Global warming should be an interfaith initiative, not just "A group of evangelical leaders urging Christians, including president, to confront climate change." (The Oregonian Editorial - February 13).
If President Bush wants to leave his mark on the history he must read the words of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner, His Holiness The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, in the Introduction of his book 'My Tibet':
"Our planet is our house, and we must keep it in order and take care of it if we are genuinely concerned about happiness for ourselves, our children, our friends, and other sentient beings who share this great house with us."
President Bush should take urgent action to "keep our house in order", as The Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway on October 5, 1989 said in deciding the Nobel Peace Prize, about The Dali Lama's philosophy "the concept of universal responsibility embracing all mankind as well as nature."
Shantu Shah
http://Shah4USCongress.blogspot.com
6637 SW 88th Place
Portland, Oregon 97223
PH: 503-245-1722
Monday, February 13, 2006
Sunday, February 12, 2006
Hasty suspensions and terminations cost public hefty
Two different arbitrator's opinions within six months for two Portland public officials' decisions leading to the public employees suspension and termination costs public a hefty amount. Arbitrator John R. Baker's opinion on August 23, 2005 related to the termination of Steve Goldschmidt, Executive Director of Human Resources of Portland School District and John C. Truesdale's opinion this week (The Oregonian - January 20 headline) regarding Portland Police Officer Scott McCollister's termination has cost a bundle of public funds paid by the taxpayers in Portland. Haste in both cases made the waste of precious public resources that could have been better utilized in public safety and education.
Our legal and justice system is so corrupted that it benefits at the public expense. Majority of the money in both cases has gone towards the legal and attorney expenses. Arbitrators are not the Gods that their decisions could not be challenged for the farreaching consequences though it's binding according to the arbitration agreements. Shooting victim Kendra James' relatives should certainly challenge the arbitrator McCollister's opinion under the state action doctrine and color of state law , Section 1983 due process clause of Fourteenth Amendment of U.S. Constitution, but it could take another year to get the closer through the justice system stakced against the victimized individuals.
Shantu Shah
http://Shah4USCongress.blogspot.com
6637 SW 88th Place
Portland, Oregon 97223
Ph: 503-245-1722
Our legal and justice system is so corrupted that it benefits at the public expense. Majority of the money in both cases has gone towards the legal and attorney expenses. Arbitrators are not the Gods that their decisions could not be challenged for the farreaching consequences though it's binding according to the arbitration agreements. Shooting victim Kendra James' relatives should certainly challenge the arbitrator McCollister's opinion under the state action doctrine and color of state law , Section 1983 due process clause of Fourteenth Amendment of U.S. Constitution, but it could take another year to get the closer through the justice system stakced against the victimized individuals.
Shantu Shah
http://Shah4USCongress.blogspot.com
6637 SW 88th Place
Portland, Oregon 97223
Ph: 503-245-1722
No to Northwest resource outsourcing
No Northwesterner would disagree with Oregonian closing argument (Editorial - February 10) that, "It (BPA gird) was not built to be a cashcow for the federal treasury." Bush administration marred with outright lying to lawmakers about Iraq and eavesdropping, and pickpocketing the poor ratepayers, seems to be cooking Methampetimine in the White House with the Northwest electricity to pay the rich with millions of dollars of budget tax cuts. Only the persons on meth could have a poor memory of Jack Abramoof invited to Crawford, Texas in the summer of 2003. Where they high on meth in Crawford, Texas rench?
Senators and Representatives of both parties from Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming should unite and tell Mr. Bush simply, "No to BPA grab." It's our fundamental right to use our own natural resources for our benefit only.
Shantu Shah
http://Shah4USCongress.blogspot.com
6637 SW 88th Place
Portland, Oregon 97223
PH: 503-245-1722
Senators and Representatives of both parties from Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming should unite and tell Mr. Bush simply, "No to BPA grab." It's our fundamental right to use our own natural resources for our benefit only.
