#10 Election

I haven't really been keeping up with the election lately. Right now Clinton, Obama, Gravel on democratic and McCain and Paul on republican side are running. For my post I'm just going to talk about Clinton, Obama, and McCain because they are the most likely to win the election or that's how it looks right now considering Ron Paul has 21 total delegates and Mike Gravel has 0. Right now within the democrats Obama is slightly in the lead but it's very very close.

These are their main focuses:

Clinton
Health Care
Iraq War
Economy and Budget

I don't know too much about her stand on these but I think we shouldn't give up on the war just yet. We can't just back out know. Quiting could make terrorism a problem again. We would one again look like lazy Americans taking the easiest way out of it. And secondly, health care. I think it's nice she wants more people to be able to afford health care, but I don't see where it becomes too expensive if people work hard in school, go to college, and work hard they should be able to find a good enough job to support their families. Any one can slack off in school, not go to a very good college and not find a very good job so it's not fair for the rest of America (the hard workers) to not get let off easy with cheaper health care. If I totally missed the point here or anywhere feel free to criticize or correct me. I would like to know better. As far as economy and budget go I'm not so sure what her stand on this is but my answer is most likely similar to what I wrote above.

Obama
Health Care
Iraq War
Economy and Budget

Read what I wrote about Clinton.

McCain
Iraq War
Economy and Budget
Immigration

From what I know McCain wants to do with the war I agree with him. I also think it's great that one of his focuses are on immigration. It isn't far for the people that come American citizens legaly that other people are sneaking into the U.S. Something should be done and I think he has a plan.
-Sorry this post wasn't very good. Feel free to comment or criticize.

God Particle

I found the whole concept of the article very interesting, but it was hard for me to understand it all. I thought it was neat that as I was reading I recognized many things I learned earlier this year like Rutherford, fission/fusion, atoms in general, etc. Knowing basics helped me to put together what they were saying better although there were many parts I still did not understand like quarks and gluons. If I had more time and motivation I would have taken more time and effort to understand this more clearly, at the moment I don't think I will.
Sure this is new and exciting to the scientists and most of the public, but I think we've got more important world issues that are more urgent that money should be moving toward and other problems should be addressed first before we throw money where we don't know is going. I don't mean to be so full of doubt, but I am anyways. What are our chances of finding it? Seriously? Would it be worth the risk? What would we do with it? Maybe I missed something huge in the article, but I still don't see the point. Most of you are probably thinking I'm dumb and that this particle could be the answer to our existence, the reason for everything, the source of the universe, etc., the list goes on and on, but it wouldn't make any difference to me. I have my own ideas that are very firm and not going to change, and I get them for free. No particle or scientist can change or make up my mind for me.