Tweets on 2008-03-24

March 24, 2008 at 11:59 pm · Filed under Politics

• @sethrubenstein it depends on whether the Hispanic students were born in the U.S. & raised w/English as their first/primary language #
• I’m of Filipina heritage, but Filipino/Tagalog is a foreign language to me. is English really a foreign language to you? #
• @sethrubenstein i thought it wasn’t fair, either; but it depends on level of experience. many speak but don’t know grammar, spelling, etc. #

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Iraq for Sale

March 23, 2008 at 2:20 pm · Filed under Politics, War

I just watched the testimonies of military and civilian participants and veterans of the IraQuagmire in “Iraq For Sale;” and, as an American who lost one of my best college friends in WTC2 on 9/11 and has family and friends fighting/working in Iraq now, it’s an understatement to say I’m extremely upset with the Bush administration. I’m livid. Bush & Co. have aided and abetted Halliburton/KBR (and their various spinoffs and cronies) in robbing the American people through no-bid contracts, fraudulent billing, and massive overcharging for extraneous, redundant , and even non-existent jobs. That money should have gone to help our troops, our children, and our economy instead.

* In February 2007, Congressman Henry Waxman, a California Democrat, releaseda report saying that out of the 20 billion dollars charged to the U.S.government by Halliburton, 2.4 billion dollars were “unsupported” and“questioned” costs. *

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Tweets on 2008-03-21

March 21, 2008 at 11:59 pm · Filed under Politics

• finally got the blog back up…now to replenish posts! http://www.yellochick.com #

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Youth Voters: Will They Change the 2008 Elections?

February 7, 2008 at 4:45 am · Filed under Politics

The 2008 presidential election has made one thing obvious: America’s demographics have changed. After almost two-and-a-half centuries, the United States has seen its first female and minority presidential hopefuls beat out their white male competitors in votes, delegates, media coverage, and financial support. And for the first time in history, the charge for change has been led by Americans under the age of 30.

Since the commencement of George W. Bush’s “War in Iraq,” youth civic engagement has surged in parallel with the surge in troop deployment to the Middle East:

• In the 2000 presidential election, 4.3 million young voters – those between the ages of 18 and 29 – made their way to the polls to “rock the vote.”

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The Corporation: Part 1

September 18, 2007 at 3:51 pm · Filed under Politics

“And it was more or less as if we created a doom machine: In our search for wealth and for prosperity, we create a thing that’s going to destroy us.”

- Robert Monks, Corporate governance advisor

At what point do we stop destroying ourselves in pursuit of wealth? Or, at what point do we stop pursuing wealth because it’s destroying us?

I think we will stop once we redefine “us.”

Chris Rock once said that only the white man can make money off of pain, and to a great extent, that seems true: the majority of those with the greatest wealth and power have gotten these things through the exploitation and suffering of “others” - in this case, the non-white, non-male. It’s easier to let other people suffer if you don’t identify with them as fellow people. You can justify it to yourself if you buy into: “They can always say no.”

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