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November 05 Why we needed a real changeWhy we needed a real change,
Well , the Election is over I am glad it is over. Now , as everyone knows I am a Sen. Obama supporter and have been since Iowa. That said , If Sen. McCain had won I would not have died. Though if something happened to him and Gov. Palin takes over then , Hello Canada.
I am just kidding well sort of. To those of you who wonder why I supported Obama well for one I can not afford not to. My medical bills are killing me financially. I am not alone there are millions like me I work pay my taxes and try to put money aside for the a few needs and few wants. Instead I pay for over priced medication and doctors visit.
We are living in the richest country in the world , the wealthiest the world has ever known , but we have a crumbling infrastructure and decaying cities through out the Midwest and Rust Belt.
So as a nation we need to rebuild and build for the future. If you look at Europe they are on a building spree upgrading and replacing their infrastructure. Expanding their mass transit systems which are already the envy of many in this country. They are expanding their universities. They are building for the future , there fore in twenty years Europe will still be a major financial center.
While we here will be playing catch up. Now there are a great many people in this country doing there part. There are many green building projects in New Orleans and Greensburg , Kansas is going on better by building their city Green the reasons for doing so are many but the best one is long term cost.
We must a nation start thinking long term the reason we are in a financial crisis right now is because of short term thinking. People want to get rich overnight and their greed led us to this. They thought that the housing bubble would never burst , they always do. Now some people have made a fortune in this mess , sadly though they were greedy they studied the past and could decipher the markets future. They made billions while everyone is staring at their 401k and crying in their beer.
The world is changing and as a nation we are not keeping up with it. I met a Marine last month who was in Tokyo and he was shocked by how far behind we are , now we have all know it for years that Japan is far ahead of us. We have known for twenty-five years or more.
If we don't fix our infrastructure in this country we are going to be paying threw the nose in the not so distant future. Our decaying cities , roads , and bridges will kill hundreds or more probably thousands and cost more in the long run than it would to just invest now. We have already seen the first major one in St. Paul , do we need more wake up calls?
We have also known what our core problem is education. We have to make education this countries number one priority or in twenty years we will be screwed as a nation. We need to dump money into our schools and revamp our math and science programs. The time and resources we spend arguing about teaching creationism or calling it intelligent design is pointless. People should be pissed that their kids don't know what the Super Collider is and what is it is for , or maybe that they have not read anything decent. I swear I work with college student that have never even heard of “Leo Tolstoy” or even “War and Peace” what kind of country will we become when are children grow up and think schools are just a place to get drugs , screw their teachers and take test! Well actually a lot of them already do. We don't educate our kids we prepare them for standardized test.
As everyone is aware we are in a credit crunch this has hit students very hard many students are finding that they have no students loans now. They also are having a hard time finding grants. Why in this nation are state Colleges and Universities not free?
We have been losing are industrial base for years now to the developing world and now we are losing good paying computer industry jobs to India and soon China. Now since we are not going to building anything and soon maybe even not writing the code to run it. Maybe we need to educate our kids to be ready to start the next phase of our economic development.
Then we need to expand our University systems to the tune of 250,000 more seats minimum.
When we have a educated work force the jobs will be there and they will pay well , there fore the tax revenue base will increase. So the answer is simple free tuition to State run universities. A national Math & Science curriculum. No more local school board fights over God in Classroom. As a nation we must make the changes to prepare our kids for their future because if we don't their will be know one to care for us when we are old and crazy.
