However, I would like to thank many of you who have read my blog.  I have improve on my writing skills because I have been blogging.  Most engineer students have a hard time with writing.  I am thankful that I have readers who can deal with my sometimes not perfect blogs.

I have to said real quick that Nov 4 was an awesome day.  It is a joy to see people vote for change. Just so you know what I was doing on that day, I was campaigning in the rain for a small candidate for county commissioner holding a sign up.

Most of the time, the churches are the ones who cast these pregnant women out in the dark because they are not prefect ( example: having sex without being marry at 14th). It does not made sense. Do anyone go to the doctor when he or she is well? So do you go to church when you are perfect? There would be no need for religion if everyone was perfect. Most of these problems are in mega churches for you can get lost in one of those places. These mega churches are around because most will look around first before they join a church. Most people do not go to the church in their neighborhood anymore. So churches have became politically. So if you are a conservator then you go to a conservative church. If you are a liberal then you go to a liberal church. It is like we can’t get along with others who are different. It is like we are not living up to the standard of our religion.

Growing up in a Christian family, I was told about the I, me, and my test. The test is If you had I, me, and my in your sentence then you was thinking about yourself and not others. For being a Christian is not about pleasing yourself but God. The church communities have became a lot of self interests instead of helping others in need. I am not roofing in my church community but in my school community for that is a place when I can help others. I have a three year old girl and a two year old boy who make it hard for me to service in my church community. Like I said church community are so politically to the point that if my kids did kids stuff I would get the look (other parents thinking, “she is a horrible parent.”). So I am very active in my student organization while I am at school and my kids are in child care.

The G.I. Bill is the only way for me to go to school with me being a mother of two kids.  For it is not the tuition for I can get finance aid.  However, it is the living cost to go to school beside working full time.  I have a husband who works but his job does not pay the differences of me not working. However, going to school is a must for me.  My family will be better off when I get my degree in Biological Engineer and I can make a big different in the world.  However, if I run out of G.I. Bill before the end, I will still be okay for the fact that I am an action person on my college campus will help me to be in good finance hands.

Also, the school I go to hold any refund from loans and grants until like the end of the year which totally such.  If any of you are going to an university or college, are your schools holding your refund check and how long?  I would like to know for not all school does this.  I am not liking the way my school is doing this.

Does university and college have too much of policy on how finance aid, admission, or etc?  I really believe that they do when it come to finance aid for they are out to make money and not to help students.

However on December 16, 2006, it was reported, “Strikingly, the surge proposal has not been actively promoted by the top commander in Iraq. General Casey, the Senior American commander in Baghdad, has emphasized faster training of Iraqi security forces, an effort that would be supported in part by converting existing combat forces into trainers,” by David E. Sanger and Michael R. Gordon in G.I.’s to Stabilize Iraq from the New York Times. Also Gen. John P. Abizaid, the top American commander in the Middle East at the time, have made the point that a surge might dissuade Iraqis from doing more to provide for their own security. On the other hand, the “surge” came from a politician that is now running for President. According to the New York Times article (Dec. 16, 2006) reported, “Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, said during a visit to Baghdad this week that American military commanders were discussing the possibility of adding as many as 10 more combat brigades—a maximum of about 35,000 troops—to establish some of control while Iraq’s divided political leaders seek solutions to the mounting violence.” It have been painted in the media that the surge is something that the arm forces put out there; nevertheless, Iraq Study Group rejected the idea of the surge if the order was for 100,000 to 200,000 troops, saying that those levels were not available for a sustained deployment and would feed fears in Iraq that the U.S. was planning a long-term occupation. The arm forces are having trouble recruiting new recruits.

On December 23, 2006 in the Washington Post, the article U.S. commanders in Iraq push troop surge: L.A. Times reported, “Top U.S. military commanders in Iraq have decided to recommend a surge in the number of U.S. combat force there.” However in the same article, Gen. Casey and Gen. Abizaid had opposed boosting U.S. combat troop levels in Iraq, saying that would only heighten opposition to the American presence and reduce pressure on Iraqi leaders to take responsibility for security. I see what the Washington Post is doing here; they know that most people will not real the whole article so they can make it appeal as if Bush is following the lead of the Generals. This idea that Gen Casey and other commanders wanting a surge are false. Both Gen Casey and Gen Abizaid retired in March 2007 after President Bush have decided to increase troops in Iraq. It is a little crazy how the Generals at the time of playing out President Bush commands to increase troops is not around to oversee the progress of the surge throughout the 18 months or so. In the military there is not such thing as firing high ranking personal, but instead they go in early retirement. Also after a general receive his or her second or third star, their rank is all determine by politics.

Now the idea that the “surge is succession” is crazy for there are many factors in the number of deaths going down. For the one the Sunni decided to fight beside the American instead of against to defeat Al-Qaeda. Second, the malicious groups are being pay off by the U.S. arm forces not to fight (for the Iraqis need income so they do what they have to). Third most important, Al-Qaeda have move from Iraq to Afghanistan to reclaim their home land. Now Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki wants for the U.S. forces to leave so they can govern their own country. However, we are heard panic from the Bush Administration on this topic. For the Bush Administration have wanting for American contractors to come in and take over. However, the Iraqis want to run their country by Iraqis standards not American Corporations.