The all-around most tragic and idiotic thing I have heard all day:
- President George W. Bush asked Brazil's president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, "Do you have blacks too?"
(courtesy of the Guardian, 1/1/03)
gee, that's our presisent for you. you'd think that the logical thing would be to have an elected official that knows a little bit about other countries, particularly when the racial demographics of that country are a huge factor in the overall culture of that country- specifically, a country such as Brazil. or i don't know, maybe knowing a little tiny bit about the history of the slave trade and how it affected OTHER countries as well - or even knowing maybe which other countries were involved in the slave trade - hmm. what a concept. but i guess since we decide to elect people into office here just because they have "good charisma" (and they are going to "cut taxes"- and that's really what's most important these days, huh?) and their fucking daddy was president before, and oh, he did such a fine damn job - put us right into war with the middle east....like father like son... we don't really need to have presidents that know absolutely anything about the rest of the world in any kind of context other than a really fucking ethnocentrist-who the hell cares about anything other than the immediate ineterests of the US anyways- mindframe. right?
pathetic... and the fact that i am surprised about it all- that's even funnier.
geez.
- President George W. Bush asked Brazil's president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, "Do you have blacks too?"
(courtesy of the Guardian, 1/1/03)
gee, that's our presisent for you. you'd think that the logical thing would be to have an elected official that knows a little bit about other countries, particularly when the racial demographics of that country are a huge factor in the overall culture of that country- specifically, a country such as Brazil. or i don't know, maybe knowing a little tiny bit about the history of the slave trade and how it affected OTHER countries as well - or even knowing maybe which other countries were involved in the slave trade - hmm. what a concept. but i guess since we decide to elect people into office here just because they have "good charisma" (and they are going to "cut taxes"- and that's really what's most important these days, huh?) and their fucking daddy was president before, and oh, he did such a fine damn job - put us right into war with the middle east....like father like son... we don't really need to have presidents that know absolutely anything about the rest of the world in any kind of context other than a really fucking ethnocentrist-who the hell cares about anything other than the immediate ineterests of the US anyways- mindframe. right?
pathetic... and the fact that i am surprised about it all- that's even funnier.
geez.
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Bellydancing and firedancing totally go together. You'll be the sexiest fire spinner around! If you live on the west coast, I'm sure you can find a group that gets together for open spins (at least in the summer), or there's even classes in Portland & Seattle. Also, www.homeofpoi.com has online lessons and a community message board. Good luck! Now I'm just waiting for an SG to incorporate fire into her SET.