Excursion, war

[zana16]

Went to Mont St-Michel this weekend with the Smith group. Twas good, we got to explore a medieval fortress as well. Also went to Omaha beach in Normandy. Very foggy, could hardly see ten feet in front of me. Very surreal. A group of us got lost (ha) in the fog, and of course we turned off all our cellphones so M. Bloom was livid when we finally came back, mostly wet and covered with sand and bearing immunerable seashells. Twas good group dynamic there for a little while. Also went to WWII cemetery and I got extremely depressed. The graves just don't seem to end. I am so angry with my president. The French say, how can you visit that place and not be antiwar? But the French have the experience of being occupied. The Americans haven't had a real war on their soil since forever. So they see war as a tool of diplomacy. It is so sad that millions of people had to die for ideology as stupid as the state system. Then the US is all surprised when the Iraqis don't welcome them as liberators, and they only had one battle plan, no backups. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Even I know that the first rule of war is that everything goes wrong from the start and you have to throw your first battleplans out the window. You put the screws to an intelligent psycho like Saddam and he's gonna do everything he can to survive, and he's a smart man, he knows how the Americans work and how to play the system. He analyzed his first defeat and knew he'd be defeated again if he worked in the same way, so he did what anyone with an IQ above 72 (read: anyone except my president and the fools running my nation) would do: he changed his tactics. Jesus Christ. I could have told you that. It's not my job to state the obvious; the military is supposed to be good at these things.
Okay, gonna go now before I get even more pissed off.

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[sylvanstargazer.livejournal.com]

War sucks. Even when you are stoned out of your mind, war sucks. War led by a fucking oil-hording groundhog sucks even more. Americans shouldn't be allowed to be in charge. Especially me. Never let me be in charge. I would probably get all the other world leaders into a room and lock the doors. They could come out when they had come up with a workable, enforcable plan for peace and protection of human rights. Or when all but one had died. We'd have lots of cameras and a special tv station, "Global Island". We might feed them, but only if they behaved.

[zana16.livejournal.com]

Seemes like a good idea to me. Why exactly shouldn't I let you be in charge?

no military for pashabird...yay? i think?...

[(Anonymous)]

I just tried to make a post but LJ got pissed at me because it was too long. Guess I'll turn this into two posts.

I got permanently disqualified from military service because my parents had me see a psychologist for a couple months my junior year. Okay, so my scum bag recruiter told me to lie about that, as well as many other things, but like I said, SCUM, so I decided not to. We were supposed to meet Thursday morning to talk about the details of what would be required of me, what my job would be, how long it's training school would be, when I would ship off to basic, all of that. Except it was none of that, once I got to his office he told me I was spending the night at a hotel and the next day getting a military physical. It's not like we hadn't talked on the phone three times that morning so he couldn't have given me a little heads up. At least I had a great roommate at the hotel. She was there for the Army to audition for a spot in the band for cello. That is so cool. By far the best reason I can find to join the military. At the end of the day they decided that, while they would need another doctor's opinion, I'm very likely too blind for military service, so would have to have laser surgery and then come back a year later and try again. So even if I had done all the lying I was supposed to, I might still have not been able to join. And if I had been able to, I would have gone out of my way to keep the recruiter from getting credit for me. Grr, evil guy, I didn't have my cell phone charger.

Re: no military for pashabird...yay? i think?...

[zana16.livejournal.com]

Well, you know how I feel about the military. But on the other hand, I tried to be supportive cause I understand that you need the structure and besides my views are mine and not yours. Any backup plans? There's not much that's as structured as the military, but a nine-to-five can be good. Boring as ----, but good structure. And sometimes you can play on the internet most of the day! Not that I'm speaking from experience or anything....

part two, civilian round

[(Anonymous)]

Last night Aaron forgot which theatre the movie we wanted to see was at, so of course we went to the wrong one. We tried to watch Dreamcatcher, emphasis on tried. The cinematographic focus on gore made it impossible for me...I can barely sit through Itchy&Scratchy on the Simpsons. The story seemed interesting so I stayed until I was about to puke because I wanted to know what happened...silly me. But now I want to know, and I know I can't watch the movie, grr. Aaron had no problem with the gore though...he has a habit of making fun of how I didn't watch enough TV growing up and now I'm not desensitized enough to be able to watch anything more violent than West Wing. The night before we watched Basic though, which I was fine with and it had a body count, just not disgusting shots of it. It was a good movie, one where you had to think a little to avoid getting confused. I'm guessing that's why Ebert&Roeper gave it only one star...it wasn't great but definately a 3 or 3.5.

And Baby Moo is cute as usual, except last night she started meowing like she was being tortured, really disturbing meow, and then she puked, poor girl. I wanted so much to make her feel better, but they don't make little kitty pepto bismol, and who knows what she decided to turn into a baby snack that caused that. Most likely culprits are cardboard and plastic bags, but who knows. We got her a little kitty harness and leash so we can take her on walks. Aaron tried to take her out the garage when I was at the hotel, bad idea considering she's never seen the garage or outside the garage. Poor girl couldn't stop shaking. Once I got back we had some fun running up the halls though. And she seems to be hating the elevator less too. She's so affectionate when she's out for walks, I guess that's because she knows she can't run and hide, so she might as well enjoy our tummy rubs.

Love you hun! *HUGS*HUGS*HUGS*HUGS*HUGS*

hmmm....

[(Anonymous)]

Hm. That's funny. I've been to the American cemetery and the D-Day beaches, and I'm not antiwar.

Re: hmmm....

[zana16.livejournal.com]

Are you French?