|
 Workin'
It
This week was supposed to be the end of my fourth contract
with The Sharper Image. I identified an area for more work
and they went for my ideas. Next week I'll be implimenting
them.
Par-TAY!
Because TSI is a holiday heavy, retail firm, they have their
holiday party in January. It's more of a "we survived
the holiday-thanks for the hard work" type of thing.
 School
My physics class started this week. I can't believe how droll
the instructor is. He takes a sexy topic like physics and
turns it into a yawn-fest. During our first session, I was
the only one in the class who knew all three parts of Newton's
first law of motion, so I think it'll be an easy 'A' for me.
The Birthday Week Redux
Greek teenager Athina Onassis is set to become one of the
richest women in the world as she turned 18 this week.
Ms Onassis is the granddaughter of the Greek shipping magnate,
Aristotle Onassis.
She may not speak Greek but as the sole inheritor of her
grandfather's immense wealth, she will take over a fortune
estimated at $1 billion.
The teenager, who lives in Switzerland with her French father,
is more interested in horses than the high life and has hinted
she may give a large chunk of her fortune to charity.
Shuttle Off Ta Texas
The space shuttle Columbia blew up as it re-entered Earth's
atmosphere on Saturday this week.
Why's it such a big deal? OK, 7 people dead is sad and tragic...
but really people lets review the record:
Safe
Flights = 111
Flubbed Flights = 2
That means that well over 700 people have gone into space
safely. According to the ABC Network's show 20/20, meat packers
and industrial butchers should be so lucky. Most are maimed
or killed in their first two years of work and if it weren't
for a steady influx of Mexicans, the meat industry would colapse.
The fact that an average worker in a slaughterhouse has to
work LESS than 700 times before getting hurt or killed seems
to be overlooked in all the shuttle hoopla. Of course, the
slaughter house story is SO two months ago and the Shuttle
thing is NOW; during RATINGS SWEEPS MONTH.
This is the month that networks get rated and their ratings
determine advertising rates for the rest of the year.
This whole thing just illustrates how far from real journalism
the major media has drifted. True heroes are the ones who
do things over and above the call of duty. Maybe they take
that literally... sure astronaughts work over and above the
heads of most of us, but that's a normal part of their job
description. True heroes go beyond normal activities and do
extraordinary things, like beating breast cancer, or living
with AIDS. Heroes operate outside thier normal environment
and triumph, that's why they're celebrated, like a neighbour
who catches a burglar leaving your house with your gear or
a passing motorist who stops to help an elderly woman after
she falls on some ice. Yes, heroes are all around us, but
not in space... yet.
 Drums
of War
This week, Bush gave his annual report to congress. He has
no new evidence for war, except to say that Sadam sucks.
How can they keep saying, "prove the weapons are gone"
without proof that the weapons are there in the first place?
Bush is a total hypocrat. He basically wants Iraq to prove
a negative, yet claims its impossible to do so when questioned
about his VP's energy deliberations with Enron. "They
never happened" is the official word from the white house
and Cheney claims no comment, then they say they can't prove
a negative.
 Bush
is obviously out of his element in so many ways. In his speach,
he said that terrorists don't announce their actions before
they attack. Obviously he's forgotten that Al Qaeda always
sends out an announcement before their attacks. Bin Laden's
videos and tape recorded warnings were supposedly studied
by US "Intelligence" agencies who allowed, or enabled
September 11th to happen. Over a year later, we're still not
substantively safer and no one in the governement has stepped
down in disgrace.
The US governement knew about Pearl Harbour before it happened,
but they had to let it happen or the Japanese would know they
cracked the code. After that incident, leaders of several
agencies stepped down supposedly in disgrace, or disgrace
at the time. After the allied victory, they were hailed as
martyred heroes.
With his heavy handed hyperbolic rhetoric, it's obvious this
guy is hell-bent on war. The last section of his speach was
chilling in its over-reliance on "god". I don't
know about you, but I don't want Bush's god anywhere near
me. It just shows how much of religious fanatic he really
is and what happened to our "war" against the religious
fanatics in Afghanistan? I guess the old cliche is true, 'it
takes one to know one'
|
