Dog Eat Dog World

Barney Cam is back at the White House. To spread a little bit of holiday cheer, as well as a message about National Parks we get to see a dog's eye view of the White House, featuring Barney, his love interest Miss Beazley, the Bush family, and Tony Blair.

Posting daily dog pictures doesn't only work for Dooce. Throw the White House a bone, will ya?

Hillary's Slipping off the Coat-tails

Looks like things are getting rocky for Hillary. I am equally happy and amazed to see Obama is chipping away at her support in Iowa, and hope that the trend continues. While she is not the most liberal of the candidates, (Obama really has grabbed the more liberal left in the party, I wonder how that will bode for him if he wins the nomination) I find her lack of ability to give a straight answer, her having Bill campaign for her, and - let's not forget, her political socialize *cough* I mean stances - absolutely troubling.

Religion.. oy!

The buzz has been about Mitt Romney's speech on religion. Pundits have been parsing, secularists surveying, Republicans religifying.. you get the idea.

Like it or not, America is a religious country. It was part of our founding, continues to be part of American tradition, and it is rooted in the Constitution that we should respect it.

Honestly. Secularists who try to push religion into the corners of society forget that freedom of religion is what entitles them to have an opinion on this at all.

My take? Today's Mormon is yesterday's Catholic. When are we going to learn that religion is a personal belief, not a political stance, and get on to more important issues?

Waiting on the World to Change

While songs like Pink's Dear Mr. President can be polarizing and divisive, I believe there's a better way to present politics in music. Reminiscent of Lennon's peace-loving song Imagine is John Mayer's Waiting on the World to Change. His song boldly but pleasantly talks about our generation - of our complaints on the way things are, on world leaders and what's going wrong, but he sums us up perfectly: "One day our generation is gonna rule the population, so we keep on waiting - waiting on the world to change."

While I'm not a fan of posting lyrics in a blog, these are important, so they're down below.

Me and all my friends, we're all misunderstood
They say we stand for nothing - there's no way we ever could
Now we see everything is going wrong with the world and those who lead it
We just feel like we don't have the means to rise above and beat it

So we keep waiting, waiting on the world to change
Its hard to be persistant when we're standing at a distance
So we keep waiting, waiting on the world to change

Now if we had the power to bring our neighbors home from war
They would've never missed a Christmas, no more ribbons on the door
When you trust your television, what you get is what you got
Cuz when they own the information oh, they can bend it all they want

So while we're waiting, waiting on the world to change
It's not that we don't care, we just know that the fight aint fair
So we keep waiting, waiting on the world to change

One day our generation is gonna rule the population,
So we keep on waiting, waiting on the world to change