Jeb Bush on Donald Trump's comments about banning muslims

Jeb Bush commented about Donald Trump and his statement on banning all Muslims from the US. Jeb said that Trump is the Republican Obama. He thinks that Trump will divide this nation as President Obama has. He also mentioned that He does not believe Trump has really grasped that thought of really becoming president. He said that all of what Trump is saying he will do is not necessarily realistic and is would not bring this nation together like it has been.

Women in Combat

This article is about how the US military leaders lifted the ban on women joining in on combat positions. It is said that the women's roles have been an "integral" part of the military. This will let open thousands of jobs in the future. They believe that even though 15% of the military is made up of women, there will be a higher percentage in the near future. Upwards of 230,000 jobs will be open.

US Airstrikes

One of the large leaders of Al-Shabaab and ISIS each were killed in the recent U.S. Airstrikes. The Al-Shabaab leader Ukash was killed in the US airstrikes in Somilia on Wednesday. The senior leader of ISIS in Libya Abu Nabil was killed November 13 in an airstrike. It is said that this demonstrates the fact that we will continue to take ISIL leaders where ever they operate.

More information on the San Bernardino shooting

This article is about how the bombs that were left on the site of the San Bernardino shooting were set to go off when the first responders arrived. Luckily, the pipe bombs did not detonate like they were planned to. This was supposed to kill more, but also scare first responders to future situations. The police found more explosives and ammunition when they looked at the house of the terrorists. The investigators are trying to figure out how the assault rifle that the couple had got in to their possession.

Security Trumps Compassion

It is said in this article that during WWII that only 3% of Americans believed we should have accepted 500 Jewish refugees. Now there have been polls about the Syrian refugees that President Obama wants to bring in to the US in the next year. It is said through many different polls, that about 55% of Americans think we are better off in this time of terror without the Syrian refugees. And now around 83% of US citizens believe that there will be an act of terror that will cost a large number of lives.

obama speaks to reassure america

Obama is to speak tonight on keeping America safe during these difficult times. It is said that he needs to work with congress to pass gun laws. This address is in light of the recent events that happened in San Bernardino, California and the Paris attacks. He plans to talk about what ways the government has taken security measures since the Paris attacks and the 9/11 attacks as well.

Manhut in New Orleans

This Article is about how a gun fight broke out in New Orleans late Sunday when about 500 people were gathered for a music video shoot. It is said that only 16 were injured and they are all in stable condition. The police are now trying to find all surveillance possible to hunt down the men who did it. This video was also being done without a permit.

SNL Ben Carson

This article, while it is comedic, it is also pointing out that Ben Carson is in the wrong for comparing Syrian refugees, humans, to rabid dogs. Carson does however mention that he only speaks of the rabid dogs, ISIS, not all dogs, all Syrians. It is also joked about giving all the refugees mad libs that say death to ______ and those who put America are not allowed to be in America. Then later they talk about black Friday and how it gets so much attention and  then someone else mentions that all Fridays matter not only black Fridays.

Obama speaks about ISIS

It is said in this article by Obama that we will defeat the Islamic state. He also pointed out to Vlamdimir Putin that he needs to change Russia's alignment with the US. President Obama will continue to push Putin into dropping his support for the Syrian president otherwise ISIS would not be taken down. These terrorist attacks have heightened to fears of terrorism in the west. Obama says that those refugees who come to America are ones who have been thoroughly investigated and are clean and safe people.

Obama on Paris attacks

This article is about Obama and how he has addressed the attacks on Paris and what he thinks about the situation. He said that ISIS is in fact the face of evil. It is said that ISIS claimed all responsibility for the attack on Paris. Then Sunday night, France launched airstrikes on the groups "capital". It is said that we would not engage in ground war, but we are going to send small amounts of special forces group out in the end.

French Citizen Directly involved with France terror attacks

A French Citizen was to be involved in the theater terror attack. It is said that 132 people were killed while 349 people were injured. Fox says that this man is one of three brothers believed to be involved with these attacks. One of the brothers was arrested in Belgium and the other died in the attack on the theater. It is said that these men have had several accomplices that lived close there to the attacks.

