What about the new principal?

I have already heard who our new principal is and i am pretty excited. Nevertheless, our principal should have certain qualities which set him or her aside from all other administrators. First of all, they should be very, very good with people. They should be able to work cooperatively with other groups and be very understanding. Second, they should be a great leader, who knows and can set correct priorities for himself and the school. I think they should be able to interact in a friendly manner and not be an old loser or a really big nerd goody goody. They should also be very into school sports and not be a nerdy person, for the pride and spirit of herndon doesnt lie in the acedemics, but in the sports!

Week 1 cartoon

http://www.politicalcartoons.com/cartoon/460aa068-4cdd-43b7-ad43-2645ddbb5f34.html

Obama china debt
By Cardow - The Ottawa Citizen * Posted 11/20/2009 12:00:00 AM
© Copyright 2009 Cardow - All Rights Reserved.

This is a political cartoon explaining America's and China's relationship with one another. It is drawn by Cardow and was published on PoliticalCartoons.com. The baseline issue mentioned here is how America is in Chinas palm right now because of our current domestic issues. First of all, China has America "courtsying for them" because we are in grave need of their plethora of money. China has a lot of this money because they are a exporting nation. we on the other hand, import a lot of our stuff. Therefore, domestically, we have little extra money. China has a lot though, and when we need some, we ask them for help. Here, this cartoon shows and explains that America, more specifically President Obama, is being totally controlled and ran by the Chinese indirectly. This i think is a correct message, because we rely so much on their money for borowing. I think we should find a different way to decrease the National Deficit and NOt have to rely on China so much, for it could bring up probelms in the future.

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Trick-or-Treating at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

By Jeff Zeleny

President Obama had a bunch of kids and military personnel be able to come up to the house on Halloween night. The kids were able to roam the lawn and the obamas handed out candy and the military personnel were able to party on the first floor of the white house listening to some old records. This media event is a nice one to do. Kids were selected from elementary schools from across the district. This was thoughtful. Unfortunately Barack didnt want to dress up, so he was boring and just wore a sweater. A couple of other weirdo's like the white house press secretary (darth Vader), dressed up too. Mrs. Obama was Cat woman. Barack made a comment on how he thinks cat woman is sexy or something creepy. This was a nice thing to do for the children and stuff. Everyone loves halloween.

Who is my favorite president?

my favorite president of the United States of America is George Washington. George Washington was the greatest leader in our nation's history in my opinion. We as a nation were able to rally under his leadership and accomplish many goals that were considered impossible at the time. He served as Commander-in-chief of the continental army for the entire session of the Revolutionary war. He seemed to have to ulterior motives in his head except for the well being of all persons in the new country. When the states were trying to ratify a constitution also, during the meetings of the continental congress in philadelphia, washington oversaw the entire convention and was the only one allowed to write anything down and stuff. he was given huge amounts of respect and power. This was because people trusted him because he was a good guy. He also went to go bathe at Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, and had his own special bath. Thanks George.

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H1N1 Widespread in 46 States as Vaccines Lag

By JACKIE CALMES and DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.

The H1N1 virus has been sweeping along quite nicely. Obama recently declared it a national Emergency. He now is allowing hospitals to set up special sites to accept and treat patients with it, and he is allowing, with a waiver for the patient, to be sent to special treatment facilities or other hospitals if a surge of patients come. The swine flu is getting crazy, and people are looking for vaccines. Obama and hospitals exclaim that the epidemic has nothing to do with the shortage of vaccines though. Only 16 million doses of the vaccine were available now, and about 30 million were expected by the end of the month, and the expect to have around 200 million by the years end. Hospitals are told to accept all people despite medicare or medicade issues. People are so willing to get the vaccine that people are ending up lying about if they are pregnant or not in order to get a priority for the vaccine. They are trying to get more doses out to the public, but doctors and specialists have to grow the strain in eggs, so there is a limit on the speed of growth. Numbers of the flu death are high just like the swine flu, but the problem here is that it more affects young people whereas the regular flu affects more old people.
I will try and get a vaccine.

The Virginia Governors Race?

Alright so this is what's goin' down right now. Republican Robert F. McDonnell holds a seven-point lead over Democrat R. Creigh Deed, 50% to 43%. This was based on a survey held on October 12. The winner will most likely, and i say, be McDonnell. Overall i think he will win because americans are looking for some counter balance with a democratic president. He was bombarded for some social views he showed in his college paper that he wrote in 1989, but come on, that will pass because it was yearrssss ago. Earlier in my blogs, the biggest problem facing virginia was the transportation and McDonnell proposed to fix that problem mainly. This is a big help, especially when Deeds stumbled during the debate and people came to the conclusion that he would raise taxes to fix the transportation problem. Overall, six percent of the vote has not been counted yet in my percentages in the first sentence, but still, those wont help Deeds. You can give the deed of ownership of governors office to McDonnell, Deeds.

What is the biggest political issue facing the state of Virginia?

The most heated debated issue is Virginia now is the Transportation problem. Everytime you hear about a problem or crash with the metro or metro buses or anything, you know that means one thing... huge, huge backups. But that is just one of the more obvious problems. Although a lot of Virginia tax dollars go to the transportation, it is often being used to help all around the state, a lot of which is not nearly used as much as it is in the northern virginia region surrounding DC that would potentially support commuters. They often try to extent Metro railways also, but insufficient funding deters that from happening. Roads up here are frequently used and deteriorate much faster than down in the southern part of our state also. When it takes hours for commuters to get to their job, you know there is room for improvement.