Pros and Cons of Democrats

Pros
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Democrats are more active than Republicans from my view. They want the government to take more control over the economy and put limitations on those powerful corporations. Which is a good thing or else how would we get out of the 2009 financial crisis without the help of the government? However some companies grew way too powerful for the government to handle with like the oil companies. Though they won't be here very long for a relatively short amount of time. Another good characteristic is that they want to change America whether it's economically or environmentally. One obvious change was the health care plan that was passed not too long ago, though there are some issues with it like how we don't have a choice but to buy health insurance. Finally, they are more focused on helping the people rather than the corporations.

Cons
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When it comes to achieving your goals, sometimes you have to contradict your beliefs and interests. That's what Obama did when a lobbyist from the health insurance corporation when he made a deal with him by not raising the prices of medicine, they will support this bill. Right there, they were helping the corporations instead of the people of the USA. They also want to raise taxes on the people and the companies, which is actually a good thing for the economy. However they will lose their good reputation, so that's one more thing the US citizens don't like about the democrats.

Community Service Essay

The Race to Help the Hungry

Part I

I have decided to talk about hunger, instead of the need to provide animals with enrichment objects, since it makes up more than half of my community service hours. Right now, there are probably one billion people in hunger, particularly in developing countries in Africa, Middle East, India, and more. The main problem is not that we do not have the ability to produce enough food for all the people in the world, it’s the word called distribution. It takes time, money, and effort to send food like rice, corn, and bread to the people in need. That's why my sister, including her friends, and I decided to help distributing these food items like rice, cans of mixed fruits, and mandarin tangerines in the San Francisco Food Bank. Not also we had fun, but we made a difference by helping the homeless people and low-income families in San Francisco. Without them, we would lose jobs and the support we need to keep operating the soup kitchens and other food banks. As for the public’s opinion, some countries are doing something about food security like Costa Rica. Yes, I know it’s a communist country, but you got to give them props for having a high level of food security by taking care of the soil and reducing the usage of conventional pesticides. In addition, China is building barriers out of inexpensive material to block the fertile soil from being consumed by the wide murky rivers. However in some poor developing countries, they just want to survive, so they have to increase the speed of soil erosion by cutting down trees and not giving proper care to the soil. Remember no soil equals zero number of crops, which means no food for your family and perhaps your neighborhood and friends. Oh and don't forget, if you don't take care of the soil, another dust bowl just like the one in the Great Depression will strike back and cause severe amounts of damage. In America, about 1/6 of the people in America are facing insecure levels of food security, because of certain events or low income. That's one of the reasons why in one poll from the Pew Research Center that about half of the Americans who took the survey think that helping the poor should be Obama's top priority. People are helping them by giving them donations from cash to teddy bears to nonprofit organizations like Goodwill. Oh and relating to the strawberry farmers in Florida, people got really upset when they decided to dispose some or all of their sweet delicious strawberries. The residents in Florida thinks they should have been donated to the soup kitchens or let the strawberries be picked for free. Also their opinion on this action was probably because their greedy jerks that wanted to jack up the prices of their own fruits.

Part II

Soup kitchens, along with the help of refilling their supplies from the food banks, feed millions of people in America every year. To make food even more affordable, there are no taxes placed on groceries, well at least around this place. Otherwise, I don't think the government is doing too much about helping the poor other than making generous donations to their own people and to other nations like Haiti. Because they can't stop Monsanto from growing genetically modified soybeans or stop the slaughter houses from becoming a hazardous place for employees to work in. They’re just too powerful for the government to negotiate with them from the looks of it and they also have other gigantic issues to worry about like that 12+ trillion dollar deficit. The planet Earth can only provide so much resource for ourselves and the plants and animals around us and as the global human population approaches seven billion people; that’s why one government official said we pretty much have no choice but to continue the use of GMF (Genetically Modified Food) to sharply increase the yield of crops. Obviously, the public favors organic food as it's safer to eat in general and the parents don't want their kids to be exposed to them for safety and health reasons. Moving on, water bottles are a big part of saving Haiti from being dragged down by massive dehydration. However, the plastic in the water bottles does increase the rate of CO2 emissions and plus they are way overpriced in America.

