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2006 15 August :: 8.29pm
do something
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2006 13 August :: 11.48pm
:: Mood: sick
:: Music: The Pillows - Ride On Shooting Star
I have three cousins living at the Rotana Hotel on Sheikh Zayed Road. I have three Lebanese cousins, aged eighteen, twenty-four and twenty-eight, living a million miles away from everything they've ever known and loved. I have three cousins living in a hotel because their house, the house they were born in, is now a pile of stones. As indeterminable as the pebbles on the beach.
I have three cousins, two of which attended the same university, two of which were playing basketball on the university courts less than twenty-four hours before it was reduced to blood and wreckage, I have three cousins living in a hotel for almost a month now. In the wreckage, a piece of the bombshell says it was manufactured in the United States of America.
I have three cousins who call their parents everyday and hold their breaths because there's a part of them that doesn't think they'll be there to answer the phone. I have three cousins, eyes dark and cheeks hallowed, who tell me that the house their parents have been hiding out in, the windows have shattered and the door blew in. I have three cousins who think their parents are going to die, and they don't know why.
This war is not waged against faceless strangers. This war is not taking place in a barren battlefield. This is my family. These are real people.
I just want it to stop.
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2006 10 August :: 12.53am
we all need to pray. i don't really care at this point whether anyone believes in God or if there is a god, but we need to do something other than letting wars continue to flourish. write letters to congress. attend peace rallies. read journal articles and use alternative media sources for information. you guys, seriously, it's scary. i usually take a very intellectual perspective when i talk about the imperialist behavior of our country, and i manage to keep a safe distance from the reality of it, but tonight i watched a documentary that made me cry. destruction has never brought anything good to anyone anywhere.
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2006 8 August :: 9.40pm
haha assholes from high school are all getting fat from alcohol
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2006 30 July :: 2.19pm
i just need 30 minutes of your time
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2006 27 July :: 12.35pm
what would the US say/do if any other state or group bombed UN peace forces?
can you imagine the outcry if an arab or muslim group had done that? this government is a fucking joke.
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2006 25 July :: 10.28am
:: Mood: creative
:: Music: Jack off Jill - Nazi Halo
Toilet paper. No really.
I think the lifespan of a sheet of toilet paper has got to be one of the most wretched existences in the world; worse than a dartboard. Here's a manufactured product whose sole purpose in its meandering existence is to wipe your ass. This is something that sits packed tightly like a cow on the way to the slaughter with its fellow doomed. It patiently waits for months at a time, only to be ripped from its cellmates and used as a scraping surface for your gentleman's ass. It is then discarded without a second thought, leaving it used, abused and no longer wanted. The sadness is overwhelming.
And those are the lucky ones, those are the sheets that get to fulfill their life's purpose. Think of all the toilet papers that will never fulfill their purpose of wiping your ass. Instead, you blow your nose on them, use them to clean up spills or, worst of all, wipe the toilet seat clean before you use it.
Please, my friends. Think of the toilet paper.
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2006 20 July :: 1.15pm
"Diplomats say Israel set to continue overflights over Lebanon"
Nicholas Blanford. The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Washington: Oct 2003. Vol.22, Iss. 8; pg. 35
Diplomatic efforts to end Hezbollah's anti-aircraft (AA) fire and Israeli overflights are foundering due mainly to Israel's apparent determination to continue breaching Lebanese air space, despite a lowering of tension on the Lebanese side of the border since the Aug. 9 and 10 weekend's escalation.
Diplomats in Beirut are voicing concern that if the "provocative" overflights continue, Hezbollah may retaliate with more cross-border anti-aircraft fire, spurring a fresh escalation along the border.
Israel's staging of mass overflights on Aug. 13 has dampened hopes of an imminent end to the AA fire/overflights. Furthermore, the intensity of the overflights-in which at least 13 jets flew over most of the country, breaking the sound barrier over Baalbek and other towns-is fueling suspicion among diplomats that Israel is deliberately attempting to goad Hezbollah into a reaction.
Some analysts believe that Israel hopes to provoke Hezbollah in order to launch a sweeping military campaign against the party. There are certainly senior ranking Israeli army officers who would like to exact revenge on the battlefield for Hezbollah's success in forcing the Israeli army out of southern Lebanon three years ago.
But the Israeli government and military appreciate that such an option is likely to be costly, not least because of Hezbollah's suspected deployment of long-range rockets in the south. Israeli officials have recently admitted that Hezbollah's arsenal has made them think twice about pursuing the military option.
On the other hand, any attacks by Hezbollah into northern Israel play neatly into the hands of the Israeli government and their allies in Washington who wish to see Syria dis-arm the party and remove them from Israel's northern border. "I think the Israelis are setting up Hezbollah and Syria," said one analyst. "They are trying to provoke a reaction by Hezbollah against Israel which can then be used to mobilize American support to pressure Syria to disarm Hezbollah."
The assassination of Hezbollah commander Ali Saleh earlier this month was part of the trap set by Israel, according to the analyst.
"The Israelis realize that after six months without attacks along the border, it becomes hard to keep claiming that Hezbollah is a threat. They had to heat up the border," he said.
In the dangerous game of brinkmanship waged by Hezbollah and the Israeli army, neither likes to be the first to back down. Two years ago, Israeli warplanes destroyed a Syrian radar position in the Bekaa in retaliation for a Hezbollah attack in the Shebaa Farms a day earlier.
Hezbollah responded within the hour, shelling several outposts in the Shebaa Farms. Israel backed down first, claiming it had no wish to escalate the situation.
This time, it was the other way around. Hezbollah refrained from firing AA rounds across the border in retaliation for Israel's muscle-flexing aerial display in the night sky above Beirut early Monday morning.
