WWII biplane flips upside during landing

A plane flipped upside down on the runway during a landing at a show at the Ronald Regan National Airport. They were doing an extremly difficult landing and they just flipped the plane. It landed first on the tail end as well as bouncing on the wing and tips a few times. Luckily, the two pasengers were not hurt during the incident, they later relaxed over a cup of coffee and laughed off the incident. There was damage to the wing, prop, and tail of the captains plane. The man flying the plane has had alot of experience flying planes and showing them off in shows.

Well this is just a stupid thing that happened. A freak accident i would say, but both of those people in the plane are extremly lucky to even be alive. They should be happy. Thankfully only their plane was semi-destroyed. Airplane shows are very entertaining i think, even just watching them my stomache does flips and such. They are very brave people who go and do such things, i mean what would happen if the harness broke open, or you crashed into another plane? You would be dead. Thats what would happen, and then multiple people would be sad. I don't think that i would like to go into a plane thats doing flips and such over 100 mph in the air. Not for me.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/08/wwii.biplane.flips/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29

Children's quality of life declining, says report

About 21 percent of all the children in the United States will be living below the poverty line in 2010. That is the highest percentage in almost 20 years. This is due to the families economic well being plummeting in the last 25 years. Most families now a days have cut back on how many children they have, but studies show that the larger the family is the more likely they are to be in poverty. Also there is an expected peak in the obesity of children. Since the families with the tighter budjets will be moving towards buying less healthy food for cheaper, the weight levels in most children is expected to rise.

This is so sad. Why can't people seem to use birth control and be able to raise healthy children who dont have to live in poverty and know nothing about going hungry at night because their parents cannot possible feed all of them. They shouldn't have to eat canned fruit high in sugars and saturated fats if their parents could afford to buy fresh fruits and veggies that are actually healthier for them. Also peopel should start adopting the children who are in their own country that are growing up hungry and cold. Yes its a wonderful thing when other children are adopted outside of the United States, don't get me wrong, but then if their are plenty of children going hungry in our own nation why don't we just adopt them? It seems to make more sense to me, but apparently not to every other family that has adopted from outside of the country.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/06/08/children.wellbeing/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29

3 hurt in pipeline blast in Texas Panhandle

A pipeline had exploded in the northern panhandle of Texas early on Tuesday morning. At least three were injured. Many more are still missing, or unaccounted for. People who heard the blast from more than a mile away called in the authorities, and several fire departments went out to the blast sight to see what can be done. The gas company has to now figure out a way to shut the gas off, they do not want it to be leaking into the air. They most definetly don't want it leaking into the air and reaching the nearby town of 300 residents that is close by.

What is wrong with all of the oil and gas pipelines nowasdays? Seriously this is horrible! It's one disaster after another, absolutaly ridiculous. Get ahold of what is going on. How hard can it possibly be to go and make sure that everything is going to run smoothly...it's probably not. People have gotten so lazy nowadays that they are forgetting the simplist of things. Checking pressure gauges, or making sure there are not leaks to cause explosions or other pipelines to burst into flames. The world is all of a sudden becoming one big polluted place. If global warming is actually true, its most definetly going to start happening now.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/08/texas.pipeline.explosion/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29

Mexico asks for probe into teen's shooting death by U.S. border agent

A teen was shot during a rock throwing protest on Monday. They say that the teen was participating in the events and even after verbal warnings was shot and later died at a nearby hospital. The body of the teen was found on the mexican side of the border. The area where the assault occured is a very common ground for such outbreaks. They are being taken very seriously now due to the 799 assaults on border patrol officers in the 2009-2010 year. One officer says that it's not like they are throwing pebbles.

