Cost of gas up about 9 cents in the last 3 weeks

The twice-monthly Lundberg Survey has found the price of regular gasoline has risen about nine cents a gallon over three weeks to $3.08. The price of mid-grade gasoline is now $3.22 a gallon and premium is $3.33 a gallon. The price of gas is just suppose to increase.

I better start saving now just to be able to make it to school at those prices. I also heard it will soon be over 5 dollars by next year. Now all these hybrid cars are coming out but the problem with that is no one can afford that. So lets see people cant afford gas nor hybrid cars. We are stuck.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40990831/ns/business-eye_on_the_economy/

More young people are winding up in nursing homes

About one in seven people now living in nursing home facilities in the U.S. is under 65. This challenges the patient with not only physical but mental issues for example the feeling of being isolated. "It's just a depressing place to live," Martin says. "I'm stuck here. You don't have no privacy at all. People die around you all the time. It starts to really get depressing because all you're seeing is negative, negative, negative."

Now days more people are getting surgeries that causes them to need extra help; therefore they get put into the nursing homes. I think it is a good idea so in case if there was any accidents they have help. Many families lose touch with there love ones because they might not have time to see them in the day to visit them in the nursing home, then the patient feels trapped.

House sends tax-cut compromise to president

The house wants tax-cuts for all. All they need is the president to sign. The measure would extend tax cuts for families at every income level, renew jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed and enact a new one-year cut in Social Security taxes that would benefit nearly every worker who earns a wage. The vote was 277-148, with each party contributing an almost identical number of votes in favor (the Democrats, 139 and the Republicans, 138). Opposed were 112 Democrats and 36 Republicans.

This would be very nice if taxes would be cut for awhile. This would give people time to provide presents to their children over the holidays. The favor votes were very close in number which means that no one knows the solution to our economic problem.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40697296/ns/politics-capitol_hill/

The snow storm of December 11

In Minneapolis heavy snow and storm wind hit and caused a blizzard conditions. The storm started Friday in the Rocky Mountains and moved into eastern Nebraska and Iowa, southeastern South Dakota and Minnesota after midnight, the National Weather Service said, Its expected to spread east into Wisconsin and Michigan Later Saturday and Sunday. The storm delayed the New York Giants from getting to Minnesota for their game against the Vikings. A foot of blowing snow falling in the Twin Cities area closed the airports.

This was a huge storm that affected many places. Currently in my town the snow was not a problem but the wind was. It was making two foot drifts. Even some of the interstates were closed. The freezing cold wind took the breath out of you. It was a good thing that it was a weekend so that little children would not be standing out in the cold waiting for their bus.

Issue #3 Safe to Eat?

Food-borne illnesses caught our attention when many people got sick from the fresh fruit and vegetables. Dangerous bacteria called E. coli was found in bagged spinach in 2006. This killed three people and sickened more than 200. Tests found out that it came from a pig farm that their cow manure had E. coli in it and spread into the spinach Field. Meat and poultry are looked upon by the Department of Agriculture. Fruit and vegetables are looked regulated Food and Drug Administration. Some believe that food supply should be regulated by one company. Also the other problem is if the people get sick should we have national health care? The government wants to decided what we can and can not eat. medicare

I believe that we need to put more rules towards making our food and even the beginning of the start of our food. We could make it mandatory to test the cow manure before its put on the fields. This would save many people from having to spend money to go to the doctors. I think that having two food departments is better than one because they can focus on their types of food. I dont think that the government needs to spend anymore of our tax payer's money with posting warning labels on our fast food companies. This example came from San Francisco where they wanted "McDonald’s Happy Meals and other fast-food meals that come with toys to meet new nutritional standards." Forbes

Teen kills mom

Michael Richard Swanson, a 17-year-old from St. Louis Park, Minnesota was charged as an adult with two counts each of first-degree murder and first-degree robbery in slayings in Kossuth and Humboldt counties. Monday while wearing a ski mask and demanded cash and cigarettes from the clerk, 47-year-old Vicky Bowman-Hall. Swanson shot her even though she complied with the request. About an hour later, Swanson walked into a Kum and Go convenience store in Humboldt, about 30 miles south of Algona and shot and killed Sheila Myers, 61, who died at the scene.



We all think that our world what you make it. That is true most people think that these students that do bad things are their own choices. Now I'm not defending murders but i am defending science. Research has found people may be born with more rage and shorter tolerance.

Rhino killed, horns cut off, while inside refuge

A female rhino, nicknamed Stumpy was slaughtered last Saturday. The mother of eight was shot then her horns were hacked off. The rhino's were located in an African sanctuaries for black rhinos. The rhino had a baby calf; it suffered a minor wound to the neck. Rhino horns in Asia are used for medical purposes therefor there is a high demand for them.

This is a really sad story because the rhino's were in a safe place we shouldn't have be worried so much. Now days everyone wants money and will stop at nothing to get it. PETA is a good organization to help stand up to these inhumane things that people do to innocent animals. We need to protect the things that cant themselves. Although using natural things for medical reasons i agree with but not like this.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39990866/ns/world_news-world_environment/