Sheeeeeee's BACK!!

Back from Florida.
Wedding was nice - very sweet and very romantic and very sentimental. I actually caught myself thinking "if I get married, I wanna..."
*SPUT!*
*choke*
*gag*

Wha? What's wrong with me?!?

Oh yeah, I totally LOVE watching people in love... I'm kinda sick that way!

But hey, since I already admitted to thinking about such romantic, enslaving tripe, I'll spill the beans: I wanna red satin dress (please don't ask why; I just do!), I want my hair up all sophisticated-like, I want custom-made rings, I want Cajole to pick out the music and I wanna dance my first enslaved dance to "the lady in Red" by Chris Deburgh. Nyuk Nyuk!

I toldja I was sick.... *cracks up*

Anyhow.... it was verrrrry nice and meeting Baph's friends IRL finally was pretty cool. Everyone seemed to like me okay, I didn't feel all weird about luvin on him when they was lookin and dammit I just totally DIG his family! Even his grandma! They are all so COOL! They make my parents look restrained and dull!

Okay, on to other things. Well, there really is't much else because I haven't been around.

Driving kinda sucked because it decided to rains SHEETS of water on the way down there. I have some precise phobias that involve rain, the ocean, darkness, bridges and driving. Suffice it to say, I managed to keep from hyperventillating by closing my eyes at pertinant moments (NOT while I was driving of course)

Baph gave me a tour of the island of his upbringing.... the schools, the churchs, the malt shop they all robbed repeatedly - oh wait no that never happened... in any case, the only disappointment was that due to time constraints, we never did walk on the sand dunes or look at he beach. I love walking on sand dunes but beach-looking is only passably fun in my book so it really that big a deal. There was one other expectation but once again, time restraints and poorly chosen diet got in the way of more earthly delights. Eh, can't have a perfect time no matter how you plan hope and wish.

I liked everything I saw there. It was all good. Well all except having to deal with certain persons having to be the fucking center of attention and playing little psych-power games of perogative claim - WHATEVER BABY, I know where I stand with that Bullshit and I just kept sighing and looking the other way and reminding myself "this trip is for Baph, so long as he's enjoying himself do NOT bring someone elses bullshit games into the forefront. He probably doesn't even know what's going on here in subtext (which is good!). Just remember: This trip is all for Baph"

Oh yeah; The Knee decided that sitting around for a week doing nothing while wrapped up just wasn't good enough and now I'm dealing with swelling and soreness ALL OVER AGAIN! I swear this REALLY pisses me off to no end!!! I tried to be cool about it during the trip (who wants to hear a whiner?) but I'm afraid I probably didn't do a very good job... I just couldn't get over how it kept fucking hurting more and more! I mean, FUCK YOU KNEE!!! GET BETTER ALREADY! I GOT SHIT TO DO AND CAN"T AFFORD TO WAIT AROUND FOR YOUR SULKY SELF!!

/rant

feh.

It was a good trip and I'm ever so glad I made it.

Now, I have to try to catch up on LJ

*shakes in fear*

Why I Don't Agree With The War on Iraq:

Because after all the hemming and hawing and bullshit posturing that Bush has done, I can't believe any of his reasoning. After all the emotionally charged propaganda he's been spewing, I can't believe anything that comes out of his mouth. If you want people to support something as scary and expensive as a war, then you'd better explain yourself better than just "he's an evil man" Regardless of Hussein, a war means blasting a lot of innocent Iraqi people... are they all evil? Even Bush hasn't said the people are all evil... just the one man. I can't fathom creating a possible nuclear holocaust for entire countries because their "leader" is "evil"

I'm sorry. That's my personal feeling on the matter and everything I see and hear only strengthens it. The people who try to make rational arguments for this war only blahblahblah about:

political faction (sketchy rationale because can we really presuppose how other countries will treat us in direct opposition to what they are saying currently? and can we afford to piss off the ones who have told us in no uncertain terms that they don't want us to do this? ex:Blair is being threatened we disposition, so we can easily infer that his PEOPLE don't agree.)

Democratic institution (how patronizing can you get? We blabbed on for decades about democracizing communist countries when they CLEARLY didn't want our influence or "help". I don't necessarily agree with how the Arab Countries run themselves but then I can't say as I'm hip to the actual reality of life over there... they decry our republic all the time, so obviously they think our "sacred" way is junk - who am I to dictate how they should live? And what happened to "responsibility"? War-proseltyzers are usually the same people who insist that whatever low-brow station in life you're living (here in USA), its because you CHOOSE to be there somehow... Arab people who are living in shit have the capacity to get their asses out... they do it quite frequently, I'm supposed to feel all motherly and want to go 'save' them? I can't rest assured they want me to save them and I'm not exactly sure what I'm supposed to be saving them from except that evil guy that THEY KEEP IN POWER. C'mon, countries have coups all the time. Why are they so silently accepting this jackass? But we're supposed to make that choice for them? I'm missing something here.

Retribution (this is no reason, in my book. If its a bona fide reason to you, oh goody gum-drops, that's YOUR opinion. Retribution has no place in my life. Go plot vengeance on someone elses lawn, not mine)

preventive therapy (yeah, as soon as we get rid of Mr. Evil Incarnate the whole of the Arab axis o' evil will crumble and they can all live in artificial democratic bliss for ever after. Riiiiight... before Saddam "I vant to suck your security" Hussein there weren't any Arab evil guys running around.... yeah we always manage to blow away the eeeeevil dudes who run the oil congloms. Yeah and I got a bridge to sell you, you historically ignorant numb-nut)

a message to everyone else (yes, a very good message: We are America, We do whatever we want and you'd better grab some vaseline while you're at it)

THe summation is this: everything I hear sounds remarkably like the glory-days of Newt Gingrich and I'm not blindly following our intrepid leader down the path of righteous nuclear winters-to-come just because he pushes all the right fear buttons. I have a bit more going on in my noggin than to be suckered into rationalizing this FOR him. Many people have made very good arguments for this war, but the arguments I hear are not coming from anyone with the power to make it happen. If the leader of the free world has to rely on "Hussein is EVIL and EVIL must be destroyed" to get me to support this war, then I'm gonna be too suspicious to go along with anything anyone else can come up with.

Yes, pro-war folks, yall make great arguments, some of which I agree with, were those the reasons given by those making the decisions but they are not.

Professors analyze literature all the time and come up with amazing theories and dissections but can't you just hear the back of your brain saying "yeah but maybe he just wrote that because that's what he really felt like saying?"

In accordance with that sentiment I say "yeah, you make a great debate but maybe Bush and the PsTB just want the war for entirely selfish reasons?"

And if this war is fought for entirely selfish reasons on the part of Dubya and his PsTB, then there's no guarantee that anything will come to pass that you analyzers predict. THere's no guarantee that anything good will come of the war because despite your wonderful reasoning and rationale, you're not running this country and you're not in charge of this war.

Perhaps if some of you more erudite people were in charge and running this war, I'd be for it.

It's not the arguments, it's the right arguments coming from the wrong people and the wrong arguments coming from the 'right' people.

If I can't believe my fearless leader has even halfway decent intentions, then I don't want a shotgun wedding between his principles and my fellow Americans.