I was idly taking a look around the other day and realized something. Come April, this journal will have been going for five years. It's outlasted friendships, girlfriends, fuck, it's outlasted cars. It's turned into something that I've enjoyed, that's helped me think in different directions, find new avenues. I've ranted, raved, and moaned, I' ( Read more... )

Understand that in order for organized religion to succeed, it has to make people believe they need it. In order for people to put faith in something else, they must first lose faith in themselves. So the first task or organized religion is to make you lose faith in yourself. The second task is to make you see that it has the answers you do not ( Read more... )

From the Iraqi Ministry of Health: In 2004, 3,274 civilians died, 2,041 of them as the result of "military operations ( Read more... )

I fully support you following your dreams. Espically if they lead you somewhere else.

Got a job offer from a company, basic end-user support. Some networking and hardware work, mainly on IBM machines. Starting pay is $16 an hour, moving to $18 after the first year and then going from there, which is a decent step up from the meager $11.50 I'm making now. I'm qualified, I'm able, it's good pay, plenty of opportunity to go further ( Read more... )

Oh, this just continues to piss me off. I can't browse the internet without being subjected to "Tsunami Relief" shit absolutely everywhere I fucking go. There are donation drops at my grocery store. I've got Dubya sending my hard earned money to them. Now I'm even getting fucking Tsunami Relief spam, for god's sake. And then I read this. ( Read more... )

Welp, looks like we might as well have kept that $360 million or so of American taxpayer money. In an incredible show of appreciation for all the assistance rendered to the nation is its time of need, Vice President Jusuf Kalla announced that all foreign troops assisting with the restoration and aid effort must leave by the end of March saying, " ( Read more... )

The anti-globalization crowd is about the most hypocritic bunch of people without any clue about what they're talking ever (mostly liberal arts crowd without even the most basic understanding of economics and usually no need to have it anyhow cause their parents will pay for their life one way or another) I can think of. They'll hold global ( Read more... )

Dear John Kerry:

Goodness, seems like someone on Democraticunderground.com is a tad upset with the performance of John "Waffle House" Kerry. An entertaining letter, and even more entertaining replies to it. But there's one part of it that I'd like to address --

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