Comestables for thought
Mar. 28th, 2006 11:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
uberreinigerThe sinus infection I acquired during the weekend is moving from runny to congesty :( Tried some Sudafed. It stopped the runny but seems to have finished the converstion to congesty. Oh well. Also, when in the year since I last bought the stuff did Benadryl become the 31 flavors of decongestants? There used to be just a blue kind and a pink kind. You took the blue if you wanted your sinuses to unclog and the pink if you wanted nothing to happen. Now there's about five different kinds of both blue and pink. I just went with the Sudafed.
Anybody following the case on that guy in Afghanistan who narrowly escaped the death penalty for converting to Christianity? Yahoo said this morning that Italy's offered him asylum. I'm glad he's been delivered. Very glad. But I think it says something larger about our trying to "bring Democracy" to these heavily fundamentalist Islamic countries. They wanted to execute a man for changing religions. Clerics are marching in the streets protesting because he was not executed for changing religions. That's what we're trying to impose our values on, ladies and gentlemen. That's what we're trying to bring democracy to. Something tells me it's going to be a long time coming. Especially if you define "democracy" in the unspoken terms which seem to dominate our policy toward these places, that definition being "freedom to make the choices we want you to make."
Saw the President give a ten minute speech on the news this morning. It looked like some very ominous and serious announcement was about to be made with Rummsfeld, Condi, Cheney, and everyone else who's a name in the White House surrounding the podium looking grave. It was anti-climatic. Stay the course blah, blah, blah... Unity government blah, blah, blah... Terrorists can only win if we give up, etc. Nothing wrong with it per se, just the standard everyday Bushisms. What makes it worth mentioning is that the looks on Rummsfeld and Cheney's faces as they followed the President offstage were priceless, almost like they were saying "you made us get out of bed and get dressed for this?"
Anybody following the case on that guy in Afghanistan who narrowly escaped the death penalty for converting to Christianity? Yahoo said this morning that Italy's offered him asylum. I'm glad he's been delivered. Very glad. But I think it says something larger about our trying to "bring Democracy" to these heavily fundamentalist Islamic countries. They wanted to execute a man for changing religions. Clerics are marching in the streets protesting because he was not executed for changing religions. That's what we're trying to impose our values on, ladies and gentlemen. That's what we're trying to bring democracy to. Something tells me it's going to be a long time coming. Especially if you define "democracy" in the unspoken terms which seem to dominate our policy toward these places, that definition being "freedom to make the choices we want you to make."
Saw the President give a ten minute speech on the news this morning. It looked like some very ominous and serious announcement was about to be made with Rummsfeld, Condi, Cheney, and everyone else who's a name in the White House surrounding the podium looking grave. It was anti-climatic. Stay the course blah, blah, blah... Unity government blah, blah, blah... Terrorists can only win if we give up, etc. Nothing wrong with it per se, just the standard everyday Bushisms. What makes it worth mentioning is that the looks on Rummsfeld and Cheney's faces as they followed the President offstage were priceless, almost like they were saying "you made us get out of bed and get dressed for this?"
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Date: 2006-03-28 06:17 pm (UTC)"As a reward for supporting this crappy war, everyone with the last name that starts with A-M can take this Friday off. People who have a name starting with N-Z can take next Friday off. And your pay will not be docked! Keep on supporting me!"
I would go for that :)
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Date: 2006-03-29 03:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-28 09:56 pm (UTC)If you want a repetition thinguie I can send you a couple of mantras.
Aye, aye. Not my president, I shouldn't make fun of him.
Scary thing whenever clerics march in the streets. And scary when some person/institution can decide to put somebody to death -for whatever reason.
Your pills also sound scary. Are there 31 different flavors of icecream, even? I mean... :[
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Date: 2006-03-29 03:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-28 10:57 pm (UTC)Those things made things so much worse. I puked all over the backseat of Dad's new Audi. The day he got home with it. The first time we took it for a ride. Now, any sort of sweetish mediciney sort of taste reminds me of that day. I don't ever want to throw up in a car again and I don't ever want another cherry Rolaid either.
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Date: 2006-03-29 03:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-29 06:32 am (UTC)Most of my more Eastern self-therapies for this require removing the germs physically, which favors runny over congesty.