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.

i'm sorry i'm only doing this for class and wasting internet space with useless analysis of political cartoons

alright... this week's political cartoon is about that silly governor who tried to sell obama's senate seat to the highest bidder. here he is, very blatantly holding a nice chair, obviously representing the senate seat in question, and talking about selling it on Ebay
according to lawrence c. stroud: illinois, or iowa, whicheve state that is, has a history of corrupt politicians, and its nice to see blagojevich keepiong with tradition. [let us hope monsieur obama is not a part of that illustrious tradition]
however, he has been carted off by the PO and people are clamoring for his resignation.
what will happen to the senate seat?
what will happen to the governors seat?
what will happen to the governor?

only time will tellllllllll.

Current event political cartoon

so this cartoon is about how sara palin ruined the election for john mccain. she helped his ratings at first but then..everything died. so here we have obama thanking mcCain for adding palin to his ticket bcause it did help obama to win the election

Volunteering

so yeah... i rpetty much got all my volunteering hours done ON election day... my day started at 5:30 am. i went and voted at the elementary school :)..
then i returned to volunteer and hand out sample ballots..where i met mr. Debenedittis aka Steve the mayor....[
then kathryn and i volunteered handiong out little flyers and asking ppl if they voted at 6:30 at night in the cold wet rain... FUN!