Education is key to future jobs

Obama has pledged to direct funds to community colleges to aid in the retraining of workers for future jobs. Hoorah for the philosophy of the more you know, the more power you have! "President Barack Obama on Tuesday unveiled a $12 billion plan to help community colleges prepare millions of people for a new generation of jobs."

AP Article

The only problem in Obama's plan is the perceived problem with fewer folks completing a degree at the Community College level than at the 4-year colleges. People who understand community colleges know that they attract people who are dabbling, who might want to take just a few classes, or who want a certificate for a job training program -- NONE of which requires completing the necessary classes for an actual AA degree. Pushing these people to get AA degrees would not be in their best interest. Completion rates of AA degrees should NOT be part of any future funding plans.

Australian Heathcare -- One good example

For a review on Australian Healthcare, look to this article. Per my recent travels, Australia makes the US look third world.

Where love leads, nature follows.

The animal world gives us evidence of the same behaviors we see among couples in the human world -- bisexual behaviors, break-ups, and interest in the next-door neighbor -- from Penguins to Chimps to Swans.

For more information, read this SF Chronicle Article: Widow a wedge between zoo's male penguin pair.

Indian Courts Decriminalize Consensual Gay Sex

Indian Courts Decriminalize Gay Behavior

Encouragement from the White House

I believe. I believe. It's silly, but I believe. (Think, "Miracle on 34th Street)

The White House has verbally committed to being on the side of equality for all.

Health Care Reform TODAY!

From Wikipedia: "The U.S. spends more per capita than any other nation in the world, but is the only wealthy industrialized country in the world that lacks some form of universal health care."

Read more at Wikipedia on the , see debate for Universal Healthcare.

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10 lessons for national health care reform

Melissa A. Rodgers
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

It's time to modernize our country's health care system and begin matching that offered by so many other countries throughout the world!

Letting Go of God

Julia Sweeney's Letting Go Of God! Monologue

This excellent monologue, by Julia Sweeney, is a hilarious, poignant, brave, and uplifting story about her search for a more real relationship with God. She relates her love of the Catholic Church in which she was raised, and her disillusion with the Bible on which its teachings are based. Ultimately, through much soul-searching and education, she comes to the understanding that there is no God. WHETHER YOU BELIEVE HER OR NOT, her presentation is worth listening to, if for no other reason than to hear about all the different conversations she's had with the Church and other spiritual leaders of our time.

Personally, she illustrates beautifully what I myself went through when I was in High School. And she ends by eloquently describing the sheer joy and spiritual high that we both share as we participate in the natural world without a God describing its actions or pulling its strings. Nature is amazing. Life is amazing. And ultimately -- we are here for one small moment in its trajectory -- how lucky we are to each have our moment, to get here at ALL!!!!! How important it is to really be alive and experience it all.