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January 31, 2006
Oops
OK, Josh, Mr. Photo-fucking-graphic Memory that he is, was right about my mix-up in regards to the Challenger disaster. I watched it at home and somehow jumbled that together with an earlier (successful) Challenger launch we had seen at school a couple years prior. Of course, Mr. Fuckinggenius was totally wrong in saying the shuttle blew up. It didn't. So there.
Nonetheless, I can apologize the only way I know how: by taking that entry, and, using Google, translating it into Japanese and then back into English. We call it Engrish. Enjoy...
20 years ago. Precocious 11 year of person old, 20 years in tomorrow ago, it started showing the crack as my unerring reliance and a country. We are the large アメ Lee mosquito, but, it is not complete. The person fails once upon a time the dies of the person once upon a time. As for that being to be, as for us who always are it was in the school which is seen with the tv. I connected completely with our voices which are brought up with countdown namely yell: " 3, 2, 1! ". Beautiful ignition and rise - The fact that the land and mind are stirred is shaken. At rear ninety second: " Go because of the スロ ット. " And disorder. By mistake we had known that it is with the age something. When and there was a part, you did not know, the surface of our teachers informed everything to those. We are to witness the life of the American 7 exactly the key tobacco was inhaled between instant pioneer. Or we thought. Something which continues is first impact namely while that makes being surprised, the っ after: " That was fast, pain was not "...". But " happened had not known as for them under any condition, that was not true. Afterwards, we find terrible truth. As for explosion those the shooting midst っ it is - As for falling to earth. 7 Icari. As for me the magazine of time, I have remembered the photograph of 1 you remember many from other things: The Florida beach of serene namely one smoldering glove of sand. We are not complete, don't you think? so is? The reliance to which the person and the country do not tremble is dangerous. It asks always. It asks always. If you do not rely on with one thing, rely on our specific infallibility. We occasionally fail. We occasionally die. Being to have that, and being always to be..
"We are the large Lee mosquito, but, it is not complete."
"We are not complete, don't you think?"
So true. So, so true.
January 27, 2006
Twenty Years
Twenty years ago tomorrow, as a precocious 11-year-old, my unerring faith in man and country began to show cracks. We are the great America, but we are not perfect. Man sometime fails, man sometime dies. As it was and it will always be.
We were at school, watching on TV. We all joined in the countdown, our voices growing louder: "THREE, TWO, ONE!!". The glorious ignition and ascent - shaking the ground and stirring the soul.
Ninety seconds later: "Go for throttle up." Then chaos. Even at that age we knew something was wrong. And if there were some that didn't know, our teacher's face told them everything. We had just witnessed the lives of seven American pioneers snuffed out in an instant. Or we thought.
After the initial shock, it came as no surprise what followed: "It was quick and painless"... "They never knew what happened." But even that wasn't true. Later, we'd find out the awful truth. The explosion didn't kill them - the fall to earth did. Seven Icari.
I remember the picture in TIME magazine, one I remember more than the others: the serene Florida beach, one smoldering glove in the sand.
We're not perfect, are we? Unwavering faith in man and country is dangerous. Always question. Always question. If you must trust in one thing, trust our inherent infallibility. We sometimes fail. We sometimes die. As it was and as it always will be.
Hmm...
On May 17, 2004 I posted the following:
Well, well, well
It seems that we didn't recently discover chemical weapons in Iraq, since we know Hussein obeyed the UN Resolution to a T so that when we
unjustifiablyinvaded there wouldn't be any chemical weapons anywh... oops.Gazi George, a former Iraqi nuclear scientist under Saddam's regime, told Fox News that he believes many similar weapons stockpiled by the former regime were either buried underground or transported to Syria. He noted that the airport where the device was detonated is on the way to Baghdad from the Syrian border.Now, I'm a rational guy. I don't think this is the end-all, be-all "smoking gun" but it sure as hell strengthens my belief that the current administration's intelligence was not perhaps as shady as some would have you believe.
Granted, one shell dispensing sarin does not a "large stockpile" make, but hopefully that won't prevent the US from properly addressing this situation. We just need to be sure, yeah?
Maybe the shell was overlooked as a sarin-carrying piece of ordinance when the Iraqis were disposing of the rest. Maybe some enterprising kid bought it as a paperweight, then sold it back into circulation. Could have been any number of things, I guess...
Maybe it fell off the truck bound for Syria.
Fast forward to today.
We-heh-hellll...
January 23, 2006
Put This Into Perspective
I know I haven't posted in like a month. Back off, would ya? Patience, grasshopper.
In the mean time, I might just be droppin' links like Galileo dropped the orange.
This first one: Wow. Brilliant, yet devious. Deviously brilliant. An acid trip gone beautifully, ingeniously wrong and right. I have a bad feeling I'm one of those people that would throw up if I stood in the middle of the hallway in the first pic for too long.
*UPDATE* Tons more here.
