Current event today. No sports or entertainment and try and stay away from a topic once it is discussed. NO CITE NO POINTS and cite must be in original blog.
Today im going to talk about 34 people that died today in Baghdad. people were just in a restaurant and a bomb went off killing all of them. The bomb was placed in a parked car. the car was rigged to explode when opened. So when the door opened the car went boom!!!!. I think this is really a very wrong and bad thing. Also it shows whats really going on in the world around us. Also a little perspective on whats going on in the war of Iraq. a point i think i get from this is to just take everyday for granted because you don't know when your life is going to end it could be tomorrow and it could be in 100 years who knows.
Not sure if this is a NEW new deal in the making, but congress is putting the breaks on credit card rates. Congress today sent to President Obama a bill that makes it tougher for credit card issuers to raise fees and interest rates. Sounds like the new deal to me, fixing credit laws and such. The House voted 361-64 in favor and even if Obama vetos it and think congress can over turn him. Besides, Obama is expected to sign it anyways.
"At a time when Americans are struggling to pay their mortgages, groceries and health care costs, why would we want to make credit more expensive and less available?" said Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas.
Not sure if this will help or not. The article just says "...that makes it tougher for credit card issuers to raise fees and interest rates. " How it doesn't specify.
I am going to talk about Japan's economy. The news report I saw this on stated that Japan's GDP fell 4% in the first quarter and is still falling. This is a record breaking fall for the Japanese as they continue to fall in economic terms. This relates to our world because Japan has been on top for a while now because of their economy and their production. People are now reverting back to American everything. This really effects the U.S. because they are one the biggest threats. We need to get ahead of them and this right now is helping us. Them hurting is help the U.S. out of a enormously deep hole. This effects my life because my dad has a job in the auto industry and this allows him to keep his job. I hate to say it but I really like this right now because we need other nations to give so that we prosper.
For todays current event i will be doing it on the report of child abuse in ireland that was done by a catholic priest. After reading this story i questioned my self on why anybody of anykind would have the want or even thought in there mind to actually take action in doing so. This thought gives me the creeps about what other countries really do to eachother and what everyone there is accustome to.
Priests beat and raped children during decades of abuse in Catholic-run institutions in Ireland. This report was eventually stopped short of naming the perpetrators. Orphanages and industrial schools in 20th century Ireland were places of fear, neglect and endemic sexual abuse, the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse said in a harrowing five-volume report that took nine years to consume.
5th My current event is about the man who killed his wife and two sons. His family was found strangled in their home in Columbia, Illinois on May 5. Police found threatening messages written on the wall in their home. They arrested Christopher Coleman at his parents home. Coleman had previously worked at a security department for an evangelical Christian organization. His court trial will be on June 10th. It is a shame that someone that the family thought they could trust betrayed them. This effects society because many people are mourning the death of this family. This particular event may not effects us personally, but it could happen to anyone, so you need to have a little bit of caution of where you are and who you are with. http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/20/illinois.slaying.arrests/index.html
Some of the biggest banks have raised their balance sheets by 56 billion since they got the results back from the stresss tests. The treasury secretary Timothy Geithner said this on wednesday. He said that the largest banks raised billions. 10 of the banks needed to raise a total of $75 billion in additional capital to withstand losses if the economy went down more. this is good that the banks got money. The banks have to stay open so the people can get to the money. If they wouldnt of raised the money it would of been bad when the economy took a turn for the worse.
My current event will be about how thieves raid an animal hospital. Thieves raided a local veterinarian hospital for drugs. The drugs are worth thousand of dollars. After they raided the hospital he started handing out warnings. The medicine was to help sick pets get better. I think who ever did this must be crazy because what would they need that stuff for. Also, I wonder how much its going to cost them to get medicine for the pets. Source: www.foxdetroit.com Katherine Walsh 6th hour
My current event is on the Indonesia plane crash. There was an Indonesian military plane that crashed. It crashed into a row of houses and burt into flames. In the process, 98 people were killed. Nobody knows what caused it to crash like it did, but several people who witnessed it said that they saw the right wing fall off whilst in the air. The plane was called C-130 Hercules and it was a transport plane built in 1980.
Okay, now to me I think they were stupid to use a plane that was that old! If it's been around since 1980, and it's a military plane at that, you'd think somebody would've thought it was time to make a new one. At the same time though, I guess it all depends on if they even had the money to make another one. If not then I don't blame them.
My current event is on a Waterford Township toddler that drowned on Sunday. It only takes a "blink of an eye" and the tragedy can occur. Now that summer is coming upon us we need to be vigilant in watching our young children. Katie would be 3 years old in August, now her life has ended in tragedy. Katie was found just a few houses down from her home in a grassy area. According to sources the incident occurred within minutes. That all it takes for a young child to wonder off and get themselves in trouble. This weekend is Memorial Day weekend and the start of the swimming season. We all need to be vigilant of making sure we know where our children are. This incident made me reflect on how fast a trajedy like this can happen. We all have children in our neighborhoods and we need to watch out for them. My souorce is Wednesday edition of The Oakland Press.
Mr.Kay, for my blog tonight i want to talk about the lungs of those who grew up around smokers. this article mainly focused on the long term development of adults lungs who were raised in a smoking enviornment. CT scans showed that those who had been raised around smoke had more holes in their lungs then those who werent. In my opinion i think it's wrong for parents to smoke around the children. It ruins their health and the health of their children. If they want to damage their lungs it one thing, but i dont think it's right that they bring their children into it.
For my current event, I'm going to talk about second hand smoke. This seems to be a appropriate topic to discuss because Kristen and I are doing our research project on lung cancer, and second hand smoke, is a way of retrieving lung cancer. As a recent study, adults who have grown up in a smoky environment, have lungs that look different on a CT scan, rather than someone who grew up in a smoke-free environment. It is proven that even without smoking, but growing up in an environment that does, you can still have damaged lungs. Adults who have grown up in this environment seem to have larger, and slightly more emphysema-like "holes", rather than someone who did not grow up in a smoky environment. Personally, I do not, or will not have this problem when I get older. Fortunately for me, I grew up in a environment that was smoke free. However, many kids, do. They may not neccesairly, have to do the smoking but it does effect them. Most parents who do smoke do realize the consequces of the people whom the care for, and around them by their poor choices. Although, we can't stop the world from smoking. Just getting them to be aware, because I bet they think by them smoking will only effect them. However, as we have learned, it doesn't.
Today, for my current i chose to do mine on the effects of second hand smoke. Growing up with smokers cause lasting lung damage. Adults who were exposed to large amounts of secondhand smoke during childhood have lungs that look different on CT scans from those of people who grew up in a smoke-free environment, a new study suggests. Emphysema is a progressive lung disease characterized by shortness of breath, coughing, fatigue, and weight loss. About 24 million people in the United States have emphysema. This article connects to my life because my aunt is a big time smoker, as well as my grandparents and my cousins and i am around them a lot for family stuff. This article is very infortunate becuase even if you dont smoke, you could still get the same diseases smokers get from just being around them.
A top drug cartel was arrested along with 12 others in an airport in Mexico City. $29,385 were confiscated along with 13 packs of marijuana, 3 computers, 28 cell phones, an airplane, 2 cars, weapons, and a hand grenade. I don't understand what these drug lords are thinking. I mean, its only a matter of time until they're caught and all of the work isn't worth the possible consequences. I think the U.S. needs to crack down on drug smuggling so that drugs can't get into the U.S. as easy.
The Beltran Leyva cartel is one of the top drug organizations in Mexico. Rodolfo Lopez Ibarra, known as El Nito and believed to be a top lieutenant in the Beltran Leyva cartel.
