Upon reading this title I wonder if many readers’ first response might be something like “but that’s a waste of a vote”. I think this is an accurate response if our perspective is limited to this specific upcoming election. It’s an important perspective, but it isn’t the whole perspective. I cannot in good conscience vote [...]
Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Washington Caucus
February 14th, 2008
Last Saturday I participated in the Washington State Republican Caucus to help the Ron Paul for President 2008 effort. I have never been so involved in politics in the past. I’ve never cared because I’ve never cared enough for any candidates. Voting in past elections has been like going to a cheap [...]
Transfer Credits Reform
January 25th, 2007
A conversation arose today with a friend about transfer credits. My wife recently has gone back to school to finish her degree in performing arts. She has completed a full two years of school at the University of Wisconsin LaCrosse and is now going to the University of Washington. I assumed, as [...]
The income tax system is FUBAR
April 8th, 2006
Quoted from page 53 of the California 540 & 540A 2005 Personal Income Tax Booklet:
If you received settlement payments as a person persecuted by the regime that was in control of the Ottoman Turkish Empire from 1915 until 1923, your gross income dow not include those excludable settlement payments, or interest, received by you, your [...]
Google China
January 26th, 2006
Revolting:
http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen+square [google.com]
http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen+square [google.cn]
ACLUsers
October 11th, 2005
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is definitely the political organization I hate the most. It’s not even supposed to be a political organization, but that is what it is. Do they really believe they are non-partisan and yet time and time again they fall on the far far far left of any [...]
Hurricane Cantina
September 9th, 2005
There is a large blue elephant that blows a loud saxophone of naked reality that Old Media (aka mainstream media) continues to ignore and the poltical left avoids like the black plague. The bottom line is that the left blames the federal government, especially Bush, for the catastrophe New Orleans was after Hurricane Katrina [...]
