What if North Korea Launches Missile Toward Hawaii

There was an announcement that North Korea might launches nuclear missile toward Hawaii. The rumor is not confirmed, but the United States spy satellites will probably validates whether North Korea is planning another missile launch or not.

If North Korea launches it's missile toward Hawaii, there are several scenario.

• Missile launch fails - This is probably the best outcome for UN and the United States. The UN still has to punish North Korea for violating UN resolution again.

• Missile launches successfully, but misses Hawaii - No one gets killed, but people in the United States will most likely show anger towards North Korea. However, the United States will most likely not declare the war against North Korea.

• Missile launches and hit Hawaii - With U.S. technology, the missile will be shot down, but the United States will most likely enter the war against North Korea despite the fact that China will most likely support North Korea.

• Missile launch never happens - Like this would ever happen.

This sounds bad for many of us, but diplomacy will most likely fail. Even if diplomacy works, it only means that the war has been postponed just like how Henry Clay postponed American Civil by compromising.


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Hillary Clinton Fractures Elbow | Obama Kills Fly

Well, I guess American public needs some comedy in politics.

Yes, American Secretary of States, Hillary Clinton has fractured her elbow by falling in State's Department Garage.

Meanwhile, President Obama killed an innocent fly.

North Korea Detained Two American Journalists

Recently, two American journalists got detained by North Korea's border patrols for trespassing into North Korea.

According to North Korea, these two journalists have attempted to illegally film the poor living condition of people in North Korea. After the journalists got detained, the patrols have found out that the film was apparently planned to be used for smear campaign against North Korean government. If the claim from North Korea is true, then the world has all the right to criticize these American journalists.

The standard of living in North Korea is indeed low since the government prioritizes their spending on military rather than for it's people, and the world should be more informed about the humanitarian issues in North Korea. However, that is not a good justification to enter this dangerous terrain to "help" the people in North Korea since the world's relationship with North Korea is extremely unstable. Hence, no one should take the tension with North Korea lightly.

Instead of helping out the world, these journalists have put the entire world into risk because North Korea can now dare the United States and the rest of the U.N. to attack North Korea in exchange of the life of these two journalists. In other words, North Korea can conducts more test with weapons because they have those two journalists.

Someone clearly needs to learn that breaking laws in North Korea is different from breaking them at the United States.

This post is based on what general population knows so far. The world cannot rule out that North Korea has kidnapped these two American journalists.

Possible Outcome with North Korea:

• Allows possession of nuclear weapons in exchange for releasing the journalists - This will most likely not happen since it will put the entire world into bigger danger

• War with North Korea - This sounds like easy option for U.S., but people should never forget that China covers North Korea's back.

• Peaceful diplomacy with North Korea - Best outcome, but like that would ever happen.
  

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Why Abortion and Gay Rights Debates Last Forever

The social issue such as abortion and gay marriage have existed for a while in America. Some people argue that the issues exist because of different political belief in the term of Conservatism and Liberalism. The team play that exists within American political party is troublesome; yet, that is the political system that American Founding Fathers have envisioned.

Even though the general Americans are educated with American political system, many people lack the knowledge on our criminal justice system. There are two main model: conflicting model and consensus model. Each system is defined as following,

• Conflicting Model - System conflict theory argues that worries over fame, promotions, wages, and success cause the criminal justice system to conflict with itself.

• Consensus Model - the organizations of a criminal justice system either do, or should, work cooperatively to produce justice, as opposed to competitively.

American government is based on conflicting model, which is why the debates on gay marriage and abortion still exists today. However, the mentality of Americans are working in the sense of consensus model. Which means American are unintentionally believing in consensus model to solve social issues in conflicting model justice system.

In the case of abortion, conservatives believe liberals to cooperate with them on abortion issue and accept that all life are sacred. On other hand, the liberals believe conservatives should accept no one should not impose one belief to other.

Obviously, there are more into this issue. But the point is, whether if the government is going by consensus model or conflict model, compromise is essential political action that everyone tends to forget. Instead of compromising, the general American public is constantly attacking each other. The proof of uncompromising action can be found anywhere today, especially with words. Here are the lists of some offensive words by pro and anti- gay marriage.

Anti -Gay Marriage toward Pro-Gay:

• Unamerican (used by conservatives on almost every issue)
• Anti-Christ
• Faggot

Pro-Gay Marriage toward Anti-Gay:

• Zealot
• Bigot
• Hater

I listed only three words from many that the activists from each side uses. Realistically, both side would not win the battle with this kind of attitude.

