Ironically enough, this debate is literally making me sick.
Soo.. it’s okay to fork over trillions of dollars to fund the murder of thousands of innocent people overseas, and to bail out failing banks, and for countless other unjust causes, but when it comes to doing the same to help sick people it becomes “Whoa man, that money is -mine.- Hands off.”
Right then.
Well, to me and most of the western world, basic health care -is- a fundamental human right, and shouldn’t have to be earned. It’s positively barbaric to think otherwise. I would gladly pay more in taxes to ensure the health and safety of my fellow Americans. Even if it takes a decade to work out all the wrinkles. The same way i’m happy to pay taxes for clean drinking water, and a police force. A nation is only as strong as its weakest link, after all. Right?
Why jump up and down about paying for health care and not these other things? I don’t get it. Why isn’t anyone making this much of a fuss over public education? I don’t have any kids, why should i pay for some lazy couple’s kids to go to school- they should just work harder and put their kids in a private school! Everyone should! And if they can’t they’re just not trying hard enough. They just don’t -want- it enough. Right? It’s the same argument. Why this issue? Why not any other publicly funded enterprise?
Ohh right; because they don’t have a multi-billion dollar industry funding a national propaganda campaign -against- them. Hm.
Why doesn’t someone just make -good- birthday cards? i can never find even one acceptable card when i need one. There has to be some kind of conspiracy going on where only horrible, vomit-inducing cards are put on shelves just so we all have to spend insane amounts of time in the card aisle, rummaging for the least-sucky card as we get angrier and angrier. Why would they do this? I don’t know, but that’s clearly what’s happening. It has to be deliberate! It’s not possible that every last person in an entire industry could suck SO many balls. GRAHH!
And why, for that matter, do i even -need- to buy birthday cards? They’re so pointless and tacky! Does anyone really even care about receiving cards? Yet if i were to just write a heartfelt, sincere and personal message on a scrap of paper and give that to someone (or better yet, just -say- something nice to them), they’d probably be offended that i didn’t go out and get them some insincere, nonsensical brightly-colored, embossed, and glitter-fied Hallmark garbage.
Ugh, it makes me mad! And yet, i’m still gonna buy one every time someone i know has a birthday. Touche, Hallmark. Touche. -_-
The whale watching went wonderfully; we saw fin whales, a minke whale, and humpbacks! It was the best day ever! The weather was beautiful, and we even managed to avoid getting sunburnt. Whales!
I have today off, and am spending it lazily playing The Secret of Monkey Island on the Xbox 360. Currently trying to figure out what to do about some fruity cannibals. Good times, but i’m worried that my eyes are going to fall out from all the screen-staring. So i’m taking a short break to.. stare at a different screen.
…Hm.
WHAAAALE WATCHING! :D
Hopefully we won’t die. And hopefully we see some whales ^^
Lunch!
I’ve decided that Broderick is deliberately trying to sabotage my lunches, as upon arrival home today i found that he’d left the turkey out on the table for who knows how long. I’ll get you for this Broderick Lang! *fist shake* Oh well. Cup-a-Noodles instead is nice after getting rained on soo badly.
Found out my ring size today- 6.5. I thought 7 or 8 was an average ring size, but a bunch of others (we were doing this at work- one of the servers also works at a jewelers and had a neato keychain sizey thinger) were smaller than me, so now i’m convinced that i have fat fingers :S
Back to work in a minute. It is vurry rainy, so i may actually make some $$ tonight! :D
I’m eating hybrid fruit and Kashi cereal for breakfast, then off to work another double at Bertuccis. Booo. I miss Fenway!
Home for a quick lunch break before more work. All of last night’s leftover steak tips have mysteriously disappeared from the fridge though. Hmm… I suppose i’ll come home tonight to find no more delicious salad left either :(
I have an etsy shop! It’s full of chunky rings and silly girl things handmade by me. Just trying to spread the word a little at the moment.
In Australia, there is an icecream called a ‘Golden Gaytime’ and yes, it is delicious.
