Saturday, December 04, 2004
Entry 31
Miss World 2004 from Peru ...
I was watching Miss World 2004 ...
Among the five last candidates there was a girl from the US who was so lively & prepared to be chosen as the first ...
I don't want to be so pessimisst about the role of the US and its interference & trying to be the first in everything ... but everything shows that it is so...
The last five candidates were from countries such as Peru , the Dominican Republic , and some other countries ... and choosing one girl from the US was a little strange ...
It really seemed strange ... whoever watched it would feel a little surprised why she was chosen ... it seemed as if she must be chosen , because there cannot be anything like this ceremony in the world in which US does not have a role ...
Although she was not chosen and this girl from Peru was chosen at last as Miss World 2004 , everything showed that struggles had been made for the contestant from the US to be among the last five candidates ...
Sunday, November 28, 2004
Entry 30
Today I went to the old parts of Tehran to buy something ... it was near my grand ma's house...
It was a long time I hadn't gone there ... I went to remind the good old days I had there with her ( who has passed away now !)
I entered the alley ... it seemed soooooooo much narrower than it was before ... I always thought the alley was veryyyyyyy wide ...I was crying ...
I found a place where her house used to be ... but there was not her house any more ... a new modern house was built instead of hers ...
My tears got dry ... I couldn't imagine the previous building , the door , the windows & the good memory of those old days ...
Once I wished I hadn't gone there so that I could remind the good old memories ... but then I thought that I must accept life as it is ...
This has happened & will happen for all grandchildren of all years ...
Let's love our childhood memories in the past & remind them , but live in the present ...
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Entry 29
... Dream ...
What is dream? ...
Since we were a child , we had dreams... and this was the only thing we chose strongly & with great self confidence, never thinking whether we can reach it or not ...
When I was a child, I always wished to be a flight attendant or an astronaut ... and never thought if it was possible or not...
I just wanted them... and I enjoyed a lot thinking about them , because I could DREAM & WANT whatever I liked ...
When we grew up and faced the reality , these wishes & dreams became paler & paler ... because they had come out of our infinite mind and had entered into & interwoven with the realities of our life ...
We still have wishes & dreams , but their names have been changed : they are GOALS ...
I think our goals in our lives are our dreams which have become more logical ...
Now when we dream , we dream according to the realities of our lives , first we see the realities and then we dream ... and maybe we don't dream at all ... for example I don't wish to be an astronaut any more, because I know it's impossible ... but isn't it a pity to kill this dream in myself ?... what should I do with it ? Isn't there any way to make it alive again?
Yes , there is ... I believe one way exists & that is ART :The only way to save and keep our childhood dreams & wishes is to change them into art:My beautiful childhood dream to be an astronaut can remain alive forever in the form of a painting , a poem , a symphony , a statue or a beautiful story , and be alive forever..., so let's keep our inaccessible and beautiful dreams forever ...
Monday, November 15, 2004
Entry 28
This article is written by Michael Moore after the reelection of Bush ...
I found it very interesting:
Friday, November 5th, 2004
17 Reasons Not to Slit Your Wrists...
by Michael Moore
Dear Friends,
Ok, it sucks. Really sucks. But before you go and cash it all in, let's, in the words of Monty Python, “always look on the bright side of life!” There IS some good news from Tuesday's election.
Here are 17 reasons not to slit your wrists:
1. It is against the law for George W. Bush to run for president again.
2. Bush's victory was the NARROWEST win for a sitting president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916.
3. The only age group in which the majority voted for Kerry was young adults (Kerry: 54%, Bush: 44%), proving once again that your parents are always wrong and you should never listen to them.
4. In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the country is headed in the wrong direction (56%), think the war wasn't worth fighting (51%), and don’t approve of the job George W. Bush is doing (52%). (Note to foreigners: Don't try to figure this one out. It's an American thing, like Pop Tarts.)
5. The Republicans will not have a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in the Senate. If the Democrats do their job, Bush won't be able to pack the Supreme Court with right-wing ideologues. Did I say "if the Democrats do their job?" Um, maybe better to scratch this one.
