politics

Obama hasn’t been perfect, but contrary to the right wing narrative, he’s accomplished a lot in his first year despite facing extraordinary challenges from his first day in office. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Here's a (partial) list collected from various sources:

1. Banned the use of torture and the ordered the closing of Guantánamo, bringing us back in line with the Geneva Conventions.

2. Reversed Bush’s funding cutoff to family planning organizations overseas, saving millions of lives with the stroke of a pen.

I know it’s been awhile since I’ve posted, been massively busy with school and trying to get the other site up and running. But I’m back, for now!

With the revelation that McCain has traded in his maverick badge for a rubber stamp, and will be allowing the torture to continue, I thought it would be a good time to write something.

Senator Ted Stevens, the Republican Chairman of the Commerce Committee explains why we shouldn’t (audio link):

There’s one company now you can sign up and you can get a movie delivered to your house daily by delivery service. Okay. And currently it comes to your house, it gets put in the mail box when you get home and you change your order but you pay for that, right.

Hope everyone is enjoying the day and having a good time eating BBQ and such!

I’ll be watching fireworks downtown later tonight, assuming the rain heading this way doesn’t decide to ruin the night for the second year in a row :/

The House voting 232-187, yesterday approved a bill to end a 25-year-old moratorium on offshore oil and gas drilling.

I think that the Congress working to lessen our dependence on foreign sources of energy is a good thing. Being reliant on foreign nations for something as vital as our energy needs is not a status quo we should seek to keep.