The last (maybe)

Bon jour.

Wow! Isn't it amazing how much it took for Obama to win and now he did?! Just think: it will be a wonderful future!

Now about the blog: I know all of you were sort of wanting me to continue doing the blog and so you could hear my updates and things about what I thought about the election and things. But I don't really think that is quite a sufficient purpose for this. I loved writing this blog when I felt it had a purpose and I am leaving it up in case you have comments. I had a specific reason for writing this, that was for Obama to become elected, but now that my dream has come true, I don't think there is quite a purpose for it anymore. I might come back to this blog someday and keep writing, when I feel a need. So, TAFN (that's all for now!). Stay in touch--keep commenting and write about what YOU think about this.

GO OBAMA!!!!!!

With gratitude, Hero

p.s., GO OBAMA!!!!!

I have no idea what to call it, but just to let you know, I am trying to convince people who are in a “swing state” to vote (and like) Obama.

The reason I think that you should vote for Obama is because when we’re on to education and the environment, Obama is open to new ideas and has a really good plan of his own. He’s open to everything, and can find lots of new ideas in everyone. He will be a Great President. He’ll take ideas from average people, exactly the opposite of what McCain is doing. Obama is just much more open. Obama explains things, doesn’t just say that he is going to do them.

I do see a good future with Obama and think it will be one full of new and improved ideas. It will have better things like choice of health care, wind or solar power for the environment (I think that’s a really good idea), and he will have ideas for things that we haven’t even thought of, like, well, actually, if I can list them, it won’t be things I haven’t thought of!

p.s., I hope you like Obama (I sure do), and if you have any things you’d like to say that you like about Obama please check out the comments section and write to me. Don’t forget to vote! (My mom just told me that!). Good night!

Fooling the pundits from McCain

See this link first:

http://news.yahoo.com/election/2008/dashboard?name=|content=100111110110111111110100110111100100100111111110101








AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!


Happy Halloween!
Yes, I know. It’s scary, but not true.


“It’s wonderful to fool the pundits.” Let’s face it, it is what McCain would do (if he could) to “fool the pundits”.



Let me explain. McCain now has this thing where he wants to “fool the pundits.” Pundits are newspaper people.


If he’s fooling the pundits it means that he is trying to tell the pundits fake stuff so that they can say, “McCain’s so much more ahead so it doesn’t really matter if YOU vote, so vote for McCain because if you do, you will probably get Obama because YOUR vote doesn’t matter.” Or something fake like that. Now here’s something that will explode your brain: McCain is still up with that Drill, baby, Drill thing AND the we’re not in the real part of Virginia thing.



Now I’m going to talk about the good things about Obama, instead of the bad things about McCain, even though they are equally valid. This is a thing that I have said a million times but it is totally true and I have a new way to say it: Obama (well I don’t really have a new way to say it) is able to articulate so well, and never runs out of things to say. (Well, I did say a new thing: I’ve never said before the he never runs out of things to say!)



PS: Sorry, but I have to run—I recently got two comments to my blog and so I have to answer those, and we are about to have dinner. See you next post! All right, the end!

Ridiculously Sarah Palin-y

Did you know that Sarah Palin pays $150,000 for her clothes alone? And she calls herself a “hockey mom”! Isn’t that ridiculously Sarah Palin-y? She then said, “Well I don’t really pay that much.” She’s a nut. And here’s another thing that isn’t really about Sarah Palin: John McCain’s brother called 911 when he was in traffic! “Oh no!! I’m in 2 minute traffic instead of 2 second traffic—oh no!—I’ll call 911! 911!” Sarah Palin and the Republicans have such ridiculous views on everything, and are so ridiculous sometimes, especially when a Republican woman cut herself in a so-called “B” cut and she was a Republican and wearing a McCain sticker, and she claimed that a Democrat (Obama supporter) had done it. When she obviously had done it herself in front of a mirror because it was backwards! She did it mainly to say that Obama supporters were crazy, but apparently, she is. And here is a really good thing though: Obama has gone up so high in the polls and McCain has gone down! Here are the polls as they are today, 10/26/08:

http://news.yahoo.com/election/2008/dashboard?name=Polls|content=111100002012200011102000101100000010100012111200101

By the way, if you can (or could) vote, is one of the reasons you would not vote for Sarah Palin because she pays $150,000 for her clothes? It would for me. I think that I will make that as my next question—I suppose we have only one day left to vote on “Do you like my blog?” The McCain campaign is still going on that , “We’re not in the real part of Virginia” campaign.

