Health Care 2010 Issue #3- Safe to eat?

Issue #1: http://arj-robinson.blogspot.com/
Issue #2: http://wysoski.blogspot.com/

Issue #3: In 2006 there was an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in bagged spinach. Feral pigs spread  cow manure to a spinach field. This killed three people and caused over 200 people to get sick.
Consumer advocates have called for new safety regulations and argue that there should only be one agency responsible for ensuring the safety of our food. They urged for more food inspectors to enforce safety mandates. After all this happened sales of bagged leafy foods dropped around 60%, if greater food regulations were to take place the cost of producing fruits and vegetables would increase and the expense would be passed to consumers. The question is if healthcare should cover food poisoning.

I think that the country should offer health care for this group because they are already eating healthy but they get sick doing it. People don't really think to get health care for this because they think that if they're careful about what they eat they wont get sick, but clearly that's not the case.

TURN THIS OFF, RIGHT NOW!

With all the technology out there, multitaskers are multiplying. Scientist think that this is melting our brains! Texting and being on the computer count as multitasking. So is having more than one tab up, which is weird cause a lot of people don't really count this. I'm fairly certain that whoever is reading this has more than one internet tab open. So Turn Off Your Computer before your brain melts!

Whaaa? I thought being able to multitask was a good thing. I guess I shouldn't care too much about multitasking because I'm not good at it, but you, the reader, might be... so watch out!


Source:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40131182/ns/health-behavior/

News about an octopus

During the world cup there was this octopus named Paul who predicted 8 outcomes of the competition. He later died of natural causes. Now he has a successor, a five month old octopus also named Paul. It's not clear yet if he's as "talented" as the other Paul, but clearly people are hoping he is if they would post this on msnbc.

I'm deathly afraid of the Kraken so anything with tentacles (with the exception of Squidward) scares me. And this is so ridiculous I'm surprised they can call this news. Are you serious?! There are people videotaping murder, 10 year olds getting pregnant, and kids getting landed on by sky divers, how is this mixed in with all of that? I am very disappointed that I found this in "world news" and in "sports news." Just saying...

Source:

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/39986180/ns/sports/

Three very disturbed guys

I know a lot of people have already heard about the video circuiting around the Internet about two guys murdering a homeless man while another video taped it. They used a hammer and started bashing his face in, when he wouldn't die they used a screw driver to stab him and take out his intestines out then gouged his eyes out all this happened before the guy died.
After this video was leaked the three were taken to prison and the cops found out that they had done this to over 20 other people. They would pray on weak people who couldn't fight back, and they took pictures and videos of their victims.

I've been thinking about this story all day, I even tried watching the movie but it was too much. As soon as the hammer hit the guys face I looked away, it was too sick. I can't believe someone could actually do this to another person... while laughing! How do you find entertainment in something like this? There's just so many things bothering me about this, I don't know how to write it down and explain it.

Just DON'T watch the video.

Source:
http://www.ohlookaforum.com/sick-vids-f21/dnepropetrovsk-maniacs-ukraine-murder-video-guys-hammer-3guys1hammer-t102.html

10 year old mom

So this 10 year old girl from Spain gave birth to a little girl... Her mother is apparently delighted. They're Gypsies so it's normal for them to marry young, but it's against Romanian laws, that is where they are originally from. Well anyway the baby's daddy is 13, the little girl and the little boy separated and that's why her mom moved her and her baby to Spain. Investigators don't consider this rape so no investigation is going under way.

(this is obviously not the girl cause this is

Jamie Lynn. I just put this here so you

guys would get the idea.)

This sounds super weird... I know that if I got pregnant now my mom would not be "delighted" but to get married at 10?! Well I guess they have different beliefs so it's probably not weird for them. I'm just glad that the little girl is reportedly doing well and is happy. I just feel bad for the dad cause now that he lives in Romania and his daughter was moved to Spain with her mother and grandmother, he wont be able to see her as often, or if he doesn't have a passport, then not at all.

Source:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39989341/ns/world_news-europe/

Wall Street vs. Fed policy decision

Apparently Wall Street will know how much the Fed would like to use to stimulate the economy. The Fed will announce their decision on Wednesday. There was a lot of debate on the size and lengths of programs that they were planing on creating. Treasury prices rose which caused interest rates to go down a little bit. Private employers created 43,000 jobs last month after cutting jobs in September.


This doesn't sound good cause we might end up with inflation... or that's how I'm interpreting it. Since interest rates went down, that's good. Now people wont be in as much debt as they would've and that would probably stimulate the economy cause this will probably give people a little bit more confidence to buy on credit. And unemployment rates will go lower and that will bring us a step closer to becoming a super strong market economy again! YAY!

Source:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39984746/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/

Election-day trading ends good!

So I guess the election-day trading was good for the stock market today. The Dow Jone industrial average was near its highest point of the year today. The index is up almost 14% this year. PS I did not vote today cause I am only 17... that is just a fun fact.

I don't know if this will last or if this is going to be just cause of the election. Whatever it is my stocks are up so I'm not complaining, unless it goes down really fast, then I will be mad. Hopefully though it will last so then we can get out of this stinky economy and become really great when it comes to money again.

Source:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39964805/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/

AIG Paying back

AIG is repaying $37 billion in bailout money. They're trying to raise enough so they can repay the bailout in full. Its bailout package was $180 billion in aid, but the government received 80% stake in the company as part of the deal. They are trying to raise enough money to pay back by selling its other companies. Like they sold ALICO to MetLife Inc for $16.2 billion. The government will do something to AIG similar to what it did for Citigroup Inc shares.

This makes me feel really confident in them, I think I actually might invest in them at our stock market game. Plus it's good for the Treasury Department because if the stock and other investments stay the same, they would make money which is good for our economy.


Source:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39946614/ns/business-us_business/