Today we carried on with our blog discussion.1.Update on the candidates running for President in 2012/Iowa Straw Poll - Emily's was a vidieo and it wasn't up yet so we're doing that tomorrow!2. South Sudan - It because a country July 9th this summer. It is free from Sudan now. They finally broke free from them. They have been fighting since like 1955. They had problems because the north was Arabic and the south was Black African. The north was Islam and the south was Catholic/Animist. The north wants the souths oil and farmland.3. Libya - Things in Libya started this year in February. The people of Libya wanted more freedom, more, democracy, and they wanted better jobs and education. Gadhafi had been in power for four decades and people were protesting. Gadhafi blamed the USA for his problems. Gadhafi's forces killed a lot of the rebels.4. US Supreme Court and videogames - In 2009 California passed a law that if someone sold a minor a violent game could be fined 1,000 dollars. The Supreme Court ruled this summer that laws cannot be passed that stops video games from being sold to anyone.5. New York and gay marriage - The New York senate rejected gay marriage in 2009. On June 24, the bill passed and now they allow gay marriage there.6. Drawdown in Afghanistan - In the next couple months we're supposed to have 800 troops come back without replacement. In the end of this year we're supposed to have 10,000 troops come back. And by 2014 NATO will be out of the war.7. Al-Zawahri and al-Qaeda - al-Qaeda is a terrorist group based out of the Middle East ran by Osama Bin Laden. Al-Zawahri was kind of like Bin Laden's partner. He opposed the Egyptian government and he was put in jail for trying to assassinate the Egyptian president. They think he is hiding the Pakistan Afganistan8. US debt ceiling crisis-problem and solution - The problem is this is we are spending a lot of money. The first time we've fought to wars at once and it's costing a lot of money. Health care plans are really costly. The solution was to raise the debt ceiling, which allows the government to borrow money.9. NFL lockout-problem and solution10. US/French Embassies attacked in Syria11. Famine in Somalia12. Norway incident13. Women's World Cup-look at history of Women's World Cup and results
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