- longest. day. ever. learned how to conjugate verbs ending in -are in italian today, watched parts one and two of when the levees broke, had a surprisingly interesting and heated discussion in history, meeting, boxing, (almost) bedtime.
- GOT A POSTCARD FROM SPAIN TODAY!!! it was so exciting, obviously.
- can't wait for it to be october 1st and can't wait for the wedding weekend! being at home during the fall will be amazing.
truly am very exhausted so this will be semi-short. but it goes along with the tidbit i just posted above and relates to my watching of when the levees broke. OMG, WTF?!?! that movie is crazy so far. i was mid-teens when it happened and well aware of the situation but it blows my mind to watch it all again, five years later. clearly, the movie had political and social biases and implications, but even those aside, just the basic facts about the katrina disaster bloooow my mind. it's unreal to me. the sheer idiocy of george bush, michael browning, michael chernoff, everyone at the federal level is appalling. I HATE GEORGE BUSH. his smirk is possibly the most insulting facial expression i have ever seen. that's all that the federal government did to victims of katrina--add insult to injury. and yes, i will have the people who disagree with me, but i couldn't care less. oh, so we were in a war on terror and we couldn't deal with the horrifying terror that was thrown in our face in our own country?! real cool, america. and yes there were admirable and important and miraculous efforts from thousands of people in this country and abroad...but what about the millions of people who did nothing? to quote the lady in the movie, "i hope they can sleep at night."
I like your comment about how we were supposedly fighting terrorism and couldn't even deal here at home. You need to read Zeitoun...
ReplyDeletewell, i don't think i would vote at all, wouldn't want to give repos the pleasure...
ReplyDeleteas for the movie, ain't seen it and will withhold comment until. i can certainly see how spikey dude would put a spin on it, and most likely well deserved criticism, but keep in mind that the structural problems (levee and human) contributing to the flooding were a result of many previous administrations failings. i feel the message/lesson is that the very nature of the system; greed, cheating, laziness, corruption, shucking responsibility,etc, are the very essence of the "american" way of doing things, as long as its weighed against all of the unseens, black, hispanic, crackers, etc. ever heard the saying "planned obsolescence"? no thought to building a quality product, just build it for present and future profit margin, damned the consequences.
don't take all the documentaries at face value, recognized that the end result of doc movies is itself: MONEY, ITS A GAS...
yes, i know i'm a cynic.