Feed the addiction.
Yep, you guessed it. More designs in my store. I even added a whole new section entitled 'Geek seeking Geek.' Now all I need is for you, my loyal blog readers, to go and visit my store and give me feedback. Even if you don't buy anything I could use some sort of feedback on how it looks and whether my designs are even worth bothering with. Now there are links splattered all over this page, but here it is again: Phoenixwaller Designs
I also wanted to discuss an item in the news that got me opinionated enough to make a current events category for the store.
This article talks about the war in Iraq. And one thing really struck me.
"We will win"
Hmmm whatever happened to "mission accomplished"? Didn't we hear "mission accomplished" 2 years ago? So why have we now gone to "we will win"?
In the same article the guy who runs this place also said that we will not leave as long as he is president. Now I don't know about you, and I didn't live through it, but doesn't this sound like Vietnam era talk? We all know that war is good for big business, and it sure does seem that big business is all that Bush really cares about.
YES! I still am a republican. But I'm tired of the lip service this guy is giving us. He won't even listen to some of the things coming from his own party (stem cells anyone?). And while he keeps the media focused on his war we have had such wonderful things such a the New Comission for Mental Health fly under the radar and reccommend mental screening for ALL children. And IT PASSED! Yet we never heard about it. And it gets worse. If you refuse to screen your kids, or medicate them if it is recommended then you, as parents, could face jail.
And don't even get me started on 'No Child left Behind' because that is the biggest joke the school systems have seen in a long while. And it's damaging to the kids. But hey, if your kid doesn't learn fast enough now they may prescribe something for them and then you'd have to force feed your kids drugs. Maybe that will help.
Back to article discussion.
Have we accomplished anything over there since the elections? Besides more bodies I mean.
I distinctly hear the sound of crickets.
Ok, how about terrorists. Have we diminished their numbers?
Whisteling noises.
Right then, so what are we doing over there? I can understand a small security force to help while the Iraqi army gets up to snuff. But MORE TROOPS? All we are doing is making it cheaper for the terrorists to kill Americans, they don't even have to by plane tickets across the ocean any more.
Mr. President, if you want to fight terrorism then you'd better start in your own office. Because it's our foreign policy that's causing the problems in the first place.
I also wanted to discuss an item in the news that got me opinionated enough to make a current events category for the store.
This article talks about the war in Iraq. And one thing really struck me.
"We will win"
Hmmm whatever happened to "mission accomplished"? Didn't we hear "mission accomplished" 2 years ago? So why have we now gone to "we will win"?
In the same article the guy who runs this place also said that we will not leave as long as he is president. Now I don't know about you, and I didn't live through it, but doesn't this sound like Vietnam era talk? We all know that war is good for big business, and it sure does seem that big business is all that Bush really cares about.
YES! I still am a republican. But I'm tired of the lip service this guy is giving us. He won't even listen to some of the things coming from his own party (stem cells anyone?). And while he keeps the media focused on his war we have had such wonderful things such a the New Comission for Mental Health fly under the radar and reccommend mental screening for ALL children. And IT PASSED! Yet we never heard about it. And it gets worse. If you refuse to screen your kids, or medicate them if it is recommended then you, as parents, could face jail.
And don't even get me started on 'No Child left Behind' because that is the biggest joke the school systems have seen in a long while. And it's damaging to the kids. But hey, if your kid doesn't learn fast enough now they may prescribe something for them and then you'd have to force feed your kids drugs. Maybe that will help.
Back to article discussion.
Have we accomplished anything over there since the elections? Besides more bodies I mean.
I distinctly hear the sound of crickets.
Ok, how about terrorists. Have we diminished their numbers?
Whisteling noises.
Right then, so what are we doing over there? I can understand a small security force to help while the Iraqi army gets up to snuff. But MORE TROOPS? All we are doing is making it cheaper for the terrorists to kill Americans, they don't even have to by plane tickets across the ocean any more.
Mr. President, if you want to fight terrorism then you'd better start in your own office. Because it's our foreign policy that's causing the problems in the first place.
posted by Phoenixwaller | 8:55 AM
4 Comments:
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where do i find that and what exactly is it?
What was this about mental screening for kids??? Where is there a link to this? I want to read more so I can raise holy hell.
Xanadian, I'll try and find everything again. It's been a while, and a lot of this is buried in bills and other indecipherable stuff. You can bet that I didn't want to believe that they'd be so bold as to try and pass it, but they did. Anyhow I'll check around and post some links here when I find it.
ok.
First the link to my original post on the subject. No child left undrugged
Also the comission is called "The New Freedom Commission on Mental Health"
Go to thomas.loc.gov and use that commission name as keywords. The easiest thing to read is HR 181, and while it is against the screening it does outline what was happening.
The other stuff is buried in subsections and is generally harder to find. You can also google the commission and find stuff.
But if I understand right, this was all already passed. HR 181 was a last ditch effort to stop the implementation by refusing federal funds to the program.
Hope that helps you find what you need.
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