Home Sick....

Yeah, right--Sick! I called in sick this morning. I do feel somewhat sick, but I believe it is more of a hangover than anything else. Last night I had a little too much to drink, although I think the largest contributing factor to the drunkness was that I never ate dinner last night. So, I had two glasses of wine and 3 shots of southern comfort, and it took me down for the count. Guess I should've eaten something first. It passed the time while I was watching the republican convention. I should be thankful that I didn't drink more as I was listening to their convention speeches last night. Talking about preying on the insecurity of americans! Giuliani (sp?) didn't really impress me much, he made much ado about September 11, but, in my opinion, he never really gave any concrete reasons as to why Bush would be a better president than Kerry, other than Bush was president during 9/11. Did I mention preying on the fears of americans? It seems in the republicans mindset if you're not a card-carrying republican, you're not patriotic. The pledge of allegiance, where the guy made sure to overemphasize the "under god" portion (as old as he was and as forceful as he said it, I'm surprised he didn't give himself a hernia--maybe that's why he ran off the stage as fast as he could). I was, however, impressed with the fact that there was a member of Black Islam there giving a speech. I was disgusted by the fact that the major networks cut away from that portion. I wouldn't have known he was giving a speech if I hadn't been surfing channels and caught it on C-Span. That's just not right, that man's speech was probably (in my mindset for healing division within the country) the most important speech of the convention! That's what should've been broadcast to the world! You want to fight Islamic militant terrorists, have Black Islamic Militants in our country stand up and say that they support us! It's just another way that the media warps the news to whatever they want. Honestly, I prefer my news with no slant. Give me the raw data and let me assimilate it myself--without your whipped cream and spin, thank you. Now that I've worked up my blood pressure, I need to finish cleaning house and start doing my reading for class tonight. Tallyho!

PS I wanted to include a picture of the speaker (actually the chaplain who gave the invocation) with this post, but I've had no luck finding one. I'll keep trying, though ;)