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Ah, politics!

 
My voodoo guy

is all full of pins, mostly as a silent series of vents about this coworker who I cannot stand. Ugh, she's loud, she's egotistical, she's too extraverted, she's lazy, she doesn't do shit, she plays politics! **shoves another pin in** I'm gonna try to ration my pins tomorrow-- one per aggravation... They all come out tomorrow morning, and I'm sure by 10AM, they'll all be shoved back in again (he's got about 25 pins in him-- poor little guy). Ugh ugh ugh.

Why's it so hard to get a little space in your life? Can't have it at work, can't get it at home really either. What's up with that?!

 
Ommmmm!

I'd forgotten just how nice that kinda buzzed, semi-relaxed feeling after yoga was. I haven't actually done any for about ohhhh six months or so. Dunno why I decided to today-- but I was debating about going to the gym, and I thought, "Ugh, I can't deal with the noise and all the morons around me." Then I thought about walking around the Lake, but after I got home from purchasing my voodoo doll, I knew it would be dark before I went all the way around the thing.

So, yoga it was! And like a complete suicidal idiot, the DVD I reached for was Kathy Smith's New Yoga Advanced (duh, lamebrain, start slow). The good news was, I haven't lost any flexibility. The bad news was that I never had any to begin with. Now I'm sore, but I'm kinda zoning, and I can't wait to use my little voodoo guy tomorrow.

Speaking of odd little trinkets to vent rage on, a coworker has up this cute little blue star that's hanging off her cubicle wall. It really is darling, but with all the crapola we all have to take in regard to the STAR program, it's been designated, "The Stabbing Star." I started off being nice to it and hugging it, but I've gotten nonstop shit ever since, so Friday, I punched it for the first time. And today I punched it again. Then my coworker put out a long stickpin thingie, and I just started stabbing away. Figured the voodoo doll can be the average district STAR coordinator.

Well anyway... My little voodoo guy won't survive long.

 
I love turkey vultures!

But that really isn't the point of all of this-- I haven't done any good rambling about anything for awhile, so I've got tons of rants just waiting to spill over and splash the tiles of life... Ok, I dunno what the hell that means, but anyway, I'm gonna rant so if you're unfortunate enough to be reading this, you'll just have to deal with my incoherence ;-)

First off, THE WAR is really pissing me off. I can't stand seeing this country engaging in yet more blatant hypocrisy and violating international law yet again. It's amazing how the US has chosen to completely turn its back on Wilsonian democracy, and the devotion, at the time, to the rule of law. To see the blatant contempt for the UN, one of the organizations that the US was instrumental in creating, at the end of World War II, kills me. The UN was created specifically to have a forum for countries to hash out their disputes instead of going to war constantly. Well, that was the idea, anyway, back in the days when the US briefly had a bit of a collective conscience, and did Woodrow Wilson the posthumous respect of honoring his ideas, including the idea of self-determination. Well, clearly, that's been thrown out the window. We've gone smack in the opposite direction, violating countries' rights of self-determination right and left. In Iraq, that might be expressed by the people standing behind Saddam (vicious cold evil bastard that he is), or by agitating for democracy abroad by resistors in exile. We might not like the government, but that doesn't mean that its right to exist should be dictated by the United States of America. The US needs to be OUT and let the people of Iraq handle their affairs in their own fashion. We have NO right to decide for them how they should be governed.

Even worse is the blatant hypocrisy of the world's largest stockpiler of weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, biological AND chemical) lecturing another government about its possession of such arms, and then invading said country. Hell, biological weapons and chemical weapons were outlawed by international treaty back in the 1920's, so what in hell is the US doing stockpiling them? Technically, the US' chemical weapons are in binary form, so they're not easily detectable, but snap 'em together, and voila! What's equally sick is that we're the only nation on the planet to have actually used nuclear weapons in combat on another country, and yet, we have the audacity to lecture those who would acquire and NOT use weapons for their own deterrent purposes... And we're the only country that has used semi-nuclear weapons in combat in the Gulf War-- depleted uranium shells. And we're worried about Iraq??? The rest of the world rightfully worries about US!

Never mind...