You have noticed a lot of what I said has to do with science, data, and polls and such, but this matter of hunger around the world also has to do with economic principles. One of the illustrations of these principles would be supply and demand. Bees play a vital role in helping the flowers to pollinate and grow into fruits, while the bees gather the pollen to make honey. However with so many bees dying recently for unknown reasons at the moment, the fruit production is expected to decline. Therefore, the prices of fruits are bound to rise, which can cause people with tight finances to think twice before buying them. Of course, if the quantity of supply of this food source was to skyrocket, thanks to genetic engineering, then the price will go down because there's now less demand for this food item. That's one of the reasons why GMF cost less than their organic counterparts, but you do have to consider that organic food sticks to their true taste and nutritional value. In addition, there are several departments in the US government and one of them is the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) lead by Tom Vilsack (30th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture) who has worked to conserve the forests and private working lands and help the hungry, according to their site. Plus, they also help the helpless farmers and ranchers and provided food for 1/5 of the Americans during the huge economic recession in 2009. Nonprofit organizations like food banks, soup kitchens, and kitchens also help during that recession as their goal is to help others and not themselves.

Part III

As they say, there’s always room for improvement and that definitely holds true here. There are tons of ways you can do reduce the problem of hunger. One way would be helping out the non-profit organizations along, also known as NPOs, along with your friends and family just like I did not too long ago. Some of the corn should go to making food, instead of feeding it to the cows, so that way there’s more food in our hands and the cows are healthier by feeding on natural grass. Making donations to the poor and unfortunates is also another nice way to make this problem less of a hassle. Sure, one dollar doesn’t look like a whole lot, but sometimes some NPOs can that one dollar into six dollars of food and also if you commit into spreading the word. Then the amount of donations you and the people who agree with you can really pile up. Oh and we should knock some sense into Monsanto and other big food companies that hunger/poverty should come first and not money. This reminds me, we should also be careful of what we eat, because eating more fast food promotes them to grow more crops, kill more cows and so on. So when you buy what food you want, you’re making a vote on which food should be produced and which shouldn’t.

Bibliography

Food Security
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_security

Hunger in the US
http://www.frac.org/html/hunger_in_the_us/hunger_index.html#top

Global Warming as the Last Priority on Obama's To-Do-List According to This Poll
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/25/pew-poll-global-warming-dead-last-down-from-last-year/

USDA
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usdahome

Uhhhhh sorry, we can no longer serve fries with that.

Yep, soon our troops in Afghanistan can no longer have their hands on those tasty fast food meals from Burger King, Pizza Hut, and T.G.I. Friday's. The general said that the fast food restaurants are consuming our water and power supply and we also have to remind them that we're in a war zone, not an amusement park. Of course, that's kind of obvious as you can tell and some soldiers think this is a bad move, because they enjoy the food they're offering. However, the mission always comes first before fast food and entertainment like movies. Plus, the soldiers can order "Chef's Short Order", if fast food is their only answer to their stomachs. I also read one comment on how the fast food is overpriced and the burger tastes like camel meat. Yuck, that sounds disgusting!

Just like locust swarms, grasshopper swarms are huge and they destroy nearly any vegetation in their path.

Except this time, the federal officers say they might produce even more than any other year since 1985. They even eat the fences that were covered with paint. Okay then, why don't you just kill them all, so this will never happen again? Well first, that's basically impossible to do and second they're an important food source to birds and other animals as well. However, they want to limit the number of these guys like pesticides, so it's not going to be nearly as destructive as it could have potentially be. However these hungry critters can travel in long distances and some areas can have as many as 1000 baby grasshoppers. Yikes!!!

Nick Gillispie is here to tackle on Obama's statement that this health care plan will reduce the national deficit by 143 billion dollars over the next

He point out three good errors with this plan to reduce the national deficit, I'll admit that. However, if we do nothing, we are bound to increase more of our spending to health care.

Global warming used to be a considerable issue a few years ago, but now people are getting a little bit more skeptical about this matter.

