You’re beginning to sound a little like Joseph McCarthy there, Bill. Now, I know you did a lot for the country, and we would all love to have you back in the White House, but your wife’s voting record and policies have not served America as they should have. She voted for a war in Iraq and she has taken contributions from health insurance companies. She just isn’t what America needs, Bill. You’re her husband; you of all people know her the best. I mean, c’mon, even you had to look elsewhere to be served by her. (No offense, but it’s true)
Nixon died when I was in fourth grade. My teacher at the time talked about how betrayed she felt watching Watergate come to light. I’ve always thought that my parent’s generation all felt pretty much the same way. A President, sworn to execute and uphold the Constitution of the United States, had committed deplorable crimes in order to win an election. (What’s most disgusting is that he had a good chance of winning that election in the first place).
Wow. Britain’s doing well. Pound to dollars from http://www.xe.com, the first hit on Google when you put in “currency exchange.”
Live rates at 2008.01.08 04:49:08 UTC
1.00 GBP
=
1.97120 USD
United Kingdom Pounds
United States Dollars
1 GBP = 1.97120 USD
1 USD = 0.507305 GBP
To those of you who aren’t math wizards, this shows that the pound is nearly double the worth of the dollar.
I have just been informed that Britain’s minimum wage starts at 7 pounds per hour. I’m making £4.05886 per hour. I’m I’m fifty cents above my state’s minimum wage. That is sad.
To all you who will scream that they have higher taxes and crappy health care and every other claim not founded on relevant studies, I’d just like you to look again at the exchange rate. Their minimum wage is DOUBLE our highest state minimum (CA, at $7.50/hr, or £3.80476). Again, their minimum wage is DOUBLE our highest state minimum.
Don’t we shame sweat-shops and near slave labor over here in the US?
Thank you George W. Bush. You fascist.
Correction:
California’s minimum wage just went up at the New Year to $8/hr. And my company did not give any of it’s employees cost of living raises.
It looks like Iowans have voted for Change in their caucuses tonight. Headlines all over Google News are declaring Obama the winner! Clinton and Edwards must now pick up their pride and hope for better luck in New Hampshire. But that may not be enough to stop the message of Hope being spread across the country by the Obama Campaign.
In other news, Huckabee has been declared the Republican winner, but who reading this blog is really gonna care?
It’s book review time! And this time, science fiction. One of my favourite genres, I must say, although I haven’t read a whole lot of modern science fiction. Most of the stuff I have read has come from Bradbury, Asimov and Burgess. So it was a change for me when I began this latest work. It is copyrighted 2003 by Cryptic, Inc., and written by Jack McDevitt. The title of the book is “Omega.”
I bought this little nugget of a year-end publication from Time called “The Year in Review” because it’s just been a hell of a year. Darfur to Myanmar, bridges in Minnesota to bad guys named Murray in Utah, Virginia Tech to the endless war in Iraq, America and the world has had a very bad year. I can only hope that ‘08 will bring a turn around for our beautiful country; it has been gutted long enough by the greed of the Neocons.
