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Anyway, i had a really good day besides the whole not-seeing-spouse thing. I worked with staff i like, it was a smooth shift, and the walk with the progeny was really pretty fun. Although Division (if you looked at that Google Maps directions, it tells you to go on Highway 131, but i took Division instead...) is a really loud street, the sidewalks are filthy and bumpy, and there are no back roads which run parallel to it, mostly because of the trailer home parks which border it, and also the new South Beltline, which looms over Division and the surrounding neighborhoods with ridiculous ~20 foot walls, as though to protect the elite motorists from the scum below. Anyway... it's loud. But we had fun.
And i know i have made it my policy not to discuss things like... poop... and stuff on my site. Well, i'd like to continue that policy, but let me say that when i saw an ad for "non-stimulant laxative" i wondered to myself what in the world kind of stimulant they'd use for a laxative, and on the apex of our journey, i drank an energy drink. Well, i think i found that stimulant. It was horrible.
Read on for an anti-US and US media rant. Check out this image. It's a screenshot of CNN's front page from today, August 31st, around 10:00pm time in Michigan, US. The hurricane has done its worst down in the New Orleans area and triage is underway. Thousands are homeless, poor, hungry and perhaps dying. It's pretty horrible. But there's another horrific story over in Iraq, the Al-Aaimmah bridge stampede.
Okay. Why is the stampede eleventh on the list of stories? (Counting the headline and accompanying story cluster as one story.) I know that H. Katrina is a big natural disater, and will have worldwide economic impact. And CNN is a US news company. But they put sick ladies and an inanely obvious quote from Bush before the stampede? Television news is worse, with mere seconds being devoted to a tradgedy which is comparable in terms of loss of life, and hours devoted to the hurricane. What, is it because we don't know of any Americans affected by the bridge stampede? Or is it because they're a bunch of Shi'a Muslims? Ooh, and gas prices are up.
Anyway, the media is stupid and sucks. But at least it's universal. As of now, the Iraq Daily has two small links concerning the hurricane, way down at the bottom of the page, and it's just because the hurricane is in the same transcript they linked to as something having to do with Bush's policies about Iraq. Man, people can be so stupid.