Oh sure we can all bury our heads in the sand and convince ourselves that the ecological problems will fall on generations to come… really?
We are drilling/fracking/exploring into our earth as we have done with credit without care, or foresight. Awww I have heard all those naysayers speak of global warming yadda, yadda – they don’t know for sure. Really?

I’m asking all members of this planet to contact your congressional reps, or contact our President directly and halt this effin madness of fossil fuel burning – let’s initiate the change NOW to cleaner methods of transport. Instead of opening up our truly precious ecological areas such as Prudhoe Bay in the arctic range, use that money/effort to development of one or many alternatives.
Or simply do nothing. I mean, what the hell, right? It’s consequence will fall on future generations.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-alaska-20110514,0,749716.story

Damn I need a drink…

Take a minute and review your senator or representative earmarks

This last ugly activity is the one which I feel causes the most immediate feeling of the need to vomit – last-minute earmarks. Stop this insanity. This one sited activity should be reason enough to mandate our government be overhauled and the sooner the better. Or like some of those in Congress, we can just sit back and wait.

Due to the recent ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the world should take this as signal that the time to end ALL burning of fossil fuels is NOW. There is no margin of error – no buffer or leeway.

I do not view this as a scramble for power of one country over others – but a responsibility of the strongest nation(USA) to use its strength to commit to this change and lead the rest of the entire world by its example of commitment. I’d be interested in your comments. Participate in brief poll….

This census taking only occurs every 10 years so that gives that department of government about 9 years to plan, set up databases, train census takers and establish census survey patterns or strategies before having to perform the taking of the census. Maybe there should be a special week of 5 days which you must provide your status to a US Census officer. Employers must assist the Department with the collection of information regarding its employees and determining their status. Our census department has or can contract for the manpower needed to canvas the U.S. collecting vital information that could be used to solve the illegal immigration dilemma facing the U.S. I would say this is something the states could do individually but they don’t have a budget supportive of this presently. What we cannot continue is to provide legal citizen taxpayer money to fund social programs for those that are not U.S. Citizens. Maybe a Work For Citizenship program could be enacted by the federal government to allow these members of our society to provide work as a means toward obtaining citizenship.
This entire problem however boils down to one question: “Who decides?”

When I think of this subject I can make several choices and have my own reasonable basis for the choice. My first choice is our failure as a nation to win at war in Southeast Asia although we actually chose to ally with South Korea against North Korea and that war has not had an official winner or loser. I know there are those Americans that feel we are winners in both these examples and in various levels this may be so. To me this may have been the turning point in modern America where we didn’t stand as victors in battle especially in Vietnam. Our democracy at home was not ‘welcoming’ to our boys on their return from the jungle battlefield and it was around this time this country changed.

Perhaps another reason may be based on our current payscale; members of this great nation that have exceptional athletic skills, or an ability to sing or act and can garner a huge salary while the average income and benefits for the single most influential hired worker in our lives – our school teachers barely raises above the poverty line. Some may say, “But what about the days early in this country when we had one room schools and the teachers didn’t get paid much of anything – our children were adequately educated back then?”
Adequately?  I dare say that these days an adequate education would not make the mark. Other Americans claim that money does not make teachers better. Teachers have to be well educated in order to be effective, thorough and abundantly skilled at teaching – that education has a price. As parents we want our children to attend the best colleges money has to offer but at the public school level where money matters most, we fail to properly monetize our school systems and administrations. It is the public education system that still serves the majority of this society. Most of our laws have been written so that when services are rendered for society, they must serve the greater majority, so why shouldn’t public school teachers be better compensated?
I say start today. If there is a surplus of monies at the state and federal levels of our governments, that money should be applied to public education reform – not health care reform.  Intelligence is golden, always has been, always will be.

Oh, and while we are on this subject – what makes the heat at Earth’s core? Is there a toaster oven that never turns off down there, or is it heated due to radioactivity and atoms having many, many, natural collisions?