Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Furnia (Ignore the last one)

Nationtal
1:That college education is going to cost a whole lot more than two Ohio students ever expected.
The two men face up to 20 years in prison after police say they admitted robbing a suburban Cincinnati bank of $130,000 at gunpoint because, they claimed, they needed tuition money for college.

Opinion
I think that is so dumb that someone had to rob a bank to pay for tuition. I mean they could have done a student loan or asked their parents for help. Why do you have to go rob a bank and put people in danger for that when there are many different solutions to your problem. I am glad that they are going to jail for that they should have known what they were getting themselves into when they signed up for college.

2:The nation's teen birth rate has risen for the first time in 14 years, according to a new government report.
The birth rate had been dropping since 1991. The decline had slowed in recent years, but government statisticians said Wednesday it jumped 3 percent from 2005 to 2006.The birth data for 2006 also showed births to unmarried mothers hit a new record high, and the overall birth rate has climbed to its highest level since 1971.
The teen increase was based on the 15-19 age group, which accounted for about 99 percent of the more than 440,000 births to teens in 2006.
The rate rose to 41.9 live births per 1,000 females in that age group, up from 40.5 in 2005.

Opinion
I think it is dumb that girls just are going out there and having "fun" with themselves. Then in the end bringing a baby into the world that really is going to find it difficult cause the mom is still in high school and can't raise the kid. I mean now high schools are like encouraging it because they are putting day cares in the high schools. That I think should be gone because these kids did this to themselves and they need to deal with the consequences.

International
1:Police said Wednesday they have arrested a man who vanished more than five years ago then turned up at a police station last weekend claiming he had lost his memory.
A published report, meanwhile, claimed that the man and his wife had been seen together in Panama since his disappearance. His wife reportedly moved to Panama earlier this year.
Cleveland Police, in northeast England, said John Darwin, 57, had been arrested in connection with their investigation of his apparent disappearance at sea.
Darwin disappeared after going out to sea in his canoe, which was later found wrecked on a beach. A coroner officially declared him dead.
His wife Anne yesterday told reporters she had believed her husband was dead and claimed on his life insurance policy in good faith.

Opinion
That is dumb. Why would someone want to throw their life away in hiding just because your dealing with some difficult time. Then the wife is going along with it. I would not want to do that because I would want my husband to be with me and not just somewhere out there doing who knows what. I'm glad he was arrested because it is wrong with what he did to everyone thinking that he was dead and he really wasn't.

2:A conservation group that has vowed to disrupt Japan's annual whale hunt launched its Antarctic campaign Wednesday by renaming one of its ships after "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, the late environmental campaigner.
The U.S.-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society says it will use whatever means necessary to block Japan from harvesting up to 50 humpbacks, 935 minkes and 50 fin whales in Antarctic waters as part of an oceanic research program that critics decry as commercial whaling in disguise.
Irwin's widow, Terri, threw her support behind the mission by giving Sea Shepherd permission to rename one of its two flagship vessels after her husband, the TV wildlife program host who died from a stingray attack off Australia's Great Barrier Reef in September 2006.

Opinion
I think that is such a sweet thing that they are doing for the whales. I mean whales are mean but onle if you taunt them. Plus that is good they are doing it for someone in memory not just cause they want to stop the whole thing. Even thought this should be stopped no matter what it is just wrong. I hate when people try and catch things for no reason just because they want to feel good about themselves.

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