Today New Hampshire lawmakers rejected the gay-marriage bill. The vote was 188-186, a narrow decision. The Senate had approved the bill 14-10 earlier. Before this, an earlier version of the bill was passed in both houses, but the governor refused to pass it unless some of the wording was changed. If the bill had passed, it would have made five out of six New England States have authorized legislation authorizing gay marriage, making Rhode Island the only state left without legalized gay marriage. I had done a blog earlier on how another state had passed gay marriage legislation. I was upset when they had passed it, because it seemed like Americans were abandoning the values this country was established on. Even though I think this is a great thing, I still think that other states are going to continue to pass gay marriage legislation unfortunately. They are going to keep fighting to get legislation passed in New Hampshire too. I am hoping that we can still have states where it is not passed, showing that some people still care about the values our founding fathers wanted us to live by.
Today i am going to talk about the missile that iran has recently test that can reach parts of euope. It was launched on wednesday and has the aproiximate distance of 1,200 miles. The iranian governement has said that it reached its target, but there is no proof of it hiting where siad to hit. Gary Samore thinks it is a significant technical development,a special assistant to the president on nonproliferation, in a Washington speech Wednesday. People are now becomign more feared of Iran and don't want thigns to get out of hand. If the can build a missile and sucsessfully lauch it to hit the designated target then what else are they capable of. I think we should be ready for anything becuase the Iran doesn't mess around. http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/20/iran.missile.test/index.html
CNN reported that your sex can consider what you do on the internet. If you are a male you have a tendency look up sports and things you plan on doing. Women have a tendency to look up health care and family things. Along with shopping and social websites. So in response websites have been generalizing on that for advertisements. So they will put more female ads on sites for banking or shopping. Then on sites for males there would be sports and action ads.
Today i will talk about something in sports but relate it to stuff other then sports. I found out today that Phil Mickelson's wife has been diagnosed with breast cancer. He is now going to call it a year and stay with her, which i think is the smart thing today. Now breast cancer is something that seems like is spreading more and more. We really need to find away to stop it. However we need to figure out other things to but it seems like breast cancer is a main one. I mean i know of many people that are or wanted to do their websites on. Plus there is a whole month and many charaties that are for supporting breast cancer. Source: ESPN.com
I know you said to stay away from sports, but you also said that the connection is what really matters, so im going to use sports to connect. Big news all over sports is Michael Vick. He got out of prison and is going to finish his sentence with house arrest. He wants to continue his football career and will plead his case to Roger Goodell in june, when his sentence is over with. In the meantime, Vick will work at a nearby contruction company. Vick may be done with prison time, but he remains in debt to society and dog lovers. Even if he is reinstated to the NFL, winning back fans is another battle. Vick has met with Animal right activists and is getting involved with banning dog fighting among teens. As we know, even sports superstars make mistakes. Although the same lesson is taken out of every mistake, superstar or average jo, to learn from it. Today, I at first felt I didnt deserve the grade I recieved on my works cited, and yet I accepted it and took it upon myself to put forth more effort. Mike Vick is learning from his mistakes by getting involved with animal rights activists, and if he keeps on the right path, society will gradually accept mikes apology.
My current event was found on www.wxyz.com. My current is about a Father who has been charged with punching his 7-year-old son. Royal Oak police has arrested the 48-year-old man on the account of punching his son in the abdomen. Apparently the father and the son were at one of the son's soccer games, and were standing on the sidelines. It is told that the Father, at random, punched his 7-year-old son so hard that the child vomited. Police arrested the man at his home, and charged him with domestic violence. The 48-year-old man was in court earlier this week. He pleaded not guilty, and was released on bond. (I just don't understand how someone can hit there own child so hard that it would make them vomit! Or how people encourage dog fights! Or how they could starve there own family member! ITS REDICULOUS! NO LITTLE BOY OR GIRL SHOULD EVER HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT! ESPECIALLY BY A PARENT!!!!!!!!!!).
Mr. Kay, Today I read about a couple really brave kids. Actually not a couple. I read that a school in El Paso where 70% of the school consists of kids from Mexico, coming over the border. They do this by going through towns with over 1600 homicides a year in, drug wars, and tons of other dangerous situations. I find this to be really inspirational. I think it really proves how many Americans really take their education for granted. These kids are risking their lives every single day to learn, and we act like school is just there. There aren't many things I would risk my life to do every day, and to know these kids are doing it for education is a really cool thing. I really hope that this little problem is resolved but then we wont see these great people trying so hard to do these things. Either way, some people are amazing.
My article is about the swine flu. In West Broomfield there was 4 cases of the flu. They thought that they would have to close 3 schools. But the district send out e-mails to the parents saying that there is no reason to close the schools. This connects to me because I was really worried that I was going to get the swine flu. I was so paranoid that I was going to get it. I had like 5 bottles of hand sanitizer. After reading this article I honestly do not think that I have any thing to worry about. If for some reason that I do get the swine flu, I will live. I know that only like babies can die from the swine flu.
My source:http://www.freep.com/article/20090520/NEWS03/90520098/1001/rss01
I'm writing about something I found on Yahoo Buzz. ( http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090520/ap_on_re_au_an/as_australia_saved_by_drill;_ylt=ApjJtgOfqt4cOeFm9tWp_pl0fNdF )
An Australian doctor used a household drill to save a boy's life by drilling a hole into his skull. The boy had fallen off of his bike in Maryborough and suffered from bleeding of the brain. Doctor Rob Carson knew he had to puncture the skull to relieve the pressure, and the hospital didn't have surgical drills. He had sent for the drill in the MATINENCE ROOM of the hospital, and the hole was made.
The boy, Nicholas Rossi, was airlifted from the hospital and into Melbourn, and was released on Tuesday. He turned thirteen that day.
Dr. Carson is a hero, thinking quickly enough when he had only minutes before the boy died. I think the world needs more people like him so that quick decisions somehow are the right ones and less lives are lost in the hospitals. I think I can relate because if I was hospitalized, I would want my life in the hands of a quick-thinking doctor so that my saftey was guarenteed(??)
Today I read about the article, "El Paso school a haven along violent border". In this story, it talks about how Mexicans are going to school in the United States. Unfortunatly, it is very dangerous travel which they must do everyday. It's great that they are getting a great education and bringing it back home. However, at what cost? They are jeporizing their lives every single day. I think that we should make places near campouses were foreign students can live. I think that we must protect all United States citizens no matter what. By becomeing aware of the danger, we can protect these students. Kristen Pauly 6th hr.
today i am going to talk about the article that i found on (CNN.COM) the article was named 7 charged in alleged prostitution ring on Craigslist. it was said that they caught 7 men having prostitution ring on the website craigslist from the span onjune 2007 til dec 2008 the women were under the category erotic, so anyone could have found them in the search, and to me i think this is wrongand disturbing and no one shuld do this to theirselfs they should have some selfrespect. anyways, the craigslist representativesmet in newyork where they were shown to shut down their erotic services, so they can end allthe illegal things they are doing on craigslist. to me many people out there dont have money so they turn to the wrong things this leaves our country to shame and this could leave us with many new STDs or STIs and we dont that.
There current even i chose took place in Birmingham, Alabama. Where five police officers beat an unconscious man. After being ejected from his car after a police chase Anthony Warren, unconscious, was beat by five police officers. This applies to what we are learning in U.S. history right now. about how the police were corrupted with power and beat citizens. The Mayor of stated “Dr. King wrote from the Birmingham Jail that ‘injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,' More than 40 years later, we must send the message that all citizens deserve equal and fair treatment under the law.” i think it is important to keep this message. it is important so that no source of power becomes to corrupt. the five police officers were fired.
the senate has expanded the gun rights. The proposal passed 279-147 winning overwhelming Republican support. Under the measure, any person with a state permit to carry a concealed weapon would be able to bring that weapon into parks and wildlife refuges unless a state law specifies otherwise. If the congress keeps on ectending the laws on gun rights. I think that the crime will rise in the U.S. Poeple are already able to get almost anything and they could use this to hurt other people. I don't think that gun control should be lowered because people will still get guns and crime will still happen. But if anyone tried to invaide us they would be screwed, everyone owns a gun. Chris Reid 6th hour www.cnn.com
Tonight I will talk about Iran's new missle improvements. They are currently involved with lengthening range of there missles. Iran again broke agreements with the U.N. and U.S. by regaining control of inter continental missles. I think this causes a big scare to the world. Iran not listening again makes higher tensions. This is basically a guess of will they fire apon anyone? Israel and parts of Europe are in range. Not only that but some U.S. military bases can be effected if they decide to go through on there project. Honestly we all know that they will never use these weapons for "self defence", but use them for offence. Hopefully this does not turn into a conflick and maybe they will listen to rules.
