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need more troops Taking advantage of a quiet morning at work, I finally made some headway on my paper after it had been causing more than a little frustration for me these past few days. Now if all goes well, I shouldn't have any homework on my upcoming weekend and that would be much appreciated. More and more often I am thinking that the end of the semester can't get here soon enough. ... Without expecting it to happen, the mess that is taking place over in Afghanistan and Iraq suddenly became much more important to me today. My sister's military unit got activated. Since she just got the news and the fact that this a military operation, there aren't that many details yet, but we do know when her life will start to change. On the seventh of December she'll be leaving for a year and a half. As of now we don't know anymore than the fact that she'll be stationed at a fort in New York before they deploy her somewhere. At one time she said that she wanted to see the world, but I doubt that a three-week stay in Australia will prepare her for what she'll see over in a war zone. There is one more detail that makes this even worse. After six years of duty, she was going to be discharged on the second of December. That isn't going to happen anymore. ... On a much lighter note, I caught part of the second Joe Millionaire program for the first time and I am convinced that Americans are self-centered morons that like to look down on anything that is not American. I truly felt sorry for the European women on that program. My concern has nothing to do with the game or the man from Texas who reminds me of Woody from Cheers. What bothers me is that someone felt the need to subtitle all of the women whenever they speak. Sigh. Are American television viewers too stupid to understand foreign accents? ... Brian Michael Bendis continues to deliver some of the besting writing in the market with the latest issue of Powers. Having advanced through time to less than twenty years from the present, we are just about to see how Christian Walker became human instead of one of the first to have power. Four issues ago it all started with a clever homage to the apes in 2001: A Space Odyssey without Brian directly coming out and saying that he was going to give us the origin of Walker. I don't think that he could have done it any better than he did. |