Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Election - Why it be 'dis Way
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A primary election is an election in which registered voters in a jurisdiction select the candidates who will enter a subsequent election
he wonders why the they don't call the main election the Secondary?
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Good for Them
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- In Alaska's native villages, the punishing winter cold is already penetrating the walls of the lightly insulated plywood homes, many of the villagers are desperately poor, and heating-oil prices are among the highest in the nation.
And yet a few of the small communities want to refuse free heating oil from Venezuela, on the patriotic principle that no foreigner has the right to call their president "the devil."
The heating oil is being offered by the petroleum company controlled by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, President Bush's nemesis. While scores of Alaska's Eskimo and Indian villages say they have no choice but to accept, others would rather suffer.
"As a citizen of this country, you can have your own opinion of our president and our country. But I don't want a foreigner coming in here and bashing us," said Justine Gunderson, administrator for the tribal council in the Aleut village of Nelson Lagoon. "Even though we're in economically dire straits, it was the right choice to make."
Nelson Lagoon residents pay more than $5 a gallon for oil -- or at least $300 a month per household -- to heat their homes along the wind-swept coast of the Bering Sea, where temperatures can dip to minus-15. About one-quarter of the 70 villagers are looking for work, in part because Alaska's salmon fishing industry has been hit hard by competition from fish farms.
Izzy thinks this is great he also wonders why these people who are citizens of this greatest of countries have to live in such poverty? These same people that defend our leader even though I doubt seriousley if there town was on any of his campaign tours, Izzy thinks this kind of patriotism that is there just becuase they are Americans, they are not trying to get re-elected, pass a bill, get funding for their tobacco industry, no, theyr'e just sticking up for President Bush, their elected leader.
Sophie has told him it's because these people are simply lazy and could easily make a good life for themselves if they would only work a 'bit haarder and, well, what religion are they anyway?.
Now Izzy figures Sophie is really full of a lot of crap, Parrots can be very full of themselves as everyone knows, they also tend to see the world in black and white.