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First of the month, and all’s well…well almost.

On July 1, 2008, in Amazon, Politics, Uncategorized, by ness

Well thank god it’s the first of the month and I have bandwidth again. No more drive-thru email pick ups!

It’s been a crazy few days. Skippy recovered well from his Rota-virus infection, only to come down with bronchitus in the last two days. Thankfully he’s already on the mend, and currently driving me around the twist. I’m not sure what they put in that medication, but holy cr*p it could solve this country’s power shortages with the amount of energy it generates in my 2yr old. Better yet, give it to several 2yr olds, and have them sit and cycle on stationary bikes, or hamster-wheel type things to power the African continent. Voila! The world’s energy problem (and harrassed mothers everywhere) solved!

Speaking of the African continent, and don’t worry, I don’t get political often, I’m just not smart enough for that…but honestly I want to make one thing quite clear. Right…everybody listening…?

Zimbabwe is a country.

It is a whole separate country.

It lies between Botswana (to it’s west), Mozambique to it’s East, Zambia to it’s North, and South Africa to its South. (Goes to check Google Earth, to make sure i’m not embarrassing myself further). Oh yes, and a teensy tiny piece of it touches Namibia too.

Of course you’ve all heard of Namibia, because it’s where Brangelina were holed up to give birth to Shiloh. (Rubs hands in glee at how google search engines are going to spike my stats after typing those words…)

It is not…I repeat IS NOT the same country as South Africa. The reason I want to make this quite clear?? Because everytime their dumb as sh*t president opens his yap, and some other kind of insane drivel comes out of his mouth, OUR currency takes a dive against the US dollar. Of course it could be that anytime that dumbas* SOB opens his mouth, it destablizes the whole region, but I prefer of course to blame everyone else, and say it’s because people are confused, and in all likelihood, geographically challenged.

Anyhoo, if anything about Zim has made the news lately, it’s that that very same president (who is in his 80′s) has his country in an autocratic iron grip, and having rigged an entire electoral process, and laughed in the face of international pressure, visited horrible human rights abuses on his OWN people and basically just been a dooshbag of note. I mean for crying out loud his entire country and economy is on it’s knees the people are starving and he HAS PEACOCKS TETHERED AT THE ENTRANCE TO HIS PRESIDENTIAL PALACE.

Anyway, just to keep it real, I want to explain why I’m peeved about all this. Of course things like human rights abuses get my knickers in a twist.

But I’m also very shallow.

When our currency takes a dive, it directly affects my ability to shop online. Particularly at Amazon… and that makes me a very unhappy little camper.

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