Shantu Shah
http://Shah4USCongress.blogspot.com
6637 SW 88th Place
Portland, Oregon 97223
PH: 503-245-1722
Castle of multicultralism
Unlike Congressman Tom Tancredo (R- Arizona) (anti) "Immigration campaigner" (Financial Times - February 8), I as a Democrat like his other Republican members of Congress believe that the lawful immigration is the virtue of our country built upon like a "Tower of Babel", a castle of multiculturalism. What Rep. Tancredo doing just to get reelected is simply to divide the Americans into the hyphenated Americans, like the British did to greater India fifty seven years ago by dividing into East and West Pakistan and India based upon religion and cultures creating a greatest migration of people of different ethnicity and massacre.
Thirty seven years ago I was a lawful immigrant student from India followed by my immigrant wife and an immigrant son a year alter and now I as an American who has proudly filed this week candidacy for US Congress from Oregon District One. Lawful or controlled immigration is like the doctor prescribed controlled diet to meet the needs of Intel(s) of America ("Intel chief call for easing curbs" Financial Times- February 8) and the farms of USA. Immigrants are not taking away American jobs, rather they are protecting the economy and jobs within America and not exporting the factories overseas. Immigrants are taking two type of jobs for which either we do not have highly skilled talents, or no American wants to do the farm labor or bottom of the totem pole job.
I would like to suggest Mr. Tancredo to be an American and be proud of our Interfaith and Multiculturalism. The threat to America is not the Immigration, but the imports of autos. giant recreational vehicles Tancredo is using for his campaign, and the finished factory products from China that's making our country a 7.5 trillion dollars debtor. No doubt America is drunk in oil and debt as if there is no tomorrow. Let's be realistic.
Shantu Shah
http://shah4uscongress.blogspot.com/
6637 SW 88th Place
Portland, Oregon 97223
PH: 503-245-1722
Cell: 503-890-0012
Thirty seven years ago I was a lawful immigrant student from India followed by my immigrant wife and an immigrant son a year alter and now I as an American who has proudly filed this week candidacy for US Congress from Oregon District One. Lawful or controlled immigration is like the doctor prescribed controlled diet to meet the needs of Intel(s) of America ("Intel chief call for easing curbs" Financial Times- February 8) and the farms of USA. Immigrants are not taking away American jobs, rather they are protecting the economy and jobs within America and not exporting the factories overseas. Immigrants are taking two type of jobs for which either we do not have highly skilled talents, or no American wants to do the farm labor or bottom of the totem pole job.
I would like to suggest Mr. Tancredo to be an American and be proud of our Interfaith and Multiculturalism. The threat to America is not the Immigration, but the imports of autos. giant recreational vehicles Tancredo is using for his campaign, and the finished factory products from China that's making our country a 7.5 trillion dollars debtor. No doubt America is drunk in oil and debt as if there is no tomorrow. Let's be realistic.
Shantu Shah
http://shah4uscongress.blogspot.com/
6637 SW 88th Place
Portland, Oregon 97223
PH: 503-245-1722
Cell: 503-890-0012
Land: "Nortwest Natural Resources"
My land is your land and my home is your home. No land is a land without its natural resources that cannot sustain economic life. Without it we will all be like the nomads of Sahara. The federal and the state laws we pass shall make best use of its natural resources for the people who live on that land and thrive upon it.
We shall sustain our laws such that we make the best and the wisest use of our natural resources, such as the electricity generated from the mighty Columbia River by The Bonneville Power Administration System is regulated only for the long-term benefit of the social and cultural values of Northwest for which we have established our societies, cities, townships, homes, and townhouses and not to outsource it to fill the federal treasury, as the latest thinking of White House under consideration.
