WHY?

Article about the $700 billion bailout plan:

"Republicans were also working to eliminate a provision sought by Senate Democrats that would direct 20 percent of any profits from the plan to help create affordable housing. The Republicans want all profits returned to the Treasury."

WHY? WHY? Someone please give a good reason.

I love that the Chinese, Australian, and Germans I talk to know more about American politics that most of the Americans. Myself included. And when I say I love it, that's not exactly what I mean. But I was riding in a taxi yesterday and I heard President Bush on the radio, that kind of weirded me out.

Iraq

So I'm really glad no one reads this because it's highly unlikely that very many people see things the way I see them.

A little article I read in the NYTimes about stuff that's happening in Iraq.

"Problems with the ration basket have drawn widespread complaints from Iraqis, for whom the program was one of the few visible connections to the government. The food basket was a constant under Saddam Hussein and even his critics pointed to it as one thing they could rely on. The basket consisted of flour, rice, tea, sugar, salt, dried milk for adults and for children, cooking oil, lentils, chickpeas, soap for washing and laundry, and occasional extras, such as tomato paste or cake flour.

During the past three years, both the selection of products and their quality have diminished, many Iraqis say. Milk has been missing for much of the past three years, although it recently made a reappearance, and there have been cases of rice with bugs in it and stale tea. The extras that families received under Mr. Hussein are a thing of the past.

In violence in Iraq on Tuesday, American soldiers accidentally killed a Sunni Arab neighborhood patrol leader in a small town near the oil-refining city of Baiji, the military said. The man, a member of the American-supported Awakening movement, was shot during an operation to clear a house of insurgents."

I'm not saying that we haven't done anything good there. But I'm not saying we have either. I'm just saying we haven't done all good there. We should think long and hard about the costs of war. Is it worth it?

HILARIOUS!

One of the funniest things I've ever seen!

life

Do you ever have a day when you feel like life just plain could not get any better?

I love those moments. :)

More politics

Nothing is more dangerous in all of human experience than a politician who thinks that those who make war are sent from God.

Not that anybody cares

If I seem to show too little respect for your opinions or thought, be assured I have equal doubts about my own, and I don't mind if you think I'm wrong. I'm sure I am wrong about many things, although I'm not sure exactly which things I'm wrong about. I'm even sure I'm wrong about what I think I'm right about in at least some cases. So wherever you think I'm wrong, you could be right. If, in the process of determining that I'm wrong, you are stimulated to think more deeply and broadly, I hope that I will have somehow served you anyway.

Why I support Barack Obama:

“I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more than any other candidate in this race to take on lobbyists — and won. They have not funded my campaign, they will not run my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president.”
— Barack Obama, Speech in Des Moines, IA, November 10, 2007

I took American Political Economy my junior year with Ken Miller which turned out to be, "What I do (or don't do) in the House of Reps." All I learned that semester was how corrupt government has become, including the Christians. I was disgusted by the way he told us he would basically do whatever the corporate lobbyists told him to do, because they were the ones giving him money. It made me never want to vote again to be honest. Contrarily, Obama's campaign has been funded by the "grass roots," donations of less than $100 from individual Americans make up the majority of his campaign finances. How refreshing!

Unlike other candidates Obama's campaign refuses to accept contributions from Washington lobbyists and political action committees.

Remembering the values of empathy and service that his mother taught him, Barack put law school and corporate life on hold after college and moved to Chicago in 1985, where he became a community organizer with a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment.

I don't even need to say anything else about this. That just plain rocks!

He will use trade agreements to spread good labor and environmental standards around the world.

Many people complain about the fact that our jobs are being shipped to other countries, and rightly so, but to me the bigger issue is the fact that we are oppressing the people we force to work in the other countries. We pay them unfair wages and make them work unbelievable hours in appalling conditions. This is worse than the fact that there are fewer jobs for Americans. How selfish are we! Obama will fight for fair trade and good standards as well as keeping jobs in America.

Obama will also provide assistance to the domestic auto industry to ensure that new fuel-efficient vehicles are built by American workers

Obama will create a federal Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) that will require 25 percent of American electricity be derived from renewable sources by 2025, which has the potential to create hundreds of thousands of new jobs on its own.

Barack Obama will raise the minimum wage, index it to inflation and increase the Earned Income Tax Credit to make sure that full-time workers earn a living wage that allows them to raise their families and pay for basic needs.

Obama will establish a five-star rating system so that every consumer knows the risk involved in every credit card. He also will establish a Credit Card Bill of Rights to stop credit card companies from exploiting consumers with unfair practices.

Barack Obama introduced the Patriot Employer Act of 2007 to provide a tax credit to companies that maintain or increase the number of full-time workers in America relative to those outside the US; maintain their corporate headquarters in America; pay decent wages; prepare workers for retirement; provide health insurance; and support employees who serve in the military.

I don't think that anybody even reads this and if you do you probably don't care who I'm voting for in the presidential election but recently people have been asking me why I support Obama, especially since if you're a southern and a Christian apparently you can't be a democrat. So I thought I'd share just a few of the many reasons I am excited about him becoming the next president of the good ole US of A.

God bless the whole world, no exceptions!

I repent

I repent

I repent of my pursuit of America's dream

I repent

I repent of living like I deserve anything

of my house, my fence, my kids, my wife

in our suburb where we're safe and white

I am wrong and of these things I repent

I repent

I repent of parading my liberty

I repent
I repent of paying for what I get for free

and for the way I believe that I am living right

by trading sins for others that are easier to hide

I am wrong and of these things I repent

I repent judging by a law that even I can't keep

of wearing righteousness like a disguise

to see through the planks in my own eyes

I repent

I repent of trading truth for false unity

I repent

I repent of confusing peace and idolatry

by caring more of what they think

than what I know of what we need

by domesticating you until you look just like me

I am wrong and of these things I repent