Friday, September 22, 2006
Elmo's in the House
Yesterday night Kevin Clash the voice of Elmo came to talk and sign his new book at a local book store call Vroman's, the book is his biography. He brought Elmo with him so there were a lot of kids but it was fun with both Elmo and hearing Kevin Clash talk about his life and how he got into being a Muppet. Also he pre-signed the books so that instead he took photos with the people. It was great fun and silly too.
Monday, September 18, 2006
A RANT
Ok,
I listen to Penn Jillette on my iPod. He has a weekday radio show which I like. But after hearing him for some time there is one thing that gets me and I want to know if it is just me ok
Penn is a Libertarian this means he thinks that the government should have no more power then we give it in the Constitution. For some things I think this is great but here is the problem, All the things the government does to help the poor, children and the elderly are not in the Constitution.
Now I wrote him and said that and he wrote back and said well if the government did not take so much is taxes we could give the money to charities that would do the things that the government does. The problem that I see with this idea is two things. First things is that without school and social workers children who are abused would never be found out and two is that many people already use all the help the government gives and still need more help from charities.
Also is there any guarantee that all the money that the government gives to people in need would be given to charities if the people had the money. Because ask any charities today and they will tell you that there biggest problem is funding always they have more people to help then money to run there programs with.
Every time people talk about how if we get ride of the government the "people" will step in and do it or some company will I ask them to read Dickens because he was writing about a time and place were the government did not help the weak and poor and see who stepped in to help. Yes some did but not enough for all the people in need.
OK deep Breath
All I want to know is can people in need really get all the help they need if the government was not part of the answer?
I listen to Penn Jillette on my iPod. He has a weekday radio show which I like. But after hearing him for some time there is one thing that gets me and I want to know if it is just me ok
Penn is a Libertarian this means he thinks that the government should have no more power then we give it in the Constitution. For some things I think this is great but here is the problem, All the things the government does to help the poor, children and the elderly are not in the Constitution.
Now I wrote him and said that and he wrote back and said well if the government did not take so much is taxes we could give the money to charities that would do the things that the government does. The problem that I see with this idea is two things. First things is that without school and social workers children who are abused would never be found out and two is that many people already use all the help the government gives and still need more help from charities.
Also is there any guarantee that all the money that the government gives to people in need would be given to charities if the people had the money. Because ask any charities today and they will tell you that there biggest problem is funding always they have more people to help then money to run there programs with.
Every time people talk about how if we get ride of the government the "people" will step in and do it or some company will I ask them to read Dickens because he was writing about a time and place were the government did not help the weak and poor and see who stepped in to help. Yes some did but not enough for all the people in need.
OK deep Breath
All I want to know is can people in need really get all the help they need if the government was not part of the answer?
Saturday, September 09, 2006
It's My Birthday
Today as of right now I am 26 years old.
I don't care what people say my birthday always makes me giddy.
Because today is a Saturday I am going out and having some fun on my birthday with my mom.
Tomorrow I will have fun with friends.
This means that during the weekend I will have a fun birthday and leave the deep thoughts about were may life is going to another time.
I don't care what people say my birthday always makes me giddy.
Because today is a Saturday I am going out and having some fun on my birthday with my mom.
Tomorrow I will have fun with friends.
This means that during the weekend I will have a fun birthday and leave the deep thoughts about were may life is going to another time.
Friday, September 01, 2006
Something to Watch
There is this great group that I have given money to which will be on CNN this weekend.
The group is calledHeifer International if you want a group to give to then this is the one. The reason that are a great group to give to is they give the gift of sustainable food. The way they do this is they give a live animal teach the person how to care for it and when the animal has babies half of them most go to another family who needed the animal.
This weekend they will have "CNN Presents" which will talk about Heifer International and it work.
The group is called
This weekend they will have "CNN Presents" which will talk about Heifer International and it work.
