I was just watching a press conference with our good buddy, Rumsfeld... He and another gentleman (Gen. Richard Meyers (Myers?)) were talking about how they would try to avoid having troops killed by a suicide bomber on their base happen, again...

Hey, um... guys? Here's a good point to build from... how about DON'T LET IRAQI CITIZENS WORK ON U.S. MILITARY BASES... I mean, you won't let most non-military citizens on any military bases in YOUR OWN COUNTRY, why would you do that on a base in a foreign land where you are currently engaged in a WAR?

It's that whole "outsourcing" thing, isn't it, G-Dub?

When did the "war on terrorism" become the "struggle against extremism?" Did I miss the memo?
What has brought about this change in the semantics? I have come to the conclusion that it's probably a broadening of the term from just a simple "terrorist." Also, now, the people will start to associate multipleforms of "extremism" as "terrorism..." so maybe that will give them what they need to want to go up against some other countries now, too... So who's next? China? South Korea? The American Democratic Party?

The world is strange... I mean, it's not like I'm just now figuring this out... but it's just strange... People are strange... again, nothing new. I never know what to make of them, sometimes.

I have a lot of faith in the thought that whoever gave humans the ability to communicate in the way that they do did so for a reason... so that we would use it to help make ourselves better... So much of the "communication" I see about the world (and the people in it) is so... unappealling... I can't imagine if I were an alien, intercepting television satellite transmissions, that I would ever want to come here, to invade or just to visit... I'd be off to the next terrestrial body...

Of course, I'm not just taking about communicating through media... that's just the seriously shitty kind... Communication between people, two people - that can be some of the trickiest stuff in the world... I always thought I was good at it... I'm really not so sure...

People puzzle me...

...I just got a piece of porn spam email that the subject line was "Sluts are as happy as pigs in shit..."

I know a couple sluts... I'll have to ask...

I was kinda afraid of what might be on the other end if I clicked the mail open... coulda been really scary... like "Clarence the Sexual Mule" scary...