FEMA CAMPS in U.S.???

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Hats off to Obama

This is the type of move that shows that Obama has common sense. For years all we have done is alienate Muslims as well as other countries and cultures, therefor the first interview Obama gives as president is to a major Arab news network. Whether he means what he says or does what he says, one thing is for sure this is a different presidency already. He is finally going to show the world that all American aren't ignorant Caucasian elitist! Its time to flex our diversity and show the world not only do we care about them but we look, think and speak like them too! The United States of America is Chinese, Scottish, Mexican, Russian, Italian, African, Jordanian, and our melting pot goes on and on! Maybe, just maybe President Obama wont just be another politician and seriously try to put things in order!

Left to die

There is no other way of saying this, but just to say this is really f@#ked up!!!!

Fakin' the funk!

Dammit man! I don't think Obama should be starting things off this way!!!!

Did we really try to get Bin Laden?

Prince Turki al-Faisal of Saudia Arabia discusses Bin Laden. It's pretty interesting his view on how no one is really trying to capture him!

What's up with this school??

This past Wednesday a female Chinese graduate student at Virginia Tech University was murdered by another fellow Chinese student. The victim was decapitated with a kitchen knife in one of the schools cafeterias. Witnesses say the two students did not seem to be arguing and in fact were having a quiet conversation prior to the attack. Obviously this is a sad event for Virginia Tech which was also the scene of a shooting spree not long ago which left over 30 students and teachers dead. The suspect had no priors and up to this point no motive for the murder. The man was found by police holding the victims severed head in his hands. The big question here is what drove this guy to do such a heinous act!

From sea to shinning sea

No matter what your political views are, no matter how cynical many of us may be, no matter how suspicious we may be, there is no doubting the historical significance of yesterdays inauguration. The United States of America has definitely turned a page in its history. I am one of the many that voted for Barrack Hussein Obama and can honestly say I feel proud that i am a part of the majority that did so. Watching the inauguration almost makes us feel like we actually have control over our countries destiny. I am a strong believer in the phrase together we stand, divided we fall. The only problem is that in this age of mass media and marketing, we may all be convinced to stand together for the wrong reasons or causes. for example, most of the country supported the invasion of Iraq due to a media blitz convincing us to do so. I truly believe that the purist form of patriotism is not weather you put on a uniform and blindly put yourself in harms way without asking questions but those that dare to ask the hard questions. Those that dare to pull down the curtain wherever it may stand. Those that try to hold our elected officials and military accountable for wrong doing. Those that seek transparency in a world shadowed by cloak and dagger style governing. Maybe some of us have vast imaginations and come up with the most bizarre and outrageous explanations for what is going on around us. On the other hand, maybe we follow the lead of history which unveils itself little by little always exposing more truth to never before known facts about the development of the world and its people. Let us keep in mind that our elected officials are pawns to be used at the disposal of large corporate entities. Many of these corporate entities are ran and owned by a small pocket of our society. Families that have earned their money going back to slavery, prohibition, drug trade, imperialism, and several unsavory ways. The only problem with that is that, that same pocket of society works closely with politicians incarcerating what they consider lower class citizens for attempting to do the same. Its a never ending hypocrisy that plagues our society. So in this environment of hope and change, let us not forget to keep asking the hard questions. Let us not forget that President Obama is another politician. We can only hope that he has the intention and the will to do more for the people then his predecessors.

Watch this movie

Usually when i scan through HBO and some of the other movie channels I don't find anything new and worth watching. It's usually the same movies showing over and over. Between newer blockbusters from last summer and older classics. When there is something new its usually a low budget movie that didn't quite make it to the movie theaters and those movies tend to be really bad movies with plenty of B actors doing a half ass job. Well that wasn't the case today when I turned on the TV to watch something while I was having lunch. Well known actors in a movie you have never heard of has usually been an indicator of a bad movie but in the case of "In the Valley of Elah" that wasn't the case. The movie started off as the typical murder / mystery movie but ended up revealing a truly deep perspective on the effects of war and the realization that people come back from war but don't ever escape it. This especially touches home with me as I am the son of a war veteran and have had to endure the effect war has had on my father. The movie also touches upon the militaries lack of responsibility in dealing with this issue and its willingness to cover up anything that does not reflect well on the armed services. I'm not saying this movie wil win an Academy Award or anything but it has a deep message and is definitely worth watching. Our country has no problem training young people to kill and then sending them in harms way but for some reason it has a problem helping them after they have walked through the valley of death! I think its a movie that asks for a reality check!

Its the economy stupid!

footage of actual plane crash

What about the birds!

Most by now should know about the commercial passenger plane that crashed into the Hudson River yesterday. Thankfully no people were injured but that doesn't seem to be the case for animals. As of right now it seems that a flock of Geese caused the plane to crash land in the Hudson. This would happen by a flock of birds flying into the engines of the plane and causing them to catch fire or malfunction. It kind of says something if all these years of advance technology of flying and plane building have not been able to solve the problem of something as simple as flying into birds, After all the birds were there first! Has anyone stopped to asked the birds what they think about us flying thousands of large polluting metal objects in the skies that they have been flying in for tens of thousands of years! Seriously this seems to be a environmental issue just as much as a flying hazard!