Republicans ignore global warming

The climate change conference was held in Paris recently. All the countries met together to talk about climate change. Beijing, China is covered in dense smog and everyone is orderd to stay inside. Glaciers are melting, hurricains are developing and massive rainfalls are hitting all over the world and creating damages to communities. In many countries the effects are severe but in others the effects are mild and they proggresively get worse. Obama is trying to get all factories to swich to cleaner energy and passing this bill will require lots of work because the republicans are ignoring the problem and acting like it doesnt exist which to me is quite absurd. They state that switching to cleaner energy will cost billions. All they focus on is the economics. But they fail to realize what is being witnessed by many other countries and global warming activists. They don't care about the earth as long as people can live on it. Untill a major catastrophe happenes they will not budge. They are the only ones in the world who are ignoring it.
At this point, Obama threatens to veto their bill against renewable energy, but that will not guarentee anything. Lets cross our fingers.

Trump mocks a disabled person..again..

Last week, at a rally in South Carolina, Donald Trump mocked a disabled reporter, Serge Kovaleski. Serge has arthrogryposis, which causes his limbs to curl, and in the video of Trump, he imitates Kovaleski's curled arms and speaks with an impediment. Trump later claimed that he couldn't recall ever meeting the reporter so he didn't know that Kovaleski was a disabled person. But if that was the case, what are the odds that Trump would happen to mock him in a manner that corresponds with the man's disability. I think that Trump, like in most situations, knows that what he's doing is controversial, and does it anyways in order to spark a reaction.

Planned Parenthood

 A planned parenthood was hit with gun violence over the weekend. 3 were killed. I don't understand why this man directed the violence at a planned parenthood. What did planned parenthood do to him? Promote safe sex? Free STD testing? Abortions? Cancer screening? Cheap health check ups? Oh no how terrible. Planned parenthood, as far as I know, did nothing wrong to him. I still just don't understand all this debate on whether or not planned parenthood should be defunded. It is a place where people can go to get free or cheaper health care with our without insurance. Who wouldn't want access to free or partially free health services? This whole argument is just dumb. Planned parenthood gave one of my friends free birth control when she couldn't get it elsewhere. If you disagree, I would love to hear why.

Gun Violence

 I've been trying to find words for the recent Planned Parenthood shooting, and for the most part, I'm at a total loss of what to say. If there's a point where we, the American people, have simply become numb to gun violence, have simply created a template of "praying for the victims of (insert most recent shooting)" to share every time a shooting like this occurs, have simply learned to turn the other way when we hear statistics like this- we are far beyond that point.

     The man in the Planned Parenthood shooting had a history of domestic violence, animal abuse, and stalking. The Umpqua Community College shooter owned 14 guns legally. The man who shot two reporters while they were reporting a story live owned a gun legally and used it to take two lives. The man who killed two and injured nine in a movie theatre in Louisiana recently was banned from legally purchasing a gun in his state- so he went to Alabama and purchased it legally there. The massacre of black churchgoers in South Carolina occurred when the shooter- who by state law should not have been allowed to purchase gun since he was convicted of selling drugs- did not have his background check completed thoroughly. The fifteen-year-old who used his father's gun to murder four students in his cafeteria should have never been able to gain access to a gun- because his father (the gun owner) slipped past his permanent domestic violence protection order and purchased a gun. I could go on- these were only a few shootings in the past year. Make of this what you will. I firmly believe that law-abiding U.S. citizens have the right to own and operate guns- emphasis on "law-abiding". And to those who have defended this Planned Parenthood shooting, calling the shooter a "hero" for saving lives of "babies": let me remind you that not only are you encouraging domestic terrorism- you are inherently NOT "pro-life" when you applaud the murder of women and Planned Parenthood workers.

Gun Control

Although, we talked about this matter earlier on in the semester I just saw this video that I thought was interesting on how different the views on guns are within four friends of the same age. I would think that that because our current generation is so advanced and progressive as far as our views I would think there would be more of a solid opinion on guns and their use. Instead gun control is still a very controversial subject not just between older and younger people but actually within each generation there is debate on the matter. I think individuals beliefs on guns and their uses really sprout from one's background and up bringing. This makes sense because today guns are used for many different ways. Whether guns are being used for, violence, protection, or just as a hobby everyone has a different opinion towards them based on their own personal experiences how guns have been used.

In the video it shows the debate between four your adult males. One of the opinions discussed was how they are anti gun and have been avoided and stood clear of them. Then there is the view how it is not guns they are worried about but the hands the gun is held in which is worrying and bothersome. The last opinion was pro guns as he was raised as an eagle scout where guns have made a huge impact in his life. It is argued that guns are shown as masculine and why that is while they compare it to James Bond. This video contrasts the difference beliefs individuals hold on the purpose of guns. Some believe their only purpose is to kill people when they are really being treated like"adult toys" and not taken seriously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBtWosxIqJE

Ferguson Presentation: Vol 2 & 3

Thursday 11/19

Vol. 2: 

• September 3, 2014
• There are no alternate jurors, so all of them have to be there to precede
• Detective has a bachelor degree and has experiences in crime scene unit for 5 years
• He is not the first to report to the scene. When he gets there, there are 50 officers and 300-400 bystanders. The officers fill him in on what has happened or what they think has happened
• gunshots are fired, thus they could not examine the crime scene and body until later 
• video walk-through of the scene (6 people filming it) & 161 photos (taken by detective)
• photographs are sent to lab to be processed: none are edited or deleted even if the picture is blurry and "unusable"
• processed photos are sent to detective for analysis 
• all evidence is placed in a sealed envelope and labeled and signed off for every time the evidence was passed around
• no officers notice the detective do anything sketchy or follow the procedure wrong
• the detective is qualified; not bias or selective , very thorough documentation of the scene, evidence is not incriminating, and there are too many people there to tamper with evidence in the first place
• there are also lots of room for error during the break for safety (gunshots fired) along with unusual amount of officers, and Darren Wilson is labeled as a victim which could have influence officers

Vol. 3:

• 50 pictures of Darren Wilson
• they swab the guns and box it inside a box instead of an envelope
• fingerprints are not taken from the guns, DNA instead
• officers are there when the autopsy is being perform
• there was no report of brown
• 6 entrance wound, 2 graze wound, 3 exit wounds
• lots of the shots did not and could not kill him: can injure him mortality though
• lateral right chest wound came down at downward angle and the shot to the top of the head finally killed him. their height was the same, so that shows deliberation of killing someone. 

Ferguson case

 One of the most recent and well known cases, was the shooting of Michael Brown. Basicaly, Officer Darren Wilson from the Ferguson Police shot and killed an unarmed teen. This sparked uproar.  To better understand the case, I analyzed the second half of volume 11 containing witness testimonies.  

One of the witnesses lived in the Canfield apartment conplex located on the treet where the shooting happened. She was on her patio when she saw, Mike Brown running up the street away from the officer While he was running away she saw the officer shoot three times. Finaly, she sees Mike walking back towards the officer with his hands up. To her surprise, he shoots a fourth time. To me this seemed a bit of over reaction. If Mike was surrendering, why did officer Wilson shoot? That was the fatal shot that brought him down. According to other student presentation, it looked like according to the autopsy that some bullet wounds originated from a vertical shot. So at one point did officer Wilson stand over Mike?

So far for me, this should have raised a few red flags during the trial.