Friday, May 12, 2017
Comments on the Department of Justice: Paige Ramirez's blog
Recently I was going through my peers blogs when I happen to come across a certain blog Titled "Justice Department not so justice." The article was written not to long ago by Paige Ramirez and go somewhat in to depth about how the Justice Department of the United States has many flaws in its system. In addition, the blog post then goes in to talk about how even some of the members of this department are themselves corrupt and go against what there agency is suppose to protect and represent in the United States of America. After reading similar articles on the corruption and so called forth cases and trying to verse my self on the department I have came to the conclusion that this blog is accurate in its criticisms. In addition I found the call to action in the conclusion of the blog to be very forth coming which is great and encourages the reader to take some form of action to help and better themselves those around them.In addition, the blog going in to detail about a certain and specific case helps make the blog seems legitimate and well crafted while it also helps make the blog more relatable to others who read it as a real world example always stands out and grabs peoples attention. All in all, the blog is a nice call to action that I find to be lacking from others in this country and other countries and this helps those people to stop sitting around and go out and make their voice heard.
Friday, April 28, 2017
Neglecting the future
Neglecting the future
In this country, I think it is fair to say there are a
lot of various issues that go needlessly unchecked, but one of those issues is
an issue that effects not only people in America but one that effects people
from all over the world. The issue I am writing about is the national
governments failure to honor climate change agreements negotiated not even but
less than a decade ago. One of the major agreements, the Paris climate
agreement, is a climate agreement between 175 countries that establishes
guidelines for reducing pollution and increasing green energy under a certain
time frame. This agreement tries to reverse greenhouse gasses and their effects
and the United States government is maybe considering on backing out of the
deal just so this administration can send a metaphorical message of power to
the rest of the world.
It is my belief that the national government should
not focus on the short-term solutions for profit simply to get approval of a
small section of individual and industries. It is the United States national
governments job to protect the people and have their best interests in mind and
destroying the very planet in which they inhabit does just the very opposite of
that. While short term profit and approval looks great these short sights go against
what the founding fathers and those who came after them set in place for this country.
In the end the national government needs to get their head out of the sand and
come to the realization that they will have to commit to a greener cleaner
future whether they want to or not.
Friday, April 14, 2017
Comments on Gerrymandering: Cameron Neely's blog
Comments on Gerrymandering: Cameron Neely's blog
I 100% agree that Gerrymandering is a problem that is a plague among this country and on that particular prey on the poor and disenfranchised in the inner city areas. In addition the presented solution or a feasible call to action is deemed necessary as this unconstitutional practice has been going on in this country for too long. The supreme court of the United States needs to realize that this practice of redistricting areas is allowing for a false majority in a large amount of cities. This allows for a politicians to ignore a large amount of their constituents and goes against what the fore father of this county set in place not to mention it goes against what we as a nation strive to be. I think there needs to be a call to action in this country to make the supreme court of the united states review this malpractice that at the end of the day affects us all and what we have to say in our communities. The Supreme court should review how the process of districts gets put in place and in addition challenge the malpractices with the sediment that it violates the 15th amendment of the United States constitution.
Friday, March 31, 2017
Failing Infrastructures
Failing infrastructures
Over the past couple decades or so it seems that politicians have made a big deal of re-amping up america's infrastructure, but with little to no real life action amongst those words spouted seemingly by our elected officials. Everyday it becomes more and more apparent that the infrastructure that is holding up this country is cracking and has been cracking for the past couple of decades. The roads, bridges, interstates, and other vital traffic ways need to be addressed at the very least as they have not been worked on in the way they need to in decades. The longer people and politicians wait to tackle this growing problem the more it will cost everyone at the end of the day. Our politicians need to step up funding over the next decades to fix our infrastructure or soon America will fall behind the rest of the civilized world once again. If we don’t see action soon you can expect to find more stories of roadways and other vital infrastructure failing.
You would think that a president elected with this failing infrastructure would at least make a plan to solve this problem or at the least make a statement regarding it. Well you would think right as the current president Donald Trump has made plans to “fix this country's failing infrastructure.” Then again you wouldn't be 100% right as Presidents Trump’s “grand plan” for the infrastructure re-amping is to build a wall on the border of the United States and Mexico. Instead of focusing on collapsing bridges the Trump administration and a good portion of congress want to alienate one of our oldest allies and trading partners. The most questionable part of this whole transaction is that a good amount of funding will be pulled from gov’t funding. Funding that helps people become more educated and better off versed in the arts.
