Dear Mr. President, I watched you this morning on tv strolling the beaches of the Gulf, wiping away a trickle of sweat…hot down there isn't it? I mean, seriously…it gets really blazing hot down there. The Gulf  also has the world's most beautiful beaches, in my humble opinion, though I admit to being a bit biased in this area. … Read More

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America Speaking Out

The GOP recently created a website called “America Speaking Out“. Taking some inspiration from President Barack Obama’s grassroots campaign between 2006 and 2008 that used the internet to communicate with everyday Americans. The GOP feels that Congress does not work and is not listening to the American people so they created the website America Speaking Out so that Americans can speak out and be heard, the site also features the ability to thumbs up or thumbs down every idea submitted. I feel that the idea is awesome, finally everyone is able to get their ideas out so that the world, and hopefully Congress can see them, the idea is very democratic.

I decided to create an account on America Speaking Out and made a comment on military spending. I felt that my idea on military spending was valid so I submitted the idea. I was amazed that my idea was not allowed to go through, for unexplained reasons my idea was deemed inappropriate by the website. Take a look and see how inappropriate it looks to you.

We should decrease the military budget by at least 10 Billion dollars. The US is not only the top military spender in the world, but it is so far away from the second military spender, the US spends more money on its military than the next 13 combined. We also need to pull all troops out of the Middle East, not just Iraq and Afghanistan but close all military bases in any Middle Eastern country including closing all ties with Israel until they can prove that they actually are working towards peace. We also need to close basses in Germany and Japan, they are no longer our enemies so there is no need to continue operations there. We can use the money that we save from drastically reducing the military budget by putting it towards health care, spend on lives not deaths.

If America Speaking Out is really a website with the idea of democracy they should allow all ideas to get through, save for advertisements for spam of course.

I just wanted to let everyone know that there is a Lost fan named Peter Wilson from Montreal, Canada who is planning the seemingly impossible task of watching all six seasons of lost all in one sitting, he’s even planning on making it a little bit longer by watching the mobisodes between seasons 4 and 5! The marathon will be for charity, similar to the 25 hour and more recently 30 hour podcasts for Autism Speaks. The charity that Peter Wilson has picked is called Child’s play, and to prove that he is watching lost he will be streaming it on Ustream. Peter has set up a website for the event at lostmarathon.blogspot.com you can find all important information there including a link to make a donation. You can also follow the event on twitter at twitter.com/lostmarathon.  The marathon starts on Tuesday May, 18th and continues throughout the week until the finale airs on Sunday May, 23rd. I encourage everyone who attended the Jay and Jack marathon to come by and check out Peter’s marathon at lostmarathon.blogspot.com and to make a donation, even a small donation will do, it is a very worthy cause. See you there next Tuesday.

WordPress has a feature where it will tell you what search terms people are using to find your website, some search terms make sense, but others are a bit odd, take a look:

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Introducing Ben & Jerry’s Gulf of Chocolate Spill

Gulf Of Chocolate Spill

Chocolate Ice cream swirls in vanilla ice cream with hot fudge and chocolate fish and chocolate sea turtles.

As of the writing of this post I have heard no word come out of Ben & Jerry’s regarding the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, although if they did release a limited batch of a similar flavored ice cream where proceeds of every purchase within say the first 3 months goes to fund clean up efforts in the Atlantic, that would be awesome.