6. Michigan voted for Kerry! So did the entire Northeast, the birthplace of our democracy. So did 6 of the 8 Great Lakes States. And the whole West Coast! Plus Hawaii. Ok, that's a start. We've got most of the fresh water, all of Broadway, and Mt. St. Helens. We can dehydrate them or bury them in lava. And no more show tunes!
7. Once again we are reminded that the buckeye is a nut, and not just any old nut -- a poisonous nut. A great nation was felled by a poisonous nut. May Ohio State pay dearly this Saturday when it faces Michigan.
8. 88% of Bush's support came from white voters. In 50 years, America will no longer have a white majority. Hey, 50 years isn't such a long time! If you're ten years old and reading this, your golden years will be truly golden and you will be well cared for in your old age.
9. Gays, thanks to the ballot measures passed on Tuesday, cannot get married in 11 new states. Thank God. Just think of all those wedding gifts we won't have to buy now.
10. Five more African Americans were elected as members of Congress, including the return of Cynthia McKinney of Georgia. It's always good to have more blacks in there fighting for us and doing the job our candidates can't.
11. The CEO of Coors was defeated for Senate in Colorado. Drink up!
12. Admit it: We like the Bush twins and we don't want them to go away.
13. At the state legislative level, Democrats picked up a net of at least 3 chambers in Tuesday's elections. Of the 98 partisan-controlled state legislative chambers (house/assembly and senate), Democrats went into the 2004 elections in control of 44 chambers, Republicans controlled 53 chambers, and 1 chamber was tied. After Tuesday, Democrats now control 47 chambers, Republicans control 49 chambers, 1 chamber is tied and 1 chamber (Montana House) is still undecided.
14. Bush is now a lame duck president. He will have no greater moment than the one he's having this week. It's all
downhill for him from here on out -- and, more significantly, he's just not going to want to do all the hard work that will be expected of him. It'll be like everyone's last month in 12th grade -- you've already made it, so it's party time! Perhaps he'll treat the next four years like a permanent Friday, spending even more time at the ranch or in Kennebunkport. And why shouldn't he? He's already proved his point, avenged his father and kicked our ass.
15. Should Bush decide to show up to work and take this country down a very dark road, it is also just as likely that either of the following two scenarios will happen: a) Now that he doesn't ever need to pander to the Christian conservatives again to get elected, someone may whisper in his ear that he should spend these last four years building "a legacy" so that history will render a kinder verdict on him and thus he will not push for too aggressive a right-wing agenda; or b) He will become so cocky and arrogant -- and thus, reckless -- that he will commit a blunder of such major proportions that even his own party will have to remove him from office.
16. There are nearly 300 million Americans -- 200 million of them of voting age. We only lost by three and a half million! That's not a landslide -- it means we're almost there. Imagine losing by 20 million. If you had 58 yards to go before you reached the goal line and then you barreled down 55 of those yards, would you stop on the three yard line, pick up the ball and go home crying -- especially when you get to start the next down on the three yard line? Of course not! Buck up! Have hope! More sports analogies are coming!!!
17. Finally and most importantly, over 55 million Americans voted for the candidate dubbed "The #1 Liberal in the Senate." That's more than the total number of voters who voted for either Reagan, Bush I, Clinton or Gore. Again, more people voted for Kerry than Reagan. If the media are looking for a trend it should be this -- that so many Americans were, for the first time since Kennedy, willing to vote for an out-and-out liberal. The country has always been filled with evangelicals -- that is not news. What IS news is that so many people have shifted toward a Massachusetts liberal. In fact, that's BIG news. Which means, don't expect the mainstream media, the ones who brought you the Iraq War, to ever report the real truth about November 2, 2004. In fact, it's better that they don't. We'll need the element of surprise in 2008.
Feeling better? I hope so. As my friend Mort wrote me yesterday, "My Romanian grandfather used to say to me, 'Remember, Morton, this is such a wonderful country -- it doesn't even need a president!'"
