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Archive for October, 2007

15 Oct

Environment and politics

I don’t understand why the United States is seemingly the only place where anyone reviles Al Gore? The rest of the world, it seems, respects his efforts to bring awareness to the problems of global warming. Here, there are still people who seem to think this doesn’t exist.
While the world clearly has its cycles, when [...]

14 Oct

Q: How many reasons not to run?

A: 4950
What?
When I start talking about the issues, I’m often asked why I don’ run for office. I would if I could, but I really don’t have the cash to run. I mean, event to file as a candidate.
In Georgia, it takes 3% of the salary of the position to run for office. So, to [...]

14 Oct

American Idiocy

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is an idiot. He’s going after Ret. Lt. Gen. Sanchez, because Sanchez is now speaking out and didn’t tell him then that things were bad. How likely would it have been if Sanchez had spoken out to senators about the real situation on the ground that he would have been reassigned? [...]

05 Oct

On humanity

Relative to my research course, I’m had to read philosophies of the so-called realists. Hobbes is all too dire, and Rosseau all too optimistic. While people are shaped by their environment to feel shame about things, and while people generally have an inherent sense of right and wrong, though potentially quite skewed, I must say [...]

01 Oct

McCain apparently not fit for multi-religious U.S.

Apparently John McCain thinks this country was founded as a Christian nation, and such things are enshrined in the Constitution.
The failure to understand that many of the founders were Deists, and simple monotheists, not necessarily Christians bothers me greatly. George Washington himself assured Jews that they would be free in this nation. With the addition [...]

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