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                    <title>TIGblogs - Bry Katz's TIGBlog</title> 
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                    <description>What's on the minds of young leaders from around the globe?</description> 
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                    <title>Jesus Friggin' Christ...</title> 
                    <link>http://Katz.tigblog.org/post/8483</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.tbaytel.net/kotyk//anorexic.jpg" vspace=5 hspace=5 div align=left><br />
That is <i>not</i> attractive.  Nonono.<br />
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I feels like a cliché to even talk about it, but goddamn this is sick.  I hate how people are so warped in this society that they think anything without ribs showing is overweight.  Moreso, I hate this society for creating and fostering this mindset, and making this physcholigical disorder spread like it has.  <br />
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If you can see most of your skeleton, you're not healthy.  If you <i>like</i> seeing most of your skeleton, you're even less so.<br />
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It's so sick that this "sex sells" environment we live in has created this kind of disorder.  Well, I'm a consumer, and I don't find that sexy.  I find that disturbing.  And I hope everyone else feels the same.  I'm glad that more healthy bodies are getting time in the media spotlight these days, but it's not enough.  There has to be a wider movement.  There's so much social stigma put on being overweight.  But if you're not moribdly obese, anyone's at least million times healthier than someone like this.  This kills people.<br />
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You know something's seriously wrong when little kids think they have to be thin and attractive and 'sexy'.  They're <i>kids</i>, the the media has them worshipping anorexic teenyboppers and obsessing over their appearance.  Little girls should not care about their image.  They should not be wearing tight pleather pants because Britney did in some video.  A child's life is precious because it's pure.  They don't care about their image, or what's "cool" or what colour skin their friends have.  But more and more, children are being warped by this society and being strapped down with the sins it carries.  This is just too fucking much.  <br />
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Sometimes it takes a picture like this to get the brain moving.  Just look at it.  How do you feel?<br />
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<i>(I don't know if that picture's real or if the head is photoshopped on, but the statement stands regardless.)</i><br />
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*steps off soapbox*<br />
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					<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2003 00:07:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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                    <title>fork me</title> 
                    <link>http://Katz.tigblog.org/post/8264</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[someone put a fork in me<br />
'cause god i'm so done<br />
with this life you didn't give me<br />
and all the pain it holds<br />
<br />
every day is another chance to die<br />
so drop the bomb on me<br />
i'll find my peace on the other side<br />
of an imaginary paradise<br />
<br />
to live in a world of politricks<br />
is not to live at all<br />
children die for greedy oil dicks<br />
and they dare to call it war<br />
<br />
i didn't vote for this<br />
did you?<br />
<br />
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<br />
That was half-assed.]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2003 21:38:00 EST</pubDate> 
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                    <title>War.</title> 
                    <link>http://Katz.tigblog.org/post/8200</link> 
                    <description><![CDATA[I don't even know what to say about the war. I'm not even going to call it a 'war' anymore, because it's an attack. I know Saddam Hussein is a terrible monster of a person, and I want him out of power and either in exile or dead. But this? Bombing innocent people and killing children? Aren't those the very things that George Bush <i>claims</i> to be fighting against with this attack? I think I've come to accept that every politician is a liar and a hypocrite. I like to think that there's some degree of goodness in everyone, but to kill innocent people all for oil and money and personal revenge, and furthermore to sacrifice innocent civilians for those goals? Bush and Hussein are both monsters.<br />
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Kill Saddam Hussein, fine. I know he deserves it. Every innocent person killed, though, <i>every</i> one is a victim of the murderer George W. Bush. The <b>terrorist</b> George W. Bush.<br />
<br />
I'm watching a Parliament meeting on CBC right now, and it's incredibly frustrating to see members of the Right-Wing Alliance heckling members of the Liberal party every time they speak.  Yet the Liberals are staying silent and respectful for the most part when the Alliance members speak.<br />
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Yet I have other things on my mind, even with all this going on in the world. I feel selfish.]]></description> 
					<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2003 16:06:00 EST</pubDate> 
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