The Daily News
1 How come nothing ever works the way it's supposed to?
2 Like yesterday while doing a bajillon things, I went to my printer and waited for results.
3 For some reason, it would reject the first sheet of feed paper, and then print the next one. It wasn't much, but slowed everything down by about four seconds.
4 Later in the day, I went to our copy machine with my OWN paper so that I could run a huge project.
5 I looked at the first couple of copies and they looked fine, so I went over the other copier to get a new thing going. HUGE job, but fortunately for me nobody was around.
6 Except the Dibble.
7 When I heard the last paper slide slowly onto the stack and the machine take a breather, I casually walked over only to find that midway through doing back-to-back copies of a poetry unit I have been working on, entire pages of math problems ran on 180 of my copies.
8 180 copies, all because some teacher left his stuff on the glass, triggering some sort of psychological reaction in the copy machine. Maybe in its previous life it had trouble figuring out both math and poetry, a commonly human travail.
9 I thought of giving it to my students anyway, just to see the looks on their faces, and insisting it was a poem.
10 Fear not; I've better things to do with my time than "practical" jokes, which I never found funny anyway.
11 Continuing on with things that don't work the way they're supposed to: even when I was in the midst of doing this DN, the font on number seven switched, and refused to un-center.
12 All true.
13 To its credit, I did give it a glare, and it returned pretty fast.
14 Yes, I let inanimate objects KNOW when I am pissed.
15 One time I was in the Theatre worried about some major life concerns when the song Let it Be came on the system. The song moved me more than it normally did, so I think it was a catch-up-with-the now sorta moments. I was almost dancing with the musical notes.
16 Suddenly, it shut off.
17 I paused. It was dead silent. Then I said two words:
18 "Hey!"
19 Within a millisecond it popped right back on; I swear to you.
20 Wuss.
21 Naturally, I loved it.
22 It listened. Other things don't a lot of the time.
23 Maybe I should get pissed more often.
24 <thinks>
25 Nah.
26 Moving on, Part the First: I'm all about people celebrating the death of Osama and allowing those sad, sad moments of 9/11 to come screaming back to our memories, but it seems to me the flag-waving is already getting out of hand and over the top.
27 If I may, the last time that happened was right after 9/11, and within months, our Bill of Rights was burned to the ground by the Bush adminstration, whose family has serious ties to some pretty insidious people, not the least of whom is the Bin Laden family. Yes, I'm calling the Bushes out on their crap. Have a pie.
28 I've learned to look every huge story with a little bit of caution. I don't believe everything we're told by Presidents, nor by the military. I've always read the backstory, and looked at political research in these sorts of instances, and I feel at this point, I deserve a little respect for proceeding cautiously with a government who lied about the Gulf of Tonkin incident, who lied about the JFK assassination, who lied about the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. assassionation, who lied about the Bobby Kennedy killing, and who lied about John Kennedy, Jr.s killing, who lied about Pat Tillman, and who possibly lied about 9/11. Why? Oil, money, extreme power unbridled. I go no further than the Bush family. You don't have to go far to see what these people have been up to since the second world war, and even earlier.
29 Pisses people off, but when I measure facts with the fiction these guys throw out there on a daily basis, I find that the wrong people are angry.
30 I'm not saying that Osama Bin Laden hasn't been killed. I'm saying that the moments after something huge has happened, it should be questioned by tough reporters. There were no reporters present when Obama made the announcement. Who controls the present? Keep reading, if you don't want to run me off with a cattle prod already:
31 Here are some of my questions about this story: why didn't the President have a press conference rather than a controlled environment when he made the announcement?
32 Why were there so many inconsistencies with the story when it first developed?
33 How did Bin Laden live in a huge building in Pakistan and nobody ever leaked it? And no computers or phones? How'd he answer the phone call put to him by his acquaintance the CIA was sleuthing?
34 How did two helicopters fly right over a seemingly powerful guy and not get fired at except by Bin Laden himself? If he is a powerful and dangerous as they say, that place would have been impenetrable. Why inconsistencies in the amount of helicopters?
