10.27.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:07 pm by kmcd
Is that it is, without a doubt, contrary to the 1st amendment of the US Constitution. Freedom of religion. There are a fair number of recognized religions in the US that perform same sex weddings and recognize same. If there was a state constitutional amendment that prohibited this, it would be the state restricting religious freedoms. That in a nutshell should be enough of a reason not to vote for prop 8 or any other ban on same sex marriages. Sarah Palin calling for things like this prove just how anti-american she is and how anti-american the entire fundamentalist wing of the republican party has become.
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09.06.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 6:23 am by kmcd
Talk about living in the last century.
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Posted in Uncategorized at 6:22 am by kmcd
I was honestly moved by Obama’s acceptance speech for the Democratic Party’s nomination. Until he made mention of energy and oil dependency. My problem lies in the statement “no dependance on oil from the middle east’… this is not what we need, not by a long shot, we need no dependance on oil at all. We must stop using fossil fuels to support our economy! There is no exceptions to this, the longer we continue the worse the environmental problem becomes.
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07.19.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 9:15 pm by kmcd
Oh, I have a number of reasons for this, one is that Obama is too establishment for my tastes, he has advisors that had a lot to do with creating the sub-prime mortgage crisis, doesn’t seem to really want to stand up to AIPAC as he should if we really want to create a climate for real peace in the middle east (we should be asking Israel to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and destroy their nuclear weapons before we ask others in the region not to pursue them, and we should have them follow existing UN resolutions).
But perhaps the best reason I have for voting for McKinney is that we desperately need the Green Party to become a major party in the USA and since it appears the only way to do that is to have McKinney get >5% of the presidential popular vote, we have to support her and vote for her. Neither the Democrats or Republicans have a solution to the pending/existing crises facing the US and the people of this planet, these parties are bought and sold to the multinational corporate interests and will not do what is necessary to solve the problems, because the solutions to these problems will impact the corporate bottom line and their corporate handlers will never let that happen.
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02.07.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 10:30 pm by kmcd
I seem to recall that this was amended to the US Constitution to protect citizens from abuses of power by the government. Given the latest flack about Berkeley California trying to regulate the attempts by the US Government in its recruiting for an illegal and immoral war in Iraq and beyond, it seems to me that the USMC has no such protections as Freedom of Speech guaranteed to them, they are the government that needs to be restrained.
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06.11.07
Posted in New Zealand Travelblog, Uncategorized at 9:31 pm by kmcd
They are at http://photos.yahoo.com/kelleymcd@sbcglobal.net in any number of the folders contained therein. The ones for New Zealand will be posted soon as New Zealand 2007, etc.
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03.21.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 4:53 pm by kmcd
I just received an email from moveon.org requesting that I call Rep. Barbara Lee and ask her to support the Iraq Accountability Act, which will continue to fund the Iraq War. I feel Barbara is currently representing the wishes of my district and do not want in any way to have the Iraq War continue to be funded. MoveOn has stepped away from my goals and I will no longer wish to be a member. In fact, I just went to their web site and asked to be removed from their mailing lists. I wonder if they will respect my wishes. I emailed Barbara Lee and expressed my support for her opposition to further funding of the Iraq War.
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06.05.06
Posted in Uncategorized at 2:35 pm by kmcd
There is no place at all for these sort of amendments to the constitution of the U.S. This only leads to strife, the one example is the 18th amendment which turned almost everyone into criminals and had to be repealed after the depression hit. Why aren’t any of our representatives pointing out that amendments to the constitution should only be used to restrain government from actions, not to restrain the people.
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06.04.06
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:16 pm by kmcd
So, I took vacation right after the semester was out at UC Berkeley. Went to Disneyworld for 5 days so I could ride their new ride, “Expedition Everest”, which turns out to be like the Disneyland classic, “Matterhorn”, on steroids! What a really fun ride and a great addition to the Animal Kingdom theme park. Rode it 6 times during my stay… the line didn’t seem to get very long. Then it was back to the Bay Area for one night, and off to Anaheim and Disneyland, again. I needed Disneyland just to recover from Disneyworld, which I forgot is so much larger in scale than disneyland that I overdid things and got blisters on my feet and stressed out my legs from walking so much. Trying to decide whether I should go back to DL over the 4th weekend.
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05.09.06
Posted in Uncategorized at 6:05 am by kmcd
I found myself (spoiler) wishing Ethan had died at the end. It would have been a more dramatic (and satisfying, to me at least) ending.
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