Today i read an interesting article on cnn about rasising taxes in all states. In a recession like we are politicians need some knod of a solution. I just dont think taxes are the right answer. If we cant afford things the way they are now why make it more expensive? Governors are raising corparate taxes, income tax, and even raising the price of gasoline. As if gas isnt expensive enough already! Already 16 states have raised ther taxes since last year. Smokers in Rhode Island currently pay the most for tobacoo products. Although i dnt agree wiht smoking i believe this is a free country and people shouldnt have to pay more of something just to make more money. I just dont think taxes are the answer. Blanz 6th http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/20/news/economy/state_tax_increases/index.htm?postversion=2009052017
This article was about a college student who went to a bowling alley to celebrate her grades and job promotion. She was supposed to meet her boyfriend 2 miles down the road, but never made it. She was reported missnig and was found in the Ohio River 72 months later. They believe she was sexually assaulted in the parking lot on her way out. This is extremely scary because this can happen to pretty much anymore, especially females. The world today is becoming more and more unsafe by the day. Now that we are starting to drive, we need to be sooo careful. There are so many idiots in the world today. Just being in a parking lot alone can result in death or kidnapping. Its too bad that this is what the world is. But it will never get better.
Today I am going to write about senior pranks. Honestly, I think that senior pranks are awesome. The excitement and ideas arebuilt up over 4 years of your high school career. It is something that is acceptable as long as it doesnt harm anybody in the process. As far as the bouncy ball event today, I think that it was just fun and didnt mean any harm to anybody. I know a couple of people that were getting charged with starting a riot and think that that is complete bull shit. We all know how I feel about cops, and our school "cop". I think that the world and schools need to loosen p and let kids have fun.
I am going to talk about Iran and its missile test. They announced that they successfully launched a surface to surface missile. This missile is capable of reaching parts of Europe. The Sajil-2 missile was launched on wednesday from Semnan and reached its destined target (not confirmed). On Wednesday, Gary Samore said that he thinks it is a significant technical developement. I believe this is too because everybody needs to have the most advanced technology. What scares me about this is they can hit any country with that and nobody would no about it. Iran may turn their backs on some of us and fire it at that country and you would be screwed.
Ok i am going to my blog about the 5 Alabama police officers that got fired. After a high speed chase, they say over 100 mph, the suspect car goes out of control and flips. The begnning of the video shows the suspect almost running over a anther officer that was trying to throw down spikes in front of the car. Next the car goes up a ramp put is pushed off the ramp, down the hill next to the ramp. The guy's car does a flip, but when the car is flipping, he comes out of the window, onto the ground. Everthing is normal till then, all the police officers rush the unconscious suspect, and start to beat him up with their night sticks and throwing push on the guy. He is just laying there, and was unconscious from after the crash. The five officers have been fired, but it is just crazy, how people would do something like this. They should have followed correct steps in aresting him, like handcuffing him, but no they beat him up. OK i would be ok with this if the suspect was fighting a arrest, but no he is out. It just comes to show you can't always trust a police officers, they are people too and break the law too. I relates a lot to what we are talking about in U.S right now, this Birmingham, Alabama one of the most segrated cites in the U.S. The aricle says that police brutality toward blacks was accepted back then, but not now.
Sourse:The video and the article same page, you have to see the video to belive it. http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/20/alabama.police.beating/#cnnSTCText
Our choirs concert will be my topic of discussion, hence it is current, and an event, and beast off, it involves me.
tonight, our concert was held at Lakeland's CPA, and, in my opinion, i thought we did splendid.
the whole choir opened with The Mission Impossible Theme, then Jamie Shultz played her,song, which i can't think of the name of right now.
then it was my turn. the song i played was Overkill By Colin Hay.(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ45xrtNnzk, btw, that’s the show i got the song from, which is a great show.) i feel that i may botched it, but it was better than not playing at all. i loved doing it, but i hated it. well, im not beating myself up over it.
then we had some more songs, thgen the men sang come go with me. then we had some more solo acts, then our final two songs, from there, and the lord bless and keep you.
overall, i think my negativeness was uneeded when it was there, but overall, we did well, no awesome for our last concert, and i hope the last 2 days are spent awesomely. everyone there was very influentaial to me, and i thank al of them for being there, and being positive, and helping me to my feet, when i fell down.
Today more corruption was discovered on Craigs list. Seven people got arrested for charges of corruption, conspiracy and money laundering. In other words they were arrested for prostition ads on Craigslist. They're appearing in the State Supreme Court in Queens, New York. Howver, this infulences us because there are still 2 other people the police have not caught yet. It just shows how dangerous shopping online from unreliable sources can be. Another instance, the "Craigslist killer" happened a little while ago. If convicted, these seven people could face up to 25 years in jail each. IT also shows how dangerous this world is with people out there that will do something like this.
tonight i am going to talk about Obama approving the plans to give Arabs the first nuke in history. I now think that Obama is trying to let them come over here and bomb us. I knew from the beginning that he was not a good president. If they use the bombs against us i think think that a lot of people will try to kill him. the reason that this is, is because he approved it. Only a complete idiot would give them a nuke. after what the government said that they did he is the dumbest person alive.
Tonight i am blogging about Obama's plan to jump start the economy and how people are responding. As the Republican Party condemns what they call the Democrats' 'march to socialism', a new national poll indicates that most Americans believe President Barack Obama's policies would move the country in the right direction. Sixty-three percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday say they think the policies being proposed by the President would push the nation in the right direction, with 35percent saying those policies would send the country in the wrong direction. But the poll suggests that Americans don't feel the same way about the Republicans. Thirty-nine percent of those questioned say that the policies of GOP Congressional leaders would move the country in the right direction, with a slight majority, 53 percent, saying Republican proposals would move the nation in the wrong direction.
I think the AMERICAN PEOPLE NEED TO MAKE up there mind. We are just hoping for Obama's plan is going to work. What is so dumb is that the people are to balanced. Some say our economic struggles are cuz of the democartes and vis versa. We all need to make up our minds so we can get moving again instead of being in a standstill forever. Cite- CNN.com
5 police men brutally kicked and beat an unconscious suspect after a high-speed chase through Birmingham, Alabama, in an incident caught on camera and discovered a year later. these five men were fired from there job. The dashboard-cam footage, was shot in January 2008, was aired for reporters Wednesday. It showed the end of a 100-mile-an-hour police chase of a van driven by a guy named Anthony Warren. He was also a suspect for drugs.Police had chased the van almost 50 miles, winding from downtown Birmingham to suburban Hoover. The video captured the van knocking down a police officer standing on a roadway, then turning up an interstate highway ramp, where it flipped over and rolled into a ditch. What if every police was like this? that would be really bad.
Public health officials are seeing a number of outbreaks of swine flu at schools nationwide. But there starting to think closing schools isnt the best idea. Evcen if they close schools for a couple of days they have no guarntee that the virius will be completely gone. There is no guarante that there is protection from infectious disease spread by things. Vaccine may be the best approach. Seasonal flu kills 50 to 100 children per year. People under the age of 18 should be protected no matter what.
Megan Fraser 5th hour The current event I'm going to talk about are the "serial cat killings". I found a pretty weird article about it. In Miami, Florida, people found their mutilated cats in their front yard. Somebody had taken the cats and killed them and put them back in the front yards of the people they were taken from. Some were skinned or sliced across the stomach or had pieces of their faces missing. Some of the cats were posed too. The police are offering $2,500 for information leading to an arrest for the serial cat killings. I think this is just sick and its a horrible thing to do. Whoever is doing it is obviously putting a lot of thought into it. It just goes to show how we need to be careful because there's some pretty messed up people in this world. And keep your cats inside.