Makes sense, since the american people are now more concern about our economy and the amount of snow that dropped on the mid-eastern states which somewhat convinced the people into thinking that global warming just drifted away from this planet. Now according to this graph, the poll stated that only 30%(which is less than a third) of the Americans believe that global warming is generally exaggerated. This time in 2010, it rose 18% jumping from 30% to 48%. In addition, more people are predicting that all the global warming effects that's going to take place is not going to happen in their lifetime or perhaps never also rose as well. You can see all the other graphs yourself, but all these graphs are telling us that the Americans are saying that we just don't have time to deal with this major potential global problem when our economy is in trouble and there's other world problems as well like terrorism or the health care bill that has just passed last week.

Because the strawberries are now 1/4 the price they were back then in Florida. Most farmers decided to just dispose them, so their prices will.

I smell a deja vu here, this definitely reminds of the time of the Great Depression when the farmers did the exact same method as these strawberry farmers are doing in Florida. Anyways, a lot of the residents there are angry about this action and says that these strawberries should be donated to soup kitchen and other local residents if they're not going to use them. I mean, man, how could you throw away these good strawberries? Some look so good, juicy, and delectable that you want to eat them right now!

Bees sure do sting, but we should remember that they play a crucial role in the environment.

However, the bees' population have been sharply dwindling for the last four years. Not also are they dying more frequently, but their life span has been shortened due to illness caused by bacteria and viruses and those chemical pesticides that we use on our crops. This will definitely effect the number of fruits and vegetable we can get this year and it looks like it's not going to get any better. One beekeeper says that the loss was three times worse than last year; that's like getting your paycheck of $600 chopped off by two thirds and now you only have $200 left to keep. We need to reduce the usage of pesticides and think of some other green way to protect our crops like growing them indoors.



Poor honeybee. :(

India and Bangladesh has been arguing for almost 30 years over a tiny rock isle and now it's vanished.

The sea levels are rising as time elapse and the low-level delta of Bangladesh will be one of the first victims to this slow rising sea level epidemic. The sea is expected to swallow up 18% of the delta which is home to 20 million people in the next forty years. They have slowly evacuate the people as years go by. Some say global warming and global cooling is a natural process and while that maybe true, we're manipulating it as we accelerate this process that may well destroy our only planet.

In 2011, every major fast food restaurant you go to will have nutritional information both inside the restaurant and on the drive-thru.

This is part of the health care legislation that President Obama just signed yesterday. That means customers might want to think twice before eating a Big Mac that contains 540 calories, which is already more than a quarter of the 2000-calorie daily guideline from the Agricultural Department. That also counts for vending machines, so someone who wants to buy a king size Snickers Bar knows that this unhealthy snack contains 440 calories. While not all the customers will pay attention or care about these nutritional labels, it will help some of them to be aware of what are you eating. After all, more than 1/2 of the money Americans spend on food is outside of their home.



By the way, would you rather have a big fat greasy burger up there OR
a nice fresh healthy apple down here? :)



You decide.

Eating healthy food is not all about keeping you in good shape. It can also help you reduce stress and more! :D

These food items include dark chocolate? Yep, the darker the chocolate, the more healthy substances like phenethylamine(which improves your mood) are in that chocolate. Oatmeal is another great one as it helps us to make serotonin, which calms down our craving appetite. I could go on, but by now I think we now/already know that healthy food have additional benefits for our body.



Oh and one more thing, what do you prefer the orange or the "apple"?



XD!

Not to long ago, China has been hit yet another sandstorm from the Mongolian Desert.

Most of the people in China hates this sandstorm as it gets under your clothes, in your throat, and on your car, but there's not a whole lot you can do about it. Outdoor activities in schools were canceled, the elder people were asked to go inside, and you see more people wearing a handkerchief or a surgical mask. This is all because of desertification which is caused by overgrazing, deforestation, and these strong winds picking an abundant amount of sand and carrying it all the way to China. What do you get? A huge brownish haze over the capital of China, Beijing, along with other Chinese cities.

While solar panels contribute no emissions, they are not friendly at first.

In order to make solar panels, you need some metal, mainly silicon, which has to do with mining that Mother Nature certainly does not appreaciate. Plus, it takes up a lot of land and money to build them into a power plant. Oh and don't forget the weather, if it's cloudy or rainy, the solar panels aren't going to accomplish much until these weather conditions fade away.



