Energy, Obama and Michael Jackson

Have not posted in a while, been to busy/way to lazy. This new energy bill that is going through congress is interesting and could be devastating to the United States. In essence it puts restrictions on businesses that operate out of the United States and frankly anyone in the United States that the rest of the world has not undertaken and frankly will not. This will continue the exodus of some from the United States because of new restirctions and will also raise prices and such across the board. Now is not a time for a "cap and trade" bill it will only bankrupt the country more. Instead of trying to regulate old industries we need to do what Americans do best, innovate we need to pump money into the private sector to make green jobs and green industry profitable. We also need to get ballsy in our decisions, nuclear energy is an option once we find out what to do with the waste. Today there is not enough being spent figuring out what to do with the waste, maybe partnering with european countries which use substantial amounts of nuclear energy would make it possible to find a proper way to dispose of it. This article http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124580572129645069.html supporting changes to our nuclear energy policies is a good read and helped me a lot in understanding what we need to do. Energy should be at the top of the list but impedeing profits and stagnating on creating a green industry are counterproductive
Obama is making me somewhat sick once again. For some reason I watched the ABC infomercial after his "no-no" in doing a planted question during his daytime press conference but this was just sick. Planted questions galor was not enough meatball questions were the norm. This healthcare issue is going to blow up very soon with both sides getting heated. I believe I stand somewhere in the middle. Some things need to be changed, our livestyles need to change and people need to have the right information. But we need to keep the best doctors coming into this country and we need to keep private insurers. True people should not be precluded from getting care, true doctors should not be scared of getting random malpractice suites, the lure of family medicine should be subsidized by government grants for graduate education....we should be digitized.....there are flaws but that DOES NOT included a public plan. Obama is dilly dallying on that answer because he wants it but he needs to know it is politically feasible, he is pandering. I hate this game and he tries to play it too often. Say what you want....not what you think people want to hear....we need change but not with the governments hand involved.
Michael Jackson, the man had it rough. It is a sad day to see an icon fall. For some reason I never thought he was guilty of the horrible things people accused him of. Some may say I am crazy, and maybe I am but for some reason I dont think there was a malicious bone in that guys body and he knew molesting children was bad. I truly believe he could only feel himself with other children, he was a man child....he only had some semblence of a childhood and then the rest of his life was managed and revolved around his carrer. Him hanging a baby out the window? He didnt know it was wrong....I believe we, the people, the public fucked this mans life for good and then gave him shit for it....he was an icon, a part of the fabric of American culture that will never be torn out....R.I.P Michael