The industries we maintain and attract on our lands shall be such that it provides not only the economic wages that would support living cost and the arts and entertainment, but also maintain the clean air and water in the rivers and the Pacific Ocean that would safeguard the wildlife and marine life and the echo system of the Northwest so as to maintain healthy lifestyle of our adult citizens and our children and the grandchildren. We have entered a new era in 2006 when we have to select between the jobs and environment, e.g. shipwrecking industry that has embarked us on crossroads of sustaining our economy and reducing the unemployment level by allowing the new industries that will be built at locations and manner in which it's constructed and operated that will not pollute the air and deteriorate the precious marine life.
The advanced technology industry we have built in Oregon as the succession of the timber industry that has provided anew economic thrust and modern lifestyle since 1980s, needs to be strengthened by continually educating our students in science and math, funding our higher education, as well as by adding the shortfall with legal immigration laws by a measured new overseas talent that could be quickly trained and make them productive citizens that would provide additional revenue for the state and federal to maintain our lifestyle, land, lakes, parks, highways, forests, and the ski slopes.
The healthy population of our land not only depends upon the clean environment of the land but also upon how our available medical resources we use carefully in the best interest of the dental and physical hygiene upkeep of all our school children, and their parents and grandparents. We do not want to differentiate between the haves and have-nots when it comes to the basic and critical health care. Our land would be attractive and naturally resourceful to appreciate only if its landholders are happy and healthy. Last but not the least no one shall be deprived of his or her land just to benefi t another private development.
Shantu Shah
http://Shah4USCongress.blogspot.com
6637 SW 88th Place
Portland, Oregon 97223
PH: 503-245-1722
We shall sustain our laws such that we make the best and the wisest use of our natural resources, such as the electricity generated from the mighty Columbia River by The Bonneville Power Administration System is regulated only for the long-term benefit of the social and cultural values of Northwest for which we have established our societies, cities, townships, homes, and townhouses and not to outsource it to fill the federal treasury, as the latest thinking of White House under consideration.
The industries we maintain and attract on our lands shall be such that it provides not only the economic wages that would support living cost and the arts and entertainment, but also maintain the clean air and water in the rivers and the Pacific Ocean that would safeguard the wildlife and marine life and the echo system of the Northwest so as to maintain healthy lifestyle of our adult citizens and our children and the grandchildren. We have entered a new era in 2006 when we have to select between the jobs and environment, e.g. shipwrecking industry that has embarked us on crossroads of sustaining our economy and reducing the unemployment level by allowing the new industries that will be built at locations and manner in which it's constructed and operated that will not pollute the air and deteriorate the precious marine life.
The advanced technology industry we have built in Oregon as the succession of the timber industry that has provided anew economic thrust and modern lifestyle since 1980s, needs to be strengthened by continually educating our students in science and math, funding our higher education, as well as by adding the shortfall with legal immigration laws by a measured new overseas talent that could be quickly trained and make them productive citizens that would provide additional revenue for the state and federal to maintain our lifestyle, land, lakes, parks, highways, forests, and the ski slopes.
The healthy population of our land not only depends upon the clean environment of the land but also upon how our available medical resources we use carefully in the best interest of the dental and physical hygiene upkeep of all our school children, and their parents and grandparents. We do not want to differentiate between the haves and have-nots when it comes to the basic and critical health care. Our land would be attractive and naturally resourceful to appreciate only if its landholders are happy and healthy. Last but not the least no one shall be deprived of his or her land just to benefi t another private development.
Shantu Shah
http://Shah4USCongress.blogspot.com
6637 SW 88th Place
Portland, Oregon 97223
PH: 503-245-1722
Running in the middle
Whether it is a campaign for the governor or for the US Congress it's important to not "throw the red meat(or bones)to the party faithful" (Running left or right - The Oregonian Editorial - February 12), but to have a meaningful middle of the path agenda that's important to all the voters, though the votes any candidate receives in Oregon now in the primary is of the voters registered to either of the two major parties on which the candidate is running.
