LOL, it's a bit of a worry when the most eye catching link from the BBC News front page is the rumour that Ahnald may have a cameo in Terminator 4. Wiping out the girly men of California's legislature no doubt. Apologies to Darfur, Iraq, Pinochet and the rest, but with most other stories there is just so much information overload (well, apart from the 1984ness of what the Iraqi and US administrations think is going on in Baghdad, Fallujah and the rest).
Watched Apocalypse Now last night (Redux version - in the original I guess there weren't any nipples showing LOL?), and the madness of war and all - regards Iraq another week to go this month and already the casualty toll is horrendous, the revolt is getting more effective (insurgency just sounds like firecrackers in front of police stations, revolt is a much better word). Even the CIA and the intelligence community - not that they have much chop after the WMD slam dunk debacle - are saying that there is bad, worse or worst as medium term options in Iraq, flawed elections to civil war. And Bush dismisses them now as 'just guessing' - why now, and not in the RUN UP to the war??? Grrr, have to find a less provocative issue for my next paragraph.
Hmm, well, maybe - just Google Newsing the phrase Bush Just Guessing LOL. Good one, although obviously biased to the left, here - and FYI here is the actual Bush quote - “The CIA laid out several scenarios. It said that life could be lousy, life could be OK, life could be better. And they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like". Rolling eyes here.
And bringing in the US election on this one - mmm the first debate next week, FINALLY a face to face - Iraq Iraq Iraq is what the issues should be. Finally Kerry seems to be figuring that out - yes, the Dems seem to be more trusted (although that phrase with ANY politician ick) on schools, healthcare etc, but to duck Iraq would just be plain stoopid at the moment - lol not saying that the Dems can't be that of course. But at least bring it out into the debate rather than either refighting Vietnam and the Texas National Guard, or just roll over and wait for your tummy to be rubbed listening to all the freedom will prevail and just a handful of dead enders that the Administration peddles. Though I'm not American, I don't have a vote, so obviously I am just as important as all those former prisoners also taken off the electoral rolls.
And good article from Slate here, concentrating on the debates YAY - God, I'm pathetic aren't I LOL showing this much interest in not my own nation politics. But as an op ed in the Guardian a couple weeks ago, or maybe an editorial, said, this is basically a world election now - whoever gets into the White House for the next four years will have a HUGE impact on the world in general, more so than any other election, the September 11 and let's flex our muscles response - before the US got involved in World Wars One and Two, Europe had already been fighting for two or three years - this could be the first big war that the US responded to immediately - terror I am talking about, not to confuse the Iraq quagmire with that, although it is morphing into it. LOL, like the way Slate has put it, before the Republican convention Bush had lost the incumbent's referendum, but after it Kerry lost the challenger's one - where's a Ross Perot when you need one LOL.
And maybe the most important state in the upcoming election, Florida, is under the gun with the fourth hurricane of the season - you can't see election ads if you don't have power. And whether or not they think federal politics is important at the moment, the governor, Dubya's brother, has skyrocketing approval ratings - hmm, Hurricanes for Bush LOL. And yes, I was certain that Ivan had gone up through Maryland and New York and all after carving through Georgia and the Carolinas, but suddenly it's back on the Texas coast? Well, that is because it split in two, one went north and one went back out to sea to become a tropical storm again. Of course, the damage in the States is nothing as compared to the Caribbean, Haiti losing 1100 people in flooding, the Caymans losing about 85% of their buildings. Oh, the toll is up to 1500 in Haiti now, as if that country has a great coping mechanism for natural disasters - there were food riots yesterday, as UN troops (aren't Canadians based down there?) tried to restore order.
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