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Tuesday, December 31, 2002:

31 December already... Time flies when you're having fun. Sometimes it crawls, when you're not having fun. And if you're lucky, time crawls when you are having fun. Flying time when you're not having fun is still bad, but not as bad as when it crawls when you're not having fun. Hello? Stop typing in that URL! I'll behave normally if you stay. Good. 2002 was the year in which The Netherlands became a banana republic. Suddenly, without any warning... Oh well, a lot of great things also happened in 2002, like... like... oh yeah, Brazil winning the World Cup. Yep, great year, 2002. I haven't even talked about the the coin that lifted prices to unknown heights all over Europe, the worst thing that happened to the world since the combustion engine, and about the movie of the century (so far). For more information, I strongly advise to visit Google Zeitgeist.
Haggis // 6:25 AM

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Tuesday, December 03, 2002:

"World War I was the result of leaders' aggression towards other countries which was supported by the rising nationalism of the European nations. Economic and imperial competition and fear of war prompted military alliances and an arms race, which further escalated the tension contributing to the outbreak of war."
(http://www.pvhs.chico.k12.ca.us/~bsilva...)

You may replace 'World War I' with 'World War III', and 'European nations' with 'United States', if you wish.
Haggis // 5:39 AM

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Monday, December 02, 2002:

There is this commercial on Dutch television about fighting AIDS. The usual stuff, asking for people's money. Did you know that you can save a life for just 5 Euros*? I didn't, either. It goes something like this: You watch the commercial. It teaches you about how your 5 Euros* will actually prevent a child from being born with AIDS. Okay... so... how would they do that? I've thought long and hard about this, and my guess is that they just give the pregnant mother, who's infected with the virus causing AIDS, 5 Euros*, and she will magically give birth to a child that will not get AIDS. Ever. For 5 Euros*. If this is all true, why is there still AIDS? For a sum that's probably less than what the US spends on military each year, you can eliminate all AIDS patients from the world, using the method stated above. What is even weirder, is that you'd have to buy an "art bag" (uh... some sort of shopping bag with a picture on it) to be able to do all this. I guess the guy (or gal) who makes those bags, will get a part of that 5 Euros*... so the money that will actually go where it should, will be even less. But I'm sure that the makers of the aforementioned commercial did a lot of research about all this.

* The Euro sign doesn't seem to work with this weblog.
Haggis // 6:05 AM

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