PS: When I say ridiculously Sarah Palin-y, that’s exactly what I mean.

PPS: I’m actually glad that McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate—it will make all of the McCain supporters not like McCain and not vote for him.

PPPS: Good night!

Why do I even need to make a title?

Okay, I know that this has absolutely nothing to do with the so-called “issues”, but I still want to talk about it, and it was actually suggested by one of my classmates, Elizabeth, and the subject is something that you’ve probably heard of but I have my own views on it. The subject is: compound and simple machines. I know it may seem really boring as used as a term that you’ve heard of it in school, but it’s really not. A very scientific thing, your body is actually a lever. You know when you swing a bat or throw a ball, your arm is actually used as a lever, when you swing back your elbow is the fulcrum, or your shoulder is the fulcrum, and you swing back on it, your body is actually being used as a lever. Compound machines are more than one simple machine, so therefore a corkscrew is a compound machine, because it is made out of a screw and a lever. Another one of my classmates and I actually made a compound machine which was basically a lot like a two wedges and a lever. The purpose for it was to make a very complicated way of dumping things into the trash or another place, easily. Obviously we can already do it easily, but you get my point why I wanted to do it. It was a small bucket made out of paper, of course, attached to three q-tips. When you pulled the back one, everything that was in the basket would dump down and slide off; then there was a small q-tip on the front also attached which pulled down the piece of paper which slid it into the trash. The lever was the front q-tip and the wedge was the back one. If you’ve ever made a compound machine, you’ll know how much fun it is and maybe get into physics or chemistry! I myself like both.

Presidential candidate's view on "issues"

I thought I might show you the views of the presidential candidates on the “issues” the way we have been talking about. These are what I think about it:

	What I think about Obama’s plans	What I think about McCain plans	What I think about Palin
Education	Cares about children	Only wants vouchers, in other words, money	Does not have any views on it
Healthcare	Cares about it	He is going to tax our employers for healthcare insurance (my mom actually told me that)	Why did I even put Palin here? She doesn’t even have any views on anything!
Space	From what I know about Obama, he would totally support SpaceX and not want a government to be the only thing that sends rockets up into space.	From what I know about McCain, he would just want all of the rockets to explode so he would just get the money.	Ditto
Election	Obviously, is trying to make himself win, but respects everyone, even Republicans who he doesn’t like.	All he does is mock Obama and says, “I’m going to be a great president, I’m going to be a great president” without telling why and how.	Same as McCain.
Environment	Obama is working on the energy things to make the world better, and really cares about the environment.	I don’t know anything about McCain and the environment, but I’d expect it is the same as Palin—just Drill, baby, Drill.	Doesn’t care about the environment, hates polar bears (look at my past blog post to see more about this).
Economy	Plans to raise taxes for the wealthy, reduce taxes for the poor and middle.	Exact opposite of Obama.	Ditto for healthcare.

PS… see you the next post. And make sure that you do your homework! (totally off topic). HM

Space

I was going to talk about healthcare and access to medicine but I don’t know anything at all about it, and I can’t talk about what I don’t know about, right?! So I’ll talk about my favorite subject in the universe: Mars, space. And I wanted to tell you something really important that really happened: a small company, not a government like NASA, a small company called SpaceX for the first time ever actually shot a rocket into space and it worked! Isn’t that amazing? They’ve been working at this for a really long time, well actually for a pretty long time. Their rockets are much smaller, cost much less, and yet still work just as well—probably even better—because they weigh less.

Now about Mars: their future plans include building a moon base on the moon and going to Mars, and then, well I guess I should talk about making a moon base first. By that I mean building a small home on the moon, and I even went to this conference with SpaceX and heard that they were even thinking about going straight to having an outpost on it. An outpost is when instead of sending a few people for maybe a few days to a planet, then sending them for a kind of long time, like maybe ten years, and then getting other people to do that. They are also planning on doing that for Mars but they are mostly talking about doing it on the moon.

