Was anyone else bummed there was no congratulations or certificate at the end of the 2.5 hour online course?

Question on Education: Worst in the Debate?

When watching the second debate last night I was surprised to see the first question was about education.  A 20 year old college student named Jeremy asked the President and Governor what they can say to reassure him and his parents that he will be able to sufficiently support himself after graduation.  Now, this may have been the most poorly answered question in the entire debate (or maybe just for me since I am interested in education).  Governor Romeny was the first to answer and all he did was boast abou the Abigail Adams Scholarship awarded to students in Mass., knock on Obama for crushing the middle class, and say he wanted to extend Pell Grants and some other worthless fillers.  Oh, and of course, he said that when he is president he will bring good jobs back into the economy, but that was it.  Not how, not what kind of jobs or anything, just good jobs back in the economy. 
President Obama's answer may have been even worse.  He said he he is glad that Jeremy is valuing higher education and that he wants to build on the 5 million jobs he has already created in the private sector.  Then he said he wants more manufacturing jobs for college grads (which was the most disheartening for me).  And then he basically used the rest of the time to give a brief overview of his plan to fix the economy and yadda yadda yadda.
SO, not only did neither of them really asnwer the question, President Obama implied he wants college graduates to work manufacturing jobs! So now my college degree will get me a job in a factory and allow me to join a union! Whoo Hoo! At least Romney said he wants to bring back good jobs to the economy.
Anyway, education sucks, debates suck, Jeremy sucks.

Egypt Not Taking Too Kindly to U.S.

Going back to the Gallup website's Opinion Briefing's section, I looked at the article about U.S. aid in Egypt. Recently, the United States has not a very good reputation in the middle east and as we move towards Africa, it looks like they dont want us there. The very first poll was regarding whether or not Egyptians wanted U.S. economic aid. 82% of the Egyptian people appose any economic aid from the U.S. 83% are in agreement in thinking that the U.S. wont let them form their own political system and will instead impose their own. We are really not making a good name for ourselves, especially as expansive as U.S. foreign policy is.

However, it seems we arent the only bad fish in this pond. China and Iran are no better in Egyptian eyes than the U.S. is. Over the past 7 years, the survey has asked the Egyptian people on the leadership of the U.S., China, and Iran. For now, it seems we are the best of the worse, but that may not be the case in the future. China has slowly been increasing in Egyptian approval over the past seven years. Could they be the occupying power the country wants?

From a polling perspective, everything in the survey method seemed pretty standard until I read the line that read, "Results are based on face-to-face interviews with 1,000 adults, aged 15 and older per wave..." I thought that was really interesting. Those considered adults were age 15 and up. Hypothetically, if Gallup were to do a poll of the entire adult world (big dreams, I know, but bear with me) would they have to set a certain age for the entire poll or would each countries definition of "adult" be the standard for the poll? Interesting question that I dont really know the answer to. WAF.