:: theMediaman journal ::

:: Thursday, November 06, 2003 ::

$87 billion more has been approved to be spent on Iraq and Afghanistan... even though more than half of Americans disagree with the way Bush is handling Iraq. Although this isn't a big surprise coming from an Administration that had less than half of the popular vote, and even less than the other guys.

American soldiers are still dying. Widows are being produced in the US at the rate of about a dozen per week. Now they're even discussing the possibility of bringing back the Draft.

This isn't Gulf War II.... this is Vietnam II

...and on the topic of East Asian countries, what am I supposed to say to my children a couple of decades from now, when they ask me why it took us and the Americans so long to do something about North Korea?

Wow... what a depressing entry so far. How about some good news?

Paul and I have found an apartment at Bathurst and Major Mackenzie. It's about five minutes from my current apartment, but make that fifteen to twenty minutes during rush hours.

We're paying $1000/mo., which split two ways works out to about the same savings as my car payments plus insurance cost. Basically, I'm back to Square One last May, before all my monthly expenses raised to just outside my income level. Still, with a raise due at the end of the year - and another week of vacation time from Livewire - this coming year should be a little more financially bearable than 2003 has been.

:: Stephen 2:23 PM [+] ::

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