The border patrol has taken this a little bit to far now. They do not need to be opening fire on citizens, even if they are throwing rocks or pebbles or anything at all. They were on the Mexican side of the border, they should be allowed to protest wherever and whenever they like, as long as they are on their own side. If they cross into the United States there is a little bit of a difference because they are here illegaly. But still, they should not be shot. Taken into custody, tried and punished yes. But shot and killed, most definetly not.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/08/texas.border.patrol.shooting/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29

Tracking the Gulf oil spill

Oil is spewing into the Gulf and no one has any idea as to how big or how bad this spill is actually getting. The leak in the bottom of the ocean is spilling at a rate of 12,000 to 19,000 gallons per day. Also as of May17 a possible 260,000 to 540,000 gallons of oil have spilled into the ocean. That is much oil, it could fill up 34 olympic sized swimming pools, but also the estimate could be way off some experts say. It is possible a few million gallons of oil have leaked. Also over 160 miles of fishing grounds in the ocean have now been coated with oil, and thousands of miles surrounding those oil saturated lands have been closed to fishing.

I personally think that all of this is a bit ridiculous. If BP would have followed the safety rules in place none of this would have happend. Who even allowed such a company, who has had multiple violations already on their oil rigs, build another one out in the middle of the ocean? That was the dumbest decision someone could have ever made. This is an environmental disaster that will be extremly hard to fix. All of the wildlife that is being threatend by this disasster is absolutaly horrifying, the efforts to help and save the animals is not enough, they are sill getting oil soaked and they are still dying. The BP oil company should both, be federally charged for their offenses as well as hurry up and stop the leaking oil.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/04/29/interactive.spill.tracker/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29

Russia bomb kills 6; more than 40 hurt

In Russia on Wednesday May 25th a bomb was set off in front of a dance hall. The show was starting at 7 o'clock when the bomb went off at 6:45 p.m and killed 6 and there are more than 40 people now hurt. Around 200 grams of bomb explosives were detonated by a remote control, and the bomb was also filled with small metal objects with the hopes of inflicting as much damage to the people around as possible. No claims have been made, but they believe that it is an Islamic extremist group causing the terror, there have been two other bombings in recent months. One was in the subways in Moscow killing over 40 people.

I believe that these acts of terrorism are getting very old. I think that now since they happen more often they really have no effect on the world. Its getting very normal to be able to hear about a bombing in one country, or shootings between terrorist groups in another. They aren't really random acts because even though we do not know when they are coming, we expect them to happen. The levels of awarness have actually dropped i believe since 9/11, people used to go crazy about every little threat, and now after none of those threats have come through we are not prepared to handle them when they actually do happen.


http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/05/26/russia.bombing/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29

Georgia teacher found not guilty in 'dirty dancing' trial

In Decantur, Georgia a teacher was found not guilty on charges of contrubuting to acts of misdemenor depravation of a minor. Back in 2008 students in his choir class performed dance routines for their whole class, according to eye witnesses their teacher was helping another student find their music at the time, when three male students stripped out of their shirts and made sexual moves twoards a group of girls in the front row of their classroom audience. The school fired him last year when they alleged that he didn't properly supervise his students. The real issue was when one of his students posted the video to facebook.


In this case, i believe that the verdict was completely accurate. He does not deserve to be punished for what his students did in his classroom. They were fully capable of knowing what they were doing, they are all older high school students. In high school we are beginning to be considered as adults, why wouldn't we be able to take responsibility of our own actions? Those young adults knew exactly what they were doing. And in that they should be the ones to be taking the consequences and just dealing with them. In the article, there is a link to the link that was posted to facebook, and having personally watched the video, I do not think that there is anything wrong with it. If anyone would watch that video, then go to any high school dance, they would feel that the dance at the high school was way more provacative than the video of what those boys did in a presentation of expression and movement it their choir class.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/31/teacher.dirty.dancing.verdict/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29

Dead Marine's father ordered to pay protestors' legal costs

At a fallen soliders funeral in 2006 a group of protestors, who were protesting the war, came to his funeral and started shouting obscene things and violating the private rights of the family that was holding the funeral in honor of their son. The family sued the church that the group of protestors, in that settlement they gain little more than 5 million dollars in damages. But in recent events, the court overturned that ruling stating that it was against first amendment rights to have the protestors pay the money, now the family of the discesed has to pay back those damages to the church. So instead of shutting down those types of protests, they are now going to be funding them.