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Sweden Political Parties

Sweden

1.       1. Political Parties

a.       Swedish Social Democratic Party – Social Democracy

b.      Moderate Party – Liberal Conservatism

c.       Sweden Democrats – Right-wing Populism, National Conservatism

d.      Green Party – Green Politics

e.      Centre Party -  Liberalism, Agrarianism

f.        Left Party – Socialism, Feminist Politics

g.       Liberal People’s Party – Liberalism, Social Liberalism

h.      Christian Democrats – Christian Democracy, Conservatism

i.         Feminist Initiative – Feminist Politics

2. They have a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy. It is organized with King Carl XVI Gustaf as the head of state, then a legislative branch that is unicameral. The role of monarch is limited for ceremonial and representative functions.

3.       3. There are 9 political parties

a.       Swedish Social Democratic Party – 103,027

b.      Moderate Party – 55,612

c.       Sweden Democrats – 10,000

d.      Green Party – 10,635

e.      Centre Party – 37,340

f.        Left Party – 8,706

g.       Liberal People’s Party – 17,875

h.      Christian Democrats – 22,320

i.         Feminist Initiative – 22,240

4.       4. The “major” or “ruling” party in Sweden is the Swedish Social Democratic Party.

5.       5. All of these stated parties are official parties of the Swedish government.

6.       6. A lot of these parties are around social issues or ideological issues. Some could be considered economic depending on how one looks at the party. Some may see a Socialist party as an economic because it is a government that for the most parts provides everything for free because it is in the taxes. Or someone could see this type of government as one who believes Ideology in providing for those who are not as wealthy as others.

      7. This has shown me that plenty of different types of government can succeed in the world. It does not have to be a democracy, or a socialist government. It has shown me it can be any because it all depends on the culture in which the country is immersed in and how that has a role into respect for others i.e. political leaders.

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Jeb Bush gets endorsement

Jeb Bush has picked up a really large endorsement from presidential candidate Bob Dole which he announced to pick up his numbers in the pole. Dole said that he thinks bush is the most qualified of them all. Dole said he has a long history with the bush family and agrees that he deserves this spot. As he endorses Jeb Bush his numbers/ratings should go up.

turmps deportation plan

Donald Trump mentions that it is "doable and cheap" to deport millions. He said he would sort of do it like Eisenhower did with 1.5 million immigrants. He said that the wall he wants to build is more affordable than others think it is. Trump says he wants to send the immigrants back but they can enter legally next time.

GOP debate

This is about the republican debate from last night. Donald Trumps deportation plan was discussed while Marco Rubio and Carly Fiorina said they are in favor for a stronger military. Then Rand Paul called out Rubio on how he could consider himself a conservative because of wanting a bigger and stronger military. Christie then pointed out that Hillary Clinton is the real adversary throughout all candidates. then they all talked about what is important for fixing this nation.

Paul Ryan working hard in his first week

It is Paul Ryan's first week and he has worked very hard. However, it is said this cake walk will not continue much longer because he has a lot of policies that he wants to either enact or get rid of. Turns out that he is giving them all a chance to speak, something that Boehner did not let happen.

Army trauma expert quit after admitting PhD fraud

This article is about an Army statistician that admitted that she did not earn the PhD that she had been claiming all of these years. It also turns out that she did not earn her masters either. Amy N. Apodaca managed to pass a background check to attain a secret level with this situation. The Army reviewed a work in which Apodaca published and found that there was nothing wrong or incorrect with what was written. Now, the surgical institute will be strengthening their procedures of choosing applicants by reviewing their academic credentials more closely.

The Man Behind The Mosque

1. It seemed that the media did not really look for anyone in particular in charge of the building of the mosque. It seemed to vary depending on which new network people looked at. It seemed that the conservative new sources looked at why they should not get the funding for the mosque whereas the liberal media looked at what was good about the building of the mosque. Where the good intentions of the project were.

2. In the video, it seemed that it was Sean Hannity who brought this to the medias attention on Fox.

3. It showed on both sides of the media, that they only looked at the opinions of the people, instead of the actual reasoning behind it or any information about the faith and why a mosque should then be built there.

4. They don't seem to have been interviewed by the cable news. This is evident because all of those on the cable news, were reporters that went into the field instead of bring people to the media to discuss the topic.

