editorial #6?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/22/AR2009032201455_pf.html

AS we can plainly see, this week’s article, from the Washington Post Online (which, fun fact, is just the print edition, in web formatting,) is about the changes President Obama is making to Food Safety regulations and inspections based on the salmonella scares in recent years. There have been several outbreaks of Salmonella in spinach, tomatoes, and peppers. With the latest appearances of the illness in one company’s peanut factories and products, a congressional investigation was called to inquire of the company in question. It was revealed that the factory where the infected products were being made and shipped out was operating far from FDA standards, with rats, bugs and other animals running around the factory and infecting the products being shipped out. It was at this time the president decided it was time to take action. He created the Food Safety Working Group. Though their official job is not yet cleat, the group will contain the former New York City health commissioner and other highly qualified individuals and will hopefully be getting the slipping standards of some companies back into shape, for the good of the public.
Personally, I think it’s nice the President can take enough time off the talk show and college basketball circuit to get some work done. Seriously though, it may seem like another superfluous department for taxpayers to pay for, only necessary because the old one wasn’t doing its job, but this one might be necessary, for the time being, considering just how much accidental salmonella has been getting into the people’s food.

editorial #5598787

so once again the editorial is coming from the washington post online...because i am too lazy to read a real newspaper. this weeks one is about genetic research, more specifically embryonic stem cell research. Last week Mr. Obama declared he would be lowering the restrictions set forth by the Bush administration on stem cell research. as i believe everyone is well aware, there is a huge controversy over this particular form of genetic and disease research becuase the stem cells must be harvest from aborted fetuses at a certain stage of embryonic develpoment, which directly ties into the heated abortion debates and pro-life vs.. pro abortion arguments. During his speech on relieveing the restrictions, Obama failed to give any details on how he will respond to the issue of ontaining the fetuses or the relating abortion argument, but did say he would try to address these problems sometime in the not-too-distant future. as for now, scientists are celebrating their new found freedom, stating that the restrictions prevented the Untied States from being a forerunner in the scientific field and that with increased research ability, they can now expand their field, and are hoping for breakthroughs in the field of genetic research and disease control.

editorial #5598787

editorial post ...4?

so..this weeks post comes (yet again) form the Washington POst online. this week it was kind enough to recognize little ol' Fairfax county and the radical movement to open school times a little later. According to the article, the group SLEEP has been, for the last five years, petitioning the schools to open one hour later, to save the poor children from their O SO GREULING SCHEDULES. well, other than the fact that the kids can get the hell over it and stop being babies, the group is finally getting somewhere. the county's schools are seriously reconsidering the school start time, and moving it in the high schools from 7:20 to 8:30. they cite the average teenager's need to have a good 7-8 hours of sleep each night for a variety of health reasons. the down side to this, that no one seems to be considering is that, while MAYBE getting people more sleep, it will RUIN THEIR LIVES. there will be no more swimming. internships will end. and the arts programs will be severly cut back. by starting schools later, all the county will be doing is cutting hours out of the day for kids to participate in after-school activities, usually the only part of school anyone actually enjoys. kids will get one more hour of sleep, or procrastination, or whatever (but most will still wake up at 3 am to finish papers like i have done every year since 7th grade) and just have one less hour in the day to get work done.
Parents will also suffer trying to adjust their work schedules to fit the new school schedules, something they probably can't afford to do right now, because they are too busy trying to keep their jobs in the current economy. THE END