Oh to be Green

Anybody vote Green?

The Green party, advocates for the environment, have managed to pick up steam in Europe. They've never gotten close to any ruling status, but they've had minorities in parliaments. Canada elected their first Green Member of Parliament this month; the Greens received about 6 percent of the popular vote. Not bad.

The Green party is slow coming in the USA. in Arkansas they have to fight every election to get their name on the ballot.

The rules stipulate if you don't get at least 3% of the popular vote on election night then you can't be placed on the ensuing ballot without jumping through a number of hoops.

Here's an additional discussion on the subject with some interesting comments.

http://www.ballot-access.org/2011/05/11/eighth-circuit-hears-arkansas-green-party-case/

Now what

Let's do something better than just high five each other over the heroic actions of our troops.

Bin Laden is gone, his hide and seek escapade that lasted almost 10 years is done. Hopefully with him goes the networks of terrorists, but that's unlikely.

What we can control is us. Do we use our new energy to mount even more offensives to rid out terrorism? Probably a futile effort. We can do better. Let's try to capture something that will propel our nation to new heights. THat's a good way to spend new found morale.....

We Win