2010 declared “the deadliest year for NATO forces since the war began.” Nine soldiers were announced dead as a military helicopter crashes in southern Afghan region and as witnesses say there was no visible attack on the helicopter itself by opposing soldiers the notorious Taliban were quick to take credit.
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News. What is news? We’re supposed to report on it. We’re supposed to read it and understand what it means. We’re supposed to find it interesting, enthralling. There are many things we’re supposed to do, but we rarely ever do them. We rarely ever do what is expected. What is important. What is truly needed. We confuse need with want, and want with need. We confuse many things, but we never admit to it. We’re always sure, and always insitent on any little thought that pops into our minds. But do we ever really know? How do we know what is truth or fiction? Many of the things we read in history books aren’t true! We’re lied to all of our lives and we accept it because someone of more authority than us told us to believe it. And we do believe it. We take what we are told and follow blindly. How will our world survive in the future, if our fact is fiction and our fiction is actually fact. Will books change? Will old movies or ancient myths or stories? What’s news? Is it actually new information? Or is it something that someone “important” deems necessary for the world to know? What is news?
Wow wow wow, everybody stop what they’re doing. I just found out that Lindsay Lohan just got out of temporary custody. This is huge news. I’m so happy that websites like “The Superficial” (whose slogan is “Because you’re ugly”) report on important matters just like this one. Now the issue is not that celebrity gossip websites like “The Superficial” reporting on “news” like this. The problem I have with it is that some people visit these sights religiously and treat them like they are news. If anyone can justify that Snooki was just on The David Letterman Show as front-page news, then something is wrong with him.
I personally get my news from “The Los Angeles Times,” because I find it to be a reliable news site. But just today, it pulled a “Perez Hilton.” Along with news about who is wining the race for Governor and the current state of Mexico’s drug war, was the story about Lindsay Lohan. I was so disappointed to see this. I always try to have my news 100% gossip free, but there it was. The same story that I saw in “The Superficial.” Not to discredit this website, and countless others like it, but I really have to ask the question: “Who cares?”
Its always hard to know what to write in the best of circumstances, but I can now say flying through turbulence is not the best of situations to type. As I sit here on an Air United flight returning to my home country I search for inspiration for my blog.
Two and a half hours, 1 in flight meal, 1 movie and a laptop: the definition of a lazy day, if not for the fact I’m stuck on a plane. The situation almost has potential to be fun however the enjoyment is diminished by the imposed nature of the situation.
Turbulence is not fun.
Currently I’m extremely thankful that the in flight meal was received half an hour ago and that I ate it promptly otherwise I could currently be sitting in a bed of curry, if you could even call it that. How ironic is this, the whole month I spent in Southern California I never saw one curry house yet our in flight meal is a curry. So the in flight meal supplies us with a brilliant topic for my blog. Curry.
Curry is a popular dish world wide, except from Ojai, and especially in England. In fact in a survey recently taken they found out the favorite dish of the English is Chicken Tikka Masala . Maybe that’s because we are now full of Indian immigrants or because it’s tasty. I can definitely say the curry in England is delicious and is nothing like that in India. Which is slightly odd.
So if ever visiting England why not go against the stereotypical fish and chips and have a curry.
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