Tyler Adair

National – Republican Race Up In Air! http://news.aol.com/elections/story/_a/a-deadlocked-republican-convention/20080117122609990001

With 2 wins for Romney, 1 win for Huckabee, and 1 win for McCain this presidential race is turning heads. Talk of this being the first republican convention in over 60 years to possibly be decided at the convention has emerged seeing as there are still five possible candidates in the race. And with Thompson looking strong in South Carolina and Guliani looking strong in Florida, analysts say there could potentially be 5 first place primary winners. So what does this mean? This could mean if republicans don’t find a front runner to start organizing around, and the dems do, then republicans could be in trouble.

I think this race is great! Almost every primary my mouth drops open because I can’t believe the twists and turns that each state is taking. I have a few fears about this though, one is that I hope this doesn’t mean that republicans can’t decide on a candidate and that the candidate we choose won’t be to weak to take on the loony-libs. Now the only day that could determine who the front runner is, is Super Tuesday. Guliani’s been putting to much work into Florida, so even if he does win there its not going to be a surprise, or really even a push I don’t think. Super Tuesday is the day to watch!


National – Up Next South Carolina http://news.aol.com/elections/story/_a/gop-rivals-turn-sights-on-south-carolina/20080116211909990001

The four leaders of the Republican race for the White House are zoning in on South Carolina. Once again each candidate is making several appearances and speeches each day to rally supporters and to convince others to vote for them. Huckabee is hoping on winning with the support of the Bible belt evangelicals, McCain is hoping to get a win due to his strong military background, Romney is hoping to gain votes with the momentum of winning Michigan, and Thompson people have been pushing in South Carolina for some time now. Meanwhile, Guliani’s plan is working out just the way he would like it to: go into Florida with no clear winner, gain 57 delegates.

I don’t even have much of an opinions, except maybe this. I think analysts should really take a chill pill on predicting and analyzing the future, because so far they’ve all been mostly wrong. And the whole “momentum” theory… well we’ve seen how well that’s worked in this election. I say just grab some popcorn, sit back, and watch FOX as the results come in. Because this election, no one knows whats coming up.


International - Plague is still alive, and now moving http://news.aol.com/story/_a/plague-medieval-scourge-on-the-rise/20080115085909990001

Plague is the disease which dominated medieval Europe is stirring concern amound some scientist. Plague has killed 100 to 200 people every year and is now moving down into Africa. Scientists say while the number of deaths seems low right now the cases are spreading more rapidly in recent years then they’ve seen before. The plague, which was called Black Death in Europe when it killed many people, is spread by fleas, mosquitoes, and coughing.

I think the media should spend more time covering things like this, and less time covering things like who’s going to win South Carolina. It’s scary that something that in the world’s history was so deadly is now moving faster then they traced it before. I hope it doesn’t come over into the US.


World – plane makes bad landing http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,323420,00.html

A Boeing 777 at Europe’s busiest airport made a short or the runway landing on Thursday. The plane’s underside was crushed and the wheels could be seen on the grass just south of the runway. 152 people were on board, only 8 had minor injuries. Aviation experts say that the cause of the crash could have been an extremely severe gust of wind that is rare, but happens, and if your landing a plane when it happens your in serious trouble. If this gust of wind was the case pilots from competing airlines say that the pilot should be credited with keeping the plane so controlled. The pilot is on of the companies most experienced pilots, and this is the first time in the Boeing 777’s history the model has been involved in an acciedent.

I think it is so great that no one was hurt, reports said that if the plane would have crashed just 600 feet earlier it would have caused major fatalities. I hope, for the pilots sake, it was this gust of wind thing that caused this crash, because other wise he could be in some trouble. And from the report it sounds like it was the wind gust that caused it. I did think it was funny that one passenger said he didn’t even know they were crashing.