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    Default Angry & Sad, For Different Reasons

    I saw these articles this evening in an online edition of Vanity Fair Magazine. Both made me angry and sad, but for profoundly different reasons...

    - Having volunteered for Iraq, Mark Daily was killed in January by an I.E.D. Dismayed to learn that his pro-war articles helped persuade Daily to enlist, the author measures his words against a family's grief and a young man's sacrifice.

    - The biggest, most powerful of the "body shops"—SAIC, which employs 44,000 people and took in $8 billion last year—sells brainpower, including a lot of the "expertise" behind the Iraq war...
    To get some idea of the scale: contractors absorb the taxes paid by everyone in America with incomes under $100,000. In other words, more than 90 percent of all taxpayers might as well remit everything they owe directly to SAIC or some other contractor rather than to the IRS.

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    i dunno what to say... so much of what goes on politically, internationally, having to do with ethical fuck-ups and the war in general just depresses the hell out of me so I don't bother to say much about it because it seems so pointless until I get in a position where I can actually contribute an effort towards positive change. At this point/level in my life, I feel like all emotions are almost wasted, because every little thing I could do is just that: little... until I have more time/resources/connections to do something. but yeah... I know how you feel. I hate reading about things I cannot change. fuck "accepting things I cannot change." they fester inside and propel me to do better. anger is a very potent motivator. at least we have that much, yes?? and we exist in a world where we can communicate to others and educate them, as you did with this thread. that's SOmeThiNG!

    time for bed, i make no sense.

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