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lly going hungry in 2005 the data bolsters my contention that we are becoming more like a third world nation every day the statistics show some improvement of the problem the current food insecure figure of 11 is higher than the previous year s 11 9 we can only hope and pray that god softens the hearts our people for americans are a stiff necked people unable to hear the words of hope and unable to answer the call to compassion the report itself can be found here labels bush food insecurity hunger texas posted by mike 10 03 pm 2 comments monday october 23 2006 kansas gov cadidate barnett visits adult sunday school class state senator jim barnett honored my issues and us class by visiting with us recently and sharing his ideas for the future of kansas such a nice man a doctor and pretty well informed he is of course wrong on many things but i must say he struck me as sincere he just needs someone with a deeper understanding of public service to brief him he opposes school vouchers for the same reasons right thinking kansas everywhere oppose them vouchers undermine public schools by taking tax money and spending it on private schools he is running against the state government a time honored tradation now to run on a platform of attacking the institution you wish to head he says the state government in kansas has grown faster than the governments of the other 49 states and points to numbers of employees as evidence this is worth talking about because the number of employees is only one indicator of the size of government because many government services are contracted out the actual numbers of employees could decline markedly over a few years while the size of the government mushrooms in fact this is precisely the situation at the federal level we now have far fewer feds but the size of the national goverment has exploded we now have vast numbers of shadow employees through contracters a more interesting measure would be percentage of gross state product spent on government sort of gdp at the state level i asked barnett about the school finance formula he said he would change it by increasing the local option budget but not by too much in essence he would leave the present system in place with only minor adjustments that would appeal to johnson county if you read my posts of a few months ago you know i feel the whole rotten system must be scrapped he did take the time to denounce governor sibelius although his manner was polite barnett feels very strongly that the current system of health insurance does not meet the needs of the state he would patch the current system by requiring insurance companies to offer low cost coverage to certain classes of poor people he rightly identifies part of the problem but the solution still escapes him his proposal simply shifts the cost of an expensive ineffective system to those who already have insurance with a dollop of gravy reserved for the insurance companies barnett would require proof of citizenship before any state services would be permitted to an individual when asked if he would give medical treatement to somebody without papers he said he would as a nation we are moving towards having a national i d card resistance to the idea has waned in the face of terrorism i can forsee a day soon when any person can be stopped at any time and have to produce proof of identity although i m sure barnett would argue that his proposal does no such thing i fear it is another step down that path barnett looks you right in the eye he says i m not a politician for the record he talks like a politician walks like a politician shakes hands like a politician and thinks like a politician posted by mike 7 04 pm 4 comments friday october 06 2006 foley hysteria or hype i must confess i chortled with glee when i first heard about representative foley s resignation and the reasons for it leaders in congress and the talking heads on fox news blame the democrats and abc news for foley s troubles the democrats are to blame those antics make it hard to keep a smile off my lips but a more thoughtful response might put foley into perspective let us note he did not take bribes from contractors working on iraqi reconstruction he did not as far as we know take money and favors from the crooked lobbyist jack abramoff he did not order troops into battle or start any preventitive wars in fact no body fluids were actually exchanged not that i condone sexual messages from an adult to a minor far from it but i m not going to froth at the mouth over it either on the grand scale of outrages this hardly registers my concerns are the increasing concentration of wealth and widening pool of poverty in this nation i worry about the 8 000 kids in my town who go to bed hungry every night i worry about friends and acquaintances who despite having good insurance cannot afford life sustaining medicines every single day we waste time focused on this scandal we are not focused on the men and women fighting and dying in iraq every hour we worry over some instant message to a 16 year old is an hour not spent pursuing the billions of dollars being stolen from the united states and iraq by crooked contractors each minute of airtime spent castigating the speaker of the house is a minute spent not working to end the genocide in darfur foley did wrong he resigned he s in treatment and under fbi investigation lets move on to truly important issues posted by mike 7 29 am 3 comments tuesday october 03 2006 did al qaeda or bush start the war in afghanistan a reader says i was under the impression that al qaeda started the war in afghanistan something about crashing jetliners into skyscrapers this in response to my statement that the new 21st century republicans started two wars afghanistan and iraq thanks for taking the time to comment on my blog you have a legitimate point to make though i feel you could have made it better if i took your comment at face value it would be like saying oklahoma declared war on the united states when tim mcveigh blew up 195 of our people but i will try to respect what you meant given the tolerance the taliban had for osama and his minions the case for going to war in afghanistan was pretty strong that being said it s crystal clear that the taliban is not the same thing as afghanistan and of course osama and his followers are not native to that country if we are to win we must be clear about the facts and not blur important distinctions for the sake of scoring rhetorical points neither afghanistan nor the afghan people attacked the united states i urge you to think write and speak clearly long term and strategically our enemies do try thinking through the purpose and operation of terrorism it is not simply a blind outpouring of hatred it has its own think tanks sophisticated logic and ideology the september 11th attack proves the danger of underestimating the enemy we chose our response to the attack on september 11 and we chose war we could have responded by narrowly focusing on al qaeda the gang that instigated the attack instead we invaded given the facts on the ground that is that a narrow retaliation like the cruise missle strike clinton ordered during his term would most likely fail war to rout the taliban and al qaeda was logical of course from a larger strategic perspective the issue is more problematic one of the certain consequences of war is to make more enemies this calculation incidentally is the logic that drives genocides