And guess what? The only reason I went to the space conference and the reason that I wanted to talk about it over the health care is because I actually want to be an astronaut when I grow up and I am really into space. Since I was two I have wanted to go to Mars. Then I found out that what turns me on is what turns things on! I love writing about Mars! So I might be a scientist with chemistry and physics because of the energy things. It ties in with Mars because you can’t just go straight to Mars, you have to have a reason to go there. If you have to go there to post solar panels there to solve global warming then that is a perfectly valid reason—and it’s mine! I guess another reason is that I am into this stuff.

And here is a really cool fact that is totally off topic: earlier they found out that Mars was snowing (well it was!). Isn’t that totally cool? I bet you’ve heard about this, but Mars is also covered with ancient river channels and they might be finding water. Well, they obviously are, because it was snowing, but they are finding water on Mars and they have ice caps.

Have a great day and I know that this addition to the blog is much more detailed than last night, but that is because I just found out about all these widget thingamagigs, and I really like to use these things, so I will. Have a good day!

The “Issues”-From a Kid’s Point of View

The “Issues”-From a Kid’s Point of View

The reason I wrote this blog is so kids will get a good idea of everything that is going on-with the economy, election, etc. We have to know what is going on just as much as grown-ups do, right? Well, the start of it was this huge “economy collapse” thing, which I will explain below.

Election

I bet you have heard about the pairs of running mates? McCain and Palin? Obama and Biden? And I bet you’ve also heard that Palin is probably the worse vice-president candidate in the entire history of presidential stuff? She is so horrible that she made it so the polar bears didn’t get into the endangered list only the threatened list. The threatened list does… Nothing at all! The endangered list would have made it that you can’t kill any of those animals, so let’s say that cats were on the endangered list, although they’re not, then you wouldn’t be allowed to kill any cats at all no matter how small, how big they were. I didn’t know this, but my mom just told me, but the endangered list also makes people reduce things that are affecting the animal so if the polar bears were on the endangered list it would also help the environment since they would also have to reduce greenhouse gasses.

Now what should I say about Obama? Maybe that he is able to articulate much better than McCain is? Maybe that his plans are much more organized than McCain’s are? Maybe that Joe Biden is a really good fit for him and Palin is the worse vice president in the history of presidential stuff? Maybe that Obama has a perfectly great plan about raising taxes for the wealthy and reducing taxes for the poor, and McCain wants to do the absolute opposite? Sorry to all of you McCain people but I just don’t see why you are!

Interruption:

Gryphy is my little brother, in case he comes up again, and he is the cutest little brother in the entire universe, and what he is about to say I totally agree with!:

Gryphy says: “Obama!” [The other day he said, “I like to move it, move it!” He also said, “McCain will be a bad president; Obama will be a good president!” And he just said “Obama will be a good president!” again just now!]

Back to my story…

And I bet you’ve heard that McCain is the oldest presidential candidate in the history of presidential stuff, so if he dies, Palin will become president. Well that’s kind of drastic, talking about dying, but it’s true. Another thing I don’t like about Palin is that she never explains anything, she never answers any questions, she only talks about how she is going to be the greatest vice-president ever (total lie) and she never explains why, and I don’t get why she even is on the Republican/McCain side anyway. Well, I get it, because she is obviously so stupid she goes with it, but I don’t get why anyone would do it anyway.

I also think that even though Palin is a woman and though I highly wish that women could be presidents or vice-presidents just as much as men are, I’m not that easy to get. If it was a good woman, like Hillary Clinton, then I would be more supportive, well I would be supportive at all. Palin is just a woman that is not my style, a Republican, the worst vice-president in the history of presidential stuff, and is on McCain’s side. She is not my style because she’s not able to articulate anything, sort of like McCain but even worse, and she keeps going on saying the exact same thing when you need deeper reasons. Why is she going to be a great VP? Obviously she’s not, but if she was even able to say anything to make anyone feel like they believe her at all, that would have been a bit better, because now, she is not able to say a single thing about herself without making everyone laugh.