That said, this source of energy can virtually last forever as long the sun still exists. In addition, they can be used for homes, toys, cars, and even ovens. So don't think this clean technology is bad in the end. :)

Such an old article, but it's one of the contributing factors to obesity.

It's not just eating junk food that effects your weight, it's the number of hours of sleep that counts as well. Because less sleep tends to increase your appetite and with the food just within our reach, it's no wonder it's easy to get fat in America. The reason why as Dr. Taheri said is that when you sleep less, you produce less leptin, a hormone that helps reducing your appetite. Sure, a good rest everyday does take up more thirty percent of your day, but in return you're energized, you brain functions just fine, and you're appetite should be at normal level.



P.S. I think I heard somewhere a long while ago that if you choose to sleep less, you're bound to eat 25% more than you usually do.

Under 600 ft of water where no light virtually exists, NASA found a shrimp swimming around.

They were surprised by this discovery and raised many questions on upon this great event. In addition, they found jellyfish frolicking under this gigantic ice sheet in Antarctica. Who knows? Maybe we can get a better glimpse on how extraterrestrial oceans function outside of our realm.

Frozen conventional food can are sometimes healthier than fresh food.

The reason why is because the transportation and shipping is the main cause of the reduction of the nutritional values in the fresh food. For example, green peas lose 77% of vitamin C when stored for seven days. On the other hand, if you keep the food frozen, it retains most of its nutrition. So when you go to a grocery store, don't think frozen food are outclassed by fresh food, just because they're easier to use and costs less. Because sometimes that's not always true. :)



They maybe fresh, but the long process of getting them from the fields to the stores depleted some of their nutritional value.

Soft drinks is still the number one drink in America, but what's up with the rise of drinking more bottled water?

Do they know it's more riskier than drinking from the tap water coming out from your sink? Sure it's easily portable and has a cap and all that, but it's overpriced and it's contributing lots of CO2. When I say overpriced, I mean you're paying way too much for something that's very cheap at the moment. I mean seriously, 49 cents per year compared(tap water) to $1400 per year(bottled water). That's a HUGE difference.



In my opinion, the only time when bottled water is useful is when has to do with donations to help the poor and the unfortunates.

I'm pretty sure virtually everybody knows about this sad tragic event at Orlando Seaworld when ...

a 40-year old female trainer, named Dawn Brancheau, was killed by Tilikum in his tank in front of the audience about two weeks ago. Witnesses say the killer whale pulled her down and played with her too roughly underwater and drowned her. Then when she arrived at a nearby hospital, she was pronounced dead. So in response of this horrific incident, they closed down both Seaworlds in Orlando and in San Diego as they investigate what just happened.

Now what I'm surprised is that this killer whale was involved with two more previous deaths since his captivity. So why didn't they release him after 1999? Probably because of the word called money. Because releasing animals to the wild costs a lot of money, so Seaworld decided to keep Tilikum even after the tragic death of one of their own employees. Tilikum must be depressed in his own tiny tank, I'm not sure how much longer he can hold on for this series of tricks and stuff. He should be released to where he truly belongs after you trian Tilikum how to hunt, swim in a pod, and etc.



RIP Dawn Brancheau.

Thinking about buying an iPad on April 3, 2010 ...

then you might want to consider another thought before doing so. Hitler is definitely not getting one anytime soon.



Oh and this video contains a fair amount of profanity, so like most of the television programs say,"Viewer discretion is advised." :)

When you live near the coast in the open water and ...

at the same time the phytoplankton are decomposing, you have two choices you stay and die due to suffocation or you flee to somewhere with higher oxygen levels. That's the situation the animals and plants are facing on the bottom of the ocean floor when the high winds drives the water to the shores to create tides, which causes upwelling.The problem is that some slow/stationary animals like sea cucumbers, crabs, and sponges cannot escape this harmful event, so they end up dying in the end leaving a depressing zone of dead animals that couldn't do anything about this sticky situation.

While this may be natural, these low-oxygen(hypoxia) zones are increasing in size. Some scientists say this may be related to global warming as the three main oceans are absorbing the CO2 and other greenhouse emissions. This may upset the ecosystem and cause some of the species of crustaceans and fishes to decline in population. We're hoping this doesn't spread to the open ocean, where sharks, dolphins, and whales are living in along with the other marine creatures.

