Political persuasion

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Myspace.com

Myspace.com is a phenomenon. I admit that I have dabbled in it a little bit, under a fake name, of course!

There are a lot of freaks on there. Let me emphasize, "freaks!" I have learned a lot of interesting facts about people I know/knew through the myspace website!

Troop Reduction in Iraq

Well, George Bush has promised a troop number reduction in Iraq for a while now. He has delivered on that promise today, right?

Sure, he just INCREASED the number of troops in Iraq by 1,500! Good job, Bush! Why should we have believed you'd do anything else?

Summer Vacation

Well, I officially now want to go to Paris in July. It seems to me that it would be a good time considering I can enjoy the fireworks in the US and then jump a plane to Paris for Bastille Day. The only issue I've had with this trip is the fact I can't learn French! Mon Dieu! How come French is so bloody hard? My complaint is this: they don't say half of the word. They change the sound of the ending of most words. It may have something like -eaux as the suffix, but that is simply pronounced -oo. I wonder how you get that? My first impression was the French are lazy speakers, but I suppose it comes from hundreds of years of tradition, so who am I to judge?

If I speak French, then I am certain to sound beneath a mere provincial, which won't win me any favors in France. I may just stick with English and let them get over it. The French are an arrogant people, so by speaking their language someone may get offended. Then I'll be hated for being more than a pompous American, but also being a presumptuous one.

First Tropical Storm of 2006

Uh oh! We're already starting? I guess it's good the tropical storm is in the Pacific Ocean.

I hope this year isn't as bad as last year by a long shot! It's only May 29...so that's like 2 days ahead of the official start of the hurricane season.

Search Support

Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee supports the search of Congressional offices.

Senator Frist should be impeached for being a moron!

Anniversaries

Today is my parents' anniversary. It's been 29 years! They got married in 1977...gosh, that was back in the age of disco and tight pants. I asked my mom if she didn't think it was time for a divorce or something else to shake things up a bit. She said my dad is good for a few more years. There's not many people who make it so long. I'm glad my parents did though. If they got divorced, I'd be devastated. I don't see a divorce, however, occurring; that's how come I can joke about it! :)

"Tipping Point"

It would seem this whole scandal over the seizure of documents from a the office of a representative of the United States Congress has grown over night!

Now, we hear that the Attorney-General of the United States and the director of the FBI possibly may resign over this whole incident. I wonder what Bush had to promise them to get this kind of reaction from two top individuals in the Federal government?

Bush is deflecting the heat away from his Administration. He is putting it squarely on the shoulders of the Justice Department. I think Bush should be the one responsible for the things his lackeys do. This president seems to have more Pam cooking spray on him than a greased-up pig at the county fair!

Poor Clinton was impeached for having sex with an intern in the Oval Office. This president has engaged the US in a lengthy illegal war, costing thousands of lives on both sides, billions of dollars in expense, he keeps billions of records listing our personal and business phone calls without court issued warrants, and now he seizes documents from the legislative branch of the government. When we he be liable for any of these deeds? If Bush had any balls he'd fire the Attorney-General and director of the FBI today!

Even this last snafu has caused him some face with his own party. But I don't think it will ever amount to a hill of beans. I just don't understand the reasons why!

Let's not forget poor Dick Nixon. All he did was steal some documents from the democrat's HQ and he was crucified.

Separation of Powers

It stands to reason that people who enforce the law should know the law. The US Justice Department should be the ultimate authority on the legal system. Instead, they did the Bush thing and decided the US Constitution doesn't apply in this situation. The FBI, directed by the US Department of Justice, decided it can invade the US Congress and take whatever they want from an elected representative to the House of Representatives.

Now, King George has placed a 45 day moratorium on the information seized from Representative Jefferson's office. It took both political parties in Congress to get George to change his mind. I guess he really does fear what's coming up this November and he can't really lose ANY support!

Iran Shame

Wouldn't it be a crying shame if Iran is allowed to develop and manufacture nuclear weapons? Israel seems to think it is a matter of months before they are able to do so!

Let's act now while we can!

Building Fences

It seems George Bush and the US Congress is in the business of building fences.

Fences are only a temporary solution to the illegal immigration problem facing America's southern border. Let's not forget the Berlin Wall in Europe. It only provided a short term solution that was never really good at keeping people from escaping East Germany, or for that matter, keeping people from entering from West Germany.

Now you can call me a communist or a radical, but I have some ideas of my own for this one too. Sometimes, conservatives call us bleeding heart liberals a touchy-feely bunch who can't get anything tough done. As a so-called bleeding heart liberal, I would use more force to secure the border. The border should be militarized for the short-term. As president, I would consider anyone trying to enter the US without proper papers and authorization as an invading force which will be met with all due force necessary to repel it. (You may infer as needed.)

