'll NEVER believe where I got this bag from! That cute little store called Daddy's Money at White Oaks!!"

Well done you selfish bitch. Well done indeed. You have solidified the thought in my mind that the world is worse off now than it was 5 seconds ago. Now, I realise this girl is about 3 years younger than I am (considerig it's a 2nd year class and I'm the older of the double cohort), but is that really any excuse? When did it become alright to become so disconnected from reality that you can't even wish someone a happy birthday without asking for recognition of your kindness? That's not to say that youth is the excuse for this mindset - I see it everywhere at this school - but it's amazing that at an instutution of higher learning you can find some of the stupidest and most self involved people anywhere. I thought we were supposed to be intelligent people aimed at the betterment of society here?
I almsot felt like throwing my coffee at her (ruining her Daddy's Money leather bag), but I realised I'm even more frustrated with her parents. I'd like to slap them silly until they reevaluate their parenting practices and straighen their bitch out.

Last week I had stop-in at the pisser in our North Campus Building. I saw two guys already at the urinals, each at the farthest end of the 5 that were there. Naturally I went to the middle one (as to allow for elbow room), but I noticed the douchebag to the left of me was having a conversation. Confused, I looked around to see who he was talkign to. A few other guys were washing their hands behind me, and another was at the hand dryer, but they weren't even lookin in this guy's direction.
That's when he finished up, and it all became clear - he was on a fucking cell phone.

"Don't worry about that sound in the background John, I'm not standing in a public fountain. That's just me having a piss while I talk to you. I'm just too damn busy to wait two minutes. Fuck am I ever cool."
I don't even know what to say about this scene that I witnessed. I guess respect for other people (not to mention self respect) have gone out the window. I hope he drops his phone in the toilet next time he's taking a shit.

I have a pin on my backpack that says "If you're not pissed off, you're not paying attention." My roommate said if he had a pin on his bag it would read "Don't worry, be happy!"
He thinks I'm too pesscimistic and I should look on the brighter side of life.

I think he just proved the point that the pin is supposed to be making.

Lastly, there has been a fair bit of controversy on campus lately about the privatization of education, in the sense that corporations are trying to influence universities by offering donations and other incentives in order to have their needs satisfied. Such an example is the involvement of UWO Engineering in the research and development of the Stryker armored vehicle that is currently being employed in Iraq and Afghanistan. A company by the name of General Dynamics is producing this "light armored vehicle" under contract with the US Army, and utilizes students to help with the design of the machine.
Interestingly, I have a friend who worked on the project this past summer. I had a talk with her about it (in which I criticized her for working for warmongers), and her response was just what I expected - a shirking of responsibility.

Besides the obvious dangers that corporate influence can have in the education system, the issue here is the morality and accountability that every person must own-up to if they choose to work within a program that ends in something immoral. My friend is not a bad person by any stretch of the imagination, but when a thousand pieces of the puzzle assemble into a killing machine, each part should be evaluated. It's all-too-easy to say "Well, it's not ME that's shooting the bullets at those people", and much harder to say "I'm not going to take this job because it might involve innocent people being murdered."
At the root of this is self-interested people who fundamentally don't care what happens after their job is done. It's kinda like eating the burger, all the while knowing that the cow had to be grown and killed for us to eat it.
And it's best not to consider how the cow feels. Otherwise we might choose tofu instead...

We will (we will) rock you

It's 9:15 and I'm already on campus when I should still be at home asleep.
Why, you ask?
Because I was so damn tired this morning that I didn't even notice that it was 8:30 when I jumped in the shower instead of 9:30. And I really coulda used the hour of sleep.

Last night we started our hockey season for intramurals, which is part of the reason I'm so tired. I had a brutal game, but it was better that I expected, considering I haven't hit the ice since that game in the spring when I fucked up my foot. We ended up in a tie, which isn't bad for the first game.

We had a few new additions to the team this year - one guy we knew from first year, one guy's brother, and some guy who apparently used to play in the OHL. We also lost a few from last year, but the base of the team is still the same. The hilariou thing about last night was this guy who bragged about playing for an OHL team - he was complete trash. Just horrific. I bet he regrets bragging now, and we all know the guy who brought him in feels like a complete idiot now. I guess we're stuck with him for the year though; it's too bad my roomie Steve bitched out this year.

