Fifth Generation

If you have blue eyes, then we are cousins somehow!

If you are blue eyed from the Southern USA, you are even more likely to be related to me. I think I am related to more than 50% of the South!

Starting January 31 you will need a passport to cross the border. (Melissa please explain this further!)

Another Al Qaeda leader was killed, Abu Laith al-Libi. (because he is from Libya I suppose) The interesting part of the story is that he was killed by US bombs in Pakistan. The Pakistani government claims that it knows nothing about it, (yeah right)

Kazakhstan is making the news. There is a weird donation scandal from 2005. Bill Clinton helped millionaire Frank Giustra make a deal with Kazakhstan’s president Nazarbayev. Giustra wanted to invest in Kazakhstan’s uranium company Kazatomprom. Bill Clinton helped the deal come along. Giustra donated over 31 million to the Clinton’s charitable organizations. The deal was kept quiet until just recently. Why would anyone want the Clinton’s back in the White House? I’d vote for Dennis Kucinich over them!

Also, a movie from Kazakhstan gets nominated for the Oscar for best foreign language film! The movie is called Mongol. I REALLY want to see this film.

Here is a trailer from You Tube

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There will be a sex worker’s art show in Atlanta. The show will glorify all sorts of sexual perversion and glorify it as art.

Miss Michigan won the Miss America pageant.

Oh crap! Hundreds of laboratory workers were exposed to a bioterror agent after samples of Brucella abortus RB51 were mishandled. The general public are not at risk.

Global Warming Alert- Snow in the Middle East!

More problems in Kenya.

Hate crimes are growing in Russia.

Shimon Peres tells the youth to fight anti-Semitism with Facebook.

More Global Warming news.

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Today John Edwards and Rudy Giuliani dropped out the race. John Edwards hasn’t endorsed anyone yet. Giuliani endorsed McCain. There is talk that Huckabee will not drop out so to take away votes from Romney and keep McCain in the lead. Then Huckabee will get a post in the McCain presidency. Of course, that is just speculation.

Before, I wasn’t sure who to vote for. None of the candidates were conservative enough. I thought that Bush’s policies resembled the old Democrat party. Today’s Democrat’s are really Socialists. There really isn’t a party out there that represents Conservatives at the moment. As I am a Libertarian Conservative, even fewer represent my views. Thompson was my favorite choice, but he dropped out. I like Romney, but I think he can be too liberal on cerain things. He grew up in a world of privilege and people like that tend to be a little liberal. (McCain didn’t exactly grow up in a log cabin either!) I do not like how McCain is running his campaign. It is because of this that I support Romney. I trust that he will be a great president even if I don’t agree with him 100%.  I am impressed with his resume so far.

Stating that I am a libertarian, you may think that I should support Ron Paul. I like a lot of what Ron Paul is saying, I just don’t think he would make a great president. I am excited however, that perhaps he might bring Libertarianism to the Republican party much like the Socialists took over the Democratic Party.

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As Burma (Myanmar) is cracking down on Democratic protesters, the Thai people have elected right- winger Samak Sundaravej as Prime Minister of Thailand. Samak Sundaravej was a TV chef and ally to the ousted Thaksin Shinawatra.

Former Indonesian president Suharto was buried today. He died 1/27.

“There is only one Kenya - we all have multiple identities but I hope you see yourselves as Kenyans first” - Kofi Annan who is trying to help stop the Kenyan violence. BBC has a group of articles explaining the political turmoil. Melitus Magabe Were was shot to death today.

Six French workers are accused of kidnapping 103 children from Chad.

Gorbachev is criticizing Putin and the recent Russian elections. Gorbachev also supports the newspaper Novaya Gazeta which criticizes Putin.

Parag Khanna from the NY TImes describes a very depressing future for the USA which he describes as hegemony. Khanna is the handsome director of the New America Foundation and has written many articles about the “second world”. Francis Fukuyama and Fareed Zakaria sit on the board of the Foundation and the author of Ghost Wars, Steve Coll is its CEO. A major contributor to the foundation is the Soros Fund Management, LLC. Khanna states that the EU and China are growing more powerful than the USA. He mentions the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The big three powers are EU, CHina, and the USA. THe “second world” are the “swing states” and have to power to swing the support to one of the big three. He states that the Big Three must invest more heavily in these second world countries. So Bush’s plan to have free trade with the second world countries of South Korea, Colombia, and Panama makes more sense. SO basically the USA, the EU and China are playing a game of Risk with the rest of the world. What do you think about the article?

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According to the BBC the US is in crisis. Is George Bush the next Herbert Hoover? The economy is near collapse. However, the graph at the bottom of the page shows the GDP growth of the USA growing significantly by the third quarter. Can an economist explain this to me? By the way, I am waiting for the housing market to correct itself so that I can pay for a house what it is actually worth instead of the ridiculous inflated prices. The government should stay out of this problem and allow the new middle class (young people like me ) a chance to own a home.

Bush’s State of the Union Address: 1. He wants Congress to pass his economic growth package and keep tax cuts permanent.
2. Free Trade Agreements with South Korea, Columbia, and Panama (slap to Venezuela and North Korea and China, I think)
3. He wants to cut earmarks in half
4. Save the entitlement programs blah blah blah
5. Increase assistance to Veterans
6. School vouchers for poor children (How about reducing federal involvement in education??)
7. Fund more scientific research
I agree that earmarks are a huge problem. The Senate is using government money as bribes to keep them in office. How about eliminating earmarks completely? Senators should be elected based on job performance not stupid statues and roads to nowhere.

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