International relations and politics have been a hobby of mine for several years.
When i was in 8th grade, there was a project that everyone was supposed to do. They were supposed to watch the news every night for a month and take notes. At the end of the month, there was a test.
i was the only student out of 100 that failed. My idea of watching the news was taping it when i woke up in the morning for a 3 minute sound bite that the radio personalities read off their briefs. Since then, i've been a little bit obsessive.
When i really got into the internet, there was an online chat room group called the Webchat broadcasting system (WBS). It was a collection of roughly 200 chat rooms of everything. It was great. It was eventually bought out by go.com and completely dismantled, and the communities that had been built there were completely destroyed. Some tried to move to Yahoo and other places, but none offered the services and support and extras.
Anyways, back on topic, i would hang out in the international room. there would be people (supposedly) from all over the world. I met a person, who's handle was RebekahAnastasia, and who said that she was from Israel. I didn't know Israel from a hole in the ground, but it prompted me to follow it. I eventually lost track of this person after a sordid number of events supposedly happened in her life. I'd give a fair amount of money for confirmation or denial over whether what 'she' said was true or false. Oh well.
Anyways, today was the transfer of power from the occupation to the interim government of Iraq. Two days ahead of schedule. What a joke. No doubt Bush will declare it a victory, when it was more of a move to keep terrorists off balance. I'm expecting that the Iraqi people will make sure the interim government falls in *checks watch* 6 months and 2 days. With the loss of another thousand american lives.
Ok, we haven't lost 1000 yet, but we're getting pretty darn close. I don't know where the number is right now, but i think between civilian contractors and military personal, we're within 50 of the 1000 mark.
Now, my question to you is, who are you voting for in the next election?
Oh, and as a follow up, do I ramble too much?
When i was in 8th grade, there was a project that everyone was supposed to do. They were supposed to watch the news every night for a month and take notes. At the end of the month, there was a test.
i was the only student out of 100 that failed. My idea of watching the news was taping it when i woke up in the morning for a 3 minute sound bite that the radio personalities read off their briefs. Since then, i've been a little bit obsessive.
When i really got into the internet, there was an online chat room group called the Webchat broadcasting system (WBS). It was a collection of roughly 200 chat rooms of everything. It was great. It was eventually bought out by go.com and completely dismantled, and the communities that had been built there were completely destroyed. Some tried to move to Yahoo and other places, but none offered the services and support and extras.
Anyways, back on topic, i would hang out in the international room. there would be people (supposedly) from all over the world. I met a person, who's handle was RebekahAnastasia, and who said that she was from Israel. I didn't know Israel from a hole in the ground, but it prompted me to follow it. I eventually lost track of this person after a sordid number of events supposedly happened in her life. I'd give a fair amount of money for confirmation or denial over whether what 'she' said was true or false. Oh well.
Anyways, today was the transfer of power from the occupation to the interim government of Iraq. Two days ahead of schedule. What a joke. No doubt Bush will declare it a victory, when it was more of a move to keep terrorists off balance. I'm expecting that the Iraqi people will make sure the interim government falls in *checks watch* 6 months and 2 days. With the loss of another thousand american lives.
Ok, we haven't lost 1000 yet, but we're getting pretty darn close. I don't know where the number is right now, but i think between civilian contractors and military personal, we're within 50 of the 1000 mark.
Now, my question to you is, who are you voting for in the next election?
Oh, and as a follow up, do I ramble too much?
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blossy:
I meant I won't be voting for either one of the two major candidates, I'm not stupid enough to completely surrender my eens of power.
blossy:
I know you weren't calling me stupid, honest I do 
. I understand your frustrating, and yeah it is wrong to totally not vote at all, that just seems like people don't care anymore, and alot of people don't. I may not care for the main candidates but I do care for my country. ok ok way patriotic there.
. I understand your frustrating, and yeah it is wrong to totally not vote at all, that just seems like people don't care anymore, and alot of people don't. I may not care for the main candidates but I do care for my country. ok ok way patriotic there.