“I think life begins at conception but I don’t think it ends at birth. We have to be concerned about a child’s education, and health care, safe neighborhoods, clean water and the access to a college education. That is pro-life. To care about a child’s entire life.”
Gov. Mike Huckabee on The Daily Show
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Huckabee suggests Pelosi for alternative energy
I thought this was a great “quote” from a conference call with bloggers today from presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.
While talking with the bloggers, Christianconservative reports that the former Arkansas governor said that current alternative energy plans probably won’t happen.
In the past, those plans have been in the 25 to 30 years range – “What that means is they never happen,†Huckabee said – if he’s elected president, the Governor will pursue alternative energy sources aggressively.
We could put a wind mill outside of the capitol, Huckabee said, so that every time Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi make speeches, “we should have enough power to run most of the east coast.â€
Not bad, not bad at all.
Huckabee also touched on immigration and said he wasn’t a fan of the current proposed legislation saying if other Americans could get out of back taxes by simply paying $2,000 they’d come out “so far ahead.â€
He also stood behind his support of the Fair Tax. The Fair Tax would eliminate the IRS and the current tax system and move our tax system to a system of sales tax, or consumption tax.
I am a huge proponent for this idea as well.
It will be interesting to see what happens next in the race. Some have suggested Sen. John McCain may pull out before too long, but we’ll have to wait and see.
Google shows the benefits of solar energy
Google has shared some information on the benefits their new solar paneled roofs are making at their Silicon Valley headquarters.
From CNet:
The search giant has covered the roofs of eight buildings and two carports at its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters with solar panels in an effort to build the largest solar panel installation of any corporate campus in the U.S.
The system is producing approximately 10,000 kilowatt-hours per day.
That equals 8,347 coffee makers running for an hour, 6,257 dishwasher runs, 3,642 loads of laundry washed and dried, or 41,737 alarm clocks running for 24 hours, going by U.S. Department of Energy standards.
We’re 37th in healthcare around the world
I’m looking forward to watching Michael Moore’s documentary, “SiCKO,” which takes a look at the American Health Care System.
If nothing else watch the trailer for the George Bush quotes. Doh!
The fight against immigrants
My mom sent me a forwarded e-mail. I don’t think she necessarily agreed with it, just wanted my opinion.
Snopes has a copy of the e-mail but the factuality/truth of the email is undetermined.
So here is my response:
This sounds like typical propaganda that you could have seen at any point during our country’s history. There have been similar gripes about African Americans, Japanese, Chinese, Germans, Irish, Jews, Arabs… you name it. If someone’s different and things aren’t exactly how you want them to be – find a group to blame.
Hitler came to power because he saw Germany falling apart and he was able to propagate and get the German people to believe the source of their problems were the Jews.
I wonder why the church isn’t helping these folks. I wonder why the people griping and moaning the most aren’t doing more to help these people.
In any system there are those who chose to abuse the system to their advantage but there are also those who respect the system and respect those who are giving them a chance.
I find it hard to believe that everyone of the children getting the free breakfast are illegal immigrants or from families of illegal immigrants.
I bet you would find very similar situations in any school that offers free meals and they’re probably not all Hispanic or immigrants.
The problem is with the individuals themselves and government subsidies aren’t going to solve the problem, sending them back to Mexico isn’t going to solve the problem, giving them citizenship isn’t going to solve the problem. It’s going to take these people making a change themselves.
Why are the kids overweight – it’s not because they get free food, its because of their diet. Healthy food is more expensive. There are far more poor black individuals in our country with diabetes than any other group – why? Because many of them are living on welfare/food stamps and they go to the store to buy as much food as they can for the money. And the cheapest food contains the most starches and sugar (corn syrup). I’m not trying to make a racists statement out of that. Just pointing out the fact. I think its a very sad state of affairs when the majority of lower income areas across our country are full of minorities and not racial diversity.
These families, (children and parents) need to be educated. And regardless of whether or not the government takes it upon themselves to do it or not, the church should be. The church should be showing grace to each and everyone of them. The church should be working to help these individuals change – government subsidies aren’t going to change them.
Orange Noise Radio to go silent June 26
Orange Noise Radio is planning to join in a national protest on June 26, of proposed increases on Internet radio royalties.
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