Hey, don’t we still have, like, 300,000 troops deployed to Iraq? Is there still a war on or something over there? There’s a lot of blah blah blah from the candidates about some kinda war or something … but I hear disturbingly little about the third of a million troops who are in harms way right now.<\/p>\n
And also, speaking of security: Weren’t we gonna, like, do something to help out Afghanistan or something … since long term suffering seems to be the primary breeding ground for people willing to kill themselves to try to get back at the perceived source of that suffering. <\/p>\n
And ummmm, is that Osama guy still on the loose? Because, wasn’t he like, the evil mastermind behind the attacks of Sept 11? I mean, seriously, to paraphrase Jesse Ventura: We can’t find a 6 foot 6 Saudi guy on dialysis, who is banned for life from his home country? Seriously? Even with all the future-toys at the CIA and the NSA?<\/p>\n
Enough about that, what’s up with those monks who were grabbed by the Burma<\/strike> Myanmar government? How about the ones grabbed by the Tibetan<\/strike> Chinese troops? Were we going to help out with the food riots in Darfur<\/strike> Haiti, or something?<\/p>\n
I should *not* be permitted to read the news. It only depresses me.<\/p>\n
— UPDATE —<\/p>\n
Seriously, not even the business section. <\/p>\n
Top headline: “Bank of America writes off $2 billion, and announces a 77 percent drop in earnings”<\/p>\n
Second Headline: “Halliburton 1Q profit rises on higher sales, asset sale”<\/p>\n
Haliburton … weren’t they somehow connected with that “war” thing before? What ever happened with them and the billions of dollars of mismanaged money?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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