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Wednesday, January 08, 2003 np: jeff buckley - mystery white boy - live 1995-1996 right now i'm completely irritated with the cd-rw drive on my new computer and the tech people at dell. is it too much to ask that the persons on the other end to whom english is not their native language, at least have an accent not quite so thick as to obliterate technical understanding? i'm sure their technical knowledge is competent and helpful, but if i can't understand them, what's the point? sheesh. all the cds i have attempted to burn have come out skipping and cracking. i managed to burn a rather brilliant copy of jeff buckley's mystery white boy live album..and towards the end it starts skipping. sucks. i need to figure out what's up. b. went back to evanston on sunday. i always find myself a little lost in that chasm between her leaving and going back to school. especially since i had three days off of work to boot. i set up the new computer (which works swimingly, save the cd-rw drive). in the process i asserted my manhood by successfully dis-assembling my old computer, removing the harddrive, connecting it into my new computer and transferring the information over from it, then placing it back into the old one. i felt very accomlished. in a geeky way, but hell, i took something apart and put it back together. if i gave a fuck about cars (aside from 'how safe' and 'how much mileage' and 'why aren't these hybrids yet?') i could be a mechanic. a lot of chatter about north korea. kim jung il is a scary man. but as i heard bill o'reilly (falsely) suggest the other night, we've done nothing to provoke this response of kicking out un weapons inspectors and so forth. we didn't violate the agreement clinton fostered during his presidency. well, read the fine print, bill. we haven't come through with promised aide (including two new nuclear energy facilities) that were agreed to in exchange for dis-armament of wmd (weapons of mass destruction) back in '98. so how else could pyongyang look at it? we haven't lived up to our end of the bargain, so why should they? right now, i (almost) don't blame kim jung il for using wmd as the trump card in getting his way. he's an interesting amalgamation, that kim. the last stalinist regime on earth (his father, kim il sung, was installed by stalin in 1948?) and the sole communist dynasty, he has led his people down the primrose path into starvation and destruction. close to 2 million north koreans have died due to prolonged shortages of food and fuel in the last decade. his only concern seems to be himself. (he spent an amount equal to around twenty percent of u.s. aide to n. korea p.a. on a fleet of mercedes.) since we know n. korea is armed with nuclear weapons, i'm a bit more afraid of them than the seemingly far away saddam hussein. he owns no weapons capable of reaching the u.s. but our troops are over there ready to send him packing. it's a mixed bag of emotions for me. one, i know that iraqis have suffered horribly under his rule (both through his own terror and through u.n. backed sanctions) but two, we're going in to fight based on pres. bush's assumption that they lied on the report turned over to u.n. weapons inspectors back in december. it doesn't seem to make sense. iraq turns over a list of close to one-thousand chemical and biological weapons in their possesion, and when two months into their stay, u.n. inspectors fail to turn up any evidence of wmd, bush claims iraq lied (without proof) and begins sending troops into the middle east. i don't like it. it's a shoddy way to base a war. but i also know the outcome (could) be good for the middle east and iraq. but i don't know. democracy doesn't work everywhere. totalitarian dictators don't work anywhere. well, except for franco. but he was an odd exception. the sole thing that keeps iraq afloat...is oil. i'm opposed to war in general. the only war i can see justified is one of defense. and even then, only for the sake of peace. as an old quaker saying goes (paraphrasing): war is not the way to peace. peace is the way. posted by J. Neas | 1/08/2003 12:56:00 AM
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