Adoption of Haitian Children

So I know that my current event this week was also on the earth quake in Haiti, but what can I say it's just really been on my mind this week. I wanted to use this "personal post" to talk about specifically about one of the impacts the earthquake in Haiti has had on families here in the United States. The other night on the news, in the midst of the coverage of the status in Haiti, there were clips of American families who had been planing to adopt a child from Haiti. I totally had never even thought about this before, and it just really made me think. These families had made it through all the paperwork and interviewing and background checks (which can be an extremely long process), and had met the children they were adopting, and were simply just waiting to bring them home. It was really sad to see the pain these families were going through as they loved these children as their own, and now some of them are not even sure if their child survived the earthquake. For those families that learned that their child had survived, they were also told that the orphanages had collapsed, and that all the paperwork had been destroyed, and that it was going to be very difficult to have a legal adoption anytime soon. I cannot imagine what these parents are going through seeing pictures of the suffering in Haiti and knowing that even those who have survived are struggling to get water and food.

Political Cartoon #6- Hatian Aid Delayed

1. This cartoon was drawn by John Cole.
2. The cartoon was published in the The Scranton Times-Tribune on January 15, 2010.
3. This cartoon deals with the devastating earth-quake that took place in Haiti this past week, and the global effort to send aid to Haiti.
4. The message of this cartoon is that so many nations are wanting to help Haiti and send them aid, however it is extremely difficult to get the aid to Haiti. The Nation is in chaos, and they have a very small airport, which makes it hard for multiple airplanes to fly in at once. This is making it extremely difficult for people and supplies to get to Haiti to help.
5. I agree with this message, it is SO awesome that so many people want to help Haiti, and that already so much money has been raised around the world, but right now Haiti really needs food and water and it is almost impossible to get it to them. As with most Americans my prayers are with Haiti, and I hope we are able to get them the aid they need very soon.

What's ahead for the Obama Administration

I think that at the start of this year President Obama has a lot of work ahead of him to try and regain the confidence of the American public. Obama had a not so productive first year in office, although he did manage to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and many people who couldn't wait to get Obama into office are now unhappy with his performance. I don't really think we are headed in the right direction, because most of the problems that have been facing the U.S are seeming to go away. The economy doesn't seem to be mending, and the Obama administration has spent a lot of money that will be hard to repay. Also the problem of unemployment in the U.S has not gotten any better. Obama is taking troops out of Iraq which seems to be appreciated by Americans, however by sending more troops into Afghanistan he is kind of cancelling out the good news with the bad. It would be great to see improvement in the Obama administration, but it seems like there is a long way to go before we get there.

Political Cartoon #5-NBA, guns and body scans

1. This cartoon was drawn by Dave Granlund.
2. This cartoon was published at politicalcartoons.com on January 8, 2010.
3. This cartoon deals with two recent events, the attempted bombing of an aircraft on Christmas Day, and Wizard's player Gilbert Arenas' possession of a gun in the Verizon Center locker room.
4. Part of the cartoon's message is that airport security is not as tight as it should be is an Al Qaeda operative was able to board an airplane while equipped with a bomb. The cartoon is also commenting however on the poor choice of a professional athlete to bring a gun to work. These two events have lead the American public to loose confidence in their national security, as well as in professional athletic figures.
5. I agree with this cartoon. I think it's crazy that we almost had another terrorist attack through air travel. It really has not been that long since the attacks of 9/11, yet it seems that airport security is letting their guard down, I think i can speak for all Americans when I say i am truly thankful that the bomber was not successful. Also I think it was a very poor choice of Wizards player Gilbert Arenas to have brought a gun into the locker room. I think it is pretty obvious that this is not an action that would be taken well by the NBA or by the American public, and I think that Arenas should have been more consciences about his actions. Also I think that players as well as fans should have to got through security at sporting events to prevent something like this from happening again.