America is definitely heading toward equality for gay couples, and that would be historical. However, it will keep America divided on the issue.

This might be destiny of America.

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Gay Right Activists Won New Hampshire Battle

Alright, before I start, I decided to completely abandon news paper summary since you guys can just click the link to read the actual source. I am definitely testing out many blogging strategy. If any of you have any suggestion, feel free to tell me.

The gay marriage bill has passed got signed earlier than I have expected. After Vermont legalized the gay marriage bill, my prediction was that New York will legalize gay marriage before New Hampshire. Obviously, I was wrong.

Now, there are total of 6 states that have legalized gay marriage:

• Massachusetts
• Connecticut
• Iowa
• Vermont
• Maine
• New Hampshire

Knowing how gay-right activists are concentrating their campaign on New England area, the next state to legalize gay marriage is most likely to be New York after the current governor leave the office.

At the Western front, the gay right activists lost the battle against Prop 8, and the California Supreme Court has recently upheld the ban on gay marriage.

However, according to my observation, these following states will be the next battle ground in the West:

• Oregon
• Washington
• Nevada (For Economic Reason)
• California (to overturn Prop 8)

Nevada gains substantial amounts of revenue from drive through marriage and so on. It makes sense for Nevada government to legalize gay marriage, especially since gay marriage isn't exactly secure at any states.

source: nytimes

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Did Our Government "Accidentally" Leaked The List of Nuclear Site?

Yesterday, the U.S. government had accidentally published the list of U.S. nuclear site on Internet. The cause of publication of nuclear site is still unknown; however, President Obama and other officials stated that America is still safe because the information were generally known to public already.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/us/03nuke.html?_r=1&hpw

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Taka Laka:

Do you trust this article?

I have sited my sources in all of my posts, but they are the articles those were written by other people. Hence, the information can be falsified.

U.S. government knows how much medias affect people's mind. If they intend to cause panic in public, they would make a headline news like swine flu. Only after a day, everyone around us made a big deal about swine flu.



On other hand, no one like to hear a word "nuclear" because it causes fears.

So what if the information on nuclear sites were indeed classified instead of unclassified? After all, what kind of leaders want to panic their own people?

The potential of public panic on nuclear fear is immense. It can cause the U.S. economy and social orders to be dysfunctional. So it would be unwise for the government to tell us that the leaked information on nuclear sites were "classified" or "dangerous". But on other hand, is it right for government to lie for sake of Americans, if the the list of nuclear sites has potential to harm Americans?

Again, is this article stating it's truth? Are any articles stating the truth? Is government manipulating our minds?

Abortion Doctor Shot and Killed at Kansas Church

George Tiller, one of the only few late-term abortion abortion doctors got shot and killed while he was at his Kansas church.

Even in the past, Tiller's life was threatened by pro-life protesters. Hence, he had bodyguard with him whenever he goes out to public, except when he went to church.

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/us/01tiller.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=abortion&st=cse

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Comment By Taka Laka:

I searched through many forums to see other people's opinions on this incident. If I make everything simple, conservatives said, "he deserved it", while the liberals said, "he got murdered by a religious zealot".

The debate on abortion is too subjective; hence, it will never end. I don't understand why people are still debate on the abortion issue when it is obviously not leading to anywhere. Both pro-choice and pro-life is correct. Life is sacred and people should have right to choose. There are exception to everything, and abortion is one of them.

Let's say a woman who has been pregnant for 8months get medical problem where a child bearing becomes life-threatening, or fetus was dead in first place. Even worse, if 12 years old girl get raped and become pregnant, her underdeveloped hips will most likely kill her while fetus grows inside her uterus.

On other hand, there are people out there who get abortion all the time despite the fact that they have an options to have birth control. So there is an argument that question people's moral value.

People's opinion will vary. The debate on whether abortion should be legal or not should be abandoned completely. Think about it, people really want to "save life", illegalizing abortion is not the solution. Instead of lowering the abortion rate, it will only criminalize the one who perform abortion WITHOUT lowering the actual abortion rate. In addition, performing self-abortion is very easy. Hence, pro-life position to ban abortion to save life is unrealistic. On other hand, pro-choice position to state, "fetus is not a human" is also inhumane.

For these reasons, the better solution to this problem is to actually lower the abortion rate itself through government or church funded program, and make birth control widely available for everyone. That way, the rate of unexpected pregnancy will be much lower; hence, the rate of abortion will go down too.

