Com 250 Discussion

The first crazy news thing going on in the world is whats going on in Japan right now. As I am sure that most people are aware there was a massive earthquake and then a tsunami that happened right after. Among the things destroyed was a nuclear power plant. Due to the loss of power the plants have leaked radiation into the surrounding area. I think this is crazy. I would have thought that such a dangerous kind of power plant would have lots of redundant systems that could deal with these kinds of problems. I know that Sharon Harris lake is designed to be able to flood into the nuclear power plant that is situated near the lake. I would have thought that the Japanese plant would have been able to stand something like this, especially since earthquakes and tsunamis are more common there. However, I can understand that there really is no way to be able to prepare for something like that.

Another thing that is going on is the fact that the US may be about to go to war with Libya. I know that we launched some missiles at them the other day in response to something that they did. Now everybody is fighting over what should be done, and there is a lot of dispute about the US involvement in the conflict. I do know that some democrats are backing what Obama did and are supporting him in the US helping to enforce the no-fly zone over Libya. I think this is maybe most likely a bad idea. We are already involved in too many conflicts in that area of the world and don't really need to get stuck here as well. Especially since other countries are also get involved. If some of the others are going to take care of it, we should not need to go there.

There is a lot of crazy stuff going on in our country and around the world today. I really hope that we start getting our act together so that nothing bad happens to us. We are heading down a dangerous path that we need to wary of.