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American Worries

“What does new NSA policy to collect data on every phone called in America really mean? This means that the Bush administration can look up all the phone calls that the Democratic National Convention is making; they can also monitor all the calls of the democratic (and republican) senators, congressman, and governors. Not to mention spying on his own supporters including calls by churches, NRA offices, and large donors. Simply put, President Nixon, opps I mean Bush’s policy to monitor all phone in this country is a tremendous violation of all our privacy and of general ethics. Bush will do anything including breaking the law, to promote his agenda. If this was to fight terrorism, how come there are no results? Either Bush is a failure at fighting terrorism or his agenda is about himself and not about the people. No matter what you think, be careful who you share your ideas, because the government is listening.”

Immigration

George Bush spoke last night about immigration reform and a plan to protect our southern boarder from many things including terrorism. Since 9/11 Bush has used the threat of terrorism to lower taxes, start a war (against a country with little if any connection to terrorism), increase defense spending on programs that has no impact on terrorism, and to win another term as President. And now he is using it to put troops on the boarder. Which brings the question, how many terrorist have ever crossed the US/Mexico boarder? Well, there are no public records of it ever happening. The 9/11 terrorist came to the US perfectly legally. Work and educational visas are still available and the security that screens legal visas is minimal. Additional, terrorists can just buy a plane ticket and unless their name is in the government database the can walk into the country as a tourist (assuming they are not armed in the actual airport). This is just another case of the administration using our f

Molly Update

My little Molly is barely a baby anymore, but everyday she seems to be having more and more fun (Note: kids are no longer babies when they can look at a littler baby and say “baby”). Molly can now walk around, usually going 5 or 6 feet before she falls on her butt, but she just gets right up and continues along. Sometimes she walks like Frankenstein, with her arms straight out and wavering from side to side. Sometime she will try to carry things from one room to the other and usually does pretty well, especially with baskets. And she loves baskets, putting things in, carrying them around, taking them out and over again. And my little Molly can even talk. The other morning I brought her into bed after she woke up a 5:00am and she looked at me and said “Dad!” and flopped into my face. Then she looked over at Lindy and said “Mom mom!” and flopped completely over onto Lindy’s face. Molly is the most happy (and goofy) right around 6:00am and 7:30pm. She just smiles all the time and

Gas Stations

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Does one gas station provide better gas than another? Or do we mostly go to a particular gas station based on price or convenience. For me, it is almost always convenience (unless there is cheaper gas within sight). However, as gas companies make record profits, and artificially increase prices, maybe we should look into these gas companies as see who they are and where they get their oil from. I'm not making any judgments, but the following information is from the Energy Information Administration , which is a proper US government agency (although maybe that no longer means that it is credible).

Time for Action

It is possible that the Bush administration is doing something I agree with? I doubt it, but recently the administration has finally started to talk about the genocide in Darfur. Of course this is years too late and millions of people have been tortured and killed (while we used our resources to find WMD in Iraq ). The situation in Durfar is beyond desperate and any government that has to capacity to try to help also has a moral obligation to help. Anything less than trying should be equivalent to any other human rights crime. To put it simply, if somebody saw a single family being torn apart, the women raped, the men killed, and the children forced to fight, would it be ok to just look away. What if it was your family? What if it was millions of families? This problem, this genocide, may be extremely hard to stop or even slow down. Is may be impossible, but I doubt it. However, that doesn’t matter; the United States (and any other government with the means) should feel moral