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The Climate Causes Terrorist Attacks?!

Obama and guests paying their respects in Paris. 

     Obama believes the attack in Paris to be caused by climate change. "'What great rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshaling our best efforts to save it.'" (cnn.com) Obama then visited one of the locations where 90 people had been killed and put a white house rose on top of all the other roses. He is also stating that the United States has something to do about the climate change (with carbon emission) and that we will do something about it. This carbon emission is changing the climate and this could be what caused the attack. The commitments he makes are the work towards a greener economy, new clean energy. He also says that a strong economy and a safe environment do not have conflict with each other anymore. I am conflicted with our role in all of this Paris stuff. I don't understand why we have to defend Paris so much and take on all of the things that they should be doing as a country. 

The Low Trust in Media is Shaping the 2016 Election

Trump just bending the truth!

     In the 2016 Election, it has been quite a time of rumors and lies! This "fact-checking" business has only made apologies stronger. A perfect example of this would be Donald Trump. He has made several accusations towards Muslims, "thousands and thousands of Muslims celebrated the 9/11 Terrorist attack" and he has made several comments on Mexican immigration and Syrian Refugees, and his data is just straight up wrong. His reply to all of this, "'What am I going to do? Check every statistic?'" (nbcnews). He has been targeted as the biggest liar ever with 41% of all of his statements reported false and a 21% are "pants on fire" kind of lying, but he is not the only one. Ben Carson has 43% rated false and 13% are the pants on fire, Hilary Clinton 11% are false and 1% is pants on fire says politifact. So why are these liars the frontrunners for the Presidency? Because the evidence shows it is not the candidates the Americans distrust, it is the fact-checkers. 65% of Americans think that the News has a negative effect on the way things are going in America. On top of that only 32% of Republicans say they have confidence in the news media versus the 55% of Democrats who have complete confidence. 

Calling an Action on Guns, Again?

Obama speaking on the Colorado shooting along with
Paris and other important topics of our Nation. 

     After the Planned Parenthood shooting, Obama wants to call an action on guns again. Addressing the Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado Obama said that "'States, and local governments have to act in order to prevent 'people who are deranged or have violent tendencies' from getting weapons that can magnify the damage that they do'" (nor.org). Little harsh there, in my opinion. He is basically putting this whole thing on states and saying that we need to control Guns, but he isn't doing anything about it. Paul Ryan called this event "'appalling'" and he said that the main reason for this problem was mental health. Hilary Clinton shares a different view, "'WE should be supporting Planned Parenthood, not attacking it.'" It is interesting to read all of the different view points of potential Presidents. Trump was very direct, per usual, and called the person who shot these people a "sick-person." I just don't get why people think that the way to solve their "problems" is shooting them away.

San Bernardino 

A woman who got critically injured during the San Bernardino shooting. 

     Who shoots up a disability home? How crazy are people these days? More people were killed in this shooting than the Sandy Hook shooting and three people had knowingly agreed to go in there and kill as many people as they could. I am just baffled that people are going into disability homes and killing innocent people. The Inland Regional Center is a non profit organization that helps families who have people with disabilities, they serve over 10,000 people, and they help these families with anything and everything. I read an article of a mother on thedailybeast.com and she wrote about her son, Edmund, who has Cri Du Chat syndrome and by the end of the article I was in tears. I couldn't imagine watching this on the news and thinking that this could have been your child because this family uses the same Center. I couldn't imagine being disabled and all of the criticism and hatred a child must get for being "different." It shocked me to hear this story from my grandmother at lunch, and I was shocked that something like this could happen. It makes no sense to me and probably never will. 

Trump in Iowa

Donald Trump speaking at a campaign rally in Iowa on Saturday. 

     Did he get Iowa? I know her wants it, and he certainly made his presence known as he usually does wherever he is. At a rally in Iowa, Donald Trump stated his bold opinions about Muslims in our country, "'total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering our country until our representatives can figure out what's going on'" (yahoo.com). This is basic Trump code for get everyone out of our country but Americans and that is obvious because of what his campaign declared, Trump wants to prevent all Muslim immigration. His campaign says that this is "okay" because a large amount of Muslims 'have a hatred towards Americans.' And my question to that would be, how many of those "Hating Americans Muslims" coming into the United States? The facts are: not all Muslims are terrorists, and not all Muslims hate Americans. Trump asks, Why should we allow Muslims to come into our country who believe in Jihad and put our country at risk like that? And honestly, I see his point and I see where he is coming from but he should not basically classify all Muslims as terrorists and state that they are all a threat to this country because that is just a false accusation. Yet, Trump of course contradicts himself when he was on a talk show and said that he has "Many Muslim friends. They are wonderful people" (yahoo).