conflicting emotions

Listen life has been interesting to say the least these past few weeks. Not sure how things got so fucked up in such a hurry. I am not sure how I should be feeling or what I should be doing right now. I feel like a large part of my life has been kicked out from under me. I am also not sure why it is all hitting me so hard right now and not so much last week. Actually I do know why, but I don’t want to get into the details. I wrote you a rather extensive and detailed note which I don’t ever intend to share.

I am sick of internet journaling, I just don’t feel like sharing anymore. Whats the point of collecting all these garbage thoughts online for me to analyze one day?

2 things and then I am done

1. I watched the movie ‘Hoosiers’ last night staring Gene Hackman. See it and you will love it, especially if you like Basketball. Even if you don’t like or know anything about Basketball you can still enjoy it.

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2. I realized that what China is doing in Tibet today, we have done to the Native Americans for years. Any government would do the same to a bunch of protesters that started robbing banks, and bombing post offices. At that point they become criminals taking advantage of protests and demonstrations to fill their own pockets. I hate how this is being spun in the American news like China is out of control.

I’m done.

I like Meijer

They are now selling reusable shopping bags at their stores. I would recommend you do yourself (and the Earth) a favor by purchasing a few of these. They only cost .99 cents and they do a lot of good. By decreasing the amount of plastic and paper consumed they reduce waste and reduce the amount of trash going into the landfills. I normally don’t get all crazy about things, but when I saw them I just had to get one. I HATE PLASTIC BAGS. I really think they are the dumbest thing because they encourage a culture of waste. I should paint a picture of the Earth covered in a plastic bag. These things are evil! Evil I tell you!! America needs to wake up and do what people in other countries have already started to do and use these reusable bags.

This article on the Trash Vortex is an interesting read.

“It began with a line of plastic bags ghosting the surface, followed by an ugly tangle of junk: nets and ropes and bottles, motor-oil jugs and cracked bath toys, a mangled tarp. Tires. A traffic cone. Moore could not believe his eyes. Out here in this desolate place, the water was a stew of plastic crap. It was as though someone had taken the pristine seascape of his youth and swapped it for a landfill.“

YAY, this world sucks

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These people should all be fucking shot

Japanese fleet to hunt humpback whales

Call me radical, call me whatever you will. I don’t care what anyone says, hunting whales under the sheep skin of a ’scientific expedition’ is fucked up.

The American Cetacean Society estimates the global humpback population at 30,000-40,000 — about a third of the number before modern whaling. The species is listed as “vulnerable” by the World Conservation Union.
Japanese fisheries officials insist, however, that the animals’ population has returned to a sustainable level.

I guess Japan is more informed than the rest of the worlds scientific community.

killing whales lets marine biologists study their internal organs. Ovaries provide vital clues to reproductive systems, earwax indicates age, and stomach contents reveal eating habits, he said. Meat from Japan’s scientific catch is sold commercially, as permitted by the IWC, but Japanese officials deny that profit is a goal.

This right here says it all, if the goal of this so called ‘Scientific hunt’ was for science the meat would not be sold. I think whales should be equipped with torpedoes.

I really should be getting ready for work

…But this fucking shit is crazy

“Iran nukes will start WW3″

It just seems like everyone Bush does not like these days is trying to get nukes. What a coincidence! Korea, Iran, who is next? It doesn’t really bother America that Israel basically gave the rest of the world the finger and built themselves a bunch of nukes. I guess Halliburton can’t make profit off a war with them.

I want to go on for awhile, but I have to get going. More later….

Myanmar Junta cracks down on protesters

I hate to say I told you so

Myanmar monks lead anti-junta protests

Sun Sep 16, 2:28 PM ET

BANGKOK, Thailand – Monks have vandalized shops of those supporting the dictatorship in Myanmar, briefly taken local officials hostage and are now threatening to launch a boycott as early as Tuesday against the military leaders and their families.

Read the rest here

…the saffron-robed Buddhist clergy are emerging as the focal point of the anti-government protests.

America does nothing

Much of the talk on the streets of big cities like Yangon is on a Monday deadline set by monks for the regime to apologize for beating hundreds of them two weeks ago as they marched and chanted Buddhist prayers peacefully in Pakokku, a center of Buddhist learning.

Wow, that government is as out of control as ours.

Monks in Myanmar, also known as Burma, have historically been at the forefront of protests — first against British colonialism and later military dictatorship. They also played a prominent part in the failed 1988 pro-democracy rebellion that sought an end to military rule, imposed since 1962. The uprising was brutally crushed by the military and thousand were killed. …experts argued that fear will likely trump the boldest of actions by the monks, with many citizens afraid to challenge a military with a history of brutality.”The military is much stronger than they have ever been in Burmese history,” …

I think Aung San Suu Kyi has a good case for the worst shit luck story in Burmese history.