cartoon time

this is kinda sad...

Edward Kennedy

This is a picture from Edward Kennedy's funeral.

India Gay Sex Laws

this is little bit of old news but im not sure if anyone new about it. apparently being gay in india was straight up against the law which is rediculous but the law was originally put in place druing the british colonial times.

Is Iran returning to normal?

first id like to say that this article is written by Fareed Zakaria, writes for newsweek, he has really interesting articles and writes well. i really like his work so i suggest reading his articles. this article is about how America cant really intervene in iran right now due to the change in power.

What is happening in Iran? On the surface, the country has returned to
normalcy. Demonstrations have become infrequent, and have been quickly
dispersed. But underneath the calm, there is intense activity and the beginnings
of a political opposition. In the past week, Mir Hossein Mousavi, the candidate
who officially lost last month's presidential election, has announced his
intention to create a "large-scale social movement" to oppose the government and
press for a more open political system. Mohammad Khatami, the reformist former
president, has called for a referendum on the government. Another powerful
former president, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, has criticized the regime's
handling of the election and post-election "crisis." All three have demanded the
release of politicians and journalists imprisoned over the past month and held
without charges. (Those prisoners include Maziar Bahari, NEWSWEEK's Tehran
correspondent, a Canadian citizen, and an internationally recognized documentary
filmmaker.) These are not dissidents in the wilderness. Between them, the three
men have been at the pinnacle of power for most of the Islamic Republic's
existence.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/208656

study of children and race

if you have psyc with McAlister you will know they did a study on adults and it showed how we have been raised racist but here is a study with children from a young age. this study supports the video we watched in psyc.

At the Children's Research Lab at the University of Texas, a database is
kept on thousands of families in the Austin area who have volunteered to be
available for scholarly research. In 2006 Birgitte Vittrup recruited from the
database about a hundred families, all of whom were Caucasian with a child 5 to
7 years old.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/214989

The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) is making more moves to become independent of japanese-american relations but America has nothing to fear. Its an interesting article because it shows Americas dependency on territorial additude.

For half a century, the United States and Japan have been pals across the
Pacific. Whenever officials from both countries meet, they almost always hail
the U.S.-Japan alliance as "the cornerstone" of America's foreign policy in Asia
and boast how it is "one of the most important bilateral relationships in the
world." But the ouster this week of the party that has governed Japan since
1955—and the arrival of a group that occasionally badmouths America's role in
the region—has frightened people that the happy days have come to an end. They
should relax.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/214810

wow this is sorta cool because i know geologists and they say to stay out of the feild but i guess you mix anything with oil you get money

http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/08/31/the-financial-crisis-as-moneymaker/#more-6735

link to this story above

In Saturday's FT, Martin Sandbu tells the amazing tale of Farouk al-Kasim, the Iraqi geologist
who has been more responsible than anyone else for Norway's success as an oil
power.
[H]e and his Norwegian wife, Solfrid, had decided that their youngest
son, born with cerebral palsy, could only receive the care he needed there. But
it meant turning their backs on a world of comforts. Al-Kasim's successful
career had afforded them the prosperous lifestyle of Basra's upper-middle class.
Now they would live with Solfrid's family until he could find work, though he
had little hope of finding a job as rewarding as the one he had left behind. He
was not aware that oil exploration was under way on the Norwegian continental
shelf, and even if he had known, it wouldn't have been much cause for hope:
after five years of searching, still no oil had been found.
This was in 1968.
Once in Oslo, Al-Kasim paid a visit to the Ministry of Industry, just to see if
anyone there knew of any oil-company work in Norway. Before long he was
part of the inner circle of Norwegian government officials mapping out the
country's future as a major oil exporter. His most important early contribution,
as Sandbu tells it, was in persuading his Norwegian colleagues that the country
actually had a future as an oil exporter. All the early wells drilled had come
up empty, but Al-Kasim's analysis of the results convinced him that a big strike
was in the offing. It came in December 1969, with the discovery of the gigantic
undersea oil and gas field known as Ecofisk.