Snipped from HuffingtonPost.com.

Yea, I’d say something got stimulated, just not in the way Bush wanted. I don’t think anyone is really surprised about this. I sure as hell am not. I predicted, like many others, that it would go to bills, credit card debt or some kind of debauchery. Who in the hell is going to think to themselves, “Hey, I got $300 or $600; I am just going to blow it on some stupid, materialist trinket or dohicky when gas prices are going sky high, and I am living off of credit card loans. That’s a great idea!”

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$170 Phone Bill!

Fellow Delegates, Obamians, Democrates and Patriots, I need your help. I was Williamson County, Precinct 480’s Delegate Chair, and with that responsibility came organizing, informing, delegating and communicating to all of my precinct’s delegates, which was a large task prior to and during the county convention. During this convention, all my precinct delegates needed to keep in constant contact with me as to not miss a beat and make sure that everything was done correctly. Well, here in lies my big problem.

In staying available and keeping in contact with everyone, I managed to rack up a massive cell phone bill from the preparation and management of the county convention totaling out to $168.57 (Screenshots of bill below)! I, being the struggling, full-time student I am, can barely afford the $30 monthly bill that I was expecting to pay for my normal cell phone service, so you can imagine the tears in my eyes when I opened it up to a bill of nearly $170.

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The Ethanol Blunder has happened. President Bush in his 2007 State of the Union Address set our course for an all ethanol fuel nation. The “decider” proclaimed our nation to go, team, go ethanol all the way.

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Killing Jobs, Killing the Economy — that’s what your old company is doing. Mergers, takeovers, buy-outs, cutting costs to be competitive. Where the savings, where the money made by our bosses is found in racking up the lowest score in the number of salaries that no longer need to be paid. Ignore their PR of good intentions for their customers; look below the surface and it’s job cuts that are the real reasons behind it all. Service and better products? No, now the number one best way to “make” money is to let go of most of your workers.

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Let’s unite, Friday.

Okay, I have just finished the delegate training seminar, and boy, was I awoken to what we REALLY need to do. We, the Obama delegates, are much more entangled with the Clinton delegates than I thought. This is not an Obama group caucusing, and Clinton group caucusing in separate areas arising with separate results for the state convention. This is a precinct caucus with Obama and Clinton groups going head to head trying to out vote the other for positioning delegates for the next convention. If we are not careful, we could end up stalemating our end and letting the Clinton group slide their choice right in, leaving Obama’s chances behind.

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Barack Obama may have made our generation’s “I have a dream” speech.

Barack Obama made a speech a couple of days ago that rocked the minds of those that truly understand our present societal problems. Those that have the perceptual abilities to see past the bullshit and petty distractions are gearing up for a new wave of public discussion. I strongly feel that Senator Obama is the leader, the inspiration this country has needed for decades.

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Oh, boy!

Where did we go wrong? When did we go wrong? Or was it going wrong over a decade rather than one specific day?

If you don’t know what I’m talking about/getting you to know about, then read or listen to or watch today’s news, tomorrow’s news, next week’s news, next month’s news. It will all be the same: the economy, stupid. Or more to the point, you and yours truly, and my life, too: what we eat, what we wear, where we live, how we work (how we work — ha!) and how we play.

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I’m losing my ice.

We may see most of the symptoms, but not the patient or hidden illnesses. The symptoms are many; the most recognized one today is global warming; then there’s the strange, but not so strange, maladies in humans, animals, plants and trees caused by “contaminated” water, bad air, “contaminated” food. And radiation. And more.

It has taken a long time for some people, even those leaders, to accept climate change. It will be beyond them, and us, to accept a harsher fact. And that is, the planet is dying. Many parts of the recipe were already there, like the dwindling number of species.

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Snipped from SciAm.com.

As if we didn’t have enough reasons to fight against the use of coal power plants, we have, yet, another one that may be just as bad as the others! The stereotype of coal power plants being safer than nuclear power plants, at least when it comes to radiation, has been drastically broken. It seems that coal ash, also known as fly ash, “contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste.” It has to do with the uranium and thorium levels in natural coal. Unburned, the levels of these dangerous compounds are somewhat benign, but when burned, they are concentrated up to ten times their natural levels.

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Snipped from Cectic.com.

Now, I thought this was pretty clever. Not exactly the best analogy, but pretty comical nonetheless. Here is a common father using the same abstinence only ideology that has been such a success thus far with our nation’s children for gun safety.

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