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Tuesday, 24 October 2006

Mindless banter with a political twist

Posted on 10:52 by Unknown
Today I had to request that a college transcript go to a potential employer. While it ended up costing me $10 on a credit card which sucks, I was amazed at how easy it was to get the thing ordered.

When I was a student at Georgia State University I found getting any one of those nitwits down there to take care of my administrative bidding was a horrid nightmare that usually resulted in things getting further screwed than they already were. I lived 45 minutes from college and on many occasions I would end up just driving down there to talk with someone face to face as opposed to have some financially aided know-nothing transfer my phone call hither and yon until finally one of his buddies accidentally on purpose hung up on me.

I'm not knocking the financially aided; just the financially aided know-nothings. Some of my best friends are finanacially aided. I'm just saying.

I'm hoping to get a job teaching English to forners at a local community college. This is slightly ironic because I just got through reading Pat Buchanan's book, State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America in which he outlines why he thinks this country and the Western world for that matter are facing utter demise because of the increasing emigration from the Third World into industrialized nations. I enjoyed the book and thought it brought out some interesting points. Too bad it was written by a right-wing nutjob.

I try not to get overly political here because I would hope if you care anything about politics you don't come to my website looking for me to validate your opinion or tell you what to think. That being said, I just want to slap people around who talk about getting rid of our "ilegal" population so we can put these jobs back in the hands of hard-working Americans. How much do they think they would have to pay for the produce they buy at the grocery store every day if American citizens picked it? If everyone who had a hand in building your house had to receive taxable earnings no less than minimum wage plus the insurance payout they would necessitate coming from the builder's pocket, what do you think your home would cost? Let me let you in on a little secret. Unless you're living vastly below your means, you couldn't begin to afford it.

Alright. Enough about that. Anyway.

For those now appalled that I actually purchased and enjoyed a book by Pat Buchanan (it also came from some First Baptist Church in Missouri who doubles as an Amazon book dealer -- go figure) I'm now reading Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky. You know. It's the book the Venezuelan president was going aroud New York talking about and held up in the United Nations during his speech. Again, a great book, one which brings up points that every American should be aware of. Why our government makes noises like it's celebrating freedom and yet throws money, weapons and political backing to the destruction of freedom in other nations is beyond me. Oh well.

I'm not trying to change the planet, and I don't think a blog could do that anyway. This ain't the cyber version of We Are the World. This would be a much greater place to live if everyone would just come to accept me as their Lord and Savior, but that's probably not going to happen, so I'll just move on.

Oh yeh, about those nitwits at Georgia State University -- they sure did suck.

You know another thing I wonder about though? At what point did subtitles become mandatory on non-fiction books?
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