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I understand more than most about the crisis in China. Human rights are an extremely popular topic today along with Autism, but that’s besides the point. In London, France, and recently San Francisco protesters came out in full force to express their opinions on the matter. I want to play devils advocate for a second and say, are the Olympics really a place to express political views? Should we be focusing on the athletics?

I’ve already started hearing conspiracy theories about why airline companies are canceling flights. The best yet, was that it is an indirect protest to high fuel costs. The idea behind this theory? Canceling flights is actually more cost effective than flying planes.

Obviously the above theory is ridiculous but it’s fun to think about it from a business perspective. I would much rather they ground ALL flights and create the perception that these companies are looking out for our (consumers) best interest; safety.

Some Articles on the Airline topic:

• Summer Travels - CNN
• Flights canceled - LATIMES

CNN Article on the US recession

Above is a link to a decent article about the US recession. While it hasn’t been officially stated, many economists are calling for the government to declare it so we can move forward. Stocks have been declining, the US auto market has been hurting due to frankly, crappy cars, and more recent is the 80,000 jobs cut across our nation in the month of March. Up until now there haven’t been layoffs, now that there have been it’s time to call it what it is. A US Recession.

If anyone has stats on the average price of an American cars versus European and Japanese cars please comment.

Let me preface this by saying that I am no fan of baseball. I actually think it’s the worst sport on television. The recent investigation of baseball players into their drug use is pointless. Wasting tax payer money on these court cases is just idiotic. Who cares if a baseball, football, rugby, etc player did drugs 400 years ago. Why don’t they just say, “History is history, from this point on there will be no drugs in baseball”. Hey I think I just saved us billions, wait aren’t we fighting in some war?

CNN - Coverage

Here is what I found so far about the serious differences between the two. It is very tough to find information on their actual views. I read articles on CNN, Washington Post, BBC, and other news sites for the info.

Hillary Clinton

Iraq
• Voted for military force, now changed view.
• Voted to withdraw troops in 2008

Energy
• Voted against mandate of a 40 mpg by 2017

Economics
• Very specific tax cuts in various sectors. She tends to make focused taxed cuts where she can.

HealthCare
• For Universal Health Coverage

Gay Marriage
• Doesn’t support it but has more support of the gay community

Barack Obama

Iraq
• Opposed military force from the start.
• Voted to withdraw troops in 2006

Energy
• Voted for mandate of a 40 mpg by 2017

Economics
• Tends to remind people that they need to relate to the avg American. Items written is lengthy tax code do not make sense.
• Tax increase on 97,500 year incomes

HealthCare
• Think people want to pay for healthcare but sometimes don’t have the means to. Would make it more affordable.

Gay Marriage
• Doesn’t support it and mostly feels that this question should be left out of politics.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story? … amp;page=1

Finally! Let technology continue! They extended this last year and the year prior, more spectrum = more technology.

Islamic Jihad said it fired longer-distance missiles into Israeli military base
Rocket struck Israeli base injuring 69 soldiers

Israeli military won’t be too happy about this. I have a theory about Israel mainly that it won’t be around in 50 years and not by choice. With the availability of suitcase nukes or dirty bombs I believe one of these extremist groups will take out half of the country. It’s a sad reality when you think about it, but you can only prevent so much. >