Nets walk away from Carmelo Anthony trade

Mikhail Prokhorov, the Nets owner, has told his management to stay away from the Carmelo Anthony negotiations. He explained that Anthony wanted too much money to go to the Nets. This is not good news for Anthony, who doesn't have much of an option to stay in Colorado, so the Nets could get Anthony for a much lower price. The Bulls are also in the hunt for Anthony.
I don't think that the Nets should try to get Carmelo Anthony because their season is almost over, and just Anthony alone will not make the team way more significantly better.I think that he should stay in Colorado, or find a team that suits him better

Ariz. shooting suspect back in court next week

Rep. Gabrielle Gifford is expected to be back in court next week for the Arizona. The preliminary hearing on Monday for Jared Loughner has been moved to a larger federal courtroom in Phoenix. Loughner will be charged in the federal court with attempted assassination of Congressman, and also for the murder of federal employees.
I hope that Loughner is given the highest form of punishment for his actions. His brutal, murder of these people is one of the worst in Arizona history. I think that he should be subjected to the death penalty.

Cheers? Booze bottles may get nutrional labels

"In the year 20011, it's sort of bizarre that alcohol's the only consumable product soldin the United States that you can't tell what's inside the bottle," says Guy L. Smith, the executive vice president in North America for Diageo, the world's leading beer and wine company. Diageo is now supporting a proposal to the federal Tax and Trade Bureau to list nutrional information like calories, carbohydrates, on each bottle.
I think that this is a good idea. With all the obeses people in the world today, nutritional facts on beer could help people realize what they are putting into their body. It could also help reduce peoples health problems because they now know how much they should drink.

Ashes to asses, dust to dolts

On Wednesday a burglar broke into a woman's house and stole two urns, one containing the cremations of a man, the other of two Great Danes. The burglar also took some electronics and jewelry. The burglar misinterpreted the cremations to be illegal drugs such as cocaine or heroin. Investigators found all of this out after they arrested five teens in connection with a different burglary attempt at house near this one.
I think that these criminals deserve what they got for trying to use cremations as illegal drugs. I also find this pretty funny.

Celtics escape N.Y. on Pierce's last second shot

On Wednesday night the Boston Celtics faced off against the New York Knicks in Madison Square Garden. The Celtics were on a 10 game win streak while the Knicks were on an 8 game win streak of their own. The game came down to the wire, the score was 116-116 and with just 4 tenths of a second left Paul Pierce drained to a shot to give them the lead. But the Knicks came back strong, Amare Stoudemire thought he had made a buzzer beater 3 pointer to win the game, but after review, officials found that he still had possession of the ball when the buzzere went off. The Celtics are now 20-4, the best in the eastern conference.
I think its great that the Boston Celtics are doing well again. Before the season started critics were saying how their team was too old, and they would never make it back to the championship round. But they are proving everyone wrong, and they are the team to beat in the eastern conference. I think that it's good for basketball to have teams like the Celtics, because when there's a favorite there is alwasy an underdog-and eveyone loves to watch an upset.

Issue #2 Ensuring Quality Care for Medicare Patients

The majority of the policymakers believe that Medicare must be reformed, and reorganized to keep the system running. In 2008, Bush made a proposal to save $70 billion on Medicare within the next 5 years. It seems that drastic cuts will be taken soon, which is why policymakers are attempting to create a solution that will reduce expenditures, but at the same time allow Medicare patients the same quality of services. In 2006, a "pay-for-performance" program went through, and allowed Medicare to pay doctors a 1.5% bonus if they are able to give information on the services they gave their patients, and the quality of it. With enough reports from doctors, medical experts were able to set clinical guidelines for what quality care should be. The reason behing all this is so that legislation wants Medicare to reward excellent doctors, and hospitals for provding exceptional quality for Medicare patients. Most insurance agencies use "after-the-fact, fee-for-service"payment policies. This enforces doctors to submit bills directly to insurance companies and then get reimbursed back with most of the payment. Patients will pay various amounts because their is so many different insurance companies, and sometime they will have to pay $100's of deductibles, but in most plans, patients will pay about 20% of the cost.


I think that the United States needs to switch to a universal healthcare system, so that they don't have to deal with problems or situations like this. I think that problems like these are a waste of time, and their is much bigger issues then how much a doctor, or insurance agency should get paid. If everyone was on the same healthcare plan, things would be much simpler, then everyone would have the same medical fees, and doctors would all be paid accordingly. One politcally powerful person who has the same idea when it comes to healthcare is President Barack Obama. He too, thinks that the universal healthcare would benefit everyone, and cut out a many medical problems today.http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/29/politics/main2863074.shtml
Issue #3
http://noelleushistory.blogspot.com/2010/11/issue-number-3-safe-to-eat.html
Issue #1
http://rachelrachrachel.blogspot.com/2010/11/issue-1-comprehensive-vs-incremental.html

Just 32% of Tea Party Candidates Win

As confident as the Tea Party candidates were, only 32% of them won their elections. In the senate races, only 5 of the 10 candidates won. From the House, only 40 of the 130 representatives won theirs so far as well.
I wish that more Tea Party candidates would have one so that the house would be more even. As of right now the majority of the House is democrats at the moment. If more Tea Party Republicans had been elected it would have made the country better because everyone would have to come to an agreement that would work for everyone.