Wednesday, November 28, 2012

New Information On Casey Anthony's Murder Case

In the article "Evidence missed in Fla. girl's case," the author (doesn't say) talks about the missed information that was missed during Casey Anthony's trial. They have found that the day Caylee, Casey's daughter, went missing, there was a computer search on "fool-proof suffication," evidently spelling suffocation wrong. After this was searched, the person clicked on an article that talked about suicide that involved posion and putting a bag over someone's head. The history of the browser then recorded that this person got on MySpace, which was Casey's, not her father's.

This evidence came out before the trial began, but no one said anything. Everyone assumed that the father had searched it, wanting to kill himself after Caylee drowned.

But, not knowing about this, everyone thought that Caylee was poisoned with chloroform and then suffocated by duct tape being placed on her nose and mouth. They could have found out the truth, but Caylee's body was too decomposed to do an autopsy.

Of course, everyone wished they had this information sooner, but it's too late...

In my opinion, I truly don't care. Whatever happened, happened. She deserves a private case like anyone else in the world. I'm minding my business. Do I think she's wrong? I don't know. I don't know the entire story to make a decision. But, in all reality, she's human. The media needs to leave this case alone. It happened four years ago, and she already pleaded guilty. She's guilty. No evidence can help her get out of jail. Oh well. That's her fault.

Sorry I don't have a lot of opinion, but that's really how I feel

Friday, November 9, 2012

Mixed Emotions To The President's Re-election

The article "Yay! Boo! So? Reactions to Obama win vary" talks about the different emotions shared about President Obama's re-election. Different people felt different ways. Some people felt happy, some people felt angry, while others were in the middle.

"I'm a little bit disappointed," Marty Brenna, 49, said, "I wasn't really happy with either candidate." According to Marty, Obama ran a better campaign, therefore his voting turnout was higher.

However, Barbara Drucker, who is 61 says, "I'm thrilled to death. I would never have voted for Romney on women's issues alone." Barbara feels that because Obama killed Osama Bin Laden, and saved the auto industry, that's how he got 4 more years.

"I'm not happy. I haven't had a job in over a year," Chuck Rihl, 51, said. Clearly, he is angry about the entire situation.

"In contrary to what these 3 people said, Lisa Pierce, a 30 year old, says, "I'm pretty indiffernet. Either way, they need to get their act together." Pierce didn't vote, and we can clearly see why. She believes that the politicians are out of touch with the "real-world" issues.

That's just a few of the comments from the article, but most people felt like this. Either they were happy, angry, or they just didn't care for either one of them.

I'm ecstatic about Obama getting 4 more years. I feel that he is trying his best to make a change. The people that are angry about his second term are clearly not understanding. Obama promised change, and we are getting just the change we need. It's just that some people are too blind to see that the world is changing.

Also, I think that people think Barack is a robot that can do multiple things at once. HE IS HUMAN!!!! Change isn't going to come over night, and I think that's where some people think. They think that Obama is supposed to change the world over night. It's going to be hard to do that, because of the president before him. If it weren't for Obama's first election, I think we would all be underwater. However, Obama did his best to change it, and he succeeded.

Is the world perfect, and doesn't need more change? No! But I feel that we can't push all of our problems on Obama. If we want a change, then we need to help him make that change. In his speech, he clearly says "Yes We Can!" That "We" is not just him, Michelle, and the two girls. The "WE" is for all of us. The "WE" is for the United States of America to help Barack Obama make the change we want. So I guess the main question is, "Do we really want change?" Because if we did, then would not be crying and being angry, we would do the little things to help Obama. But the change first starts in us.

Friday, November 2, 2012

Hurricane Sandy Brings Climate Changes to Light

In the article "Will Climate Change Get Some Respect Now?" Nicholas D. Kristof brings to light the climate changes that are happening in the world today.

The article states that, because Hurricane Sandy came, it brought to light this one question: "Isn't it time to talk not only about weather, but also about climate?"

"You can't say any one single event is reflective of a climate change," William Solecki said. Kristof even said that not every storm is caused because of a climate change. "But it's illustrative of the conditions and events and scenarios that we expect with climate change." Solecki added. With that being said, the article states that Sandy may not have been caused due to a climate change, but whatever it was, the storm is opening many eyes to climate changes.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is from New York, said he recently told Obama "we have a 100-year flood every two years now." The article says that this is actually true. Therefore, the article encourages you to brace yourself for a few reasons:

1- Hurricanes are formed when the ocean is warm, and the warmth is their fuel. This summer, the Atlantic waters were at a record high temperature. Most of this was natural, and some of it was due to human-created climate changes.

2- According to computer models, hurricanes won't happen more often, or more frequently, but they might become more stronger. "The intensity of these storms is most likely to increase in this century," the Untited States Global Change Research Program says.

3- Because climate changes add moisture to the atmosphere, there is a strong possiblilty that the storms may come with more rain and flooding.

4- Sandy was destructive because it couldn't move back out to sea by a "blocking pattern." A recent study said that melting sea ice from the Artic may be the cause of the blocking.

Yes, politicians dropped the situation of climate changes, but so have those in the news business. The article says that, "the number of articles about climate change fell by 41 percent from 2009-2011, according to DailyClimate.org."

There aren't easy solutions to fix the climate change, but we can do a few things. We especially need stronger FEMA. (because we need stronger FEMA, this makes Romney's suggestions to privitize it dumb.)

At first, I didn't even know what a climate change was. But, I looked it up, and it found out what it meant. So, I feel that we as a people need to understand that climate changes are no joke. We could really be affected by them if we don't watch out for them. I didn't even know that climate changes were that serious, but, according to this article, they truly are. I don't know why we have climate changes, the article didn't really make that clear. But, I do know that we need to help stop them. However, 1 person can' make this happen. I'd need the whole world to help. From politicians, all the way down to homeless people. We all need to help stop these changes