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[hkellick]

I'm impressed.
I'm really impressed.
Even if we did lose :/
We need to work on our special teams :/
That was certainly the fastest overtime I ever seen...

In other news, would you people please get over September 11th already? It happened a year ago. Yes, it was terrible. Yes, I know about all those dead innocents, but MOVE ON already.
And above all, stop plastering it in every news program, every magazine, every internet site and every newspaper.
Understand, it's not that I'm sympathetic to the fact that these people are still out there. And I do agree that we need to remember what September 11th means... but it should be a private memory, not one where people only affected distantly can gnash their teeth and shake their heads and think about the poor innocent people they they could never BEGIN to identify with.
September 11th should be a day of private thought and prayer, not a day of Media Blitzes and "9/11: One Year Later".
Hell, Pearl Harbor got less of a Media Blitz than this...

Comments

9/11 media blitz

[kolys.livejournal.com]

Amen to that!! I hate what happened just as much as the next man, but I don't need to be reminded of it every time I look around. So some bunch of fanatics killed three thousand people. My heart goes out to the families of those people, none of whom probably want to commemorate their loved ones with an over-hyped media blitz. My heart also goes out to the families of the MILLION people that our bombs killed in Afghanistan. People who had nothing to do with 9/11. People who don't even KNOW what their heads of state are doing or why. My heart also goes out pre-emptively to the families of the similar numbers of Iraqis that we will probably be killing in the near future, solely because for the last year we have suddenly had an excuse to bomb the shite out of all those people we've been desperate to bomb for ages but haven't had a good enough reason to. My heart goes out to the beautiful planet upon which we seem hell-bent on wreaking disaster. And when the Middle East is nothing more than an uninhabitable plain of black glass, my heart goes out to the rest of the world, who will have to live with the economic and ecological backwash of it long after Bush and Blair are out of office.

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[lite.livejournal.com]

I don't worry too much about the planet.
It's getting it's revenge, you see.
Global warming, apparently, is making our storms nastier and is, in part, responsible for the wildfires in the midwest and the floods in Europe and Asia.

Besides, the planet can survive us. The question is can WE survive us.

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[kolys.livejournal.com]

I read recently about a team of Japanese scientists whose predictions are that global warming will increase until about 2010, then drop off until the Earth starts to cool again. It's supposedly a natural cycle, but one that we're accelerating.

As for whether we can survive us... not at this rate. It takes about two seconds for The Button to be pressed. It takes less than that for the rest of the world's defence systems to notice it and retaliate.

The United States can precipitate that, but heaven forbid some unfriendly government from the 'axis of evil' should get a chance to play in the same sandbox. Because obviously they're not to be trusted, for the sole reason that their views differ from ours. And so of course they're more likely to use such a thing than we are. Despite the fact that we're all acting like gung-ho morons with big guns at the moment, the country that doesn't have that technology yet and is trying to level the playing field is the bad guy. I don't condone Saddam Hussein's actions. I also don't condone anyone else bombing him, especially when he's not directly causing THEM trouble and they're just sticking their noses in.

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[lite.livejournal.com]

I've read a selection of articles that suggest things aren't as bad as the media sometimes makes them out to be, but that things are bad enough that we have to get off our duff and DO something already, a movement which the United States is far from in the foreground of.

As per Iraq... No, I believe Iraq is trouble and I think we need to know what he's been up to.. but I think that you need to reestablish UN weapon inspectors going into Iraq with unlimited access. I think Dubya is trying to start and win the war his father lost and I, for one, am totally against it.

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[kolys.livejournal.com]

I'll certainly agree with the weapons-inspection thing. The trouble is, there's probably just enough truth to hide, and therefore it's being hidden, and Saddam's detractors can make it sound as trivial or as earth-shattering as they wish.