Tea, Fire and Boredom

Short complaints

Things that I am tired of hearing about:

1) Information regarding the fate of Air France flight 447. Yes, it crashed. Yes, everybody appears dead. I don’t see the need to belabor the point. But I understand to an extent why the original story would be noteworthy. The idea of a big heap of metal crashing into the ocean does sound pretty interesting. I don’t like all of this stupid shit afterwards.  Everytime something like this happens everybody goes completly hysterical over safety and neglience and other self-righteous causes. Look, facts are facts. This people are dead. This kind of thing happens, don’t worry about it too much.

2) Reactions from President Obama’s speech. I keep getting newsfeeds about how some groups “appluad” or “reject” President Obama’s recent speech in Cairo. If the people of the Middle East are half as cyncial of life and human intentions, I believe that they do not give a shit what some American says. Because much of America’s foriegn policy history has been based upon the great American double standard. We say one thing, and do something different. I, and probably most rational beings, am not at all impressed by a political speech. In fact, I expect abject lies and untruths from politicians. The reactions should be towards actual actions, which I early await, but an not hopeful for