The summit about the health care reform was taken place last thursday and ...

well the two parties disagree to each other for the most part during this long talk about health care. The republicans pretty much want to put this to a halt while the Democrats wants to get something done at last. Obama didn't want to do either of the two plans that the Republicans recommended which is taking the health care reform step by step or simply starting over. Oh and this 7 and a half hours of conversation was on C-Span, though Obama is not sure if anyone would consider this interesting.

Taking a second glance at the health care reform ...

This video explains why our health care system is simply unfair and unaffordable for an average American citizen.



Note: This video was created about six months ago.

The food bank in San Francisco is planning to provide 36.5 million lb. of food this year.

That's more than enough to feed 78,000 meals every day, according to their site. You can make a difference by simply helping this food bank by packaging food like fruits, veggies, and rice(LOTS of them, by the way. You should see how much they had on that wooden platform. We couldn't even finish it all!) Anyways, so my sister and her friend and I went there around nine in the morning. Then we signed up through laptops; didn't expect them there, because last year we had to sign up through a form on the paper. Either way, it was quicker and more convenient for us and for the employees in food bank. Because they can count much quicker by seeing how many people signed up on the laptops. After that's done, we are reminded some safety rules like no food or drink in the working area or the warehouse, no slippers, and no running around. Which I seem to forget sometimes. :P So first came the rice where we package them through plastic bags closed by a closer(don't know what are they named as of now) and then packaged by cardboard boxes. Each box must contain 15 of them and each bag must weigh exactly one pound, which is why we have an electronic scale. Then we took a 20 minute break and then did the same thing over again. Once done, the employee said that we packaged a little over 2000 pounds, so our performance wasn't too bad. That's plenty of rice soups or cakes or any meal with rice in it to feed the poor people around San Francisco. So we thought we were heading back home, until our mom was like in downtown San Francisco spending time with her parents. Then my sister decided that we should do one more hour helping them while we wait for our mom. Eventually we agreed and we came upon giant boxes of oranges. Some were good, some were bad, and some were ugly. As you might of guessed, the oranges that were opened or feel very soft in the inside were thrown away in the bad box. The rest we keep them in the good boxes and they were put on the same wooden platforms. Once the half the shift was over, our mom was waiting for us and we head back home. In the end, I felt like we were giving the poor a lift in the spirit and body. Thanks a lot San Francisco Food Bank, looking forward to doing it again sometime soon! :D

Overall, we have a fairly big negative impact on Mother Nature.

But we have done some good things like saving the Bald Eagles(national bird of the United States) from extinction. Oh boy that would be awful, if these were knocked out of the ecosystem. They act as a predator and a scavenger and their diet include rabbits, racoons, beavers, deer fawns, but their main diet is basically fish like trouts or salmon. If they overpopulate, the quantity of producers will shrink and they will die from starvation.



I kind of wished I knew how to shrink the picture, but maybe I'll learn it sooner or later.

Fish is great for your heart, because it contains omega-3 fatty acids which improves your blood flow in your ciculatory system.

Plus, it beneficial for your brain. However, you have to be cautious on how many times you have eaten a fish per week. Nutritionists recommends that you should eat at least two-three fishes a week. However they also warn on which fishes you should look out for, because some contain high levels of mercury since they are high on the food chain like swordfishes or sharks. They used to barely have any mercury, but because of modern factories, we can no longer eat them at a steady rate without facing health risks. These health risks relate to the disease called the Minamata Disease. These symptoms include but not limited to loss of hearing/seeing, the weakened muscles and nervous system and in some serious cases paralysis, coma, and death could happen if not treated.

I also would like to point out that Japan fish industry is huge and they take out lots of fishes out from the seas and oceans. If they continue at this rate, all the fishes will be gone by around 2040. Then the Japanese will lose one of their main sources of protein.



This picture was taken around 5 in the morning, for your information.

