I recall several years ago when there was a large uproar in the Muslim community over some caricature cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. At the time I just shook my head and though how over-sensitive and reactionary the protesters were. As Americans we wouldn’t have that sort of reaction over a silly cartoon. Fast forward [...]
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And so it goes…
Many times in other places the transfer of power is accompanied by a coup typically with many deaths and a frightened populace. I’ve never experienced that type of transition and hopefully never will. I think we here in the US often loose sight of just how lucky we are to live in a country where, [...]
Proud Day
One of my favorite days in the political calender is the first Monday in October, the day the Supreme Court opens a new term. Outside of that, the first Tuesday following the first Monday runs a close second – Election day. Americans’ get to peacefully (I didn’t say non-contentiously) elect people to represent them. This [...]
We’ll See…
Today’s the day our government is voting on the massive bail out of financial institutions. I don’t believe that it’ll work because it doesn’t address the underlying accouting and legslavive issues that caused the probem in the first place. While perusing the blogs today I ran across this video. While it doesn’t explain everything about [...]
Political Notes
I’m not much on expressing my political views in public, but this year’s process has interested me. I’m keeping track of news, blog, etc.. entries that interest me in a Google notebook.