Blogging My Life

If you haven't heard of Mr. Fish, or seen his cartoons go to TruthDig.com and check him out.

Another example of President Bush's having no regards for the working class or families. Having failed to get Richard Stickler, a former mining Company executive, confirmed in the Senate, Bush waited until Congress went on it's campaign break and then gave him a recess appointment to the post of Head of the Mine Saftey and Health Administration. Talk about letting the fox guard the hen-house.

When I was a bicycle messenger I saw it 5 times a day; old people driving huge, American made pollution machines dangerously. They were dangerous for several reasons: poor eyesight, slow reflexes, etc... So I am very happy to see that George R. Weller will probably spend the rest of his life behind bars for his part in killing several people when he drove his car into a pedestrian only farmer's market. I have long advocated for old people to either stop driving or have to pass more rigorous eye and reflex tests in order to keep their licenses. Perhaps this court case will force states to implement such laws.

This link will take you to a collection of propaganda posters from the WW I and WW II era, modified to express American Christian ideas. Each has some commentary by one Austin Cline, who is a Director for the Council for Secular Humanism and a former Publicity Coordinator for the CampusFreethought Alliance. His commentary concerning the dangerous road down which the Christian Right would lead this country is dead on. His line that says "If Fascism Comes to America, It Will Come Wrapped in the Flag & Carrying the Cross," is particularly prescient. Go there now and give it a read.

I was watching Olberman last night and heard him say that Nancy Pelosi had said that Democrats won't seek to impeach the President when they take control of the legislature. I can't tell you how disappointed this makes me. I think that goes against what most of their constituents want. I think the vast majority of Democrats and, in fact most Americans, want the following things the moment the Dems regain control: We want the Patriot Act to be repealed We want the Military Commission Act repealed We want the President impeached for High Crimes and Misdemeanors We want the Tax Cuts for the top 1% of the population ended We want our troops home from Iraq

I've said it before and I'm saying it again now, I wish Senator Feingold (D-Wis) was one of my senators. I wish it because he says stuff like this: "The legislation signed by the President today violates basic principles and values of our constitutional system of government. It allows the government to seize individuals on American soil and detain them indefinitely with no opportunity to challenge their detention in court... We will look back on this day as a stain on our nation's history." Why can't my senators (Cantwell, Murray) say stuff like that?

I'm up early again. The pain in my back woke me up and our new noisy neighbors kept me awake. Why does our land-lady insist on putting loud people in the apartment across the wall from us? Oh well. The Job Hunt I've been looking for work for the past week and I think my search is at an end. I interviewed for an event technician position with the Seattle Supersonics basketball team, and I think I got it. It has to do with setting up all the technology that gets used during home games and maintaining the existing WAN for the club's day-to-day activities. It sounds like it could be a lot of fun, and a lot of stress. It's another internship position and only pays ten dollars an hour, but it would be more experience and could lead to other things. Its the experience that I'm after. I want to try a lot of different IT positions before I decide what it is exactly that I want to do in the field. Last Night I don't know why, but I came home last night and got pretty drun