Caroline+Leahy

September 15, 2010 New York City Miracle Landing

It's hard to understand how a car could keep someone alive. I understand that landing on glass and metal might be less damaging than landing on concrete, but the fact that he jumped from the top of a building and still lived makes no sense. Also, the fact that Maria McCormack, the owner of the car, got mad at him for destroying the car that saved his life is a little bit rediculous. The man lived because of her car. She should be thrilled, not pissed. I don't know why he wanted to kill himself, but personally I would be even more upset with my life if I lived through the experience and had to pay for it too. $14,000 and an angry girl on your back is not something someone would want to wake up to after trying to kill themselves. Give the man some sympathy.

September 20, 2010 Bedfordshire, UK.

Luke Angel was banned from ever entering the United States again after sending an abusive email to the president. First of all, why would you ever send the White House an abusive message? That would be considered being a terrorist. Second, it doesn't matter if you're drunk or high when you do it. It's the action in of itself. It is not a very smart thing to do to a country in the middle of a war and right around 9/11. Also, instead of saying that he doesn't care about being banned from the country, he should have at least apologized.


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11/02 The Iraq war, as revealed by WikiLeaks

To sum up the article, WikiLeaks distributed some very private and devastating information about the war with Iraq. They talked about the fact that some U.S. soldiers were at some times very "trigger happy", and how U.S. soldiers witnessed Sunni soldiers being abused, but didn't do anything about it. Some of the information that was released was potentially damaging to the U.S. government, and the new Iraq government that al-Maliki is attempting to establish. There is a quote from The Washington Post stating that the document dump was "reckless and politically motivated", which makes sense if al-Maliki is trying to set up a government. In the article, there are several quotes from newspapers, journals and columns.

I find the leak very shocking for a number of reasons. First, I find it very odd that the government had no idea that the leak was going to occur. The government hears about everything now-a-days! Also, I find it strange that Wiki was able to get their hands on SO much information about the war that wasn't intended to get to the public, but I guess people can get their hands on anything these days. In the article, there is a quote from al-Maliki's office that states, "There are some political interests behind the media campaign". This is talking about the release and how people were obviously trying to affect their government, if not our own. This release was truly a bad thing to happen to our government and our soldiers.