I get the joy of turning 23 in about 11 hours...bleh. I'm very much not excited for my birthday - I have no plans for it at this point (yet) and I have to work on my birthday. At least I have this whole weekend off.
Happy Birthday Moo! Titans/Steelers was a bad choice for an opening game, not the kind of style the mainstream will enjoy. One shouldn't schedule just based on towel stomping I guess.
9/11/01 - It was my 15th birthday. When I found out about the terrorist attack, I was just getting to my 3rd period history class. We didn't do anything in that class for a good week, at least. When it happened, I didn't really know what to feel. Being in Iowa, it didn't affect me directly. I didn't have any relatives or close friends that were on those planes or in the towers that day. I did however, understand the agony that those thousands of people and their families were going through. It's always tough to lose someone that's close to you, but it's even tougher to lose them when it's probably not their time. Now, I don't really know how I feel. It was a horrible day, possibly the worst thing that's ever happened on United States' soil. As a country and as people though, I think we have to move on at some point. It's been 8 years now, and as awful as it was, you can't mull over it for the rest of your life. Some people propose that it be made a national holiday, but for what reason? So the day can continue to live on in infamy. Making it a national holiday won't do us any good as a country. It's not going to help us move on from that day, in fact, it'll only continue to remind us of the disaster that happened that fateful day. I'm not saying that we need to forget it completely, because that's a tragedy that I don't think is possible to forget. However, we do need to move on and trudge forward, knowing that we can't change the events that happened that day.
I don't like making it a National Holiday. You celebrate Holiday's, you don't celebrate a day like that. I feel anger and hatred towards the terrorist groups whenever I think about 9/11. They hate America, but why? What logical fucking reason do they have to hate us? Are we over there raping their women, fucking their daughter's up the ass, flaunting our wealth in their face? No. We have different style of living. To this day, I still wish death upon those people. To this day I hate those people. I was in 8th grade. It was at the end of history class that this had happened. I lived in VA. My dad was up in NYC for work @ the time and my dad's office in DC was right across from the Pentagon. My uncle watched the plane fly right into the Pentagon, too. I was close to both attacks, but I wasn't directly affected by either.
I don't think 9/11 should be a national holiday. I think it's good to look back and pay tribute to the innocent victims who died, and the unsung heroes of 9/11 (like the firefighters), but it should not be celebrated. I feel the same way as Mamba, pissed at the terrorists for what they did. But just like Pearl Harbor, I think in the coming years, the buzz around it will start to die down. But for me, and for those who have lived through the era, 9/11 will be a date we will never forget.
I heard on the radio today there's a hiring freeze. 10,000 cadets are getting laid off and they are going to start having furloughs.
Maybe in terms of overall departments, but SDPD and SDSO need people badly. It is a shitty department and they just lost a lot of people to early retirement. They lose on average 2 officers a month or some crazy shit like that.
