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So I was laying (lying, not sure) in bed thinking about teachers’ salary instead of what normal people think of like “Oh I wonder what I’ll do tomorrow?” or “I love my girlfriend, Jan Levinson Gould”. I thought, “Where could we get money to raise teacher salary without raising taxes?” And then it hit me, we could have gotten so much out of the money we have spent in Iraq. Let’s face it, we all know George Bush is a retard and prides his strong will as a quality befitting a great leader instead of just admitting he’s stubborn. According to estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, the total cost of the Iraq war to date is $477,702,329,915. Also, don’t forget an estimated 4,000 U.S. soldiers killed, 60,000 wounded, 700,000 Iraqis killed, and 4 million displaced. All of this and we have done nothing but give radical fundamentalists another reason to hate us. What George Bush doesn’t realize is that you can’t defeat an idea with the military. Sure, we are fighting the so-called terrorists all over the world and especially in Iraq but what we are really fighting is an ideology. I could go on for pages about the Iraq war which I disagreed with from the start. The day we invaded I knew it was a bad idea. You can believe me if you want or don’t, but when the national mainstream media started reporting that they spotted Iraqis in chemical suits about to use chemical weapons the student teacher of my 10th grade American History class was eating that shit up. This was a man right out of college that was supposed to think critically and not just believe what Fox News reports.

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Most of the time the things that trigger thoughts in my mind are sensory in nature. I see them, touch them, or even smell them. The topic I have today was just something that randomly came to me whilst sitting on a CATA bus, which are the lovely public transportation buses for main campus. My topic involves the passing of blame in our society. Going to a liberal arts university has done nothing but pump my mind full of excuses for actions, for states of being, for everything.

“Oh, he killed that whole family with a steak knife because his father didn’t talk to him very much as a kid, poor him.”…What? I have taken a lot of classes that show that there is always a background story to everything. That no one is every truly to blame for anything, that it is always something else. In theory, you could probably give me any situation and I could make excuses for it. But sure, to clear things up right off the bat a lot involves children and reasons for their actions. Kids cannot control their own destinies yet and therefore I wouldn’t hold them responsible up to 18 for their actions unless it is capital in nature. But I mean really, is anyone willing to take responsibility for their actions?

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So last night I was sitting down watching MSNBC while brainstorming ideas for lesson plans for my teaching experience coming up at the end of the month. While I was sitting there, Hardball with Chris Matthews came on. Chris often wows me with his sage-like insight so I felt compelled to pay attention to what he was saying. The hot and spicy political news of the last several days has been General Patraeus’ (the military guy in charge in Iraq) testimony to the Congress about the progress of the war in Iraq. One senator had apparently point blank asked Patraeus if our actions in Iraq have and are making us safer. Patraeus replied with the answer of “I don’t know…”. Everyone just jumped all over that as an excuse to bash the Bush administration.

So Chris Matthews was blowing up about that statement, asking why the hell we are there if it is not making us safer. I am honestly still baffled as to why Chris Matthews has his own show in MSNBC…maybe it’s because he comes off as being one of those edgy TV personalities that will say intense and controversial things. While in theory, I would like to see a show like that, but in this case Chris Matthews is a big cunt that doesn’t really know anything. If he’s not spouting off his conservatist points of view he’s undoubtedly scarfing down as many double cheeseburgers as he can find laying around the set.

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This is a question that begs the attention of the free world. There is an extreme possibility that one of the democratic nominees for the presidency in 2008 is in fact a hobbit. I mean, really, look at the guy. He’s got to be perhaps 5 feet tall with pointy ears. He eats nothing but bread and he lives inside of a grassy gnowl. That seems rather suspicious to me.

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Globalization. Maybe it’s because I have been writing a paper on this subject do I feel compelled to use my break to talk about it even more. I mean, you hear the term thrown around on Fox News occasionally and when it is an election year. Of course, election year now means elections years. I find it disgusting that we have to be bombarded with political discourse for an election that will not take place for another 2 years, but that’s for another day (Hillary Clinton wins, by the way).

So, there’s this common terminology of first world, second world, and third world. In my mind, I can best describe globalization as the first world tea-bagging the third world. Globalization in essence is an attempt to break down trade barriers and just have a completely open market for trade and commerce. This is great in theory, and it is great in practice for only countries like the United States.

I mean, what are my thoughts on this vast exploitation of Third World periphery nations by incredibly rich core nations? I feel bad about it all, but I mean it is not like the people of this country care. The United States is the largest hypocrisy in the world. We are so far up China’s ass about human rights violations, but yet some of the largest clothing and shoe companies in the world within the United States don’t bat an eye at the sweatshops in Southeast Asia that are manufacturing their products at clearance prices to be sold for huge profits back in the United States and Western Europe.

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