Idol Democracy

American Idol's season started not too long ago. The show got less viewers than it did last year, but the show is in no danger of being canceled. Why do people care more about the out come of a TV show than who runs the nation they call home. It hurts me to think that people will give more of an effort to vote for the winner of a reality show than for the President of the United States. People literally pay the cost of the text message in a vote in a election that has no relevance to their lives, but can't pull themselves from watching TV, drinking, or sleeping to take at the most, I can imagine, thirty minutes out of their day to cast a ballot. I assume they care more about the sex appeal of the idols, than anything else. I really don't understand how this is possible for more people to vote for a TV show than the elected officials this country. I still know people who have not registered to vote, it's been going on two years since my high school graduating class turned 18 longer for some, I'm younger than the majority of them. It took me ten minutes to register to vote, not including the time to drive to the registrars office. I know for a fact that people who are not registered have taken more time out of their day to go to the club, the mall, and parties. Would it really kill them to take that time out of their day, but it has got to be more than just that. I hosted a Political forum on the 9th. I went to the court house and got 50 registration cards, and told everyone before they left "I have registration cards, I will help you fill it out, I will return them to the court house". Two people got cards from me. Two people. What else do I have to do? I picked them up, I was basically going to fill the cards out for them, return them to the court house, yet only two people picked up cards. This is a dangerous path that this country is going down, my generation is going to inherit this country and very few even care about the path that it is going down. I also hear all the time about complaints, but they don't even put forth an effort to fix the problem. I have stated many times my disgust over the exaggerated importance of celebrities. The fact that people put forth more of an effort to make more celebrities than to pick a competent leader/Representative is deplorable, and a stain on our culture. So when the voting round of American Idol comes around, take not that the majority of those millions of votes coming in will not even bother to do the same on the seventh come November. That is truly a shame.

66+ million people voted in American Idol, this is more votes than ever recorded in a US Presidential election

A Post When the White lady Wins

Two points first, I know I am more than late on posting about this, second the title is a joke for Dirk Star.

Hilary Clinton won the New Hampshire primary. Like I said on my last post I have given up trying to forecast this thing. Many people had given up on Senator Clinton, but she proved that she could rebound from her third place finish in Iowa. The results of the primary led Governor Richardson to remove himself from the race. I have noticed that some of the things I am most concerned with has not been discussed, as far as I know. That is the patriot act, I hate the patriot act and little has been said about it. I noticed that a lot of the small things that have happened since the last election, things that were big at the time. Why did the polls have the outcome so wrong? What I am getting at is this "Is the media creating the frontrunners, and making us think that these are the top candidates" I was in support of Senator Obama, but I am not at all too proud to admit that I may have fallen victim to this. I love it when elections come around I watch the news and the programs about it. Maybe this is why the polls were wrong. I recently found out that Alan Keyes is running. Why am I just finding out about this? I don't think that keyes will ever have a chance at winning, but I didn't even know. Who else is running. In an election I think that the media should cover all the candidates. This is the problem the media is starting to act out of want for ratings rather than to inform the public of the goings of the world. I still have the same excitement about the election, but I now know that this is happening. On to the next stage.

Surprise

Surprise, Surprise. I had to post on this upset, Huckabee, and Obama won the Iowa caucuses. I will admit that I never thought that Huckabee would win. This win is just one more step in getting the nomination, but it is a big step toward that end. I was a firm believer that Mitt Romney was going to get the nomination, and he still might, but this win in Iowa is a huge step up for Huckabee. Obama won also, it was an intense competition between Edwards, Clinton, & Obama, but Obama came out on top. With his past popularity, appeal to young people, & this win, if he maintains it he has a strong chance of gaining the nomination. Clinton VERY surprisingly came in third out of the top three candidates. This push back is very bad for her. It maybe hard for her to regain her position in the race for the democratic nomination. I am sad to admit that I over looked that fact that Huckabee is a minister. Iowa is a big religious state, but New Hampshire is nowhere near as religious as Iowa. Seeing that New Hampshire is the next stone on the trail toward the nomination. The race is heating up, and getting very interesting. I have said before the REAL race starts when the two major parties announce whom they are going to run for the November election. The pre race for the nomination is not as clear cut as I had thought it was going to be. Huckabee as a minister has a good chance of getting the strong conservative christian vote. I know for a fact as a resident of the Dixie if Huckabee is put up against Clinton, Huckabee will win the south. That is as true as it gets. I don't if a Clinton-Huckabee race is likely. At this point I have thrown out all notions of how this whole thing is going to play out. What I do know is this is a very important election there are no incumbent, this will decide the 2nd president of the century/millennium/decade, plus it will put a new face in charge of The Iraq War as well as bring a new administration. The race is heating up, and I cannot stress the importance of this election.

Genes or Environment

Today I was talking with my dad, about me not posting. I have not forgotten about my blog nor have I given up, but by the end of this quarter I will be back. I was sittin around and I was thinking. I spent yesterday with my aunt, a woman I love very much and love spending time with, and we went to go see my cousin play in a basketball game. We were just talking about my family on the ride there. Today I talked with my father and just got to thinking, what makes people the way that they are? My father has always questioned society and why things are the way they are. If it wasn't for him, among a select others, I wouldn't be who I am today. My aunt has always wanted to experience more, always wanting to move on to the next thing in life to experience. She taught me experience as much of life as possible. My Uncle has been looking for himself as long as I have known him. He knows that the way things are, aren't the way he wants it to be. He is finding himself, and I am proud of him. Although he didn't purposefully instill this in me he taught that in the end you have to be happy, if you conform to others and ignore your true feelings you won't be happy. Finally my other aunt, who has always worked at bettering herself, but what she taught me has nothing to do with that she taught me to have pride in my family. Most of the people in Winnfield don't care about the things that my dad showed me were important, nor care to see the things in the world my aunt told me about, want the changes my uncle wants or the drive of my other aunt. I really have no point just me thinking in this post

Question of the Day

I often read books or watch TV dramas. One thing that occurs whether in books or TV a person often finds themselves having to find Justice for a wrong done against them or a loved one. This can be applied to real life is the "War on Terror" in any way "Justice". At what point does Justice become Vengeance? Is justice repayment for wrong doings or is it the setting right of wrong doings?