5. The cable news used the 9/11 attacks and what knowledge they have based on radical islamic actions, instead of talking to a Muslim or an Imam. They more than likely googled information and found what they know on their own website, which means it is not very reliable because they are not Muslim and do not know the faith like one of the religion would.

6. The media needs to take responsibility in their actions and what they report. They must follow their goal in reporting. However in following those goals, they might show more bias to one side more than the other which is also another issue.

7. The second largest share holder in News Corp at the time was Al-Waleed bin Talal the prince of Saudi.

8. It was because they were causing so much trouble over something that should not have made it to the level of media it did.They must have realized that they should not have gone as far as they did. They should maybe learn about what they are talking about.

9.The polls show that a lot if not most of white, conservative,Christians think that the Islamic faith is a bad faith. They think it promotes terrorism and that it is all it promotes.

American TV News

In this article, it talks about how people are informed about their news in the United States. This article specifically talked about television news and it's impact. The following facts were very interesting related to what type of TV  and how long news viewers watch:

1. People who watch cable news do it for about about 25 minutes where people who just watch local or network news do it for half than that amount of time.

2. Heavy viewers of local TV news and network news watch more cable news than watching local TV and network news. The heavier local news viewers spend 11 or so more minutes on cable news than local news.

3.The heavy network news viewers watch on avergae one more minute of cable news than they do network news.

4. Between local/network and cable news  there is a large gap for the heavy news watchers and everyone else. The top 1/3 of network news viewers in terms of time spent watching, is close to 32 minutes a day. The next 1/3 spends about only 1/6 as much time, five minutes, watching network news.

5. The most committed cable news viewers average 72 minutes of viewing a day. Whereas it is about 32 minutes for the heavy network viewers and 22 minutes for heavy local news viewers. The second most committed group of viewers is only 3 minutes of viewing.

6. 90% of network news watchers watch local news. 82% of local news viewers watch network news. 58% of U.S. adults watch both network and local news.

7. 28% of those who watch Fox News also watch MSNBC. 34% of MSNBC viewers turn on Fox News.
 
8. 54% of MSNBC viewers watch CNN and 44% of Fox News viewers also watch CNN. CNN viewers also watch Fox News (39%) and MSNBC (38%).

9. In total, 5% of the adult population in the U.S. watches both MSNBC and Fox News. That is lower than the percentage of people that watches both CNN and Fox (8%) or CNN and MSNBC (also 8%).
 
10. There are also viewers who watch only one of the three news types. Fox News Channel has the largest singularly dedicated audience. 24% watch only Fox News, 23% watch only CNN and 15% watch only MSNBC.

Officer slams girl to the floor

This article talks about how a school officer slammed a student to the ground. There were a lot of different videos that showed the officer grabbing the girl by her neck and then tipping her desk over and dragging her across the floor. It is said by the officer's supervisor that he is suspended without pay and will decide about continued employment within the next 24 hours. He said that they want to deescalate the situation no escalate an already escalated problem.

Intro to Media

1. Tv, phones, social media, newspapers, blogs, movies, music, video games, internet, radio, and magazines.

2. There are six companies that own 90% of what any media we might use. These companies are General Electric, News-corp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner, and CBS.

3. Emerson  College is the top journalism college in the nation. They keep their program professional by engaging them in a number of different classes. Many of them journal classes, but each class has a specialty for it. They also must take a U.S. Government and Politics class so they have knowledge about the government when they are writing a story about any political issue.

4. I watch dog media, the government is being watched. This is to warn the people so there is no abuse of power with in the system. This is warning the people and protecting them from the abuse of power in the government.

5. I am going to be honest, I have never heard this phrase before. However, I am going to assume this is about media having a liberal bias over conservatism.

Paul Ryan, the speaker of the house

This article is about Paul Ryan and how he is now the speaker of the house. It is said that he wanted by the majority of the GOP. Ryan has said that he will only push important bills like immigration issues. He also said he will have bold policy ideas such as welfare reform, health care legislation, and a tax overhaul. He is willing to walk away if he is said "no" on any policy. Many find it interesting that he did not want this job not too long ago and here he is as the Speaker of the House.

