Hamamatsu Hakujin

A few supportive articles

On October 26, 2004 I entered a post called " The state of the US and it's relation with Japan / World". Well, I recently found a few articles by the A/P that kind of support some of my claims, especially the "obesity problem" and the "immigration problem". Both of these issues are issues that I strongly feel need to be addressed in the US and that are going to continue to get worse and lead to many other problems as we are beginning to see. I believe in order to really correct these problems it is going to take some major additions to the education system (spending more time on health and nutrition education and more foreign culture / language integration into or schools society). I don't mean just Spanish either. I really believe that some of the main reasons that other countries are able to compete with us so succesfully is because of their undertanding of the US society, culture and language. I beleieve a much larger percentage of citizens in other nations know way more about the US culture and society than Americans do about others. Of course raising the educational standards will most likely increase the tax burden among US citizens (tax law reform is a whole different story) but it is really needed. Next to Healthcare reform this is probably the second most important issue.

I'm still here!

I am still here and alive and my family is well for those of you who were wondering. The stress and mental strain of the recent events have finally started to take a bit of a toll on me. I guess I've been keeping it bottled up in a corner of my brain and it just started to effect me a little. I'm fine and will work through it though. We had another bit of a scare with my wife as she was running a 103 temperature so we had to admit here to emergency again, but it turned out it was a complication regarding breastfeeding so she is now ok. Luna is still in the hospital but progressing perfectly. I gave her her fist bath the other day and I really enjoyed it. I have decided to take a bit of time off from posting to get my body and mind back in good healthy working order. Don't quit visiting though as I will try to make posts now and then as I do so. Thank you to all of you who have been loyal visitors.