For this evening I will talk about the soon release of Michael Vick. Michael Vick was sent to jail in august of 2007 for dogfighting. Michael Vick is a sports athlete that made a very poor decision. But just because he is an athlete should he be let off easier than others? I don't think so. Michael Vick was a role model for children all around the sport of football. Its seems today to many athletes mess up there reputation and steer children in the wrong direction. I understand that people change but i think he should be punished more severely for what he did to those dogs. I just like many others am looking forward to how Michael vick will respond back from the negativeness he has recieved. Michael will be on house confinement for the last 2 months of his 23 month sentence after this michael Vick may have the ability to come back to the NFL.
today im going to talk about police brutality. According to http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/20/alabama.police.beating/index.html, five police officers were recently fired for beating illegal drug activity suspect, Anthony Warren, after a high-speed car chase. it was caught on camera in Birmingham, Alabama and not discovered until a year later. it is assumed that the incident occured January 2008 and was aired wednesday. The officers were fired and the suspect was let off easy because the officers were unfair. This shows that police can get out of hand without even having a reason. The suspect was unconsious when ripped from the car and was still beaten by police even though he wasnt moving.
Today I will talk about a plane that crashed in Indonesia. A military plane carrying more than 100 people crashed today. More than 60 of the 100 people were killed in this crash. Sources say that the plane was doing tactical training. an observer of this event stated that the plane had split in half after a loud "boob." Any victims that were found alive were severely burned. I really think that this was a very tragic situation. People don't normaly think that things like this can happen to them. I for one am happy I live in the US with better engineering and technology.
At http://www.theoaklandpress.com/articles/2009/05/19/news/doc4a12f58a8642d087898896.txt I saw what President Barack Obama’s plans for cutting back on the dependents of oil and bettering car emissions.
President Barack Obama outlined Tuesday the nation’s first comprehensive effort to curb vehicle emissions while cutting dependence on imported oil, calling the plan an historic turning point toward a “clean-energy economy.” The new fuel and emission standards for cars and trucks will save billions of barrels of oil, they are expected to cost consumers an extra $1,300 per vehicle by the time the plan is complete in 2016. Obama said the fuel cost savings would offset the higher price of vehicles in three years. While requiring that vehicle carbon dioxide emissions be reduced by about one-third by the target date, the plan requires the auto industry to be building vehicles that average 35.5 mpg by 2016, with passenger cars reaching 39 mpg and light trucks hitting 30 mpg under a system that develops standards for each vehicle class size. Manufacturers would also be required to hit individual mileage targets.
I think that this plan President Barack Obama has will be a great thing for the environment. There will be some down sides to fuel-efficient cars. For example the cars that will be fuel-efficient will be like little boxes and can only fit 4 people, maybe 5 if you don’t won’t any elbowroom. The electric car batteries can explode in an accident if they short out. I got this information from my dad who was the head of Vehicle Safety at Chrysler. An editorial said that if you wont a pickup truck or a Yukon XL do it now because the new rules will prevent anyone buying one in the future.
On CNN.com I read about how a girls body was found in the Ohio river. She went missing in 1997 after she left a bowling ally in Warsaw, Kentucky. When she didn't show up for work the next day they said she was a missing person. She was an innocent 23 year old women who just randomly disappeared. Years later they found her body. And no still they are trying to find the person who did this to her. I think that this is a terrible story. Family members said she was a happy and upbeat girl who liked to have fun and she was a girl who could light up a room. I feel bad that a good person like her have to die but the person who killed her is still out there living. The investigator working on this case keeps thinking about this case and really wants to find out who did this to her. I give him credit for keeping with this case. He feels like someone will say something about it eventually, he is just waiting for that day to happen. I feel terrible for this girls family and friends who still don't know who did this to her. I really hope that this investigator finds out who did this to the girl and brings them to justice.
Survey: Cadillac Owners Most Satisfied with Their Purchase
this was about cars that people liked the most. buyers were very satisfied with their choices of cadillacs.they rank with the highest satisfaction and they talk about how they have become more popular. this article could be very helpful. since a lot of peopel are just getting their licenses they have to start looking for cars. even though if you are starting off driving and you dont want to buy a new car you can alwyas look to see what you could work towards in the future. its always good to have a plan and work to achive things. you could set a goal to earn enough money or something so you could buy a new car.
Gangs in detroit killed three people on sunday. They never could find out a reason for why the three were killed. This is very bad because this is a part of our society. People kill eachother for no reason and it has become dangerous to live in many parts of michigan. Gangs also can cause a big problem because they could harm a lot of people. This could be the worst part of our society because too many people are being murdered. Something needs to be done and someone needs to stop all of the murders and gang violence. fox 2 news
I would like to blog on how a pasadena president was segregating students. For assemblyys and such he was dividing up the african americans, latinos, and americans. The principal claims to say that he was doing this to motivate the students. How is this motivation? I think trhat this is something that is just breaking down the overall attitude of a school. It has to be doing more bad then good. I think that this is getting back to a civil rights thing and people should be able to sit wherever they want. I saw this on cnn.com (http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2009/05/15/hln.wm.segregated.assembly.cnn)
As of today, with Marcos Antonio Sanchez went from being an outgoing 21-year-old to Utah's first swine flu fatality in less than a week the total death number for Swine flu in US has gone over to double digits.
As of today, with Marcos Antonio Sanchez went from being an outgoing 21-year-old to Utah's first swine flu fatality in less than a week the total death number for Swine flu in US has gone over to double digits. What I'd like to talk today is not about this specific disease which is causing another epidemic atmosphere of fear but about the meaning of the existence of those deadly diseases to human beings. People who lost families or friends for diseases wouldn't be able to be cured from the scar. I don't know if the dead man deserved the death; but I believe he did. Somehow for a reason, he was to die. To say a little bit cynically, we may need those diseases. These days, there're too large number of population in this world, which needs to be reduced somehow or we may go closer to the termination of the world. In the above, I may sound crazy. But, as a person who has a strong belief in "The world goes as it goes", which never means the one who doesn't know about it should follow and obey to it, so called destiny, even without defining what it is. I truly think although a number of people try to invent all the vaccines and cures, there won't be a day humans being free from death causes. Whoever created this world or however this world was created, it's marvelous how the prosperity and collapse manipulate this world, interacting with each another; birth and death, fortune and unluckiness, happiness and sadness, and so on. Even so, as I said before, we don't define the distiny, which we don't know, by ourselves. Otherwise, it's gonna make very stupid consequences. (Think I went pretty far away from the article. But I always wanted to write something about what I've been thinking.)
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Today im going to talk about 34 people that died today in Baghdad. people were just in a restaurant and a bomb went off killing all of them. The bomb was placed in a parked car. the car was rigged to explode when opened. So when the door opened the car went boom!!!!. I think this is really a very wrong and bad thing. Also it shows whats really going on in the world around us. Also a little perspective on whats going on in the war of Iraq. a point i think i get from this is to just take everyday for granted because you don't know when your life is going to end it could be tomorrow and it could be in 100 years who knows.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/20/baghdad.bombing/index.html
http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/20/news/economy/credit_cards/index.htm?postversion=2009052014
Not sure if this is a NEW new deal in the making, but congress is putting the breaks on credit card rates. Congress today sent to President Obama a bill that makes it tougher for credit card issuers to raise fees and interest rates. Sounds like the new deal to me, fixing credit laws and such. The House voted 361-64 in favor and even if Obama vetos it and think congress can over turn him. Besides, Obama is expected to sign it anyways.
"At a time when Americans are struggling to pay their mortgages, groceries and health care costs, why would we want to make credit more expensive and less available?" said Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas.
Not sure if this will help or not. The article just says "...that makes it tougher for credit card issuers to raise fees and interest rates. " How it doesn't specify.