While I applaud the Trump administration for at the very least admitting that there is a problem that the majority of the world is aware of, I am strongly confused and disappointed in the direction this administration has taken in “fixing “ the country's infrastructure. Reallocating funds from the arts and building symbolic wall for the rest of the world to see isn’t what we as country need or really even want. The whole of Government needs to stop trying to push agendas on the people and needs to start fixing its own problems already set in place with the biggest being the infrastructure.
Over the past couple decades or so it seems that politicians have made a big deal of re-amping up america's infrastructure, but with little to no real life action amongst those words spouted seemingly by our elected officials. Everyday it becomes more and more apparent that the infrastructure that is holding up this country is cracking and has been cracking for the past couple of decades. The roads, bridges, interstates, and other vital traffic ways need to be addressed at the very least as they have not been worked on in the way they need to in decades. The longer people and politicians wait to tackle this growing problem the more it will cost everyone at the end of the day. Our politicians need to step up funding over the next decades to fix our infrastructure or soon America will fall behind the rest of the civilized world once again. If we don’t see action soon you can expect to find more stories of roadways and other vital infrastructure failing.
You would think that a president elected with this failing infrastructure would at least make a plan to solve this problem or at the least make a statement regarding it. Well you would think right as the current president Donald Trump has made plans to “fix this country's failing infrastructure.” Then again you wouldn't be 100% right as Presidents Trump’s “grand plan” for the infrastructure re-amping is to build a wall on the border of the United States and Mexico. Instead of focusing on collapsing bridges the Trump administration and a good portion of congress want to alienate one of our oldest allies and trading partners. The most questionable part of this whole transaction is that a good amount of funding will be pulled from gov’t funding. Funding that helps people become more educated and better off versed in the arts.
While I applaud the Trump administration for at the very least admitting that there is a problem that the majority of the world is aware of, I am strongly confused and disappointed in the direction this administration has taken in “fixing “ the country's infrastructure. Reallocating funds from the arts and building symbolic wall for the rest of the world to see isn’t what we as country need or really even want. The whole of Government needs to stop trying to push agendas on the people and needs to start fixing its own problems already set in place with the biggest being the infrastructure.
Thursday, March 9, 2017
Euthanasia Advocates Seek to Stop Gorsuch
In this article titled “Euthanasia Advocates Seek to Stop Gorsuch” Wesley J. Smith the author tries to convey his feeling that U.S. Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil M. Gorsuch shouldn't lose his credibility and support for his seat on the supreme court because of his beliefs on assisted suicide. Smith's audience here starts off very general and broad trying to convince others of how great this nominee is, but towards the end he begins to shoot down so proclaimed liberal remarks about assisted suicide which leads me to believe that his audience is maybe somewhat on the conservative side. After looking through Wesley J. Smith’s other articles I have come to the conclusion that he is indeed an experienced author relating to the euthanasia aspect as he has written previous articles on this subject on other accredited websites about this nominee and about euthanasia.
Looking at the body of the article we see the author state 4 main points on why we should trust this nominee. The points established here in the body to me feels like they range too far and wide which takes away the focus of the reader. At one point Smith states that “I don’t believe Judge Gorsuch would impose his personal views on the law. Unlike liberal judges, he doesn’t believe in conflating his own policy preferences with Constitutional jurisprudence.” This random bash on liberals just honestly seems random and out of the blue which in turns makes you questions the author's credibility as a whole and makes you wonder what he is really thinking about and how that translates to his writing.
In the end I have to say that the article is decent and somewhat thought provoking as it makes you question a very controversial and pondering subject. The arguments made for Neil M. Gorsuch by Wesley J. Smith though are weak and largely unfounded in my eyes and only exist to pander to ignorant and those already well versed in his rhetoric.
Friday, February 24, 2017
Rising Walls, Falling Bridges- (a commentary on Americas infrastructure of yesterday holding up for the impact of tomorrow)
Rising Walls, Falling Bridges
Recently I surfing the web for news and found myself browsing The New York Times. While going through the website I came across an interesting commentary talking about the failing infrastructure in this country but more specifically in parts of California . The audience this commentary reaches out to is very broad and general as we all use and depend this country's infrastructure in our everyday lives. The overall message of this commentary and argument being conveyed is that a majority our infrastructure like bridges and roads have been failing and instead of fixing the problem the Government chooses to spend the money and manpower on other parts of infrastructure like building a barrier between the United States and Mexico.
