O.G.12/9

 Today in class, Adrian and I counted all the letters we have so far. There were like 170. It isn't close to what we had hoped for but we're not done yet. I won't be dissapointed if we don't make our goal because we are still going to make a good amount of soldiers and there are a lot of really good, inspiring letters in the ones that we do have and those make it all worth it. At lunch, I  went to help out for a little but then I had to leave to a meeting. Tomorrow, I want to count the letters again I think were going to have almost double.

O.G 12/8

I got to school on time! Adrian, Brendyn, and I went to present our cause to Mrs. Bockman's class. Aside from the blank early morning stares, it went very well. I really believe that these people get our good intentions, we just need to keep pushing them because people will tend to forget things that aren't mandatory.Tonight, since we ran out of ribbons to give away, I told my mom if she could bring me a roll of it tomorrow so that I can make more.

O.G. 12/7

Today, I was late to class so I didn't get to go do presntations. I took advantage of the time and i finished one of the posters I had started.I was going to make ribbons but 2nd period is doing those. I hope to be joining the lunch campaign tomorrow and I'll make sure to be on time to school.

O.G.- 12/6

Today in class I talked with Ernie about talking to our second period class, Ceramics, during that class hour so that we can appreciate the time during 1st to go to classes we don't already spend time in. I also talked to Billy and we mentioned being a three-person group with Adrian for during-class presentations. Tomorrow we get to go around and do our presentations and I'm actually not nervous at all. I feel confident with this project.

O.G- 10/2

 Today in class, I worked on a poster. For the begining of class, I just thought for a while to see if i knew how to make a scarf; but, after that, I started my poster. I'm not much of an artist but I'll do it anyways.:)..Earlier afternoon, I asked my mom how much it cost for a roll of ribbon at wholesale and I found out and she can get it for us tomorrow.

Women in Afghanistan

This is a video report on a 18 year old girl, at least to me she still is, who, married at 11, was trying to show her anger and possibly end her life by setting herself on fire. She set herself on fire because she had had it with her older husband who is a drug addict. she stopped in the middle of it because she thought of her children.She is in extreme pain and after a couple weeks she has no choice but to go back to her home with her husband. Currently, there is a women in government who is working on getting more rights for these women who are at the mercy of their men. She is a hero.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2010/11/18/sayah.pak.blasphemy.prosecutor.cnn

War Hero "Accidentally" Euthanized

In Afghanistan, there was a soldier who found a large breed stray dog who became his best friend and later his and some of his comrades' saviour. When the soldier came home, he brought his partner with him and adopted her, Target, to his home to live with him. One day, Target got out and the neighbors turned her in to the local animal shelter. The next day, not the next week or month, the soldier went to that animal shelter only to find that his friend had been "mistakenly" put to sleep that morning.
I wonder if these type of mistakes only happen to this particular mentionable dog. I doubt it. In fact, I doubt that it was an accident at all. How are the animal rights or restrictions of animal-handling organizations if someones pet can be put to sleep the next morning after it is admitted to the "shelter?"

http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/hero-dog-from-afghanistan-mistakenly-killed/6qhu3d3?q=Hero+dog&rel=msn&from=en-us_msnhp&form=msnhed&gt1=42007

We're Losing our Influence on the Global Stage

President Obama recently lost hold of the major economic deal he wanted to do with China and he is being denied several other deals too. Our country is losing its influence on the world stage of economics. No country wants to hear for the depreciation of the dollar to increase export...What happened there?http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101115/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_asia;_ylt=AkUv53Z47ezXrUH0fvKmqUes0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNkMjdwbTU0BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAxMTE1L3VzX29iYW1hX2FzaWEEY2NvZGUDbW9zdHBvcHVsYXIEY3BvcwMxBHBvcwMzBHB0A2hvbWVfY29rZQRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3J5BHNsawNmdWxsbmJzcHN0b3I-

Indonessian Minister and first Lady's Handshake Issue

I was not aware that in Muslim belief it is frowned upon to make any kind of physical contact with any woman that is not your wife or family, but it is. So, since a muslim Indonnessian information minister shook the fisrt lady's hand the people were bothered by it and he responded by telling them that it was a foced contact.  http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101109/pl_yblog_upshot/first-ladys-handshake-with-conservative-indonesian-muslim-raises-eyebrows

Political Ad

In this political ad for Hickenlooper's gubernotorial campaign, he just states why he will not be making negative ads about his opponents. He says that everytime he sees one he feels like he needs to take a shower. I like this ad because this whole we've been talking about how all the politicians do is take shots at each other instead of making themselves look good and I think that what Hickenlooper did was the best thing he could do for his campaign.

Alternative link:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=75827

Weirdest Ballot Initiatives

This is like an article about all the silly propositions people tried to start and a couple that did.

Worse??

Basically, this article states that next year, mid term election year, the economy is going to get... woorsee!!!!

6.9 Earthquake!!

A really big earthquake hit the baja clifornia penninsula earlier today but it was too far for us to feel.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/10/21/magnitude-earthquake-rattles-baja-california/

Pentagon drirve-by!!

Yup. The pentagon was shot at by an unknown shooter. He/she fired a couple shots thought to be from a nearby roof of a building or nearby freeway.

http://www.tradingmarkets.com/news/stock-alert/frpt_pentagon-shootings-seen-as-random-incident-u-s-official-1240728.html

Bin Laden

Apparently, the united states knows nothing about playing hide and go seek because this artice from "Yahoo!News" tells us that Osama Bin Laden, the most infamous terrorist of the 21st century, has not even been tryingto hide from the US military. He is even being protected by village locals.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101018/us_yblog_upshot/nato-official-bin-laden-living-comfortably-in-pakistan

What About the Death Question?

Alfred Brown's Death Sentence....this man raped and then strangled to death a 15-year old girl in 1980 and is supposed to be put to death sometime this week I believe but there seems to be a problem with the experation of the lethal injection on Friday. Is the life of the 15 year old now worth the life of this man?

Facebook at its Best

This is pretty self-explanitory and just funny: The "Where's Waldo Bandit"
There's this guy who robs a bank and then talks about it on facebook and explains hes doing it to pay for his medical expenses and everything. Of course, he's then taken inby the FBI.

My Reflection on Discussion 9/22

The discussion we had on wednesday was the first one we've had in this class and I think it went pretty well. We went off topic a bit but they all had connectionsto the main topic. There were good points made for and against sb1070, I can't deny that. When I got to talk I kind of got lost in what I was saying and forgot what point I was getting to but it's okay, I'll make up for it in later discussions.Although we didn't get to disscuss this I think a question I would have liked to ask was: Is there a way that the border could be filtered, not how it is now, to where the criminals coming through and putting a bad name to the innocent can be detained and the innocent let in, settling uneasiness on both sides of the issue?