New background checks to purchase ammunition in CA

This article is about California gun control advocates starting a new regulation on having a background check when buying ammunition. The gun control laws in the presidential candidacy of 2016 are also discussed. Any magazine larger than 11 rounds, report when weapons are stolen, and the back ground checks when buying any ammunition. Not only will California require background checks when buying ammo, but it will also require felons to give up all guns and require the sharing of all residents who are prohibited from own guns. 

Paul Ryan doesn't want to run still

This article is about Paul Ryan and how he does not want to be the speaker of the house. He realized that as a vice president he would see his family more than he would if he was a member of the house. He wants to have a normal job of weekdays and then family on the weekends. He likes to play basketball at the YMCA and he parish on the weekends with his family.  He much rather work on policies than be in the top slot of the House.

Speaker of the House

1. The Constitution says that the House of Representatives will choose their speaker. There are no requirements to be the Speaker of the House.

2.   a. House of Representatives

The Speaker: "presides over proceedings on the House floor, influences which bills go to which committees, influences committee assignments for new members, appoints the party's other leaders, and rules on questions of parliamentary procedure"

The Majority Leader - The second ranking member of the majority party. Usually hand picked by the Speaker. The leader helps plan the party's legislative program.

The Minority Leader-  They lead the minority party and the voting power is generally less. If the leader succeeds in the next congressional election, they could very well be the next Speaker.

      b. Senate
President of the Senate -  the Vice President of the US can only cast a vote in the event of a tie.

President Pro Tempore - if the president of the senate is not there, this man/woman will take his/her place.

3. Both the President and Vice president would have to die in order for the Speaker to become president.

4. Samuel Rayburn served the longest as the Speaker of the House for 17 years.

5. Nancy  Pelosi of California was the first woman to become speaker of the house. She became the Democratic speaker on January 4, 2007.

6. Newt Gingrich served as speaker in 1995-1999. He is famous for the so called republican revolution in the 1990s and he had to resign the speakership for an ethics scandal.

7. John Boehner resigned from speaker recently. He became speaker in 2011 and resigned the Friday after the pope visited. He resigned because he knew that he would lose the fight against his own party and he was trying to do things that were too conservative with President Obama in the white house.

8. Kevin McCarthy was going to be the speaker until his recent comments about Benghazi and giving Hillary Clinton a chance to accuse the house of republican house of a right-wing conspiracy of her. Since that, he decided to not do this because he would be given so much "hell" from his own party and the democrat party.

9. Paul Ryan is wanted by the republicans because he is very firm in his beliefs and would be able to unite the republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in over 80 years. He said he still does not want to be the speaker because he has three school aged kids and a wife and does not want his political role to interfere.

10. He is the Chair of the Committee of Ways and Means. This is the chief tax-writing committee of the House of representatives.

11. It is a committee that is legislative sub-organization that handles a specific duty. There are 50 committees and 100 sub-committees.

12. He wants to stay with his family and said that this job is for an "empty-nester" rather than a guy with three kids.

13. I would not take the job, because it would take me away from my family and as it is shown by Newt Gingrich, politics do not help any with a family.

14. It is not necessary to be the speaker to become president. In fact, James K. Polk of Tennessee is the only one that has become president as the speaker of the house.

15. A caucus is a meeting of a specific political party. There are over 100 caucuses. A committee decides which bills see the floor whereas the caucus deals with anything that is real.

16. The house of freedom caucus is a conservative caucus regarding those who believe the government does not represent the citizens.They want a strong conservative leader who is willing to stand up for their ideas.

17.  Added to the blog separately.

Memphis Police officer killed

Officer Olridge

This article is about a Memphis police officer who was killed at his house. Officer Olridge was on his way to work one day and had an encouter with Clark. Clark then presented a gun an then shot Olridge. Olridge made it back to the garage and called for help, but he then passed peacefully from the wound. Clark will be tried tomorrow, Tuesday. Olridge's fiance, who is 4 months pregnant, was inside of the house when he was shot. It was reported by neighbors, that there was up to 15 gunshots heard. In Memphis, there has been 4 fatal shootings of police officers in the past four years.

