Friday, September 10th.

[6Ashlee]

Today in the beginning of class, we talked about the Floridan Pastor burning the Islamic bible again, he still is planning on doing it. The next topic we talked about was the gay's rights in the military. The old rules were, "don't ask, don't tell." Obama is working to change that, so gays can be open about it in the military. Of course some people believe that is right, and some people disagree. We also talked about Guantanamo Bay, we have a naval base there, and that is where terroist and other people go. Obama is planning on taking down Guantanamo Bay, but hasn't gotten to that yet. Guantanoma Bay brought a lot of press when Bush was president,because there was cruel and unusual punishment. The torture was called water-boarding. A lot of people said water-boarding isn't torture but Obama disagrees. The reason Bush wasn't very popular is because he was for torture, they thought he was giving atleast some okay to the Abu Ghraib Prison. President Obama clearly is not for torture is wanting to take this down. The rest of the class period we researched for the Democrats-Rebuplican project. My information is in the September 8th blog post.