This Week In Pictures

Write me a blog post about this picture and give me some additional information about what is going on. (NOT just what is written about the picture.) Include as your link a web site where you found additional information on this subject.


The Kansas City restraunt explosion is what I will do this blog on. In this, an employee for a contractor accidently busted a natural gas pipe, which with an unknown spark that happened inside of the building, caused a popular restaurant to explode. So far, one person is dead, and it seems that that will be the only death. The restaurant was evacuated beforehand because the smell of gas was strong enough to alarm the contractor's employees. These employees told the restaurant's employees to evacuate the building, because of the inherent danger. The restaurant didn't close completely though, with employees inside. The employees turned all restaurant equipment off, due to the danger though. The building was leveled to roughly 3-4 feet of rubble.



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Sequestration

What is this "sequestration" all about? What will this mean to most people? What area will be cut and how will the cuts be handled?

This sequestration is basically a new set of budget cuts that will take in effect. It will cause a loss in federal jobs (Around 750,000) and will save the economy $85 billion, which is barely more than the peak military budget in WWII. Thuis means that everything that people use, aviation, tax returns, court cases, and social security will take longer to happen, causing delays. It will just cut a portion of the spending from different departments away from the department. Because of a lack of spending, jobs will be lost, and the unemployment rate will rise to probably around 8.1% or 8.2%. Overall, I feel that we need to have people in Congress that isn't as stubborn as a mule. We need people that won't be too stubborn to do the right decision, just because it will go against "party lines". Who cares if it goes against party lines. If it works out for the better, then all should be happy. Congress is so stubborn, that during a time of budget deficits, they wanted to give themselves A RAISE! They don't deserve a raise, and they don't deserve to represent us in Congress.



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Spring Break

What are your plans for Spring Break, are you going somewhere, are you planning to sleep all week? If you could go anywhere and do anything, where would you go and what would you do?

What I am doing for spring break is, I have no clue. I am pretty sure that I am not doing much. I doubt that I am going out of state, but I may go somewhere nearby. Basically, I am just going to lay around, catch up on sleep, and so on. If I could, I would go to the beach. Someplace where it wouldn't be packed due to other Spring Breakers, but still have people there.




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Vlog

This is my newest video blog.

Alabama Standoff

What are your thoughts on this situation? What do you think about the bus driver risking and losing his life? Why do you think that the man has kidnapped this little boy? How do you think the little boy is coping?

The situation is very sad. The kid seems to have been a random target, especially since it isn't who he wanted to take. The bus driver did a remarkable thing, sacraficing his life for two children. I think that the man kidnapped the boy because a mixture of PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) and because of possibly just being lonely, needing someone, in this case, a child that can help him. As I finish this, I know that the standoff ended in a good way. During the standoff, I think that the boy was worried, but tried to make the most of it, especially with the items he recieved while down there. Anyways, I hope that this experience doesn't cause too much damage to the child in the future.



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Flying Cars

Think of how far we have come in the last 100 years. Most people in 1913 would never have believed how things have changed. So, with this in mind, do you think that flying cars really will be common in the future? What do you think travel will look like 100 years from now?

Honestly, flying cars sounds cool, but we will get to that strage when I will be quite old. Maybe when I am 50, they start production, and then maybe when I am 75, they start becoming common. The problem is that they would have to be treated as airplanes. They shouldn't be thought as "flying cars" but instead as "drivable planes". Anyways, in 100 years, it is very possible we all would have vehicles that can fly, drive, and boat, depending on what you want. Anything is possible.



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