What’s the EU going to do? Wag their fingers? Vote to pass a strongly-worded resolution?

This is laughable.

Russia just backed two regions that seceded from their country (Georgia) as the world sat by and watched. If they had a large enough pair to pull that off, what could the EU possibly do to grab Putin by the shorty and curlies.

The best part is the fact that Russia has to pay Georgia to run oil and natural gas through pipelines that just so happen to run right through the two “breakaway regions.”

Not anymore.

“New Orleans Orders Evacuations As Gustav Barrels Across Gulf”

I feel sorry for a lot of the folks that live in Louisiana. Especially the people that have been rebuilding and now stand to lose it all again. Then again, they live next to the ocean in an area that sits below sea level, so I would think that they realized the potential consequences of their situation.

It will be interesting to see how the federal government will respond this time around.

I was forced to watch “A.I.” recently. After the film ended, there were a lot of thoughts racing through my head involving mankind. Besides the usual who are we and why are we here questions, I wondered how we (human beings) will be remembered. It’s obvious all the ice will melt and the world will be thrown into upheavel. If a civil society emerges from the inevitable cluster-fuck, what will we leave behind once this planet no longer sustains us?

Let’s say humans and all other life on this rock died out tomorrow and everything sat around collecting dust for another thousand years. Then, intelligent beings from other places in this universe happen upon the shit left over and start digging for more, in an effort to find out as much about what we were, much like humans today digging up dinosaur remnants. Would you be proud of what they found? Do you think they would get a distorted view because some of our worst habits and their by-products would be all that remained?

I’ve seen “Children of Men” and “Soylent Green.” Even the “Mad Max” movies or “Waterworld” are completely plausible, future scenarios. I have read George Orwell’s “1984.” Are those the types of places you would like your offspring to live in? What makes you think that most warped, human minds won’t be there to push the envelope even more so then what occurs today?

I still wonder why humans do what they do to each other. They teach history in school and we still have not learned from past mistakes that are well documented. Humans leave stains wherever they go with little regard to anything else but themselves. I really question whether or not we have evolved. We keep each other alive with technology and purposely disrupt the cycle of natural forces. We pile our garbage where we please and fill the air we breath with harmful chemicals well aware of the adverse effects of both practices. We comfort ourselves with meaningless religion so we can live our lives lying to ourselves about a better place once we leave this reality. We talk about how far we have come as living beings since Neanderthals roamed the earth. We speak of our triumph over all of the other beasts, yet we are running out of food and resources we have become so dependent on so we can live in convenience.

I am disgusted at myself because I am just as much a part of it as your are. It brings me guilt and grief to know humans will deny other humans of their culture. Standing and staring or letting out some empathatic statement or sigh is not enough. You only make yourself feel better, but that’s all the matters to most folks, anyway.

Microsoft is having a mid-life crisis and is looking for the right sports car to purchase before divorcing its wife of 20 years for a 23 year old blond.

Here are some other, better suggestions from some folks out there in internet land, courtesy of CNET.

I can see the commercials now…”What is the deal with these new operating systems? I mean, c’mon, who makes these damn things? Who are these people?”

Only time will tell…

It only took three days for the morons to finally give up the charade. I think they underestimated the blanket of media coverage that they would receive and just couldn’t stand it any longer.

How could you keep a straight face showing people those pictures? Hilarious!

James Robinson is. All three of them. A whole new federal government department was formed to make a list to protect United States citizens, and that list states that they are.

Thank you to Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston(via CNN), for this wonderfully written article.

While I did chuckle a bit, this is really sad. It’s a surreal foreshadowing of George Orwell’s 1984. The list has United States citizens on it, is made by a government agency, yet you can’t get a copy of this list for yourself. Didn’t they pass some act or something that was supposed to, like, give…you know…United States citizens, like, the power to get, like, copies of all the documents they wanted, or whatever? How could I be so stupid? Revealing the list would pose a huge threat to national security, especially if James Robinson is on the list. The government didn’t even know there were three of them! That’s scary, people!

I’m not sure whether or not my favorite part of the article is when they reveal how each of the Robinson families avoid being flagged by the list or when they reveal that one James Robinson is eight years old.

If they ever catch the real terrorist that refers to himself as James Robinson they better let everyone know what he looks like, that they have apprehended him, and make sure they take his name off of that damn “list.”

From the wonderful folks that brought us the Gulags, that same group has now brought forced labor to Georgia.

Any hint of criticism from the United States on this matter would be viewed as extremely hypocritical. Not that something like that has ever stopped us from wagging our fingers at other countries before. Don’t get me wrong, though. I am not siding with Russia on this one. Ossetia was looking to secede from Georgia, and when the Georgian government tried to preserve their nation’s union, Russia intervened. That would have been like France or Great Britain intervening during the American Civil War, or Germany siding with General Franco during the Spanish Civil War…oops, I mean the United States intervening during the Mexican Revolution - shit! Forget it.

Here’s what the head nincompoop had to say about it, courtesy of the Associated Press. You could almost re-write the entire article substituting the word “Iraq” for every “Georgia,” Putin giving the “stern warning” to the United States, and the date of the article would be 2002.

LOL

Come on, fellas. How long do you really think you can keep up this charade? I say two weeks. Who wants to put some money on it?

One of many heroes to come out of World War II.

I love how they point out the fact that this poor gentleman was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder 63 years after the war. I’ve seen more of those photos documenting the Holocaust then I care to mention. Mr. Hoyt was a nineteen year old Iowa farm boy who was one of the lucky ones to make it through the Battle of the Bulge, and then he stumbled upon Buchenwald in a German forest.

Now think about all those young kids in Iraq who only needed college tuition money. I’m not saying toppling Saddam Hussein was a bad thing, but I don’t see any politician’s kid fighting over there. That’s why people like that are so quick to fight a war. They just want a lucrative government contract.

I’ll stop, because I don’t want that to take away from Mr. Hoyt’s memory.

Are they doing this because they’re afraid she’ll start crying once the nomination has been announced?

Seriously. Would they have done this if it was a man that had lost with that slim of a margin?

A “unification gesture,” eh? Bologna!