Quizzes, Surveys, and The Rotary World Affairs Conference

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It turned out "American Idiot" was the perfect song to use for yesterday: I heard it on the radio that night, even though I haven't heard it in months, and the whole theme of today's Rotary World Affairs Conference was not trusting the American media and getting one's self educated.

I enjoyed it, but I was probably the only one, I do believe. The telecommunicated speeches made me dizzy because the video was delayed, but, other than that, they were pretty interesting.

The discussion part was the best part, though. Our moderator was so cool; he was an adorable little old man who had been a foreign diplomat in Haiti. I thought that was pretty cool.

I got to be the recorder/presenter for our group. I mean, I was the only one who WANTED to, but I thought it was pretty cool . . . that one lady said mine was the best presentation, too ^_^

We discussed all sorts of stuff. I shot down that one boy (I fear I was kind of bitchy, though; I hate being thought of as bitchy, because I honestly do not mean to sound that way, not ever . . . except maybe to assanine people when they deserve and they've done it to me and it's just in spite, lol . . . ) in a really good Economics-based argument (why does it haunt me? WHY???) about how war really does NOT improve the economy. They gave the example of WWII:

1) War only creates demand. If the government had demanded a bunch of tanks and just stuck them in Utah, we would have gotten out of the Depression just as fast as we did upon entering WWII. The production was needed, the demand was there, and more paying )and well-paying) jobs were created.
2) WWII involved rationing. People were earning money at these newly-created jobs, and they could not spend it on domestic consumption. Only limited things could be bought. Hence, in the 1950s, after the war, the economy boomed because people had saved up so much of this money over the years and were now free to spend it. It wouldn't have boomed as well if rationing had not been enforced.

They also said that war improved rights for women, such as in the case of "Rosie the Riveter," where women could enter the work force. Um . . . at least 80% of the working women went back home after the war. Some were fired; all were ENCOURAGED to leave. They had to start all over back from ground zero when they wanted to enter the workforce like 25 years later in the 1960s.

HENCE, war does NOT improve the economy OR the rights of humanity, and that is NEVER a reason to go to war. Boo-ya.

War is bad ^_^ It's just that easy . . . and there is NO reason . . . unless "I like to look like an asshole" is one of them.

Speaking of assholes, Drew Brotherson is one. I could expatiate, but he does not really deserve the time of day.

So, in spite, I told him his tie reminded me of Harry Potter. He told me he knew I'd say that.

This man who kept smiling at me all throughout the conference came up to me at the end today and asked if I was the child of a lawyer. I said yes, and gave him my dad's name. He said he knew that there were two children of lawyers in our group. We pointed out Drew (ironic how the two of us spanned as the most enthusiastic one of the entire conference, and the LEAST enthusiastic one of the conference . . . *sigh/groan* . . . ), and he shook our hands, and was like, "I like meeting the children of lawyers."

Great. That's just kind of freaky, thank you very much . . . lol . . .

Quizzes, Surveys, and The Rotary World Affairs Conference

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It turned out "American Idiot" was the perfect song to use for yesterday: I heard it on the radio that night, even though I haven't heard it in months, and the whole theme of today's Rotary World Affairs Conference was not trusting the American media and getting one's self educated.

I enjoyed it, but I was probably the only one, I do believe. The telecommunicated speeches made me dizzy because the video was delayed, but, other than that, they were pretty interesting.

The discussion part was the best part, though. Our moderator was so cool; he was an adorable little old man who had been a foreign diplomat in Haiti. I thought that was pretty cool.

I got to be the recorder/presenter for our group. I mean, I was the only one who WANTED to, but I thought it was pretty cool . . . that one lady said mine was the best presentation, too ^_^

We discussed all sorts of stuff. I shot down that one boy (I fear I was kind of bitchy, though; I hate being thought of as bitchy, because I honestly do not mean to sound that way, not ever . . . except maybe to assanine people when they deserve and they've done it to me and it's just in spite, lol . . . ) in a really good Economics-based argument (why does it haunt me? WHY???) about how war really does NOT improve the economy. They gave the example of WWII:

1) War only creates demand. If the government had demanded a bunch of tanks and just stuck them in Utah, we would have gotten out of the Depression just as fast as we did upon entering WWII. The production was needed, the demand was there, and more paying )and well-paying) jobs were created.
2) WWII involved rationing. People were earning money at these newly-created jobs, and they could not spend it on domestic consumption. Only limited things could be bought. Hence, in the 1950s, after the war, the economy boomed because people had saved up so much of this money over the years and were now free to spend it. It wouldn't have boomed as well if rationing had not been enforced.

They also said that war improved rights for women, such as in the case of "Rosie the Riveter," where women could enter the work force. Um . . . at least 80% of the working women went back home after the war. Some were fired; all were ENCOURAGED to leave. They had to start all over back from ground zero when they wanted to enter the workforce like 25 years later in the 1960s.

HENCE, war does NOT improve the economy OR the rights of humanity, and that is NEVER a reason to go to war. Boo-ya.

War is bad ^_^ It's just that easy . . . and there is NO reason . . . unless "I like to look like an asshole" is one of them.

Speaking of assholes, Drew Brotherson is one. I could expatiate, but he does not really deserve the time of day.

So, in spite, I told him his tie reminded me of Harry Potter. He told me he knew I'd say that.

This man who kept smiling at me all throughout the conference came up to me at the end today and asked if I was the child of a lawyer. I said yes, and gave him my dad's name. He said he knew that there were two children of lawyers in our group. We pointed out Drew (ironic how the two of us spanned as the most enthusiastic one of the entire conference, and the LEAST enthusiastic one of the conference . . . *sigh/groan* . . . ), and he shook our hands, and was like, "I like meeting the children of lawyers."

Great. That's just kind of freaky, thank you very much . . . lol . . .