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The Sun

I enjoy reading the sun shortly after checking the BBC website to see what is going on in England and Europe. It is daily tabloid from the UK that has emphasis on Show biz news but it follows almost anything that is involved in media coverage. So you can be reading about TV/Movie celebrity gossip, then read what is going on in Headline WORLD NEWS, sports in Europe and exclusive music tapings on the website. The paper version of The Sun has one of the largest circulations in the English language and is in the top 10 newspapers list in any given language. It is great one stop news website.

Rolando Cepeda

North Korea= Some Crazy MO FO's

I did enjoy reading Mr. Ross’s Blog “North Korea and ongoing threat” and the fresh issue he bought along with it. I do agree, this is the last thing the US government needs right now; but is it? The last time we went into a serious war was during the 1940’s against a similar clandestine nation. It brought the US out of the great depression and created new jobs and opened the door with new technology. It also made the US the big brother to the world. The petty countries and regimes we have come across after the second Great War have been fought in a different manner. It has been us standing around and getting snipped by 10 people in the jungle or cowardly car bomber drive by’s. This on the other hand, would be a sophisticated war. That is why the US is testing the water before they jump in.

The truth is that China is not going to do what the US and South Korean’s want, they are not about to tell North Korea what they can and cannot do. The Chinese instead would rather the US and S. Korea to come to their regional meeting  coming up, to talk it out according the  China's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu. This in a way is a lack of international respect between the US and China.

The blog did leave out (I’m sure due to the development of the story) that this was a bit provoked due to the exercises both the US and South Korea were doing prior to the attack. Though this action was rash and unconstitutional, the North Koreans obviously don’t care. Just like the Iranians earlier this year, stating the Presidents threats are amateurish. Perhaps the N. Korea see’s the weak threats in this same light. The lack of respect of power this nation possesses in the international view by these countries may lead to more threats in the future by other nations. I had read that another attack may be immanent.

So, while the president is being called out in the Far East, he is a too busy pardoning convicted drug dealers and coin mutilators here. This is to me is disturbing, because what if JFK did the same during the Cuban missile crisis in the 1960’s? All I know is the US needs to show some backbone, perhaps not an attack 3 times larger then what the Rules of engagement call for but a warning strike powerful enough to send a serious message. It should not result in any fatality but set the message straight to the North Korean letting them physically and visually know “you do not want go to war with US”.

I agree with "Going Green"

In the same pattern response to Osman Naseer post to “Get down to the Earth” I say brovo, not only did you impulse me to buying a new hybrid Preus. You also made me think how naive this country has made everyone think on the carbon scare. If you ask me, we are going to be too late to reverse the caps melt off even if we switch today anyways. The truth is that this country needs to find ways to save money is all that Samantha Johnson was saying. I also agree with here stand on going green because many states can change at least for some significants.

Austin for one is the top energy safe cities in the country that Dallas as well, Texas has been working on getting green energy to rural south boarder areas lit up with wind turbine energies.  In the Corpus Christi area has been a prime example of how to save energy and how not to make a clean area go to a coal smog waste dump. Beside what energy is going to be powering those areas throughout the U.S.?

My point is that to make a problem better is not by piling in on a simple solution. Take a perspective look at things, if a coal power plant runs in your city and you have a Chevy Volt you perhaps better off at driving that Mustang GT because. The gas guzzled in that would be modest to the kind of harm to the environment as the energy that burned to power the Volt. We need a way to get more clean energy, solar panels are a great way to make things more logical and is a great way to start as an individual.

What to do with our Education in this country?

I found this Blog “It’s Bigger than Superman, Call Wonder Woman Too” a bit one sided on an opinion. It left out a lot of advantages that many Americans are credited for. It failed to leave solutions and other opinions besides the one’s James W. Guthier’s, valid. As if Ben Stein and Randi Weigarten had no clue of what they were talking about. I had trouble finding the article to get the same info. It was a bit confusing trying to find the actual point that is trying to be made beside the obvious observations that schools are falling behind.

                It is easy to say that we are falling behind among the top nations in the education topics, but we are not falling behind on raising future millionaires. The cost of living is ridiculously different from many of those top 25 countries spoken of earlier. The difference is, that same American credo is still alive today, “work hard or think creatively your financial desires may just be there one day”. So taking the advice from Dr.Guthier to cut elective and concentrate on core such as reading and math would better for our national educational average should be wrong.

 It is evident though that, students are getting worse at reading. Perhaps changing teaching methods should be the answer. Teachers now in days need to be up dated and ready for this information age we live in. I personally have seen a large change in teaching methods. I believe challenging students in a creative thinking method is always a better result. The message of the class sticks like glue. I saw Dr. Guthrie and he looked like a guy that would give me reports every week and personally I find it hard to learn by doing reports.

                 Besides, what are the percentages of the 25 countries that provide public schools period? I bet there are only a handful of countries that provide that as we do. All the way through till college, hell we are spoiled here in the U.S., maybe that’s where the nation screws up. School is like a good job, it only stays good if you apply yourself to it. Last time I checked unless in a private or charter school where they tell you the actual tuition cost, public schools individual budget per student varies from 12,000$ to near 27,000$+ across the country. Do you really think that that number stated is in the same ballpark range that is actually spent.

                I must hand it to the writer that the staggering statistics where nice to read, but does not explain the point what the country is doing to reverse this trend. It just is very hard to believe that these numbers are credible. It does leave one to wonder though what the real dropout rate are and why this topic only is around during election time? It just leaves me to wonder as I am sure what amh2305 is wondering, “What is there to do with the education in this country”. Also, every tax payer knows education is pretty expensive; they just want to make sure they are getting a bang for their tax dollar.