Hawaii's governor wants to reveal Obama birth info

        Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie wants to find a way to release more information about President Barack Obama's Hawaii birth and dispel conspiracy theories that he was born elsewhere. Abercrombie is a longtime friend of Obama and his family.  So-called "birthers" claim Obama is ineligible to be president because they say there's no proof he was born in the United States, with many of the skeptics questioning whether he was actually born in Kenya, his father's home country. 
       "Information requests rose despite a new state law allowing officials to ignore persistent and repetitive inquiries, a law that has been used about six times by the department," Janice Okubo said (Spokeswoman of The Department Of Health).
       Because Obama is a man of color I believe thats the only reason why people want prove his legit citizenship.  No other president has delt with this problem except Obama.  It's really sad to see how our country's people can't accept the fact that we have a president of color yet they're doing everything in their power to tarnish his reputation.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101228/ap_on_re_us/us_obama_birth_certificate

Bones found on island might be Amelia Earhart's

            Last week, three bone fragments turned up on a deserted South Pacific island that lay along the course Amelia Earhart was following when she vanished. Nearby were several tantalizing artifacts: some old makeup, some glass bottles and shells that had been cut open.  It could be months before scientists know for sure.  Ric Gillespie, director of the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, a group of aviation enthusiasts in Delaware, have made 10 trips to the island, trying each time to find clues that might help determine the fate of Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan.  Other material recovered this year also suggested the presence of Westerners at the isolated island site
               The island is on the course Earhart planned to follow from Lae, New Guinea, to Howland Island, which had a landing strip and fuel. Over the last seven decades, searches of the remote atoll have been inconclusive.  Millions of dollars have been spent in failed attempts to learn what happened to Earhart, a Kansas native declared dead by a California court in early 1939.  I think maybe one day with better technology we might be able to find small details of what happened.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101218/ap_on_re_us/us_search_for_amelia

Retirement

     This cartoon shows Santa Claus going on retirement but then an elf stops him to tell him that the government has raised the retirement age.  As of late the government has been raising the age of retirement to help social security.

Santa Tenure

    This cartoon shows a teacher sitting on Santa's lap.  Santa asks if the teacher has been agood teacher, and the teacher says they have tenure and being good doesn't matter.  Which is saying that teachers or any other worker who has tenure really doesn't have to follow by any of the rules; the can kind of do what they want.

Obama, GOP reach deal to extend tax cuts

            Despite opposing fellow Democrats, President Barack Obama announced agreement with Republicans Monday night to extend expiring tax cuts for all Americans, renew jobless benefits and grant a one-year reduction in Social Security taxes for millions.  Also, tax breaks for business that the president said would contribute to the economy's recovery from the worst recession in eight decades.  With unemployment still high the economy really couldn't afford for taxes to be raised, in my opinion.  Honestly, this should've been done before everything became bad.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101206/ap_on_bi_ge/us_tax_cuts

Tax Cuts Cartoon

      This picture shows Uncle Sam almost falling over a cliff trying to hold America's money, but he's being weighed down by taxes.  The meaning is that taxes should be immediately cut.  Also, in the photo it say "Fix the Ecomony back in 1 hour," and thats represents the Congress taking their time in finalizing the tax cuts.

Police arrest two people in gun incident at Euclid High School

       An alert patron at the Euclid Public Library may have stopped a tragedy Thursday when he reported seeing someone pick up a gun and head toward the nearby high school.  The Euclid library, high school and police station are all within walking distance of each other on East 222nd Street. Officers quickly descended on the school, which administrators had been put on lockdown.  At the time, I was inside the school (chemistry class to be exact).  My first thought was we might be here forever or maybe smeone may want to steal our chemicals. Anyways, at about 2:50 the lockdown was over and when I walked out the buliding, the police had the two guys caught in the student parking lot.  Honestly, that was a close call.

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/12/police_arrest_two_people_in_gu.html

US deploys 'game-changer' weapon to Afghanistan

         After several years in the making, the army has released a new gun for the soliders. It is called the XM25; and it is about the size of a regular rifle.  The gun fires 25mm air-bursting shells up to 2,300 feet (700 meters), well past the range of most rifles used by today's soldiers, and programs them to explode at a precise distance, allowing troops to neutralize insurgents hiding behind walls, rocks or trenches or inside buildings.  The revolutionary advance involves an array of sights, sensors and lasers that reads the distance to the target, assesses elements such as air pressure, temperature, and ballistics and then sends that data to the microchip embedded in the XM25 shell before it is launched.

      As far as the soliders safety I think this is a good weapon.  However, each gun costs about 25 to 30,000 dollars each, and the Pentagon plans to purchase at least 12,500 of the guns.  In contrast, the Army has said  the XM25 can slash civilian deaths and damage, because its pinpointed firepower offers far less risk than larger mortars or air strikes.