We're obviously not the only ones creating enrichment toys ...

zoos do it to. Enrichment toys allow animals to show their natural behavior, adds variety to both the animal's life and the exhibit, makes them exercise, and enhances the character of the creature. They can do a really good job trying to stimulate the creature's mind. For example, instead of just giving a Giant Panda a whole apple right in front of him. How about we put it in a box and let the Giant Panda find the face that is open by using his sense of smell? Or maybe perhaps we should give him a fruitsicle. A frozen treat, where it consists of frozen fruit juice and H20, where he has to slurp the fruitsicle to consume it just like we do.



In addition, these enrichment toys can last a pretty long time as long as they are built by reliable material like heavy-duty plastic, rubber, or bamboo. These things can come in many shapes and sizes like ropes, barrels, toy balls, and much more. So don't just let your dog sit there watching television and turn into a couch potato! Make him/her active by giving him a tennis ball to chew on, take a walk, or launch a frisbee and watch your dog run free as a bird.

In prehistoric times, mother nature was in control of planet Earth, but now ...

we earthlings can simply decide the fate of the earth at our own will. Of course, we're not THAT stupid but still, it's something to be aware of. Animals, particularly the specialist species like giant pandas or koala bears, are very vulnerable if a disaster was to struck. If their food resources are gone, they would simply extinct in a short matter of time. That's why we need to control how many births we're having and how rapidly are we expanding our human society. In my opinion, they have rights just like we do. After all, they claim this piece of land long ago before we did. It's just that the human beings had much more power than the animals in terms of weapons. Of course not all human beings had this perspective, the Indians valued their environment. Most Indians believed that we are small compared to mother earth and we should respect and disturb it as little as possible. However, the colonists think otherwise; the only thing that probably mattered to them is their own prosperity and power. Thankfully, we tweaked that view by putting laws to save endangered animals and creating and preserving wild parks like Yellowstone Park in Colorado.



This is the only planet we can inhibit, I'm afraid ...

The goal in our community service is to provide enrichment toys and a place for the dogs and cats to rest on.

These enrichment toys such as dog ropes allow the cats/dogs to have fun while stimulating their mind along with providing physical activity. Dog ropes wasn't the only pet toy in the house, we also made pillows, balls that were attached to a string, and caterpillars. Before we did that though, we waited for most of the people to come here, we introduced ourselves (I saw a couple Acalanes students there, by the way.) and the kind of pets we have, and then we got to know the birth of ARF. After that, we all made dog ropes out of fabric by tying it like the braids you see on some girls. We also turned on some animal related music and that was fine with me. Oh and we had a tour around ARF and showed us some of the stuff inside the facility like pet kitchens that contain peanut butter and cat/dog treats and there was also a building where there were people who trained their content dogs for the contests. So around noon we stopped what we were doing and had a lunch break. I should have brought my own lunch instead of cash, which I hardly ever do nowadays. Because their main focus is on saving cats and dogs; not providing food service. What was I thinking? -_-

Once the lunch break is over, we head back and I believed we are now making pillows which is also composed of fabric with soft white stuffings. This pillow took like 2-3 hours to finish, because one I tend to be on he slow side and two is that I had to make many adjustments to make sure the stuffings don't escape from the inside of the pillow. After the pillow was completed, I went into an office where she would sign off the community service forms. So in the end, thanks to everyone who donated the fabric and helped with building a better home for the pets in ARF and I'll see you next time. All right, see you later.

Even though I'm not a big football fan, this Super Bowl has surpassed ...

"M-A-S-H" for being the most watched TV show of all time. More than 106 million people watched it. True, there are more people right now compared to the year of 1983, but it's still an accomplishment for the TV show and the victory of the New Orleans Saints with the final score of 31-17.



Doesn't his son look all jolly or what? :D

The Youtube community was given a period of time to submit their questions and videos ...

so Barack Obama might respond to them. Depends on how popular the video/question is. It's an exclusive Youtube interview with President Obama relating to the issues in America.



Yeah, it's a fairly long video, but I watch most of it and it was cool. :)

On early Febuary, giant squids invaded the coast of California.

Hundreds of giants squids are swimming near the surface of the water not so long ago. So the fishermen decided that this is the opputunity for them to reel in some real cash(i.e. the poor squids that got nabbed by the angerlers). More than 400 squids were caught and some weigh between 20 to 60 pounds. The record was from last September where someone reeled in a 103 lb. jumbo(it was the nickname for this huge 19 1/2-foot long squid).



