"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -- unknown

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - Albert Einstein

haircut
2001-11-05 - 4:14 a.m.

anyway, as i'm sitting there getting ready to enjoy myself, someone says something about the afganistan or the taliban or something like that and the lady cutting my hair starts to go off. i should have got up and left. the last thing i want to do is listen is listen to uninformed opinions while i'm captive in a chair. to say she was passionate in her beliefs is an understatement...to say she had a real clue what she was saying would be just as big a one. she wants to deport all of 'them'. them apparently includes everyone and anyone not born here, since they wern't born here they arn't americans and should go. i bit my tounge just in time before i asked where she and her parents or her parents parents were born. she thinks it's absolutly absurd we have 400 people locked up in jail and they will go to trial, they should be shot now and without wasting taxpayers dollars. i did point out that while we do know something like 400 people have been questioned, we don't know how many of them were involved. she then went on a long tirade about how they (the taliban i believe) would just kill anyone they caught. i brought up that reporter that got caught as a 'spy', but was released unharmed. she retorted with what about the missionaries that are on trail. i replied the only thing i had heard was they the trial for them was 'on hold' because of the bombings. she laughed and said they were dead, she knows it. she was surprised that they were still protecting bin laden. since every tv picture she sees of the country shows it in total ruin. she was all proud of the the amount of damage the bombings have done. i pointed out that afgan had fought something like a 10 year war with russia and they have been fighting a war against the northern alliance. she replied, 'they fought russia?'

is it that hard to actaully learn something about the country/people/whatever you hate?

i find it ironic that we (we being our government) supported saddem in iraq, noreaga in panama, bin laden in afganistan, fidel in cuba...and the list goes on. it seems to me that a whole heck of a lot of the problems we face now, or recently, on the world stage have roots in aid from us.

she kept calling my honey and sweethard. i kept wanting to say shut the fuck up and cut my hair. i did my best not to answer, but she would say something i was meant to reply to...and i wouldn't, so she would just repeat the line. i guess she assumed i didn't hear her, even though her mouth was about two feet from my ear. once she said the same line four times before i noddded and mumbled something.

now, i am an isolationist...but i think deport everyone who wasn't born in country is a bit drastic. i think the borders are far to open and lax. i think if you're not a citizen you shouldn't get the benifit of our tax dollars. i think it's a freaking joke that for $2,300 i can get california divers license, or atleast a temporary one good for two months, without one scrap of proof about who i am. i'm not picking on california, but i've seen a couple specials outlining how it's done..you know those 60 minute type shows. it's a crock that my thumb print isn't used as proof of id. forget pieces of paper with fancy printing saying i'm joe smith. when i first heard the idea of a national id car, i said 'here comes big brother!'. then i realized, i don't do anything illegal and it's a means to help stop and arrest people who do. i'm all for living free, but the key part is living.

i don't claim to be any sort of an expert, but atleast i try to know something before i say 'i hate x'. atleast i can take someone disagreeing with me and not become irate. i know if had pushed to hard and disputed to many of the things this ladie was saying i'd end up with half my head shaved...

anyway, it turned into an absolutly horrible experience.