Lakota East JSA

03/17/2014

The ORV Spring State Scholarship Application is now out! Be sure to finish the application by 12:00AM on March 22nd, 2014. http://tinyurl.com/ORVScholarshipApplication

All of the information completed in this form will be sent to your Program Director for the Ohio River Valley, Andy Clark. After he receives this information, he will take out all of the contact information, in order to make this as anonymous as possible, and discuss the applications with the Ohio R...

02/28/2014

Come to the meeting today to discuss the rights of businesses! After school in room 127!

12/05/2013

Interesting statistic! http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/12/03/Congressional-Research-Service-More-Guns-Less-Crime

A Congressional Research Service (CRS) report shows that while gun ownership climbed from 192 million fi****ms in 1994 to 310 million fi****ms in 2009, crime fell—and fell sharply.

11/18/2013

11/13/2013

This Saturday, November 16th, we will be having our very first club fundraising social event: The JSA Big BBQ Bash! It will be going down at one of our officer's houses, 6530 Tree View Drive, at 6:30 PM and will end whenever you all want it to. There will be an admission price of 5 dollars, or 3 dollars if you bring something food/drink related which most people signed up to do.

We will have lots of food, fun group activities and games, movies (Netflix), Xbox, and music. Feel free to text me or any of the other officers if you need a ride there or back home, have a problem/question with anything, or just if you'd like to suggest an idea.

My number is 1-513-379-1015

See you there!

~ NR

10/22/2013

Here's one for all you paranoid folk out there. ~NR

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/report-nsa-took-703m-french-records-in-30-days-98591.html?hp=l20

PARIS (AP) — Le Monde newspaper says documents leaked by Edward Snowden show that the U.S. National Security Agency swept up 70.3 million French phone records in a 30-day period. The French government has summoned the U.S. ambassador to explain why the Americans spied on one of their closest a...

10/17/2013

Just in case you guys haven't heard the good news, the House of Representatives just passed the clean, no strings attached budget bill recently passed in the Senate. So the government is up and running again!

No matter what political affiliation we have, everyone can agree that bipartisanship and moderacy will beat stubbornness and hostage tactics anyday.

~ NR

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/16/politics/senate-behind-the-scenes/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

Congressional approval ratings hovered at historic lows. Republican and Democrats hurled insults at each other and among themselves. The political circus in Washington even made its way to "Saturday Night Live: -- in a sketch featuring Miley Cyrus, at that.

10/07/2013

Hey there late night JSAers, here's a little inspiring article I stumbled upon my late night procrastination web searching. Give it a read.
~ NR

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/27/opinion/my-state-needs-obamacare-now.html?emc=eta1&_r=0

Kentucky couldn’t afford not to implement Obamacare.

10/01/2013

The info everyone wants to know about the shutdown, share this! via CNN

How will the government shutdown happen?

There won't be a thunderclap or clang of bells. First order of business? Draw up a dividing line between workers deemed essential or non-essential. Those in the first category will carry on operations. The others will power down until Congress comes to its senses and funds the government.

So, for example, park rangers would start locking up national parks. And most furloughed federal workers are supposed to be out of their offices within four hours of the start of business Tuesday.

How many government workers could be furloughed?

Most of the 3.3 million government workers are deemed "essential" -- they'll keep working. But more than 783,000 government employees will sit at home, according to a CNN analysis of contingency plans published by the federal government on Friday. Not all government agencies submitted contingency plans.

What will this do to the economy?

Depends on how long it lasts. If it's just a few days, the hit might not be severe. But three or four weeks? "(That) would do significant economic damage" -- reducing GDP by 1.4 percentage points for the quarter, says Mark Zandi, chief economist and co-founder of Moody's Analytics.

How will this affect me?

In ways big and small. The mail will continue to come. The military will continue to fight. And Social Security checks will continue to be paid.

But if you need a federal loan to buy a house, you'll have to wait. If you want a gun permit or a passport, that won't happen anytime soon.
- GJ

10/01/2013

View presentations for the Lakota East Chapter of Junior State of America! Comment on here or on Facebook if you have a great idea to add!

09/30/2013

Get up to speed with the Government shutdown in just 20 questions. Short, sweet, and simple http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/30/politics/government-shutdown-up-to-speed/ - GJ

Let's start with the obvious question: Will the government shut down this week? Most likely.

09/24/2013

This article isn't related to current issues in the news so to speak, but an interesting debate topic is how society views gender roles and what constitutes as "sexist" or not. I find this article to be an interesting response to the criticisms that have surfaced about the song "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke. ~ NR

http://polemiqueoccasionelle.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/blurring-the-lines-of-feminism-a-criticism-of-the-criticism-of-blurred-lines/

Dear capital-F Feminists, Please Stop the Slut-Shaming. Love, a lower-case-f feminist. The first time I heard the funky beats of Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” emanating from my radio, I did what ...