Life in General

It's my bog and I'll rant if I want to. Today's subject: Social Security.

If you don't want to keep reading, here's the moral of the story: Bush's plan to privatize Social Security will be the ruin of this country.

It's obvious that Social Security is in need of some reform, but not to the degree that Bush wants. There is no proof whatsoever that it will be bankrupt by 2018, that's just more of Bush's partisan fuzzy math. It's the same tactic he used to count the number of WMD's in Iraq. The Non-Partisan Finance Committee said that we have until 2042 before we need to think about serious changes and that 90% coverage can continue another 20 years after that.

Social Security, in its current form, will survive the baby boom. Privatization, however, will not. And though many Republicans will say the opposite, privatization did not survive in Chile. It was the child of a right-wing civil rights violator (Pinochet). Sounds familiar.

More about this later....Time for dinner.
Isaac

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Well, I hope you all enjoyed this year's brief winter because it's now spring. It's been 55+ degrees all week and I can hear birds chirping as I walk from class to class. I feel like wearing shorts and sandals (with socks of course, that's the Seattle way). Snow has already started melting in the mountains. So much so, in fact, that Mt. Baker is the only place in Washington that is still open for skiing, and even they have limited terrain open.

Screw winter: it had it's chance and it failed horribly. I'm moving to Siberia.

Goodbye, goodbye goodbye goodbye my friends,
Isaac

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No, Alan, I'm not talking about the movie. I'm talking about night skiing...on friday nights. My favorite time of winter has officially begun. As if friday needed a reason to get any better, I get to go skiing every friday for the next 6 weeks, stay at the Mountaineer lodge, and wake up Saturday morning to a foot of fresh snow. (At least that's the way it happens in my dreams.)

Seriously though, there's just something serene about skiing at night. It's quiet. It's calm. All of your other senses are hightened by the darkness. It forces you to focus more on your technique and rely less on sight to control the board. And most importantly: it makes me happy.

News update (warning: unhappy subject): Kira got in car accident Wednesday night about 1 minute after we left Cascade Crags. I haven't seen her car but I've heard it is pretty smashed up and undriveable. Call her if you want the details. Send her happy cards and leave her silly voicemails; she could use some cheering up right now.

Trying to stay awake and remember my name,
Isaac

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So here I am sitting in the office, at my very own desk, waiting for the SPECIAL EDITION newspapers to arrive. It should look pretty shnazzy because I did the layout for 5 of 8 pages. No one else is here to keep me company except for Late Show DJ on Virgin Radio UK. (It's already 12:30 at night for Beebs and Daisy.) I've been responding to e-mails and voicemails and organizing the office since lunch. And I still have a lot of stuff to take care of for the paper.

Moral of the story: It sucks when you have to start school and hit the ground running.

Real life application: I need a cold root beer, a couch, and a football game. Or perhaps a cabin up near Baker...

Liberal Interpretation: I am poor college student being overcharged by a state college and textbook companies, hence I should protest. (Curlz: "Protest?!? Where?!?")

Conservative Interpretation: I am good citizen doing my patriotic overtime and neglecting my studies.

Santa's Interpretation: Sucks to be you; I work one day a year!

Headlining story in tomorrow's newspaper: Lonely college editor goes bezerk, smashes eMAC (This of course would be untrue and would offend some student going to Evergreen, thus causing some other media man to resign due to embarassment.)

Napoleon Dynamite's two cents: Heck Yes!

Now where was I....
Isaac

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