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***First off let me be clear. I am not a person who cries racism every time something involves people of different nationalities but in this case I believe the charge is warranted.
http://www.thespectrum.com/article/20100420/NEWS01/4200313/Arizona-immigration-law-may-impact-Utah
This first bill is asinine because everyone I think can see that this will turn into a legalization of racial profiling. The example given in the story is about routine traffic stops turning into racial profiling situations but to me there is a better example. In a traffic stop, you HAVE to give them your ID, but what happens when it involves infractions that DON’T involve a car. What if a person is jaywalking? If this law passes then a person who jaywalks may be forced to show his or her ID in a situation where ID isn’t really required because the last I checked you don’t need a license to walk. Now tell me, if there is a person of Hispanic descent and a white person who jaywalk at the same time within view of a police officer, which one will the cop cite? He is going to go after the person who looks different, and fit’s the stereotype. Now this may not seem like an issue but guess what people, “illegal aliens” don’t all look alike.
This also raises the issue about using racial profiling at airport security. Not every terrorist, criminal, etc is going to look Middle Eastern. In fact racial profiling makes it EASIER to trick people because you can simply recruit people who DON’T fit the profile.
http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/national/house-oks-birther-bill-4-19-20101271793528356
This second bill is just as asinine as the first and just as racially charged. To begin with anyone who thinks that a candidate’s citizenship status has not been verified by the time they make it to the General Election is a flat out dumb ass. A candidate’s eligibility is verified WHEN THEY FIRST DECLARE THEY ARE RUNNING FOR OFFICE! Not after the primary, not after they take the oath, but BEFORE they even begin his or her campaign. Where was all this concern over this anyway BEFORE Barack Obama declared he was running for president? Was there great concern when Bush or Clinton ran? Of course not because a white person couldn’t POSSIBLY be born in another country.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
Really Sen McCain?
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/04/14/2269430.aspx
Senator McCain has seriously gone off the deep end. The idea that the US and the US alone can force Iran to do what we want is asinine. Where does he plan to get fresh troops and equipment for such a task? What about the money? Is he going to finally agree taxes need to be increased in order to pay for a war? Does he think we should have made a preemptive attack on Russia during the Cold War? The USSR was far more dangerous and powerful than Iran is today. We are bogged down in Afghanistan and Iraq fighting MILITIAS, imagine what we would have to deal with when fighting well supplied and well trained soldiers. The US can’t be the police of the entire world. We can’t afford it both in terms of equipment and personnel, and monetarily.
Iran poses the biggest threat immediately to Israel because of their geographic locations. If anyone should strike first against Iran, it is the Israelis. Why isn’t McCain demanding that THEY be tougher against Iran?
This idea of striking someone before they strike us has got to stop. Isn’t Congress required by the Constitution to declare war on another country before we attack it? Exploring EVERY diplomatic course is not a weak position to take. Besides nothing says you can’t negotiate on one hand while arming up on the other (see Japan and US during WWII).
Lastly, as a former member of the military, McCain should know better. He should know that one of the best ways to show you care about the men and women in uniform is to NEVER demand them to give their lives for their country unless it is the VERY last option.
Senator McCain has seriously gone off the deep end. The idea that the US and the US alone can force Iran to do what we want is asinine. Where does he plan to get fresh troops and equipment for such a task? What about the money? Is he going to finally agree taxes need to be increased in order to pay for a war? Does he think we should have made a preemptive attack on Russia during the Cold War? The USSR was far more dangerous and powerful than Iran is today. We are bogged down in Afghanistan and Iraq fighting MILITIAS, imagine what we would have to deal with when fighting well supplied and well trained soldiers. The US can’t be the police of the entire world. We can’t afford it both in terms of equipment and personnel, and monetarily.
Iran poses the biggest threat immediately to Israel because of their geographic locations. If anyone should strike first against Iran, it is the Israelis. Why isn’t McCain demanding that THEY be tougher against Iran?
This idea of striking someone before they strike us has got to stop. Isn’t Congress required by the Constitution to declare war on another country before we attack it? Exploring EVERY diplomatic course is not a weak position to take. Besides nothing says you can’t negotiate on one hand while arming up on the other (see Japan and US during WWII).
Lastly, as a former member of the military, McCain should know better. He should know that one of the best ways to show you care about the men and women in uniform is to NEVER demand them to give their lives for their country unless it is the VERY last option.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Banks, Bombs, and a Bimbo
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wirestory?id=10288583&page=1
The fact that we are again talking about reforming our financial regulation system shows that we have not learned from our past. Before the Great Depression, we had basically unregulated markets. Speculation ran rampant, regardless of whether people had the money to cover themselves if their speculations turned sour. The resulting crash in 1929 lead to the greatest economic depression this country has ever seen. A little known fact, however, is that there were many other crashes BEFORE 1929, that were caused by similar problems but the drought and resulting farming problems made 1929 worse. On to the late 1990s, when a corporate Democrat named Bill Clinton is residing in the White House. During his last year in office, Clinton oversaw (and signed) a bill (Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999) that in effect pulled the rest of the teeth (some provisions were pulled during the 1980s, thanks to Reagan) out of the Glass-Steagall Act. The GSA was created in 1933 to PREVENT another Great Depression by clamping down on what financial institutions could and could not do, and yet 66 years later people seemed to think it was no longer needed. Well apparently it was needed because less than 10 years after FSMA was passed, we found ourselves in another deep depression, close to that of the 1930s.
