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lierdumoaIt's back home today, to 56K dial-up (as opposed to the 33K dial-up I'm on right now). I have The Twelve Days of Christmas stuck in my head, though I only know up to day six.
I'm bored out of my mind right now, and calling all my friends up to the point that I'm feeling vaguely stalkerish and telling myself to put my cell down for the love of God and go watch TV or something.
Speaking of which, seeing as I briefly had HBO access, I've decided that I absolutely positively need to vid S.W.A.T because Colin Ferrel looks glorious half naked and punching shit and as you all know, explosions make everything better. For a cop movie it's very attractively filmed.
Also, this is just a shot in the dark here, but does anyone know of any Kangaroo Jack slash? No? Eh, well I thought I'd try. I mean, in addition to the rather crass, more obvious gay jokes there were little snippets of lines like, "Go play by yourself!/But I'd rather play with you." I know you're all boggling that anyone would actually watch this movie straight through but, well, I'm easily amused and never claimed to have good taste.
Now right here I could either assault you with more vidding ramble (this time purely vidding theory since I'm away from all my vidding software) or...or...I could talk about conspiracy theories.
I'll go with conspiracy theories.
See, over Christmas dinner, me and the family ended up discussing President Bush, of all things. The whole conversation reminded me, oddly enough, of that whole Shady Dumbledore conversation I had at the BasCon HP panel (speaking of which, I'm totally behind in replying to comments for that post -- gah!). Where was I? Oh yeah.
Further Evidence That President Bush Is a Shady Motherfucker
Most of this comes from my sister, who's brain is quite possibly more evil than mine. Her main point was that she really doesn't think Bush is as stupid as he seems. She's heard that he seems far more intelligent in person than he does in speeches. She went on to say that the dumber he appears, the more the smart people make fun of him. The more average Americans resent the smart people for being all pretentious and talking down.
He was awarded the title of Time Magazine's Man of the Year. He really has affected more people than anyone else this year. He's got the entire United States moving backwards. He's pushing abstinence only education, which is statistically proven to increase unprotected sex among teenagers. On the one hand, you could say that he's doing this because he's an idiot fundamentalist. On the other hand, you could consider that pregnant teenagers don't generally graduate high school. This abstinence only education policy will essentially dumb down some portion of the population. Uneducated people are easier to control. Dictatorship 101.
I think back on all the forwards strivings the U.S. has made in recent decades. Things like Roe vs. Wade that people thought would never be repealed are dissappearing before everyone's eyes. It's becoming more and more difficult for women to get abortions or get access to birth control. President Bush actually changed the dresscode in the white house, requiring all women working there to wear skirts (and I assume dress suits are acceptable as well) as part of their uniform.
We heard how he very quietly and underhandedly repealed the law that disallows people from cutting down forests where endangered species live, claiming that the law was too vague. His environmental plan is a total scam. He's putting money into hydrogen power research. As my sister put it, we'll figure out cold fusion before we have a hydrogen powered economy. It would take trillions of dollars to convert the U.S. to hydrogen power. Oil economy is here to stay.
I've heard many people say that Bush is essentially a puppet president. He's just the voice, and the men behind him are making all the decisions. Now it seems to me that Bush is not so much carrying out other people's interests as he is doing exactly what he wants. Ever since he was first elected he's done exactly what he wanted. Now it seems to me that it's not too difficult for any idiot to learn to say "nuclear" properly. It's considerably more difficult, I think, to get every scientist character on every prime time tv show on all the major networks to pronounce it wrong. I don't see how the man would make a very good puppet if he's so set on having everything exactly his way.
As my sister jokingly pointed out -- in Fahrenheit 9/11 the film shows the clip of Bush saying "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...you can't fool me twice." Maybe he wasn't too stupid to remember the rest of the quote. Maybe he just had a mental block where he couldn't bring himself to say, "shame on me." Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if the latter were true.
Well, enough wasting time. Must take a shower before I leave for the airport. My condolences and best wishes to all the people suffering from the terrible tragedy of the earthquake in Asia. I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas.
