"Funny coincidence also that George Soros, (who, through the Center For American Progress & John Podesta, who also headed Obama's transition team and chose who filled most of the top positions in the administration) invested a huge amount in Petrobras only days before the government's decision to invest. George Soros stands to make a killing from the drilling moratorium." George Soros is not a member of Obama's cabinet or for that matter the U.S Government. He's a financial donor and nothing more. Stop watching FOX news. If you have news of the U.S deep water investment then post your source so that the rest of us can decided.

It's easy to blame teachers since they're the ones who arrive to work everyday with the intent of educating children. How many of you have been confronted by the daily "train wreck" that our teachers face everyday? Government Standardized testing has placed so much emphasis on passing them that a narrow set of questions now drive curriculum itself. Students in most failing schools generally come from economically challenged areas and single parent homes where there is little support for learning. Teachers are confronted by many of them everyday doing their best to disrupt and derail a class. These same students also prevent serious students from learning, because after all if takes 20 minutes or more of class time to keep order then how much time does that leave for learning? Many of students simply don't posses the gray matter to learn the required language and math skills set by state standards. and yet all of them are placed on a college track. To place them in an algebra class would be akin to given them manuals written in Chinese just prior to testing them. You can't make a racing horse out of a donkey and sometimes we need to put aside algebra and give some students a hammer and nails. Does this mean that there are no bad teachers? Of course not because there are, but there are far more good ones who receive the same blame. Depending on the school and neighborhood many teachers are brought in under an agreement to earn and are teaching out of field simply because the demand for teachers exceeds the number of people seeking degrees in education. After all who would want an underpaid degree watching the asylums we now call classrooms only to be blamed for the failures of society?

We've been tested over the last 8 years to see how much of our freedoms we are willing to give up, and unfortunately all of us this demonstrates that too many of us have given up far too much. If the police were to break into my home they might find items that could with a little spin be considered weapons. Who in this country has never owned a baseball bat? I keep pepper spray next to my bed in case of a house break in, because I don't won a gun and don't want one. I have a large smoker for barbecue and smoke cooking which I use a liquid flammable propellant to ignite, and I have long skewers and pointed objects that I use as well. Never mind the chefs knives in my kitchen.;D