Yay! Gay Adoption

I am posting in response to Alma’s Political Thoughts’ post titled ‘A small victory for gay adoption’. I am shocked but also glad that the country is making more leeway for gay rights with the decision the Florida Court ruled on that a ban on gay adoption was unconstitutional. That gives me some sort of faith in our court system to denounce the laws that get through legislation even though they are unconstitutional; especially something as big and important as gay adoption.
I mean there are so many orphaned children in need of loving families. Do those people opposing gay adoption really believe that a child is better off in an orphanage or Foster Care than being in an environment where two loving people who have time to raise, show love, and offer that child a home? There are an estimated 120,000 orphans in Foster Care that are eligible for adoption, the rate and number of getting children adopted would be a lot higher and faster. I mean do they believe gay couples are not capable of being able to provide a loving and caring enough environment to raise a child. That just goes back to equal rights. I advocate the actions of those who are challenging the system for gay equal rights and the right to adoption.

Bailout Blunder?

Should the government be throwing so much money at these industries that need bailouts? Should these industries receive any aid from the government because of bad mortgages and decrease in investors? Yes our economy is ailing and something needs to be done. However to me I think this is only a good idea because of the need to save the jobs of thousands and thousands. I don’t know if relying on the support of international investors in our treasury is quite a good idea however. Can we really believe that all those loans can be paid back, isn’t that going to cause a slew of problems later? Is no one worried about our nation’s deficit? This credit bailout seems like in incredibly slippery slope to me.
Mr. Paulson (our Treasury Secretary) who originally had proposed to congress that “the government would have bought up toxic mortgage-backed securities at a premium over their current deflated values.”, but instead he used money for direct investments into troubled financial institutions. It is his idea that to bolster financial markets would make it easier for creditworthy barrowers to obtain loans. Isn’t that whole this whole mess began, giving out credit left and right to people who were maybe not ready to handle the amounts of credit allotted to them? America does not need any more credit; we need more financial stability and more jobs.

Boo to Ignorance! Yay to Education!

After reading Miss Cobb’s editorial commenting on the amount of ignorance our country has equated to I couldn’t help but think damn-straight, yet I also couldn’t help but feel that yes something needs to be done about our education system. I think they way she presented her argument was perfect in ending with the U-tube videos. Yes and HAHA some our fellow citizens actually believe some of that stuff! Yeah there should definitely be something going on the help rectify the ignorance of country. Listening to those church ladies speak of political leaders needing to be “where they need to be with god” blew my mind. I couldn’t help but feel like they were brainwashing that teen girl. What is our nation coming to? I am glad to find that others agree that education state by state could use some heavy re-forms. Yes schools are deluding important issues which have great affects on our political views later on. I loved the fact that she used a Thomas Jefferson quote to help back up her points. I must re-state it "What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools, and the other half hypocrites." Thomas Jefferson even way back when knew that oppression and intimidation would leave I guess half of us ignorant. That is what’s happening in our education systems they are oppressing certain issues and our intimidated into doing so. Therefore you cannot say that we are not responsible for our own ignorance, and those who know this yet chose to do nothing about it are hypocrites. Right on Jeri!

An outdated Government

Our national government was founded from our constitution; the constitution was adopted in 1787. 1787 people! And after 27 amendments we still are relying on the Electoral College to elect our nation’s president. And that’s not the only institution created by the constitution that I believe needs a modern update, but I’ll get back to that in a moment. I understand why the Electoral College was created in the first place, because back in the day (pre 1800’s) the common folk were not privy to or educated on political processes or inclined to take interest because the hustle and bustle of everyday living back then was all consuming that’s all they had time to think or worry about. Yet now-a-days we have all these excellent inventions to spread the knowledge about. With the radio, television, and the internet available to the masses as well as more and more college graduates then before I believe we could now rely on our own public mass to make an informed/educated on who should run our country. In this day and age I do not believe the Electoral College is necessary for “informed” votes to be accumulated to elect the president. The constitution should be updated to reflect the nation’s current social and economic status.
Also what is up with the Congress being able the pass and create laws that are unconstitutional and then later sometimes years or even decades later they are overturned in the Supreme Court. The congress can do that because they can get away with making a law that is contrary because of the fact that the constitution can be so loosely interpreted. If the constitution was more straightforward I think that Congress wouldn’t be able to get away with creating unjust laws in the first place. Therefore I believe in the projects that professors and undergrads are undertaking in splitting up the constitution amongst separate groups of themselves and editing their particular portion to be more comprehensible and reflect modern times, and then compiling them together into one whole revised and modern const. I do believe the restrictions and freedoms of the national government should be “updated”.

