Friday Fact - How to get people to vote for you: Be on American Idol
May 25, 2007
A record 74+ million people voted on American Idol during the finale.
Less than 60 million people voted in the 2004 Presidential Election.
Wow. I wonder how much Jordin is going to help get this country on the right track?
Priorities sure are interesting…
One Love. One II.
How was I supposed to know?
May 23, 2007
This will be the type of ignorant but calculating excuse that Bush would use if and when a conflict would breakout with
The CBC is a trip
May 23, 2007
Do you want more Independent TV?
May 22, 2007
A group of independent filmmakers called the Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) want the FCC to mandate that 25% of Prime Time TV be reserved for independent shows. I don’t think this is a bad idea.
I’m not writing about this because I want to see better movies or better television (which I do, for the record). I am writing about this because more than being an issue about specific content, this is an issue about gaining access not only to the media, but to the people.
Democrats blink
May 22, 2007
The Democrats in Congress acquiesced to Bush by agreeing to scuttle a timeline for withdrawing the troops. The bill does “include conditions prodding
Detroit City Council: Impeach Bush
May 21, 2007
I missed this last week because I had not been staying up on news back home like I should. The Detroit City Council approved a resolution to impeach President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney last Wednesday.
While such a vote is “meaningless” in terms of being respected by the federal government, it does demonstrate yet another local body/group of citizens (there have been others) publicly communicating their frustration with everything that is the Bush Administration.
If you had a vote, would you vote to impeach the president?
One Love. One II.
Social Justice pt. 1
May 20, 2007
Last week, I was able to participate in a roundtable discussion with leaders from progressive organizations here in
The Weekly Dream: Growing Pains
May 18, 2007
“When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.”
-1 Cor. 13:11
“You cannot put a grown head on a child’s body.”
The last couple of weeks this particular verse has been on my mind. As my peers and I are undergoing tremendous changes and new responsibilities, maturity is something that I keep coming back to. I remember when I was seven and my father told me I was the man of the house and what that meant to me. I knew I was held to a different standard because I had responsibility. I could not afford to be careless or to set a bad example for my siblings. I could no longer comport myself as a child. Read more
Bush doesn’t like the troops, I don’t like Bush
May 18, 2007
I really, really don’t like this guy. Why do he and his political allies talk all this noise about “supporting the troops” when they treat them like the little green army men that small children play war with?
Case in point: Democrats today called for the President to support a compensation increase for the soldiers via The National Defense Authorization Act:
Obama and Clinton back Iraq Pullout Deadline
May 18, 2007
Wow.
It takes a lot for most politicians to be explicit about something. Anything. These two are definitely no exception. The strange similarities between Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton’s stances on Iraq continue, but they took a turn for the better yesterday. Instead of dancing around the idea of having a firm date for US troop withdrawal like they did in the past, both of them voted yesterday to set a 31 March 2008 for US troops to be out of Iraq. While it is sad that these two candidates are some of the last to have some Iraq sense knocked into them, this is actually a good sign for anti-occupation efforts.
