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.

Thousands Cheer Giants at Downtown Parade

Thousands of Giants fans packed the downtown streets of San Fransisco to celebrate their baseball team's first championship in 52 years. Some people claimed that they felt like they were "on cloud nine" after the victory in the fifth game of the World Series. Officials believe that this was the biggest civic event turnout ever within San Fransisco. Even mayor Newsom was ecstatic about the victory saying it was "incomprehensible that this happened."
I think its great that the San Fransisco Giants were finally able to win another championship since its been so long since their last one. Whats even better is that Giants didn't even win their pennant, in fact they barely made the playoffs at all. The Giants somehow were able to get through the Braves, Phillies, and then beat the Rangers to win the World Series.

S. Korea fires warning shots at disputed border

On Wednesday, the South Korean navy shot 10 warning bullets at a North Korean fishing boat, who crossed the disputed border of theses two countries. The boat stayed in the area about two hours before heading back to its own country. This border has created some problems since the U.N. placed it between the countries. Three skirmishes have been fought there since then. These warning shots were the first to be fired since about 7 years ago.
I think that warning shots from South Korea is a little extreme considering they both have issues with each other. Actions like this will only infuriate North Korea and cause even more, serious problems. I think that these two countries should be happy with what they have and stay within their own borders to prevent further problems.

U.S swimmer's body to be handed over to U.S authorities

U.S swimmer Fran Crippen died on Saturday, while performing in a marathon in the Marathon Swimming World Cup in the United Arab Emirates. While on his last leg of the marathon, doctors believe Crippen died from severe fatigue, however Ahmed Ibrahim, the head of the water sports club in Fujairah, says that he suffered a heart attack. Crippen's family back home in Philadelphia were devasted by his unitimely death. Crippen's family has a long history of swimmers.
It's hard to believe that such a talented, and in shape athlete as Fran Crippen could die due to fatigue in a race. It's even harder to believe that nothing was done in order to save him. There should be some sort of safety programs to prevent these sort of disasters.

Showers of Offers for Chile Miners

The 2 month long torture of living underground is starting to show its upside for the Chileans now that they are back up top. Multiple companies including Apple, Sushi xx, Elvis Presley Enterprise and many others are donating their products or already have to the miners. Each family has been given a $10,000 check from Leonardo Farkas, the mining executive. They have also been invited to expense paid trips to Graceland, the Greek Islands, and a Chilean Futbol game. They also will have a book published of them in the near future and lawsuits as well.

I think that its great that the miners are getting recognized for their suffering, especially from the their mining executive. But i think it really nice of companines like Apple, and the Presley Enterprise to go out of their way in order to send their supplies down to the miners to give them something to do.

Issue #1 Spending What We Can Afford

In 2007 Congress passed a pay as you go budgeting measure. This is called Paygo, allows spending reduction elswhere so that tax cuts and the fluxuation of entitlement spending will not offset the budget. Supportives approve of paygo because it eliminates wasteful spending and the collection of unpaid taxes. It also allows Congress to be able to raise enough funds to pay for the latest initiatives, and not go deeper into debt. Anti-supporters believe that paygo will only cause more tax increases, which will hurt America as a whole.
I think that using the paygo method is a good idea because it reduces the amount of wasteful spending of money. I do think though that Congress needs to figure out more serious options that will help get the U.S. out of debt. The U.S. is so far in debt that measures such as Paygo won't even put a dent in the money that the U.S. owes. One major supporter of the Paygo program is President Barack Obama, who put the budget rules in place.
Other different budget issues-
Issue #2 Spending what we can afford
Issue #3 Social Insecurity

Captive bear kills woman during cage cleaning

On Sunday, a 37 year old Kelly Ann Waltz in Pennsylvania was killed after being mauled by her pet bear. She was attacked when she entered the bears cage to feed and clean the bears cage. Her husband, Micheal Waltz was revealed to be an exotic pet dealer, with an expired license. His license expired June 28th 2008. Kelly's children and the neighbors children witnessed the attack and called for help. The neighbor shot and killed the bear while it was on Kelly Waltz.

I think that this never should have happened. The husband should have taken care of the bear, since he's the one who had a license for the animals, not his wife. I think that its very sad that her kids had to witness their own mom being mauled by a bear. Hopefully somebody steps in and is able to do something to prevent anything happening like this ever again.