Monday, July 13, 2015

'So in the world of today: 13 July 2015' by Sam Orr

So in the world of today:
-Obama commuted the sentence of 46 federal inmates.
-Joaquin Guzman (infamous drug dealer) escaped from a Mexican prison. He threatened to kill Donald Trump.
-China arrested over a hundred human rights lawyers and supporters.
-The pentagon plans to allow transvestites to serve in the military.
-Greece accepted a bailout from Europe.

Friday, July 10, 2015

'So in the world of today: 10 July 2015' by Sam Orr

So in the world of today:
-Thousands in Saskatchewan have fled wildfires.
- Hackers obtained information on 21.5 million people from the federal government.
-Honduras’s opposition parties are calling for outside help investigating judicial corruption.
-The US asked the UN to help find who’s responsible for chemical attacks in Syria.
-the UN warned of violence that could erupt in Burundi.
-a new bill was proposed to remove the words ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ from all federal laws.
-The US intercepted Russian bombers off the coast of Alaska and California.

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

'So in the world of today: 8 July 2015' by Sam Orr

So in the world of today:
-Greece asked for another bailout.
-China’s stock market crashed and still hasn’t quite recovered.
-The Benghazi house committee chair accused Clinton of holding back emails relating to the event. He stated that she had been subpoenaed at least once.
-The Taliban entered peace talks.
-Boko Harem offered to trade some of the women and girls it’s taken in exchange for militants captured by the Nigerian Government.

'So in the world of today: 7 July 2015' by Sam Orr

So in the world of today:
-Isis’s number two man was killed.
-45 Isis fighters were poisoned.
-a study found that electric cars were just as harmful as regular cars due to emissions from power plants needed to fuel them.

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

'So in the world of today: 6 July 2015' by Sam Orr

So in the world of today:
-Greece rejected a possible bailout.
-Boko Harem killed 60 Christians and Muslims.

Saturday, July 4, 2015

'So in the world of today: 4 July 2015' by Sam Orr

So in the world of today:
-The most recent black church to catch fire was the result of lightning.
-The US has been spying on Brazil.
-Dozens were killed by Boko Haram.
-North Korea is suffering from drought.
-Greece’s finance minister called the nations creditors terrorists.
-Cuba has almost entirely eliminated mother to child HIV transference.

Thursday, July 2, 2015

'So in the world of today: 2 July 2015' by Sam Orr

So in the world of today:
-Phoenix accidently threw away 70,000$
-a couple in Oregon were fined 135000$ for not baking a cake for a lesbian wedding.
-Isis killed 74 children.

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

'So in the world of today: 1 July 2015' by Sam Orr

So in the world of today:
-People caught with marijuana in Miami can get fines instead of jail.
-Greece defaulted on its debt.
-The US and Cuba opened up embassies with one another.
-Pot smoking is legal in Oregon.
-Illinois’ government had to partially shut down due to money problems.
-Puerto Rico managed to pay a fair amount of the cash it owes.
-Isis pulled off attacked in Egypt.
-a record number of migrants have been coming across the Mediterranean to Europe.
-a study found one in five Americans believe that clergy should be required by law to preform same sex weddings.
-a Montana man applied for a license to permit a polygamous union.

Monday, June 29, 2015

'So in the world of today: June 29, 2015' by Sam Orr

So in the world of today:
-The second escaped con was captured.
-Washington has a massive fire going on
-The Supreme Court ruled that Texas could not enforce its new harsher abortion policies.
-the state department refused to release the details of a phone conversation between Obama and Clinton the day of the Benghazi attacks.
-Obama proposed having the federal governments force employers to raise wages.
-several black churches across the south have been set ablaze.
-Greece’s financial crisis escalated.
-Greece’s financial crisis hurt the world economy.
-Puerto Rico is 73 billion dollars in debt. (not so rico now are they?)

Sunday, June 28, 2015

My Opinion of Pixar's "Inside Out"

     My opinion of Pixar's "Inside Out" is pretty low. Pixar most of the time bases their movies on something other than human relations. The concept is fun, but the story of "Inside Out" was very weak. The human characters were not built much. The only thing that I can think of at the end of the movie is that it ended too quickly. I think that Pixar should have developed the human characters more after the conclusion of the dilemma.

Attending the Rexburg Temple

     Jessica and I went to the temple for the first time of the semester yesterday because we have been too busy. We tried to go earlier in the semester, but the Idaho Falls temple was closed for renovations; plus, people from Wyoming was attending the baptistery too. The baptistery experience went too fast, but it was good. I did four names. It is not much, but it is worth it.

Elon Musk's Starlink to serve North America gigabit internet by end of the year

Trevor and I did two sessions of recordings because we were not satisfied with the first, discussing the following topics for this podcast e...