Palin

This is going to sound a lot like a rant, but it needs to be said.

Many people are now supporting McCain because he picked Sarah Palin as a running mate. Why? Because she's a woman. A younger, good-looking woman who has a son in the army and another child who has a disability. These facts do not, however, make her fit to be vice-president. People are losing sight of who she actually is and what the position of vice-president means. They gloss over the fact that a month before she was picked as VP, she didn't even know what the post entailed, she said so in an interview. It is incredibly hypocritical of the Republicans to say that Obama is young and has no experience to then pick a VP who is even younger than him and has absolutely no experience on the national level, or even in politics for that matter. Her record in Alaska hardly does her credit as well. She supported pork-barrel legislation, her claims that she refused perks is false, and her opinions of abortion and global warming are alarming enough to make anyone see how extreme she is.

If McCain were elected, he would be the oldest president, whereas Obama would be the third youngest, hardly a comparison. If something were to happen to McCain, Palin would then be president, and everyone must take that into account when voting. She has virtually no experience and would be entirely lost if she were to make any big decisions. We need a president that knows what they are doing, and although McCain's policies aren't the best, they certainly aren't the worst. But having Palin as a running mate makes me frightened as to what they could do to this country. If there was anyone that could be a worse president than Bush, it would be Palin.

So people need to stop being mesmerized by the fact that she's a woman and see her for her policies, not for her gender. If you didn't want to vote for Clinton for her views, then don't vote for Palin for hers, not cause she has boobs.

East Jabrew

My roommates and I have a phrase that we use to describe a particular part of a parking lot that we call 'East Jabrew'. The phrase is used to describe something that is incredibly far away. So far, in fact, that there's no actual geographic location to describe it, so we call it 'East Jabrew'. The parking lot for our dorm is incredibly small, so they have an auxiliary parking lot that's a block away that we can use. The parking lot is incredibly big, and the way that it's structured makes it so that there is a stretch of the lot that goes really far back. This part of the lot is termed 'East Jabrew'. I invite you to use this term as you will.

Post-It Wall

So I'm back at SCSU and had my first week of classes. The best part, however, is this new project that my roommate, Angel, came up with.

Last semester she had a lot of quotes from the Bible up on the wall to inspire her. This semester, however, she has decided not to put them up and instead we are creating post it spirals all around the room.

Let me explain how it works. We created a list of rules. Basically, each of us has to try to create one post-it a day, if possible. The post-it must be a phrase, sentence, drawing, etc. that is inspirational, thought-provoking, motivating, or just funny. No unnecessary profanity, and once a post-it is made it cannot be thrown out and must remain on the wall. The post-its will be put up when they are made and made to create a spiral pattern. Once we fill up the wall space above her desk, we will expand to other areas of the room.

I like the idea, it's a way for us all to express ourselves and what we find meaningful in a creative way that we can all share. The post-its are all different colors, so it will make the white walls more colorful. And she's planning to eventually make the post-it spirals into permanent inspirational posters.