Actually, technically it's only one day of summer, innit?
Hopefully, my classes will be interesting. They start July 7th. Last year this time, at least there was the democratic primary and then the general election. This year the news is BORING. Health Care. Yawn. Even though, I'm all for a government run health care. If the government takes it over it is certainly, without a doubt, going to offer poorer service. Too much is spent on health care today. It's currently a for growth and profit industry. The greatest boon to doctor's income is the growing rate of obesity. Obesity means profits for doctors. The only benefit of a government run health care system is that it will be more equitable. Not that I really care of equitable. But if everybody gets EQUALLY POOR service, why not? I'm all for it.
In other news, the Iran stuff was interesting for about 2 days. Now it's just plain repetitive. It's become clear that the military now controls the religion right in the country, and it's going to stay that way. The countries source of income is oil, oil prices are on the rise again. The current regime controls the countries oil and hence income.
What's interesting is that the internet/twitter was the engine of the opposition's uprising, but in the end, the might of bullets still seem to override the democratic, grassroots capabilities of the internet.
RELATED: I just saw this on Mousavi's Facebook page:
Guns versus 'the greatness of God'; armed forces versus mobile phones, batons versus mourning, lies versus cameras, state-run television versus twitter, bullets versus Facebook, power versus dignity... who wins?
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