35 Where is the body? What's up with a "burial at sea" at a crime scene? Where is the forensic evidence that this story is legit? Reports are he was shot in the eye. This implies a front entrance. Was the back of his head an exit wound, which would be large and glaring?
36 Why did they publish photos of Bin Laden that were published a year ago on other news sources, photos that look clearly faked?
37 Why did it take the CIA, one of the most incredibly efficient organizations in the world, TEN years to find one guy? These guys are WAY capable of finding the guy. He was the number one most wanted guy in the world, and the main reason we went into Afghanistan. Shouldn't all efforts have been put to getting him within a year of the 9/11 attacks? How did we fly freely into a sovereign country undetected and attack a building? Isn't that what WE were angry about?
38 And when I see a groundswell of super-jingoism happening, I get frightened. Our constitution burned to the ground after 9/11. The Bush administration threw a lot of lies out over the years, and now the government can kick our doors down at 3 a.m., take us away, and not have to tell our families where we are, all in the name of "homeland security". They have established that we could have military police arresting our citizens. We now allow private police forces to roam American streets. I don't remember that ever being allowed, ever, in our constitution.
39 I could go on, but I just like people to back off these stories and ask some hard questions before swallowing all this patriotic fluff these guys feed us.
40 So I'm calling them out. I'm not saying that Bin Laden wasn't killed, but just for a brief moment, what would happen if he already was, and they were saving it for a perfect time to spark everybody up? It is not as far-fetched as it sounds.
41 I'm just backing off, after having been lied to continually by the powers that be over the years.
42 I would like to see some of those questions I posed researched by reporters right now, instead of reading a researched book five years from now talking about what really went down with this entire story. Or reading about witnesses who disappeared, or whose testimony changed within a day or so of the event. Seen it too often.
43 As one person put it, "It doesn't pass the smell test."
44 I do see where this story is headed. When John Kennedy, Jr. went down in a plane, I remember finding very little evidence of foul play. I researched it for a couple of years, and came up empty. I finally figured that the official story was probably okay.
45 Still, I didn't think THAT one passed the smell test either, until recently.
46 I'm just now discovering some amazing things about that story, much of it probably true, because there are public records indicating extreme foul play on the part of the FAA and the CIA. I won't go into it, but yes, somebody wanted John Kennedy, Jr. killed.
47 I just think we need to exercise a little caution before we start all of our flag-waving and all. An intelligent person would consider this in light of the tarnished reputation that our government officials consistently throw at us on a daily basis.
48 I have already mentioned the book Family of Secrets by Russ Baker, as perhaps a place for you to start if you're doubting a lot of this. Incredibly well-researched, Baker makes some serious, eye-popping observations using public docs and meticulous research. The people in charge of our destiny are dangerous, and there are some pretty shady people rolling about who make sure nobody gets this info. The mainstream press absolutely fears these people.
49 If anything else, just keep an eye out for fast decisions in Congress, and extended military presence near oil fields, because it's only a matter of minutes. These are clear indications of an agenda by the rich and for the richer.
50 These guys thrive on wars and oil. It's no coincidence that most of our military deployment is in areas of the world where oil flows. Anybody in the military knows this.
51 And I'm not trying to rain on the parade. This entire story could be legit. I definitely think Osama Bin Laden, whoever he is, is dead. I'm just not sure how long it is he has been dead. And that's a good thing for the families, and for a country that wants so badly to believe its leaders, and in justice. I get this.
52 So enjoy it, but approach these huge events with an eye of caution. If you see more civil rights being taken away; it you see more burning away of the democratic principles brought in by our founding fathers, then look askance, and do some digging. Don't accept it all as icing on a patriotic cake. That cake could have a red, white, and blue firecracker sizzling in it.
53 You are aloud to read, and to think and make up your own mind.
54 Do that. It is more important than dressing in red, white, and blue and buying into all of it. Use your intelligence, and be brave.
55 It doesn't pass the smell test.
56 Peace, and I mean that in a good way.
~H~
www.xanga.com/bharrington
Recent Comments