Yet although Israel had "the last word," it nonetheless staged two days later the most provocative series of overflights in weeks.
The U.N. issued a strong condemnation of the overflights which, in Lebanese eyes, went some way to counter-balance U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's criticism of Hezbollah's fatal burst of AA fire on Sunday.
Hezbollah may grudgingly accept that discretion is the better part of valor and ensure its AA shells explode above Lebanese territory for the time being. There is much-needed diplomatic capital to be gained by Lebanon and Syria if it becomes clear that the persistent violator is the Israeli air force rather than Hezbollah's AA units.
But Hezbollah's oft-stated role as defender of Lebanese sovereignty will be undermined if Israel persists with its overflights and the resistance fails to resort to a few barrages of cross-border AA fire.
As for the diplomatic option, Wednesday's overflights appear to have quashed hopes that an agreement to end aerial violations of the U.N.-delineated Blue Line might be announced by the end of the week.
"There is a lot of diplomatic activity, but I don't think we can speak of a breakthrough at the moment," said one diplomat.
According to diplomatic sources, the United States recently began an attempt to persuade Israel to refrain from overflights for a month.
The idea was to put to the test the Israeli claim that Hezbollah's AA fire is unprovoked aggression unconnected to Israel's "necessary reconnaissance missions" above Lebanon. If there was no cross-border AA fire during the trial month, Israel's claim would have proved unfounded, making it difficult for Israel to justify resuming overflights. It may well be for that very reason that Israel would have no wish to accept the one-month "challenge."
Ironically, however, it looks as though the initiative may end up working in reverse with Hezbollah refraining from cross-border anti-aircraft fire while Israeli jets continue to penetrate Lebanese air space.
and that was 3 years ago.
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2006 17 July :: 4.52pm
israel is so annoying.
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2006 28 June :: 1.09am
It annoys me to no end when I stumble - quite accidentally, I assure you - upon the blog/response network of some up-the-nose white radical talking to you about how Islam and all those other "off-the-mark" religions will never be considered anything, anything like their precious Christianity.
There are entire web pages erected in honour of these highly educated, highly intellectual people spouting absolute nonsense. They marr the population with perpetuated stereotypes and nonsensical dramatism in a sqeamishly poor attempt to make themselves seem more superior.
And it makes me so sad that these are not some back-water know-nothing hillbillies. These are educated, college-degree-wielding and contributing members of society.
So what is the world coming to?
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2006 14 June :: 11.13pm
on the day that my biology catches up with my mentality...
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2006 11 June :: 6.38pm
i'm sick of commitments.
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2006 8 June :: 2.19pm
:: Music: Jefferson Airplane - High Flyin' Bird
I'm rooted like a tree.
I associate parts of my person with the beads on my wrists and the links around my neck.
I associate parts of my person with strictly pointless aspects of my curls: soft, dull, eccentric, romantic.
I associate parts of my future with the troublesome affairs of the past and the wonderfully languid affairs of my present.
I associate myself with you.
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2006 6 June :: 12.54am
vicarious
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2006 31 May :: 11.42pm
:: Music: Modest Mouse - Satin in a Coffin
The triadic state of undress is only of secondary importance. My primary concern is skin.
My own personal convictions aside, how accurate are the stereotypes about sex, sexuality and gender? How often do you see intelligent, educated women in power loafers stop and swoon over diamonds and other sparklies? When was the last time you saw a guy turn around because he heard the rev of an approaching Mustang?
And then, help me out here, I have an informative speech to present on Monday about the correlation between shock value and ethics. So let me ask you. How ethical do you think it is for a university student at AUD to walk into a classroom and pretend he's going to set off explosives within the hour? How ethical is it if it's a part of a shock-value advertising course? How ethical is it that he's been expelled for it?
Just general questions.
There. I have woohued.
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2006 16 May :: 8.27pm
rant.
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2006 10 May :: 8.43pm
big fucking deal, bolivia nationalized its gas. but does corporate yahoo news pay attention to the fact that president morales also stated that he had NO QUALMS about doing business with international corporations as long as they respect bolivian law? OH NO! ANYTHING BUT THAT! american corporations don't understand what law is! why are the south americans being so mean to them?
yeah, morales is part of a "regime" just like hussein and ahmadinejad. let's add bolivia to the list of countries involved in the axis of evil. yahoo cries because (*gasp*) bolivian soldiers are guarding the country's natural gas reserves. why would they do that?! when the US-UK coalition invaded iraq, they allowed looting, destruction, and violence to rage without any interference (which resulted in the loss of precious ancient artifacts from museums in baghdad, the stripping of important infrastructure, and the loss of human lives and livelihood). despite this lax attitude toward civilian problems, US soldiers were much more adept in protecting financial assets. american soldiers surrounded the iraqi oil fields, guns in hand. but what am i thinking, comparing the two situations? americans are white, capitalist, and civilized -- it's their right and duty to do such things. silly me.
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2006 4 May :: 1.04am
one of those gmail links
uh, what the hell?
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2006 26 April :: 9.42am
hahaha crazy
i just did the math, and with the grades i already have in my abnormal psych class, i could get a 69.5% on my final exam and still end up with an overall 95% in the class. why am i even studying? it's insanity!
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2006 20 April :: 12.30am
this is the best fucking video you will ever see
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2006 11 April :: 5.53am
If I close my eyes and count back from one hundred, I can imagine myself thirty years from now, a book on one hip and a baby on the other, high heels on my feet and an Arab husband on my lips, the very photogenic model of everything I don't think I can ever be, happy, smiling and absolutely content.
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