4th July — a supplement

Hon­est­ly I saw just one who looked that way. I am now in Port­land, Oregon.

But I had a nice con­ver­sa­tion with a young man who asked peo­ple to reg­is­ter for the elec­tion. We spoke about Oba­ma and these weird women of the Repub­li­cans and how media like peo­ple like them. And about green pol­i­tics and how com­pa­nies rule not only the USA but the whole planet.

There are actu­al­ly deci­sions where NY and Cal­i­for­nia want­ed to make some laws stronger for pow­er com­pa­nies which was tak­en away from state com­pe­tence to high­er stages. (ps. it last­ed 3 years in Cal­i­for­nia to for­bid them, and the law in NY need­ed till 2016 — 5 years)

Some coun­ties try to get rid off plas­tic bags but local com­pa­nies fight against it. In San Fran­cis­co you get only paper bags any­more. In San­ta Bar­bara the deci­sion is com­plet­ed. Final­ly we agreed that we all can learn from each oth­er. I spoke about my sur­prise that a politi­cian wants us to think and how much I like it. But this does­n’t make so much noise than pop­ulis­tic say­ings. It was a nice 4th July talk.

Now I can see a lit­tle bit but smell a lot of the fire­works. I hear the fire depart­ment and some dogs bark­ing. Sigh. And I saw quite a lot of home­less today. Sigh.