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Okay, I'm days away from having my new site finally up and working. This information is of course for all those that still even visit this place. Monday, March 01, 2004
Okay, I'm no longer going to be blogging here at this place. I've setup a simple little website at harmuser.net and am hosting my own forums there. It's currently not up since I forgot to turn my computer on that is hosting the website but that will be rectified tonight. You will need to register in the forums and it may come up with some error indicating a SMTP error but don't fret it still registers you. The SMTP error is there cause I haven't setup my exchange server yet. So yeah, there we go. When I get my exchange server up (haven't bought the software yet...sometime next month possibly) I'll be hosting email accounts as well if you want one. Since it'll be a Exchange 2003 server it will have Outlook via HTTP which is kinda nice. Anyhow, out with the old and in with the new. Tuesday, February 24, 2004
I've figured out who I'm going to vote for in the primaries, Kucinich. I was finally able to sit down and read all of his views and find him much more aligned with my views on life; he's against the war, against the death penalty and his views on other areas such as the Drug War and such are exactly what I was looking for. I doubt I have much sway over those who read this blogg but if you get a chance go to www.kucinich.us and check out his Issues page. Its one of the most complete and informative sections I have found among any of the candidates. Here's a excerpt from the speech he gave in Iowa (full article here:http://truthout.org/docs_04/012604A.shtml): “I come from Cleveland, Ohio,” began Kucinich. “I’m the oldest of seven children. My parents never owned a home, and as the family grew, we kept moving because we outgrew the apartments that we lived in. During the 1950s, there used to be ads in the newspapers that would say ‘No Children’ or ‘One Child Only.’ If you had a large family and didn’t own a home, you were out of luck. So our family kept moving from place to place. By the time I was 17 years old, we had lived in 21 different places, including a couple of cars.” “That experience,” he continued, “growing up in the city of Cleveland, and living in so many different neighborhoods, and moving from place to place, that experience informs greatly my passion for public service, and my reasons for running for President of the United States. I know that it matters to people to have a job, to have a living wage, to have decent health care, that their kids can go to decent schools, that they live in decent neighborhoods, that they have a roof over their heads. I understand this. I understand it because these are the kinds of concerns that my parents had to deal with when we were growing up. These are the kinds of concerns that many families have to deal with today.” “In this time of rising unemployment,” he said, “all the government will tell us is that the statistics indicate that things are looking a little bit better. The truth of the matter is that there are many people not even reflected in the unemployment numbers anymore, because they stopped looking for jobs, because there aren’t any jobs available. And that’s the truth. The truth is that so many American families have breadwinners who are working part-time because they can’t find full-time work. The truth is that people working both part-time and full-time are locked into low-paying jobs. The truth is that this country is letting working-class and middle-class citizens just slowly find their economic position deteriorating without any great cause in America to lift people up, to give people the opportunity to enjoy the fruits of their labor. What is this government doing for all of our people?” “We see the priorities,” he said. “Tax cuts for the wealthy. $155 billion for a war we didn’t have to get into. A bloated Pentagon - half the discretionary spending in the federal budget goes to the Pentagon. Cuts in veterans benefits. Cuts in health care. Cuts in education. Cuts in housing. Cuts in jobs programs. This country is losing its connection with its people. My Presidency will be about reconnecting America with the practical aspirations of the American people.” There is also a petition here: http://www.kucinich.us/petition_abc1.php; that is about equal media coverage for all candidates. Even if you don't support Kucinich it'd be a good thing to sign. Friday, February 20, 2004
Yes I know, all I'm doing lately is posting links. Here's another but on the comedy side of things. Anyone who's watch a lot of movies will find this entertaining: The Things I Will Do When I Become Overlord: http://www.kemitix.uklinux.net/humor/overlord.php Wednesday, February 18, 2004
A long but good read on the counter-logic to Bush's reasons for the war on Iraq: http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0218-02.htm Just some numbers that I put together from different articles I've been reading on www.commondreams.org. Amount of People Uninsured Last Year (Est.) 43,000,000 *Cost of Health Plan Per Year $330.00 Total Per Year Cost $14,190,000,000.00 ($14.2 Billion) Bush's Additional Funds Request for Iraq War $87,000,000,000.00 ($87 Billion) Amount of Years Unisured Families Could be Covered 6 *This amount was derived from getting a quote from www.ehealthinsurance.com and entering in a family of three. The parents were in their mid 30's the child was 6 years old. The quote was for coverage that offered a $500 deductible, 20% coinsurance and a $15 cost for office visits. It was the most expensive quote on the first page offered by the quote generator. So in essence the federal spending to prolong the war in Iraq would insure 43 MILLION families in then United States for 6 YEARS. Why again then do we have issues such as poorly funded and regulated schools, poor health care for low-income individuals? Because our government doesn't know how to fucking use the money we have. If you want to read more on the disgusting practices of how corporations own our government do a little search on Halliburton and its profits from the war. |
