I don't usually take "personal" days from work, but maybe I should look into doing it more often, because yesterday was awesome!
Pancakes! Beach! Watched Ratatouille! Rock Band! Beer! COLD WAR KIDS IN STORE AT FINGERPRINTS! More beer! Indulge!
The new Cold War album is great off a first listen, I'll be posting my favorite songs once I've broken the repeat button. I hope she remembers what I said.....
It's been close to 7 years since "9-11" and the battle and argument over what really happened that day is still as strong as ever and may not ever really be answered in a world that can be bought, edited, bribed, convinced, or any combination of these things.
I honestly thought this documentary on the History channel was going to be more objective. I can be naive sometimes.
It took the derogatory route of saying anyone who questioned what happen on 9-11 is paranoid, disrespectful to the victims, and in most cases reads too deeply into the situation.
The "experts" were for the most part the staff at Popular Mechanics, which has been owned by the media conglomerate, Hearst Corporation since the 1950s, a publishing company drench in all kinds of "interesting" history. Just watch Citizen Kane or take a look at William Randolph Hearst wiki page. That's besides the point though, just a fun fact. The point is Popular Mechanics, just like conspiracy theorists have their own agenda and it's not to "debunk" the truth. The agenda is to not piss off their owners and their advertisers who are for the most part, oh wouldn't you know, military and defense contractors and maybe throw in some tobacco companies and Wal-Mart for good measure.
The best part about this documentary is when you dig deeper is this. A&E Television Networks owns the History Channel. Who is A&E Television jointly owned by? ABC, Inc., THE HEARST CORPORATION and NBC Universal.
Cash is KING ya'll, don't let it hold you back from asking questions no matter how much they criticize you.
This is just a shout out to my local dive bar The Sweetwater Saloon. 5 reasons the Saloon is cooler than your dive bar.
1) The ICIEST beer mugs you'll ever hold. I swear they are stored in Antarctica and somehow magically show up in my hand. Cheap Bud Light only tastes good here. 2) Two pool tables, darts, jukebox, bar game thing all in this little fucking place that holds like 80 people if even. 3) Cowboy doors! and a little door on the front door that makes it feel like a speak easy 4) No one is ever really there, and if crowded bars give you anxiety like me, this is a life saver 5) Tinted front windows that make them like mirrors so you can always check your look or be creepy and eye people outside smoking
Not that I think Republicans deserve any coverage, but how boring has the RNC Convention been?
Have any of them taken a public speaking class or at least put any passion behind what they're saying? They sound like drones.
It would be really great as well if they would be honest about the audience they are speaking to. They're always saying "the people" "the people" - "this is for the people!" They need to be honest and say "the rich people, not everyone." I guess that won't go over well with the poor uneducated citizens who they usually sucker into voting for them.
The whole motto of "drill baby drill" also freaks me out. Calling for more drilling in the US is not energy independence. It's a short term solution to present problems and a retarded one at that. If they actually believed in science and took the time to realize the solution is to free ourselves from oil completely they actually might make money with something that doesn't destroy our environment.
Where are they expecting their un-aborted children to live anyway?
This is a good book to check out if you're into Science and Technology and you're always wondering why people say TV will rot your brain or video games spawn real life violence blah blah when really we are flexing our cognitive muscles more than ever and with a little effort really expanding our critical thinking with mutli-level games, multi-thread plot lineson tv and the internet leaving knowledge right at our finger tips. excellent read. I recommend for fearful mom's everywhere.
