State of the country

First off let start of by stating that I support the troops in every way, but i do not support the reasons they are there. This may seem a little odd, but it stems from the fact that they have no say in weather they get deployed or not. Our wonderful president does that one. I was reading this article a few days ago regarding the Cost of the war :

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-na-warcosts22sep22,0,234891.story?coll=la-home-center

Spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is to rise from $173 billion this year to about $195 billion in fiscal 2008, which begins Oct. 1.In 2004, the two conflicts together cost $94 billion; in 2005, they cost $108 billion; in 2006, $122 billion.

This put a staggering total spent on the war at about 500 Billion, thats FIVE HUNDRED BILLION folks not million. That is just ridiculous, and the upcoming budget for the war is going to increase to 195 Billion for 2008. This is funding htat is going to be taken from else where or structured into the program by going more in to debt. People often times state its money we owe to ourselves, while this maybe true it results in a reduction of the value of the dollar due to how much is being barrowed against it.
This is shown in the value of the Euro Reaching 1.41 for one EURO. This alone should show how much of a impact the war is having on our future value. This war by no means is going to end soon, but there should be a exit stratagey starting to take place or atleast being thought up off. neither seems to be unfolding as of now with both parties. Thus the point i wanted to make was that this war is result in the value of the dollar decreasing as well presenting no end in sight with neither party representing a solution but rather pointing fingures. The way Politics always seem to pan out. with that i leave you with an interesting picture:



~Aditya

The world as we know it

There are many ways to describe the state of our present world, we can state things that have occurred or are in the process of occurring. Things we feel may result in change and things that we feel may result in nothing significant. Up on this entire middle ground, one has to realize we hear about all the changes that need to occur, but for some reason nothing results. The reason i speak of this is because look at where our world is in terms of technological advancement?
First example:
The Size of one Gigabyte in 1987 Vs. One Gigabyte in present sizes
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Now how about something with correlation with specifics events in the world(particularly US):
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/21/car.nooses/index.html?=cnn

Two arrested in noose incident near Jena, Louisiana

Summary:
A Louisiana city that hosted many of the "Jena 6" protesters Thursday became the site of a racially charged incident of its own.

A photo taken by I-Reporter Casanova Love shows a noose hanging from a pickup in Alexandria, Louisiana

Authorities in Alexandria, less than 40 miles southwest of Jena, arrested two people who were driving a red pickup Thursday night with two nooses hanging off the back, repeatedly passing groups of demonstrators who were waiting for buses back to their home states.

I mean when you read both these articles or view the pictures, you have to ask yourself how can one race be so intelligent and robust yet be so backward as to base a persons worth and respect on ones skin color and not intelligence and merit even in 2007. Think about it.