Blog #15

On CNN they posted an article called Man accused of threatening to kill Bush, blow up White House it talks about how a Louisiana man plan to kill the president George Bush and blow up the White House. A social worker told Secret Service on what Gregory Broussard plan was to do. Broussard is being accused and he is to report to the court on Tuesday afternoon according to the U.S attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Louisiana. According to the article Gregory will need to defend himself and probably pay a high price. He has done a couple of political things for Barack Obama. Thinking if Gregory commits this especially with the economy so bad, not having the white house, and even though Bush is almost leaving then having our forty-third president assassinated. According to this issue Gregory will have to serve five years in jail and a fine of $250,000.

Blog #14

An article on CNN posted an article called Peanut butter recalled amid salmonella outbreak. Forty-nine states have already been affected and three hundred thirty-nine people already been affected. King Nut Company found out those five pounds of peanut butter has found with salmonella. The company apologized for all the people that been affected with this situation. The company fears that the people that consume their product don’t trust it anymore and their market will decrease. Sadly one death has been reported already in Minnesota by the public health officials. Ages from two months through ninety-eight years of age have been affected with the illness and in California there were more cases fifty were reported, Ohio with fifty-three issues, Massachusetts with thirty-nine, Minnesota with thirty and Michigan with twenty. The other thirty-seven states were reported with twenty or fewer cases. Most recovered without treatment but suffer with hydration and severe cases. According to the National Institute of health the people with weaker immune systems tend to be in higher risk.

Blog # 13

On CNN they have the article on the death of John Travolta’s son called Travolta, Preston return to Florida with son's ashes. Sadly Travolta’s son Jett Travolta of sixteen years of age was on vacation with his family in the Bahamas. On Friday Jett was found unconscious they had to run him to the hospital and sadly they announced that he was dead when he arrived to the hospital. The body was cremated on Monday and a memorial service was announced for Thursday, but the funeral hasn’t been announced yet. The family was very devastated and neighbors define the Travolta’s was “one of us” basically just stating they don’t see them as celebrities they see them as a regular person and they always saw their kids Jett and a eight year old girl they have playing around and understanding how the family is feeling right now. Losing a love one isn’t very easy and not being with them and knowing that you will ever see them again is just heart breaking.

Blog #12

WINTER BREAK

With the economy people are shopping less and businesses are going out of business. The article was on CNN called 7 winning industries. The article talks about how clothing stores, toy stores are going out of business and how other businesses are still not being affected things like video games, cosmetics, waste management’s, comfort food, discount retailers, for-profit education, and fast food restaurants. Mc Donald’s announced that thanks to their value menu sales jumped 7.7%. On discount retailers stores like the Dollar Tree saw a 6.2% increase. With comfort food like Mac n Cheese and jell-o they are seeing a 7% increase. Americans are just seeing how poor the economy is and are afraid for their own pockets. That’s why instead of going to expensive restaurants they bother just too probably stop by to fast food restaurants. Right now economic communists announced that the beginning of the New Year is going to be terrifying and half way through the year we will see some results.