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We celebrate Memorial Day to recognize our brave men and women who gave up their lives for their country. But we should also include fallen police officers and firefighters in that group.
It’s true that these fallen heroes did not lose their lives in defense of our country but it is also true that they sacrificed their lives protecting our freedoms – the freedom to live our lives in safety.
I for one will think of them as I observe Memorial Day.
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Ever notice how when 3 or more people enter an empty elevator two of them always end up going to the back and positioning themselves at opposite sides?
This leaves the remaining people to enter standing either in front of one of those two or becoming the meat part in a three way sandwich.
Comedy Central has posted a humorous look at the results of the West Virginia primary. Hosted by masterful funny man Jon Stewart, it takes a look at potentially some of the reasons Barack Obama lost West Virgina by such a large margin. The video is without a doubt extremely funny. But the sad part of this tale is that while humorous, it displays a couple of West Virginians who seem to be extremely biased in their thinking. While Obama’s campaign has tried to put itself above the racial issue, many people still cling to thinking reminiscent of the pre-civil rights era – basically if you look act or sound different from “me”, you must be trouble. I am still shocked when I see people like this. I’m even more shocked that they feel no shame in speaking this hatred in front of a television camera.
Here’s the video:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=168561&title=indecision-2008-west-virginia
When are we going to mature as a people and accept everyone for who they are, not what they look like??
What is going on with CNN’s reporting these days?? John Edwards just endorses Barack Obama for President this evening and CNN runs the lead story in their politics section about Obama apologizing for calling a female reporter sweetie. They included the fact that he called her and apologized but I have to ask how is this news. Are they kidding?
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Former Presidential candidate John Edwards backed Barack Obama for President this evening. Interesting timing coming right after the West Virgina love fest delivered to Hillary Clinton. Edwards, who dropped out of the race had been mum about his choice. This last weekend he subtly hinted that he may endorse soon. I guess the West Virgina stomp of Barack’s made the timing just right. Edwards announcement effectively dropped Hillary from the front pages and made Obama the front page story. Rumor has it that Hillary will continue to push on with her campaign to win John’s endorsement despite tonights news.
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Ok, so I was watching the CBS Evening News tonight and there was a story about how genetically-altered ingredients are not identified as such in the labels of products we buy at the store. It’s interesting that in Europe, Japan and Australia there are laws mandating this, but not here in the United States.
Why is that?
Do you think it has something to do with the fact that in a national survey over 50% of American’s indicated that they wouldn’t buy products that contained genetically engineered products in them? Maybe manufacturers are afraid we won’t buy their product if it has that on the label.
Ya think? It might make me think twice before I tossed that box into the basket.
So somehow “we” have decided that a law requiring food manufacturers to list bio-engineered ingredients is not needed here. Boy are we lucky. Boy are we smart!
Obviously Europe, Japan and Australia do not know what they are doing but we do. Ya think?
So why aren’t we listing these ingredients? Well guess what?
According to the CBS report, 75% of corn grown today in the U.S. has been genetically altered and nearly all of the soybean products have. In 2001, 68% percent of all soybeans grown in the U.S. were genetically-altered, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service.
So what does that mean to you and me?
If you are buying anything with soybeans (that includes all you tofu loving eaters) or any type of corn product in the list of ingredients (and this includes corn fructose syrup (one of the most common sweeteners now found in most of our fruit juices, canned fruit and soft drinks to name just a few), chances are pretty good that you are sucking down genetically-altered material.
Yummy.
So should we worry about this? Should we write to our local congressmen and senators requesting a law that requires manufacturers to identify genetically-altered ingredients on the labeling of our food products? Does anybody care?
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