September 06 These last daysWhat can you say about the last couple of weeks , Sen. Barack Obama has chosen Sen. Joe Biden. I like the guy a lot always have though I wanted General Wesley Clark , but I can vote for the ticket no problem. Now Sen. John McCain has chosen the Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate a double edged sword meant to get Sen. Hillary Clinton's votes since she is a woman , as well getting the evangelical vote since she is a right wing religious nut job. http://www.gov.alaska.gov/print_news-54750.html She is one of many who believe in the talking snake. I would just like to say this we have a separation of Church and State for a reason. Now there are many people in this country that wish to erode this , hell they want to destroy it. We have many people trying to say that if do not believe in a god the way they do or at all that you are not a patriot , well that is shit! I say this if you think that you have to be a Bible thumper to be a Patriot then they do not understand this country and should move to a country that is run by the religious right. They can choose from Iran , Saudi Arabia , Yemen or any of them. We as a Americans should be free from the want a be Taliban's of this Country. Many have shed there blood for us and not all have been Christian , or Jewish. There have been free thinkers those who realized in that , The Good Book is just that a book. We have let these uneducated people influence our Nation unduly for too long. Now Sen. Obama is a Christian and I have to live with it but , he is not trying to shove it down our throats. Others in office and running are trying to bring religion back into our schools , in a day and age when our kids can not even do basic math and forget science. When did creationism become a theory (never) it is a belief. It is not science in any way shape or form and should not be treated as such. This election is about so much more than electing the first African-American or the first female Vice-President it is about , Religious freedom , Abortion Rights , our schools , Healthcare , and the Environment , we must think about what we want our world to be like in fifty years , because Jesus is not coming back to save you!!! April 08 Nation & World | Ala. Baptists Sniff Noses at Wine Trail | Seattle Times NewspaperThis figures I swear separation of church in state has not quite made it to the south yet. Nation & World | Ala. Baptists Sniff Noses at Wine Trail | Seattle Times Newspaper April 06 MotherJones Blog: More Questions for PetraeusWell these questions have very easy answers, there are no presidents for this action or the miracle that Bush sees as the outcome. If a Government has neither the power to decide it policy or enforce it, it can not stand. A country so heavily divided cannot stand. Only our troops on the ground our holding Iraq together and only our presence can hold it together. We have to realize that Iraq is a artificial nation as it is created by a outside force. With the Religious factions at each others throat and their shear hatred of each other, what can we expect. Until we except that we can not enforce our views on the rest of the world we will continue to have to shed the blood of innocents and our Troops, and steal from our children since they are going to have to pay for this war. 80,000 U.S. jobs cut in March; rate of unemployment rises - International Herald TribuneWhat do we expect was going to happen in a economy that is almost entirely based on the service industry (that I am currently employed in) as jobs move overseas or are shipped to cheaper regions in our nation (manly the South). We are stressing the business sector with stupid taxes like inventory and raw material taxes instead of taxing the finished product when it is sold. Though the largest single burden on businesses is healthcare. It is crippling us as nation. With out a national healthcare system our economy will be slowly ground to a halt. We must figure out a system that will meet our needs. Everyone always says look at Canada, no one ever will admit maybe we need to look at Canada and Holland and look to see what works and what does not. We don't have to copy them. Find a solution in the middle somewhere. If we don't fix this problem we will hurt ourselves in the long run , and we will not have anyone to blame but ourselves. 80,000 U.S. jobs cut in March; rate of unemployment rises - International Herald Tribune April 03 It's not easy being a billionaire - International Herald TribuneOh I wish this were my problem, these poor bastards. It's not easy being a billionaire - International Herald Tribune March 11 Book Lovers Ask, What’s Seattle’s Secret? - New York TimesTechnorati Tags: Seattle, Literature, New York Times, Secret, Reading, ElliotBay Book Co., Starbucks, Amazon, Costco, Book Lovers, Seattle's Secret A lot of people have asked me why I love Seattle so much, why and why I hate living in Huntsville, AL. I love it because in Seattle the arts are cherished. I have been sitting at a bus stop waiting for the bus and ended up in a group conversation about a book reading at Elliot Bay Book Company (my personal favorite place to sit and read with a Cafe' Americano) the book is revered in Seattle just look at the library downtown and you know we love our books. I think that in Seattle the librarian and Elliot Bay Book Co. both have a huge affect on the reading habits of Seattle and that they in effect influence the country because the book buys and reviewers at Amazon, Costco and Starbucks are checking out what they are selling and what they are recommending. The secret is we love Literature . March 02 Local News | Prize in Oregon lottery is health insurance | Seattle Times NewspaperWhat does this say about our healthcare system. Local News | Prize in Oregon lottery is health insurance | Seattle Times Newspaper February 26 Teens charged with shaving, clubbing disabled woman - CNN.comWTF!!! I swear these two