But it needs us.Rest up,I'll write you again tomorrow.
Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
www.michaelmoore.com
This article is written by Michael Moore after the reelection of Bush ...
I found it very interesting:
Friday, November 5th, 2004
17 Reasons Not to Slit Your Wrists...
by Michael Moore
Dear Friends,
Ok, it sucks. Really sucks. But before you go and cash it all in, let's, in the words of Monty Python, “always look on the bright side of life!” There IS some good news from Tuesday's election.
Here are 17 reasons not to slit your wrists:
1. It is against the law for George W. Bush to run for president again.
2. Bush's victory was the NARROWEST win for a sitting president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916.
3. The only age group in which the majority voted for Kerry was young adults (Kerry: 54%, Bush: 44%), proving once again that your parents are always wrong and you should never listen to them.
4. In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the country is headed in the wrong direction (56%), think the war wasn't worth fighting (51%), and don’t approve of the job George W. Bush is doing (52%). (Note to foreigners: Don't try to figure this one out. It's an American thing, like Pop Tarts.)
5. The Republicans will not have a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in the Senate. If the Democrats do their job, Bush won't be able to pack the Supreme Court with right-wing ideologues. Did I say "if the Democrats do their job?" Um, maybe better to scratch this one.
6. Michigan voted for Kerry! So did the entire Northeast, the birthplace of our democracy. So did 6 of the 8 Great Lakes States. And the whole West Coast! Plus Hawaii. Ok, that's a start. We've got most of the fresh water, all of Broadway, and Mt. St. Helens. We can dehydrate them or bury them in lava. And no more show tunes!
7. Once again we are reminded that the buckeye is a nut, and not just any old nut -- a poisonous nut. A great nation was felled by a poisonous nut. May Ohio State pay dearly this Saturday when it faces Michigan.
8. 88% of Bush's support came from white voters. In 50 years, America will no longer have a white majority. Hey, 50 years isn't such a long time! If you're ten years old and reading this, your golden years will be truly golden and you will be well cared for in your old age.
9. Gays, thanks to the ballot measures passed on Tuesday, cannot get married in 11 new states. Thank God. Just think of all those wedding gifts we won't have to buy now.
10. Five more African Americans were elected as members of Congress, including the return of Cynthia McKinney of Georgia. It's always good to have more blacks in there fighting for us and doing the job our candidates can't.
11. The CEO of Coors was defeated for Senate in Colorado. Drink up!
12. Admit it: We like the Bush twins and we don't want them to go away.
13. At the state legislative level, Democrats picked up a net of at least 3 chambers in Tuesday's elections. Of the 98 partisan-controlled state legislative chambers (house/assembly and senate), Democrats went into the 2004 elections in control of 44 chambers, Republicans controlled 53 chambers, and 1 chamber was tied. After Tuesday, Democrats now control 47 chambers, Republicans control 49 chambers, 1 chamber is tied and 1 chamber (Montana House) is still undecided.
14. Bush is now a lame duck president. He will have no greater moment than the one he's having this week. It's all
downhill for him from here on out -- and, more significantly, he's just not going to want to do all the hard work that will be expected of him. It'll be like everyone's last month in 12th grade -- you've already made it, so it's party time! Perhaps he'll treat the next four years like a permanent Friday, spending even more time at the ranch or in Kennebunkport. And why shouldn't he? He's already proved his point, avenged his father and kicked our ass.
15. Should Bush decide to show up to work and take this country down a very dark road, it is also just as likely that either of the following two scenarios will happen: a) Now that he doesn't ever need to pander to the Christian conservatives again to get elected, someone may whisper in his ear that he should spend these last four years building "a legacy" so that history will render a kinder verdict on him and thus he will not push for too aggressive a right-wing agenda; or b) He will become so cocky and arrogant -- and thus, reckless -- that he will commit a blunder of such major proportions that even his own party will have to remove him from office.
