"I walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known, don't know where it goes, but it's home to me and I walk alone."

9.06.2004

Typical Meaningless Holiday, Typical Rambling

I know Labor Day itself represents something, but to me, it feels like a regular Sunday -- as in boring, and long, everything this Sunday wasn't (thank god). Ever since noon I've felt like going back to bed, I guess it might be because of these mild remnants of my cold or whatever I've got (either that or its just laying dormant for a bit).

And thats when I'm not even the one who is really ill... Helplessness, yet again. Which means I'm worrying a bit, wishing she felt better instead of worse. Eh, can only hope that over time it gets better.

Heh, checked Tigas' deviantart gallery to see his stuff for the Japanese Festival -- interestingly enough, almost all of the pictures are of all these little kids. Hmm, wonder what that could mean 0_o Heh, I'm just kidding.

It feels nice out. It's nice and cool. At least, except for if you're running a fever, or your body temperature tolerance is different (like how our summers probably feel like the surface of the sun to people from the cold polar regions).. heh, like mine, being able to handle cold temperatures fairly well (at least until freezing point, depending on winds).

Heh, just checked Fox News website and found an article about how Pakistan says we aren't close to nabbing Bin Laden (as though it really matters when he's out of the picture until he strikes big again). >> Article. Heh. I don't know if they're being honest or not. The military dictator Musharif's an allied leader, but Pakistan and probably our own intel people weren't very pleased when the White House leaked out that they had an Al Qaeda double agent now - blowing his cover and the allied intel community the information was going to.

On a related note one of the American "vigilantes" on trial in Afghanistan claims he almost had Bin Laden. >> Article.

And another article, this one about how the terrorists not only can beat our security -- the major ones can even beat our Justice system

"There's been a tendency of the Justice Department to act overly aggressively, to hold news conferences, to seek headlines, but when the facts come out they are often shown to be exaggerated," said David Cole, a Georgetown University law professor and frequent critic of Bush administration counterterrorism policies.

oh wait, thats just Aschroft's cronies beating themselves. My bad.

exaggerated facts, pfft, as though that's anything unusual from a government seeking approval from the people they preside over.

According to the latest available figures, the Justice Department since Sept. 11, 2001 has charged more than 310 people in terrorism-related cases and won 179 convictions -- many for such relatively minor infractions as document and credit card fraud and immigration violations.

Hell, you could make yourself look better by hoarding up illegal aliens from Mexico and convict them for immigration violations and calling their trials "terrorism-related cases". 131 have gone free, and how many of the "many" convictions are minor infractions? And whose to say in all honesty that the minor infractions was the only indication, they just may not have been able to get the necessary facts for convictions on actual terrorist conspiracies, despite the Patriot Act supposedly helping them there. Oh my. -- well, keep in mind it was 19 who hit on 9/11 and 2 for the 2 Russian airliners that went down recently, so even nabbing a small number of them is critical -- and not being able to convict a small number of them conversely is quite a failure if they prove to be the deciding factor of an attack.
>> Topic Source Article

[after an hour long pause I realize the blog post is still up to be finished] 7:16 - oops, Mike threw me a link to his new message board and I've been browsing and posting on it since. My bad.

Heh, might as well post since I've lost track of the original rambling anyway.
And hope that one of my friends gets well soon.

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