The commentary then goes on to claim that the wall the U.S. would establish would cost taxpayers upwards of $30 billion dollars. While this claim is enticing to the audience reading this, the number proposed in the commentary is uncredited. In addition there is no source of information for any of the various claims which in turn degrades the credibility of the commentary and therefore and the author of the commentary. Moving on we can see the author talk and critique the Trump administration's decision to cut the purposed $1 trillion infrastructure investment to next year. He goes on to try and convince his audience that congress won’t act on this issue as they have condemned similar proposals in the past and are too busy focusing on immigration laws and things of that nature.
“well, surely congress will act. I'm kidding, of course. For Republicans on the Trump train, America First Is something you shout at foreigners, not a design for a better country. Republicans hated president Obama's injection in 2009 of much-needed financial support for all the bandaged bridges across the fruited plain."
All in all I didn't find this piece to be too bias one way as it is pandering to a general and broad audience, but there are definitely some underlying tones of disdain for the current administration. The commentary does a good job at highlighting the ever pressing idea of that we have to act swiftly if we want to maintain a high level of standards this country boast to have for our infrastructure I personally agree that this country's infrastructure needs a revamping up and that if we don't act now we will regret it in the future when it costs infinitely more and people's lives have been unnecessarily been put in danger for the sake of saving the government some money which they most definitely could have operated comfortably without. The author has good ideas and urges the audience to consider the situation we could find ourselves in if we don't invest. There is no way to urge this without bias but I would say this commentary did a good job keeping bias to a minimum while pushing the ever so important message across to the people of the United States.
Recently I surfing the web for news and found myself browsing The New York Times. While going through the website I came across an interesting commentary talking about the failing infrastructure in this country but more specifically in parts of California . The audience this commentary reaches out to is very broad and general as we all use and depend this country's infrastructure in our everyday lives. The overall message of this commentary and argument being conveyed is that a majority our infrastructure like bridges and roads have been failing and instead of fixing the problem the Government chooses to spend the money and manpower on other parts of infrastructure like building a barrier between the United States and Mexico.
The commentary then goes on to claim that the wall the U.S. would establish would cost taxpayers upwards of $30 billion dollars. While this claim is enticing to the audience reading this, the number proposed in the commentary is uncredited. In addition there is no source of information for any of the various claims which in turn degrades the credibility of the commentary and therefore and the author of the commentary. Moving on we can see the author talk and critique the Trump administration's decision to cut the purposed $1 trillion infrastructure investment to next year. He goes on to try and convince his audience that congress won’t act on this issue as they have condemned similar proposals in the past and are too busy focusing on immigration laws and things of that nature.
“well, surely congress will act. I'm kidding, of course. For Republicans on the Trump train, America First Is something you shout at foreigners, not a design for a better country. Republicans hated president Obama's injection in 2009 of much-needed financial support for all the bandaged bridges across the fruited plain."
All in all I didn't find this piece to be too bias one way as it is pandering to a general and broad audience, but there are definitely some underlying tones of disdain for the current administration. The commentary does a good job at highlighting the ever pressing idea of that we have to act swiftly if we want to maintain a high level of standards this country boast to have for our infrastructure I personally agree that this country's infrastructure needs a revamping up and that if we don't act now we will regret it in the future when it costs infinitely more and people's lives have been unnecessarily been put in danger for the sake of saving the government some money which they most definitely could have operated comfortably without. The author has good ideas and urges the audience to consider the situation we could find ourselves in if we don't invest. There is no way to urge this without bias but I would say this commentary did a good job keeping bias to a minimum while pushing the ever so important message across to the people of the United States.
Friday, February 10, 2017
Court rejects Trump's travel ban appeal
As i'm sure you know, president Trump has signed an executive order stating that all refugees and immigrant of 7 countries are barred from entry of the us even if they already have obtained visas. This debated executive order is important not only to the immigrants and refugees entering the US, but it is important to all Americans living domestic or abroad. It effects our co-workers, our neighbors, and citizens trying to go about in their daily lives and be the best Americans that they can be. The lawsuit brought up by the states of Washington and Minnesota challenges the executive order issued by the white house and questions its legitimacy and relevancy pertaining to the issued Executive Order. A three judge panel ruled as of February 9th 2017 at 7:50 p.m. EST to uphold the suspension of the order stating that "... the Government has not shown a likelihood of success on the merits of its appeal, nor has it shown that failure to enter a stay would cause irreparable injury..." I advise you all to read this article and keep up to date on this executive order as it effects the people we interact and take for granted everyday.
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