I am going to talk about Japan's economy. The news report I saw this on stated that Japan's GDP fell 4% in the first quarter and is still falling. This is a record breaking fall for the Japanese as they continue to fall in economic terms. This relates to our world because Japan has been on top for a while now because of their economy and their production. People are now reverting back to American everything. This really effects the U.S. because they are one the biggest threats. We need to get ahead of them and this right now is helping us. Them hurting is help the U.S. out of a enormously deep hole. This effects my life because my dad has a job in the auto industry and this allows him to keep his job. I hate to say it but I really like this right now because we need other nations to give so that we prosper.
William Schwartz
6th hr
http://www.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/05/19/japan.record.gdp/index.html
For todays current event i will be doing it on the report of child abuse in ireland that was done by a catholic priest. After reading this story i questioned my self on why anybody of anykind would have the want or even thought in there mind to actually take action in doing so. This thought gives me the creeps about what other countries really do to eachother and what everyone there is accustome to.
Priests beat and raped children during decades of abuse in Catholic-run institutions in Ireland. This report was eventually stopped short of naming the perpetrators. Orphanages and industrial schools in 20th century Ireland were places of fear, neglect and endemic sexual abuse, the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse said in a harrowing five-volume report that took nine years to consume.
conman
http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20090520/NEWS-US-IRELAND-CHURCH-ABUSE/
5th
My current event is about the man who killed his wife and two sons. His family was found strangled in their home in Columbia, Illinois on May 5. Police found threatening messages written on the wall in their home. They arrested Christopher Coleman at his parents home. Coleman had previously worked at a security department for an evangelical Christian organization. His court trial will be on June 10th. It is a shame that someone that the family thought they could trust betrayed them. This effects society because many people are mourning the death of this family. This particular event may not effects us personally, but it could happen to anyone, so you need to have a little bit of caution of where you are and who you are with.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/20/illinois.slaying.arrests/index.html
Some of the biggest banks have raised their balance sheets by 56 billion since they got the results back from the stresss tests. The treasury secretary Timothy Geithner said this on wednesday. He said that the largest banks raised billions. 10 of the banks needed to raise a total of $75 billion in additional capital to withstand losses if the economy went down more. this is good that the banks got money. The banks have to stay open so the people can get to the money. If they wouldnt of raised the money it would of been bad when the economy took a turn for the worse.
Katlyn TWigg 6th Hour
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/business/economy/21geithner.html?hp
My current event will be about how thieves raid an animal hospital. Thieves raided a local veterinarian hospital for drugs. The drugs are worth thousand of dollars. After they raided the hospital he started handing out warnings. The medicine was to help sick pets get better. I think who ever did this must be crazy because what would they need that stuff for. Also, I wonder how much its going to cost them to get medicine for the pets.
Source: www.foxdetroit.com
Katherine Walsh
6th hour
My current event is on the Indonesia plane crash. There was an Indonesian military plane that crashed. It crashed into a row of houses and burt into flames. In the process, 98 people were killed. Nobody knows what caused it to crash like it did, but several people who witnessed it said that they saw the right wing fall off whilst in the air. The plane was called C-130 Hercules and it was a transport plane built in 1980.
Okay, now to me I think they were stupid to use a plane that was that old! If it's been around since 1980, and it's a military plane at that, you'd think somebody would've thought it was time to make a new one. At the same time though, I guess it all depends on if they even had the money to make another one. If not then I don't blame them.
James Richardson
5th hour
My current event is on a Waterford Township toddler that drowned on Sunday. It only takes a "blink of an eye" and the tragedy can occur. Now that summer is coming upon us we need to be vigilant in watching our young children. Katie would be 3 years old in August, now her life has ended in tragedy. Katie was found just a few houses down from her home in a grassy area. According to sources the incident occurred within minutes. That all it takes for a young child to wonder off and get themselves in trouble. This weekend is Memorial Day weekend and the start of the swimming season. We all need to be vigilant of making sure we know where our children are. This incident made me reflect on how fast a trajedy like this can happen. We all have children in our neighborhoods and we need to watch out for them.
My souorce is Wednesday edition of The Oakland Press.
Mr.Kay,
for my blog tonight i want to talk about the lungs of those who grew up around smokers. this article mainly focused on the long term development of adults lungs who were raised in a smoking enviornment. CT scans showed that those who had been raised around smoke had more holes in their lungs then those who werent. In my opinion i think it's wrong for parents to smoke around the children. It ruins their health and the health of their children. If they want to damage their lungs it one thing, but i dont think it's right that they bring their children into it.
brittney Cooper
6th hour
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/20/second.hand.smoke.kids.lungs/index.html
For my current event, I'm going to talk about second hand smoke. This seems to be a appropriate topic to discuss because Kristen and I are doing our research project on lung cancer, and second hand smoke, is a way of retrieving lung cancer. As a recent study, adults who have grown up in a smoky environment, have lungs that look different on a CT scan, rather than someone who grew up in a smoke-free environment. It is proven that even without smoking, but growing up in an environment that does, you can still have damaged lungs. Adults who have grown up in this environment seem to have larger, and slightly more emphysema-like "holes", rather than someone who did not grow up in a smoky environment. Personally, I do not, or will not have this problem when I get older. Fortunately for me, I grew up in a environment that was smoke free. However, many kids, do. They may not neccesairly, have to do the smoking but it does effect them. Most parents who do smoke do realize the consequces of the people whom the care for, and around them by their poor choices. Although, we can't stop the world from smoking. Just getting them to be aware, because I bet they think by them smoking will only effect them. However, as we have learned, it doesn't.
Alanna Nagi
6th hour
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/20/second.hand.smoke.kids.lungs/index.html
Today, for my current i chose to do mine on the effects of second hand smoke. Growing up with smokers cause lasting lung damage. Adults who were exposed to large amounts of secondhand smoke during childhood have lungs that look different on CT scans from those of people who grew up in a smoke-free environment, a new study suggests. Emphysema is a progressive lung disease characterized by shortness of breath, coughing, fatigue, and weight loss. About 24 million people in the United States have emphysema. This article connects to my life because my aunt is a big time smoker, as well as my grandparents and my cousins and i am around them a lot for family stuff. This article is very infortunate becuase even if you dont smoke, you could still get the same diseases smokers get from just being around them.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/20/second.hand.smoke.kids.lungs/index.html
clare pathe
A top drug cartel was arrested along with 12 others in an airport in Mexico City. $29,385 were confiscated along with 13 packs of marijuana, 3 computers, 28 cell phones, an airplane, 2 cars, weapons, and a hand grenade. I don't understand what these drug lords are thinking. I mean, its only a matter of time until they're caught and all of the work isn't worth the possible consequences. I think the U.S. needs to crack down on drug smuggling so that drugs can't get into the U.S. as easy.
The Beltran Leyva cartel is one of the top drug organizations in Mexico. Rodolfo Lopez Ibarra, known as El Nito and believed to be a top lieutenant in the Beltran Leyva cartel.
Cody Kabisa
5th hour
CITE: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/05/20/mexico.narco.arrest/index.html
Today New Hampshire lawmakers rejected the gay-marriage bill. The vote was 188-186, a narrow decision. The Senate had approved the bill 14-10 earlier. Before this, an earlier version of the bill was passed in both houses, but the governor refused to pass it unless some of the wording was changed. If the bill had passed, it would have made five out of six New England States have authorized legislation authorizing gay marriage, making Rhode Island the only state left without legalized gay marriage. I had done a blog earlier on how another state had passed gay marriage legislation. I was upset when they had passed it, because it seemed like Americans were abandoning the values this country was established on. Even though I think this is a great thing, I still think that other states are going to continue to pass gay marriage legislation unfortunately. They are going to keep fighting to get legislation passed in New Hampshire too. I am hoping that we can still have states where it is not passed, showing that some people still care about the values our founding fathers wanted us to live by.
