slentine's blog

When I first  heard of blogging, I honestly never thought it would be something I would do. I'm not a writer, I even avoid classes that require term papers. Then things started happening around me. Powerful people were lying, Americans were suffering, soldiers were dying. One thing I noticed was other people at my college weren't really paying attention, and didn't really care to.

The gas prices are not going to stop growing until we do some thing about it! I feel Bush cares more about his friends in the oil industry than his own country. We need to let our voices be heard. Now is the best time, with elections coming up in the House and Senate. If we write a simple letter to our Congressmen and Senators stating that the gas prices are effecting our lives and something needs to be done.

Recently the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commision has started a new way of defeating drunkenness, they are arresting people right at the bar.

People are raising money for the awareness of Brokeback Mountain? In a recent article in Newsweek magazine, I discovered that people will hand their money over for the most lame causes.

The White House is shifting focus from Iraq to Iran. They are stating that Iran has the resources to make Weapons of Mass Destruction. Haven't we heard this one before?

Spring Break is coming soon! In just a couple of weeks thousands of college students will be headed down south. Lying on beach with barely anything on, and drinking like you just crossed the Sahara!

Recently there has been talk about changing the way we buy cable tv. They want to change the system so people will pay per channel instead of paying one lump sum for a large grouping of channels. The claims are that the average household only watches about 17 channels and the predictions were that it will save people money. However if you look more deeply into it, the change benefits the cable companies more than the consumers.

These are from an article with the same title on Alternet.org please go to this site and read the article if you have any doubt that our government has been lying to us.

1. Bush: "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees"

2. Chertoff strained credulity in defense of Bush, claimed levee breaks and massive flooding came as a surprise -- more than 12 hours after local media reported them