So let us do the math. When we had little to no regulations on financial institutions, we had crash after crash, culminating in 1929. After sweeping regulations were passed the nation prospered without fear of another meltdown. That is until we started to deregulate these very same institutions again. Hmm….seems to me regulations are the only way to ensure financial and economic security to me. Dodd’s bill will help the safety and health of the nation’s economy and if the Republicans can’t realize that regulation is needed then I dare them to oppose it. Try running your reelection campaign by touting the fact you voted against re-regulating Wall Street. If regulations “stifle” innovation, then explain how we had a healthy and strong economy for nearly all of the 66 years between 1933 and 1999.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/world/06arms.html?hp
I am very pleased to see the President moving in this direction with respect to nuclear weapons. In this day and age, they are more of a threat to ourselves than they are to our enemies. The time to use nuclear weapons ended with WWII. I have no problem that the US used them on Japan to end the war because EVERYONE knows that the alternative would have been far bloodier and extended the war for many more years. Our enemies today are not countries and stationary armies. They are small, mobile bands who hide in plain sight. Anyone who has seen the power of the bombs in WWII should realize that they should never be used again, especially considering the bombs of today make Hiroshima look like a firecracker. It takes guts and some risk to change the world, and this stance contains both.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/05/AR2010040503228.html
Is Karzai an idiot or is he simply playing a joke? Either way he obviously doesn’t full understand his position. If he is going to continue this bull shit, I think that we should call his bluff. If he doesn’t like us saying “hey clean up your act because we are bleeding and dying for your country” then fine. If he thinks he and his country would be better without us then lets leave him and his country. Recall all our troops and stop all of our foreign aid. See how long he can go without crawling back to us, pleading for our money and our weapons. Why the hell should we keep fighting when their government continues to complain? Is Karzai an idiot or is he simply playing a joke? Either way he obviously doesn’t full understand his position. If he is going to continue this bull shit, I think that we should call his bluff. If he doesn’t like us saying “hey clean up your act because we are bleeding and dying for your country” then fine. If he thinks he and his country would be better without us then lets leave him and his country. Recall all our troops and stop all of our foreign aid. See how long he can go without crawling back to us, pleading for our money and our weapons. Why the hell should we keep fighting when their government continues to complain?
The fact that we are again talking about reforming our financial regulation system shows that we have not learned from our past. Before the Great Depression, we had basically unregulated markets. Speculation ran rampant, regardless of whether people had the money to cover themselves if their speculations turned sour. The resulting crash in 1929 lead to the greatest economic depression this country has ever seen. A little known fact, however, is that there were many other crashes BEFORE 1929, that were caused by similar problems but the drought and resulting farming problems made 1929 worse. On to the late 1990s, when a corporate Democrat named Bill Clinton is residing in the White House. During his last year in office, Clinton oversaw (and signed) a bill (Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999) that in effect pulled the rest of the teeth (some provisions were pulled during the 1980s, thanks to Reagan) out of the Glass-Steagall Act. The GSA was created in 1933 to PREVENT another Great Depression by clamping down on what financial institutions could and could not do, and yet 66 years later people seemed to think it was no longer needed. Well apparently it was needed because less than 10 years after FSMA was passed, we found ourselves in another deep depression, close to that of the 1930s.
So let us do the math. When we had little to no regulations on financial institutions, we had crash after crash, culminating in 1929. After sweeping regulations were passed the nation prospered without fear of another meltdown. That is until we started to deregulate these very same institutions again. Hmm….seems to me regulations are the only way to ensure financial and economic security to me. Dodd’s bill will help the safety and health of the nation’s economy and if the Republicans can’t realize that regulation is needed then I dare them to oppose it. Try running your reelection campaign by touting the fact you voted against re-regulating Wall Street. If regulations “stifle” innovation, then explain how we had a healthy and strong economy for nearly all of the 66 years between 1933 and 1999.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/world/06arms.html?hp
I am very pleased to see the President moving in this direction with respect to nuclear weapons. In this day and age, they are more of a threat to ourselves than they are to our enemies. The time to use nuclear weapons ended with WWII. I have no problem that the US used them on Japan to end the war because EVERYONE knows that the alternative would have been far bloodier and extended the war for many more years. Our enemies today are not countries and stationary armies. They are small, mobile bands who hide in plain sight. Anyone who has seen the power of the bombs in WWII should realize that they should never be used again, especially considering the bombs of today make Hiroshima look like a firecracker. It takes guts and some risk to change the world, and this stance contains both.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/05/AR2010040503228.html
Is Karzai an idiot or is he simply playing a joke? Either way he obviously doesn’t full understand his position. If he is going to continue this bull shit, I think that we should call his bluff. If he doesn’t like us saying “hey clean up your act because we are bleeding and dying for your country” then fine. If he thinks he and his country would be better without us then lets leave him and his country. Recall all our troops and stop all of our foreign aid. See how long he can go without crawling back to us, pleading for our money and our weapons. Why the hell should we keep fighting when their government continues to complain? Is Karzai an idiot or is he simply playing a joke? Either way he obviously doesn’t full understand his position. If he is going to continue this bull shit, I think that we should call his bluff. If he doesn’t like us saying “hey clean up your act because we are bleeding and dying for your country” then fine. If he thinks he and his country would be better without us then lets leave him and his country. Recall all our troops and stop all of our foreign aid. See how long he can go without crawling back to us, pleading for our money and our weapons. Why the hell should we keep fighting when their government continues to complain?
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