Save the date
So, are you coming to DC on July 12th?
Day trip
The wonderful weather encouraged us to take a short day trip near by and to hike a little bit. The girls had a lot of fun, and we enjoyed the girls.
The girls were very tired on the way back home, as you can clearly see here:
More picture, as usual, can be found here and here
Rogel @ May 11, 2008
I agree
Sometimes I do agree with our elected leaders. Here, for example, I agree with one of the architect of the disastrous Farm Bill - this Bill is very hard to justify…
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin C. Peterson (D-Minn.) acknowledged that the payments are “very hard to explain to our urban colleagues.” But negotiators, under pressure from farm groups, made a token cut of $30 million a year in the current program.
Advocates of the bill stressed that eligibility will be tightened by prohibiting anyone earning more than $500,000 from off-farm sources to participate in the farm programs. Those earning more than $750,000 from farming would also be ineligible for the automatic payments. Currently, only those with more than $2.5 million in income from all sources are ineligible.
Rogel @ May 9, 2008
Did he rediscover fiscal responsibility?
Not that President Bush is so great, he definitely isn’t. But I’ll applaud him if he will actually veto this monster:
President George W. Bush will veto the farm bill proposed by congressional agriculture leaders because it exceeds spending guidelines and offers no “real reform,” Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said.
“At a time of record farm income, Congress decided to further increase subsidy rates, qualify more people for taxpayer support and move programs toward more government control,” Schafer told reporters today. “The president will veto this bill.”
Schafer spoke shortly after leaders of the House and Senate agriculture committees released details of the legislation at a news conference on Capitol Hill. They said they made compromises to meet Bush’s demands and hoped he would sign the five-year, $296 billion bill.
Rogel @ May 8, 2008
Don’t let those illegal immigrant leave
Aside from the obvious questions about the wisdom of arresting illegal immigrants when they are leaving the country I think that this story indicates something that we often overlook. Many of those we now call illegal immigrants are seasonal workers that use to come work in the US for many years. Obviously seasonal workers aren’t as interesting as a “Problem” or a “Threat” so they are being labeled as Illegal immigrants. The advantage of such labeling, along with arresting them when they are going back home, is that its help people like Duncan Hunter or Lou Dobbs to build a very successful career. And than they argue that immigrant “takes” jobs from US citizens 
Rogel @ May 8, 2008
Meditation
Coming back from work today I was to tired to concentrate in the book I took with me, and I didn’t really wanted to start reading blogs. I wanted to just relax, so I started to browse through the pictures of the girls. I was watching and listing to music, and I decided to make a short slide show of some old pictures without any theme or even chronological order. The results are in front of you
Rogel @ May 7, 2008