Fears

If our fine country, the United States of America, could find a reason to do a preemptive strike against Iraq, how come Israel hasn't made a move against Iran even though Iran's new president has openly delcared that Israel must be "wiped off the map"? I can't understand how a nation as belligerent as Israel could stand having such words said about it for very long. And with the United States looking for wmds in Iran, it wouldn't take much to get an Israeli-American coalition together... and then the occupation zones would span from the mediterranean to the Hindu Kush, quite an American Empire indeed.

Insular Areas

The United States are being ripped off every day. While American citizens living and working in the states are paying taxes to defend their fellow citizens and pay for the upkeep of their fine cities and their fine country, there are other people living in Insular areas receiving all of same benefits as American citizens, including defense and tax dollars, without having to pay taxes themselves. The only difference our cousins in the Insular Areas of the United States of America have in rights is the fact that they may not vote for any national office, such as congressmen (or congresswomen) or the president. Sorry to say, but a very large percentage of Americans, who both have the right to vote and the obligation to pay taxes, don't vote. In the 2005 Iraqi election, a higher percentage of the eligible population turned out to vote than in the 2004 United States presidential election. How is it that people who risk getting blown up or having their heads shot off while, or as a result of, voting still vote more than people here who just have to get in their big old SUV and burn a gallon or two in order to get to their neighborhood voting station, with no more risk of getting shot than on any other daily excursion? And why are we letting thousands upon thousands of people live on our bill on tropical islands without paying for it while enjoying the same rights as many of their cousins back in the states? We should give our insular states a choice, become a full fledged state or lose your American tax dollar life support system. Hopefully they'll be smart about it and choose to become states, but if not they'll still have our tourist dollars to live off of.

Communism In the USA

For those of you who hadn't realized that the United States possessed a far left wing, heres your proof.
I find it odd that a party based around anti materialism has a materialism section ("giftshop" in fat cat capitalist terms)

Milk = Steroids?

A recent article from abc news brings to light the opposition to a new milk add comparing milk to steroids. The national baseball league apparently doesn't approve of commercials that may be a bit on the edge. But this is not the right attitude. If every company was so afraid of being sued or attacked for airing commercials that made light of tough issues or didn't make every activist group happy the television stations would be filled with nonstop infomercials. There are times when you've got to just take something as it is and not get quite so uptight about it. Relax people.

"Tear Them Down"

"Tear them down
One by one
All the walls that divide us..."

Thats the start to a song that has bored me to death in recent days, but today led me to thinking, "should we start by tearing down walls, or stopping ones that are going up as we speak?"
And thats true, why the heck should we try to start destroying barriers to a free world while the people that we endorse and are funding are building equally if not morsoe evil walls?
Par example, Israel. Looking over at our western chunk of the Middle East what do we see... Is it western culture expanding through friendship and trade with its neighbors? Is it aid going to the less fortunate countries around it? No. It is the images missiles and artillery strikes coming down on people deemed "terrorists" after they are killed. Its a 30 mile long barrier facing the Gaza strip and a planned 403 miles of fence, wall and trenches facing the West Bank.
Is this the example the west should be setting in this new globalizing world? Shunning those worse off than us and bullying them into peace by leveling houses with bulldozers in retaliation for a rocket attack thirty miles away? America is fully connected to these grievances against proper moral conduct through its billions of dollars of funding for the Israeli military.
Stop the walls from being built, then tear down the ones that exist. One step at a time.

The Anti Curse

How about this...

A new law to reduce cussing in America. Since there is absolutely no way for a law enforcement agency to govern people's words or keep track of what they say when, you would have to turn the people against eachother as the government's law enforcement agents.
How would this work? The punishement for cursing would be a dollar fine per curse. There would always have to be a witness. The witness (informant) would have to record the offendant cursing 100 times. This would probably be on video tape. Once 100 examples were collected, the witness could go to the local court and present the evidence. The police would then proceed to bring in the offendant, charge them for 100$, $1 per curse. 75$ would be given to the witness and the remaining 25$ would go to the state. Multiple cases would have to be held at a time for cost efficiency, and failure to appear in court would result in dramatically higher fines. This would lead to more government revenue to pay off the debt and a boost in mini video camera sales.

EMA Tax

With all of this money being spent to aid those Americans who live on the Gulf Coast, I think there should be some way for them to cover those expenses in the future. Thus, I propose an EMA tax, or hurricane tax. This would be an additional task required of all citizens who blatantly decide to live where there is a pretty high chance their house will get blown to smithereens come fall.

Its absurd that other Americans should be paying all of these taxes and then the money regularily gets sucked into helping the same set of people. I'm not saying that helping hurricane victims is not a federal responsibility. Thats why we have a federal government, to get states to aid eachother when one state may be up and another down, but when midwest states with much less need for storm relief than the gulf coast are having their tax dollars regularly drained towards something which isnt repaid to them in any kind of aid from the gulf coast.
The state should either increase their own storm reaction abilities or pay the federal government more to do it for them. Thats the EMA tax.