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2050926720090520
Kaleigh Swanson
5th hour
Today i am going to talk about the missile that iran has recently test that can reach parts of euope. It was launched on wednesday and has the aproiximate distance of 1,200 miles. The iranian governement has said that it reached its target, but there is no proof of it hiting where siad to hit. Gary Samore thinks it is a significant technical development,a special assistant to the president on nonproliferation, in a Washington speech Wednesday. People are now becomign more feared of Iran and don't want thigns to get out of hand. If the can build a missile and sucsessfully lauch it to hit the designated target then what else are they capable of. I think we should be ready for anything becuase the Iran doesn't mess around.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/20/iran.missile.test/index.html
John McLean
6th hour
CNN reported that your sex can consider what you do on the internet. If you are a male you have a tendency look up sports and things you plan on doing. Women have a tendency to look up health care and family things. Along with shopping and social websites. So in response websites have been generalizing on that for advertisements. So they will put more female ads on sites for banking or shopping. Then on sites for males there would be sports and action ads.
kevin anderson
6th hour
Source: http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/20/technology/kattan_gender.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009052011
Today i will talk about something in sports but relate it to stuff other then sports. I found out today that Phil Mickelson's wife has been diagnosed with breast cancer. He is now going to call it a year and stay with her, which i think is the smart thing today. Now breast cancer is something that seems like is spreading more and more. We really need to find away to stop it. However we need to figure out other things to but it seems like breast cancer is a main one. I mean i know of many people that are or wanted to do their websites on. Plus there is a whole month and many charaties that are for supporting breast cancer.
Source: ESPN.com
Ty Bouwens, 6th hour
I know you said to stay away from sports, but you also said that the connection is what really matters, so im going to use sports to connect. Big news all over sports is Michael Vick. He got out of prison and is going to finish his sentence with house arrest. He wants to continue his football career and will plead his case to Roger Goodell in june, when his sentence is over with. In the meantime, Vick will work at a nearby contruction company. Vick may be done with prison time, but he remains in debt to society and dog lovers. Even if he is reinstated to the NFL, winning back fans is another battle. Vick has met with Animal right activists and is getting involved with banning dog fighting among teens. As we know, even sports superstars make mistakes. Although the same lesson is taken out of every mistake, superstar or average jo, to learn from it. Today, I at first felt I didnt deserve the grade I recieved on my works cited, and yet I accepted it and took it upon myself to put forth more effort. Mike Vick is learning from his mistakes by getting involved with animal rights activists, and if he keeps on the right path, society will gradually accept mikes apology.
deets, espn.com
Mr. Kay,
My current event was found on www.wxyz.com. My current is about a Father who has been charged with punching his 7-year-old son. Royal Oak police has arrested the 48-year-old man on the account of punching his son in the abdomen. Apparently the father and the son were at one of the son's soccer games, and were standing on the sidelines. It is told that the Father, at random, punched his 7-year-old son so hard that the child vomited. Police arrested the man at his home, and charged him with domestic violence. The 48-year-old man was in court earlier this week. He pleaded not guilty, and was released on bond. (I just don't understand how someone can hit there own child so hard that it would make them vomit! Or how people encourage dog fights! Or how they could starve there own family member! ITS REDICULOUS! NO LITTLE BOY OR GIRL SHOULD EVER HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT! ESPECIALLY BY A PARENT!!!!!!!!!!).
Danielle Turner
Mr. Kay,
Today I read about a couple really brave kids. Actually not a couple. I read that a school in El Paso where 70% of the school consists of kids from Mexico, coming over the border. They do this by going through towns with over 1600 homicides a year in, drug wars, and tons of other dangerous situations. I find this to be really inspirational. I think it really proves how many Americans really take their education for granted. These kids are risking their lives every single day to learn, and we act like school is just there. There aren't many things I would risk my life to do every day, and to know these kids are doing it for education is a really cool thing. I really hope that this little problem is resolved but then we wont see these great people trying so hard to do these things. Either way, some people are amazing.
Luke LaFountain
5th Hour
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/20/elpaso.juarez.school/index.html
My article is about the swine flu. In West Broomfield there was 4 cases of the flu. They thought that they would have to close 3 schools. But the district send out e-mails to the parents saying that there is no reason to close the schools. This connects to me because I was really worried that I was going to get the swine flu. I was so paranoid that I was going to get it. I had like 5 bottles of hand sanitizer. After reading this article I honestly do not think that I have any thing to worry about. If for some reason that I do get the swine flu, I will live. I know that only like babies can die from the swine flu.
My source:http://www.freep.com/article/20090520/NEWS03/90520098/1001/rss01
I'm writing about something I found on Yahoo Buzz.
( http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090520/ap_on_re_au_an/as_australia_saved_by_drill;_ylt=ApjJtgOfqt4cOeFm9tWp_pl0fNdF )
An Australian doctor used a household drill to save a boy's life by drilling a hole into his skull. The boy had fallen off of his bike in Maryborough and suffered from bleeding of the brain. Doctor Rob Carson knew he had to puncture the skull to relieve the pressure, and the hospital didn't have surgical drills. He had sent for the drill in the MATINENCE ROOM of the hospital, and the hole was made.
The boy, Nicholas Rossi, was airlifted from the hospital and into Melbourn, and was released on Tuesday. He turned thirteen that day.
Dr. Carson is a hero, thinking quickly enough when he had only minutes before the boy died. I think the world needs more people like him so that quick decisions somehow are the right ones and less lives are lost in the hospitals. I think I can relate because if I was hospitalized, I would want my life in the hands of a quick-thinking doctor so that my saftey was guarenteed(??)
Steffeny Apollo
5th Hour
Today I read about the article, "El Paso school a haven along violent border". In this story, it talks about how Mexicans are going to school in the United States. Unfortunatly, it is very dangerous travel which they must do everyday. It's great that they are getting a great education and bringing it back home. However, at what cost? They are jeporizing their lives every single day. I think that we should make places near campouses were foreign students can live. I think that we must protect all United States citizens no matter what. By becomeing aware of the danger, we can protect these students.
Kristen Pauly
6th hr.
today i am going to talk about the article that i found on (CNN.COM) the article was named 7 charged in alleged prostitution ring on Craigslist.
it was said that they caught 7 men having prostitution ring on the website craigslist from the span onjune 2007 til dec 2008 the women were under the category erotic, so anyone could have found them in the search, and to me i think this is wrongand disturbing and no one shuld do this to theirselfs they should have some selfrespect. anyways, the craigslist representativesmet in newyork where they were shown to shut down their erotic services, so they can end allthe illegal things they are doing on craigslist.
to me many people out there dont have money so they turn to the wrong things this leaves our country to shame and this could leave us with many new STDs or STIs and we dont that.
stefanie samuel yo!
There current even i chose took place in Birmingham, Alabama. Where five police officers beat an unconscious man. After being ejected from his car after a police chase Anthony Warren, unconscious, was beat by five police officers. This applies to what we are learning in U.S. history right now. about how the police were corrupted with power and beat citizens. The Mayor of stated “Dr. King wrote from the Birmingham Jail that ‘injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,' More than 40 years later, we must send the message that all citizens deserve equal and fair treatment under the law.” i think it is important to keep this message. it is important so that no source of power becomes to corrupt. the five police officers were fired.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/us/21birmingham.html?ref=us
the senate has expanded the gun rights. The proposal passed 279-147 winning overwhelming Republican support. Under the measure, any person with a state permit to carry a concealed weapon would be able to bring that weapon into parks and wildlife refuges unless a state law specifies otherwise. If the congress keeps on ectending the laws on gun rights. I think that the crime will rise in the U.S. Poeple are already able to get almost anything and they could use this to hurt other people. I don't think that gun control should be lowered because people will still get guns and crime will still happen. But if anyone tried to invaide us they would be screwed, everyone owns a gun.