Gryphy just added: “McCain is a bad guy, and Obama is a good guy!” “Obama is really good!”

Now here are perspectives on Obama:

I love how Obama is so respectful of everyone including McCain, although he probably doesn’t like McCain. He’s able to describe and explain everything, everything, everything. McCain is not able to do that, he just says what he is going to do and not how he is going to do it.

My mom just told me that McCain has a campaign that says we are not in the real part of Virginia, and what he means by that is that he only cares about the middle part of Virginia where they are probably going to vote for him. What do you think of that? And he also has this thing (my mom didn’t tell me this, well, she did tell me but not just now) about Drill, Baby, Drill which means that they just want more oil, more oil, and are saying Drill, Baby, Drill when Obama is saying, “Yes, we do need a bit more oil, but we also need to think about other ways of getting electricity, like solar panels, and wind power, and safe nuclear power, and things like that.” That is another thing I like about Obama. He always thinks of different, really good ways of doing things to find electricity—and everything.

Below is a diagram showing exactly how many electoral votes in which states McCain would need to become president. As you see it is much less than Obama, and so we really don’t have anything to worry about if you are an Obama person. But we are still not there because as you see, below that, shows the real polls. And although Obama has more than 270 electoral votes, McCain could still win, although I don’t see why because he is not able to articulate anything at all, and I don’t see why anyone would like someone who can’t explain how he is going to do all of these “great” things, even though he says he is going to. And obviously he’s not going to.

Here are the polls as they are today, 10/19/08:

http://news.yahoo.com/election/2008/dashboard?name=Polls|content=111100002012201011102000101100000010100012111200101

Here is McCain, as president, and as you can see, he will need more than half the country to be president and get more than 270 electoral votes:

http://news.yahoo.com/election/2008/dashboard?name=|content=011111011001110110100001111110010010110101011001011

Economy

First, people were buying houses with a loan from the bank. A loan is an amount of money that the bank gives you if you can’t afford a house, and the bank counts on you to pay the loan back. Then, the bank started selling loans. That means that someone sort of takes over the loan by buying the loan. That’s where the bank came in. The banks started making people do that like crazy. Then everyone who bought the loan sold the loan to someone else who did the exact same thing over and over. And all the credit going around made everything collapse and no one knew the real price of anything anymore. If no one really knew about the loans nothing really happened but once people started figuring out about it, the bank collapsed.

What this means for you and me, kids, is that once the economy collapses no one will have any money and the bank will start holding onto it like Linus holds onto his blanket. (I didn’t actually think of the line about Linus but I read it in the Kids’ Post).

Environment

The thing that is happening with the environment is that all the greenhouse gasses as they are called* are polluting the world and so that it puts them in the atmosphere and it is trapped inside the earth which is then raising the temperature. The result of this has a lot to do with animals like polar bears which don’t have enough food to live on, which has to do with the food chain, which has to do with there not being enough ice and underneath ice is what seals eat, and polar bears eat seals, and polar bears don’t have enough to eat because the seals don’t have enough to eat, and the seals are dying off.

*I don’t quite know what the greenhouse gasses are, but what I do know is that the greenhouse gasses come from pollution, oil, and fossil fuels.

To reduce global warming, we need three Rs, one of which I just used. These are reduce, recycle, and reuse. Examples: for reducing, you can try to avoid flushing as many times as you “go”*; for reusing, if you’ve outgrown clothes that your little brother or something might be able to use, you give it to him. And for recycling, have a box for trash and recycle, and stick all of the paper and stuff into the recycling bin.

*A really good experiment for that is to stick a bottle filled with water and a few rocks into your tank in the toilet and it will reduce how much water you are using to flush (6-7 gallons).

p.s., my name is Hero M. and I am 8 years old and live in Virginia (not the middle part of Virginia!). Tomorrow’s subjects are the following: health care/access to medicine, and education and schools.

[Note from mom: This blog is partially typed by Hero. Parts not typed by her were dictated to me and typed in real-time verbatim, with all grammatical and sentence structures maintained intact; in some cases Hero decided of her own accord to make minor edits to what she had written or spoken. Spell-check was used to correct spelling errors by either party. All content is Hero’s own, and is uncensored, unprompted, and unedited.]