I first heard about this story a few weeks ago on NPR and couldn’t wait for it to happen, and then it did. There is not an app on mytwitface (myspace, twitter, facebook) where for a minimum of a $1 donation you can befriend a gorilla in Uganda. You will receive regular updates, learn trivia and have your new friend’s picture on your homepage. The dontaions go to the Wildlife Authority who help to protect the Gorillas who are threatened by poachers.
Ugandan Gorilla
So hop on your fav social media networking site or go to www.friendagorilla.org and befriend a Gorilla today.
I am a huuuuuuge fan of little kid movies. Loved Bolt, Meet the Robinson’s, Wall-e, Cars, all of ‘em. But recently my heart was swept away by this little gem of a movie. Pixar, you have done it again. How you continuously are able to create animated movies that capture the hearts of young and old is beyond me. I don’t think I have ever seen a pixar movie that I just plain liked. I have always has some sort of attachment to each and every movie starting with Toy Story. Your interesting stories with unexpected plot twist and imaginative characters create movies that are (insert word here that means beyond amazing, wonderful and witty).
And Up!, ohhhh Up! You made me feel bipolar as I had tears streaming down my cheeks one minute and my face buried in my hands from fits of laughter the next minute. First thing I did when it was over was turn to my boyfriend and say in a little kids voice “can we own in when it comes out puhhweeeees!” So if you have not seen it yet I highly advise you do so, regardless of what age you are.
I was proud last night. Do you want to know why I was proud? I watched the Tonight show with Jay Leno and saw him interview President Obama. And this is not another rant about how he will make a great president or how I hate Sarah Palin or yay for minorities. I am proud for a really simple reason. He is normal. He is a normal human being who can kick back, make jokes, form sentences and make statements that did not have to be pre-written by some speech writer. He did not memorize sound bites before he went ok. He probably wasn’t planning about talking about the new dog or his horrible bowling score. It just happened the way a normal conversation takes place. It is slightly weird that I am proud of something so simple as a decent conversation between a talk show host and another human being. Maybe it was because I am 22 meaning Bush went into office when I was 14. 14-15 was when I started paying attention to politics. All I have really known is a president who fumbles his words, makes bad jokes, has a weird, almost fake, Texas accent (when he is not even from Texas) and basically does not seem like one of us, one of the people, an average joe. Now I am not calling Obama an average joe in terms of intellect or integrity, I mean he is someone who speaks and acts like a normal human. I should not be proud of this aspect because I personally think it should be the norm for a president. A president should be able to relate his ideas to the people without saying things wrong or having to rely on sound bites. He should be able to state his beliefs and policies off the top of his head. I don’t get lost when Obama speaks. I don’t get distracted. I don’t want to give up and change the channel. I don’t shake my head at half of the nation who voted from him. I’m just proud that the nation picked him. He is articulate and personable and has some great ideas and is willing to go the distance to put them into action. Let’s see what happens.
So I just started my last semester today and my firs class is called Science in Perspective. Interesting. My professor, who has such a awesomely dry sense of humor that it is completely lost on half of the class, was speaking about how behind American’s are in teaching their youth about science. I completely agree. I honestly don’t feel like the science classes I took in middle school and high school made me want to consider any career in the sciences. Mostly because they are focused on the basics of sciences and not so much as to how they apply to our world and society. Meaning they don’t make science interesting enough or important enough to gain student’s interests from an early age. Sucky! So what to do? We always talk about hiring new teachers and paying them more and blah blah blah, but how about restructuring all those early science education classes in addition to paying more and such.
I am also writing this because a few days ago I read Thomas Friedman’s latest blog called Tax Cut’s For Teachers. He really makes a good statement about helping out math and science teachers so that they can better teach the youth of America. Cuz really, what good is it if we start tomorrow making energy safe cars if we don’t teach our youth to continue it?
There are some articles that I have read over the past few days that have been rolling around in my head and have twisted themselves together.
It started with the whole auto bail-out. Honestly, I don’t want that many Americans to lose their jobs but the companies they work for that need assistance have no hope. They are selling cars that the majority of Americans don’t want. I own a toyota and my next car, is going to be a toyota. A lot of people I know feel that way toward toyota and honda and other foreign car companies. Why? Fuel efficiency ? Innovation. Alternative fuel efficient cars. Foreign car companies are thinking ahead. That is when I came across Thomas Friendman’s article “While Detroit Slept“. If we were to do the auto bailout he stated:
“our bailout of Detroit will be remembered as the equivalent of pouring billions of dollars of taxpayer money into the mail-order-catalogue business on the eve of the birth of eBay.”
That’s when it hit me. These companies need a plan to be able to receive aid, but I bet none of them included looking into more fuel efficient cars. Or figuring out a better business model for the American auto industry. Click on the link above to read about the Better Place electric car charging system that Friedman talks about. Now there is an idea.
Pouring money into the auto industry would fail. It would do no good because they would just keep doing things the exact same way they have been causing taxpayers dollars to be flushed down the toilet. So I was happy when I read the article “Senate Abandons Automaker Bailout Bid” the other day. I mean I feel bad for all those losing their jobs but taxpayers should not be used to keep a company afloat for another couple of months until they fail again.
