Sometimes I sit here and look at this blog and I can't write anything. The problem isn't having nothing to say, it is having too many jumbled thoughts that are difficult to sort through.

One thing I am absolutely convinced of is that the way to fight terrorism of any form is to lessen the amount of starvation and poverty around the world. We need to empower each other, all of us, everywhere. We either believe wholeheartedly that all people are created equal or we don't. We don't get to pick and choose. We can't be non-racist and still accept sexism. We can't exclude gays and claim to value equality. We can't love our children without feeling the anguish of the parents who feed their children mud pies because there isn't any real food.We can't denounce one religion's extremists while accepting the extremists in another. Hate is hate. Prejudice is prejudice. It is up to us as a collective to end it. We need to start with ourselves.

Quote of the day:
I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago’s South Side, how narrow the path is for them between humiliation and untrammeled fury, how easily they slip into violence and despair. I know that the response of the powerful to this disorder -- alternating as it does between a dull complacency and, when the disorder spills out of its proscribed confines, a steady, unthinking application of force, of longer prison sentences and more sophisticated military hardware -- is inadequate to the task. I know that the hardening of lines, the embrace of fundamentalism and tribe, dooms us all.

BARACK OBAMA, preface to 2004 Edition, Dreams of My Father

My first conspiracy theory.

I'm not usually a conspiracy theorist, and I'm not sure this is even a true conspiracy theory. It does seem to be at the least quite a coincidence. Obviously only time will tell if my speculations prove to be correct.Ok, here it goes:

Oil prices go up = gas prices go up
gas prices go up = a greater demand for alternative fuel
great demand for alt. fuel = more developement of ethanol /bio fuel (less profits for oil companies)
more ethanol/ bio fuel = food costs go up / food becomes scarce
food costs go up / becomes scarce = people starve
people starve = ethanol / bio fuel production slowed or halted
bio fuel slowed = oil companies profits preserved
oil companies profits preserved = people still starve
people still starve = new excuse found.....oil companies profits preserved

It seems like we are being given a choice between unchecked gas prices or causing millions of people to starve to death. At least those are the options Big Oil wants us to believe we have. I find it extremely hard to believe that there isn't enough corn to do both.

Like everyone else with an opinion about anything I've started a blog.