Barack Obama is becoming a world dream as a future president of the United States. Obama is the society's call for the new direction of correction and new approach of internal and foreign US policy. I will let the clip take you through this dream..

So.. Since I stepped on the US soil, all what I had were around $300 and a couple of $50/$20 notes in my wallet, plus a dime and 2 nickels a friend of mine gave me when I was in UAE. So I would claim that I knew that US currency is either green notes - pinkish now - and metallic coins that held some value.

What couldn't understand was the pennies part. Small copper pieces that the cashiers gave me every time when I sincerely would have accepted a round-down. Although very insignificant in value, I always picked any falling penny even if it ran away on the metro stop , till Ashleigh told me one day to ignore it. It was like a light led up and told me I don't really need to care about these pieces much, since they were almost of no value. I started avoiding putting them in my wallet and would place them in my jackets or pants to give them to any homeless guy around the corner; which was another problem. Actually I found out it's quite a cheap donation to give the pennies you had, even if it was a whole scoop of them - they should be counted by that. So, I actually didn't know what to do.

To be honest, I started ignoring them. ask he cashier to keep them, or leave them stroll till they bury themselves under a pedestrian shoe, or whatever they wanted to do; it's America at the end.

I just had a question about them. I started wondering how many pennies I ignore, and whether or not it was a fortune that I'm losing. I tried thinking of losing a penny a day, and to make the math easier, made it 300 pennies a year. Reasonable enough ..
but there re around 300M Americans wandering around this country, and I am quite sure they learned like me - quite a FOB - not to pick this running away infinitesimal fortune. so that would be 90,000,000,000 homeless pennies, which is around $0.9 Billion. To be honest again, I didn't know America had this much money on the floor..

did you ?

It was really funny this morning to watch NBC 4 going nuts .. I mean, sure this makes it more watchable, but give me a break. The world is going green.. but I'm not sure how green things can get. Today on TV they were talking about "green sex toys". well.. when I heard that I thought they will start talking about cucumbers and carrots .. but they actually were talking about commercial sex toys made of ceramic and recyclable glass - I'm not sure if we want that to be recycled though.

I wasn't very surprised to see this going on TV, since Americans have shows like "sex & the city" and a New York "sex museum" .. so it's in the air .. but I'm not sure about the green part. Let's throw Al-Gor a party celebrating Nobel prize for his "role" in making the world "greener". I'm sure the US could help the world get greener by ratifying the Kyoto agreement that President Bush says about it:

This is a challenge that requires a 100% effort; ours, and the rest of the world's. The world's second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases is the People's Republic of China. Yet, China was entirely exempted from the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol. India and Germany are among the top emitters. Yet, India was also exempt from Kyoto … America's unwillingness to embrace a flawed treaty should not be read by our friends and allies as any abdication of responsibility. To the contrary, my administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change … Our approach must be consistent with the long-term goal of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere."

I am sure that Mr. President knows who is the number 1 emitter. We should all thank Mr. Bush for his "effort" and "leadership" in committing to make the world greener - maybe by using phosphor bombs - with their green flashing - on Afghanistan, Iraq, and wherever he goes next.

Green: signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol, Yellow: signed and hoping to ratify the agreement, Red: signed but not ratifying.

Nevertheless, green is a trend here because people are committed to the greener world. This doesn't at all conflict with their love of SUVs and sports cars, since cars or industries that provide the quality of life are not the issue here. It is about the type of paper you use, the cups provided in the coffee shops, and most importantly, sex toys.
Let's use the term self-hypocrites with my beloved Americans. They have a very genuine want to make and do better, but it might get harder when it is about being better. It makes oneself feel so good wiping the butt with a recyclable toilet paper - they don't use water here - because one knows this good for the environment, but how about buying a small car that will consume less energy ? This makes me always wonder why the hydrogen and battery cars are not picking up as a trend if cars are the number 1 polluting machine in the world ? or is it the corporates benefits and network that has more interest driven by profit from gasoline based cars ?

don't get me wrong, but it takes more than regular courage to go in the opposite direction, where responsibility measures up to the level of privilege and power. Investing almost 4.2% of the GDP is worth it if your emittions are affecting 6.5 billion human beings alive.