P.S. They're not really giant squids, because if they were; they would have died going near to the surface of the water.

Most of us can agree that the iTouch/Phone is a huge commercial success.

After that, they decided to try another handheld device called the iPad. It's essentially an iPhone, but bigger. It will be released within about two months as Jobs said. Nothing really changed and I wouldn't really call this a true successor to the iPhone. In my opinion, they need to put some more time and effort into this gadget, if they really want to be victorious in selling these stuff to the public. You can find out what I mean, by clicking the link.



Oh and it's 500 bucks a piece for the 16G version, if I remember correctly.

Hitler's Opinion on Obama as of 1/19/10.

You probably already watched it(after all, it was like the number 1 most viewed video of the week), but this video shows his opinion on Obama's performace, the health care reform bill, and of course Scott Brown winning the Massachusetts Senate Seat. With Scott Brown taking the senate seat, 59 is pretty much the highest number they can go and 60 votes is the goal to pass the health care reform bill. :(



Best Comment of this Video: "Ya know what the difference between Obama & Hitler is? Hitler was able to bring the Olympics to his country." Commented by BC9696.

Similar to the Hoover Dam project that dates more than 70 years ago ...

Barack Obama has announced a plan to create new jobs by spending eight billion dollars on quick trains that will be built on many US states. States effected by this big project includes California, Florida, Illinois, Wisconsin, and more. However about 43% of the eight billions dollars will be focused for both California and Florida. These babies will be going up to 150+mph! That's like twice the speed of the highway speed limit. The other states' trains can reach 110mph, while the rest will go no higher than 90mph from the looks of it.



Here's what the layout looks like:

The community service I'm going to be doing soon is going to take place in ARF.

It has to do with creating shelters or enrichment toys for the dogs and cats to use/play with. It makes their place more fun and less boring to experience with while waiting for someone to adopt them. It's about five hours long and I'm not sure if I can do this again after that's done. I'll ask them about that, if I remember.

It's so chilly OUT there! Brrrrr!!!

How in the world can anyone stand against the chilly winds in Midwest, which was recorded 52 degrees below zero? One of the people there said even her nostrils turned frozen solid from just going from the house to her vehicle. The outcome from these extremely cold temperatures include people dying from hypothermia, schools were closed, the rate of car accidents increased and some vehicles are literally immobile thanks to the abundant amount of snow and ice.



Looks like these buses aren't going anywhere until all this snow is moved out of the way.

An anti-whaling boat(Ady Gil) has lost its bow during the collision ...

with the Shonan Maru, a japanese whaling ship. They say it's about conducting scientific research to get to know the whales better, but environmentalist and conservationists are little skeptical about their claim and perhaps it's about commercial whaling instead. Minor human injuries were the outcome of this collision from the Ady Gil. However, it's very important to remember that rescue is far from reach when you're located near Antarctica. Safety first. :)

Although unlikely, the results are extremely devestating.

A meteorite about the size of Texas will wipe out almost all the life on this planet.



It's a pretty a long video, especially on Youtube. I'm surprised this was posted before 2005. That's when Youtube was created if I remember correctly.

If my twitter updates don't get fixed, here's the link to my twitter page.

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I think most of us, if not all of us, have heard about the "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition".

Just to give you the nuts and bolts about this show for those of you who don't know. It's about a show about helping people in real need. You need two good reasons why you need a makeover and send it to the show via video. If it seems plausible, they will do it and send you and your family on a sweet 7-day vacation while they work on your new house.

Now that's sounds like a pretty nice deal, but just because you get the awesome house; doesn't mean you get the mortgage as said by Brian Wofford(who is facing in deep trouble trying to pay his mortgage). He's not the only one facing this sticky situation; a couple other people are having the same problem he has. One of them was the harper family who had to take out a ridiculous, not so recommended $450,000 loan! That's like a half-million dollars! How in the world are you going to pay that back in the near future? The ABC show might need to check how much they make before making such a lavish house as seen below.



This is Brian's home, by the way.