the source of light

Light comes from charged particles moving all over the place.
Charged particles move in the sun creating light that is beamed to earth.
In fire, light comes from a chemical reaction when electrons from the fuel and oxygen bounce all over the place.

Connections by C II, by Dad

I have always been amazed by my son's ability to make connections across his diverse fields of study, and that's why I'm excited to find the Connections program on YouTube. Perhaps C will be the James Burke of his generation. As an example, he came to me recently to point out the deep relationship between the blade of his peanut knife and the bill of Opus the penguin.

Dagwood Sandwich for C

I have been enjoying Dagwood sandwiches lately. Yesterday's had ham, salami, mayonnaise, lettuce, cheese, pickles, red onions, and tomato. My sister had a quesadilla.

Connections by c

Today we watched a few YouTube videos. Some were Monty Python, another was Carl Sagan, and the last was James Burke. His point was to show us how much we rely on technology. He showed this by telling us about the great power outage of 1965 when all power in the northeast United States was shut down when a single relay went. He also discussed early civilizations and inventions.

my week by c

On Fridays I'll be posting a summary of my home school week.

This week I played baseball twice. The second time, our friends c2 and o came, so we had four players instead of two and we were able to actually run the bases. Also for home school I started a blog about John McCain (see below), dad and I started reading a book called Understanding the Holy Land, and for math and grammar I did Dailygrams and Math with Pizzazz.

my second political article by c

In my last article I focused on Barack Obama but this time I will do one about John McCain.
He was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936. He has had two wives one was named Cindy McCain the other was named Carol McCain.

During his military service in the Vietnam war he was taken prisoner in Hanoi. He had been shot down by a missile that was probably fired by the Hanoi home guard. When he parachuted into the water at Truc Bach Lake in Hanoi, his shoulder was crushed by a rifle butt and he was bayoneted in the butt and feet. When he was a POW for five and a half years he was tortured. The torture ended when he was released in the year 1973.

To be continued

My first Political Article by C

This is my first article in a series of articles to inform everyone about our current political situation. This is my very first blog entry that I have ever done in the series in my whole life.

This is the story of Barack Obama. Barack Obama was born in Honolulu Hawaii in 1961 from a white American mother and a black Kenyan father he now has a wife and 2 daughters. He has had three jobs that I know about, they were the Illinois senate, US senate and a community organizer. His wife Michelle is vice president for community and external affairs at the University of Chicago hospitals. His net worth is 1.3 million, his annual salary is $158,000, his primary residence is Kenwood, Chicago, Illinois.

Before he was even a senator he said this about the Iraq war:

"I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other arm-chair, weekend warriors in this Administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne."

"He's a bad guy," Obama said, referring to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. "The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him. But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi military a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history."

"I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a U. S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences," Obama continued. "I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda."