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

editorial post #2 [not a very creative title]

so, this week's editorial, from the Washington Post Online, is about how the declining state of the american economy is effecting other parts of the world, namely china.
Apparantly the U.S is the largest consumer of chinese goods. China was in the process of expanding their industrial work force to meet consumer demand, therefore the rural population was moving into the cities to find work in factories. now with consumers in america cutting back on buying foreign products, the chinese economy is falling apart. The workers have been forced to return to their thrird-world rural housing, which, for some, does not even exist anymore, and thousands of jobless and homeless roam the cities of china. Chinese exports have dropped 40-70 percent, depending on the product, and those exports are the base of China's expansion and de-isolationism at this moment in time.
for me, and hopefully for others, this article opened my eyes to how inter-connected the us economy is to the economies of other countries. right now the american economic depression is not that bad for the majority of the country. the same can't be said for the countries which are directly invested in the US, who cant afford any turn down in either our or their economies.

editorial post #1

wow..i had already forgotten how to use this silly website. i had also forgotten my password... oops.

alright so the editorial i found is nt about anything too serious because if you know me, i dont like to think about how the econmy is failing, how we have a new president who stepped in at the absolute worst possible time and is a bit of a socialist and wants to turn america into the soviet union, but whatever.
the editorial i found was on the pardon and how president Bush did not pardon anyone. the article cited president Clinton's very controversial last-minute pardons, of his deliquent brother and what-not, and set up a few good reasons for why he may have chosen to do this: 1. Bush may have been trying not to cause a stir at the end of a very rocky presidency, and just leave quietly, 2. he did not want to pull a clinton, and have just one more unpleasant addition to his resume. either way the article gave him shit for being too stingy with his mercy, and talked about how the new president should try to pardon a few more people during his time in office.
whatever.
pardons should be for people to clear records for which they have been proven innocent of, not to get crack dealers out of jail for finally getting caught. but that is a whole other tirade. the end

Current event political cartoon part...whatever

so..there is a veritable plethora of political cartoons explaining the momentous event about to occur: the presidental inaguration! the passing of the torch from one exhausted, weather-beaten, media-harrassed, shoe-thrown-at and unpopular president to the black messiah...o look! here's one RIGHT NOW::::


o wow..it's everything i imagined it would be... and better. it's in color.
as stated, its a visual representation of the event about to occur, the baton here representing ht presidency and all the wonderful things that currently wil go along with it... like the economy and the war and the economy and the nationa debt and stuff, which in the cartoon, must weigh a lot and are what has made bush so tired in the race.... the end.