That's the primary reason in the interest of all voters it's important to get rid of party politics out of the primary elections in Oregon, and select the top two candidates without any party label receiving the highest number of votes in May, who would contest runoff general elections in November.
There should be also a two (2) term limits for Governor, US Representative, and US Senator to get rid of corporate corruption rampant in all branches of our government.
Shantu Shah
http://Shah4USCongress.blogspot.com
6637 SW 88th Place
Portland, Oregon 97223
PH: 503-245-1722
That's the primary reason in the interest of all voters it's important to get rid of party politics out of the primary elections in Oregon, and select the top two candidates without any party label receiving the highest number of votes in May, who would contest runoff general elections in November.
There should be also a two (2) term limits for Governor, US Representative, and US Senator to get rid of corporate corruption rampant in all branches of our government.
Shantu Shah
http://Shah4USCongress.blogspot.com
6637 SW 88th Place
Portland, Oregon 97223
PH: 503-245-1722
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Shantu Shah for U.S. Congress - Vision Statement
A VISION FOR CHANGE – The TRIUMPH OF WILL
Shantu Shah, Candidate for U.S. Congress
as Representative for Oregon District One
Brothers and Sisters of America:
My inspiration comes from three personalities: Gandhi, Patel, and Gandhi, two women and a man, who have shaped the international politics with their vision for change and the triumph of their will, have been the focus of three biographies by three different authors. If you have guessed their names as Mahatma Gandhi, Vallabhbhai Patel, and Indira Gandhi your guess was incorrect. I am talking about: 1) The Untold Story of Kastur, wife of Mahatma Gandhi, authored by their grandson Arun Gandhi (and his wife Sunanda), who would be addressing at my invitation to an Interfaith Festival of Faith this September 17 in Convention Center, Portland, Oregon; 2) Triumph of Will, Sonia Gandhi, Italy-born wife of Rajiv Gandhi, Past Prime Minister of India, written by Yussuf Ansari and; 3) A Vision for Change A.D. Patel and the politics of Fiji by Brij V. Lal.
Why is January 26 important to me and to all Indian Americans? It’s same day in 1969, twenty years after India celebrated its first republic day, I left Mumbai airport leaving behind (for a year) my young wife, and a year-and-half old son, to arrive at New York International airport on a bitter cold blizzard day on my way to Raleigh, North Carolina as an electrical engineering graduate student in North Carolina State University. February 15, 2006 would be our fortieth anniversary. Time and tide waits for none. When I decided to travel to USA thirty-seven years ago it was thinking out of a box from my routine job as a Deputy Engineer in charge of Navasari and Gandevi subdivisions Gujarat Electricity Board job for six years.
I have come to a decision once again thinking out of a box. Now, I have a vision for change not much different from Dr. Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King’s dream who was laid to rest this week, and Rosa Parks riding in a bus on a seat reserved for whites only. Everyone has a dream and aspiration either for a change of own life such as job, business or else.
I have a will for a change in social behavior of rampant corruption in the three branches of the government of my adopted country USA with my candidacy for U.S. Congress, Representative for District 1 Oregon.
During the democratic elections in Canada and Palestine in Jnauary 2006 the incumbents were thrown out of the office by the will of the voters. Hope with the help of average Americans we will be able to throw out the rascals who have been corrupted by the corporate culture, influenced by the cash contributions of millions of dollars, leaving behind the average citizen holding down the empty bag on the back burners.
Heath care, meager social security benefits, medical insurances, education for have-nots, and the small businesses e.g. AAHOA hotels and motels, are all at risk at the enrichment of the well to do and the haves. Haves have been helpful in the economy as much as the have-nots who labor for the economical success of the country. Our factories and offices would not be busy without the haves and have-nots.
The economic and talent cooperation between India and USA for example, the two largest economies of the world, in the production of goods and services is as important as the cooperation between the haves and have-nots of America, as well as those of India.
Every consumer and patient’s personal information and data is very important to be safe guarded from the thieves and from the government invading our privacy via the Google network and data transmission eavesdropping.
