Thursday, December 4, 2008
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
The 2008 Election!!
Of course you already know that on Tuesday, November 4th 2008 our country picked a new president: Barack Obama. This leads the way for many new changes and ideas. Two topics that this election will effect are the republican party as well as the global opinion.
First off, the republican party will of course be effected by this election. Coming off of a long line of republican presidents, this switch to a democratic leader signals a need to make changes. It is evident from the non-closeness of the race and the strong support from the younger crowd that the republicans need to change something if they want to stay in the race in the next few years, especially in this time of crisis. Over the past 8 years Bush, a republican who is supposed to be in favor of small governments, has augmented our government size and spending more than any other president in years. Over those past years we have entered into a time of economic crisis. It is only natural for the people to look for a new leader and leading party to fix what the previous had gotten them into. In these upcoming years the republican party is going to have to make cahnges to their policies and even ideas in some cases to give the people what they want and regain some favor with the public.
The global opinion of the United States will be affected by this election as well. All over the world people are becoming excited for Barack Obama to be our new president. Kenya even went so far as to make the day of his election a holiday. Surprisingly even some middle eastern nations are excited over Obama's presidency . They are optimistic that since he is willing to negotiate with foreign nations, enemy or not, that relations between all nations will become better.
Most foreign nations look forward to increased freindship between them all. In this time of global economic crisis friendly relations between nations are crucial to making negotiations and plans of action to try and end the situation that our world is currently faced with.
These two topics are only two of many different things that will be affected by the 2008 election. It is safe to say that we are embarking on a revolutionary four years at the least.
First off, the republican party will of course be effected by this election. Coming off of a long line of republican presidents, this switch to a democratic leader signals a need to make changes. It is evident from the non-closeness of the race and the strong support from the younger crowd that the republicans need to change something if they want to stay in the race in the next few years, especially in this time of crisis. Over the past 8 years Bush, a republican who is supposed to be in favor of small governments, has augmented our government size and spending more than any other president in years. Over those past years we have entered into a time of economic crisis. It is only natural for the people to look for a new leader and leading party to fix what the previous had gotten them into. In these upcoming years the republican party is going to have to make cahnges to their policies and even ideas in some cases to give the people what they want and regain some favor with the public.
The global opinion of the United States will be affected by this election as well. All over the world people are becoming excited for Barack Obama to be our new president. Kenya even went so far as to make the day of his election a holiday. Surprisingly even some middle eastern nations are excited over Obama's presidency . They are optimistic that since he is willing to negotiate with foreign nations, enemy or not, that relations between all nations will become better.
Most foreign nations look forward to increased freindship between them all. In this time of global economic crisis friendly relations between nations are crucial to making negotiations and plans of action to try and end the situation that our world is currently faced with.
These two topics are only two of many different things that will be affected by the 2008 election. It is safe to say that we are embarking on a revolutionary four years at the least.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
This week in education and politics....
This past week has really been a hot week on the Campaign k-12 blog that I am following. (linked in the previous post) Obviously there has been alot of hype concerning the debate. While I can't say I watched the whole debate I did catch clips of it concerning the educational topics that were covered. (If you didn't catch it you can get the whole transcript here ) On the campaign k-12 it outlines some of these s topics in its post immediately following the debate as well as other posts later on in the week. One specific topic I found repeated posts about was the Ayers Controversy, something I had never heard of before. The Ayers controversy is an assertion that Barak Obama and very radical educational reformer William Ayers are working together to try and reform all schools in a very radical way. (Find out more about the controversy in this detailed blog article) Some very intense internet and radio ads ( such as this one ) that refer to Ayers as a "domestic terrorist" and go very deep into his infamous past have been launched by McCain to try and discredit Obama and his campaign. Most of the conversations in the debate as well as in other interview pertaining to this subject center on the relationship between Ayers and Obama. Obama says that they are just friends who live in the same neighborhood and McCains party suggests that Obama and Ayers have more than just a friendship and are involved in crazy radical reform efforts together all the time. Who is telling the truth? Only time and more blogging can tell!
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Campaign K-12
So the political blog that I chose to follow is the campaign K-12 blog. This blog is about the politics as they relate to kids and people our age. It talks a lot about what all the politicians thoughts and plans are concerning shcool systems, the no child left behind policy, and other items dealing with k-12 education. It is really neat to see these issues put out there in an organized way like this being so easily accesible becasue right now, with the economy in such bad shape, these issues aren't at the forefront of conversations.
These blogs are very different than the ones I have looked at in the past. Other non-professional blogs are structured very differently. The posts on these political blogs aren't full of opinions and just fluff. They are more based on fact, or are supposed to be, and have links to the facts that they talk about within the posts. The posts are actually there for thoughtful discussion not just yeah I like that thing that thats about. It has a big side bar full of links that relate to the topic and places where the information from the posts comes from. The posts aren't always done by the same person. Sometimes they have guest writers who put up posts, which is interesting to read. In that way it keeps the point of view different and can also possibly counteract having the blog be biased one way or the other.
An issue on this blog that I found interesting had to do with the economic situation our country is currently in and what Obama desires to do about it. He says that he wants to create a 25 billion dollar fund to rebuild schools and roads and things like that. He says that this will open up one million or more new jobs for the everyday person who faces losing their job because of the economic crisis we are in. I thought this was an interesting plan because it's not just giving money away to try and stimulate our economy its creating jobs and options for people who have no where else to go to turn to. Nothing is exactly set in stone yet of course but this will be something I will enjoy seeing how it plays out.
These blogs are very different than the ones I have looked at in the past. Other non-professional blogs are structured very differently. The posts on these political blogs aren't full of opinions and just fluff. They are more based on fact, or are supposed to be, and have links to the facts that they talk about within the posts. The posts are actually there for thoughtful discussion not just yeah I like that thing that thats about. It has a big side bar full of links that relate to the topic and places where the information from the posts comes from. The posts aren't always done by the same person. Sometimes they have guest writers who put up posts, which is interesting to read. In that way it keeps the point of view different and can also possibly counteract having the blog be biased one way or the other.
An issue on this blog that I found interesting had to do with the economic situation our country is currently in and what Obama desires to do about it. He says that he wants to create a 25 billion dollar fund to rebuild schools and roads and things like that. He says that this will open up one million or more new jobs for the everyday person who faces losing their job because of the economic crisis we are in. I thought this was an interesting plan because it's not just giving money away to try and stimulate our economy its creating jobs and options for people who have no where else to go to turn to. Nothing is exactly set in stone yet of course but this will be something I will enjoy seeing how it plays out.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Blogs About Blogging?!
So in my search for blogs I actually discovered that google has an official blog. Not only do they have a google blog, but they actually have a blog about google reader!! I thought this was really interesting because it is obviously something we are using and we can look at it to learn more about how to use google reader and become better bloggers and blog followers. It was neat to look at because people really do like die-hard follow google things and you can see where they left comments about new features and stuff like then then they would comment again saying google fixed whatever the problem or suggestion was. I though that was really neat to think that we can actually kind of interact with google. very cool.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Pandas Galore!!!!
In searching through blogs about cute and fuzzy animals I came across the blog for the San Diego Zoo! ( PANDAS ) I expected this blog to be a little bit boring and only talk about things like events going on at the zoo however it was pleasantly different than this. The zoo blog had information about a panda that just had a baby accompanied by an ADORABLE youtube video of that baby panda. If you like animals and cute little baby pandas then you would definitely enjoy the San Diego zoo blog.
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