"A "Cleaner" San Fransico? Should loitering be outlawed on the streets?"

Legislatures in San Francisco are debating a controversial proposal to ban loitering, which include sitting or lying on public streets in well to do neighborhoods, such as Haight-Asbury. 

"Police say they're hearing more complaints...From residents fed up with aggressive, intimidating uncivil behavior." 

The likes of which ranges from merely sitting on a street corner, to aggressively asking for money, smoking crack, and intimidation of local residents. In one incident a woman reported that while walking with her 14-moth baby, she asked a group on loiterers to move out of the way so she could pass on the sidewalk and they spat on the baby. If passed the law would make it illegal for persons to block the side walks in any way. "The goal is not to arrest people, it's to change behavior." Assistant SFPD Chief of San Francisco.  But those who are on the streets feel that it is a personal on the poor and homeless. Personally I think it is a complicated issue. I would agree that getting loiterers, especially violent, or aggressive panhandlers out of the family and commercial residences would be beneficial, but then where are the loiters suppose to go? Are they to have designated streets to occupy? Should we say it's okay for them to invade another poorer area? It seems that what really needs to happen is legislation for better resources for those on the streets. Once there are proper resources for these people, they will have less reason to inhibit such neighborhoods, and residences. 

"Vegas Baby! A Strip that's not so sexy"

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"Healthcare fot All? YES!"

Should the federal government provide healthcare for all citizens who cannot afford their own?

I think the answer is clear; Yes! There is a serious lack of priority in this county when our budget for defense is great than that of our public healthcare. When our priority is fighting wars across the globe, when the real suffering is happening right here. The unheard suffering of those living in fear because they can't be sick, or fall and hurt themselves, or get a cavity because they might face financial ruin trying to pay off their medical bills. Healthcare in this country is a privilege, while it should be without question a right. It happens not only on a federal level but a local one too. For instance when Governor Pawlenty refused federal funding for healthcare amounting to $800,000 to instead using state taxed money to match rather then take the FREE money. As we continue to struggle to find the optimal solution to this ever pressing issue, people continue to lead lives of silent fear and personal suffering.

"RANDOM FUN!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iANRO3I30nM

This is AWESOME! Check it out! It will make you happy for at least 2 minute and 20 seconds. HA!

"Interracial Marriage then; Gay Marriage Now. When will we learn?"

It seems America likes to always be in contradiction with its self. America stands for the land of the Free and the home of the Brave. Yet there always seems to be the not so free, and the home of the Scared. Since the very start of this country there has been an oppressed people living on these lands. It started with the natives who were betrayed and brutally treated by the early settlers from over seas. Then those brought forcibly to be enslaved and treated worse then cattle. And the list goes on with time from the natives, to african slaves, to women, to Jews, and now more prevalent then before,  the gays. In the 1960's the greatest issue attacking marriage was that a person of african american decent couldn't legally marry a white person. It was ignorance, and fear that was the driving force of the prejudices held by those against interracial marriage. And though it seemed that society would never allow such a thing to happen, we learned to see how wrong and unjust it was to take away the rights of any person to marry the person they love, no matter the color of their skin. 

Now in the 21st century there is again another kind of fear that has been implemented into the minds of the people that prevent them from seeing the wrong and unjust laws that keep fellow americans from achieving the fundamental rights of all americans, to strive for freedom, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. How can you feel free to pursue happiness when you live in a society that condemns your happiness has less then, or not equal to that of your neighbor? We need yet again to become brave and fight for what is right so that all can say that this land is the land of the truly free and the most brave of all. 

"O'er the Land of the Free... Except, and Except, and Except...."

This image speaks very adequately on the way that our country actually runs. We're as the GREAT country of Freedom, Liberty and JUSTICE for ALL... EXCEPT... Muslims, gays, immigrants, african americans, native americans, and women. There's probably a few other minority groups to add to the list, but you get the idea. There seems to always be exceptions to our countries so called morales and constitutional rights. Since the writing of the Star Spangled Banner in 1814 our country has seen dis-liberties and un-justices committed against its peoples over and over and over. Whether it be the time of suffrage, and the need of voting rights for women, and equal pay in the workforce. Or in the form of racism and segregation of african americans in the south. More presently the equal rights of those of the LGBT community to marry. Or the right to religious freedom and the growing muslim population of this country. Freedom to the people! except, Except, ExCepT... EXCEPT FOR. NO! We need to work harder to put a permanent stop on these outdated, bigoted, unjust exceptions.

"The First Ladies"

Throughout time the role of the wife has been ever evolving and though the ideal image of the wife has stayed the same, there have always been exceptions to the rules. Even in the times of the earliest First Ladies, whether society knew it or not, the role of the wife was not limited to being a good hostess, and making their husbands look good. Often they would take on the role of head of the house, and oversee finances, property, and other traditionally "Husband" duties while their husbands rand the country. So it's not a surprise that in todays society that more and more we see this switch in the gender roles within a marriage. Really they've been slowly changing over the past 200 years. Eventually we just might continue to evolve and do away with the "traditional" roles altogether.

"The Rise of Wives"

I feel that the role of the female in marriage has been ever evolving since the 1970's, and has only become more prevalent in these times of economic downfall. Lately it's become more and more common that the stereotypical norm of the "House wife" has changed from the happy-go-lucky cleaner and child-barer to a woman to wants more in life, which often involves higher education and a better more profitable career. Though there has been one glitch in the system for many were the switch from "Homemaker" to "career girl" never actually make a clear get away. Often the working mother will find that she still is expected by society to clean the house, make dinner, wash the kids, and get them to bed, and still please her husband when he decides to pay attention to her. This shift to a more neutral partnership where both side of the party [the husband and the wife] share responsibilities has become a more preferred trend because of the it create a sense of balance between the two peoples.

In contrast to this more shared view point, especially as it applies to the economic downfall, you sometimes see the "roles" in complete reverse. Where the woman who is able to keep a job becomes the breadwinner, while the unemployed male becomes the step in "sports-mom/housewife" who takes on the daily tasks of the "traditionally" female role. I feel that incases this flipped sense of roles helps the relationship between the male and female in a way, because they experience these roles from very different points of view. Especially for males I believe there would be a revelation in the importance that the female role plays within a family and society as a whole, and there for a sense of new found respect for the female in the role of working mother and Wife spreads.

First Post

Well here I go. I'm now well on my way of entering the world of the Blogger. What fascinating Things will I blog about? You'll just have to find out.