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05 September 2002
 
All right, let's hope this works else I'm really going to get mad! Actually, I know it works, and for that I have Kelly to thank. I've been gone a long time without blogging, so I have lots to catch up on.

Anyway, the biggest move is from Geocities to IPowerWeb. That was the biggest hang up in getting blogging. And what a mess that was! Geocities makes it very difficult to leave, and their replies are slow. But it's all taken care of now, and I am snuggling into IPower. Of course, i'm suffering from some growing pains, as all my files aren't yet transferred, hence some broken links and pictures and stuff (avoid the photos page).

Well, I hope you enjoy the new layout. You too can make a South Park person at the Planearium. Yes, we all made them a while back, but I wanted a new layout for my new host, and didn't have the time to scan in my notebook drawings. So, you get South Park Me instead.

On a more serious note. Do you ever know how bad it feels when you try to do something nice, but can't? The other day, I was walking back to Manley where my car is parked (1/2 mile away from my building), and I saw some kids who looked as though they were trying to pop a clutch to get the car started. Now as I had suffered from dead batteries on more than one occasion, I had a pair of jumper cables in the car. Well, I offered them, used my car, read the manual and hooked them up right, but it still didn't work. So I felt bad that these kids were left there. I mean, they were by no means totally stranded. There were busses to bring them back to the main campus of SU every 15 minutes or so, and they did have a cell phone. But I tried. I really did. But I couldn't feel all happy and cheery 'cause even though I was nice and tried to help, I couldn't. And that made me feel bad.

The other thing that makes me feel bad is being an American. To those of you in the world. I didn't vote for W. I can't believe what he's doing for foreign policy. And though it's "unpatriotic" to criticize the "war plans" I can't believe that we have become such a bully-nation that we are attempting to invade another country in a strike that would preempt something that POSSSIBLY could happen. I mean, a year ago (in a few days), we had the entire world at our backs, brimming with good will. And what did we Americans do to that? We spit on it. We squandered it. We became so bloody egotistical in our newfound victimhood that we decided not to give a fark about what the rest of the world thought of us. Sympathy wears thin when you weep for two seconds and then punch someone who looked funny at you ten years ago. And so, I am shamed. With each new global summit that we turn our backs on, with each new foreign policy agenda item that pops up, with each new announcement that comes out of Washington, I am shamed and ashamed to be part of the same country that did it. No, I'm not a bleeding-heart liberal. I wanted Osama Bin-Laden as dead as the next person. I want Al-Quaeda gone forever. But I just can't believe that we Americans are using that same event as an excuse for doing whatever the fark we please in the world. It doesn't happen that way. And so I'm sorry, I won't be singing "Proud to be American" because, frankly I'm not.

Liz the Mischievous renovated @ 21:58