First Quarter Reflection

This quarter, I have learned everything from the very basics of how the government works, to the constitution, and even learned about federal grants. I always knew that the constitution was a thing, but i never really knew the depth of it or even what it all consisted of. It was also good to learn about those who were the founding father of the country and what they intended for this nation. The last part of this quarter was the grant project. The grant project was not my cup of tea because it was a very broad project where we were given too much liberty to choose. I rather have a few topics to choose from. This next quarter I am hoping that we get more involved in politics with the current presidential campaign. Maybe analyze what of each candidate works and doesn't work for our nation and what the citizens want to see.

This article is about the program planned parenthood and how the technician should go after a certain part of the tissue because then they get more money out of it. The people were seen on the video picking through the tissue trying to harvest baby parts when one of them found a pair of intact kidneys and some laughed and said "five stars!". StemExpress is pretty much a group that sells the dissected fetal tissue to researchers  for experiments. It shows that a lot of people are highly against this group even thought they may even work for them.

This article is about the political polls and how close they are turning out to be. Ben Carson and Donald Trump are fighting neck-in-neck in their political race and Carly Fiorina and Marco Rubio are also trying hard to get up there in the race while they are tied. Hillary Clinton has gone from a 60 point lead in June, 34 point lead in July, and now only a 7 point lead over Bernie Sanders. However without Joe Biden in the race, her lead grows to 15 points over Sanders.

Pope visits Capitol Hill

This article is about the Pope coming to the United States and how it appears that he has a leftist view on political policies. While the Pope mentioned that he thinks we should get our act together on climate change, immigration, guns, and capitalism, the democrats do not want to show the GOP that the pop disagrees with abortion, gay marriage, and contraception. In the long run, he can make the left and right feel uncomfortable.

Stolen Fingerprints

This article is about the US  fingerprint images that were stolen in one of the government data breaches. It is said that the estimated 1.1 finger prints has now gone up to 5.6 million stolen fingerprints. This scandal has affected an estimated total of 21.5 million current and former employees of the government. The white house plans on talking to the president of China about cyber security later this week. It is said that these fingerprints could potentially reveal any American's true identity. The US is working hard to figure out what step they should take next.

Soldiers told to look over the abuse of afghan boys

This article is  about two US soldiers who were told to ignore the afghan abuse of boys. The soldiers actually threw the police to the ground multiple times so they understood to stay away from  these boys. These soldiers were then relieved of there duties due to their actions. The military couldn't get involved in these cases because they did not want to "undermine the authority of the local government.

Gunman on Delta State college campus

This article talks about how there was an active shooter on the campus of Delta State this morning. The active shooter was Professor Shannon Lamb, and he killed Dr. Ethan Schmidt. It was mentioned that Lamb could have been involved in a homicide that was only 300 miles south earlier today. The school remained on lock down through Monday afternoon and there was food and drink brought to the Colosseum for all of those on campus. They are offering counseling groups today and tomorrow while classes have been cancelled. 

Federalism

Federalism is "the distribution of power in an organization (as a government) between a central authority and the constituent units"

In this world, there are 196 nation-states, while many do not recognize Taiwan as one because it operates as an independent state that "broke" away from China.

There are 26 countries in the world that operate under federal system. These countries are: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Brazil, Canada, Comoros, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Iraq, Malaysia, Mexico, Federated States of Micronesia, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, South Sudan, Sudan, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United States, and Venezuela.

In relation to a map, It seems that these countries have more land, power, and control in the world as apposed to other countries that are much smaller in size and don't have as much power or influence on the world today.

 

 

A unitary government is "a sovereign state governed as a single entity. The central government is supreme, and the administrative divisions exercise only powers that the central government has delegated to them."

 There are 168 unitary system governments in the World. The 5 largest countries are China, Kazakhstan, Algeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Saudi Arabia.

The difference between a Unitary government and a Federal government is that the Unitary systems upper level government has all the power but the federal systems power is given to the upper level government and to the lower level government. There are advantages and disadvantages to each like: Unitary can make decisions without the consent of the citizens so things get done, but the lower levels of government have no power unless it is given to them; The federal system everyone has their rights to their powers, but it takes a while for actions to be made in the government.


This is like the government saying to the states that yes you can have this but you have to use it as we want you too.

 
This is putting a bad connotation on  the government saying that all they care about is catching people doing illegal things no matter when it is happening.