Chris Reid
6th hour
www.cnn.com
Tonight I will talk about Iran's new missle improvements. They are currently involved with lengthening range of there missles. Iran again broke agreements with the U.N. and U.S. by regaining control of inter continental missles. I think this causes a big scare to the world. Iran not listening again makes higher tensions. This is basically a guess of will they fire apon anyone? Israel and parts of Europe are in range. Not only that but some U.S. military bases can be effected if they decide to go through on there project. Honestly we all know that they will never use these weapons for "self defence", but use them for offence. Hopefully this does not turn into a conflick and maybe they will listen to rules.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090520/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_us_iran;_ylt=Av36Cw7RfbC0BRUltigMaHqs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTJicTc4ZHFlBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwNTIwL3VzX3VzX2lyYW4EY3BvcwMyBHBvcwM3BHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcnkEc2xrA3Vzb2ZmaWNpYWxzaQ--
Today i read an interesting article on cnn about rasising taxes in all states. In a recession like we are politicians need some knod of a solution. I just dont think taxes are the right answer. If we cant afford things the way they are now why make it more expensive? Governors are raising corparate taxes, income tax, and even raising the price of gasoline. As if gas isnt expensive enough already! Already 16 states have raised ther taxes since last year. Smokers in Rhode Island currently pay the most for tobacoo products. Although i dnt agree wiht smoking i believe this is a free country and people shouldnt have to pay more of something just to make more money. I just dont think taxes are the answer.
Blanz
6th
http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/20/news/economy/state_tax_increases/index.htm?postversion=2009052017
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/20/grace.coldcase.gwinner/index.html
This article was about a college student who went to a bowling alley to celebrate her grades and job promotion. She was supposed to meet her boyfriend 2 miles down the road, but never made it. She was reported missnig and was found in the Ohio River 72 months later. They believe she was sexually assaulted in the parking lot on her way out. This is extremely scary because this can happen to pretty much anymore, especially females. The world today is becoming more and more unsafe by the day. Now that we are starting to drive, we need to be sooo careful. There are so many idiots in the world today. Just being in a parking lot alone can result in death or kidnapping. Its too bad that this is what the world is. But it will never get better.
amy urbanik
5th hour
Mr. Kay,
Today I am going to write about senior pranks. Honestly, I think that senior pranks are awesome. The excitement and ideas arebuilt up over 4 years of your high school career. It is something that is acceptable as long as it doesnt harm anybody in the process. As far as the bouncy ball event today, I think that it was just fun and didnt mean any harm to anybody. I know a couple of people that were getting charged with starting a riot and think that that is complete bull shit. We all know how I feel about cops, and our school "cop". I think that the world and schools need to loosen p and let kids have fun.
I am going to talk about Iran and its missile test. They announced that they successfully launched a surface to surface missile. This missile is capable of reaching parts of Europe. The Sajil-2 missile was launched on wednesday from Semnan and reached its destined target (not confirmed). On Wednesday, Gary Samore said that he thinks it is a significant technical developement. I believe this is too because everybody needs to have the most advanced technology. What scares me about this is they can hit any country with that and nobody would no about it. Iran may turn their backs on some of us and fire it at that country and you would be screwed.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/20/iran.missile.test/index.html
Troy W. 5th hr
Ok i am going to my blog about the 5 Alabama police officers that got fired. After a high speed chase, they say over 100 mph, the suspect car goes out of control and flips. The begnning of the video shows the suspect almost running over a anther officer that was trying to throw down spikes in front of the car. Next the car goes up a ramp put is pushed off the ramp, down the hill next to the ramp. The guy's car does a flip, but when the car is flipping, he comes out of the window, onto the ground. Everthing is normal till then, all the police officers rush the unconscious suspect, and start to beat him up with their night sticks and throwing push on the guy. He is just laying there, and was unconscious from after the crash. The five officers have been fired, but it is just crazy, how people would do something like this. They should have followed correct steps in aresting him, like handcuffing him, but no they beat him up. OK i would be ok with this if the suspect was fighting a arrest, but no he is out. It just comes to show you can't always trust a police officers, they are people too and break the law too. I relates a lot to what we are talking about in U.S right now, this Birmingham, Alabama one of the most segrated cites in the U.S. The aricle says that police brutality toward blacks was accepted back then, but not now.
Sourse:The video and the article same page, you have to see the video to belive it.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/20/alabama.police.beating/#cnnSTCText
Shaun Gerber
Our choirs concert will be my topic of discussion, hence it is current, and an event, and beast off, it involves me.
tonight, our concert was held at Lakeland's CPA, and, in my opinion, i thought we did splendid.
the whole choir opened with The Mission Impossible Theme, then Jamie Shultz played her,song, which i can't think of the name of right now.
then it was my turn. the song i played was Overkill By Colin Hay.(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ45xrtNnzk, btw, that’s the show i got the song from, which is a great show.)
i feel that i may botched it, but it was better than not playing at all. i loved doing it, but i hated it. well, im not beating myself up over it.
then we had some more songs, thgen the men sang come go with me.
then we had some more solo acts, then our final two songs, from there, and the lord bless and keep you.
overall, i think my negativeness was uneeded when it was there, but overall, we did well, no awesome for our last concert, and i hope the last 2 days are spent awesomely. everyone there was very influentaial to me, and i thank al of them for being there, and being positive, and helping me to my feet, when i fell down.
Today more corruption was discovered on Craigs list. Seven people got arrested for charges of corruption, conspiracy and money laundering. In other words they were arrested for prostition ads on Craigslist. They're appearing in the State Supreme Court in Queens, New York. Howver, this infulences us because there are still 2 other people the police have not caught yet. It just shows how dangerous shopping online from unreliable sources can be. Another instance, the "Craigslist killer" happened a little while ago. If convicted, these seven people could face up to 25 years in jail each. IT also shows how dangerous this world is with people out there that will do something like this.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,520850,00.html
tonight i am going to talk about Obama approving the plans to give Arabs the first nuke in history. I now think that Obama is trying to let them come over here and bomb us. I knew from the beginning that he was not a good president. If they use the bombs against us i think think that a lot of people will try to kill him. the reason that this is, is because he approved it. Only a complete idiot would give them a nuke. after what the government said that they did he is the dumbest person alive.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/20/obama-approves-plans-uae-nuclear-power-deal/
Tonight i am blogging about Obama's plan to jump start the economy and how people are responding. As the Republican Party condemns what they call the Democrats' 'march to socialism', a new national poll indicates that most Americans believe President Barack Obama's policies would move the country in the right direction. Sixty-three percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday say they think the policies being proposed by the President would push the nation in the right direction, with 35percent saying those policies would send the country in the wrong direction. But the poll suggests that Americans don't feel the same way about the Republicans. Thirty-nine percent of those questioned say that the policies of GOP Congressional leaders would move the country in the right direction, with a slight majority, 53 percent, saying Republican proposals would move the nation in the wrong direction.
I think the AMERICAN PEOPLE NEED TO MAKE up there mind. We are just hoping for Obama's plan is going to work. What is so dumb is that the people are to balanced. Some say our economic struggles are cuz of the democartes and vis versa. We all need to make up our minds so we can get moving again instead of being in a standstill forever.
Cite- CNN.com
ZAck Ruffin
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/20/alabama.police.beating/index.html#cnnSTCText
5 police men brutally kicked and beat an unconscious suspect after a high-speed chase through Birmingham, Alabama, in an incident caught on camera and discovered a year later.
these five men were fired from there job. The dashboard-cam footage, was shot in January 2008, was aired for reporters Wednesday. It showed the end of a 100-mile-an-hour police chase of a van driven by a guy named Anthony Warren. He was also a suspect for drugs.Police had chased the van almost 50 miles, winding from downtown Birmingham to suburban Hoover. The video captured the van knocking down a police officer standing on a roadway, then turning up an interstate highway ramp, where it flipped over and rolled into a ditch. What if every police was like this? that would be really bad.
