Published by
Tyler on
November 16, 2004 at
10:51 am
Politicians have this way of speaking. It’s getting worse and worse too. I don’t use proper english on this website all the time, but I try to when I’m speaking with people.
I saw a link to this story on Fark. The article discusses how Tony Blair and President Bush are infected with a “deadly virus of management speak”. When I got to thinking about it, the author is somewhat correct. The non-usage of verbs, nouns being turned into verbs, etc.
I really noticed this during the debates. This crap was spewing from both candidates mouths. Speaking like this takes away from the debate, and must make it hard to REALLY debate anything. They just give the same bogus, manufactured answers.
When I think back to the debates, I get pictures in my head of Bush and Kerry just standing there, mouths wide open with shit, literal shit, just streaming outta their mouths all over the audience. It almost makes me queasy.
Anyway, here’s the original article, please read it, as it’s very interesting:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story…life_english_language_dc
Published by
Tyler on
November 15, 2004 at
1:24 pm
This almost scares me. It seems that President Bush is going to purge the CIA of officers suspected of somehow being disloyal to him. Also, the purge will target officers who supposedly leaked damaging information to the media about U.S. conduct in the Iraq war. All of this is from “knowledgeable sources”. This is all over the good blogs, but here’s the original article:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-….story?coll=ny-top-headlines
I feel more and more like we’re living in a communist state. This immediately made me think of the old soviet empire. Dirty, dirty, dirty.
Published by
Tyler on
November 15, 2004 at
11:25 am
There’s lots of talk going on about doing away with the Iowa caucuses. I think it’d probably be a good idea to do. It’s a fact that Iowa is mostly white, rural people. They’re making huge decisions that affect the rest of the country.
A state with a wider variety of ethnic groups would be better suited to have Iowa’s role. If the caucuses get taken away from us, we’ll just be like Montana and Idaho. I think we have a whopping 7 electoral votes (not sure).
This has been the subject of much debate over at daily KOS. A writer for the Des Moines Register even mentioned the discussions at daily KOS in a recent article of hers. Here’s one of the items at daily KOS:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/14/11449/089
It’s all very interesting. Especially to me because Iowa isn’t typically the center of any sort of politics.
Published by
Tyler on
November 11, 2004 at
1:14 pm
This about made me sick to read. First thing that popped into my mind was communist China and a certain town sqaure there.
Two tanks were deployed in the city of Los Angeles yesterday to counter a peaceful anti-war protest. The 1st amendment gives people freedom of expression. Freedom of expression consists of the rights to freedom of speech, press, assembly and to petition.
There’s been almost no media coverage of this by any of the major news outlets.
Even worse…It’s my opinion, that sending tanks to disrupt a peaceful anti-war protest is directly against the 1st amendment. I believe it guarantees (well, not in this case) freedom of expression. And freedom of expression includes freedom of speech, press, assembly and freedom to petition.
Here’s a link to the original story:
http://www.mydd.com/story/2004/11/10/134638/70
There were a couple follow up articles, but I can’t seem to find the links to them at moment. When I dig em up I’ll post a comment to this entry with them.
Published by
Tyler on
November 11, 2004 at
8:51 am
Lastnight about $1200 of stereo equipment got stolen out of my car. My car was at Ashley’s place. I was so pissed off this morning when I went out to start my car. Fucking wires hanging all over the place.
Immediately after going back into Ashley’s, I accidentally punched a hole in the wall, outside her apartment. My hand was all bloody. After that, I called the cops. They’re not gonna be able to do anything…cuz they’re Nevada police. The fuckin cop wrote my license plate number on his fuckin hand! I mean, lets be real.
The list of stolen goods goes as follows:
1. 1 Kenwood CD/MP3 reciever
2. 1 Kendwood Excelon 1000w Amp
3. 2x 12″ Eclipse Subs + box
There’s only a few people that know I had subs in my car. One of those being Angel, a mexican who lives in Ashley’s building and also works at Moms Meals with us. He’s got a history of doing this kind of thing. The cops have come into work previously and taken him with them.
Oh yah, they also took all my change! Even the few cents that was in my seat that had fallen outta my pockets. I dunno any white people, besides tweekers, that would steal change.
I am not a racist. I am only looking at the facts that are right in front of me. I’m not going to dance around the fact that I think it was a mexican that stole my stuff. Fuck being PC (politically correct). All you PC all the time people are what’s wrong with this world. If yall’d just say what you think, we’d be good.
Published by
Tyler on
November 9, 2004 at
9:43 am
I remember way back when President Bush announced the end of all major military operations in Iraq.
He definately waited till the end of the election to launch this offensive against the city of Fallujah. Had he waged a battle of this size during the election, people would have realized he was lying about the end of all major military operations.
It’s probably something that has to happen though. I’m just glad that the Iraqi interim government is participating in this operation. U.S. forces doing this alone would be a huge mistake. Having the Iraqis helping makes it look like we’re fighting a good fight in Fallujah.
