After a series of attacks across Iraq, there has been killed at least 58 people and injured another 222 today. Most of the bombings and shootings were aimed at security forces . The attack that took the most causalitiesa happened in Hilla, in the southern province of Babil. Three bombings there killed 36 people and wounded 140. First came a double car bombing that killed 23 people and wounded 110. A suicide bomber struck as medics and security forces responded to those blasts, killing and wounding more. The bombs were detonated by a factory where several people were working. They have not been able to say exactly who triggered the attacks but it most like to be the al qaeda who is known for such actions. The first attacks were on the city of baghdad at dawn. They opened fire on security around 5 30 am wounding 12, adding 3 road side bombings equaling 10 wounded there, leaving the total at 22 already.

This is just sad to read, its hard to know that innocent people across the world are dying for no reason. I believe that we need to stop these killings, or get out of their. I do believe tho that we must end what we started over there because if we werent their they would be doing more terrible things. There is nothing you can really do to prevent these killings, its just a sacrafice these heros are taking to protcet our freedom and show patriotism to thier nations that i have very thankful for.

Some Chicago mothers mark day with tears for slain children

One by one, they filed toward a newly made sculpture at the city's St. Sabina Church, putting small white cards emblazoned with names of the children who were killed and placed them by these scultures."Today, as I woke up, instead of what a lot of mothers get, which are flowers or Happy Mom's Day or a kiss, I didn't get any of that," said Maria Ramirez, whose son, Matthew, was killed at 16. "I don't even get to hear anybody say 'Mama' anymore. I'll never hear that again." Blair, a boy who died, jumped in front of a bullet to save a girl, he was 16.Last month, the streets had taken 7 peoples live and had left 18 wounded. The crime rate increased 11 percent this year, homicide was risen 8 percent. 127 have been recoreded already this year, which is already 3 more than the yearly total in 2008.

I like how these children were honored for the heroic tasks, even if they were young. It takes a lot for someone of that age to give up thier life, just to save another. Reasons like this make me proud to say that i live in America, how many other places could you go to and have this happen. On the downside, these numbers of deaths need to decrease. They need to tighten up on the police force and make the streets a safer place to live, if not, people are going to want to move out of the city, making it harder for people to find jobs which while lead to poverty. Plus, you dont want to be scared or having the thought that any second you could be shot and killed for no reason.

Stock futures surge on rescue plan

The stock market is most likely going to see a raise in the dow jones in the future. Due to the recent progresses in the European stock market, it will likely effect the whole world economy. The euro union approved a 900 million dollar bailout plan to stabalize the market and help greece get out of debt. The European rescue pacakge, valued at more than $1 trillion, has three main components. The biggest provision will use nearly $570 billion to create government-backed loans meant to shore up confidence in shaky credit markets.

This is a good idea, i like how the countrys came together in a tough time to solve their proplems by creating one big group to each chip in. I think that the US should try this instead of being independent we need help, we have more debt than the whole world combined and that is a bad burden we have to live with. This number needs to decrease and we need to stop spending money that are not important. We need to think of plan like this that will get us out of debt.

ISSUE #3: Putting Welfare to Work.

Today, in America, we see the highest poverty rate known to America since it was recorderd in 1975. The Temporary Assistance for Need Familys or also know as TANF has been working on decreasing the number of families they deal with and the number of people on welfare to make the poverty rate decrease. There are less people on the welfare program today, but these are low-paying jobs the people who work this jobs will gain skills to make then excel to find a better job. Most people who are off the welfare plan are forced off because of time limits and are forced to go on other government programs like Medicaid or food stamps. These are not the only government supported groups that are dramatically changing. There is more and more child support money being paid each and every day. In our current country and society you would see more single moms working than you would have 10-20 years ago. The government is encouraging more single mothers to get married so they do not fall through financially. To go along with the poverty, 43% of those people who live in poverty make less than 19,450 dollars a year. This is a umrealistic number to live off of. Many of the children are affected by this new law, they are the few who are seeing a positive outcome, there is less child poverty today.

I believe that these government programs are neccesary, but people should not be to reliable on them. People need to learn how to work and have responsibility, it is not bad to be on welfare for a while if you have just recently had a child but i agree that the plan should be limited. People have become to dependent on such progams. The poverty level will not raise soon, but once people get off government programs and start working you will see the level rise as these people gain skills and eventually work their way up to earn more money. This will boost our economy due to interdependence and business will rely on these people to help out our economy, which will boost those companys these people will eventually work for



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Healt Care

President Obama has recently signed the health care bill that will require all American citizens to have health care. For many people this is a good thing, such as people who work hard but have little income and cant afford to go to the doctor, now they will be able to for little to no cost. The problem that i have with this is that there are going to be many people who will abuse this luxury. When you think of Minnesota, you generally think of nice, hard working outdoorsmen. I believe that we are all three of these and that most people in our state have earned the things they have by toughning up through the hard times instead of wining and blaming the problem on somebody else. We are going to have to pay more in taxes, but what are we going to get out of it. I know that there are going to be people who, now, will not have any drive to get off their couch and get a job, instead, they know that all of the problems will be paid for by the other hard working Americans. Also, the cost of this plan is very high, and considering that we are already trillions in debt i do not believe at this place in time that the Health Care package is the right thing for our counrty right now.

'We aren't in Google anymore'

This was a joke that google did for april fools day. A little bit a go the mayor of Topeka Kansas( the birthplace of google) said that he was going to change the name of his town to Google just for a month. When asked by CNN the reasoing of why he was going to do this he simply said, for fun. So today google, instead of having the usual google on the home page it said TOPEKA in its usual colors.

I think that this is very clever for Google to do and also i think its good to hear things like this. Now, on the news all you hear is bad things taht are going on in the world, but this still shows that people have a humerous side and there not just all caught up in politics.

Sultan commutes woman's caning sentence, lawyer says. Islamic law dictates caning Muslims seen drinking alcohol. In Malaysia, Islamic courts operate alongside civil ones. She is likely to be fined somewhere around 1400 dollars for drinking beer in a hotel. Caning is not the usaully outcome for a crime of this size.

This is just terrible to think that someone was caned for doing something as little as drinking beer in public. I am not saying that these cultures practices are wierd or wrong, i just do not agree wiht them and think that they should be changed. People should be treated equally around the world. It shouldnt matter what sex you are or race, we are people of this earth. I hope that this women does not get these punishments and that the Islamic people understand that this is wrong of them to do.