Obey Zolac!

Felt like passing along some political current events.

-State of Hawaii officially recognizes Native Hawaiians as Hawaii's only indigenous people. Governor Abercrombie signed the bill on Wednesday. This may be a step in the direction of self-governance for Native Hawaiians; however, they must first be officially recognized by the United States federal government as an entity with the right for self-government, sovereignty, and self-determination (Native Hawaiians are the only indigenous group in the United States who do not have federal recognition). Senator Akaka has been trying since 2000 to pass a bill in U.S. Congress to do just that. ...Link takes you to news story with video, and among other things discusses why state and federal recognition of Native Hawaiians is controversial.

-President Obama presents American Jobs Act in a joint session of Congress. Link takes you to the full speech on YouTube (whitehouse channel). In theory it's also available on whitehouse.gov, but when I tried there the video stopped just before the fifteen minute mark and would not continue. ...Point being, theoretically there are other places to see the speech than YouTube, but even so I find it depressing that the video has only 304 views on YouTube. Come on people, get on that shit.

STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS IS BEING STREAMED LIVE ON YOUTUBE. TUNE IN, KIDS.

EDIT: Nice speech, Mr. President, silly jokes about fish and all~. He talks about some very good things. He has some very nice plans. I approve of these plans. And works-in-progress, and changes already made. Like, replacing No Child Left Behind with something that DOESN'T SUCK. ...And it was kind of a nice moment when he mentioned how the health care reform is helping students and young adults by letting them get back on their parents' coverage. Because, I just did that. IT'S SO NICE. And it's really great seeing changes in policy that affect me personally in direct and obvious ways, even if it's only a small thing.

The theme of the day was WIN THE FUTURE. Which prompted this silly real-time conversation on Gchat with platoapproved while we both listened to Barack's comforting and inspiring word-noises:

platoapproved: the youtube streaming thing is way cool though
we are living in the future, Ange
THE FUTURE
zolac_no_miko: we have to WIN THE FUTURE
i hear the end guy is hard
platoapproved: Oh snap
Well we have some lives saved up I hope
zolac_no_miko: ...i have good health! :DD
not very many coins tho
platoapproved: SAME o/
Let's kill some people and pick their pockets
wait
zolac_no_miko: LOL
i'm really enjoying these sidequests. maybe a little too much.
platoapproved: XDDD

...So, yeah, I'm glad I was able to do that. Thank you, o Google, wise and benevolent information overlords!

Okay guys, let's do this! Let's WIN THE FUTURE. Let's take this game to the next level! :DD

...Lol okay so aquidis just walked in the door and was like, "Win The Future? ...W T F...?" *facepalm*