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After reading “The AutoBiography of Malcomm X”, I became really interested on information on the religion of Islam. This book made me really curious on why Islam is practiced so dynamically across the world. Therefore, I search for a book on Islam and I found a book in which I highly recommend reading “Inside Islam”. This book is broken into three major sections: “The Faith”, “The People,” and “The Conflict” and the book is composed of a number of authors. I am not yet finished with the book, but so far so good. So far I have read about Muhammad (the founder of Islam), the Hajj (the pilgrimage to Mecca), the Islam in Iraq, Afghanistan (the Taliban), and other significant regions. This book does really good job in explaining why many Muslim in the middle east hate the US, western influences, secularism, and modernization. The only thing that I was hoping that the book had explain in which I have not read yet is about black Muslims and how they came about, their beliefs, and their conflict.

When a person serves time in jail for a crime that they have done, supposedly they have paid their debt to society for that crime. If a person does 5 years for Grand Theft Auto, dept paid. Or if a person does 10 years for having sex with a minor, dept paid. Actually no, the debt is not paid. Depending on the type of crime you have done, for the most part, you will be paying your debt to society for a very long time. You will be paying this debt by being affected on obtaining jobs. Serving time in jail is supposedly rehabilitation (another story). Once out, supposedly you are let out into the world again with a fresh start. Go out, get a job, and start over. But how do the government expect someone out of prison to get a job if every job is rejecting them because of a felony or registered sex offender tag found from a background check. The way the system is set up is that a person with a criminal history is more liable to go back to jail for doing a crime to survive because the disability of finding a job. I have known a few people in this situation. They have paid the debt to society, get out of jail, and cannot find jobs. Every time they go out to find a job, every thing is great until the background check. Once an employer sees a felon from a background check, they will treat that person like they have a disease or something. This is really not fair, especially when a person did not do a crime that has anything to do with the position they are applying for. For example, if a person has a felony for possession of drugs and that person is applying for a customer service position, it is not fair for that person to be rejected from his/her felony when drug possession has nothing to do with a customer server position. Now if the situation was such that a person that is applying for a position at a financial institute and that person have a felony from tax fraud, I can then understand why it would be fair for that financial institute to reject that applicant. That applicant has done a crime that is related to the employer’s line of business. I believe the solution for this is to categorize crimes and each employer will only have access to the categories that is specific to their line of business. If the crime that was on a persons criminal record does not have any relevance to the line of business to which they are applying for, then that business should not have any access to that crime.

Ok, lets see what the Senate is focusing on since the Democrats have taken over:

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Sen. Barbara Boxer on Thursday promised major policy shifts on global warming, air quality and toxic-waste cleanup as she prepares to head the U.S. Senate’s environmental committee.

‘’Time is running out, and we need to move forward on this,'’ Boxer said of global warming during a conference call with reporters. ‘’The states are beginning to take steps, and we need to take steps as well.'’

Boxer’s elevation to chairwoman of the Senate Environmental Public Works Committee comes as the Democrats return to power in the Senate. It also marks a dramatic shift in ideology for the panel.

The California Democrat is one of the Senate’s most liberal members and replaces one of the most conservative senators, Republican James Inhofe of Oklahoma. Inhofe had blocked bills seeking to cut the greenhouse gases contributing to global warming, calling the issue ‘’the greatest hoax perpetrated on the American people.'’

Environmentalists were overjoyed at the change.

“That’s like a tsunami hit the committee,” said Karen Steuer, who heads government affairs at the National Environmental Trust, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. “You can’t find two members or people more ideologically different.”

Boxer said she intends to introduce legislation to curb greenhouse gases, strengthen environmental laws regarding public health and hold oversight hearings on federal plans to clean up Superfund sites across the country.

On global warming, Boxer said she would model federal legislation after a California law signed this summer by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. That law imposes the first statewide cap on greenhouse gases and seeks to cut California’s emissions by 25 percent, dropping them to 1990 levels by 2020.

OKAY!!! YEAH, this is the first thing on there list that they are focusing on…

After grazing through all the news with the elections, I have come across a couple of articles about abolishing abortion. From my selfishness, I am pro-choice. But I do believe pro-life is morally the correct choice. Actually, really thinking about abolishing abortion changes my selfishness. Just like welfare, when you give some people free money, they become dependent on it. Becoming dependent on it means that person will then count on it and always expect it. And that reduces their incentive to go out and go look for jobs, or to go and get a better education, or to even just better themselves. Like they say, “A hungry dog hunts best!” And welfare is feeding that dog and that dog is no longer hungry to hunt. If you were to cut welfare from a person, they would have no choice but to strive for money. With this in mind, I feel that abortion is very similar to welfare. People are becoming dependent on abortions. Abortion reduces incentive to be responsible for their own sexual behavior. Both men and women always know in the back of their heads, “If she/I gets pregnant, I can always count on getting an abortion. Therefore, I can afford not to wear a condom and I can afford to slip-up and ejaculate in this woman. I can afford to make these mistakes!” Remove abortion and a person can no longer count on it. This will make people responsible for ALL of their sexual actions. This will make a person think twice about making a mistake. Also, with the increase of condom usage (from abortion being abolished) to prevent pregnancies will also decrease STDs significantly.

Art Olivier, former major of Bellflower CA, is running for California Governor. If elected, Art will focus on the following issues:

• Illegal immigration and closed borders
• Cut spending
• Eminent domain issues
• Privatizing governmental jobs. Actually, Art privatized the city’s tree trimming, crossing guards, and street sweeping for the city of Bellflower.
• Against large government
• Focusing on the fight against drugs

Art Oliver is a man who see through jargon and rhetoric. He sees issues as they are and he is not afraid to give solutions, regardless of popular votes.

Arnold specifically proposed in his January 5, 2006 speech:

– $222.6 billion in public works improvements over 20 years, to be paid partly by $68 billion in new general obligation bonds
– 550 miles of new carpool lanes, 750 new highway miles, 600 miles of new commuter rail lines and 8,500 of bicycle and pedestrian paths
– $26.3 billion for new charter and technical schools, 2,000 new smaller public schools, and modernization of 140,000 classrooms
– Two new prisons
– A new crime lab
– Repair and reconstruction of California’s aging infrastructure, including ports, dams, power plants, levees, bridges, prisons, mental hospitals, parks and the state’s 50,000 miles of freeways.
– $1 per hour raise in the state minimum wage for all hourly workers

All with no new taxes. Of course.

Also add, he baned 50 cal guns in California.