Jeremy Herndon

I don’t understand a lot about what’s going on in the financial disaster news, but I was under the impression that this big bail-out issue was a pretty important issue, and that if the bill did not pass we were going to have a serious economy collapse that would wreak havoc with almost everyones life.  So I was very surprised to hear that the House of Representatives rejected the big Bail-Out.  I hope this is not a result of people holding out for some pork-barrel favors!   I don’t know what the other options are to the bail out package, so I sure hope that someone comes up with a solution that prevents us all from losing our jobs, and homes, and starving to death!  This is pretty serious stuff!

Well history certainly is in the making, there is no doubt about that.  Big financial corporations are failing left and right.  I have no pity on those corporations, but I do understand that if they don’t get some kind of rescue from the US the economy is going to be in even deeper trouble than it is – and that is hard for me to imagine. 

I have a few friends who claim “so what, it doesn’t effect me, so I don’t care.”  They don’t understand that as the problems trickle down they could lose their jobs and not be able to find new ones.  Without their jobs they will be unable to pay their bills, might lose their homes and starve to death.  So this is a much bigger deal than a lot of the “common folks” really understand.  I know I’m nervous about my own job!

I was reading on a few Internet sites that the Royal Society’s education director Professor Michael Reiss has resigned from his post due to a controversy that occurred when he was misquoted regarding creationism being taught in the classroom.  He claims that he said that if a student brings up creationism that the class should be encouraged to understand evolution.  He was misquoted as saying that creationism should be taught in the classroom.

This is a classic case of people being misquoted and the havoc it can wreak in their lives.  I can think of a few times that I’ve said something and I was misquoted and I ended up in unfortunate circumstances, such as losing a valued friend.

A lie that is believed can have the same consequence as if it were true.  It really is too bad.

I like Ralph Nader.  I really and truly do.  I was reading an article on The Washington Post website today about how there was a unity rally of third party candidates yesterday that went downhill fast when Bob Barr refused to attend the rally and essentially insulted the other candidates.

I think Ralph Nader would make a good president, but I don’t think that the United States will ever see a President elected from a “Third Party.”  The two-party system is just too strong.  I think if Ralph Nader ever really got serious about running for president and joined the Democratic or Republican party, he just might win, but as long as he stays with a Third Party I think his efforts will be unsuccessful.

I have an uncle who lives in England, and he sent me an email telling me that horrible storms have hit the UK, killing five people.  The country is under flood alert.  I don’t remember hearing about this on the news anywhere, and it makes me wonder why.  I don’t know if I just wasn’t paying attention, or if it just didn’t get very much coverage here in the US.  It seems to me that sometimes “we” are a little bit too self-centered and egotistical and don’t pay enough attention to what is going on in the rest of the world unless it has a direct impact on “American Interests” – which means corporate profits!