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Iran claims to be Nuclear

mattaftalion — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:33:52 +0000

This topic is very important because it affect everyone around the world, but mainly the US and Israel. Iran has just announced that they are a nuclear country on the 31th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution. I think this is important because everyone knows Iran hates America and Israel and if they acquire nuclear weapons no one will know what will happen. I believe this is a bigger threat then when Russia got the bomb because Russia only hated us because we were a Democracy, Iran hates us for a lot of reasons. I feel angered at the UN and what little they have done to prevent this. To me they seem like the little effort the League of Nations did to prevent World War I. I hope the UN and the EU would step up and prevent a world disaster from happening.

9-11 Photos

mattaftalion — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:26:17 +0000

I think this is a very important topic mainly because the amount of time it took to release these photos. 9-11 occurred over 7 years ago and the media presented every angle of every second they could on the attacks. I think of a couple reasons why the police would hold onto these photos for so long, but they are just guesses. One would be that these photos had really important that had to do with who or what caused 9-11, but we already know who and what did it. On the opposite side of this discussion, these photos could be fake. They could have been photoshoped to hide something or throw conspiracy theorors off on how or what caused the building to fall. No one will ever know the truth to these questions except for the people who were involved in these photos.

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

mattaftalion — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:36:54 +0000

I think this policy should be abolished. Attitudes have changed and gays are more openly accepted in society today. I find this topic interesting because I wonder to myself what does being gay have to do with following orders and shooting people. Being straight does not mean that your a better soldier than a homosexual. They pose no threat at all being in the military. I think that when they created this policy, people were uncomfortable sleeping in the same bunker as a homosexual, but people could have been sleeping with homosexuals the whole time and not even noticed. Just because they found out that the soldier is gay, doesn’t mean anything has changed and they definitely should not be discharged for it.

Toyota Recall

mattaftalion — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:30:42 +0000

I think this issue is very controversial. American car companies are taking advantage of this recall by advertising that American cars are better than Japanese. I believe this will be very good for the American car companies, but the interesting part is that this recall is due to an ineffective gas pedal that is being manufactured right here in America. All the pedals created in Japan are perfectly fine, which is why Lexus and Scion are uneffected by this recall. This makes me wonder if this recall is showing that Japanese cars are not built to last or if American manufacturing companies are starting to use cheaper material due to the recession.

Abolishing Free Parking

mattaftalion — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:38:41 +0000

I think that this idea is very bad and state lawmakers should not be supporting it. They stated that free parking adds to many problems like traffic jams and pollution along with causing the store owner to raise prices to pay for the lot. I think that this is a luxury that we should be able to have at the choice of the store owner. Free parking usually attracts more customers which brings in more revenue to the store owner. I believe this is a stunt to get the city more money since we all would have to start parking on the street and at meters.

State of the Union

mattaftalion — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:30:26 +0000

I believe that Obama in general did a very good job with his speech. He spoke in a way that made you feel hopeful for our country and feel like everything is going to get better. I found it interesting that after every sentence he said, every single Democrat would jump to their feet and applaud loudly, but all the Republicans would remain seated with a sour look on their faces. I think that a lot of what Obama said would help our country as a whole, but other stuff he said just to raise our spirits. I think Obama is doing a great job as our President so far.

Haiti’s Earthquake

mattaftalion — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:11:13 +0000

I believe that this earthquake was a sign that we need to be ready for anything. Not just against terrorists and other countries, but also against mother nature. I believe that all the countries that are helping aid Haiti are doing a great job. They have recieved tons of medicine, food and other supplies to help them recover. Although, their infastructure will take a long time to rebuild, just like with hurricane Katrina and New Orleans. The magnitude was a 7.0 and caused lots of destruction. This makes me wonder what will happen to us when scientists are predicting a 9.0+ magnitude earthquake right here in California. They predict that it will occur in 2011, but most say that it has over a 60% chance of happening at any time in the next 20 years. This huge earthquake occurs every 150years or so and evidence has been found to support this claim. I just hope when it happens, we will recieve the same relief that other natural disasters recieved.

Verizon vs AT&T Commercials

mattaftalion — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:02:55 +0000

Verizon and and AT&T are the two top phone companies that throw commercial after commercial, trying to get customers to switch over. Every comercial these to companies try to make eachother look as if one of them aren’t as good as the other. One way they do this is by introducing the coverage map. In one commercial Verizon displays a map with full coverage almost anywhere, and shows AT&T’s coverage map to be very empty. AT&T also does this towards Verizon. I do not know how they are allowed to show a fake map of the opposing company. I think that they might be showing a map from a couple years ago and putting the date in very small writing at the bottom to make it legal. Both companies also claim to have the best 3G coverage.

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mattaftalion — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:00:21 +0000

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