Tuesday, October 19, 2004
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Why Bush is unfit
Well, Monday has come and gone. The last day to register to vote in this year's presidential election has past. I still havn't heard from our so-called "Homeland Security Department" granting me a citizenship. Looks like this country will have to do without my vote on taking back our country. Today, I came across this article (via The Fishbowl) published in New York Times Magazine: Without a Doubt that pretty much says why George W. Bush is so "clear-eyed" about Al Qaeda and the Islamic Fundamentalist enemy.

Senator Joe Biden — ''I was in the Oval Office a few months after we swept into Baghdad,'' he began, ''and I was telling the president of my many concerns'' -- concerns about growing problems winning the peace, the explosive mix of Shiite and Sunni, the disbanding of the Iraqi Army and problems securing the oil fields. Bush, Biden recalled, just looked at him, unflappably sure that the United States was on the right course and that all was well. '''Mr. President,' I finally said, 'How can you be so sure when you know you don't know the facts?'"

Biden said that Bush stood up and put his hand on the senator's shoulder. ''My instincts,'' he said. ''My instincts.''

Biden paused and shook his head, recalling it all as the room grew quiet. ''I said, 'Mr. President, your instincts aren't good enough!'"

The Delaware senator was, in fact, hearing what Bush's top deputies -- from cabinet members like Paul O'Neill, Christine Todd Whitman and Colin Powell to generals fighting in Iraq -- have been told for years when they requested explanations for many of the president's decisions, policies that often seemed to collide with accepted facts. The president would say that he relied on his ''gut'' or his ''instinct'' to guide the ship of state, and then he ''prayed over it.''
We are sending our citizens, our children, our spouses, our fathers, our mothers to fight a war based on our president's instincts!? Absolutely incredulous! What and where are all the checks and balances in our government structure? Bush is the commandar-in-chief for our military but he is not our commandar-in-chief of our country. It is still our country and we want it back.

If you are on the same boat as I am, you can cast your vote here. Globalvote2004.org is totally neutral. You may vote for any candidate coonfidentially and only once. They will count the vote 48 hours before the election in U.S.A and submit the result to the media letting US citizens know what the world's sentiments are on our candidates.

So Cast your vote one way or the other. We all can iinfluence what might be a tight race.
The above website was contributed by Ivan


Wednesday, October 13, 2004
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Colorstrology
We live in a colorful world and these shades of color convey different feelings to us. What does the color blue say to you? What does the color red feel to you? We all perceive color differently through the rods and cones in our eyes. How many times do we stop and marvel at all the different color spectrum displayed in our sky? As the sun rises, the orange of the sun gives way to the blue. As sun sets, the blue in the sky changes to the orange, rose, purple then grey to reveal the stars in our night sky.

This past Saturday, I joined a bunch of star gazers at Crestview Park in San Carlos as we track the stars, galaxies, and planets. Amongst the group was a educational planner working for San Francisco's Exploratorium. She was designing and planning a new exhibit that will teach us how diversely colorful is our sky. We tend to label sky as an generic blue. What shade of blue? Is it more purple? A light blue? In this part of the Bay Area, it could just be a haze due to the pollution.

We all have a favorite color because of what that color makes us feel. But maybe that color actually says something personal about you. Pantone creates and maintains a set color standard for my field in printing. They launched a site that takes your birthday and designates a color pallet. Much like a birthstone.
The colors that we see all around us are a reflection of the sun's light in all its glory. It is magic made visible. Theres is nothing more miraculous, unexpected or wonderous than seeing a rainbow appear in the sky.

You are part of that rainbow of light and just as being born on a particular day under a particular Sun sign offers insights into your personlaity and nature, there is also a personal color that corresponds to the real you. It is a color that reflects the very essence of your specific birth date.
This is a very well design site with nice graphic and interface.

Check out your color and see if you agree with them or not. My birth month May is Bud Green (green has always been my favorite color) and my birthdate 21st is Mandarin Orange (that might explain the orange here). And next time as you are hurrying somewhere, stuck in traffic, stop and marvel at the color of the sky. You might be amazed that it is not what should be the color of the sky as you know it.


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