Just a thought, after all...

Teacher Reverence

Of course, as a small child I was always shocked and amazed when I saw a teacher at a store or a restaurant. I thought they lived at school and they couldn't leave the confines of the school's brick or mortar, lest they perish.

Even though, we treat teachers like garbage today, it is surprising that the same belief holds true. Ironically, it holds true for parents too! I am a teacher and I see this first hand. Parents fear teachers...plain and simple, even the ones they didn't have as a child. Parents fear me, interesting!

I see kids at places I go, like the grocery store, mall, etc. They all have that look of awe on their faces, like "Wow! My teacher is outside the school! Is the world still spinning?" Perhaps, they think they should call the teacher police and have me arrested for violating my parole, but they usually get over it. Mom and dad, aunt and uncle, grandma and grandpa, seem to be a bit more calm too when they find out who I am. Perhaps, they have flashbacks of being beaten as a child with a ruler or paddle by their teachers. Who knows the reason? My thesis is this: mom and dad will threaten everything from murder, to getting a teacher fired, or simply a good old fashioned "cussin' out," but the fact-of-the-matter is they never live up to their threats when you meet them in person.

Now what is the purpose of this rant? Simply this: Adults and kids, pay attention, your teachers have lives. Lives that most of you may not imagine a teacher is capable or legally allowed to live! (Shocking, I know.) So when you see me at the convenient store buying a 20-ounce Mountain Dew, at the park, in Wal-Mart, or at the doctor's office to talk about going bald, remember that yes, I am allowed out of the school (occasionally). We aren't driven by stereotypes or old wives' tales. There is nothing in the school handbook that says we can't pose in lingerie on the Internet, get married, sing, dance, or cuss. No, I don't need to send home a permission form to my students' guardians when I decide that I am going on a vacation.

It's simple...don't be naive! Most likely when we see you in the store, we're going to run the other way and pray that you never saw us! HA! HA!

NSA has my phone records?

It would seem the NSA is simply not monitoring phone calls, without warrants, of American citizens who converse with terrorists (allegedly), but they are also storing a massive repository of phone related records of every single American after September 11, 2001!

George Bush has surely gone over the edge of all legal fairness relating to previous legal faux pas. It is certainly time for the United States Congress to exercise its Constitutional authority and call the president to answer for these atrocious abuses of every Americans' civil liberties. It is even more than sinister and illegal...it is outrageous!

President Bush stated they aren't "trolling" to breach our personal privacy. Then what do you call keeping a record of everyone whom I have called in the past 4+ years? HMMMMMM...?! To paraphrase Lou Dobbs, does George Bush really thing we are this foolish? Senators and Representatives, from both parties, seem to be railing against Bush these days. This will send what Republican-base Bush might retain running for the woods to distance themselves from this recent bit of knowledge.

Bush is surely in his last days, if this pans out the way we understand it to be today.

The irony is while Bush was discussing this issue, and how it doesn't violate our basic Constitutional liberties and rights, you can see the portrait of George Washington over Bush's right shoulder. Washington seems to be looking out, over Bush's shoulder, reminding us that we are Americans and we cannot discharge our rights and liberties that he and so many of our forefathers--and foremothers--fought.

Let's not forget the many things we take for granted. Let's not forget the message Washington would send us if he were with us today. Oppression and tyranny start when people become complacent. We lose a bit of our humanity, our freedom, everytime we allow George Bush, or any other person, to railroad what we know to be morally and ethically correct. It takes a greater patriot to stand up and tell us what is wrong with our government, and with our leaders, than it does to comply and become subservient.

It's time to hold President Bush accountable for his numerous crimes!

Ambien

US Representative Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) had an incident with the prescription sleep aid Ambien. It has been said that those who take Ambien suffer from strange and unitended incidents, where they sleepwalk, sleepdrive, sleepeat, etc., without any knowledge of the activities afterward. They engage in activities which they should only be doing while awake. Like when Representative Kennedy was on his way to "vote" at the Capitol at 3am.

There will surely be more research into this drug!

Read the Washington Post article about this subject.

Conspiracy

They found a million barrels of oil just laying around, huh? Maybe it was in the basement collecting dust, simply overlooked for a little while.

Yeah, right!

May Day, Part 2

Okay, so May Day was a total waste of time. I thought the apocalypse or something was supposed to happen. I guess living in Kentucky, I didn't see these "big" things happen. All I saw on television, however, were a few protests and people bitching about legislation and human rights. But that's what makes American great, after all. In the end, I think the pro-immigrant movement hurt itself through its May Day festivities. It only proved to Washington that perhaps we can live without immigrants, overall as a nation.

Who knows...but it wasn't what I thought!