Homeless Face the Cold

The article starts out with an interview of a homeless man who lives in Atlanta by the name of Brook. Unlike most homeless people, he prefers to stay away from homeless shelters and finds abandoned houses or even dumpsters to stay in. The reason he doesn't like homeless shelters because of how many people that steal when the others are sleeping. Brook has been jobless for 2 years, and during that time either in jail or on the streets. He hints that his way of obtaining money is illegal saying,"I aquire things for low and sell for high". Brook says the worst is when it is cold, and raining, he says the last time he went to a shelter was because of the rain. All across America homeless shelters are seeing an increase due to the cold weather. More than 21,000 people were counted as homeless in the counties surrounding Atlanta. Many shelters have had to deny people shelter due to the shelters already being packed.

Something that I don't understand is how their can be so many people that are homeless in such a small area. Especially now that with the weather I would think that people would do anything and everything to try and find a place to stay permanently, and not have to go back on the streets.

8 people shot at factory in St. Louis

On Thursday at 6:30 am, a had entered a transformer manufacturer company in St. Louis with a rifle and a handgun. When the police got to the factory, they made a perimeter around the building, and were able to locate the victims. Their was a total of 8 people shot, 3 dead, 5 wounded. Nothing was said about the man who shot these people.

I think thats its sad how America has had so many incidences like this. Where someone walks into a building and takes so many innocent lives. I think that its hard to protect people who work in places where these kinds of things happen because you don't know who is the person thats going to snap.

Outlaw Child Abuse in Schools

In 2002, a 14 year old special education student in Texas was killed because his teacher was holding him in a face down restraint, even though the child was repeatedly saying that he couldn't breathe. Minutes later he died on the classroom floor. Within the last 20 years, their have been many cases of things like this. Resulting in emotional scarring, and sometimes even death. The root of our problem is our failure to provide direction amd reinforcement.

I think that this should not be that difficult of a problem to fix. Its common sense when it comes to a child abuse. But I'm sure that when special ed teachers are getting frustrated with their students, they don't think through what they are doing, and I'm sure they regret their decisions later.

Eastern Europe not feeling obama's love

In one of Sheana Kennealy's recent blogs, she summarized an article on how many European countries disagree with Obama and his plans. She also talked about how they did not agree with how Bush ran the country, but it was still better than what Obama is doing now. In her opinion, she believes that people are always looking for someone to blame for something, and in this case all the blame falls on the president. She also supports Obama, and believes that what he is doing will benefit all the world, and not just the U.S.A.
I would have to disagree that so many countries are disagreeing with Obama. I did an article earlier this month, and I found that America's status is actually improving in the world. Many countries approve how we are handling some of our bigger issues including, Iraq, Isreal, and other issues. But I do agree with Sheana that what Obama is doing now is benefiting everyone.

Search ends for missing after midair collision

After searchers scoured the Pacific ocean for 60 hours, authorities decided to call off the search-and-rescue mission for the nine people who crashed into the ocean after a Coast Gaurd C-130 plane collided with a Marine AH-1 helicopter on Thursday. The conclusion is that no one would have been able to survive this long, that the longest they could have survived was up to 20 hours. the Coast Gaurd had covered 644 miles, without finding a trace of anyone. the Coast Gaurd announced that a memorial service will be held at 11 a.m friday at the Coast Gaurd station in Sacremento.
I feel very bad for the families of the people who died in the accident. Its even worse that none of the bodies were found. I think that it is a very unfornunate, and unpredictable thing to have happen.

Mexico extradites record number to U.S.

Over the weekend 11 mexican fugitives were extradited to the United States, making the year 2009 to have the most total extradites ever. the current extraditions is now 100, topping last year's 95. Mexican President Felipe Calderon has emphasized extraditions to fight against drug dealers. Many drug dealers have been known to escape Mexican prison's, and continue to work inside them.
I think that it is good that Mexico is trying different tactics to stop the on-going struggle with drug dealers. I think that if the drug dealers are extradited to the U.S. it will put a halt to their business since they are so far away from their company. Also I'm sure that the prisons are more secure here in the U.S. than in Mexico.

U.S. set to pay Taliban members to switch sides

Experts of the region believe that creating a program to pay the Taliban to quit the orginization will buy temporary loyalty. On Wednesday, Obama signed a $680 billion defensive bill that will pay for military operations in 2010. The Taliban will be recieving $1.3 billion. The plan is to seperate the Taliban from their leaders, and put a stop to the surge against americans in Iraq. Sen. Carl Levin says that the Taliban are moitivated mostly by the need for a job and a loyal leader, not religion. The bill has been a main priority now after many Americans have lost their lives in the past few months. On Tuesday, 8 soldiers were killed in a attack in southern Afghanistan. Levin also says that many Iraqis have switched to our side due to the promise of jobs and anmesty of past attacks.

After what I have a heard of the Taliban, I don't think that they can be trusted. I think that $1.3 billion dollars is a lot of money, and what would they spend it on? I think whatever it is, it would only cause more problems for us.