Went to Toronto yesterday — nice to be back, but not as nice as being out here to be honest. First we went to the BME/office and taped out some loft lines for the construction crew (it's a 56'x41'x17' space, with a 12'x56' loft along one side and a full wall of windows on the other side). Let's hope the bathroom and all that is installed by the 26th since that's where we're meeting.
And wow, the 26th sure is the day of events — there's the trip to Taronga Zoo (in Australia, with a half dozen people confirmed), my bowling and ID party (about 30 people confirmed), the Halloween BBQ in Delhi, Ontario (near Brantford/Hamilton, with about 20 people confirmed), the IAM.scary BBQ in Kentucky (with over 30 people confirmed), the Halloween Party in Salem, MA (two dozen people confirmed), and the Florida BME BBQ (over 20 people confirmed). So… Which to go to?
Yesterday we also went to beazer's birthday party at the Red Room, along with ://trinity, techknight, enthalpy, bodmodbetty, |triBal|, MiL0, and Bradford (I hope I didn't forget anyone). I think I ate something that disagreed with me (a veggie noodle broth at the Big Bowl) and I was super sick for the rest of the day unfortunately, and still feel rather ill from it.
So I found an old poster when I was going through my files — it's a photo of scarification, and underneath it says, “the only blood we have the right to spill is our own“. I don't know if I made up the quote, or if someone else did, but if everyone decided that was fair, the world sure would be a better place.
I haven't commented on Bush's speech on Monday yet — in part this is because the thing was so ludicrous and lie-filled that I assumed that none of you were taking it particularly seriously anyway. Yeah, like we really believe that Saddam is going to attack America any day by crashing into it with planes loaded with chemical and biological weapons. Yeah, we really believe that Saddam and al Qaeda (which regularly advocates the overthrowing of Saddam as well) are buddies.
It's flat-out made up. I really hope Americans don't believe this stuff. But Bush continues to enjoy high across-the-board support, so who knows… Will the average American support any war if they're told — even if they know it's a lie — that they are at risk?
You'd think the “we can't give you evidence — once we have hard evidence, it's too late, so we have to attack now” type of pre-emptive strikes would be recognized as fundamentally wrong. Let's start applying that theory to every day life. How about we start allowing police to kill anyone that might commit a crime. Because that's what it being proposed with Iraq…
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