Nucluear Policy

Deterrence is the "primary purpose" or the U.S "sole purpose" is to restrain other countries from using nuclear weapons?


Nuclear policy can be change this week. Obama is deciding his nuclear policy with help from militray advisors. The new policy will be documented in the Nucluear Posture Review. This will defined what Obama will do about the issue of nuclear weapons.


This new policy will determined to keep using nuclear weapons as a threat or take weapons from around the world to keep peace. Not only that but it will overturned policies implemented by the Bush administration. It will also determined the amount of weapons the Pentagon will be in supply.


On Friday the 40th anniversary of the Non-Profileration Treaty, Obama stated that the review will reduce the use of nuclear weapons as a military strategy instead it will be want to keep a safe, secure and effective nuclear deterent.


I wonder how will the Department of Defense react?

Keeping Animals Safe

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This video gives information on how to protect the zoo animals from the cold.
Zoo's have started inovations to protect the zoo animals.,In Florida they are trying to rescue all the sea turtles that come up to the shore to keep warm. They also had to pick 10,000 butterflies and but them in a butterfly farm so they will stay warm. Lions also suffer in Franklin Zoo that is located in Boston, the girrafes are kept inside a 45 ft tall heated farm because they can't stand the cold and because if they walk outside they might slip in the ice. Water pumps keep the water animals from freezing and hay is put out so flamingos wouldnt have cold feet. Not only that but usually animals eat more in the cold so they will keep warm. Yet for other animals that need the cold this type of wheather makes them feel like home sweet home.

Congress in Motion about Abortion

Protesters marched to Capitol Hill to protest restriction on abortion funding in the health care. The protester would not support the bill if it contain restrictions in abortion. Brenda Reiss an activist of Long Island New York stated that she will rather not support the health care reform if it is discriminating against half of the population that support the bill.

President Barack Obama and the Democrats did not want to do anything respecting the subject because he knew that the bill will become a coalition between pro-choice and pro-life. When Representative Bart Stupak added the provision of abortion to the bill.

Planned Parenthood and NARAL organize "Stop Stupak" that was a lobbying day. The rally was attended by many Democratic members such are own Senator Barbara Boxer.

The Democrats are trying to get to an agreement so the Healtcare reform bill will pass. What I'm questioned about is that why do the people want to discriminate against abortion if the reason they are passing the bill is so people wouldn't be kept from getting insured but still people are being denied the right to privacy.

Congress agains unemployment rates

What to do with unemployment this is the big question Congress is asking. The unemployment rate increase since October. After taking care of the Health care reform they are planning to pass a job stimilus.

These are some ideas that are being discuss in congress:

1. To offer a payroll tax holiday, by temporarily suspending the payroll tax that is up 12.4% this will allow employers to hire new workers with the extra money. Yet Congress doubts that employers will use the money to hire people.

2. Create a new jobs hiring credit; this allows the employers to get money for every person they hire, for example if the employer hires 3 people he will get $3,000 - $5,000 per hire person. Yet Congress doesn't want to pass it because they have pitfalls.

3. Help close local and state budget shortfalls, if done as the unemployment rate is rising states are loosing revenue leaving them with budget deficits.

4. Offer public-service employment; this means they could create new public-service jobs these jobs will have to at the state and local level but they already have 1.4 million employees if the federal goverment would make new public service jobs that number will double.

What to do is difficult for Congress to decide everything suggestion always have pitfalls. Hopefully Congress finds a way to balance out the unemployment rate.

Bill O'Reilly know for his political t.v show The O'Reilly Factory is a very important role figure for the media. He informs us about the latest news in politics. In this video he is interviewing Obama about terrorism. As I analyzed the video it seem as O'Reilly wanted to make Obama look bad and he was trying to attack Obama. Obama on other hands didn't let himself be interrupted by O'Reilly. From this I could tell that even though he is registered as independent he is still Republican at heart especially when it comes down to talking to Obama, making it worse he is the President and Democratic. Again we see the coalition between the RED V. BLUE, or even the ELEPHANT V. the DONKEY.





Chris Matthews talk show host for The Chris Matthew's Show and Hardball is a well know democratic who seeks to questioned Republicans. In this video Republican Congressman Jim Campbell is being interviewed by Matthews for the reason that Republicans want to pass a bill that requires the president to show his birth certificate the reason behind this is because people questioned Obama's birthplace. Matthews called this bill "crazy" is unnecessary he stated that if it wasn't obvious that he is a U.S. citizen.

FAIR V. MRC

Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting and Media Research Center are two groups that focused on the media.


FAIR's mission is to incorparate the 1st amendment in the media. They believe that censorhip and bias are two unfair factors that shouldn't be use in media coverage. They work with journalists and activist to inform the public about news that are not being covered. They covered all types of news, from the "neglected news stories" to even helping journalists when they are in a chokehold. FAIR is concern on delivering news for the people and if people are concerned than the group wants to be contacted by them so they will become media activists.


The Media Research Center is a group of people that show the liberal bias of the media. They are more conservative than FAIR and believe in neutralizing the media and keeping it balanced. What they look for in the media is quantity and qualitive in order to determined if the media has a liberal stand point.


Both of the webpages have goals on proving there is bias in the media though they have different stand points that one is liberal (FAIR) and conservative (MRC).

This political cartoon has a double entendre first it makes fun of Republican Joe Wilson from South Carolina screaming "you lie" to Obama about the Health care reform. The irony behind this is that the character who is saying "you lie" is pointed at the dead people who are do not have insurance yet the people are telling him that many people are dying because they do not have health insurance. The character represents the status quo that they do not want to disturb the issue because people especially Republicans hate change.

Is pathetic how people is this era are all about technology that they will text each other and they are standing side by side. Why do people do that? They hide from each other, and soon conversations will be between a screen and a man. People will stop verbally conversing instead they will do it electronically what will happen then?

U.S has Capitalism written all over it. Obama doesn't want to talk to the communist or socialist from these countries because socialism/communism and capitalism have been in coalition since after World War II. This the reason why Obama does not want to talk to them then why doesn't he want to talk to Chris Wallace? This is because he believes that Fox news is filled with Republicans that are a bad source of coverage. Not only that but the cartoon is saying that Obama believes Wallace is the same or worst than the socialist and communist leaders. 

Some of the Democrats believe that the Obama administration has not done anything in any social issues. They are discourage and believe that the issues that are more controversial are being left out and not really put attention to.  Many people today are still question and want Obama to help homosexuals, end the war, and pay attention to unemployment. The political cartoon is making fun of the Democrats and how our Democratic president is failing because even the people from his party complain about him not taking action in important issues.