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It has been a while since my last post, the end of the semester is rapidly approaching and with it come a series of tests and projects that have kept me too busy to post.

Here are a quick few thoughts:

From John Mauldin:

-"Did you feel the ground shake? The epicenter of the economic quake happened
in Laos last Tuesday. Southeast Asian nations and China signed an accord to
create the world's biggest free trade area by removing tariffs for two
billion people by the end of the decade. In macro-economic terms, that is
tomorrow. Leaders in the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) also signed a pact to create an ASEAN Community along the lines of
a unified Europe by 2020. It aims to create a common market with common
security goals. ASEAN members are actively talking of creating their own
"reserve currency" to compete with the dollar and the euro.

On an even larger note, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand have
all agreed to start free-trade talks with the ASEAN countries. (Just for
the record, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations consists of Brunei,
Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore,
Thailand and Vietnam.)"

-President Bush continues to build a strong cabinet for his second term. Bush has appointed a diverse group of people from different backgrounds who bring diverse opinions and real world experience to the White House. I think the American people will soon realize the hihg caliber of the people. The cabinet is itself a rebuttal to Democrat claims that people can't get ahead in America, that Republicans only represent rich white people, and that Bush only deals with "yes"
men. If the Dems. Maintain this line of attack '06 and '08 will look good.

-Barry Bonds is a steroid user, a racist, and an all around bad guy. His records deserve to be stripped, erased, deleted. Bonds has cheated in ways that affect the game and if baseball allows that kind of behavior the game becomes one step away from pro-wrestling. The national pastime is already loosing audience to other forms of entertainment and is increasingly dominated by a few high spending teams, if the game doesn't respond forcefully it risks further alienating fans that are already turning to other sports.


Timothy Burger