Friday, December 12, 2008
Yay! 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.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Bailout Blunder?
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.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Boo to Ignorance! Yay to Education!
Thursday, October 30, 2008
An outdated Government
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”.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Can McCain handle his/our buisness?
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?
Friday, October 3, 2008
What's One More War?
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.
Friday, September 19, 2008
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.