okay yeah
i've taken a little break from ranting about world events
to rant about my life..
because quite honestly
i started to feel a bit too submerged in all things
bloody..(that's the world events part not my life part..although I have been craving rare meat lately)
anyway this recent terrorism in Saudi Arabia
has struck me as odd
not because it happened
but because it seemed like it has been treated
as super minor
so much so
that at first i thought it was just an attack against the saudi's
took me awhile to figure out it was an attack against americans too
or foremost
not sure which
in any case
i guess pretty much anything seems small after "911"
except for a war of course...
but short of a war
i mean shit
what really registers
after seeing the world trade center fall down?
but that scares me
our level of what affects us
has been so elevated
that oh
just a few dozen deaths doesn't even make a bleep anymore
it reminds me of what it was like to move
from a small town on the jersey shore
to New York City
used to be if someone got killed in a car accident
it would be the talk of the town
now when i flip through the news
a death or two doesn't even hold my attention
no
anything less than 10 dead
or a celebrity drug bust
isn't worth a milli-second of my time
so here we are
americans
we've watched "911" happen
either first hand or from our TVs
we watched the invasion of Iraq
every day
on nearly every channel
so i'm guessing either the media
figures this saudi thing is small potatoes
or we're not responding as we should be
either that
or the baby bush
is so busy patting himself on the back
that he doesn't want this little Al queda thing
too talked about
or maybe he doesn't want to be reminded
that osama is still around
just like he doesn't want to be reminded
that we don't know if saddam is dead
there's also this dandy little doodle
the baby bush and all the bushettes don't like to talk too much about
anything saudi
because, well all the great terrorists seem to come from there
or get their money from their
but golly gee the saudi's are our friends
why?
well because we want their oil
and why is it that north korea
hasn't been taken on?
well that's simple
north korea has nukes
baby bush doesn't like to bite boys
who bite back
not that i want a war with north korea
jeez
that would pretty much finish off
any chance or world peace
not to mention
the standing this country has in the world
i'm already being told if i leave the country
not to tell anyone i'm an american
i never say i'm an american anyway
always say i'm a new yorker
why?
hmmm
not sure
but it did get me better service in paris
land of the bitchy and rude
and it did get me some free drinks in london
land of the over-priced everything
it also excuses the fact that i can't seem to wear anything that isn't black
or beige...hmm or the occasional olive tone ....
but i digress
here's my idea
next time we go to war
let's first try and actually kill the bastard
we're going to war to take out
and then worry about the war part
it's getting fairly tiring that these yahoos seem to keep dusting themselves off and going back to business
maybe that's the main reason
this saudi thing is such background muzac
cause osama they say...is the one who ordered the deed
that's a real thorn in the side of the baby bush
i'd say
i'm guessing osama and saddam are out there somewhere
doing jello shots
and laughing at us all
pisses me off