need to be locked up for good. These two teens are psychopaths. I hope they like prison! Teens charged with shaving, clubbing disabled woman - CNN.com February 22 Turkish ground troops enter Iraq in operation against Kurdish fighters - International Herald TribuneTechnorati Tags: Iraq, Turkey, Ally, War, Invasion, Ground Troops, USA, Stablilty, PKK, Kurds, Kurdish Rebels, Kurdish People Well I think some of us saw this coming at the very begging of this war. We did not wait and convince the Turks to let us send the 4th I.D. through Turkey so we could secure the western boarders with Turkey and Syria. I saw this all coming to play why did our leadership not? The PKK is not new, the Turks have had problems for years with them. Did the President think they would just go away? He did not listen to the Generals who were in the best position to know he ignored them and he fired them. They were right and now we have a ever growing problem with Kurdish rebels. The Kurds have always been a natural ally but they do have their own agenda as all of our allies. What do we do now? A NATO country is now invading at will into Iraq, into the only truly stable part of Iraq. February 21 Hybrids, meet your rival -- it gets 376.59 mpgDamn I wonder how hard it would be to do this with a car these days. February 14 Politics | ACLU, Rick Steves launch marijuana campaign | Seattle Times NewspaperWell, the man who has job I really want, has a point. Now I have not smoked pot since I was 13 or 14 but I have never understood why it should have ben outlawed. Most of my friends smoke it and I just don't see the big deal. I have friends in law enforcement who will tell you it is a bullshit law. We are filling up the prisons in this country and spending a fortune on petty bullshit. If we legalize marijuana we could free up a lot of money to be spend on other more urgent problems like the homeless or medical coverage for the working class. Politics | ACLU, Rick Steves launch marijuana campaign | Seattle Times Newspaper February 13 Obama, McCain sweep Potomac primaries - CNN.comWe are seeing history in the making. I swear this is so damn exciting Obama is like the new JFK or RFK. We are seeing the American public more excited and involved now than they have been in thirty years maybe even since the early sixties. February 06 Election Center 2008: Delegate Scorecard - Elections & Politics news from CNN.comObama is kicking ass and taking names now! Election Center 2008: Delegate Scorecard - Elections & Politics news from CNN.com February 03 Iraq | Baghdad bombers described as mentally disabled | Seattle Times NewspaperWhat kind of assholes can do this to people! I swear these sick bastards piss me off. Also why are they being called suicide bombers. They did not commit suicide bombers they were killed by sick bastards. Iraq | Baghdad bombers described as mentally disabled | Seattle Times Newspaper The Dumbing Down of AmericaI have just watched a train wreck, I could not take my eyes away. The shame I saw heaped on my country, and our species is unending. Why are we filming and glorifying these people. Why as a nation do we watch this crap. My Redneck Wedding is not new just another incarnation of a showing us a bunch of uncouth uneducated fools and glorifying making fun of them. We have all scene a steady decline in the quality of programming on television we see the smart and witty shows get scrapped and replaced by mindless crap. I grew up on shows like St. Elsewhere and M.A.S.H. shows with wit that did not debase the viewer instead they made us think. We need entertainment that make us think. We are seeing the U.S. dumb down and it is scary we are becoming a dumb joke. Those of us who are well read are looked at as elitist. We are looked down on and made fun of. We elected a President and many people looked at Gore and Kerry as being nerds or elitist, idiots like Rush Limbaugh make a fortune belittling them. They pander to a group of people who are not very well informed and have very little grasp on history. and who seem not to give a damn about it. January 31 By 'bagging it,' Ireland rids itself of a plastic nuisance - International Herald TribuneI was just talking to my Mom yesterday at the stare about recent bans on plastic shopping bag. I would like to see a program start up here.. Plastic bag rarely reused and rarely recycled here. By 'bagging it,' Ireland rids itself of a plastic nuisance - International Herald Tribune January 14 Nation & World | Twin doctors perform "double duty" in Afghanistan | Seattle Times NewspaperThese men are the truest examples of good world citizens caring for the poor , sick and forgotten. These brothers are my heroes. Nation & World | Twin doctors perform "double duty" in Afghanistan | Seattle Times Newspaper Nation & World | Rat heart created in lab signals hope for humans | Seattle Times NewspaperGood, I will be able to get new lungs when I am 50 and maybe I can pay for them with Camel cash. Since that is why I will need new ones anyway. Nation & World | Rat heart created in lab signals hope for humans | Seattle Times Newspaper January 12 Use of gas by Blackwater leaves questions - International Herald TribuneWhat the hell is going on with these guys? Use of gas by Blackwater leaves questions - International Herald Tribune January 10 Huskies | Huskies booster offered $100K for coach's firing | Seattle Times NewspaperI hated Rick Neuheisel but Willingham has just depressed me! I am living in SEC hell here in Huntsville., I swear if I here "Roll Tide" one more time I am going postal. This year depressed me so much, I have never been ashamed of Washington till this year! Now I am just going to say lets try to get our shit together this year. I wear my UW jerseys with pride and always will, but I don't want to take shit for my team from some inbred. Huskies | Huskies booster offered $100K for coach's firing | Seattle Times Newspaper
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