I think that this is one of the most ridiculous things to ever happen to the American legal system. Why in the world would any judge or jury for that matter decide that the right thing to do would be to go and fund people who are against the very soliders who fight to keep them and their country free. Sure, its against the first amendment to stop freedom of speech, but to go and intrude into someones final reception and burial is just morally wrong in my book. Let them and their family have their peace, and allow them to have their closure. Those people think that it's a sin to go to war, and that its God's way of punishing the United States for homosexuality is by events such as soliders' deaths. But what would happen if one of their own church members became a homosexual, yet they just didn't know it? That has me wondering. I believe that in the United States people can be whatever they want to be, as long as they aren't hurting anyone, or breaking the law they are fine.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/30/westboro.baptist.snyder/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29

Cold Case: Teen was snatched from street, killed.

Back in June of the year 2000 Leah Freeman disappeared in from her smalltown just around dusk when she was walking home from a freinds house. Police have now reopened this cold-case because they say that since 10 years have passed, the witnesses have now become more mature about what happened and are coming forward with key information. Since the case has been reopened the main suspect in the case is Leah's boyfriend who was supposed to pick her up at her friends house that night. But her friend and her had gotten into a fight, and Leah decided to go home early. After she disappeared her body wasn't found until a month later in a neighboring town.


One thing that i do not understand about this case or this article is why they are saying they are reopening this case now that witnesses, who didn't see her being abducted are coming forward with information. Considering the information is 10 years old it cannot still be clear in that persons mind what actually happend that night. Considering i can't remember what i had did last week in math class, i don't think that people are going to recall little tiny details that happend 10 years ago. But if they want to do this now because the forensic science is going to be so much better, wouldn't thebasic forensic evidence have already deteriorated 10 years later? I guess nowadays they can preserve even the simpilist particles of evidence. But to have her boyfreind as the main suspect i believe is a bit ridiculous, just because he was out smoking pot doesnt meant that he went and killed his girlfriend. Even though they had found a white male tank top on his front porch, and she was wearing one the night she died doesn't mean he killed her. Boys do tend to wear male white tank tops. But hopefully they find the killer in this case.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/29/grace.coldcase.freeman/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29

Google quits censoring search in China

Internet search giant Google announced that at 3:03 p.m. they have stopped censoring searches for the chinese people. They have been censoring searches, and restricting what sites that the Chinese people have been wanting to look at due to their communistic reign in their country. They now are routing all of the searches to Google in Hong Kong that is unrestricted, but it did not take long for the Chinese government to catch on to their plans. Some users in China have been complaining about not having access to the Google routers in Hong Kong. Due to these new findings, the Communistic government has began cutting off the google access in their country all together. Soon, a Google representative says, it could be quite possible that Google will be shut down in China all together.


I believe that Google made the right move in unblocking all services to the Chinese. Those people, just like the americans, have a right to be able to look up whatever they want to. Just because they have a communist government, that doesn't give the government the power to look up and block certain key words. Some of these key words or events in the history of China were such as Tiananmen Square, the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement, and as well as the Dalai Lama. Personally, i am glad that i live in a country where i can look up whatever I want to and gain access to it. Even though at our schools i believe that the restrictions are a little bit over the top. If a student chose to do a topic on WWII or more specifically the Nazi movement, they would not be able to gain access to that information at school. It is blocked, so even if it is a part of our own personal history we cannot look it up or do searches on the topics that really interest us. So i guess that in the way that we, as students, are censored is quite a bit like the restrictions in China. Alot over the top, and ridiculous in my opinion, but I realize that somehow they are trying to protect us from the evils of the world, even if it dampens our education.


http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/22/google.china/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29