Public health officials are seeing a number of outbreaks of swine flu at schools nationwide. But there starting to think closing schools isnt the best idea. Evcen if they close schools for a couple of days they have no guarntee that the virius will be completely gone. There is no guarante that there is protection from infectious disease spread by things. Vaccine may be the best approach. Seasonal flu kills 50 to 100 children per year. People under the age of 18 should be protected no matter what.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/19/swine.flu.schools.nyc/index.html
Megan Fraser 5th hour
The current event I'm going to talk about are the "serial cat killings". I found a pretty weird article about it. In Miami, Florida, people found their mutilated cats in their front yard. Somebody had taken the cats and killed them and put them back in the front yards of the people they were taken from. Some were skinned or sliced across the stomach or had pieces of their faces missing. Some of the cats were posed too. The police are offering $2,500 for information leading to an arrest for the serial cat killings. I think this is just sick and its a horrible thing to do. Whoever is doing it is obviously putting a lot of thought into it. It just goes to show how we need to be careful because there's some pretty messed up people in this world. And keep your cats inside.
For this evening I will talk about the soon release of Michael Vick. Michael Vick was sent to jail in august of 2007 for dogfighting. Michael Vick is a sports athlete that made a very poor decision. But just because he is an athlete should he be let off easier than others? I don't think so. Michael Vick was a role model for children all around the sport of football. Its seems today to many athletes mess up there reputation and steer children in the wrong direction. I understand that people change but i think he should be punished more severely for what he did to those dogs. I just like many others am looking forward to how Michael vick will respond back from the negativeness he has recieved. Michael will be on house confinement for the last 2 months of his 23 month sentence after this michael Vick may have the ability to come back to the NFL.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/20/michael.vick/index.html
Taylor Wattles
5th
today im going to talk about police brutality. According to http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/20/alabama.police.beating/index.html, five police officers were recently fired for beating illegal drug activity suspect, Anthony Warren, after a high-speed car chase. it was caught on camera in Birmingham, Alabama and not discovered until a year later. it is assumed that the incident occured January 2008 and was aired wednesday. The officers were fired and the suspect was let off easy because the officers were unfair. This shows that police can get out of hand without even having a reason. The suspect was unconsious when ripped from the car and was still beaten by police even though he wasnt moving.
Alex Martin
Today I will talk about a plane that crashed in Indonesia. A military plane carrying more than 100 people crashed today. More than 60 of the 100 people were killed in this crash. Sources say that the plane was doing tactical training. an observer of this event stated that the plane had split in half after a loud "boob." Any victims that were found alive were severely burned. I really think that this was a very tragic situation. People don't normaly think that things like this can happen to them. I for one am happy I live in the US with better engineering and technology.
Red
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/19/AR2009051903555.html
John Kent
5th Hour
At http://www.theoaklandpress.com/articles/2009/05/19/news/doc4a12f58a8642d087898896.txt I saw what President Barack Obama’s plans for cutting back on the dependents of oil and bettering car emissions.
President Barack Obama outlined Tuesday the nation’s first comprehensive effort to curb vehicle emissions while cutting dependence on imported oil, calling the plan an historic turning point toward a “clean-energy economy.” The new fuel and emission standards for cars and trucks will save billions of barrels of oil, they are expected to cost consumers an extra $1,300 per vehicle by the time the plan is complete in 2016. Obama said the fuel cost savings would offset the higher price of vehicles in three years. While requiring that vehicle carbon dioxide emissions be reduced by about one-third by the target date, the plan requires the auto industry to be building vehicles that average 35.5 mpg by 2016, with passenger cars reaching 39 mpg and light trucks hitting 30 mpg under a system that develops standards for each vehicle class size. Manufacturers would also be required to hit individual mileage targets.
I think that this plan President Barack Obama has will be a great thing for the environment. There will be some down sides to fuel-efficient cars. For example the cars that will be fuel-efficient will be like little boxes and can only fit 4 people, maybe 5 if you don’t won’t any elbowroom. The electric car batteries can explode in an accident if they short out. I got this information from my dad who was the head of Vehicle Safety at Chrysler. An editorial said that if you wont a pickup truck or a Yukon XL do it now because the new rules will prevent anyone buying one in the future.
On CNN.com I read about how a girls body was found in the Ohio river. She went missing in 1997 after she left a bowling ally in Warsaw, Kentucky. When she didn't show up for work the next day they said she was a missing person. She was an innocent 23 year old women who just randomly disappeared. Years later they found her body. And no still they are trying to find the person who did this to her. I think that this is a terrible story. Family members said she was a happy and upbeat girl who liked to have fun and she was a girl who could light up a room. I feel bad that a good person like her have to die but the person who killed her is still out there living. The investigator working on this case keeps thinking about this case and really wants to find out who did this to her. I give him credit for keeping with this case. He feels like someone will say something about it eventually, he is just waiting for that day to happen. I feel terrible for this girls family and friends who still don't know who did this to her. I really hope that this investigator finds out who did this to the girl and brings them to justice.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/20/grace.coldcase.gwinner/index.html
Hannah Aittama
5th Hour
http://autos.yahoo.com/articles/autos_content_landing_pages/992/survey-cadillac-owners-most-satisfied-with-their-purchase/;_ylc=X3oDMTE2b3I5bWJvBF9TAzI3MTYxNDkEc2VjA2ZwLXRvZGF5BHNsawNjYWQtb3duZXJz
Survey: Cadillac Owners Most Satisfied with Their Purchase
this was about cars that people liked the most. buyers were very satisfied with their choices of cadillacs.they rank with the highest satisfaction and they talk about how they have become more popular. this article could be very helpful. since a lot of peopel are just getting their licenses they have to start looking for cars. even though if you are starting off driving and you dont want to buy a new car you can alwyas look to see what you could work towards in the future. its always good to have a plan and work to achive things. you could set a goal to earn enough money or something so you could buy a new car.
Gangs in detroit killed three people on sunday. They never could find out a reason for why the three were killed. This is very bad because this is a part of our society. People kill eachother for no reason and it has become dangerous to live in many parts of michigan. Gangs also can cause a big problem because they could harm a lot of people. This could be the worst part of our society because too many people are being murdered. Something needs to be done and someone needs to stop all of the murders and gang violence.
fox 2 news
I would like to blog on how a pasadena president was segregating students. For assemblyys and such he was dividing up the african americans, latinos, and americans. The principal claims to say that he was doing this to motivate the students. How is this motivation? I think trhat this is something that is just breaking down the overall attitude of a school. It has to be doing more bad then good. I think that this is getting back to a civil rights thing and people should be able to sit wherever they want. I saw this on cnn.com (http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2009/05/15/hln.wm.segregated.assembly.cnn)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gzz357patY4-QaJFvo9O95zMM_EQD98AI22G2
As of today, with Marcos Antonio Sanchez went from being an outgoing 21-year-old to Utah's first swine flu fatality in less than a week the total death number for Swine flu in US has gone over to double digits.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gzz357patY4-QaJFvo9O95zMM_EQD98AI22G2
As of today, with Marcos Antonio Sanchez went from being an outgoing 21-year-old to Utah's first swine flu fatality in less than a week the total death number for Swine flu in US has gone over to double digits.
What I'd like to talk today is not about this specific disease which is causing another epidemic atmosphere of fear but about the meaning of the existence of those deadly diseases to human beings. People who lost families or friends for diseases wouldn't be able to be cured from the scar. I don't know if the dead man deserved the death; but I believe he did. Somehow for a reason, he was to die. To say a little bit cynically, we may need those diseases. These days, there're too large number of population in this world, which needs to be reduced somehow or we may go closer to the termination of the world.
In the above, I may sound crazy. But, as a person who has a strong belief in "The world goes as it goes", which never means the one who doesn't know about it should follow and obey to it, so called destiny, even without defining what it is. I truly think although a number of people try to invent all the vaccines and cures, there won't be a day humans being free from death causes.
Whoever created this world or however this world was created, it's marvelous how the prosperity and collapse manipulate this world, interacting with each another; birth and death, fortune and unluckiness, happiness and sadness, and so on. Even so, as I said before, we don't define the distiny, which we don't know, by ourselves. Otherwise, it's gonna make very stupid consequences.
(Think I went pretty far away from the article. But I always wanted to write something about what I've been thinking.)
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