I'm Too Trusting

Every time I try to be optimistic about people, someone always comes along to ruin it. Every time I think "Nah, they wouldn't do that," they do it. And yet, I can't help but keep making the same mistake.








I will let you down, I will make you hurt.

Trying to Sum Up my Spring Break

Just random things that occurred over my spring break with quotes from me or others that pertain to the events being described.



The interstate has too many lanes around Indy. It's too much for my country bumpkin mind to handle. People turn insane when driving on the interstate as well. And no more semis passing semis....holes. (You are not going to run over me, Mr. Semi!)

Zardoz is amazing! Everyone must see it. At least to make fun of it. Oh, Atomic Age...*sigh* (The gun is good. The penis is evil.)

Too many people have Macs. If you do, or don't like them/see what's so great about them, watch this. (Yeah, they're great....if you don't want to run any programs on them.)

I missed Ray so much. He's freaking awesome. He even got me a shirt!!!! (They do need to know how to speak the language.) And Gina, of course. My lover dover! (I thought he was gay!)

I love showering in the guys' bathroom. So many weird looks. They should be happy their bathroom smells like mangoes now, though. (What's this turny-button thing do? Oh, nothing.)

I'm fiercely independent, but sometimes, someone will come along and completely screw that up. Stupid Adam. Hallway is an awesome game :) Georgia is too far away :( (kwia!)

I've officially interrupted/walked in on two couples....in one night. I never thought that people actually used elevator music to set the mood. I was wrong. (It tastes like grape juice.)

My phone decided to go the way of the crap. My screen wouldn't work, so I couldn't see who called me and had to navigate through the menus by ear. (Yay! I got a message! Nathan, you're an idiot.)

I'm glad I got to see my Payton and Gramz! (Now I'm going to be scared any time I see a fountain pen.)

I got a new phone. (I can take pictures now! *happy dance and circle hopping down the sidewalk*)

And that, my friends, was my spring break at IU. You all must visit IU. It's awesome.








Nothing's gonna change me.

The Iraq War isn't as Bad as the TV Tells You it is.

In semi-questio form, I present my arguments about Iraq.

There were no WMDs: Saddam had them. In fact, he used them on his own people. Just because no one found any after America went in doesn't mean he didn't nudge them into another country. Saddam wasn't stupid. He knew he'd be in a lot more trouble if he was caught with a pile of them, and probably figured he could get a bit of an uprising in the United States when our claim turned out to be "false." Maybe the U.S. would leave if they didn't find what they were looking for. Unfortunately for Saddam, we had gotten sick of him pushing the world's buttons for the last couple of decades and figured his time was up.

It's blood for oil: Okay, here we go.
Top fifteen countries that we buy oil from, most to least:
1) Canada
2) Saudi Arabia
3) Mexico
4) Venezuela
5) Nigeria
6) Angola
7) Algeria
8) Iraq
9) Ecuador
10) Kuwait
11) Russia
12) Brazil
13) Chad
14) Norway
15) United Kingdom
If we really wanted oil, we would attack Canada or Mexico. They're right here. And if we attacked Mexico, we probably wouldn't have the illegal immigration problem. That would have been more logical if this were a war for oil.

Over 3,000 of our troops have died, and that's horrible: I'm not trying to make it seem like these guys died and that I don't care. But seriously, for being over there for four years (minus 19 days)...that's an amazingly minuscule death toll. In the same time span of World War II, 405,399 American soldiers were killed. In fact, out of all the wars the United States has been involved in (around 36), this war has only surpassed wars most people haven't even heard of, wars that only get a paragraph in history books. See for yourself. I think that's quite an accomplishment and something we should be proud of, tell you the truth.

All that's going on over there is terrorism and death: A friend of mine told me that every one of his military friends that came back from Iraq said the same thing, "The reporters are nowhere to be found when we're building schools and hospitals, but they're everywhere when a bomb goes off." The news reports what is going to get the most viewers. Death is more exciting than construction, at least that's what the ratings say. If all people pay attention to are terrorist attacks, then yes, it's going to seem a hell of a lot worse than it is.

This whole thing is a failure: Saddam Hussein is out of power. Three democratic elections have been held. They have written a constitution in the first year (remarkable). The new government has only been in place for a year, which is far too soon for people to be writing them off as powerless. Most of Iraq is pretty quiet and not a lot of fighting goes on. The new president is improving relations with their neighboring countries.

We need to get out as soon as possible: Dick Cheney got it right,

"Remember...what happened in Afghanistan. The United States was actively involved in Afghanistan in the '80s, supporting the effort against the Soviets. The Mujahideen prevailed, everybody walked away. And in Afghanistan, within relatively short order, the Taliban came to power, they created a safe haven for al Qaeda, training camps were established where some 20,000 terrorists trained in the late '90s. And out of that, out of Afghanistan, because we walked away and ignored it, we had the attack on the USS Cole, the attack on the embassies in East Africa, and 9/11, where the people trained and planned in Afghanistan for that attack and killed 3,000 Americans. That is what happens when we walk away from a situation like that in the Middle East."

Not only is that the case in the Middle East, but history has showed us hundreds of times that that's what happens when you conquer someone and leave them to take care of themselves. We have to stay in Iraq in order to strengthen their government so that they will be able to control crime for themselves. If we just up and leave, the Iraqis are going to feel like we've abandoned them to the terrorist regimes. Whether the terrorists then take over or the established government keeps control, they're not going to be happy with us at all if we leave before the job is done. We can't just quit just because it's a little inconvenient.

I love this guy.

Well let me tell you 'bout the way she looked