Playing again....allowed?

I think that if someone is convicted of a crime that is in professional sports. Such as Michael vice with the NFL. that they should be banned from returning to professional athleticism. If you or me commit a crime such as dog fighting on that scale we wouldn't be able to return to our original job, and we would have a hard time finding a job that will be willing to hire us.
Vick is nearing the end of his 23 month sentence in prison on dog fighting charges. after that he will move to home confinement by may then by July 20 he will be able to join the NFL again. Though it is unknown weather or not Rodger Goodell will allow his return to the NFL.

The possible return of Vick to the professional world is bound to raze some protest from PETA and other animal rights activist groups, along with some unhappy fans.
The players of the profesinal world are role models to kids, vick has set a bad example to kids. The fact that they are somewhat famous makes somepeople think that they can get away with almost anything. They cant.

PETA is looking for more that an apology from Michael Vick; the organization wants him to submit to a brain scan to see if he has psychopathic tendencies. If Vick denies the test he may not be allowed to join the Leauge again.
The one thing that Vick might find true is that the anmails he treated so badly are the most willing to accept him.

Education and Assimilation

I think that what they did through the 1980s, the schools generally pulled immigrates out of the mainstream classes for at least an hour or two each day for “English as a Second Language” courses that were largely focused on basic English and vocational training would help a lot. The high school American student knows more about America than a immigrate knows, the American student has had a jump start of common sense that the immigrate hasn't had. which turns out to be around 15 years of knowledge. The classes that students take, such as history, will ask questions such as what did the Bolshevik revolution cause in the US? The red scare. The American student knows more about foreign history than a immigrant knows about American history. Which they are a part of.

I think that one thing we can do to help an immigrant assimilate is to give him time to adjust to English classes. Such as have him that a remedial English course such as a lower grade than the high school level. once he becomes familiar with English in that level start advancing him until he has a basic idea of whats going on and then start moving him to the high school level. Another thing we could do is have a set time for them to get out of the mainstream of high school and take a class they are comfortable with to help them grow and feel more comfortable in high school.

one of the things i think that's holding people back from assimilating is that people are somewhat raciest, when asked why the immigrates didnt have friends with the mainstream high schoolers they say "people who cursed at them while they were working at McDonald’s, or an employer who cheated their father of his wages, or a student who told them to stop speaking Spanish on the school bus." when asked why the mainstream dont assosicat with the immigrants they mention "a worker who did not finish a job their parents had paid for, or a line of pregnant women at the clinic where their mother works, or a gang member who stole a friend’s books."

Stem cell research

The Individual states shouldn't be able to go against the Federal governments rulings. The Stem cell research that goes on can and probably will grant a cure for major disorders. "no ones right for a cure supersedes someone else right to life", said Dan Becker. If people think that stem cell research is snuffing out the spark of life at its earliest time, then what have we been doing to chickens all this time? isn't a chickens egg basically the same as a human egg, minus the shell of course.
some people think that the senate bill will be a blow to the states thrivings research universities, as well as fertility clinics that perfor thousands of in-vitro treatments every year.
"we have the president of the United States saying he is going to put science ahead of politics and unfortunately in Georgia we are moving in the opposite directions," said state Sen. Dacid Adelman, a democrat.
one thing that ive noticed is that democrats are for saving every life while republicans are for sustaning the quality of life when it comes to stem cell research. Free thinking is part of the first amendment, so saying that we cant do the research is going against the amendment.

newspapaer

the newspaper publisher McClatchy cuts 1600 jobs because of price cuts clipped the newspaper work force down to two-thirds of what it was. i believe that the newspaper will slowly but steadily wither the work force down until the newspapers are all either automated or down to bare bones work force. I think that the want for a paper in the morning with a hot cup of coffee and a donut will not disappear. If the paper does end up getting the boot, i think that people will reminisce the early days of getting the paper. I personally will miss the paper, the availability of the news locally is faster than waiting for the guy on the TV to tell you what you want to hear and if you miss what you wanted to hear...then your wasting your time. the Internet is another valuable source of the news and that is constantly being updated and changed, so the news your are getting is always current. I get my news from the newspaper, Internet and the TV. but mostly from the radio on my way to work. The radio is portable, is easy to access and cheap.

topic

by Wayne LaPierre
Barack Obama's 10 Point Plan to "Change" The Second Amendment
NRA
Monday, July 28, 2008
Thursday, March 5, 2009
http://www.nrapvf.org/News/Article.aspx?ID=308
Tells about how Obama plans to change The Second Amendment. The gun owners of America will be under a siege like never before, the president and the vice president are both against firearms.

by Wayne LaPierre
Change . . . For The Worse
NRA
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Thursday, March 5, 2009
http://www.nrapvf.org/News/Article.aspx?ID=336
Tells about how obama will change things for the worse, his past actions and his words show that he is going to be tough on gun ownership and purchasing firearms, including bans and rations.


by Wayne LaPierre
Standing Guard: Ever Vigilant
NRA
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
http://www.nrapvf.org/News/Article.aspx?ID=345
"The message politicians should now understand is that the NRA is very much alive and well, and we will fight any gun control on the national and international stage." That the politicians should know that people against gun bans are alive and well...and will challenge the law.

by Chris W. Cox
Has Their Time Come?
NRA
Monday, January 26, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
http://www.nrapvf.org/News/Article.aspx?ID=343
"Never in our nation`s history have we had an incoming President and Vice President more supportive of strong gun laws. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence strongly endorsed the Obama-Biden ticket, and for good reason."--Brady Campaign. The new president and vice president said that "we are the ones we`ve been waiting for," anti-gun groups must have thought he was talking to them. The fact that President Obama and Vice-President Biden appose firearms.

By Robert Barnes
Justices Uphold Ban On Guns for Abusers
The Wasington Post
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/24/AR2009022403423.html
tells about how the justice system is holding the ban against people who are mentally unstable or felons from purchasing a firearm.

Author Uknown
Sarah Palin and Joe Biden: Worlds Apart
NRA-ILA
Friday, August 29, 2008
Thursday, March 10, 2009
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=4156
The differences between McCain and Obama is worlds apart. McCain Signed a "friend of the court" which urged the Supreme Court to rule in favor of the Second Amendment and against D.C.'s handgun ban. While Obama refused to sign the Heller brief, and is supporting the reinstition of the Clinton gun and magazine ban.







http://gunowners.org/op0641.htm
gun laws and lobbying
http://www.bradycampaign.org/
http://www.gunlawsuits.org/
The 7-2 ruling in United States v. Hayes was a blow to gun lobby groups that had urged the Court to severely narrow the federal Lautenberg Amendment that bars gun possession by abusers convicted of misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence. So that when a person is convicted of a misdemeanor of domestic violence they will find it harder to purchase a firearm, in turn possibly keeping the world a Little safer.
http://www.bradycampaign.org/issues/constitution/
On June 26, 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 5-4 opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller.
Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess handguns for use in self-defense in a person’s home. However, he stressed that this right “is not unlimited.” For people like felons and the mentaly unstable will be unable to purchase a firearm.

http://www.stategunlaws.org/
It has the state gun laws for all 50 states.
http://nra.com/
massive articals about gun laws and other links....
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=4509
http://www.gunbanobama.com/

topics

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.