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Torture
The use of torture is both good and bad. People need to see that it is a useful tool but it can also be a unnecessary handicap. I think this topic would be good because i would find it enjoyable but also eye opening. If i remember correctly in Iraq or another middle eastern country the interrogation used on the captured Taliban leaders was infective at releasing information.

Gun laws and lobbying
Gun laws intrest me beacuse I deal with guns and would like to know more about the process of laws and what makes them work.

Prison reform
The prison system is slowly failing because of over crouding and the lack of law enforcment. I think it would be interesting beacuse i like that kind of stuff and would find it greatly informative.

Cloning
The process of cloning can make people freak a little bit beacuse of the process of having someone exactly like you walking around. i think that if a person had a genetic copy of him stored(not a copy of him but like his DNA in a folder) so if he gets into a wreak and loses an arm they can clone the arm from his genetic records and replace his arm. I dont mean make a living clone of him and chop off its arm.

In Budget Deal, California Shuts $41 Billion Gap

The budget deal, with the deal shuting down and the $143 billion budget closes at $41 billion deficit through 2010 with tax increase with large borrowing and cuts in service. The deal has $14.8 billion in cuts, including transit, health care, schools and courts; $12.5 billion in tax increases, $5.4 billion in new borrowing and the forming of a $1 billion reserve fund.Abel Maldonado of Santa Maria was the one republican who was a hold out for the deal, he wanted state constitutional amendments banning legislative pay increasess during deficit years and wanted it to form more competitive elections by establishing open primaries. The personal income tax rate will rise by one-quarter of a percent. the state sales tax will clime by one percent, to six percent. each country will have a differnet rate but the average will be eight point nine percent. the DMV will double the states vehicle license fee to nearly one point fifteen of the value of the vehicle. the gas taxes was left on the deabating table with a twelve cent increase, law makeres filled the gap insead with sixhundred million in cuts and a infusion of federal stimulus money. The gas taxes were left on the debating table with twleve cent increase, lawmakers filled the hole with six hundred million in cuts and a infusion of federal stimulus money.

illegal organ sales

Nancy Schrper-Hughes has spent over 10 years pursuing the black market sales of human organs. The organs being sold are harvested in the slums of lower third class communities around the world. The money paid by the person in need of the organ is high, the person who sold the organ gets little of the money. The broker keeps most of the money.

The places you can get the organs is growing, from Nicaragua to Nigeria from Russia to the Philippines. You can get the organs transplanted by the leading surgeons in the world such as in New York, Los Angeles, and other cites in the United States. Two surgeons in Philadelphia are named repeatedly to have transplanted brokered organs.

I think that people should be able to sell their organs for profit but as long as it is controlled by some neutral party. The party should regulate how and when the organ is harvested and how much is paid. The need for transplants are growing dramatically. The average wait list for a new kidney in the U.S. is guessed to be 10 years in 2010. Most people on dialysis patients die in 5 years. So the fact that the black market is flourishing isn't surprising, the desperate don't play by the rules.