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Americans pay more for bottled water per gallon than they do for gasoline... and this when they can get free, often times higher quality, water out of there taps. The environmental impact of the popularity of bottled water is staggering, between creation of bottles, transporting, and disposing the cost are huge... and for the most part completely unnecessary.
While certainly there are times when its necessary, it should be avoided whenever possible. Here's a link explaining in more depth.
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I'm still undecided on whether it was wise to invade Iraq. What I am certain of, is that how it was done was one of the most bungled attempts ever by the United States.
Even assuming it is possible to create democracy in Iraq
by force, the Bush administration blew its chance through a long string
of miserable decisions: It rejected voluminous advance planning done by
the State Department for a post-Saddam Iraq, disregarded military
projections of force levels needed to maintain order, dismissed
accurate CIA analyses of likely post-war ethnic and tribal conflicts,
disbanded the Iraqi army, under-equipped U.S. troops and installed a
hapless-to-corrupt provisional governing authority. And then there's the whole torture fiasco... It just doesn't seem the Bush administration is capable of planning for more than one possible outcome.
Tuesday's Los Angeles Times, for example, beefed up months of
scattered news reports with a detailed account of the operations of
Shiite paramilitary death squads within the Iraqi police force and
Interior Ministry, including the use of torture in secret prisons and
summary executions of Sunni opponents.
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But the world doesn't need to judge the U.S. solely on words. Other
nations can hardly be expected to forget Muslim prisoners abused and
humiliated at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere in Iraq and Afghanistan, the web
of internationally scattered CIA secret jails, the arbitrary
imprisonment of prisoners without trial or even charges at Guantanamo,
the administration's opposition to a statutory ban on inhumane
treatment, the secret transport of prisoners to foreign countries for
interrogation and, almost certainly, torture.
Do Bush, Cheney et al. believe these things have no effect on the credibility of the United States of America?
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Bush's shortsighted actions have come back to haunt him. It'd be nice if this were an aberation but to me, this is just one small piece of a larger pattern...
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Ralph Nader may make a good president, I don't really know, I haven't spent any time looking at him because, in our current system, voting for anyone but John Kerry, would be a vote for Bush, and there's no way I'd risk that.
However, it doesn't have to be this way. There are alternative voting systems that could make voting, and therefore our country much better...
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This is my ongoing analysis of what I think of the various candidates... I'll be recording my thoughts for each candidate here as I think through this thing.
As of 1/30/04 at 2pm I'm leaning towards Dean.
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This is a changing and growing document about why I currently strongly dislike the republicans... there are so many reasons, it'll take awhile to get them all down.
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I've listen to or watched at least 6 democratic debates, I've listed to a ton a media coverage on many cable stations as well as on radio. I've read the websites of many of the candidates. And I still don't feel like I know that much about any of them.
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MoveOn.org sponsored a contest for Anti-Bush commercials and the finalists are really impressive.
Also, check out this article on revelations from Paul O'Neil about what it's like inside the Bush Administration.
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