Week Ending 22 June

This week summer resurfaced even as the arctic winds swept through the city.

Workin' It

This week I made a few connections and found out about a couple of "long-shot" opportunities. I was hanging out with a group of tall guys in a bar and struck up a conversation with a cute little blond girl in town from NYC. She works for l'Oreal and she told me she gets $2,000 if she refers me for a job and I work there for three months... of course I gave her my business card and as soon as their hiring freeze ends in a couple of weeks, she promised to write me. Like I said, it's a long shot but it gives me hope and that's a commodity almost as scarce as quality job leads.

Queer Film Festival Continues

This year due to joblessness, I've had to cut back drastically on the number of films I'm seeing in the festival. While I've only got tickets to see three programs, you know I've still got an opinion about them all...

Jury Duty

I have to serve on a jury next week. Actually at this point, I just got called to serve. If all goes well, I won't have to serve. This time, it is the criminal courts so it might be an interesting case but I really don't want to spend a couple of months dealing with the courts. With no stable income, I've got to focus on finding a job. I hope they'll understand that.

Credibility Under Attack (again)

This section was started two weeks ago and will be continued as more items come to my attention.

Case Seven
Republican members of Congressional committees charged with oversite of the "intelligence" community are trying to stymie efforts to shed light on what Bush knew and when did he know it. Many people now believe that Bush may have manufactured the "evidence" against Iraq either intentionally or unintentionally by disregarding information that didn't support his opinions. Either way, America and the rest of the world needs to know what really happened.

Case Eight
Members of the British Parliment called Blair to task this week. The fact that his administration used a college student's thesis as part of the "evidence" they presented to Parliment, once again came back to haunt PM Blair. It will be very interesting to see how this plays out because Blair is the head of his political party and this is a political issue. The Queen is the head of state, so issues of patriotism won't enter the debate over there. In the US, the president is both head of state and head of party so issues like this get blurred in America.

The Age of Imperialism

Death Toll Mounts
Reports rolled in DAILY about fresh attacks on US forces. The US millitary did their best to spin it as 'forces loyal to Sadam' when in reality we have a crisis of historical proportions. For the first time in US history, we have absolutely no plan, no strategy, no direction and a vacuum of authentic leadership. The bloodless coup of 2000 is bloodless no longer.

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