Ah-nold Intrigue: Doing what he puts his mind to, or not?

Like the rest of the nation, I find it fascinating to watch Governor Arnold. Oh, not so much because he’s a movie star–I only recently saw one of his movies for the first time, the one where he’s pregnant and looked better than I did in maternity outfits–but because he seems to be the very epitome of actualization.

I tend to agree with Dan Weintraub’s column in the Sacramento Bee today 4/29/04 Weintraub Column (and I don’t often agree with Weintraub anymore). Weintraub looks at the Governor’s can-do attitude and asks the question, when is he going to use it to deliver on his promise to disinfect the corrupt government with sunshine. “I will open up the windows and doors of government,” he said, before he was elected. “No more decisions in the dark.” So far, his top “victories” have been backroom deals.

But he is capable of amazing feats. Witness his turn around of the recent (ill-advised, in my opinion) pair of initiatives to borrow California’s way partially out of this year’s debt. The initiatives were polling at 39% a month out. He campaigned vigorously pronouncing, with all the vigor of a daily affirmation, “they will pahss.” And they did, over 60% of voters opted to leverage their future.

Think what he could do if he applied that power to something that really mattered, like getting public financing of elections for the State of California, or universal health coverage.

International National Outrage: SIERRA MAGAZINE STORY REVEALS U.S. MINING COMPANY’S SUPPORT OF TERRORISTS LINKED TO AL-QAEDA

Read the amazing Sierra Club story at http://www.sierraclub.org/terrorism revealing how a Denver-based mining company secretly paid off Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists under the auspices of “international security.” ABC is reporting on it on Primetime Thursday too.