California Family Gone

Summary
Living outside of San Diego there is a house with everything in place, nothing is missing. There is two dogs who have not been feed or watered in sometime. There is leftovers sitting on the counter. The only thing missing is the family. February 4, a family of 4 went missing. Joseph McStay, 40, his wife Summer, 42, their children Gianna, 4 and Joseph, 3, are no longer home and a gone without a trace. Their close relatives, who called in the disappearance, say that they were very close to the family and that the family would never leave without telling them first. There car was found outside of the Mexican boarder and there was no sign of a crime being committed. They could have just left for Mexico but the family does not think that is true. Josephs brother talks to him about every week and they are extremely close. Nothing in either his or Summers background would make anyone want to kidnap them. So how does a family just disappear.

Opinion
I think that there is something going on either the family does know something and are telling the media or they were just one of the unlucky people that got taken. The part that makes me wonder is if they wanted to get away from everything and leave to Mexico why would they leave their car outside the boarder. If they were starting over or just vacationing don't they need a car? On the boarder someone could have told them to get out of the car and into theirs there is sick people out there. Not always is there a motive for taking someone.

Issue #1 War Dollars

Congress is given the right in the constitution to intervene in war affairs if the majority of America is against what the president is saying. For example in 1982 congress denied Reagan's funding for Contra rebels fighting in Nicaragua. Although it is a touchy subject because the president is the commander and chief elected by the people. Today one of the issues is the war in Iraq because going into the war most people were in support and now are not. They say we may be doing more harm than good. The war is cost many lives and a lot of American tax payers money. Congress wants to start limiting spending in the war so that we can get out of it faster and show the president we don't want to be there anymore. The other argument is that the executive branch is better prepared to be making military decisions.

Personally i think that when there is a big war or the decision to go into a big war or not there should be an electronic vote for all Americans to take. This way once we are in the war we cant be like "oh we never wanted to even go there" which in fact we did. So this way it can protect the government and president from criticism. We are a country for the people so that is the way it should be, the people vote for the wars we go into.

Issue #2

http://mschmidt1.blogspot.com/2010/02/issue-3-social-insecurity.html

Issue #3

http://mayaseverson.blogspot.com/2010/02/issue-2-spendin-what-we-can-afford.html

War Spending Clock
http://www.costofwar.com/

Boy, 12, faces grown up murder charges

Summary

Jordan Brown was 11 years old when his future pregnet step mom, Kenzie Houk, was murdered. Jordan was a hunter and had a gun. He was also in football and as described by friends a great kid. He was also the suspict for murder. He was convicted and was sentenced to life in jail as a adult. His family now is taking action to get him switched to juvenile system. When he was tryed he pled inniccent. The evidence isn't that strong either. They found gun residue on his shirt but because he hunted a lot there was gun residue on most of his shirts. Also a 7 year old sister says she heard a "boom". The cop also reports that the gun smelt freshly fired. He is in jail for the rest of his life for something he might not have done.



Opinoin

Personally when someone is that young they should not get a life sentance because they haven't even gone through puberty yet they are young and haven't even experianced life. If he is in fact guilty then he should go to jail that is the law. But because there isn't that hard of evidence and he is only 12 he should be tryed as a child not an adult.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/02/18/schwartz.kids.trials/index.html?iref=allsearch