LABEL ME A PROGRESSIVE

I'm melting.

My two roommates successfully got air conditioning in their bedrooms...but for "some reason" mine has been put on a back burner. I talked to them tonight and they plan to put one in, but they're concerned that it might put too much power needs on the breaker box...and they need to check that.

One good thing is that one roomie might be flying to to Miami for a week so I can sleep in his room...Ahh, rest for the weary, finally.

DIGITIZANDO

That's what the Portuguese word is for typing. And yesterday, because we still don't have a wireless in the apartment so I can access my computer...I wasn't able to write my daily blog entry. I missed writing...I hope you missed me writing it too.

But I'm here now, using one of my roomies computer.

You'd like the two guys...very funny and nice, actually. And little by little, things are getting fixed and liveable.

LIBERAL OR PROGRESSIVE

I was talking with Steven the other day about Liberal Politics...and I think it's time I speak my peace on this topic.

Whoever decided to come up with the term LIBERAL, should really be proud of himself. To be honest, if you asked many people what LIBERAL means, they'd probably say Socialistic and TAXING. To be honest, I doubt it means that literally.

But in American politics, from my perspective, there are two camps: Conservative (status quo) or Progressive (Change)

Progressive is a much better term than Liberal because it quite accurately identifies the position--someone searching for some sort of change, versus satisfaction with the status quo (conservative).

If we can agree on Progressive as the Identifier, then yes, I'm willing to line up behind the Progressives. I think change is generally good--hard--but good. And if you look at most of the innovation things that have changed our lives in general, either through the political progress, or social movements, CHANGE has moved us in a better position.

The founding fathers would be considered PROGRESSIVE/LIBERALS within the framework of their exiting governing environment. Lincoln was a Progressive. FDR, a Progressive, Joseph Smith a HUGE Progressive, etc. etc.

So yes, I'm a progressive...and I can be proud to say that.

There, did that help clarify a bit of my political thinking?

And can you now guess where I stand on the Health Care Bill before both houses of congress...um, yeah, PASS them...BE PROGRESSIVE!