We need to get serious.

So another weekend has passed and we haven't progressed much as a group. At best i'd say we have a bunch of misplaced facts and scattered ideas floating around, but collectively we need build strong, valid, and sound arguments to defend our political status and attack the opposing ones. The debate will take place either Tuesday or Wednesday of next week giving us one more week to prepare for it. It's understandable that everyone is busy with exams, real life, etc., but we need to start getting serious because this is probably a good portion of our final Guam History grade.

Lets start researching possible answers for those questions posted on the board and post them here or get some good discussions going on the topic via this blog. I don't think we should wait or rely on our meetings to discuss things and should be more active online if we cannot commit to meetings due to schedules.

Losing really sucks and so do low grades so let's do our best to win because winning is fun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states

here's a link to a list of all independent countries. maybe as a group we can pick a few including(or not) the philipines to demonstrating how independence has been successful for them.

another possible approach would be we could research possible States (freely associated or under the U.S.) that are currently in a bad situation and talk about that.

P.S. Does anyone read this thing? =|