Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Current event: 
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/04/01/us/obama-to-offer-major-blueprint-on-climate-change.html

        The White House on Tuesday morning is expected to unveil President Obama’s blueprint for cutting United States greenhouse gas pollution by nearly a third over the next decade. Mr. Obama said the United States would cut emissions 26 to 28 percent by 2025. Since any proposal to move climate change legislation will not be approved by the Republican-controlled Congress, Mr. Obama is expected to rely almost entirely on his executive authority. Countries need to submit plans to be greener soon before agreements are hard to reach. 
       I believe going green is a very important matter. Even though the results of our efforts won't effect today's generations. It will effect our children and so on. It is our job as the people of this planet to protect where we live. I'm glad to hear that Obama is taking steps to protect our planet. I also agree that cutting back on gas pollution is very important. 
      

Monday, March 30, 2015

Current event: 
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/26/us/colorado-pregnant-woman-attack/index.html

      A former nurse's aide will not face murder charges for allegedly cutting and removing an unborn baby from the mother's womb in Boulder County, Colorado, prosecutor Stanley Garnett said Thursday. The mother, Michelle Wilkins, answered a Craigslist ad for baby clothes on March 18. When she arrived at the seller's home, she was attacked, beaten, cut open and her fetus was removed. The baby did not survive.  The attacker will not face a murder charge. 
      I think what happened to this innocent women is awful. I also think it is ridiculous the attacker won't face a murder charge just because in the state of Colorado they do not recognize a fetus as a person. That baby should definitely be considered a person because it died. Also the attacker should face worse charges because what Wilkins suffered from the attack. 
Current event:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/27/us/aaron-hernandez-trial/index.html

      After being granted immunity fiancée of former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez said at a hearing Friday that she was asked to conceal a box and take it out of her Massachusetts home after the murder of Odin Lloyd in 2013. Jenkins testified she was "instructed" to take the box out of the home, and that it was "important" for her to get rid of it. On the day after Lloyd's killing, prosecutors have said Jenkins received a coded text message from Hernandez. Search warrants said Hernandez asked his fiancée to remove something from their basement.
        I find it very hard to believe Jenkins had no idea what she was getting rid of. And if one is instructed to get rid of an important box why would one not question what is in the box. That is why I believe she knew all along what Hernandez was doing and what he had done. She was most likely trying to protect him, even though he is a bad man who deserves to be in prison. 
Current event:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/30/us/tsarnaev-boston-marathon-bombing-prosecution-ending/index.html

        Federal prosecutors rested their case with grisly testimony about how the bomb Dzhokar Tsarnaev placed near the marathon's finish line tore through the bodies of Martin Richard and Lingzi Lu, a 23-year-old grad student.  No part of the boy's 69-pound body was left untouched by the explosion, said Henry Neilds, Boston's chief medical examiner. Neilds peformed the autopsy and concluded that Martin bled to death after suffering blast injuries to his torso and extremities. Monday was the 15th day of testimony in the trial, which opened March 4 after lengthy jury selection.
       Jurors have a very difficult decision to make soon. Whether Tsarnaev deserves the death penalty or not. Personally I believe he deserves to die. After hearing all the gruesome things so many people at the marathon experience and all the loss in people's lives what he did was an awful thing and he deserves the worst possible punishment.