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Winter's back?!
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Apr. 26th, 2008 @ 03:48 pm
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Okay, it's near the end of April. We've had a few nice days when I could actually go outside without a heavy jacket and not feel uncomfortably cold. Then it started snowing.
Maybe someone forgot to tell Old Man Winter, spring started a month ago.
Most of the ground is covered in snow, the wind is blowing cold and hard. It's hard to believe summer is just around the corner.
In other news, global cooling may be what we should really be worrying about.
Or maybe we should just accept that earth goes through temperature cycles and get on with our lives.
Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age comethCurrent Mood:  bored Current Music: (watching Animal Precinct) |
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Stupidity and strange luck
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Jan. 12th, 2007 @ 01:55 pm
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This is, what, the third time I've tried to update my journal in the past two days? Both previous times Firefox 'encountered a problem' and had to close. Crazy.
Thank goodness a copy got saved on the site.
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This country's leaders are nuts about avoiding controversy and/or insulting someone. So much so that they actually start controversy and insult people.
I think the best example lately was what happened at the New York City fire department. The firefighters were forced to get rid of a bunch of American flags and 9/11 memorabilia they had in their lockers. The reason was that it was potentially offensive and controversial.
Excuse me??!!
Since when is displaying the flag of the country you live in, *in* the country you live in, offensive and controversial? And don't these firefighters have a right, almost a duty, to honor the memory of their fallen comrades?
Oh brother.
A little closer to home (my home, anyway), I heard that a kid on a St. Paul, Minnesota, school bus got kicked off for -- get this -- speaking English.
I didn't believe it either, but my Dad did some checking. Turns out this school has a bunch of 'academies' in it that are separated by country of origin. The academies are there to help students from other countries learn English and cope with their new homeland.
The students are not allowed to intermingle with students from other countries and they are not allowed to mingle with English speaking students.
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And how is this supposed to help them learn English, let alone cope with their new homeland?
Now, the kid who got kicked off the bus did get kicked off because he said something in English. Thing is, his family had also recently moved outside that school district so technically he wasn't supposed to be on the bus in the first place.
Still, this is just crazy. Brings to mind the old segregation days with black and white water fountains.
This has become something of a rant column, hasn't it? ^^; I just keep running into such stupid, brain-dead idiotic stunts!
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I've got a real nasty cold. Maybe that's why I'm in such a ranting mood.Current Mood:  my nose runneth over Current Music: occassional noseblowing, by me |
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