The Final Days of 2004….
It is now the final week of 2004. I am always in amazement of how fast time flies as you get older. Another year of life changing event has went by and I feel that it was only a brief lapse of time. The only thing I ask is:
What event(s) of 2004 have affected you or that you feel has changed our lives for the better or the worst?
Now I know that this is a loaded question that just invites controversy and hostility just by asking, but think of this as a debriefing from the year’s activities and one last time to get your cheap shots in. So unload your feelings to start the New Year right, with a fresh new perspective.
Feel free to copy and paste this question for your blogs
Evan
What event(s) of 2004 have affected you or that you feel has changed our lives for the better or the worst?
Now I know that this is a loaded question that just invites controversy and hostility just by asking, but think of this as a debriefing from the year’s activities and one last time to get your cheap shots in. So unload your feelings to start the New Year right, with a fresh new perspective.
Feel free to copy and paste this question for your blogs
Evan
posted by CaptCBleu at 15:27
2 Comments:
I think the election of bush was a good thing for all americans and the world for that matter.
The tsunami after the under ocean earthquake is the absolute worst thing that has happened yet this year. the devastation in human life is mind blowing. the fact that the earthquak move the island sumantura 100 feet is amazing to me. and the possiblity of stronger aftershocks may increase the toll.
Evan
Okay, I'm anonymous once again. One day I'll get around to registering.
Anyway,
Without a doubt, the tsunami takes top prize for the worse. The dead are numbered at 60,000 as I write this. This will go down in history as the worse natural disaster man has ever faced. To me, it showed what I feel is the true character of most (not all) Europeans. Reading the stories of able bodied men whineing about the piss poor rescue efforts amazed me. I don't understand why they themselves didn't become part of the rescue mission. Had I been there, I swear I'd have done all I can do to help. Its ingrained into the minds of us here in my home.
It may also get top billing for the best. It is a shame that it takes disaster to bring humanity together, but the way countries throughout the world instantly sent aid (disregard the comments of that whineing Swede at the U.N. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mymod/hdln/usnmvstories/sty/*http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&e=3&u=/nm/quake_un_dc)
makes me feel the coming centuries of mankind may well be seen as a period of more humane treatment of us one to another. I can't help but think that this disaster is on the minds of those at the historic Pakistani/Indian summit now going on.
It may also push, finally, the idea of a global tsunami warning system. The waves hit 2 hours AFTER the quake. The U.S. Geological Survey tried in vain those whole two hours to warn someone...anyone. Each time they contacted someone, they were told that there simply was no warning protocall in place. I love living in the U.S.A. because I know every effort will be made to warn of impending disaster. It is part of the reason disaster deaths don't ever get very high here. We need to continue spreading Americana throughout the world, along with our ideas of protecting each and every life.
Big Al
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