It's been awhile, hasn't it?

Sorry for the short hiatus, but I've been pretty busy lately (surprisingly).

Let's see, what's some news-worthy stuff you're probably sick of hearing about... The Pope resigned, first pope in about 600 years to do that, catholic population now in uncharted waters, blah blah blah. Did they really need to devote almost half an hour of the world news to that? And then there was so much time devoted to it in the local news. Then it was on the cover of the newspaper. Give it a rest! He's in his mid-eighties, it's only natural that a person that old would retire from their job. He wants the church to prosper, not flounder, and he feels he can't do that in his failing health. Get over it, please.

Here's a change of pace for you now. Did you know that in 2010, Congress got about 23 weeks worth of vacation time? What!!! Did you know they get a whole week off for Presidents Day? Yes, starting on Feb. 18th, they get that entire week off.... School-age kids get one day off, I get no days off, and Congress gets a whole week... I feel like all I ever hear about is how much vacation they get. And they're supposed to be coming up with a fix for the financial crisis before March 1st, so we can avert sequestration. You would think they might want to concentrate on that before they go on vacation. By the way, why is it that they have a break every time there's a deadline they're supposed to meet? I find that just a little suspicious. You know, there's a little part of me that hopes the country goes into huge crisis, over the fiscal cliff, if you will. Maybe then people will start to realize how truly messed up our government is, and we can try to change it.

This brings me to my next point. I found this petition from the likes of Minnesota senator, Al Franken. If you don't know who that is, I implore you, look it up. Anyway, it's a petition to get rid of the Citizens United court decision that essentially gave the right of "corporate personhood", the idea that corporations are people too, and can give campaign contributions to politician. Thus effectively letting businesses buy our government. Yeah, that's a great idea. So, the concept of the petition is to create a constitutional amendment to overturn the court decision, and put the power back into the hands of the actual people, not the corporate people. I encourage you to sign it, as the idea of "corporate personhood" is total bull.

I think I've covered enough topics here. Until next time, have a beautiful day :)