He played last year and did fine, but this year his main excuse for not playing was the fact that he didn't want to look bad in front of the new guys we brought onto the team - somewhat ironic given the current situation. He also claimed that because he has a job this year he won't have the time for it. Even though it's about a 3 hour commitment per week. He'll just stay at home playing Score Poker or Perfect Dark anyway, so what's the difference?
He'd better not show his ugly mug in the dressing room, because everyone thinks he's a huge pussy for not playing.

In other news, I'm swamped with work right now. I've got 3 exams next week, then a two week break before my next two. And this weekend my bro, dad, and some cousins and uncles are down for the Western football game and drinking. So I know I'm not gonna get much done in the way of school work. And my lab work is ensuring that I never get to sleep in past 9:30 (and some days it even gets me to campus an hour early... fuck). I did take a four hour nap yesterday though, which was pretty sweet.

I guess I'd better go get a coffee and something to eat.

I'm tired of waking up tired

Well that puzzle experiment didn't work exactly as planned, but I think I'll leave it on the site cuz it's still pretty cool.

It's been awhile since I've said anything about what's shakin in my life recently, so I'll give an update now.

I guess the biggest news is that I'm no longer a single man. During frosh week things came together (no pun intended) with a girl named Jenn that I barely knew before this summer. There were a couple of drunken nights when we flirted in the summer, and obviously more happened in frosh week, so here we are now. She's a really cool girl, and so far she hasn't complained about any of my stupidity or drunken actions, so things are looking good! Then again, things usually start out just peachy before the problems arise.
Regardless, it's been a couple fo years since I've been in anything serious, so I'm looking forward ot a consistent piece of ass. haha

In other news, I found out last night that the Work Study program rejected me, so it looks like I'm gonna be nothing but a volunteer all year long in the lab. Not necessarily a bad thing I suppose, as it'll still look good on my resume and give me alot of practical experience. Hopefully that'll lead to a full time summer job next year, either with the prof I work for now or another option. We'll see I guess.

Last night I also watched ther movie "Unforgiven", a Western with Eastwood, Hack-man and Mrogan Freeman. It was pretty fricken dynamite.

Last night the boys and I all did our annual hockey draft for the upcoming NHL season. I did reasonably well in my forwards and goalies, but my defence is questionable. Two big question-marks are Kim Johnsson and Niklas Kronwall; the former is supposed to be headlining the PP for the wild, and Kronwall should put up some good stats in Detroit. I got Ward and Kipper in net (along with JS Giguerre as a sub) and my boy Ovechkin on forward, along with Gagne, Forsberg, Nash, Bell, Tanguay, and a few others that I can't rememeber at the moment.

I've been much better about staying on top of my school work this year, but I'm seriously fucking tired of waking up groggy as hell, wishing for a nap all day long. One thing that I've let slide badly is my physical activity. I basically did fuck all for a solid month after I finished work, and now it's gonna be rough getting back into things. Last Sunday's baseball game was a prime example of how out of shape I am, seeing as I'm still sore in the legs right now. Then again, I was hungover as shit, which probably didn't help. Thankfully the weather led to the cancellation of our ballhockey game that night. I'll be back soon enough tho, I just need to get over this cold and get our running a bit, then hit the weights again.

I'm still happy as hell to be back in London, but it's starting to sink in that after this year almost everyone will be gone. I know a few people sticking around for another year, but the majority of my friends will graduate this year and start into real life. I guess there's no time like the present, so we'd better enjoy it. I'm also gonna do my best to take a few more pics this year, since Mather wants to do a slidshow/video thing at the end of the year to catalogue all of our years here. I'll be sure to insist that we include that Vitamin C song in there somewhere. I don't remember what it's called...

Around the homestead there's news as well - our landlord fixed our decimated balcony railings, and it cost us $400 to fix the thing. On the plus side, we got a new deep freezer a few weeks ago, and just yesterday we got our new fridge. 6 guys in one fridge was a little ridiculous, but now it seems that we almost have too much space. Oh well, that just leaves more room for beer when we have our next party.

