This is a blog for Mrs. Ballew's Civics and Economics classes.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
7th Period Current Event 12/10 or 12/17
Please post your current event for 12/10 or 12/17 (you only have to do one) below. You can read about anything you would like to for this current event :).
An ex-convict held a school board at gun point and then randomly started firing the man was Clay A. Duke had a calender in his mobile home with the date circled. His wife had recently been fired from teaching special education so his shooting might be linked to it.
The US government is trying to build a case against the website wikileaks. Though currently unsuccessful they are expected to make some headway one way or another. I personally think this is crazy. What happened was that documents the government didn't want anyone to find out about were posted online so they are currently trying to find some way to cover it up and remove it from history altogether.
http://www.hiphoprx.com/2010/12/15/caught-on-tape-suicidal-gunman-clay-duke-at-florida-school-board-shooting/ Everyone on facebook was talking about this so I had to do this one! A 56 year old man(Duke) in panama city, Florida attended his wife's Board meeting to note about why his wife was fired from her job. As the board member's started the meeting you could here the 56 year old spray painting something to the wall. In the act, you could read a large 'V" on the side of his wall. The "V" standing for vendetta. As he grabs everyones attention he asked that whoever isn't sitting on the podium to leave right away. As people started to murr murr the 56 year old grabs his gun to notify that he was being serious, making the women leave. The board members stayed calm because they knew they were about to get shot if they didn't stay put. As the gunman starts, he firs says "i'm going to die today". He claimed that him and his wife had lost their benefits and now his wife was about to lose her job? As the board members sat and listened they also tried to reason with the gunman. The gunman claimed that the government was working against people rather than work with them. As he explained he points the gun to one of the members and then proceeds to shoot at everyone else. As he did, the police took action and shot at the gunman. Ending it all. The gunman was trying to fight oppression by the government. It just goes to show you that not only children get inspired by TV these days. I kind of get why the gunman would do that because he was fighting for his wife but there was NO reason to bring a gun! crazyyyy people these days! -Aracely Sibrian
I think it's understandable that a lonely person would want to go to the hospital for no reason on holidays. Many people see hospitals as secure and somewhat comforting environment. What these people don't take into consideration is that the doctors working may actually have family they want to get back to, instead of working on patients without problems. It's a good thing most doctors act friendly toward those peole. I mean, you have to have sympathy for them. They've gotten to be pretty lonely to go to these kinds of extremes. The holidays are supposed to be a happy time, even for the lonely ones.
Recently a judge in Spain ruled that jailbreaking and selling a Playstation 3 is perfectly legal. This happened despite Sony's many rules against this. The judge even said that sony has to pay leagal fees to retailers during the jailbreak sweep. However, Sony still has two days to make an appeal. I think it should be mad illegal to jailbreak your PS3 because it usually leads to the pirating of a lot of copyrighted material.
The article i read today was about House Passes Extension of Bush Tax cuts for two years. the democrats werent happy about the comprimise and they fought at the last minute. Republicans called it the best deal they could get right now, and President Barack Obama agreed with them.
he said "This isn't an abstract debate," Obama said. "This is real money for real people. It will make a real difference in the lives of the folks who sent us here."
One of the comment that i have read said "And at the same time georgie bush gave the wealthy tax cuts, he doubled the medicare costs for seniors and cut benefits at the same time."
An ex-convict held a school board at gun point and then randomly started firing the man was Clay A. Duke had a calender in his mobile home with the date circled. His wife had recently been fired from teaching special education so his shooting might be linked to it.
ReplyDeleteAdrien Testerman
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/world/16wiki.html
ReplyDeleteBrendan Young
The US government is trying to build a case against the website wikileaks. Though currently unsuccessful they are expected to make some headway one way or another. I personally think this is crazy. What happened was that documents the government didn't want anyone to find out about were posted online so they are currently trying to find some way to cover it up and remove it from history altogether.
http://www.hiphoprx.com/2010/12/15/caught-on-tape-suicidal-gunman-clay-duke-at-florida-school-board-shooting/
ReplyDeleteEveryone on facebook was talking about this so I had to do this one!
A 56 year old man(Duke) in panama city, Florida attended his wife's Board meeting to note about why his wife was fired from her job. As the board member's started the meeting you could here the 56 year old spray painting something to the wall. In the act, you could read a large 'V" on the side of his wall. The "V" standing for vendetta. As he grabs everyones attention he asked that whoever isn't sitting on the podium to leave right away. As people started to murr murr the 56 year old grabs his gun to notify that he was being serious, making the women leave. The board members stayed calm because they knew they were about to get shot if they didn't stay put. As the gunman starts, he firs says "i'm going to die today". He claimed that him and his wife had lost their benefits and now his wife was about to lose her job? As the board members sat and listened they also tried to reason with the gunman. The gunman claimed that the government was working against people rather than work with them. As he explained he points the gun to one of the members and then proceeds to shoot at everyone else. As he did, the police took action and shot at the gunman. Ending it all.
The gunman was trying to fight oppression by the government.
It just goes to show you that not only children get inspired by TV these days. I kind of get why the gunman would do that because he was fighting for his wife but there was NO reason to bring a gun!
crazyyyy people these days!
-Aracely Sibrian
http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/16/on-christmas-the-lonely-seek-refuge-in-hospitals/
ReplyDeleteRobin Taz
I think it's understandable that a lonely person would want to go to the hospital for no reason on holidays. Many people see hospitals as secure and somewhat comforting environment. What these people don't take into consideration is that the doctors working may actually have family they want to get back to, instead of working on patients without problems. It's a good thing most doctors act friendly toward those peole. I mean, you have to have sympathy for them. They've gotten to be pretty lonely to go to these kinds of extremes. The holidays are supposed to be a happy time, even for the lonely ones.
Raymond Zhang
ReplyDeletehttp://www.geek.com/articles/games/barcelona-judge-says-jailbreaking-ps3s-and-selling-them-perfectly-legal-in-spain-20101217/
Jailbreaking PS3 Legal in Spain
Recently a judge in Spain ruled that jailbreaking and selling a Playstation 3 is perfectly legal. This happened despite Sony's many rules against this. The judge even said that sony has to pay leagal fees to retailers during the jailbreak sweep. However, Sony still has two days to make an appeal. I think it should be mad illegal to jailbreak your PS3 because it usually leads to the pirating of a lot of copyrighted material.
The article i read today was about House Passes Extension of Bush Tax cuts for two years. the democrats werent happy about the comprimise and they fought at the last minute. Republicans called it the best deal they could get right now, and President Barack Obama agreed with them.
ReplyDeletehe said "This isn't an abstract debate," Obama said. "This is real money for real people. It will make a real difference in the lives of the folks who sent us here."
One of the comment that i have read said "And at the same time georgie bush gave the wealthy tax cuts, he doubled the medicare costs for seniors and cut benefits at the same time."
This article was very intereseting.