New Blog

Ok.... Thinking about starting a new blog in the view from a chacter out of a movie or book!!! Shane, John Grady, or Munny

OK so this clip terrifies me, It is one thing to beleive in God, ok go ahead thats great, but there comes a point when there is so much scientific fact that one needs to take that into consideration in your beliefs and every day life. Evolution is one of those things, saying that you dont beleive in evolution, is like saying you dont believe in gravity. Ok that is slightly extreme, but you know what I mean. THere is way to much scientific proof that evolution exsists. And for a presidential candidate to openly admit that they do not believe in evolution tells me that they are ignorant and only see what they want to see. It is to hard for them to find a way to still believe in God and evolution, so they just ignore the facts and live in ignorance. And someone who is going to be president of the United States needs to be able to be open to all ideas. Not just there own way of thinking!!

Nixon v Kennedy

I found this clip on you tube and thought it was relevent to my class, which is blogs, politics and media. A huge focus of the class is how the internet and the media has changed politics. Well obviously the internet was not in play at this time, but this was the first real media coverage of a presidential debate and would forever change the presidency and the way we see our presidents. It is interesting to see the stark difference of the debate back then and the hand raising debates that are going on this month.

Ronald Reagan

Here is a funny compilment of the presidential candidates during the debate refering to Ronald Reagan. I thought they looked like idiots but take a look and decide for your self.

Rare Form of TB

A man who was under Federal Isolation for a rare antibiotic resistant strain of TB, got on a plane and traveled to Europe earlier this month, knowing that he was infected with TB but unaware of its rare and deadly form, but aware of the possibility of infecting others! He is now on the move and has left Grady Memorial Hospital, he says he is leaving to receive health care at National Jewish Medical Center in Denver. However it has not been confirmed if he has arrived in Denver as of yet. He found out that he had TB earlier this month, he was advised to stay quarantined, he left hospitalization and traveled to Paris, while he was away tests revealed that he had this rare resistant form of TB, the CDC tracked him down in Rome and urged him to hand him self over to the Italian authorities, but he refused, and got back on a plan to Montreal. He is now on the move once again and we can only hope he will reach Denver and stay where he is told. This outraged me this morning when I heard. How irresponsible, he could have not only exposed each person on both flights but he could have also turned it into an epidemic. The CDC has contacted everyone on the flight and is in the process of testing each person. There have only been 47 reported cases of this rare form of TB in the last few decades, but none in the last 20 years. As far as researchers know this strain is completely resistant to antibiotics and is untreatable. One Health official who treated the infected man called even TB a weapon of mass destruction that is largely ignored in this society but is still very much a concern with 9 million new cases per year world wide. What does this have to do with politics? Everything!! Anything that is of potential danger to the health and safety of a countries people should be considered part of politics. And if this does break out, which is looking very unlikely, you better believe the president would have to be heavily involved with the CDC to try to contain the matter as best as possible. I just need to say one more time, how utterly ridiculous I think this man is. To get on a plane filled with people when you have been diagnosed with TB and warned of the possibility of contamination!!! I am so upset and I cannot imagine how the people on the flight felt when they were notified of their possible exposure. That is all for now but will keep you updated as reports come in of the mans whereabouts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6JFkxpyYi4
quick clip of the highlights of this breaking story

The Nexus of Politics and Terrorism

For those of you who do not know, the term nexus refers to a connection between two or more things.

What I want to know is why it took so long for things like this to surface. Why the media waited four years to start digging. The Answer is that no one wanted to get there hands dirty! It was to early after 9/11 and too many people were still in favor of the administration. Now with Bush at such a low approval rating it seems like every media source is just now digging up facts about how we sliped up on 9/11. UM I would have liked the country to know these things in time for the last presidential election!! Maybe Jonh Kerry would be in office instead!!

An Organized Kidnap

Today 5 british citizens were abducted by what appeared to be Iraqi Police Forces. This comes just after yesterday when ten US Soldiers were killed making May the most deadly month so far. Wittnesses said that the forces sealed of the streets at both ends and went right past the quards and entered the Finance Ministry Head quarters. US and British forces both believe that this was part of an Iraqi Police Force that went rogue. There has been infaltration of the police force recently by the Militia! When are we going to stop hearing of kidnapps and deaths of our soldiers and our allies soldiers in Iraq. When are we going to hear that we are winning? Can we even win with this amount of troops. I want this war to be over just like every one else, but what will happen if we pull out? We have already made so many enemies in Iraq from our occupation, and Abu Grahib and Gitmo, that to just leave and let them fight it out..... we cant take that risk. We have no idea who will come to power!