haha. i was totally planning to be anal-retentive and post my first post here in the intros thread - but this got me thinking. many interesting points are brought up. some of which i agree wholeheartedly with, some not so much.

i am completely unsurprised at the buying out of leaders. ahh, bribery. it's been going on forever. disgusting but it will continue for the time being.

[rant\

money is such a lure for so many. some people apparently cannot even comprehend NOT being motivated by financial gain. this is mindlessness indeed, but is anyone really surprised? ever since the mid-90s there has been a wholesale dumbing down of society.

political correctness is the norm of etiquette.

college degrees have become a joke - necessary for many jobs, but often (not always though) simply proving that the degreed individual had the resources to spend the time going through the motions of learning for the prescribed period of time required.

look at all the typos and misplaced punctuation in advertising and print media for proof of that. they went to school but didn't learn much except how to talk a good game of b.s. and act "professional" i.e. emotionless and composed; all the better to look down on those who don't believe in such blatant dishonesty.

i tried to "play the game" in retail employment for awhile and it was madness. company policies were contradictory and idiotic - encouraging customer service excellence, while simultaneously not caring about anything other than coming in under budget for each payroll period. pure hypocrisy which resulted in consistent understaffing and frustrated shoppers OVER and OVER again. 

/rant]

but ANYWAYS that's a tangent way off from my original purpose in this post (reboot, lol) which was to say that it struck me as weird and mindless when the President spoke out against the Georgia/Russia situation.

granted, i do not get too deep in politics if i can possibly avoid it, but it is amazingly brash considering the world perspective on certain actions taken by our government...the legality and/or morality thereof i will not even begin to get into here other than to say that on the surface of things, at the time, there were apparently good reasons for those actions.

now - not so sure about that. and i feel strongly that the recent attacks were barbaric.

but how smart is it to make a public statement that seems so blatantly hypocritical in the face of already volatile worldwide circumstances?

d. w. p.
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