Bush In Iraq!
President Bush made a surprise farewell visit today. And it wasn’t to local store or anything remotely close to the White House; it was Baghdad, Iraq. He’s visiting the U.S. Troops and to celebrate the recent U.S.-Iraq security agreement, which will have most of our troops home by the end of 2011. I was just wondering if President Bush was going to head back to Iraq. I’m glad that he choose to head back to see our troops and to give them a well deserve pat on the back. I think he would have looked pretty bad if he never went back to see the troops. This is one of his better choices in a long time.
The Big Three Babies!
It looks like Detroit’s Big Three Babies will be getting a little less than half of their bailout loan, $15 billion. GM, Ford and Chrysler will collapse with this amount of money, why even give it to them. I guess their calling this a short-term loan. I was reading that some economists think they really need $75 billion to $125 billion to survive over the next year. If these automakers had asked for this money a year ago Congress would have told them no way. The U.S Congress is only agreeing to this because we really can’t afford to lose anymore jobs as a Nation. I liked President Bush’s idea, just them the $25 billion already sitting there for them. The only think is the bill that gave them that money is for building cleaner running cars, but no one likes that idea. I say let all three fall apart, they deserve it. This way, by filing for bankruptcy it will break all contracts with the UAW. And then they could layoff every single employee, then hire them back at half their pay, they would save billions. These works are getting paid over $50 an hour just to make a car, that’s way to high, blame that on the UAW. The automakers would come out of bankruptcy so much stronger than trying to get these loans. Most if not all-big companies come out of bankruptcy much stronger. It’s like starting with a clean plate.
Simpson Going To Prison!
O.J. Simpson, one of the greatest running backs in the NFL has been sentence to serve 33 years in prison for kidnapping and armed robbery. But will he do that amount of time, don’t think so. The Judge had sentence him to 33 years but with the complex consecutive and concurrent sentences no one really knows how much time right yet. Here’s what a few national newspapers report. The New York Times reported 9 years, the Washington Post reported 15 years and the Los Angeles Times reported 16 years. So does anyone really know how much time he’s going to need to serve? O.J. didn’t say he was sorry to the Judge and victims today. He also said he “didn’t want to hurt anybody”. And he also said that he didn’t know what he was doing was wrong. I would like to ask him, what did you think you we’re doing? He also said he was somewhat “confused.” Most criminals will pretty much say anything in hopes that the Judge will change their mind. Judges rule with an iron fist and rarely change their mind. Anyway, Simpson is going to jail for awhile. He’s 61 years old; he may never be a free man again.
Nebraska Safe-Haven Law!
The state of Nebraska passed a safe-haven law in July of this year. And they have already taken in 36 kids that have been dropped off by their parents. With this new law parents just simply show up at any hospital and drop their kids off. I totally agree with law, children should always be kept safe. But what I disagree about this law is that they just changed a loophole in it. The law stated that any child could be dropped off at any area hospital. The problem as the state sees it is that the children being dropped off at times where teenagers. So now the new law states that the child age is limited to infants no more than 30 days old. I feel every child should have a safe place to go. Hopefully Nebraska officials will have a plan for the older kids to find a safe place to go. Because if they don’t these kids will end up on the streets.