the purpose of terror tactics briefly is not merely to strike terror in the heart of the enemy in fact history shows that a people s resolve is strengthened during a struggle so long as hope of eventual victory remains people will keep on fighting no the purpose of terror is to provoke an overwhelming and disproportionate response that harms innocents the aggrieved innocents then become the enemies of the one struck by terror and allies of the terrorists this is why the national intelligence estimate says that the war in iraq has actually made us less safe we must understand history politics and look at how other movements have succeeded or failed our enemies do at this point it would be most illuminating to examine the french experience in algeria here http www findarticles com p articles mi_m0pbz is_4_85 ai_n15674586 i think it is important that we explore whether or not agreement on the facts is possible as part of working together towards making us and the world safer so yes there is a sense in which you can say al qaeda started the war just as you can say the united states fell into the trap and continues to respond according to osama s plan labels afghanistan al qaeda bush history strategy tactics taliban terrorism war posted by mike 5 40 am 4 comments sunday october 01 2006 mayans note the photo is a link to a larger version of the image these guys are actually descended from the ancient mayans they dress up for the tourists and strike a pose as part of the show put on at xcaret the show features these guys barefoot and barelegged playing hockey with literally balls of fire the wooden balls are about the size of a basketball and have been soaked in some flammable liquid the guys slap the ball hard enough to send if flying across an 80 meter or so long arena sometimes the ball shatters in a shower of sparks and flaming shards the arena has a stone floor and seats maybe five thousand or so the games and show are way cool highly recommended they also play a traditional game with a heavy leather ball in this game only the hips can contact the ball a sideways stone hoop is mounted on the wall the first team to get the ball through the hoop wins the mayans were playing these sports and building a high civilization at about the time of plato and aristotle i seldom think of any ancient civilzation as very advanced other than our own ancient european ancestors but that s a bad habit posted by mike 11 54 pm 2 comments monday september 25 2006 vacationing with cancer my friend dawn battles stage four kidney cancer she fights it every day that she gets up and goes to work she fights it when she comes home and cooks for her son she fights it when she insists the doctors give her a second opinion she fights her cancer with dignity and determination in the photo at left we see dawn with a hat made from a cloth napkin some time ago jane and i laid plans to travel up to canada in july a nice vacation to get away from the heat of what we thought might be an unusually hot summer our children wanted to visit chicago on the way i have never seen niagra falls but when we learned of dawn s diagnosis we reconsidered dawn had never been to the carribean never been in waters so clear you can see fifty feet never had a vacation that didn t require at least a few chores each day never been snorkling and never had done many things we thought she would enjoy so jane and i invited her and her son to accompany us to a beach resort in mexico south of cancun at the resort literally everything would be done for her and provided for her all meals were included full maid service room service entertainment beach activities etc etc she could hardly contain her excitement though i worried about whether her health would hold it gave jane and me a lot of satisfaction as jane said this trip gave dawn something else to live for we cancelled our canadian reservations and made arrangements to travel to playa del carmen when our closest friends learned of our plans they wanted to come too one of our friends stepped up and paid a share of the cost of taking dawn and her son nine of us flew to cancun at the end of july our flights went well dawn in a wheelchair moved our party to the head of various lines we received extra help from the airlines and at the airports we got a chuckle out of the helpers in the cancun airport who assumed that dawn and our single gay friend were married funny how things work out dawn gets comfort and relief from an herbal tea she brews at home since the rooms at the resort lacked any kind of cooking facility but did have mini fridges she brewed up some in advance the tea packed in a cloth cooler and surrounded by frozen water bottles survived as a carry on quite well of course only a week after our return home all carry on liquids were banished we went to the beach or the swimming pool or both every day the weather remained perfect for us all week long never raining and never getting as hot as it was back home the ocean waves helped with dawn s arthritis and she was getting around better when we left than when we arrived we went to the ruins and the world class beach at tulum we toured the fabulous eco park at xcaret in short we had a wonderful vacation what does it mean to vacation with cancer what is it like to think the time left might be only months and not years of course what cancer brings with it is immediate awareness of mortality but are we not all mortal do we not all choose how to ration our days dawn s example teaches us to make these choices carefully to spend time with friends and loved ones to do that which matters and forsake that which doesn t her example teaches us to rely on god for sustaining strength dawn gets around with a walker now and continues to fight for her life she works every day and does what she can for charity and to help others she also continues to plan for the future she knows who she wants to conduct her funeral services in her quiet determined way dawn shows us how to be worthy posted by mike 9 06 pm 1 comments tuesday september 19 2006 republican angst many of my very best friends are republicans for some reason they don t talk politics much these days my friends sensible reliable people you would be glad to have in your home grew up on a republican party that stood for high moral values the party they supported stood for fiscal conservatism personal responsibility small government and maximum personal freedom they were from the proud tradition of abraham lincoln theirs was not the pro torture pro secret prisons party the republicans have become their party would never have openly advocated the general suspension of civil liberties their party somewhat isolationist would never have supported a pre emptive war i remember being told by a staunch republican friend in the 1980 s that the democrats always got us into wars after all a democrat held the presidency at the outbreak of both world wars the korean war and vietnam well no longer the new 21st century republicans started two wars afghanistan and iraq the 21st century republican party presided over the largest increases in federal spending in history the 21st century republican party vastly expanded the reach and scope of federal government intrusion into the private lives of all of us my republican friends don t talk politics much anymore but they still vote posted by mike 6 56 pm 5 comments friday september 15 2006 osama george bush bff the president speaks 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