Can McCain handle his/our buisness?

Bill Hare’s blog “McCain Implodes; Women Will Not Forget”, is right on in calling out McCain’s interviewee shortcomings. However I really didn’t catch the connection with women not forgetting, yet he did mention briefly the awkward exchange between the two presidential nominees about the abortion issue. I mean it was definitely referenced, but the blog seemed to be more focused on McCain being offensive in his mannerisms, and not being that well of a public speaker. If a potential president can’t handle himself in stressful public situations do we really want him handling the nation’s affairs or dealing with foreign leaders? “In the third debate McCain made his first two appearances look like controlled perfection as, in an effort to be aggressive and cut into a strong lead that Obama holds in national polls, sputtered, sighed, mumbled and grimaced.” He is intimidated; he couldn’t even hold ground during the second debate. He kept pacing back in forth as if a little kid holding it who needed to badly visit the restroom.
Yet McCain is trying to convince the public that he is ready to be a president in a way that his rival is not, he went on to say that he would “look Vladimir Putin” in the eye upon meeting the Russian president. Uh yeah ok, “Oddly enough, as noted by numerous viewers, McCain looked edgy and appeared unwilling to look Obama in the eye.” It seems as if McCain isn’t ready to handle such a position of importance, he can’t even control his facial expressions, which as a public speaker he should have a handle on. He’s totally giving himself away, when the important and delicate issue of abortion was brought up the Arizonan Governor “responded in a manner that might well have reduced him to instant political tumbleweed.” McCain does not seem to understand the importance of understanding itself. “Instead McCain in a few seconds that will haunt him for the rest of the campaign, he grimaced, made hand gestures resembling an over the hill baseball umpire trying to decide whether to call a base runner out or safe, then launched into a response that was not only bad politics, but belittling and discomfiting such a serious topic, not to mention mean-spirited.” In conclusion, I agree with Bill Hare, do we as a nation want this man to have access to the nuclear trigger?

What's One More War?

Andrew J. Bacevich is a professor of history and international relations. His column first ran in the Los Angeles Times. My critique is over the edition in the Austin American Statesman. Bacevich seems to be commenting on the war in a liberal fashion. Directing his attention toward the fact that nothing has been resolved by way of the Bush Administration applying armed force.
What’s one more war? We’re already throwing tons of billions of dollars into the “War on Terror”, it’s just a deficit, we can start another war even in a financial crisis. Bush is getting America into it’s third war right before the end of his term. Proclaiming that Pakistan is the key to gaining the upper hand and possibly terminating Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorism. Bush has already thrown 13 billion dollars at the Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf in a policy that was aimed at aiding the “elimination” of terrorism by the Taliban and al Qaeda. According to Bacevich Musharraf is a incompetent dictator who did little action on his end of the deal and no progress was made toward defeating terror by befriending the Pakistani president. I agree that Bush should not lead us into another war, Afghanistan and Iraq have finically drained us enough we should not prod Pakistan.

OMG! TEXTERS BEWARE!

Anyone who keeps up with current events has probably heard about the commuter train wreck, but they may have failed to realize that the train engineer was under the influence of texting. This incident has provoked California lawmakers to start seeking a ban on text-messaging by drivers, a step already taken by a handful of other states. Statistics have shown an alarming increase in the amount people have been texting. This year in June 75 billion text messages were sent in the United States, compared with only 7.2 billion in June 2005, according to CTIA. Even emergency room doctors have noticed a rise in injuries and deaths stemming from texting. Texting has created a new communication phenomenon, which is dangerous to the multi-tasker. If we don’t start cleaning up our texting act then laws will be brought in to force us to do so.

TEXT MESSAGES!