Today as the title suggest is Memorial Day a day to remember those who died in service for our nation. This holiday is not for sleeping in or for playing video games. This is our heritage as a nation for those who fight to protect our freedoms. Many of my generation have thankfully not experienced a world war two style war. Therefore our nationalistic hype was not awakened. (Except 9-11) We at the very least must understand our history in hopes in we can achieve world peace from learning from the mistakes of previous generations. With the efforts of all humans we can make sure that at sometime in the future there will be no more dead soldiers.
The history of Memorial Day is marked with tragedy in which we find the best in us. After the civil war, or war of northern aggression in the south, people in small towns like Waterloo New York got together to honor the fallen in 1866. This happened to be the place in 1966 that the federal government declared Waterloo the birthplace of Memorial Day. Five years later in 1971 congress declared Memorial Day a national holiday.
So I hope to all who slept in today without thinking of the sacrifices of others at least remember Veterans day.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Sunday, May 30, 2010
The end of don’t ask don’t tell
On Thursday May 27 the United States congress chose to change history with an amendment that would be one step closer to giving gays and lesbians full civil rights. Ending don’t ask don’t tell is a civil rights issue and must be addressed as such. I understand that civil rights is a emotional issue for many people but not being able to serve for your country just because you are a certain race, creed, or sexual orientation is a civil rights issue.
The president in the state of the union address said he wanted to end don’t ask don’t tell by the end of this year. This seems to be achievable as the senate arms services committee also added an amendment to end don’t ask don’t tell as well. The end of don’t ask don’t tell will tell the world we are not the blind followers of the church of anything. There is hope but there are major challenges ahead.
One road block is that republican senators will filibuster the bill that funds the pentagon if the amendment is in the bill. This means that the republicans would rather have no military than one with homosexuals in it. If the republicans are the ones that will protect the homeland then why would they want to leave this country at risk? John McCain ran for the republicans on country first but what they are doing is ideology first country when popular.
Fortunately they can’t spin this as good for America they are instead a danger to this great nation of ours. Tomorrow is Memorial Day when we remember veterans who have died; why don’t we want people who want to serve for our nation just because of someone’s sexual orientation. If anyone’s civil rights are threatened then all civil rights are threatened. We must remember those who died for our country and we must remember those who need to lie to do what they aspire.
Stand up for everyone’s civil rights call your senators and tell them no more
grandstanding and allow people to serve for our nation.
The president in the state of the union address said he wanted to end don’t ask don’t tell by the end of this year. This seems to be achievable as the senate arms services committee also added an amendment to end don’t ask don’t tell as well. The end of don’t ask don’t tell will tell the world we are not the blind followers of the church of anything. There is hope but there are major challenges ahead.
One road block is that republican senators will filibuster the bill that funds the pentagon if the amendment is in the bill. This means that the republicans would rather have no military than one with homosexuals in it. If the republicans are the ones that will protect the homeland then why would they want to leave this country at risk? John McCain ran for the republicans on country first but what they are doing is ideology first country when popular.
Fortunately they can’t spin this as good for America they are instead a danger to this great nation of ours. Tomorrow is Memorial Day when we remember veterans who have died; why don’t we want people who want to serve for our nation just because of someone’s sexual orientation. If anyone’s civil rights are threatened then all civil rights are threatened. We must remember those who died for our country and we must remember those who need to lie to do what they aspire.
Stand up for everyone’s civil rights call your senators and tell them no more
grandstanding and allow people to serve for our nation.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
British Petroleum oil disaster
Today is the 40th day since the Gulf of Mexico first got blown away with oil. On the day of April 20th the deepwater horizon well 50 miles off Louisiana coast 11 rig workers died. Out of this tragic event came news of a failed blow out preventer. Soon the gulf coast braced for an Exxon Valdez magnitude of disaster. What America did not suspect was BP’s trickery and deception.
BP said that 1,000 barrels of oil was “leaking” per day. Yet this was their lowest guess. By keeping what was real a secret they could pay less for their reckless endangerment. This works because judges would make them pay less than what the real cost is. Then when forced to reveal a video they said 5,000 barrels a day. When they tried a method that a small tube connected to a tanker would siphon 5,000 barrels a day.
This would seem to anyone that BP had controlled the problem. However this was not so; BP had lied again.
When BP was forced to show more live footage of the blown out well, it showed deception. The footage still showed oil gushing out of the well like water going of a fire hose in all directions.
BP has lied to America and their endangering of workers show they are corporate criminals but criminals none the less. We must rid ourselves of these conglomerates and create a truly green energy system. BP deception shows we cannot trust oil companies as the Exxon Valdez spill should have shown us. I have hope for America but dead birds covered in old habits are not an energy plan. Oil is a menace when touched by the evils of soulless corporations.
If anything this disaster has shown us it is that we need to clean our ways up for the sake of the fisherman, shrimpers, and most tragically god’s defenseless animals. Call your senators and congressman or congresswoman and say support the climate change bill it cannot wait.
BP said that 1,000 barrels of oil was “leaking” per day. Yet this was their lowest guess. By keeping what was real a secret they could pay less for their reckless endangerment. This works because judges would make them pay less than what the real cost is. Then when forced to reveal a video they said 5,000 barrels a day. When they tried a method that a small tube connected to a tanker would siphon 5,000 barrels a day.
This would seem to anyone that BP had controlled the problem. However this was not so; BP had lied again.
When BP was forced to show more live footage of the blown out well, it showed deception. The footage still showed oil gushing out of the well like water going of a fire hose in all directions.
BP has lied to America and their endangering of workers show they are corporate criminals but criminals none the less. We must rid ourselves of these conglomerates and create a truly green energy system. BP deception shows we cannot trust oil companies as the Exxon Valdez spill should have shown us. I have hope for America but dead birds covered in old habits are not an energy plan. Oil is a menace when touched by the evils of soulless corporations.
If anything this disaster has shown us it is that we need to clean our ways up for the sake of the fisherman, shrimpers, and most tragically god’s defenseless animals. Call your senators and congressman or congresswoman and say support the climate change bill it cannot wait.
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