Common thread: Oxymoron - Bush Doctrine Wiki, Cheap Gas

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Today I found a common thread with oxymoron , bush doctrine wiki , and cheap gas. (I lost the link to cheap gas because of my slow internet connection here today).

The reason it was funny is that I taught my students the meaning of oxymoron this week. During the lecture someone asked a question and went to Google to show them how to find the answer. Some ridiculous thing showed up that was an oxymoron and I laughed and then had to explain why I laughed. I have to admit that I hoped that oxymoron made it onto the google trends list because all of my students went out and googled it....I doubt it :-)

Then as I looked at Google trends I saw things as oxymorons. Cheap gas....right! Then there is Bush Doctrine wiki. This one may be more subtle or it just may be personal belief.

(from http://dictionary.die.net/doctrine)

doctrine
  n : a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by
      some group or school

Bush Doctrine? It is hard for me to think of "Bush" and "doctrine" in the same sentence. I can't believe that he has ever thought about anything long enough to have it as a belief. And it just scares me to think that someone trusts anything that he thinks as doctrine.

Wiki's are wonderful collaborative tools. Collaboration is another term I find hard to imagine in the same sentence with "Bush". It's not clear that he understands the meaning of the word.

bush doctrine wiki - definitely an oxymoron for me.

I WONDER: when in the course of human events; declaration of independence; magna carta

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1. 2. when in the course of human events 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. battle of yorktown 14. 15. 16. magna carta 17. 18. poor richards almanac 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25.

26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. ten commandments 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 10 commandments 43. 44. 45. 46. a few good men 47. 48. 49. 50.

51. 52. 53. us naval academy 54. 55. 56. stuff white people like 57. governor of new york 58. power to the peaceful 59. fannie mae and freddie mac 60. 61. declaration of independence 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. us constitution 72. 73. 74. 75.

76. 77. war of 1812 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. general cornwallis 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100.

Looking at the google trends today, I was impressed by the number of reference to things I have been thinking about myself a lot lately. I was very lucky to be brought up understanding my history and roots. In Church I learned the . In school I learned the significance of the us constitution , the declaration of independence , the magna carta when in the course of human events , general cornwallis ,the war of 1812and . I respected poor richards almanac, the US naval academy and a few good men. The reference to Power to the peaceful reminded me that I have settled on a life philosophy that understands where all of the violence fit in but believes that there is a better way. I like being a citizen of a country where people like the governor of New York are elected by the people and mostly work for the people. I cherish being a part of a culture that (at least used to) honors the rule of law. But things have happened in my country to change it. Stuff white people like often influence the world in an unbalanced way. It lands up leading to things like the crisis with fannie mae and freddie mac.

I wonder if other people value the things I hold so dear or am I living in my own fantasy land.

Talk2Me - This is intelligent politics?

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1. 2. jack abramoff 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. uppity 9. lynn westmoreland 10. 11. o reilly factor 12. mccain speech 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. rachel campos duffy 19. 20. anne kilkenny 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. daily gallup poll

26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. piper palin 33. 34. sarah palin affair 35. presidential polls 36. 37. cbs poll 38. national enquirer palin affair 39. sarah palin speech video 40. americablog 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50.

51. 52. armstrong williams 53. 54. politifact 55. 56. 57. obama fundraising 58. 7 deadly sins 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. gloria steinem 66. 67. palin polls 68. 69. 70. 71. phyllis schlafly 72. factcheck.org 73. 74. 75.

76. truthometer 77. palin teleprompter 78. 79. 2008 election polls 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. community organizer 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. current events 99. jon stewart show 100.

The above google trends for September 4 scare me. (Well all of the ones that I removed scared me to because they show me how much out of tune with America I have grown!)

All of these links are to American politics. It's not surprising that there would be a lot of political searches right now. I mean we are coming up on an important US presidential Election and the Republican National Convention is happening now. But where is the intelligence? This is all backstabbing, rumor mongering, petty garbage when we are facing incredible challenges in the world today and as the country with the largest economy, supporting millions and millions of people in countries all over the world, as the country with the largest consumption, the largest pollution, the largest military......we have some responsibilities....and people are concerned with personal name calling and rumor?

Talk2Me. Please tell me that it is not me who is totally out of touch with reality.

Common Thread: Woods

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Digg 2The Video of the Obama Acceptance

There are always a lot of names on the google trends list but since I have somethings in common with Tiger Woods, his name on the list this morning was interesting. (We both have the same knee injury. The thing that's not common is that he can afford to have it repaired!)

There was another Woods on the list today and that was Sam Woods. Who is Sam woods you are asking! I didn't know either, but now I do! It is Tiger Woods lovely baby daughter!