Another thing that's been on my mind (and pissing me off) is the fact that even though I've got my lists together for top 5's of the year, I have yet to post them on here. For future convenience, I'm gonna post them in the August records, that way I'll be able to look back next year and find them. When I finally do get them up I'll just link it from a new post.

Speaking of computers, I finally swithced over to Firefox and away from Internet Explorer. But for this reason, you may notice the title and some other aspects of this blog are totally fucked up. I don't pretend to know fuck all about codes and shit on here, I just figure things out by trial and error.
I highly recommend you switch over as well, as IE is harder on your computer, and much less convenient than Firefox. Plus Firefox just flat out looks better. The change-over isn't without problems though, as you have to reset all of your passwords, preferences, and re-allign all of your favourites.

I guess that's all for now. I'd better get back to the books.

Neato Bandito

Betcha didn't know...

The Resume of George W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20520

Education & Experience

1. Law Enforcement
- I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for driving under the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver’s license suspended for 30 days.
- My Texas driving record has been “lost” and is not available.

2. Military
- I joined the Texas Air National Guard and then went AWOL.
- I refused to take a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use.
- By joining the Texas Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in Vietnam.

3. College
- I graduated from Yale University with a low C average.
- I was a cheerleader.

4. Past Work Experience
- I ran for U.S. Congress and lost.
- I began my career in the oil business in Midland, Texas , in 1975. I bought an oil company, but couldn’t find any oil in Texas . The company went bankrupt shortly after. I sold all my stock.
- I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money.
- With the help of my father and our friends in the oil industry, including Enron CEO Ken Lay, I was elected governor of Texas.

Accomplishments As Governor Of Texas

- I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making Texas the most polluted state in the Union.
- During my tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in America.
- I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of billions in borrowed money.
- I set the record for the most executions by any governor in American history.
- With the help of my brother, the governor of Florida, and my father’s appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President after losing by over 500,000 votes.

Accomplishments As President Of The United States

- I am the first President in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.
- I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one billion dollars per week.
- I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.
- In my first year in office, over 2 million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues every month.
- I’m proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history. My “poorest millionaire,”Condoleeza Rice, had a Chevron oil tanker named after her.
- I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. President.
- I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations.
- My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends, Kenneth Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. History, Enron.
- My political party used Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my election decision. I have protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton against investigation or prosecution.
- More time and money was spent investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair than hasbeen spent investigating one of the biggest corporate crimes in history.
- I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed.
- I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history. I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
- I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any President in U.S. history.
- I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy in the historyof the United States government.
- I’ve broken more international treaties than any President in U.S. history.
- I am the first President in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission.
- I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law.
- I refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. “prisoners of war” detainees and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.
- I am the first President in history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. elections).
- I set the record for fewest numbers of press conferences of any President since the advent of television.
- I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one-year period. After taking off the entire month of August, I presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.
- I garnered the most sympathy for the U.S. after the World TradeCenter attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most hated country in the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in world history.
- I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people), shattering the record for protests against any person in the history of mankind.
- I am the first President in U.S. history to order an unprovoked, pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation.
- I did so against the will of the United Nations, the majority of U.S. citizens, and the world community.
- I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty benefits for active duty troops and their families-in-wartime.
- In my State of the Union Address, I lied about our reasons for attacking Iraq and then blamed the lies on our British friends.
- I am the first President in history to have a majority of Europeans (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and security.
- I am supporting the development of a nuclear “Tactical Bunker Buster,” a WMD.
- I have so far failed to fulfill my pledge to bring Osama Bin Laden to justice.

Records & References

- All records of my tenure as governor of Texas are now in my father’s library, sealed and unavailable for public view.
- All records of SEC investigations into my insider trading and my bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
- All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my Vice-President, attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.

(Who else could write such brilliance?)



For a little more comedy, check this out.
(h/t to Findlay)

Five years on

I'm not gonna say I remember it like it was yesterday, because I don't.
But I do remember sitting in Mrs. McDougall's english class, staring up at the television in the corner of the classroom, just like everyone else.
I do remember thinking "this is real and this can be happening", while I imagined most of my friends and classmates thought it seemed more like a blockbuster movie.
But most of all I remember thinking one thought, again and again: I'm sure glad I'm Canadian, and not an American.

