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| http://www.artworldsalon.com/blog/2009/03/the-rat-the-rabbit-and-yves-st-laurent/
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| Fed Chief Says Insurance Giant Acted Irresponsibly
Okay, so after reading this, my thought process brought me to a few off topic ideas. One issue that has been ignored recently is illegal immigration. Construction jobs will be great for stimulating our economy, given there is some level of supervision that these jobs don;t go to illegal immigrants. I generally don't like to hate on illegal immigrants, (it is hard to not sympathize with their plight) but they have contributed to driving wages down in construction work. I wonder if they will be taking actions to bar them? Anyhow, I live in a neighborhood now surrounded by some of the finest and most affluent areas in LI. This actually means that in this neighborhood, I am the flaming minority against a backdrop of workers from Mexico and South America. I'm going to be real here and just say it-- they're pretty whack. I love my Hispanics, but here there is no family values. It is a neighborhood populated with men that work to send money to families they don;t see (which I still sympathize with) and then spend the rest of their money getting drunk and littering our streets (literally, since they seem to hate this country, and don't hesitate to litter). They are either creepy (which I can deal with) or straight up racist against me....It's frustrating. I feel like an ass for saying all I did above, but it's been bottled up inside me. I have to take their shit everyday though, and it's always the same fucking (type of) guy. In my Freshman year, I watched Farmingdale, a movie about tensions between illegal immigrants and white residents in Farmingdale, LI. The white people in that movie were generally dumb as fuck and I'm getting disgusted with myself for feeling this way.
For the record, I don't get like this when I'm HOME in Brooklyn. Fuck Long Island.
(on a swearing kick)
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| I felt a little down reading the first few headlines today, and then I saw this:
So, there is a little good news, apparently.
(I'm procrastinating)
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| I get excited whenever people I don't know comment on my xanga, or people I haven;t spoken to in years. it inspires me to write more. ...not that it happens often, but when it does...<3<3<3
Anyway, I tried to post something up earlier, I wrote and rewrote an entry at least three times before I felt too exhausted to try again. (my browser kept closing...or I'd walk away...) I'm glad it wasn;t published though, becuase it would of been long and depressing, which isn't how I feel NOW.
Okay, enough of that. Ummm....my final semester at Adelphi is upon me and I'm so glad it will soon be over. I'm going to have to sit down with my roommate and figure out where we're going to be in a fw months. Hopefully, I will be HOME, not paying rent, and riding my bike around because it'll be warm again. *fantasy* Hopefully...I will be drunk.
I have other ambitions, of course, but I as part of my new years resolution, I would rather not talk and discuss these ideas until they come true. I have my 'big' three hour break now, big only becuase am spoiled and unaccustomed to it. Since I'm not doing much...I guess I have to stop talking now. :( bye bye. | | |
| I've been thinking a lot about what is going on right now between Israel and Palestine, mostly because I have spent most of my thinking life sympathetic towards the Jews. But, over the last few weeks, random things, such as documentaries or conversations have really turned me the other way. With the conflict going on, it's really kept this issue on my mind as it becomes so much more relevant.
On the one hand, Israel clearly has the right to defend itself. On a daily basis they were being bombarded with rockets, and the day before the confict broke out, seventy rockets were fired at Israelis. On the other hand, their reaction is so disproportionate. Those seventy rockets had zero casualties, whereas the Israeli attack has killed hundreds. Palestineans are held back from escaping the destruction at the border by Israeli guards holding them at gunpoint. The targets hit aren't even military targets but civilian locations.
The Israeli point of view, is that Hamas, a terrorist organization, is fully integrated into these cities, they hide in temples and schools because they don't expect to be hurt there. But this to me just sounds ignorant. Okay, I mean, Hamas is clearly not a "good" organization, but it is naive to believe that they do not have two arms. They have one side that IS a terrorist group, and does include suicide bombers and extremists who have called for the destruction of Israel. But, this is 2009, and Hamas is no longer just a terrorist group. They are the leading government party of Palestine and they have built schools and funded programs for the betterment of Palestinians. A Jeweish friend described the problem as "Nbody likes the Palestineans, no land or people want to take them in" but they did have a homeland, until they all became migrants and refugees when the Jews came into the land. I am not by any means saying that Hamas is justified in their actions, but they have stood up for a group that has been stepped on and spat at not just by Israelis but the Western world as well. When the Israelis announce a plan to rid the world of Hamas, they are referring to an organization that no longer exists in the way they describe. Hamas is not just a terrorist organization, that is like saying every Iraqi is a terrorist. The fact that JEWS, a population that has been persecuted repeatedly in history for being a population with no offical home, now carry the aim of exterminating an entire population is ludicrous. The consequences of such actions scare me. Seriously, there is no way this can end good.
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