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Using Someone As a Back up

This has happened to me before and it happened again today. My ex and I had made a plan to see each other this evening, but while getting ready she calls me up and says she gotto give her brothe a ride. I told her that’s ok and also we should cancel our meet up. She insisted we do meet tonight. So I said ok and went to her apt. Halfway on my way, she says her her brother needs a ride right that moment and insinuated I should go back home. This type of incidents have occurred before.

If i were your age, i would go for you

So today an old lady who I took care of said this to me. It made me feel good and she also added, “you have so many nice qualities.” This one now made me feel really good. One thing I learned from this is that it is always a good idea to express your thankfulness, it makes a big difference.

LOL – age discrimination at strip club company

I have really no say on this: 44 year old stripper woman sues strip club for firing her because of her age. Age discrimination or invalid lawsuit? I feel like we need more information her, the strip club employment policy and age discrimination law.

Temptation costing me a lot

I define temptation as a strong tendency that affects you negatively. In my case, temptations include daily consumption of soda pop.

I never thought I would reach that close to addiction of soda pop – yup, I don’t think I m addicted to it yet. I have a problem curbing my thirst for soda drinks. I know I can drink water or fruit juices, but I long for soda too much. I drink one 12 ounce soda can a day atleast. I m just waiting for diabetes to happen to me.

Speaking Up is not a baf thing or is it?

Speaking up has always been a daunting task for me. Up until recent years I have never really spoken up for that matter. But I am starting to speak up more often as I realize it is nothing bad about me if the reason I am doing that makes more sense than not doing it.

For the sake of sanity I have to speak up in circumstances that I can’t bear no more but has no other options.

There are also situation where the other party may not even realize how their behavior and action is affecting me without letting them know. I might hurt their feeling the time I speak up, but it will save my feeling and sanity from getting hurt too many times.

And speaking up is not necessarily a bad thing. Our society accepts people who truthfully speaks up as a leader; examples would be Martin Luther King who spoke up to achieve equal rights for African Americans.

Cold winter is here now

Few days ago it started the first snow of this winter season, but until today it didn’t really feel like a winter. Maybe it was because define winter as a very cold weather like it was today. I m usualy not outside that often for my days start late around noon and by the time I m done with everyhing it is dark outside.
But today I did really felt the chill, cold breeze.

Barack Obama the President of USA

Brack Obama is elected as the 43rd (gotto check) President of the United States of America.

National Vampire Awareness Day

So looks like my local, but giant, electronic store Best Buy has declared October 30th as the National Vampire Awareness Day. According to the best buy, 40 percent of all the electricity used are wasted by electronic devices and appliiances that are just plugged in just for the convenience and nothing more – meaning these gadgets are not being used during these times. About $4 billion could be easily saved if these electricity powered gadgets are not only turned off but also not plugged-in.

The worst energy sucking electronics are plasma tvs, computers, DVRs, and adapters for mp3 players and cell phones.

I thought it is pretty interesting to note that the chargers we use for our cell phones, mp3 players and laptops use only 5 percent of the power they draw for charging; the rest of the 95 percent are just practically for nothing more than for wasting.

A typical US household spends an average of $1300 ever year on energy bills. Experts recommend using power strip so you can easily turn off many devices at the same time. But I wonder if unplugging the power strip entirely would help more.

Very cold weather

It is getting colder and colder everyday. I just can’t imagine drving in a snow, especially the freeways would suck. Too much traffic along with slippery roads are hazardous.

Is Barack Obama Socialist or What?

Before we even start discussing this topic, lets first of all define what socialist is. Socialism is a political system that advocates the members of the community to own the property, resources,means of production, and control the distribution of goods. It basically is opposite to capitalism. United States of America is probably still the largest capitalist nation in the world. But there have been some controversies surrounding the United States 2008 Presidential Candidate Barack Obama.

Barack Obama recent campaign speech has generated some enthusiasm in public about his political and economical viewpoints, especially the one where he mentions the the phrase “redistribution of wealth.” Here is what he said, a transcript, about it in year 2001 in a radio interview:

Radio Host: Good morning and welcome to Odyssey on WBEZ Chicago 91.5 FM and we’re joined by Barack Obama who is Illinois State Senator from the 13th district and senior lecturer in the law school at the University of Chicago.

Barack Obama: If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples. So that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it I’d be okay.

But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society. And to that extent as radical as people tried to characterize the Warren court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted, and the Warren court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can’t do to you, it says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf. And that hasn’t shifted. One of the I think tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributed change and in some ways we still suffer from that.

Radio Host: Let’s talk with Karen. Good morning, Karen, you’re on Chicago Public Radio.

Karen (radio guest): Hi. The gentleman made the point that the Warren court wasn’t terribly radical with economic changes. My question is, is it too late for that kind of reparative work economically and is that that the appropriate place for reparative economic work to take place – the court – or would it be legislation at this point?

Barack Obama: Maybe I’m showing my bias here as a legislator as well as a law professor, but I’m not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts. The institution just isn’t structured that way.

You just look at very rare examples during the desegregation era the court was willing to for example order changes that cost money to a local school district. The court was very uncomfortable with it. It was very hard to manage, it was hard to figure out. You start getting into all sorts of separation of powers issues in terms of the court monitoring or engaging in a process that essentially is administrative and takes a lot of time.

The court’s just not very good at it and politically it’s very hard to legitimize opinions from the court in that regard. So I think that although you can craft theoretical justifications for it legally. Any three of us sitting here could come up with a rational for bringing about economic change through the courts.

The concept of redistribution of wealth is very interesting since it has both advantages and disadvantages. In one sentence: socialism will bring economic equality – regardless of who works hard and who doesn’t; who is born wealthy and who is born poor.