16. There are nearly 300 million Americans -- 200 million of them of voting age. We only lost by three and a half million! That's not a landslide -- it means we're almost there. Imagine losing by 20 million. If you had 58 yards to go before you reached the goal line and then you barreled down 55 of those yards, would you stop on the three yard line, pick up the ball and go home crying -- especially when you get to start the next down on the three yard line? Of course not! Buck up! Have hope! More sports analogies are coming!!!
17. Finally and most importantly, over 55 million Americans voted for the candidate dubbed "The #1 Liberal in the Senate." That's more than the total number of voters who voted for either Reagan, Bush I, Clinton or Gore. Again, more people voted for Kerry than Reagan. If the media are looking for a trend it should be this -- that so many Americans were, for the first time since Kennedy, willing to vote for an out-and-out liberal. The country has always been filled with evangelicals -- that is not news. What IS news is that so many people have shifted toward a Massachusetts liberal. In fact, that's BIG news. Which means, don't expect the mainstream media, the ones who brought you the Iraq War, to ever report the real truth about November 2, 2004. In fact, it's better that they don't. We'll need the element of surprise in 2008.
Feeling better? I hope so. As my friend Mort wrote me yesterday, "My Romanian grandfather used to say to me, 'Remember, Morton, this is such a wonderful country -- it doesn't even need a president!'"
But it needs us.Rest up,I'll write you again tomorrow.
Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
www.michaelmoore.com
Sunday, October 31, 2004
Entry 27
Another one was kidnapped & beheaded again and three UN aid workers in Afghanistan are waiting for their fate ...
These news have become usual these days ...
Even the newscaster doesn't say it with pain ...
Should the aidworkers go there or not? How can they decide? Should they go & help the poor people ,although they must prepare themselves to face this dreadful fate ? ... or should they stay in their own country indifferently and see whatever is happening to the poor people in another part of the world ? ...
It's a difficult choice ...
Saturday, October 30, 2004
Entry 26
Again Bin Laden appeared ...
Everyone thought that these days , before the election , Bush would take him out of his hiding place and proclaim that he has arrested him at last ...
But this time he didn't consider people SILLY ... and decided to play another trick ... that Bin Laden has threatened the US again ... just three days before the election ... and in this way he increased the number of his votes ...
I thought it's not his fault , but the American people's fault , who are so simple_minded that believe these tricks ...
But my father told me that I would vote Bush , if I were an American , even if I didn't believe this trick , just because of the fear of being attacked by terrorists ...
I'm not sure whether I would vote or not ...
Sunday, October 24, 2004
Entry 25
Recent statistics have shown that Finland, Denmark & New Zealand have the least corruption in their government ...
Although there may be some social problems such as the very free relationship between the boys & girls or men & women , or problems in the rule of FAMILY in these societies , but we can see the complete ruling of the LAW & the existence of DEMOCRACY ...
In these countries Human has reached his lost paradise & is resapected more than anything else ...
How & why this has happened, needs a great research ...
Monday, October 18, 2004
Entry 24
Everything has changed these days ... it includes the children as well ... they understand much more than they did in the past ...
I've noticed it while teaching them these days ...
When teaching the students between the ages of 8_12, I really don't think I'm teaching CHILDREN ... sometimes they say something that is not expected from a CHILD...
They know the current events around them & have become more clever, more sociable and more mature ...
I think one of the reasons is the existance & developement of the MASS MEDIA ... Nowadays these little children don't play with sand & soil or doll & ball... they don't exchange dolls or cars in class as we did when we were the same age ...
They exchange CDs for computer games & watch the best & most modern cartoons from different countries on their satelite whenever they want ...
Saturday, October 09, 2004
Sunday, October 03, 2004
Entry 22
Yesterday I got so tired ...
I had four classes ... three of them were my own ...but in the fourth class I was a sub teacher ...T
eaching is really different from other jobs ... all the teachers say so... it takes lots of energy & makes one really tired ... 2 hours of teaching equals one hour of office work ...
My fourth class yesterday was a class of girls ... one of them was really rude ... she was lucky that the bell rang, or I would have sent her out ...
I can bear rude boys a little more than rude girls ... I don't know why ...
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