Times Person of The Year

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, told the world on Wendsday December 15th that he was Time Magazines person of the year. He did this by putting this on Facebook where anyone can see it. Mark launched facebook in Feb. 2004 and facebook became a huge social network hit by 2008. They say through facebook more than a half a billion people connect with eachother. Mark was honored with this recognition. However, many techies will argue that others perhaps should have gotten the reward instead of Mark. Some say the wikileaks owner Julian Assange should have won it. Others say anyone from the tea party should have won it. Some say that the Times Magazine picked someone that everyone agreed with, not someone who was contorversal.


I think Time Magazine can give it to whoever they want to. If you dont agree with who it was then get your own magazine and put your own guy in it. This guy is a good guy, he doesnt keep all the money that he recevies he just gave away 100 million to the schools in Newark. Puting this guy as person of the year is way better to read about than reading about the war and gloom in the world.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/12/15/zuckerberg.time.reactions/index.html

Elizabeth Edwards Death

On Tuesday Dec. 7th Elizabeth Edwards, former wife of John Edwards past away from her battle of cancer of 6 years. Edwards found out she had breast cancer the day after the 2004 election when her husband John became a presidental candate. Throughout his campain there was a lot of mud slinging. It was found out that he had an affair, and that his mistress was pregnant. She now had to endure the reality of cancer and her affair with her husband. The media being no help in this situtiation. Elizabeth was an author, health care advocate, and an attorney. She was the mother of 3 kids, the youngest of them being 10 years old. Much of the media portrayed their life like a movie star couple.
My opinion is that I am more mad at the media than John. When this lady is going through this rough time the last thing she needs is the media making her family look like a disgrace. The media never sees what is the right thing to do. They have no respect for anyone but themselves. Yes, we need to know some stuff about their private life because the man is running for president. This woman will be remembered as the cheater John Edwards and not the mother of 3 kids Elizabeth Edwards.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101208/ap_on_re_us/us_elizabeth_edwards

North Korea attacks South Korea

Last Tuesday North Korea bombed a peninsula in South Korea killing 2 soldiers and wounding many others. North Korea being a Communist and South Korea being a Democratic Party like us here in the U.S. The whole world is confused and wondering why they did this attack. Leader Kim Jong-il  wants to make his youngest son the leader of the country. His son only being 27 years old and has no experience with military and leadership skills. The whole world is watching on the edge of their seats because they are threating to not honor the peace treating although they have not set off any nucleur weopons but it is believed that they are stocking up uranium.

In my opinion it is scary to think of this because we cant get involed in another war, but we cant just sit here and do nothing. the United Nations is going to have to step up in this and do something about it before it gets out of hand.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101123/india_nm/india530928

Issue #3 Safe to Eat?

 This artical is about foodborne illnesses such as Ecoil that is often found in contaminated produce. What started a major debate on whose going to regulate the produce industry was a major Ecoil break out in 2006. This outbreak made 200 people very sick and 3 died from it. They believed what caused this was cow manure getting spread in spinich fields which the manure had run into. Ecoil can not be washed off. It has to by irradiation. foodborne illnesses  Many people feel that the produce industry like the meat and poultry industry, should be regulated by the FDA FDA or by the dep. of ag. Right now the produce industry is self regulated by the growers and farmers. Some feel that at least one gov. agency should be regulating the safety of the food supply in the U.S. Others feel that they could regulate it much better themselves.

If the gov. is going to be in everything else why not be in this one too. We need to give the fda more money to keep an eye on what is going on. Produce is good for you and you dont want to be scaring people off of good food, healthy food.



http://www.fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/ucm114299

http://rachelrachrachel.blogspot.com/2010/11/issue-1-comprehensive-vs-incremental.html

http://nathannelson1.blogspot.com/2010/11/issue-2-ensuring-quality-care-for.html