But after this article I started to think about how I wish we could give them money only to be used to create fuel efficient cars. Then I read “Arctic warming ‘points to ice-free summers’“. And I thought, well great. Global warming and we can’t get our American auto companies to even think ahead to creating environmentally safe cars. “The Arctic had been predicted to see ice-free summers by 2070, but many scientists are now predicting it could happen within the next 20 years, according to the newspaper.” This is where I wish that we could bailout the American companies so long as they make better cars. Electric, Solar, Wind, Hydrogen . . . whatever. Anything. We can do better. We need to. We need something better than we have now.
So I was thinking the other day about how I am always on the internet. How it has become the first thing I do in the morning and the last thing I do at night. Check my facebook, both e-mails, edopter, schedule at work and the weather. I’m whipped and not afraid to say it. The internet has me wrapped around it’s little digital finger and I will kindly fetch it it’s slippers every night and make it breakfast in the morning.
“According to the study, 46 percent of women and 30 percent of men would opt to forgo sex for two weeks rather than give up access to their precious Internet for the same period. “
WOW!! Also:
“The survey revealed that 65 percent of adults feel they cannot live without Internet access, and even more — 71 percent — responded that it is important or very important to have Internet-enabled devices, such as laptops, netbooks and mobile Internet devices that can provide them with real-time updates on important issues including the state of the economy.”
So I think we should form a support group. We can start off easy, knock off one hour of internet access a day till we are only down to 5 from 24. Sound good? It doesn’t help that when I am at work I am in front of a computer. My internship involves internet marketing and being a student requires me to constantly be on my computer. I don’t think there is hope for me but you can still be saved. Go outside. Read a book. Have sex; don’t give it up for the internet. Don’t let the internet win. If I could, I would be in a relationship with my boyfriend on facebook and an open relationship with the internet as well, but I don’t have that option. Cyberspace doesn’t understand our relationship. It’s not natural, nor organic.
So save yourself. Please. Step away from the screen.
I came across this website that made me upset. Lots of things do, but this one in particular. It’s a section of t-shirts on CafePress that all say Impeach Obama. Not only are there t-shirts but there are hats, doggie bowls, bags, children’s bibs . . . you name it with the words “Impeach Obama” written all over them. Common. Seriously. Already. The guy hasn’t even stepped upon his red, white and blue thrown and people already want to impeach him.
That’s like the other day when I heard people saying that they were upset that Obama isn’t living up to his word. Well, he is not in office yet. Get over it. Give him a chance to get in office and theeeen judge him. That’s all I’m saying.
I HATE the fact that proposition 8 passed in California. I hate that the majority of African Americans in California voted for Prop 8. Then how the majority of African Americans in the US voted for Obama. They talk about change and overcoming oppression and then they turn around and oppress another group. I couldn’t even really be happy for Obama because while I wanted him to win and think that his victory was a step forward for our country, I think Prop 8 was two steps back. It made Obama’s victory bitter for me because we just passed the oppression to another group of people.
Anyways, I came across this video that my friend Charles posted on Facebook and I was shocked. This was the kind of propaganda going around for Prop 8. This video is BS and you will see why. Watch!
First off, real people would have better responses for that because they would be expecting it. They would say love is between a man and a woman and how their family is special or something. The “gay” characters’ discomfort with their daughter’s questions was ridiculous. It’s sad that there are people who see that and think, oh this is true and how it is going to be. Better not let them get married.
So I heard the weirdest commercial today on my way to work. It started off saying how Joe Biden and Colin Powell have both stated that in January Obama will be faced with an international decision that will cause him to make some unfavorable decisions. There was nothing specific about this “international problem” but only that it it will hurt the American people so much that they should stock up on food. Which, it so happens, you can buy at efoodsdirect. Ohhhhh commmmeeee ooooooonnn. Seriously. You have to use fear tactics to sell food now? First off how vague is some “international problem”? Second, how is it going to affect our food sources? Is there some weather problem we don’t know about? Is there going to be an attack that will cause us to not have access to food? Are they talking about the financial crisis and people not being able to buy food?
The last thing that was stated on that commercial was “it’s better to have too much food then not enough”. So I decided to check out these people once I got to work. eFoodDirect is emergency storage food. They sell packages of dehydrated food. They also have a nice little video explaining what their company is trying to do. You can watch the creepy guy explain it below.
I seriously sat in my car for a minute and laughed after I heard that. Obviously will be in a food shortage at some point, but really? January? Obama is going to make unfavorable decisions. I guess they don’t like him too much. Just had to share this with someone.
I have figured it out. I have solved the riddle. I know why Obama is so focused on education. Look at this poll from www.gallup.com.
Preference for the General Election, by Education
Obama wants everyone to go to college. To have “the opportunity”. Oh look at Obama, looking out for the American People. Unselfish. Humble. Caring. Giving.
WHATEVER
I know what you are doing. I read the above poll. Educated people are voting Democrat. Yeah, that’s right. I said it. You are greedy sir. You want to allow everyone to get educated so that you can secure a 2nd term in 2012. Finally the truth comes out. You don’t care about the people or about their actual education. You just know that people, when allowed to open their minds and understand society and what is best for it, will take that new ideology and vote for you. Well sir I never, in my entire life, thought I would see this day. A day when a politician wants something for the people but really only to benefit himself. Shame on you for tricking people into getting an education by telling them it is a great opportunity for themselves just so there can be one less Republican. Shhhhaaaaammmmeeee!
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