Monday, January 31, 2005
Don't blame me! I voted for Muhammed Mbalz Al'Hari!
Well, the last post for the first year of operation. Yay! Can you believe a whole year has passed since I started blogging? Have you read every entry yet (it's not too late... but don't blame me for the regret you will feel for wasting so much time). In one year, we had almost 5000 visits, which is huge for my ego! :) Blog Explosion helped that out a lot, and so did word of mouth. Why people wanted to read the thoughts of a man who left the ministry, has an eating disorder, obsesses about evolutionary topics, is addicted to caffeine, hasn't grown up, wishes he was in Japan, and cares too much about video games and movies is beyond me.
Oh, and tell Brody it was I who was first to solve Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu for the NES. He says he did it first, but he's a trashmouth.
For my last post in year one, I wanted to do something big, but I have way too much to do today. But I did want to comment a little bit on the Iraq elections. Who won? Was it a candidate that will help bring change? Is it a puppet of the USA or NATO? Will the winner live to see 2006? Are we going to pull out now that we have played kingmaker? Lots of questions, not a lot of answers yet. I am not one who thinks that democracy is the right system for everyone, but let's hope that it works in Iraq at least long enough to get reestablished as a nation. And, to be honest, I feel that unless the winner of the election was Shiite, then the process is tainted. The Shiites make up the majority of the citizens, yet the US is trying hard to inhibit them from taking power. It should not be up to us which group takes charge... we are instilling democracy, right? Or at least that is what we are being sold. I hope that we leave soon, and let Iraq find and make its own destiny. We can't do it for them.
*** editor's note... Is it Suni or Shiite? I forget? Guess I shouldn't blog when I don't have time to research my facts! : ) I just wanted to have my moment of talkin' without thinkin'! ***
As said in Lawrence of Arabia, "nothing is written until a man writes it."
BTW,
Here's to a great year two! Horns up!
Oh, and tell Brody it was I who was first to solve Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu for the NES. He says he did it first, but he's a trashmouth.
For my last post in year one, I wanted to do something big, but I have way too much to do today. But I did want to comment a little bit on the Iraq elections. Who won? Was it a candidate that will help bring change? Is it a puppet of the USA or NATO? Will the winner live to see 2006? Are we going to pull out now that we have played kingmaker? Lots of questions, not a lot of answers yet. I am not one who thinks that democracy is the right system for everyone, but let's hope that it works in Iraq at least long enough to get reestablished as a nation. And, to be honest, I feel that unless the winner of the election was Shiite, then the process is tainted. The Shiites make up the majority of the citizens, yet the US is trying hard to inhibit them from taking power. It should not be up to us which group takes charge... we are instilling democracy, right? Or at least that is what we are being sold. I hope that we leave soon, and let Iraq find and make its own destiny. We can't do it for them.
*** editor's note... Is it Suni or Shiite? I forget? Guess I shouldn't blog when I don't have time to research my facts! : ) I just wanted to have my moment of talkin' without thinkin'! ***
As said in Lawrence of Arabia, "nothing is written until a man writes it."
BTW,
Here's to a great year two! Horns up!
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