A Good Week

This has been one hectic week, to say the least. It has been Spirit Week! Faculty and students dresseach day according to specific theme: pajama day, twin day, tacky day, colors day, beach day. Powderpuff football game between the junior and senior girls. Spirit Halls, decorating the hallways by class according to a specific theme: TV networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX). And Carnival, selling pizza at a booth during the Powderpuff game. Oh, lest we forget, it is the last week of the marking quarter, and I leave for Maine in the morning - a well deserved Spring Break is next week!

I tell you what, it has been a load of fun! As one of the advisors for the Class of 2008, I had a blast! The sophomores showed so much spirit and enthusiasm, it was contagious. So despite being at school every day this week until 6 pm, it was fun! I have been so lucky to work with a group of students this year that are determined to win, or at the very least, not lose! The judging of the Spirit Halls was Thursday morning, but the results won't be announced until Friday morning. I am pretty sure we will win that competition, but even if we don't I still had a great time getting to know some great and neat students.

My co-advisors are great too! Having been without a co-advisor, pretty much, for the year, but literally for this semester so far, they volunteered in the nick of time - days before the Spirit Hall construction began. They could not have picked a better time because they got to experience, full force, the class council experience. They are both awesome and I am lucky to work with them and grateful to be alble to get to better know them through this experience!

So after all this, I am looking forwardto getting up before 5am to get on a plane and just sit. Let someone else do the work for a change... pilot to Maine please.

Selling Our Safety

President Bush will stop at nothing to sell out the United States. He is so blind and so stupid I just can not describe! With Hurricane Katrina our government has proven that it cannot handle an expected disaster, but now, with the agreement with India, the President wants to create situations the will result in unexpected disasters.

Today the President made an agreement with India to sell plans and technology to benefit India's civilian nuclear power program. We must be reminded that India is a country who deifed the world and did not sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and developed nuclear weapons. India has been considered a "Nuclear Pariah". So, as a reward, the United States is going to sell India MORE nuclear technology. Let me see if I follow this logic correctly.

1) A man holds up a bank and is caught. So instead of putting him on trial or even arresting him, we let him keep the money he stole, and then, give him the keys to more banks.
2) A student comes 5 minutes late to class everyday despite the understanding that he will receive detention for doing so. But instead of giving him detention, I actually give him a pass that will allow him to come to class late everyday by 10 minutes with no consequence.
3) My son draws on the wall with crayons, which he knows he will earn a "time-out". But instead of the punishment, I give him more crayons and more colors and sit him in front of a wall he hasn't colored on yet.

So if this is the logic, let me apply it to relevant current event.

1) Iran continues to build its nuclear weapons program. The United States and the United Nations ignore it. And in ten years we actally give them more nuclear technology.
2) North Korea continues to build its nuclear weapons program. The United States and the United Nations ignore it. And in ten years we actally give them more nuclear technology.
3) Sudan....
4) Saudi Arabia....
5) Mexico....

Get the drift?

I remember a time when President Bush called on the United Nations to not become "irrelevant" when it came to Iraq. But what I am really seeing is that all of these world institutions already are irrelevant as long as the United States has a leader that does not give a care about ANYTHING! If there is anyone making the United Nations "irrelevant" it is George W. Bush!

Let's take this further...

From my current understanding, the agreement Mr. Bush made with the Indian Prime Minister will allow India to continue to make 20 nuclear bombs per year and will make India's fast breeder reactors (uranium processing facilities that are used for producing nuclear weapon grade uranium) off-limits to inspectors.

Let us also recall who India was closely tied to during the Cold War... The Soviet Union! So now, all of a sudden, because the Cold War is over and some of our companies have moved their customer service call centers, India is an important ally?

Again I ask you to write your reprsentative and senators and have them tell the President that the security of our nation is NOT FOR SALE!

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