Blog #11

WINTER BREAK BLOG
An article called Highways closed, flights canceled as winter roars in was posted on CNN. It talked about how the weather has been affecting many flights. Many residents in the United States been stuck in airports because of many flights that they booked for so long have been cancelled. Many people weren’t so happy to have cancelled their vacations or not going to go see their family for the holidays. The airports that were affected the most were like the ones on the East coast like the New Jersey, JFK, AND La Guardia airports. The streets are all icy and many highways were closed until they cleared and they safe for a while. Many people were affected by this like a seventy-year old woman was found dead outside her house in Ohio. In Indiana pipes burst in a college the weather has just affected many areas around the globe especially with all this global warming we don’t know what to expect.

Blog #10

Reading Minute

On CNN they posted an article called 'Saturday Night Live' not funny, N.Y. governor's office says
on how “Saturday Night Live” is going way too far on mocking politicians. This weekend they were portraying the legally blind governor of New York Governor David Paterson. Fred Armisen took part in this he portrayed the New York Governor and Seth Meyers also made an appearance as well. Even though “SNL” is famous for mocking politicians and newsmaker they just went too far. David Paterson is the first legally blind in the U.S Senate and the first black governor of New York. What they did to portray David, Fred was looking the wrong way and walking in front of the camera when it wasn’t his turn to speak. Armisen said in the skit, “come on, I’m a blind man who loves cocaine who was suddenly appointed governor of New York. My life is an actual plot from a Richard Pryor movie.” People found it really offensive especially with people with disabilities. The governor just responded by saying they can find different ways to be funny without being offensive. As you can see many people were offended like the National Federation of the Blind even commented like saying it’s “absolutely wrong”. “SNL” hasn’t responded yet though to CNN’s request for comment. “SNL” should just be careful and not be really offensive.

Blog #9

On CNN there’s a report that says Fire hits Palin's church in Alaska. The report talked about how former Alaskan governor’s church was burned down in her hometown of Wasilla the name of is Wasilla Bible Church. According to the church minister it occurred on Friday night. They aren’t sure what caused the incident they reported no one hurt. Palin apologized to the Pastor if the incident was caused by the previous election. It took them forty firefighters and they were fighting the fires re drastically which started at 9:40 p.m. Friday Alaska time. The new reporters reported on Anchorage Daily News that the firefighters were there since Saturday morning till 5 a.m. Sadly this church belonged to over 1,000 people and the damages are over one million. Now Sunday services are schedule to take place at a school and sadly the local community church is about thirty years old and the building is two and half years old.

Blog #8

On CNN I found an interesting article called 4th body found in home hit by jet in San Diego sadly this Monday the Marine Corps jet fell on a house in San Diego and destroyed it completely. Today they found the fourth body and it turned out to be a child. After the crash they were able to find three bodies which turned out to be two adults and an infant and they weren’t planning on finding another body. That wasn’t going to be their final destination they were suppose to land at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. Even though they had already tested the jet and they recalled that it was having some trouble and they still let it go. There were witnesses to describe the scene, apparently to them it was horrible many things were going and many saw the house being destroyed it was just a huge mess. The Los Angeles Time reported that the pilot ejected moments before the crash and landed in a tree. So now the plane can automatically crash randomly when the pilot is not in control. The crash was just horrible from the start according to Maurice Luque the jet could have wiped out half a dozen homes. IA neighbor said it felt like an earthquake when the jet landed he saw the flames in front of his hose.

Blog #7

On cnn an interesting article called 28 killed in Somalia fighting on Sat December 6, 2008 the article was updated, Journalist Abdinasir Mohamed Guled contributed to the report. This occurred in Mogadishu, Somali this weekend sadly it left twenty-eight dead people. This was such a horrible fight between Islamist militia and according to Mohammed Hagi Ali a lot of people were dead. It was really devastating seeing family members dying and being attack near your home and it all took place on Saturday. Sadly they were attacked by Ethiopian forces on Friday and more people were killed about sixteen residents that‘s what residents recall. This is not the first time Somalia has been attacked Ethiopia they were attacked two years ago. Terrorism is really bad just picturing all those people dying and homes being destroyed parents trying to protect their kids and just having to lose a family member is a horrible feeling. It’s really sad even not knowing them but just picturing this in your mind. Well the best of luck for the people that were affected.

Blog #6

On the Los Angeles Times an article written by Walter Hamilton on December 1, 2008 called Stocks fall sharply on consumer spending worries just to state that the United States has finally hit a recession. Many knew that the United States had already hit a recession even though they haven’t mentioned anything with the economy being so bad a couple months ago. So by now everyone should know for sure that we are in a recession many businesses are falling apart people losing their jobs. Many stores are having serious sale posting on the front of their stores saying fifty percent off to even ninety percent off. This is the way they are trying to save their business even though many aren’t capable to do it. The author of the article just wanted to state the fact that most citizens had already found out. For example stores like Macy’s it sank 14%and J.C Penny lost 13% were just hoping this nightmare will soon be gone.