Friday, December 31, 2004
Remember...
Remember the World Trade Center? It has become a way you can measure a movie's age. Pre-WTC destruction and Post-WTC destruction.
There have been a lot of comments made about "we deserved it", "we asked for it", etc. For the people who think like this, the guilt-ridden pathetic allegedly American apologists, how about blowing out all the pilot lights, turn the gas WAY up, stuff your head in the oven when the kitchen's full of gas, flick your lighter and in your last second, you'll understand what the WTC people were feeling in theirs. PLUS you can still have an open-casket funeral since your ass isn't burned, and that's what you talk out of anyway. Radical? Extreme? ME? I'm not the asshole who thinks cooking a few thousand of my fellow citizens PLUS a batch of foreigners is justified.
One of the HUGE mistakes made during the Viet Nam war was taking out public outrage on the soldiers. A lot of 'em are STILL pissed about it, by the way. It's a tribute to their training that some of you are alive. If you weren't around, and your parents were spitting on returning soldiers and calling them "babykillers", etc., you're REALLY lucky I was too young to go. I'd have pulled your dear ones' tongue out and stuffed it up their butt. Even if you're against us being in Afghanistan/Iraq, it doesn't mean you should snub the troops or even ignore them. They're your neighbors and friends, too, unless you're a socialist/commie scumbag or something even lower on the food chain, like a liberal college professor. Contact the USO. Contact some of these organizations that send them "Care" packages. For those groups who have you making up your own package, I hear phone cards are all the rage. Soldiers NEED those. Simplifies the calling home thing.
Even though the exciting part of the tsunamis (tidal waves) is probably over in Thailand/Indonesia/India, etc., and the newsdogs will be packing up and leaving, the problem will exist for months, even years to come. After all, homeless hungry people aren't news anymore. You can find those all over the world, and there's nothing exciting to report unless they turn to cannibalism or something. Once you've found a charitable organization to contribute to, keep up the good work! I started sorting clothes today, digging out clean sheets for beds I don't even have anymore, etc.
What the hell ever happened to all those Vietnamese "Boat People"? The ones who were so desperate they piled in anything, much like Cubans only on a larger scale, to get the hell out? I know for a time various nations had them in "camps", and occasionally somebody in the states would put in a good word for one or two, and they'd get brought stateside, but what about the rest? Where are they today? Anybody know?
On that puzzling note, I'm outta here.
