I am honestly starting to believe that the greatest gift we can ever give is forgiveness. Not only is it relatively simple, free, and quite easy to do, it also even make the giver feel happy. Quite amazing. I should be peddling this at Christmas, just like they do cars or tv’s.
Life is a funny thing. It can be so unpredictable, and yet.. All it takes to gain complete control is so little.
I am completely convinced that all it takes is confidence in yourself and your abilities, the assertiveness to pursue your goals, empathy to understand and interact with other people, and the realization that it’s perfectly fine to fail and make mistakes, as long as you learn from them.
After that, it’s just the matter of shaping the world into what you want it to be.
As our current President decides to send more troops into Afghanistan, we should look back to a man who few know, but someone who played a vital role in the growth of our country.
Most of this is right of Wikipedia:
He is best remembered as a proponent of progressivism and a vocal opponent of railroad trusts, bossism, World War I, and the League of Nations. In 1957, a Senate committee selected La Follette as one of their five greatest Senate predecessors. A 1982 survey of historians that asked them to rank the “ten greatest Senators in the nation’s history” based on “accomplishments in office” and “long range impact on American history,” placed him first, tied with Henry Clay.
Although I don’t think much of her political views, I definitively believe Sarah Palin doesn’t get enough credit for her brains. Anyone who thinks she’s a stupid or naive woman, is very mistaken about her. Her rise from obscurity has been meteoric, and while I highly doubt (though future can often be very surprising) that she has any real chance to winning the presidency, she will be an important player in American politics for a long, long time to come. Anyone who doubts that should take a look at how she has handled her publicity since that fateful Election of 2008.
I think she was the sole winner out of the four people on the election ballot. While Obama has won the presidency, he has also earned all the criticism, pressure, and just general bad karma that comes with the job. While the American President might be the most powerful man in the world, he definitively is also the most stressed out. As for Biden and McCain, it seems that the public is largely apathetic towards them. As for Sarah? I think she’s very quickly making herself one of the more relevant leaders of the conservative right.
A few weeks ago, Noam Chomsky’s article was posted In These Times. This isn’t the first time, or the last time time for matter, that I mention Chomsky. I think United States, and the world, need more people like him. He presents his ideas and viewpoints clearly and always bases them in facts and history. He does not resort to cleverly spun statements or rhetoric, and doesn’t try to scare or frighten people to his viewpoints, or at least thats how I feel listening to him.
Regardless of whether or not you agree with me on Chomsky, the fact remains that he presents our political world and American foreign policy in ways that are very, very different from others. While his speeches are always jammed packed, he unfortunately receives very little attention from the mainstream media. As a result, we are all unfortunately all missing out. And anyone who believes that media is liberal.. well then read Chomsky’s article, a transcript of which is below, and see for yourself just how liberal our media is, if they fail to report on the things that don’t escape Chomsky’s attention. I’ll leave it up to you to make your final decision on Noam Chomsky, however, I do recommend everyone at least exposes themselves to his work.
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