I started this post back on June, when Jim had passed. I am not sure what all I was going to say. I am publishing this just for archiving sake.

The Empire Strikes Barack

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I found an article in the New York Times that digs up a 1920’s biography about Warren G. Harding by historian William Estabrook Chancellor. Chancellor wrote the piece to try to mess up Harding’s campaign. The article mainly discusses how African Americans who believed that Harding was in their family by blood had to keep hush hush about it. We still don’t know if Harding did have African American blood in him, and we may never know.

What is interesting that as we inch closer to election day, stories start to pop up. I mean William Chancellor’s racist biography has been around since 1920, while it was removed from the public for the most part, it is interesting that it is now being brought back up that Obama may not be the first black president.

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The article also lists various information by state in regards how they handle dog fighting. How does your state hold up?

Each state has a different number of Electoral Votes, the number of votes are determined by the number of Senators and Representatives the state has. Most states use what is called a short ballot, which I explained above, and the Elector for the state casts all the votes for that state for the candidate who win by majority or the plurality. Currently, Nebraska and Maine allow their votes to be split between candidates. What happens in these two states is the winner in each district gets the vote, and the overall winner will get an extra two votes.

Now, California is looking at an initiative that will do the same thing. The crucial thing about this is that California has the greatest number of Electoral Votes, with 55, the next state is Texas with 34 votes. In 2000 and 2004, Bush won just under half of the districts. If the initiative passes, the way campaigning in California will change quite a bit.

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From the way in which my professor presented the question, your could tell that he intended that he wanted a yes, it will have major impact on foreign policy, or that no, global warming will have little effect on foreign policy since global warming is something that is made up, and we should not worry about it at all. Well, me being me, I do not fit into ether one of those molds. So, I do not know what category I would fit into, I am not really wanting to say that I have a Realist point of view for this never-ending debate.

To that end, I want to present a new way of thinking that is not a realist or a liberal view. What I would like to call this is, the logical or the logisticianal point of view. Which I am saying is you look at the hard facts and go from there. This is different from a realist view, since the realist would say we do whatever is in the best interest for the nation or nation-state. The liberal view says we need to come together with others, being countries or non-governmental organizations, to collaborate to get anything of value accomplished. That being said, this is my reply to the question at hand:

How and even if global warming will be addressed in future foreign policy all depends on who is in power. If the President becomes a literal figure-head to the United States, the leading view in Congress will become the policy. If Congress becomes a sitting duck, then that power is then transferred to lobbyists, whomever voice is the loudest. So, saying what will the policy be, whether it is in the foreign or domestic realm, in the next 5, 10 or even 50 years will be difficult to predict. Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” made it seem that global warming/environmental issues would be at the forefront of his presidency, and thinks that an adopting of a similar policy from George Bush, was one of the number of things that ended up costing him to win the election. We all know what policies Bush has put into place since he has got into office.

Since my professor said he didn’t want a five page essay, I left out the fact that we cannot really ding President Bush on not doing anything regarding global warming because of the events of September 11th. Now, if those events never happened, it would be a different story. Political candidates often pick up some portion of his or her top opponent to gain the interests of a wider population. The follow-through of such policies are under a lot of criticism because of the reasons you can probably guess. I am not saying the President’s policies are flawless.

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Now by chair on the other hand, is quite hefty. My chair is similar to the one you see here, minus the head-rest. My frame is titatium, so it cannot really be smashed up too bad.

What is more disturbing, if you watch the video, the guy who was driving the truck will not be criminally charged for running this woman over. Why not though? I hate to say, however I would bet it is due to her being disabled. Probably if this was somebody else, the guy would probably be half-way to the firing squad by now. So why should he be allowed to walk, FREE! He still killed a woman.

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Howard Kurtz talks about how blogs and such are posting various things about whats going on in the world. From the conservative Little Green Footballs blog getting comments about how they wish that the Guantanamo Bay prisioner would have been able to pull off his plan to kill ex-President Jimmy Carter, to comments on the liberal, Huffington Post, about regetting that the suicide bomber at a military base in Afghanistan failed to take out the visiting Dick Cheney.

What made me write this post isn’t that blogs are getting rude comments, it was what the author included a bit about the Washington Post. The Washington Post gets 2,000 comments a day roughly according to the article. What I am more concerned about is that the Washington Post implemented comments on their articles. When I started grabbing feeds a year or so ago, the Washington Post one of the sites I grabbed a high number of their feeds. I almost feel that by them allowing comments almost detracts from the articles of the newspaper. It isn’t like we can call up our local television station and comment on a news story.

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