Transitions: January 2008

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Monday, January 28, 2008

Why I'm learning Conversational Italian...

"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you." -- Maya Angelou

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Now you can see anyone's Driver's License on the Internet, including your own! I just searched for mine and there it was picture and all!! Thanks Homeland Security! Where are our rights?

Go to the web site and check it out. Just enter your name, city and state to see if yours is on file. After your license comes on the screen, click the box marked 'Please Remove'. This will remove it from public viewing, but not from law enforcement.

http://www.license.shorturl.com/

I definitely removed mine. I hope you do too.

Friday, January 25, 2008

Is this guy on crack?

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity."

Irving Kristol (born January 22, 1920, Brooklyn, New York City, New York) is considered the founder of American neoconservatism. He is married to conservative author and emerita professor Gertrude Himmelfarb and is the father of William Kristol.

Neoconservatism is the political philosophy that emerged in the United States from the rejection of social liberalism and the New Left counter-culture of the 1960s. It influenced the Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and the George W. Bush presidential administrations, representing a re-alignment in American politics, and the defection of liberals to the right-hand side of the political spectrum. One accomplishment was "to make criticism from the Right acceptable in the intellectual, artistic, and journalistic circles where conservatives had long been regarded with suspicion." Neoconservatism emphasizes foreign policy as paramount responsibility of government, seeing the need for the U.S. acting as the world's sole superpower as indispensable to establishing and maintaining global order.