Asperger's Syndrome

Mine papa has asked me to look up Asperger's Syndrome for him so I can discuss it with him later. I have to say it is rather interesting reading as I now can readily exclaim "aha! I know people that fits!"

Snipped from Wikipedia.org:

Asperger syndrome (also Asperger's syndrome, Asperger's disorder, Asperger's, AS, or AD) is one of several autism spectrum disorders (ASD) characterized by difficulties in social interaction and by restricted and stereotyped interests and activities. AS is distinguished from the other ASDs in having no general delay in language or cognitive development. Although not mentioned in standard diagnostic criteria, motor clumsiness and atypical use of language are frequently reported

Reading further down the article informs us that many brilliant people fit the AS category and there's a growing trend to see AS as just a "type" of functioning person, rather than a disorder. I suspect ADD is a lot like that , also.

The Net Is A Neat Place

If you know where to look and what to avoid. A friend turned me onto last.fm so I listened to a few stations and I've finally got enough in my play list to embed my own lil player thing-a-ma-bob into the blog. It's over to the right ----->

There ya go!

Gramma told me once, " that the world is a great place, if you don't weaken," which, in the case of the internet is pretty on the money. As long as you protect yourself against ID thieves, stalkers, and virii, it's a great place.

On other topics; those Burmese monks are sure stirring things up nicely. I heard that there are just as many of them as there are troops. Peace against tyranny. It can't get any clearer than that. Again, best to them.

The juice is in the primaries

No, not THE Juice. I mean the sort of juice that means "really important stuff."

I'm coming to see the primaries as being so much more important than the general presidential election because it is there that we come up with our presidential material. Our real choices are there at the primary. Past the primaries we have dumb and dumber or smart and smarter or smart and dumb. We just have two to pick from and, guess what, if you're from one party or another your choice has been made for you. You just gotta pull the freakin' lever.

I know that personally I used to feel that the actual presidential election was THE election but as I have gotten older and observed politics I've noticed that it just isn't so. Ultimately the important elections are the ones closest to home. The precinctual, mayoral, state-wide, elections are the ones where the flavor of the country comes out and that is where most of our primary presidential candidates come from. So, obviously, if we have a large pool of highly qualified people from those offices running for president, we get better results - better national governments.

But, so many of us act like that's not the case. So many people wont even lift their bums from the couch and walk or drive a block or two to vote in an election unless it's a presidential election... and then the biggest mystery of all is that's when people come out of the wood-work to vote, when their choices have already been made for them. Not that it's not important to vote in the general election. It is. After all, once we've made our choice we do have to follow through and beat the dumber guy. No, the mystery is that we let a relative few (the people who vote in the primaries) decide for us (the rest of the poor hapless sods that vote in the general elections but who haven't voted in the primaries) who our choices will be.

Then we have 4-8 years.. and it's usually 8 with the power of encumbency what it is, to complain about our lack of choice and the rotten selection we have made.

That's all i wanted to say on this. This is very obvious stuff, really, so why did I say it? Probably, I said it because we all need to remind ourselves of this fact, everyday.

Creature's proposal: make voting participation mandatory and give a national PAID holiday for election days. In school we should teach political history covering both general political theory and the history of our current dominant political parties and various special interest groups. Who has the power and why

Hillary has lost my vote

For the primary, at least. Don't get me wrong. I will vote for a democratic dogcatcher in the general election but if I'm forced to vote for Hillary it will be in full recognition that it's a choice between evil and evil lite /co Dr Evil. Firedog lake has my feeling on the matter nailed down in this post. Hillary is a political opportunist and where she is no doubt better than Bush she is obviously not the best choice running, despite my interest in seeing a woman pres. sit the Oval Office.

Here is where she lost me

Wednesday’s vote on the Lieberman - Kyl resolution, condemning Iran and allowing the designation of its Revolutionary Guards as a “terrorist” entity, was a litmus test for candidates seeking the Presidency. The vote separated the wise from the foolish, and Senator Clinton voted — again — for foolish.

There's no way we should go any where near Iran at this point. Not with our forces stretched so thin and not after observing the level of incompetence and outright deceit this presidency has displayed in getting us to go into Iraq.

The Burmese Demonstrations

I boggle at how serious these people are about making a change in their world.

Monks marching to the home of Aung San Suu Kyi reportedly urged civilians not to join them and not to resort to violence.

But elsewhere witnesses said civilians were shielding the marching monks by forming a human chain around them.

I hope the way opens up for them and I wish them the best.

Oops! Did I really Do That?

"Oops! Did I really Do That?"

The Democrats seem to make a lot of really stupid political errors. So much so, in fact, that lately even the public at large (not just the activists)are starting to cotton to them.

This fiasco with MoveOn, for instance, where 22 Dems voted along with the Republicans to censure MoveOn for making a highly critical ad over General Petraeus. The Dems claim they are anti-war but instead of helping to vote to bring the troops home they waste time by censuring an organization that speaks for millions.

At this point I do not think they are simply out of touch. I think that being out of touch is an active desire on their part.

Medical Justice

This is just a concept I'm playing with. People seem to respond to concepts and ideas once they are established, framed, and bound. In the US it's obvious that we have a problem with our health care system, so I'm examining whether a concept of an elaborate system of Medical Justice could be useful; especially to Americans who like to have their rules precisely minced, written down in granite, and parceled out to them.

The concept so far -

Medical Justice: The right to obtain the best care a society can give, as quickly as it can be given, regardless of the patient's income, social status, or condition; pre-existing or otherwise.

I do not get a deluge of traffic here, I know. But, if you are one of those surfers that accidentally hit upon this site and this concept intrigues you or makes you laugh because it's so infantile, please leave a comment to me and let me know how to improve it or where I went wrong (i'm thinking that a similiar concept does alreeady exist. if it does and you know of it let ME know too! <3