Lifting the travel ban for HIV infected people to the United States---quite frankly, sucks. And I dare anyone reading these damn things to sort it out with me.
What do we need more of, disease and people that cannot afford to care for it. Great, as if we didn't have enough of that ourselves. This is a United Nations Effort, period.
I just watched the "Obama at school" video that everybody was raving about a few weeks ago. It's really hard to believe that there were parents out there actively preaching against it.
What? He said, basically, "study, do your homework".
Wow. What a concept. It isn't as though almost every president (and his wife for that matter) has done this.
And, even that I'm writing this makes no sense; it's so damned basic.
you've got assholes and kids that try. You've got people that pick on people and those that get picked on, etc., etc. There are those that weak and need our strength to go forward.
That's my key to survival. I try everyday to empower people, mostly young people. I've had many failures, and at times, it deeply disheartened me. But for each person I was able to reach, I found a bit of myself in them, and thus, empowered myself to go on. I'm a social worker, have been for nearly two decades. It's a low-paying, difficult, sometimes harshly challenging career. When I was a high school student I excelled at just about every subject (except sports). I made decision in college and later in grad school that made my family quite irate, because they knew I would never drive a nice car or own the best home. At times, I must admit, it hit me hard as a brick when I realized those things would not come to me. Never-the-less, I continued to try to help people, just folks, your everyday man, woman or child.
Like Obama alluded to his his speech, I was not only challenging myself or my future, I was challenging the future.
So, with mostly democratic and liberal readers of these blogs, I accept that all of you understand where I'm coming from. But for a few, you may rave on about the "president brainwashing our kids".
Well, I know my son watch the address and, believe me, not being a fan of brainwashing, I dearly pray for an exception in the case.
It has been a very long time since I was really touched by a speech given by a politico. I have grown older and much more jaded. The last 30 years of my life have been, arguably, the most difficult period in this country's history. Excuse me to those who survived the Great Depression and WWII, but at least, in my estimate, people seemed united. The last thirty years have seen a division among our citizens, unmatched. So, this atmosphere, this zeitgeist, if you will, has formed my social and political ideologies.
When the President of the United States gives a speech (in my life-time), I have expected to be angry, ashamed, demoralized, and the list goes on. But this time, it was different. No, he did not outline the plans for a New World Order (thank God), but he was genuine, remarkable in his integrity and passionate, not about over-throwing Castro or making the stock-market soar, but about children, a class of kids like millions of others around the world. And, I hope some of it sunk in. The United States, sadly, is behind many nations that the UN rightly calls "third-world" in the quality of education our children receive.
Rightly, I think, then, I expect this president to do anything and everything to further our success in education. He stated to those children that he expected them to "do their homework and listen to their teachers". I expect, as all likely would, that he, too, do his homework and listen to the the very learned men and women who have given up their lives to join the ranks of his advisors.
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My distaste for Fox News knows no bounds....but.... whoever you are (including you Mr. President) are wrong in not including Fox any debate, etc..
Yes, Fox has a right wing point of view, to put it mildly, but there are networks (going unnamed right now) that are unabashedly left. So what, I say.
Let's get in the ring together and bash it out. Let no one be excluded; if they are; we go the way of the Soviet Union. And, I, for one, would not want the South to succeed again; I'd likely be sentenced to death by Country Music.
AHHHH!
Can we just do one of two things: 1) Get the hell out of the middle east and leave them to their own destruction or, 2) send in everything we have and wipe the area clean within a month or so. It can be done. For those of you who have no idea what the U.S. has in terms of military tech, let's just say, it makes what any other country on earth has look like sticks and stones.
Seriously, I'm no war-pig, but let's get this bullshit over with so we can bring the troops back home and have them do a really important job: secure the borders.
Since you, Mr. President, as the commander and chief, the highest government office holder of the country, you are responsible for what went down in Pittsburgh.
Tell us this: how would you like it if thousands of citizens surrounded your home and inched ever closer, forcing you and your family to get down on the floor or ground and then pepper spray you for no reason?
Maybe that will happen some day...then you'll wake the hell up and see what's up.
think things have changed? This went on a few days ago...not under the Bush Administration but now...
Mr. President: you and your backers should see this, know this and oppose this:
If you don't speak out about it, you are lame and just as bad as the previous administration. It's bullshit everyone, look at it and weep for a country gone very wrong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWprhxwkVbI
You are making a serious mistake by commenting on the "scholar case breakin".
This is not a Presidential matter. This country's shit is soar. Deal with that, leave the rest to play out as it will.
1-19-09The day before...the day before history changesthe day before my vote starts to countWent on a long walk this morning with my dog, cold and foggy in the Carolina sun.Thought about all the election and presidents I've seen come and go throughout my life;Still in diapers when Kennedy was taken, angry college student when Reagan hailed the start of "morning in America". Demonstrated at my university when he visited. Felt good, felt proud.Dragged away by JROTC students; the police did nothing. still one of the best memories of college I have.Walked back to the house, looked through the net; "what does Careers.com have for me today?"Need to find a niche fast, running out of time, just like America is running out of time. So, mundane 1-19, knowing that when I wake up on 1-20, no one will walk on water; no one will turn my water to wine.Tomorrow will come and go, extraordinary power will change hands, great celebrations will occur all around the world; my electric bill will still be due. "Change we can count on" will begin its harsh test.
