60 reasons in 60 days to vote Gary Johnson President in 2012

Reason #52:  Gary Johnson and the Libertarian party are not trying to keep any other candidate off the ballot in any of these United States.

What kind of country do we live in? Honestly. I am looking for an answer. What kind of country do we live in where a political party, which is supposed to be at the avant garde of democracy, the standard bearer of freedom, upholders of liberty; which is supposed to be fighting for us the American citizen, supposed to be sending "us" to Washington, D.C. so that we have proper representation, so that we, the American citizen, have full and legitimate representation as the government of the United States of America hands down the rules and laws of the land? What kind of country do we live in, in which a political party can purport to keep another American citizen from seeking public office?

Where's the freedom in that? Where's liberty and how can she be silenced BY THE VERY ONES CHARGED TO DEFEND HER? Folks it is a shame and a sham that the Republican Party, the GOP, would, instead of defending the right for American citizens to run and seek public office, especially the highest public office, is actively trying to keep Gary Johnson off the ballot in at least three states: Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Oklahoma. In Pennsylvania they have even sued to have his name removed from the ballot and after the courts ruled in favor of Governor Johnson, still they have appealed the decision.

Yours and my tax dollars hard at work. Yours and my legislators and Party representatives hard at work. USA, land of the free, and home of the brave. Except if you're running for president against the Republican party I guess.

Please, I invite your comments.

Democracy?!

YAY for Democracy! Wait...yay for democracy right? Why don't I hear the US, the world's bastion for democracy, backing the protests for democracy? Am I just not listening to the right news source? Where are you Obama? How about McCain, Clinton (oh she said a little one time), Palin, Boehner, Kerry, anybody?

Egypt and the Good ol' USA

You know...I've been thinking a whole lot about this Egypt thing. Should Mubarak go? I don't know, his country seems to think so, he doesn't. We send them $1.5 bn a year in military and other aid because they are our ally in that region against the "war on terror". So do we as a government think so, essentially we buy the status quo over there don't we?

Well, that status quo no longer serves the people of Egypt and they would like to make their voices heard...for real this time. I wonder what would happen in the USA if that many people stood up and protested against say...the two party system that rules this "democracy" with an iron grip.

And that got me to thinking in this way: We're not all that different from Egypt. Yeah sure we've got Walmart and Macy's, Best Buy and Men's Wearhouse, Chili's and Olive Garden, and they don't. We can buy fuel at the corner every other week or so for about 3 bucks a gallon. Then we swing over to Safeway and stock up on groceries. So yeah, we're a whole lot different in that respect.

But, basically the same group of people have 'ruled' this, our beloved nation, the world's bastion of democracy, for how long? Back and forth, back and forth. More government intervention, less government intervention. Recent elections gave congress back to the Republicans from the Democrats and the country almost unequivocally heralded that as change when just two years prior we voted in so much change from Republicans to Democrats, whew?!

Forgive me if I grow a little cynical, and dizzy, and have developed a crink in my neck because of the volleying back and forth. Pfff! Change?!