Question: Is justice by any means still justice?

Please post your opinions.

Brief Return

Wow it has been a long time since I posted. I am really behind on a lot of things. I doubt that anyone will even read this. I hope that eventually you will read this. This quarter I am taking sociology. It is a very interesting class. What amazed me was how it doesn't sugar coat anything it just tells it like it is. One thing that it said was that race was a creation of society to give reason for existing social inequalities. That was real deep to me. Last year in my Political Science class the book said that in American society that the balanced is tipped in the favor of whites and that minorities often get harsher punishments for the same crimes that whites commit. Then my History text book stated how the lingering effects of past racism still exist in American society, for both blacks and whites. I find this to be interesting because I thought that the racial problems that this nation faced were swept under the rug and basically ignored. This shows me that maybe more people are addressing it than I once thought. What I want to know is what do you think about the racial issues in this country. do you think that there is a problem or are some people just reading too much into somethings? I would love to know what you all think.about this issue.

Big Things

This year i plan on doing big things. I may have my plate a little full. The real problem is this latin class I am taking. I hold three positions on campus. I am Under secretary for UAAM, I am Treasurer for NAACP, I am Liberal Arts Senator for SGA. As an e-Board member of UAAM I can help with the formation of programs one that I plan on starting is to help make people on campus aware of the importance of voting, and politcal awarness. The treasurer wants me to help in a program to help educate people on how to get to college and prepare for the business world. We are also doing a fitness program So I will be given a physical at the beginning of the year and at the end to see how well I progressed. Lastly for UAAM we are doing a can food drive for a domestic abuse shelter in town the women come there with their families and food runs out quickly with upwards of ten families living there. My friends and I actually started the program last year it is called Save-a-Meal. As Senator for SGA I help delagate where money goes for students and help improve the student experience on campus I just started that so I don't know what all I will be doing. The e-Board for NAACP is doing things to help the Jena six situation and overall help the students on campus. All of that on top of work classes and maybe one more things I am not sure about yet.

Politics=Religion?

Today I started college, I only have one class on Tuesday & Thursday. I don't start work until next week so I was just chilling out in the Student center. My friend and I were talking and we were just discussing things. Some how things drifted toward people don't what they are doing and abortion came up. I live in the south, the dixie, the bible belt so my beliefs tend to be in the minority especially if religion is involved. I voiced my opinion on how even if it is wrong you still don't have the right to deny anyone the right to choose. We were having a political discussion. Some how the discussion smoothly drifted to religion straight up and the debate we were have became a sermon. Now the man who turned it into a sermon is my friend. I met him last year him and a couple of people took me in as a friend when I knew no one. So he will always me my friend. He went through some stuff this summer and God or maybe more likely religion help him through it. I am not against religion, but it seems that when people are put though the fire what ever is there becomes there life. I feel as if I am witnessing the birth of a fundamentalist. It is very interesting to witness. However I feel about his path, the intellectual in me(not to sound over confident) is interested

Pattern

I have been noticing something else in the Bush administraion. It seems that a lot of people get fired or quit. There is now an opening for U.S. Attorney General I am off on how many this will make, but we are going through this whole thing again senate confirmation and such. With only a year or so left in this presidency makes you wonder why are does the Administration go through so many people? My theory is that a lot of dirty dealing is going on and when the blame needs to be passed someone loses their job. To be honest who didn't see this coming though. The firing of the 8 others without reason just spurs this kind of beahvior. I have more to say, but I can't use my computer and for a while so any post will be short.

Purpose

Today was the conclusion of CNN's three part, six hour special on Religion and politics. I watched all three parts, and I got angry. These people were flat out rascist or just simple had hatred in their heart. I was just angry and almost fed up I thought that maybe I was wrong about the inherint goodness of human beings. I came across another thing that I stick with. I think that Organized religion has been outgrown by modern society. The Israelies had a strict belief that the land was theirs. They broke international law to create settlements on palastienian land and, they don't care about international law. What they call "God's law" comes first. These people do not care They don't want the palastineans to even have equal rights if they take the west bank. Then the muslims which are chronicled plenty. The same thing was told as usual. They are ready to die to confront and destroy any and all who oppose them. The two religious groups in the middle east have both resorted to terrorism. Finally it was the Christians. These people are organized, and dedicated to complete conversion of american society. The difference is that these people are politcal they use american politics to force their culture on us and use fear to make us accept it. These people are dangerous. I finally came to a conclusion. Religion was the source of most of the problems of the world. Note this special did not say this. The show just chronicled the movements. What did happen is that they let these people say what they had to say. I heard their words from them. The conflict between the two religions is comepletely the fault that both are so arrogent as to not accept any other view, but their own. The violence is a direct cause of extremist views of mostly peaceful religions. It seem to unlikely that relgion can exist in a non-extremist way. The fundamental American Christians are on a campaign to recreate american culture, and I am afraid of these people. I am afraid of what they are doing to us as a society. First I was angry at these people, but I knew that I could get to thinking of doing things their way. Couldn't force my view on them. If I did I was no better than them. I did realise what I had to do. I understand that if I want to do right by the world I had a responsibility. I will not force my ways on others, but I will fight with my voice.