Senate approves $7B disaster aid plan

These House republican should be ashamed of themselves­, but I’m sure that they are not. If they want to offset the 7 billion disaster relief fund than I would happily offer up to them a few big oil subsidies as an idea to start. But obviously that will fall on deaf ears because where are they gunning for the monies to offset the expenditur­e? The fuel efficiency program for automobile­s that’s where! This absurd denial of climate change and its link to fossil fuels will literally be the death of us. We need to evolve to cleaner energy and not stay backwards, it is costing us as a nation way too much.
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Ron Suskind Book ‘Confidence Men’: Tim Geithner Ignored Obama Order On Banks

This just makes me more angry with Geithner. If Geithner had any awareness of the history of the Citigroup bank and its executives and their constant mismanagem­ent of risk and our subsequent forced bailouts for them, than Geithner is just as bad as all those executives to have not followed President Obama’s directive to dissolve Citibank. Geithner is solely a big bank lackey and I blame him for not pushing for bigger stimulus and instead for calling for deficit reduction which serves big banking interests instead of working class American who are out of work thanks in part to the big banking industry. Robert Rubin came from Citigroup, he was lousy as treasury secretary as well. He help start the whole mess by advising for the repeal of Glass-Steg­el, the worst decision ever made, sorry President Clinton but it is true.
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Do you believe in free will or do you think that it is all pre-determined?

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Free will, postaday2011, Religion

I believe in free will. The idea of pre-determination is depressing and distressing to me. I like to think that the future is wide open, we make our own future if you will. I don’t know if what I believe would qualify as God but I believe that there is an energy in the universe and within each of us. According to Albert Einstein, energy is a constant, it cannot be created or destroyed which is why some in the scientific community subscribe to biocentrism which in part explains that when we pass away, it is not the end but a transfer of energy from us to the universe. I have read quite a few lengthy articles written by scientists and amidst their descriptions of their scientific findings, they explain how their findings energized them by bringing mystery and science in the same realm of discussion. They basically stated that science and faith didn’t have to be separate, for them our energy and the energy in the universe tie into the mystery of the origin of the universe and life itself.

I know that my faith or lack there of will put off quite a few people, but when I speak of the energy that I believe is all around us and within us, it could be God. I just feel more comfortable believing in an energy that is energy, that doesn’t have human qualities, that doesn’t come with expectations for me or from me. I spent my school years in catholic school with the good nuns and wonderful brothers, so I have been taught the scriptures and the gospels. I came away with an interest in the history of the church and of other religions. It is really intriguing and when combined with anthropology, it becomes riveting, but somewhere along the line in high school I became disenchanted with religion for religion’s sake. I started to question, not God’s existence but the persona assigned to God by man.

With all this. I have true respect for people of all faiths. I admire them because they have something that I either lack or that I lost, I’m not sure. I am happy for them and I love reading my friends blogs when they devote their posts to interpreting passages of the bible. I always learn something and I get greater insight about how faith is for them and it is beautiful.