Ding Dong

So Osama Bin Laden is dead. President Obama announced it on Sunday and ever since then, the world has been reacting.

People will tell you how to feel.

You can already buy memorabilia.

Even the Vatican is sharing it's opinion:
"(Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden will have to answer to God for having killed many people and exploiting religion to spread hate, the Vatican said on Monday.

The Vatican has often condemned the concept of violence in God's name."

(which I thought was amusing considering the years of about 100 A.D. to about 1600 A.D. )

I've had various people tell me they had the Wizard of Oz song stuck in their head all day...myself included...Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!

But the thing I find most amusing are peoples interpretations on the event.

There's the Onion's opinion: "BREAKING: Violent Death Of Human Being Terrific News For Once http://onion.com/k1kJam"

Apparently his death is good and also not really effective at the same time for 'the market'.

3 people I follow on Twitter quoted Mark Twain:
I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure - Mark Twain

And of course we have to compare him to Hitler. Though it's actually a cool happenstance! Both Hitler and Osama were proclaimed dead to the world on May 1st. (Article here)

So what is my opinion? I thought I'd share something from my journal.

"My sincere reaction is that I am glad that a man so willing to kill so many innocents deserves his death. He could do nothing for this world but continue to bring irreparable damage to families and loved ones if he continued in his ways. However, I am reminded that God loves him. He is a son of God. And any pain caused on him from his sins, Christ too Atoned for. However, he also Atoned for all the pain that Osama himself caused upon so many of God’s other children . And may God be his judge. "

So has justice been served? Did Osama get Jimmered? The world is also horribly humorous about it all...which I believe shows a measure of insensitivity. This is about a man being stopped from killing more people. He hasn't stopped trying to kill civilians since September 11th. Yes, lots of other innocent civilians have died during the U.S. war on terrorism...does that compensate for our victory? We can only assume that the U.S. would stop creating casualties of war when terrorists stop attacking us. And that is a completely different goal than a terrorists'.

I'm glad so many people in the journalist world still have a moral compass...I'm glad they still ask these hard questions of 'Should we be rejoiced over revenge?' that I didn't want to ask because I was so happy someone had been brought to what I considered justice.

Dusting off the Keyboard

Hey! I'm alive!

Some random updates of happiness:

-I'm graduated! Whoot whoot! And while this is a very exciting moment in my life I can't help but feel all dressed up with no where to go. Gotta find a job!

-I got a Kindle for graduation! :D While it's weird to read off of it, I am getting used to it and loving it! I'm 8% away from finishing my first book on there, Mark Twain's Autobiography (which I have been dying to read since Christmas)

-I got one of my favorite callings for church! :D I can't say yet cause I haven't been called called, but I'm oober excited! :D

-I'm going to California in a week! :D I have to save my books and things from being thrown out but I also get to go to Six Flags (haven't been in 6-8 years) and the beach :D It's going to be a good weekend to say the least!

-I've paid for my study abroad and got a spiffy backpack! :D It's Dakine and I love it! 2 months~! Wow...in two months I will, for the first time ever, travel somewhere off the North American continent...I'm tempted to do my own version of 'Innocents Abroad' (By Mark Twain) (after I read it of course! :D)

Quotes

So I'm reading Russian Novels that, me being the feminist that I am, are quite...amusing...to read. Enjoy.

"..A woman is like a sack--it holds whatever you put in it..."-Gogol

"Sooner some other female weakness, but no one has yet reproached me for thievery."-Gogol

"Just let the mamas and the aunties start working on [a young girl] now. In a year they'll have her so filled with all sorts of female stuff that her own father won't recognize her."-Gogol

"Since Poets began writing and woman began reading them (for which our heartfelt thanks), they have been called angels so often that, in their simplicity, they've come to accept this compliment as the truth. They forgot that the same poets (in return for money) acclaimed Nero as a demigod."-Lermontov (I don't know if I've quoted this one before...sorry if I have)

Here's another other funny one not related so much to anti-women-ness :D

"...agreeable conversation is better than any food."Gogol

Domo-kun!!!!

Would you still be my friend if I wore this everyday until it turned to rags?

Cause I have fallen in love with it.

Unfortunately for me I won't own it until I earn enough money to buy ridiculous things.

44

Just an update:

I got to 44 cats on my left hand before I got sick of it and didn't want to get the world record anymore (min is 56 cats). I just...looked at my blue hand the smell of ink made me ill for some reason. So I stopped.

It did, however, keep me awake in all of my classes. I.e. a miracle.

Records

I was directed to the website urdb.org and these are the records I aspire to beat.

Largest Group "Meow" Rendition Of 'Lean On Me'

How to implement: I think I can make this a successful ward activity

Largest Group To Dance "The Carlton"

How to implement: Next family reunion :D

Most Cats Drawn On A Hand

How to implement.Friday in class. This woman is married and this is how I plan to catch the eye of some lucky guy. That or I'll take a picture of my hand with one of the rings I have on my left ring finger. One of the two.
And yes, I really will be doing this last one. :D

Girly Time

I have a lot of questions right now and my iPod has the answers:

1. Just how amazing will a study abroad to the Mediterranean be?
-Comin' Home Baby by Michael Bublé

2. How does one go about learning how to spell Mediterranean correctly?
-Matchbox by the Beatles

3. How do your really feel about me iPod?
-Pulling Teeth by Green Day

4. How will my teacher take an essay on where nothing I am saying hasn't been said before?
-Seize the Day (Chorale) from the Newsies soundtrack

(YEAH!)

5. How will karma take vengence on my Poli Sci TA for being a real stickler?
-Cancer by My Chemical Romance

(I would feel really bad for this one if I just hadn't found out that the wrong TA is grading my hw and I don't have to deal with her anymore)
(P.S. I'm a little scared my iPod would wish Cancer on anyone...)

6. My framed photos of my bestest of friends fell off the wall yesterday, what does it mean?
-Track 06 from my Valentines CD

(You'd like to know the song on that cd, wouldn't you! Can't Buy me Love by the Beatles. So true!)

7. Just how clean does my room really need to be?
-Christmas Eve Montage from The Nightmare Before Christmas Soundtrack

(eh?)

8. Why do I always find a new TV series to watch right when I have a ton of school work to do?
-Dig a Pony by the Beatles

(Is this justification to stop doing hw right now and watch tv? Yes, but just because you have a motive doesn't mean you have to have an action)

9. How good are the actors at the Empress Theater (where I'm going to go see Don Quixote in March)?
-A Spoonful Of Sugar from the Mary Poppins Sountrack

(This does not comfort me)

10. What is something I can improve on?
-Song for the Asking by Simon & Garfunkel

(You're a funny little iPod, aren't you!)