-Jones

North Korea launched a missile on Sunday that landed somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Many international leaders now fear that Korea has the means to create a long-range missile. The North Korean government claims they were simply practicing their right to peaceful space development. The United Nations banned North Korea from ballistic missile activity in 2006, but the right to space development created a loophole. Many countries, including the United States and Japan, have voiced their opinion that North Korea should be punished for violating the U.N. sanctions placed on them. The group is being led by Obama. He openly told North Korea the incident would further recluse the country, and that the whole world is against them. Obama wants to get North Korea back to the U.N. negotiation tables. Russia and China, North Korea’s two strongest allies, have publicly backed North Korea. Korea had announced the date of the launch and the route the rocket would take, and it was tracked by Russian radar. Let’s hear what you all have to say.

-Aequitas Veritas

California Legislators are considering regulation of the color of cars because certain colored cars have a higher energy restraint when cooling down.  It’s not so much the color but the refectivity of the color.  In other words black cars do not reflect well. They also plan on having a type of reflective windshield, mind not one that will actually reflect the light but one that will reflect the energy. Estimated costs for each car will be about $40-140 per car.

-Jones

Donte Stallworth, a wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns, struck a man with his vehicle and killed him?  The seen of the accident was around Miami, Florida.  Stallworth was said to have a blood alcohol level of .126 when police arrived at the seen.  The pedestrian killed was named Mario Reyes, Reyes was on his way to a bus stop when struck.  Stallworth was charged with DUI manslaughter and his bail set at 200,000 dollars.  The Browns receiver had enough time to honk his horn and flick his lights at the man before the impact.  The man had critical injuries and died not long after he made it to the hospital. 

-Trautman

Recently an Ohio man was charged with a DUI. The vehicle involved: a motorized barstool. The man welded the barstool to a metal frame, which was attached to a 5-horsepower lawnmower engine, had a lawnmower steering wheel and 4 tires. Police officers responded to a report of a crash with injuries. They found the man on the side of the road nursing himself and well over the legal limit. When the man was asked how much he had to drink, he simply replied “a lot”. The crash occured when the man was attempting to make a U-turn while speeding down the road in front of his house. He entered a plea of not guilty and wants to fight the DUI charge. Let me hear what you think of this.

-Aequitas Veritas

Obama drew the line.  To most of us, this was no surprise that it would come down to this.  Obama said that he would be willing to let General Motors and Chrysler go out of business.  If the two monster businesses can’t reach agreements following the government’s deadlines, exactly that will be happening. 

Not everyone is thinking this is the truth though.  People are saying that this is just a scare tactic used by the Obama adminastration to get General Motors and Crysler to take them seriously.  Some people think that these two businesses are too big to let fall and the outcomes will be devastating.

Still the administration says that if these two companies entered bankruptcy it would be quick.  They think it will only take about thirty days.  Bankruptcy professionals think something drastically different.  They think that this will take longer then maybe six months.  I dunno what do you think?

-Trautman

Recently the National Urban League released a State of Black America report, which describes inequalities in employment, housing, health education, and so on. Leonard Pitts Jr., author of “Before I Forget” and “Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood”, takes a look into the views of both white and black America. He says whites view things as “look how far we have come as a country” and blacks view it as “look how far we have to go”. Pitts then goes on to say that in order to be the most complete we have to use both views. His main point is that we as a country know what we need to do in order for everyone to unite. But the only problem is getting people, from all races, to drop the stereotypes and just do those things. Tell me what you guys think.

-Aequitas Veritas

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-Jones

The U.S. Agency for International Development had distributed more than 10 billion U.S. made condoms throughout th world. However, in an effort to save about 3 cents per condom they have decided to buy off-shore condoms.  This will cause the loss of about 300 American jobs. The main off-shore supplier is China.

What do you think?

-Jones