http://anotherlook.today.com Just another Today.com weblog Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:24:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Photo Courtesy Of MSNBC While some are calling the recent election in Virginia and New Jersey, where Republicans won major elections to high offices, as a setback for the Obama Administration, I call it a return to status quo, a return to business as usual. People call for change but ... http://anotherlook.today.com/2009/11/04/election-2009/ Picture Courtesy of CNN Justice Empathy is defined as the ability to identify with and understand somebody else’s feelings or difficulties. The lack of empathy is exactly what was displayed earlier last week-end, at Richmond High School, as a 15-year-old girl was brutally gang-raped outside a California high school homecoming ... http://anotherlook.today.com/2009/11/01/empathy-in-not-a-four-letter-word/ With all the debate swirling around the “public option” in the health care reform sometimes I wonder if this is being used to cover up something more sinister than giving the public an option. Yesterday, Majority Leader Harry Reid announced a public option, which would allow states to “opt out” if ... http://anotherlook.today.com/2009/10/27/the-public-option%e2%80%99s-second-wind/ While Republicans use people like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Fox News to spread the hate filled fear against the President of the United States that has gripped the nation, they are now criticizing Hollywood for “doing Obama’s bidding” to promote giving back to your community through volunteerism. Glenn Beck is ... http://anotherlook.today.com/2009/10/24/comic-relief-or-permissive-insanity/ I watched Latino In America, hosted by Soledad O’Brien, a level headed, mixed race, beautiful young lady, the other night on CNN and for some reason it saddened me. Latinos have been in this country for a while now and while I rooted for Sonya Sotomayor as she breezed ... http://anotherlook.today.com/2009/10/23/latino-in-america-recognize/ How many terrorist plots are brewing here in America and when will the time come that one slips below the radar and is hatched before our very eyes leaving hundreds dead and millions living in the aftermath of destruction, both emotional and physical. More importantly is our involvement in ... http://anotherlook.today.com/2009/10/22/do-you-believe-the-paradox-that-war-prevents-violence/ As I read this article this morning regarding Bank of America CEO, Kenneth D. Lewis who received close to $100,000 more last year for personal use of a corporate jet and all the other perks and benefits these bailed out business men received and are still receiving, all I could ... http://anotherlook.today.com/2009/10/20/americas-loss-of-identity-its-up-to-you-to-regain-what-you-lost/ Looking back, now that everybody was duped by the balloon boy story and the Heene family drama, all I can say is this shows how gullible we can all be at times – keep that in mind as the health care/insurance reform is going through the process and the ... http://anotherlook.today.com/2009/10/19/removing-the-heene-kids-a-bit-extreme-very-irrational/ Recently Morehouse College, an all-male college in the Atlanta, Georgia area, has instituted a new dress code for its students. According to the new dress code, things like sagging pants, clothes with derogatory language, do-rags, jeans, hats/caps or hoods and sunglasses are not to be worn to class or ... http://anotherlook.today.com/2009/10/18/is-conformity-all-bad-%e2%80%93-teaching-children-respect/ Iraq is proof that winning in Afghanistan is nothing more than a pipedream. There is still an insurgency in Iraq and they are attempting to undermine the government prior to what may prove to be an important election in Iraq. Nineteen people died on Sunday as a result ... http://anotherlook.today.com/2009/10/12/how-long-is-long-enough-in-afghanistan/