Earth Hour 2009

Vote Earth! Namaste.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Ah. My blog has been neglected. At least this one. I've been involved in the micro-blogging world of Twitter and the social networking sphere of Facebook. We all have so much to say. Some of our voices are heard, some not. But we live in America and we have the freedom to be, to say, to do.

Today we are celebrating the life of the patron saint of Ireland and his missionary work. I'm not sure how this celebration devolved from a religious holiday to a day of drunken revelry imbibed with four-leaf clovers, cute leprechauns, green-dyed beer, and the wearing of the Green. Probably, the same way the secular Easter celebration is all about lillies, cute bunnies, egg hunts, and the eating of the Peeps. However, whether one celebrates the religious or secular aspects of these holidays, or both, we have to all remember that we have the freedom to celebrate or not. And isn't it wonderful to be able to choose to celebrate these holidays in whatever manner we choose: to honor St. Patrick for the work he did in dedicating his life to spreading the Gospel, or to have fun and watch parades and eat corned beef and cabbage and Irish Soda Bread?
Namaste.

Welcome, President Obama!

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This is such a special, historic day. God Bless America. God Bless President Barack Obama!

Namaste

STAR TREK

Blog-lite

Gosh--I haven't blogged since Election Day.  It's been an exciting 6 weeks, both personally and professionally and for our country:  new job, new house, new friends, new President.   Is it January 2oth yet?

Namaste. 

Our next President is...

The election is finally here! I hope everyone who can vote will vote.

Namaste.

The Only Joe Who Has a Place in Campaign '08

The only Joe I want to hear about is Senator Joe Biden. I don't want to hear what Joe Six-Pack or Joe the Plumber thinks about. Sarah Palin keeps on talking about "Joe Six-Pack" and John McCain about "Joe the Plumber". Who are these people? What do these labels mean?

To me, these labels just conjure up more labels, such as "redneck" or "white trash". And this is the way to label hard-working folk from middle America or from the rural South? Or, Alaska? Shame on Governor Palin and Senator McCain. From the way they use these "ficitional people" or "charicatures" to talk about Americans, they just serve to incite the people at their rallies to spew even more labels, calling Senator Obama a "terrorist", for example. Really? Is that what a highly intelligent family man and public official is called these days if he is black? Shame on all of you.

When I hear Senator McCain and Governor Palin refer to "Joe Six-Pack" and "Joe the Plumber" during their speeches, they are not referring to the decent, blue collar people from America's Heartland or the conservative "base" of the Republican Party but rather, I think, to all the "racist", "close-minded", "uneducated" people that still exist out there.

That's why the only Joe I want to hear about in this presidential race is Senator Joe Biden--a real American Joe.

Namaste.