planes go bang ...

i don't really have a lot to say about this. i am sure that the over-sensitive ones will say that this is almost equal to the sept. 11 attacks. and to that, i can only say either "who gives a fuck?" or "no."

this is pretty minor. i do think that it would help if people recognized that this is most likely a political statement made about some of russia's political behavior -- the article hints about the civil war and other terrorist shit. but i don't really care enough about russia to pay attention to that kind of thing.

but that clearly reminds me, at least, of what the united states has been doing to deserve what happened on sept. 11. but that, of course, calls on people recognizing fault in themselves and the american public policy -- which i don't think is too likely to happen in this country.

sometimes, life is just to simple for people to grasp. and that's too bad.

i have fears over this though.

the worst thing that could happen in the current paradigm would be to have russia dragged into anything -- either with us or against us. obviously, as an american, i fear china more as a power. but russia is the one with all the nuclear weapons. and that could really suck.

rebels could take the weapons. russia could end up using them. and worst of all, we could end up coming to blows with russia -- in which the "victory" of the cold war seems totally and completely irrelavant. and that really sucks.

but like i said, i don't really give a fuck about russia. i guess i grew up in the height of the cold war. well ... that may not be true. but i grew up with regan as president. and that was its own way of propaganda and brainwashing. but needless to say, i too hate the russians.

in the olympics, for example, i often see them as the bad guys, but yet i feel some sort of sympathy for the nations that used to be part of the soviet bloc. and don't even get me started on how i feel about this iraq bullshit.

though, for a taste, i don't like soccer. but i always like to see the underdog come through. it just makes me wonder if anything is rigged. it always seems like sports have a way of coming through in the clutch when it comes to creating story lines -- even though iraq lost today.

no, my big fear has a lot more to do with bush and his posse of evil fucks. obviously, bush is going to want to play this up as a "terrorist" attack. and i guess i am not going to say it's not, as long as no one else pretends that the united states' military actions are also terrorism.

but bush is going to use this to his political advantage. he will try and say that this is proof that the whole world is still caught up in the "war on terror," and that we are a long way from the end. i could be wrong, but i see it coming.

and of course, i have a low enough opinion of the general public that they might actually think of that bitch as a wartime president, instead of the tyrant that he clearly is. or some, the really stupid ones, might argue that it is not wise to change leaders when we are in a time of grave decision making.

anyway, i am going to get back to watching this thing on jack johnson. so ... good night.