More Lawsuits Fileed Over Tainted Milk in China

My article "More lawsuits filed over tainted milk in china" by the nytimes is about how nine family's in china having problems with kidney failure. This is all happening because of bad milk. This milk is a huge problem and causing more problems by the minute. Milk is in a lot of things including yogurt and cheese. The milk is tainted with Melamine. This chemical causes kidney stones. Four babies have died because of tainted milk and 53,000 more have became ill. Melamine has been added to milk for protein purposes.

This is a very serious situation and the Chinese government should be looking into this. Milk is in a lot of products and can this can be a very bad deal if it doesn't get under control. I'm glad that i live in the united states and that we aren't having any problems with tainted milk. If you want to see the actual paper than go to this site http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/world/asia/31milk.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin

Halloween

My father hates Halloween and wishes that my family didn't do anything for it. My mom on the other hand thinks it is just silly and fun. So we do participate in Halloween. I started trick or treating my sixth grade year. My parents and my cousin’s parents always go to my aunt’s house in town and chill while my brother and sister and I all go trick or treat. This Friday I'm going to be chilling with Rene and Wayne. I have to help at an Elderly home for a school club (NHS). NHS is having place for little kids to go and play games and get candy. I have to work until 8 o'clock and then after that who knows what will happen.

Red Ribbon Week

Jeff Yaldin was a very motivating speaker. He makes it funny and interesting for us but he still gets his point across to us. When he started talking about his custody battle and after graduation and his father threw him out. That really gets you thinking about how rough that would be and why he got into the motivational speaking business.

The drug topic is a little crazy. Yes, i think that Hayden has a problem with all types of drugs. I personally don't know very much about it because i stay away from that kinda stuff. Hayden has all of the problems of most schools have, illegal, legal, and pills.

Bees and Winter

Some people say that bees can tell how bad the winter is going to bee. Well i did a little research and discovered that bees can tell how bad the winter is going to be this winter. If there is a lot bees during the summer then that means that it is very dry and there food source is running out. The bees swarm people because most of the have sweet foods that the bees enjoy. So if the summer is dry the winter is going to be long and wet to make up for the long dry spell.
That's not the only way to tell if winter is going to be bad. The needles on pine trees are very thick when winter is going to be long and cold. Some say that the color of woolly worms can also show how bad the winter is going to be. I just go with the flow and take winter as it comes. I hope that we have lots of snow and tons and tons of powder. Snow machines seem to love the deep powder.

Joe the plumber

For you people who watch the presidential debate you probably know about Joe the plumber. McCain talked about Joe several times in the debate. The Thursday Saturday night live special also referred to Joe the plumber. Joe is Samuel Joe Wurzelbacher from Toledo, Ohio. He and another man named Al newell. The annual earnings is between 250,000 and 280,000 dollars. The way that McCain was describing Joe was as a poor plumber who was hardly getting by. That is true though, 250,000 dollars is quite a bit for a small business. With Al and Joe being the only full time employees i almost guarantee that he makes decent money.

PC vs. Mac

"Starting our fight to night, in the blue corner we have PC and in the red corner Mac". I don't really the difference between the two other than what i see on t.v. All of the commercials show that Mac is the way to go. I also own a ipod which mac owns and i really like it and it works good. So if i had to choose between PC or Mac i would go with a mac.

School Dances: to grind or not to grind?

Some people don't believe grinding should be allowed at school. I think this is unfair to us kids. We have grinded at dances for several years and there have been no problems. Why should we change it now, if there are no problems? It's not like were doing anything bad on the dance floor. All we are doing is dancing and having a good time.

We live in a democracy right? Why don't we just ask the students and parents and see what they say on the topic. If most of the parents agree that the kids should be allowed to grind then us kids should be allowed to. That way if the parents don't think there kids should be grinding then they don't have to go to the dances. It's only fair to all the other students that they have the choice. If the teachers are allowed to send home permission forms for pg-13 and R rated movies then they could just as easy do a survey for grinding.

I know this is kinda alot but it's kind of a big topic at school right now. There has been rumors going around that they might drug test before dances. There is no problem with this. I know other schools in the surrounding area do drug tests before prom. If the school is so worried about drugs and alcohol then they don't need to worry about grinding. "That's all I've got to say about that."

Blocks and Filters

I think that all the filters and blocks are good on a curtain level. There are certain web sites that shouldn't be blocked that are. We have a the reguest tool doesn't seem to work unless the whole class sends in a reguest. I understand that the computer guy jim must be busy but he told us he would unlock these sites with in twenty four hours. I'v tried to unlock several different sites that help me with other classes. With out those sites classes are made even more difficult and causing me to struggle. I'm starting to have to do some work at home and my computer is so slow it take twice as long to finish my work. The filters are becoming even more of an issue than a solution.

Teachers are always telling us that what ever we can do on the computers can be tracked back to us. So instead of having a bunch of filters and issues just moniter the really bad sites and catch the kids after they preform the crime. Some people say the best way to learn is by failure and if that is true we need to let us students do that.

Hey this is koleman or willi as some say. I just got mano and strep at the same time. lol We just had home coming week and i had to miss most of it because i was sick. Not really the best time of my life but i guess im alive so that's a plus