Two Years Later...

I have to agree with Anderson Cooper: I hate when the media covers anniversaries.
It's one more thing that the media can corrupt and ruin.
However, today marks the two-year anniversary of the devistation from Hurricaine Katrina.
Towns are still leveled.
People are still homeless.
Debris still clutters the street.

However, in parts of New Orleans and Mississippi, live goes on. The Fench Quarter is all but rebuilt. People are visiting, eating, living.

However, I feel like I should have done something. Somehow altered my routine to remember this tragedy. I read from Cooper's book, in which he eloquently writes about the devistation which he whitnessed first hand. I watched his show, where he showed that, while life is returning to New Orleans, many, too many parts of the state remain in ruin.

I hope to visit New Orleans for Spring Break. To somehow find some something in the devistation. Find some story yet to be told. Or maybe a story that has been told numerous times, but from a new vantage point.

While the media tends to ruin and spin, at least it remembered, for one day, those who are still suffereing. While tomorrow all the media vans will leave, too many will remain with no one to tell their story.

This is one anniversary that needs to be remembered.

Who to Blame?

It seems that America is dissatisfied about everything. While the president's approval ratings have risen in the past weeks, Congress is still around a dismal 15%...Remember how much America hated the old, Republican-controlled Congress? How America wanted new faces and Democrats that would change the course of the country?

Nice job America!
As I like to believe, you made the choice, you have no right to complain.
Hopefully this bodes well for the GOP in '08.

A Picture's Worth A Thousand Words...

and yells, and bombs, and deaths...
















(courtesy of Yahoo! news)

When asked about the photo in his press conference today. President Bush said he had not seen the photo or read about the meeting , so he would not comment on it.

I don't know about you, but I'm not okay with the Prime Minister of Iraq meeting with "I'm A Crazy" Ahmadinejad. The man is responsible for the killing of Maliki's people...and they're holding hands and waving?

Parties, Parties, Everywhere!

I wasn't always a Republican.
In fact, the first vote I ever cast was for Al Gore in 2000 for my middle school's mock-election. My reason for that vote? Gore had colored hair.
I have now seen the error of my ways. The question remains, however, why? 9-11
made me aware of the outside world, but wy did I choose the values of the Conservative party?
Unlike my friend Mat, I didn't have the influence of my father. Hell, I didn't even know my father followed politics, let alone was a Republican.
I had no influence from the media either, as I didn't know enough to tell if there was a bias or not.
And if I had listened to everything my teachers told me, I'd be a raging liberal.
I seem to be an anomaly, with neither nature nor nurture shaping my political belief system.
The only explanation I have come up with is this: it just makes sense.
I can't fathom he idea of pulling out of Iraq. I don't understand how some people don't think Reaganomics works. How is the Fairness Doctorine fair? Why can't same-sex couples get married?
Yes, the last one doesn't line up with the Grand Old party, but I'm not one to be told what to thnk.
It's not blindness, it's logic.
I love The Daily Show, I think Bob Dylan is brilliany, and I support the president 100%.
How it happens, I do not know. I just thank my parents for raising my with the ability to think for myself.