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Ew. 8-7 this week, which brings me to 47-24-2, and using the $10 bookie fee, that’s a whopping $20 you made this week. Of course, I’m not encourgaing you to bet. You know, unless you live in Nevada. And even then, that’s your option.

This weekend went relatively well. Nothing uberspecial, but nothing overly bad either. This coming weekend is the make-or-break. We’ll see.

So, my best friend is in Kuwait right now. I’m not sure what he’s doing there (I know why he’s there, but what his role is, I’m unsure.) But his being there is one of the main reasons I voted for Kerry, despite my not necessarily liking Kerry as a candidate.

My best friend served his time in the Marines, and that was fine. Realisticly, it got his life together, and I can’t say anything negative about it. When he finished his commitment, he decided that he wanted to go into the reserves, but the Army reserves instead of the Marines. That’s fine.

Now he’s in Kuwait, awaiting his eventual trip to Iraq. Why? Honestly, why? Weapons of mass destruction? 9-11? A desire to be reelected? Swerving those wanting to see the capture of Osama bin Laden into thinking that we had accomplished something? He’s not defending our nation right now, which (I was under the impression) is what the reserves is all about. He’s attempting to fix a country that we felt needed to be fixed, pulled out of his home and his steady job so that he can be randomly shot at by people who hate every American because of the beginning of this paragraph. If he gets killed, he doesn’t come home as a hero, because he wasn’t defending us in war. He wasn’t saving our children or taking a plane down that was heading for Camp David or something like that. Yet, some Canter Fitzgerald employee is considered a hero because while he was trying to get out of a building, shoving down women and anyone who stood in his way, the building crashed to the ground.

Yeah. Life’s fair.