It has been a while but it’s definitely time again to take a look at what is going on in our world and beyond so here are the headlines… By the way, it's kind of weird but the words that are in blue are actually links to the actual news articles from Time.com, iht.com, CNN.com, etc. so read those to actually read the real news!
In America as we all know the news has been full of two things recently: the economy and the election. The economy is still down and struggling so nothing too new there. The elections, however, are the hot topic. With 4 days left until Super Tuesday (some 20 states will be having their state primaries next Tuesday), the choices are becoming more and more narrow.
The Democratic race is now officially a two-candidate showdown between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Although it was more or less that way from the start, John Edwards tried his hardest and just this week he backed out. It is interesting to note his contributions to the campaign and it will be interesting to see what effect he had as we move forward…
On the other side, the Republican race is looking now like a two-candidate showdown also between John McCain and Mitt Romney. Although two other candidates remain in the race—Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul—it seems rather unlikely that either of them will be having any type of impact on what happens. Rudy Giuliani, who was once the front-runner and the favorite to win the nomination, just completed his collapse this week after failing horribly in Florida. His strategy and his downfall will probably be looked at for many years by political scientists to see where he went wrong but its worthwhile to know what happened…
Microsoft-Yahoo??? This story left me surprised, excited and thinking crazy things but here it is… Just this morning, Microsoft offered $44.6 billion to buy out Yahoo. This merger/acquisition would bring together two huge Internet/Computer giants (I would argue that Microsoft and Yahoo are the original household names of the Internet with Google and Apple being the newcomers). In any case, this would be a significant move by Microsoft and would definitely put it on the map as it attempts to compete against Google. I’m already imagining the crazy things they could do together and I can’t begin to fathom the kinds of programs we might see… Who knows maybe in a year or two we’ll all be going back to Yahoo! Mail (Isn’t that what we all originally used anyways???)
Internationally, a major success story in the war on terrorism made its way into the news this week as reports came in that the CIA managed to kill the No. 3 guy of Al-Qaeda…just something to know I guess.
China also had a major snowstorm that totally came as a surprise and caught them off-guard (global warming anyone???). It apparently caused a lot of damage and messed up a big portion of their infrastructure. Speaking of infrastructure, there was a major Internet outage in Asia and the Middle East this week also. Apparently some lines under the ocean must have been damaged (isn’t that insane to think that there are cables that run all the way from America to Asia???) and a lot of the major countries didn’t have their normal abilities. Imagine a day in America where the Internet was down!!! We’d be in major major trouble…
And lastly sports…it’s the Super Bowl on Sunday and if you don’t know a thing about it, you may want to check out the preview I wrote earlier (or of course go to ESPN.com!)…. Here’s a cool article on the man himself that is the heart and soul of the Patriots—Tom Brady. It’s a really nice story about hard work and determination and self-confidence. This guy went from nothing and no expectations to being called the Greatest QB to ever play the game… Go Patriots!!!
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