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May. 2nd, 2011
I am seriously contemplating not going into work today. Aside from still feeling generally horrible after puking up everything but the kitchen sink and only getting a grand total of four hours of sleep even after finally getting over the whole OMG BIN LADEN'S DEAD!!! thing and attempting once again to sleep -- which I'd spent two unsuccessful hours trying to do even before I read my friends list and saw the announcement -- I have a few things I have to get done before work that simply cannot wait, which sort of sucks since most of them require me to drag my sick ass out of bed. Also, due to being too sick to do anything yesterday, I didn't do the laundry and have no clean clothes to wear.
Add them all up, and it's going to make going to work waaaaaaaaaaay more difficult than staying home.
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Speaking of the bin Ladin thing, I still feel the same way before I went to bed. There was a quote that I've seen a couple of times on ye olde friends list by Mark Twain about never wishing a man dead but there having been a few times when he expressed great satisfaction at reading an obituary, and this is like that. In all honesty, I wish they would have captured him alive. And capturing him alive or dead is probably not going to do a damn thing about getting troops out of Afghanistan or Iraq because he wasn't the only member of Al Qaeda. (We keep making new ones by, you know, bombing their fucking countries and shooting their goddamn civilians and pissing them the hell off.)
That said, he was a mass-murdering fuckstick and I remember how terrified and shocked I felt on 9/11 and the closest I came to be directly affected by it was waiting for hours to hear about the safety of a friend who worked in the Pentagon and luckily was on the other side of the building. I wish I could be the bigger person and say I'm sorry he's dead, but ... nope, can't. Seriously, fuck that guy, I hope he burns in whatever awful afterlife that he delighted in believing he was sending the people he ordered killed on 9/11 to.
I will admit, though, that most of my reaction to this whole thing is, unsurprisingly, in relation to the Republicans. I'll give credit to Bush for giving Obama a pat on the back for getting him, even while the rest of us were choking back laughter of the timing of the announcement being on the eighth anniversary on Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech. (I want to think that that part wasn't on purpose, at least a little, because for the most part Bush has done exactly what I wanted him to do when he left office -- he went away and kept his mouth shut.)
As for the current Republican party, though ... no, seriously, sorry about that election next year. While I'm sitting here thinking that this wouldn't exactly be the thing that makes me think, "Yes, I will vote for this man as he has kept us safe" -- you know, since I don't consider 2-3 wars and what's going on in Gitmo all that safety-inducing -- this is just the sort of thing that makes Republicans who AREN'T raging racist douchebags and instead are focused on that whole "protecting our country" angle possibly pause and rethink their stance on Obama's ability to protect the country. Again, this isn't going to stop any wars, but that's not what these sorts of Republicans are looking for.
I know that Trump, Bachmann, Palin, Huckabee, aaaaaand the restare here on Gilligan's Island! are going to come up with some line of bullshit about how this still doesn't mean Obama's protecting this country -- although if I were Trump, I think I'd be torn between still smarting over the fact that it's hard to deny Obama timed his speech for any other reason than to interrupt the end of Celebrity Apprentice and needle his ass just that much more. And given the bitchslaps Obama's been handing out lately -- "Here's my long-form birth certificate! Oh, and bin Laden's body!" -- I'm curious to see what he's dealing out next.
Add them all up, and it's going to make going to work waaaaaaaaaaay more difficult than staying home.
*
Speaking of the bin Ladin thing, I still feel the same way before I went to bed. There was a quote that I've seen a couple of times on ye olde friends list by Mark Twain about never wishing a man dead but there having been a few times when he expressed great satisfaction at reading an obituary, and this is like that. In all honesty, I wish they would have captured him alive. And capturing him alive or dead is probably not going to do a damn thing about getting troops out of Afghanistan or Iraq because he wasn't the only member of Al Qaeda. (We keep making new ones by, you know, bombing their fucking countries and shooting their goddamn civilians and pissing them the hell off.)
That said, he was a mass-murdering fuckstick and I remember how terrified and shocked I felt on 9/11 and the closest I came to be directly affected by it was waiting for hours to hear about the safety of a friend who worked in the Pentagon and luckily was on the other side of the building. I wish I could be the bigger person and say I'm sorry he's dead, but ... nope, can't. Seriously, fuck that guy, I hope he burns in whatever awful afterlife that he delighted in believing he was sending the people he ordered killed on 9/11 to.
I will admit, though, that most of my reaction to this whole thing is, unsurprisingly, in relation to the Republicans. I'll give credit to Bush for giving Obama a pat on the back for getting him, even while the rest of us were choking back laughter of the timing of the announcement being on the eighth anniversary on Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech. (I want to think that that part wasn't on purpose, at least a little, because for the most part Bush has done exactly what I wanted him to do when he left office -- he went away and kept his mouth shut.)
As for the current Republican party, though ... no, seriously, sorry about that election next year. While I'm sitting here thinking that this wouldn't exactly be the thing that makes me think, "Yes, I will vote for this man as he has kept us safe" -- you know, since I don't consider 2-3 wars and what's going on in Gitmo all that safety-inducing -- this is just the sort of thing that makes Republicans who AREN'T raging racist douchebags and instead are focused on that whole "protecting our country" angle possibly pause and rethink their stance on Obama's ability to protect the country. Again, this isn't going to stop any wars, but that's not what these sorts of Republicans are looking for.
I know that Trump, Bachmann, Palin, Huckabee, aaaaaand the rest