I would like to get input of your concerns to my platform to help better living conditions for the average American, including those men and women who have lawfully-immigrated from South Asia and rest of the world to USA (like the early Pioneers) who should also have a equal right to vote, as they are equally taxed left and right like the voting citizens of America.
Thank you for your kind attention.
Shantu Shah
http://Shah4USCongress.blogspot.com
6637 Sw 88th Place
Portland, Oregon 97223
PH: 503-245-1722
Shantu Shah, Candidate for U.S. Congress
as Representative for Oregon District One
Brothers and Sisters of America:
My inspiration comes from three personalities: Gandhi, Patel, and Gandhi, two women and a man, who have shaped the international politics with their vision for change and the triumph of their will, have been the focus of three biographies by three different authors. If you have guessed their names as Mahatma Gandhi, Vallabhbhai Patel, and Indira Gandhi your guess was incorrect. I am talking about: 1) The Untold Story of Kastur, wife of Mahatma Gandhi, authored by their grandson Arun Gandhi (and his wife Sunanda), who would be addressing at my invitation to an Interfaith Festival of Faith this September 17 in Convention Center, Portland, Oregon; 2) Triumph of Will, Sonia Gandhi, Italy-born wife of Rajiv Gandhi, Past Prime Minister of India, written by Yussuf Ansari and; 3) A Vision for Change A.D. Patel and the politics of Fiji by Brij V. Lal.
Why is January 26 important to me and to all Indian Americans? It’s same day in 1969, twenty years after India celebrated its first republic day, I left Mumbai airport leaving behind (for a year) my young wife, and a year-and-half old son, to arrive at New York International airport on a bitter cold blizzard day on my way to Raleigh, North Carolina as an electrical engineering graduate student in North Carolina State University. February 15, 2006 would be our fortieth anniversary. Time and tide waits for none. When I decided to travel to USA thirty-seven years ago it was thinking out of a box from my routine job as a Deputy Engineer in charge of Navasari and Gandevi subdivisions Gujarat Electricity Board job for six years.
I have come to a decision once again thinking out of a box. Now, I have a vision for change not much different from Dr. Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King’s dream who was laid to rest this week, and Rosa Parks riding in a bus on a seat reserved for whites only. Everyone has a dream and aspiration either for a change of own life such as job, business or else.
I have a will for a change in social behavior of rampant corruption in the three branches of the government of my adopted country USA with my candidacy for U.S. Congress, Representative for District 1 Oregon.
During the democratic elections in Canada and Palestine in Jnauary 2006 the incumbents were thrown out of the office by the will of the voters. Hope with the help of average Americans we will be able to throw out the rascals who have been corrupted by the corporate culture, influenced by the cash contributions of millions of dollars, leaving behind the average citizen holding down the empty bag on the back burners.
Heath care, meager social security benefits, medical insurances, education for have-nots, and the small businesses e.g. AAHOA hotels and motels, are all at risk at the enrichment of the well to do and the haves. Haves have been helpful in the economy as much as the have-nots who labor for the economical success of the country. Our factories and offices would not be busy without the haves and have-nots.
The economic and talent cooperation between India and USA for example, the two largest economies of the world, in the production of goods and services is as important as the cooperation between the haves and have-nots of America, as well as those of India.
Every consumer and patient’s personal information and data is very important to be safe guarded from the thieves and from the government invading our privacy via the Google network and data transmission eavesdropping.
I would like to get input of your concerns to my platform to help better living conditions for the average American, including those men and women who have lawfully-immigrated from South Asia and rest of the world to USA (like the early Pioneers) who should also have a equal right to vote, as they are equally taxed left and right like the voting citizens of America.
Thank you for your kind attention.
Shantu Shah
http://Shah4USCongress.blogspot.com
6637 Sw 88th Place
Portland, Oregon 97223
PH: 503-245-1722
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