This is still a challenging task, but that is more realistic approach to solve this problem. If abortion rate is near zero, no one will complain right?

Cheney On Gay Marriage

The Former Vice President Dick Cheney stated on the conference that he supports gay marriage, but the issue should be decided by the state governments, not the federal government.

Dick Cheney is one of the prominent conservatives out there, but her daughter is a lesbian.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090601/ap_on_re_us/us_cheney

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Comment By Taka Laka:

I never thought that Phantom of the White House will ever support gay marriage. There was the time where an interviewee asked Dick Cheney the same question, but he refused to answer it stating that such a question is rude. Indeed, the question was rude to ask Mr. Cheney, and since he was still Vice President at the time, answering such a question would have been fatal to his political career by potentially losing his supports from the conservatives.

Now, Mr. Cheney is a free man where he can speak out for his personal cause without worrying about losing any public support.

Public now knows that even Mr. Cheney can't deny her daughter's rights. However, to be fair with anti-gay marriage group, he proposed this statement in middle ground where the decision should be made among states instead of the federal government.

In some sense, I agree with him on state to state issue, but ultimately, the federal government will most likely to legalize gay marriage through out America. If the decision were made on state to state bases, there will be more legal issues because gay couples can get married at legalized state and move back to their home states and so on.

By the way, I call Mr. Cheney "the phantom of the White House" because he definitely was the most powerful Vice President on the history of the U.S., and he manipulated George Bush fairly well.

Democrats To Face Series of Challenges

Even during the Bush Administration, the Democratic controlled Congress had lower approval rating than the former President Bush. Now after President Obama has campaigned for series of promise during the General Election, the Congress expects busy summer this year to improve American people's life.

The upcoming challenges are health care reform, immigration policy, the two wars, Sotomayor's nomination, and the financial crisis.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/us/politics/01cong.html?hpw

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Comment By Taka Laka:

Before I start my commenting, I would like to tell you guys that I've cut my news summary short because I figured that you guy don't want read the summary when there is actual source.

Anyway, I think the House Democrats will succeed in passing many bills over this summer. Strategically, the Democrats only have convince their follow colleague to pass any bills, and the House Democratic Senates only have too convince one or two Republicans to pass the bills.

However, just because they passed the bill doesn't mean President Obama's promises to the fellow Americans are fulfilled. The point is, no one knows if the Democrat's plan to improve American life would actually succeed. Despite whether they fail or not, President Obama will most likely maintain his popularity among Americans, especially the Democrats.

Here are some of my views on issues.

Sotomayor: I was very skeptical about her personality, but I will trust my instinct that she will not judge in the court based on her own personal belief, ethnicity, and religious background.

Previous posts on Sotomayor:
Obama Nominates Sotomayor As Supreme Court's Justice
Sotomayor Expects Opposition
Abortion Right Activists Finds Sotomayor Suspicious
Republicans Attack Sotomayor on Race

Healthcare Reform: I am in middle ground for this proposal. The proposal will raise Americans standard of living, and so on. But it has it's own downside. Anyway, I would have totally went for the Universal Healthcare back in the year 2000 when our economy was a lot stronger. But this shouldn't be the main issue when the global economy is falling apart. Yes, it is terrible that we can't help everyone in healthcare, but when economy is down, everyone has to make their own sacrifice.

Immigration Policy: There is definitely some unfairness in my opinion, but I believe these millions of illegal immigrants should receive the U.S. citizenship. For it's exchange, the government should tighten the border security to lower the rate of illegal immigrations. By giving the illegal immigrants their legal status as the U.S. citizens, the states that articulating with Mexican border will benefits because these people have to pay taxes in order to stay in America. After all, many tax payers are getting ripped off because they are paying for school fees for these immigrants who are not paying their taxes. But, if the government gives out the citizenship, the government will most likely have to deal with welfare reform since many of these illegal immigrants will most likely qualify for welfare. Which is not good for our economy.

The Two Wars: I opposed the U.S. invasion to Iraq, but I am in middle ground for Afghan War. The Arts of War, written by Sun Tzu specifically states that long war should be avoided because it will most likely strain it's own economy. Irony into this statement is that the U.S. economy is heavily based on wars since the World War II. So U.S. is constantly strengthening and weakening it's own economy. Either way, U.S. needs to work on gaining the international support that Bush Administration has ignored. Otherwise, we will be in this war for a long time.

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Financial Crisis: There are too many elements in this issue to cover in this post. So I will most likely write a post, specifically for financial crisis.

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