Speeches

For my English class this year, we have to give End of the Year speeches regarding politics and such things. We have to give them in front of the whole school. I'm really glad that we were given this assignment because it causes us to have to go into detail and search about our topic and find out the opinions and the facts. It gives us a chance to find out for ourselves what's true and what isn't. My subject was on the legalization of Marijuana and why it's dangerous. It was an interesting topic, and I was intrigued by how many people deny the fact that smoking Marijuana is the most probable cause for people to get into hard drugs like Cocaine and Heroin.

Health Care Reform

This isn't going to be a long post, but I was listening to a talk show on the radio while my dad was driving me home from work, and the issue of the new health care plan was coming up, and Obama's plan for if people can't afford stuff like hip replacements and knee replacements, he'd give them the money for it, but, however, he doesn't include the elderly in this generous offer, because, according to him, it's immoral to help the elderly get the health care they need in order to live happy lives.
My grandpa has bad knees, and if this health care reform bill passes, he won't be able to get the knee replacements he needs, and he's retired, so he'd be living in misery, just because the darn president doesn't think the older people in society are of any importance. That makes me mad.
Just another little thing to keep you guys posted.

Federal Government - Power Greedy

On facebook, I joined this group called the Patrick Henry Caucus, and i get messages from them every day practically, which gets a tiny bit irritating, because I'm not too involved with the group, but they send updates on all the horrible things that the federal government is pushing on the country, like the whole thing with the bailout on GM, and a new thing I just read about in the last message I got, and now several Chrysler dealers around the country are literally having their businesses taken from them and given to someone completely different! Most of these dealers have been a family business for 60+ years. It's happening everywhere, but there is something we can do about it. One thing in this message that I got was basically a plea to call Gov. Huntsman or Lt. Gov. Gary Herbert and urge them to call a special session to propose a bill that would protect these dealers and their businesses.
Just something new to think on.

Barak Obama - Born American or not?

Just tonight, I was listening to my mom and dad talk about things that are going on in the world, and the issue of Barak Obama's orientation came up. My dad was saying that after doing a lot of research, he discovered a few things that made the idea that he was actually born American very fishy. For one, his birth certificate that he presented to verify that he was born in Hawaii was printed on a laser printer, which didn't exist back in the 60's. In order to actually verify your birth certificate, it has to be an actual copy of the original, which means it couldn't have been printed on a laser printer for it to be legit. (I hope I'm using all these terms correctly.) Kind of makes me think "What's going on there?"
Secondly, there are a few groups of people throughout the U.S. that are doing the same research, to find out if his birth certificate is actually real, and his whole cabinet is trying to hush them up, and make it so that they can't do anything. If there was nothing to find out, why is he worrying about them? If he has nothing to hide, why is he concerned? Just a couple things to think over.

Interesting

I though this was interesting. Think of it what you will. The only thing I have to say is that left wing politicians are claiming that this was NOT a bow. Why lie about something like this?

Obama Bowing

A.

PS. While I was perusing the related videos, I came across this one. Notice the slip in the middle, and how quickly he corrects himself. Arabic TV Interview.

Tax Raise

Over the past few weeks there have been some drastic tax raises on Cigarettes, Tobacco, and Cigars. I know this seems like a wonderful thing, with the whole "people will stop smoking because it's too expensive and they can't afford it" idea. That's not true.
Tax raises on "Roll-your-own Tobacco" and Small Cigars skyrocketed last week. To purchase a pound of tobacco, the tax went from $1.09 to about $25, and that's just tax. Small cigar taxes went from $1.87 to about $54. Again, that's JUST tax. Doesn't include the actual price of the product.
Obama raised this tax on cigars and tobacco in order to try and pay for the children's S-Chip health insurance. All the smokers out in the U.S. are pretty ticked off about this whole thing. I was listening to the Glen Beck radio program with my dad and one guy called in and said that he's not going to buy tobacco from the stores anymore, he's going to grow his own, which will of course result in the government going in and telling him "You can't do this" just because they want to give these guys no other option but to buy tobacco from the stores. This kind of taxing is wrong. It's like the income tax. It's aimed at a selected group of people. The income tax was aimed at rich people, because they'd have to pay a greater tax because they make a lot more money. This tobacco tax is specifically aimed at the poor people of the U.S. because guess what? None of the rich people smoke. Or at least if they do, they lose all their money VERY fast. This tax is probably going to be the start of a whole big conspiracy for smokers to try and get their smokes without having to pay 50 bucks just to get it because none of them have that kind of money just lying around.
This tax isn't going to stop the smokers from smoking, they'll find another way to get it, no matter what.

In Utah, Gov. Huntsman wanted to have Utah's own tobacco tax raise, which probably more than half of Utah was all for it, till Sen. Craig Frank came in and said "Why don't we just raise taxes on caffeine too?" and of course EVERYONE went ballistic over it! As of now, Craig Frank is my hero, because he actually has a sense of what is constitutional and what isn't.

Weirded Out

This was the weirdest thing that has ever happened to me in my life. I'm pretty dang sure that it was just a prank pulled by somebody, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were the real guy.
I was checking my Facebook page this morning before school and I had a few notifications, so i was checking those and there was this one that said "Grace, Barak Obama confirmed you as a cousin on 'We're Related': see how you are related" So, already I'm thinking "What the heck?" so I click on it, and it brings up the page that has the names of a bunch of different people in a pedigree chart that says that my great-grandparents' names are Charles James Smith and Pearl Marie Petersen. Don't ask me how ANYONE could come up with such a thing, because I know the names of my great-grandparents and Charles and Pearl are NOT them. So, according to some nut-job out there in society, I'm apparently related to Barak Obama. That makes me laugh.