Rapper Lil' Wayne sentenced to one year

Rapper Lil' Wayne, whose birth name is Dwayne Carter, was sentenced on Monday March 8th to one year in prison on felony gun possesion charges. He was caught in 2007 in front of the Beacon Theater in Manhattan, New York with a .40 caliber pistol on his tour bus. Even though his attorney says the pistol belonged to someone else Carter still took the blame. His prosecution was delayed twice, once to get his diamond studded braces removed from his teeth, and another due to a fire at a courthouse. He plead guilty, giving no statement due to an agreement with the District Attorneys office.
I believe that this is both fair and unfair, if he wasn't such a famous person in the world of music the trial would have gone unnoticed by the public. But for him to take the blame for another person is really an honorary thing to do. Well that is if he even did take the blame for someone else, and that wasn't just a cop out to possibly get the blame taken off of him. But for him to spend up to a year in jail, i believe is a bit excessive. He should have to do time just like the next person who gets caught on gun charges, but because of his fame he could put his time to good use. Instead of staying in jail for a year he could bring awarness to different causes, or work off his time doing community service work. By him just going out into the public and bringing attention to certain causes he could make such a big difference. The fame he would bring to a certain charitable cause would bring in hundreds of volunteers, and hundreds of dollars donated to help out. So instead of him sitting away in jail for a year and getting special protection his time could be spent alot more wisely.

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British hostages: We're being badly treated

A British couple, Paul and Rachel Chandler, were taken from their yacht on October 23 when Somalian pirates captured the couple and took them ashore. The couple is being held in separtate locations in central Tanzania. Their Somalian captors demanded 7 million dollars originally, which the British government in line with the policies they have set, refused to pay. The couple was filmed in a video last Thursday by a French news agency, where Rachel Chandler pleaded to the British government to help fund their release. The couple is not in good health, the woman is apparently suffering from insomnia while her husband is suffering from a bad cough and a fever.

I do believe that the British government should help get these people out of the Somolians charge. But i do not think that they should have to pay for the 7 million dollars that they are demanding. Since the French news company filmed the womans half of the video, shouldn't they know where she is? Why can't they help get her out? People these days do not know how to help others. What happend to helping people when they are in need, instead of helping them when it only directly affects you. If everybody gave a little bit more, life would be a lot simpiler. I'm not talking about money help either, it can be any kind. Donations of food, clothing, money and even time can help. Donating time, i believe, is the best thing to donate. Time to help clean ditches, paint buildings, build homes with habitat for humanity, even simply raking leaves in an elderly neighbors yard in the fall can go a long way. Its called the whoosh effect, if someone says something like i'm so tired, everyone around them will chime in me too, or same. But if one person helps somebody by opening a door, or giving someone their seat on the bus when its full can be an eye opener. Some people might look and see that and say hey, that was nice of them, i should go and help somebody like that. The whoosh effect. I hope those people get released from Somalia soon, so they can go home and move on with their lives.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/01/31/uk.pirates.chandlers/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29

Dental records confirm body is Va. Tech student's.

Morgan Harrington, a education majors skeletal remains were found on Tuesday by a farmer looking around for knocked down trees after a major wind and rain storm knocked down several in his yard. Morgan went missing after her and her friends got separated at Metallica concert when she left to go and use the restrooms. But police do not understand why she would go outside of the arena when there were bathrooms provided for the concert goers inside of the arena. Her parents were in town the day that her body was found and were able to identify the body.


This is a very very sad story. I do not understand why a young woman who had so much potential ,to be anything that she wanted to be, could be killed so young. Why? I don't see the point of it. People who go out and take the life of another person without probable cause are just very bad people. Life, liberty, and property are some of the basic rights of all Americans. But now this young woman does not have a life anymroe to live, hers was taken away by a selfish person who was only thinking of themselves. So whoever that this person is, shouldn't have the right to life liberty and property. Whoever did this, I believe should be brought justice soon. What could the possible reasoning be for cutting a life short ever? Not just in this case, but in all cases around the world. For every single murder out there i do not believe that there could be a good enough reason to take their life away from them. Even if you have something against them, or if you don't like some of their decisions they make, or even if they didn't give help to those who most needed it, and you thought it was selfish, most sane normal people would not go and kill someone.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/27/virginia.harrington.remains/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29