Signing off.
I'm bored out of my mind right now, and calling all my friends up to the point that I'm feeling vaguely stalkerish and telling myself to put my cell down for the love of God and go watch TV or something.
Speaking of which, seeing as I briefly had HBO access, I've decided that I absolutely positively need to vid S.W.A.T because Colin Ferrel looks glorious half naked and punching shit and as you all know, explosions make everything better. For a cop movie it's very attractively filmed.
Also, this is just a shot in the dark here, but does anyone know of any Kangaroo Jack slash? No? Eh, well I thought I'd try. I mean, in addition to the rather crass, more obvious gay jokes there were little snippets of lines like, "Go play by yourself!/But I'd rather play with you." I know you're all boggling that anyone would actually watch this movie straight through but, well, I'm easily amused and never claimed to have good taste.
Now right here I could either assault you with more vidding ramble (this time purely vidding theory since I'm away from all my vidding software) or...or...I could talk about conspiracy theories.
I'll go with conspiracy theories.
See, over Christmas dinner, me and the family ended up discussing President Bush, of all things. The whole conversation reminded me, oddly enough, of that whole Shady Dumbledore conversation I had at the BasCon HP panel (speaking of which, I'm totally behind in replying to comments for that post -- gah!). Where was I? Oh yeah.
Further Evidence That President Bush Is a Shady Motherfucker
Most of this comes from my sister, who's brain is quite possibly more evil than mine. Her main point was that she really doesn't think Bush is as stupid as he seems. She's heard that he seems far more intelligent in person than he does in speeches. She went on to say that the dumber he appears, the more the smart people make fun of him. The more average Americans resent the smart people for being all pretentious and talking down.
He was awarded the title of Time Magazine's Man of the Year. He really has affected more people than anyone else this year. He's got the entire United States moving backwards. He's pushing abstinence only education, which is statistically proven to increase unprotected sex among teenagers. On the one hand, you could say that he's doing this because he's an idiot fundamentalist. On the other hand, you could consider that pregnant teenagers don't generally graduate high school. This abstinence only education policy will essentially dumb down some portion of the population. Uneducated people are easier to control. Dictatorship 101.
I think back on all the forwards strivings the U.S. has made in recent decades. Things like Roe vs. Wade that people thought would never be repealed are dissappearing before everyone's eyes. It's becoming more and more difficult for women to get abortions or get access to birth control. President Bush actually changed the dresscode in the white house, requiring all women working there to wear skirts (and I assume dress suits are acceptable as well) as part of their uniform.
We heard how he very quietly and underhandedly repealed the law that disallows people from cutting down forests where endangered species live, claiming that the law was too vague. His environmental plan is a total scam. He's putting money into hydrogen power research. As my sister put it, we'll figure out cold fusion before we have a hydrogen powered economy. It would take trillions of dollars to convert the U.S. to hydrogen power. Oil economy is here to stay.
I've heard many people say that Bush is essentially a puppet president. He's just the voice, and the men behind him are making all the decisions. Now it seems to me that Bush is not so much carrying out other people's interests as he is doing exactly what he wants. Ever since he was first elected he's done exactly what he wanted. Now it seems to me that it's not too difficult for any idiot to learn to say "nuclear" properly. It's considerably more difficult, I think, to get every scientist character on every prime time tv show on all the major networks to pronounce it wrong. I don't see how the man would make a very good puppet if he's so set on having everything exactly his way.
As my sister jokingly pointed out -- in Fahrenheit 9/11 the film shows the clip of Bush saying "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...you can't fool me twice." Maybe he wasn't too stupid to remember the rest of the quote. Maybe he just had a mental block where he couldn't bring himself to say, "shame on me." Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if the latter were true.
Well, enough wasting time. Must take a shower before I leave for the airport. My condolences and best wishes to all the people suffering from the terrible tragedy of the earthquake in Asia. I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas.
Signing off.
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Date: 2004-12-27 08:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-28 03:18 am (UTC)The shadyness cannot be quantified.
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