17 Minutes from Destruction

A bomb was almost set off in the French Ministers office, it was seventeen minutes from defusing until it was detected and defused. Researches conducted a search for the people that tried to get away with this act of terrism on the French and they traced it back to people in the United Arab States. The bombs were attatched to cell phones and were suppose to go off. Luckily they got defused and no harm was done and the suspects were brought into custody.

I think that it is good that people were able to find the bomb and stop it before it was defused. If there was another big terrist attack would have been devestating to the world once again but opened up some more eyes. If it would have happened people would notice that there are threats and it wouldn't just be the U.S. looking for them and in a war over the same reason.

Warning Shots Fire by South Korea

North Korea had a fishing boat that ended up to cross the sea border of the two nations and a navy boat of South Korea fired shots at it warning that it was in their territory. It is said that there already has been 3 battles over the border already that has been seem to be ignored after the U.N. drew it. They shot 10 time at the fishing boat warning it to leave other wise  it would have been sank. They said the only reason they fired at them was because they had been ignoring their warnings over loud speakers after awhile.

I think that a sea border should not even be set up between the two nations. It is sad that they have claims over the waters in the ocean. They should be able to not have disputes over something as silly as this. It is not a big deal if they are fishing in their part of the ocean, and firing shots at them that could potentially harm people that are defenseless and not a threat is a joke. I think the only reason they should be chased out of the water is if it was a natural resource they were taking like oil.

Mail Bomb

A couple of guys addressed a letter to the French president that had a bomb inside it. They found that other parcels were addressed to other leaders around the world with the same exposives contents inside as the one that was found addressed to the frenchman. The people that were responsible for sending the package were found and they were wearing bulletproof vests and had weapons.

I think that people who actually think that they would be able to send a package with a address to a leader and think that it would not have been scanned or searched is psycotic. How dumb can people get and think that they would be able to get away with something like this. These people seem like infadels, and people who have special needs. If people ever get away with this I will be very surprised and frown upon government.

Earthquake hits Indonesia

On Monday a earthquake was hit Sumatra, Indonesia. The epicenter of the earthquake was said to be 8.8 miles deep, meaning that this was a large earthquake that was felt in 5 other towns. The quake was initially measured at 7.2 on the scale so it alarmed the country sending out a tsunami warning. Indonesia is prone to earth quakes and volcanic activity because it is located on what is called the Pacific Ring of Fire. Sumatra had a large tsunami hit the area in 2008, that is why the warning got out so fast because of previous experiences.

I think that it is great that finally countries have learned and taken initiative in helping build the own infrastructure. Since the earthquake hit Sumatra and the scientists warned the country fast enough to warn everyone of the tsunami that could potentially be caused shows how much they are improving their living conditions in that country. It is also good because since they do live in the so called Pacific Ring of Fire, if they can keep getting warnings out fast enough less people will be harmed by future natural disasters.

Bus and Train Collision

A bus was attempting to cross a railroad track in Ukraine at 9 am in the morning. The bus driver did not give any attention to the sirens that were going of indicating that there was a train coming across the tracks. The train collided with the bus killing 41 of the 49 passengers not including the driver. Ukraine has said that number is most likely to rise because the people who did survive were in very poor condition.

I think that this whole accident is pure stupidity. It is almost one hundred percent the bus drivers fault for this accident. If what is said true about the sirens going off and the bus not yielding to them, then who other than the drivers fault could this be? The families of the people that died now are suffering from a loss to a person they loved because of one person carelessness. I feel that things like this could be prevented in other countries just by having better trained people.

Firefighters Refuse to Put out Home Fire

In a small town of South Fulton, Tennessee a fire station was called to come aid a house fire that was outside of town. But the station would not respond because the house was not in city limits and they did not pay there fee of $75 dollars. Because of this they let the families house burn to the ground along with all of their possessions and 3 of their pets. The firefighters did tend to the area for the fire though, but not for the families house, they contained the fire so it stayed in their lot and not the neighbors because they did pay the $75 fee. They would not allow the family to pay them on the spot because nobody would pay in advance if they would be able to do that.

I think that its ridiculous that they let the fire burn the house to the ground. I disagree with them doing that because it is their responsibility to help out people in need and save houses or buildings that are being consumed by flames. I think that they should have a rule that makes u pay more if u pay on the spot because either way people are going to lose more money if the whole house is destroyed. They have to change the rules inside this small town because that family is completely out of a house over a stupid little rule.

ISSUE #2 -Spending What We Can Afford

In 2007, Congress passed the Pay-as-you-go budgeting also known as "Paygo." It is where people can only pay for what they can afford. People feel that this knew budgeting bill will not help out the country because it will cause taxes to be raised in order for the Government to be able to afford there fundings. Americans also feel that it will make a big dent in the economy. They also think that since the families of America will follow the purchase what you can afford the government should follow.

I think that this new Paygo budget will not work because the government will not be able to follow its own rule of purchas what they can afford so they will be forced to hike up taxes like many Americans think. I also think that because of this it will hurt the economy also because Americans will be forced to spend more on the taxes and not into other goods that help boost our economy. I believe it will also restrict on our spending of National Emergencies because the government will not be able to afford it. http://www.gopac.org/


Brian E Issue 1-http://briansoccer77.blogspot.com/2010/10/federal-budget-blog-issue-one.html
Andy Brian Strater Issue 3- http://astrater.blogspot.com/2010/10/issue-3-social-insecurity.html