I wouldn't call it patriotism. It's more like realism. I knew that things would change in the world as those buildings came down, but at the time I had no idea what was in store.

I obviously didn't know all of the facts of the world (and I still don't) because I was still something of a kid, but I did know that Western societies held the monopoly on selfish and exploitative practices around the world.
I knew about sweatsops.
I knew that I, personally, was ridiculously wasteful in a world of finite things.
I knew about government interventions in developing countries that ended in assasinations and coups.
I read articles about potential "terrorist plots" that could come to fruition in the U.S.
I had seen the news coverage of Palestine vs. Israel.

I guess you could say I had a better grasp on the realities of the world than most kids my age. Most teenagers prefer to live in a bubble, devoid of anything but self indulgences and personal problems that always take precedent over the world outside. It's easy to do I suppose, because it's impossible to understand what it's like in someone else's shoes when you close your mind to the world. We've never been opressed, or lived in fear of a power we are impotent to stop. We didn't have to work for our livelihoods at the age of 6, or walk for miles just to get fresh drinking water. We didn't have to live with dozens of other people in a single house, or have our possesions confiscated by a government that considered us to be worthless. We've never had bombs dropped on us by madmen bent on greed and power.

But these are the realities for some people. People you and I will never meet; never have to look in the face or pass by in the street. These are the people we must not think about in order to preserve our high-and-mighty moral fabric. Because if you were forced to think about it - if your neighbour's house exploded from a foreign bomb being dropped on it - you might start to question what's going on in the world, instead of ignoring a grotesque problem. And the strangest part is that we as individuals have the power to stop it. Only we choose not to. We elect criminals and warmongers, give them free reign over our countries and militaries, and never stop to question their lies and motives.

Because afterall, we need revenge, right? That's what 9/11 was the catalyst for in the public eye, but politically it served another purpose, and that was to further the objectives of a very small sector of society. And these people did a great job of encouraging hatred and fear in the public. They kept us all occupied with bullshit so they could go about their business unimpeded. They shifted blame to an innocent country that had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11, but we didn't care. We needed revenge, remember? And who the hell cares who has to pay, so long as we're appeased.

But five years on, are you happy with what we've done? Does anyone feel safer? Do you feel that we're in Afghanistan and Iraq for noble and self-defensive reasons? Do you still trust the government? Do you trust Middle-Eastern strangers on the subway? Do you like what they've done to commemorate the deaths of those 3000 Americans down at Ground Zero?
Sorry, that last question wasn't fair.

Personally I feel less and less safe with every person that is killed in this war on terror that arbitarily targets anyone that doesn't agree with our governments' ideals and goals. We are making more and more enemies by the day, and the hatred agains the U.S. in particular must be at an all-time high. And there's no doubt that Canada is losing global favour as we kneel down to our master and commander.

Soldiers who are supposedly bringing peace and freedom to Iraq (a country that was at least habitable under Saddam Hussein) are killing innocent people every day. They are killing families indiscrimintely. They are raping children, killing women, and torturing young men with malace in their eyes and an undying belief in their hearts that what they are doing is necessary for you and I to live free.
Commanders are dropping illegal chemical weapons on civilians and firing bombs from distant warships. They're sanctioning the abuses that we see in Abu Ghraib and Gitmo.

Under the guise of democracy they deliver nothing but oppression.

And I find it unfathomble that people can actually believe that Saddam had anything to do with 9/11, and that all of this is actually accomplishing something. (Beyond inciting and maintaining hatred for the U.S. and it's allies.) People actually believe that 9/11 came out of nowhere, that somehow we are all completely innocent in the global community; that we deserve to have our freedoms and rights and liberties because we've somehow earned them. While in truth we haven't earned anything.

There's a huge difference between ignorance and innocence. Just because you ignore a problem doesn't mean you're not culpable for its effects and outcomes.

9/11 should've taught us that. You'd think that considering we've been educated since the age of our most basic reasoning, we'd have the smarts to think outside of the box that our education has closed us within.

We should've learned to stop what we were doing and treat the rest of the world with respect. But we've done the exact opposite in the past five years. We've only gotten worse, and the world has been dragged into the gutter that all of those lazer-guided missiles and car-bombs have created.

Down here at the bottom of the trench it looks like a fucking slippery slope to climb.