S.Korea fires warning shots

So i guess this North Korean fishing boat crossed the Northern Limit Line (NLL). The South warned it first by loudspeaker broadcast to get back over the boarder but they didn't listen so the South shot ten warning shots at them to let them know they are not messing around. This is the first time in seven years that the South has had to fire warning shots to force a fishing boat to retreat. The vessel was still in the South territory for two hours. N. Korea and S. Korea are always at war in some way it seems, just days before the North fired two rounds at a S. Korean guard post in the Demilitarized Zone, prompting return fire from the South. The North gets all fired up when world attention is somewhat involved with the South. South Korea is bracing for any possible North Korean moves to sabotage next week's Group of 20 summit of world leaders. But

Baek Seung-joo, an analyst at the state-run Korea Institute for Defense Analyses in Seoul, said the North Korean boat was probably seeking crab, not a military battle, when it crossed into southern waters.

He said North Korea was unlikely to want to riase tensions ahead of the summit. North Korea also has planted bombs on one of the Souths' planes and killed all 112 passengers. Also in 2002, when South Korea jointly hosted soccer's World Cup along with Japan, a North Korean naval boat sank a South Korean patrol vessel near the sea border. I think both sides are fighting over ridiculous things and both leaders need to grow up and stop randomly attacking each other because they dont like eachother.

First Transgender sports athlete

George Washington University junior Kye Allums will play women's basketball again this year. But he will now play the role of a brother, not a sister, to his teammates.
Everything will be the same when he takes to the court in the university's season opener later this month. Just that Allums, 21, will be identified as a man, becoming the first openly transgender player in NCAA Division I basketball.

I think this is pretty weird a that there is a transgender student that is going to play both male and female sports. You would think that they would decide to have him choose one instead of both because he could be very good at the female sport and destroy all players and teams.

The worlds largest house pet

Jim and Linda Sautner have a mammoth responsibility as pet owners. They own a very rare pet... They don't own a lion, a tiger or a bear. No way. That's small stuff.

They own a bison (buffalo). A 1600 pound bison to be exact (at last weighing).

Actually, it is likely the WORLD'S LARGEST HOUSE-PET.

And if you thinks that's a load of a pet, this little toddler is barely 2 years old and still growing!

The Sautners have raised "little Bailey Jr." since he was mere weeks old. When you see them interacting with Bailey Jr. in and around their house (oh yes, he goes in their house!) Bailey Jr's  "cuddly" demeanor will have you wondering if Bailey Jr isn't part pet dog after all.

I think this is really cool because not many people have huge animals that live in their house and this is a massive buffalo. It would be really cool to have a pet buffalo because you have to take care of it and it is a massive animal to have to watch all the time and make sure that it is safe and you are also. Not everyone would be able to have a pet like this. It takes the right person and the right house to have an animal like this.

Spacecraft has closest encounter ever with comet

 A spacecraft survived the closest encounter ever with a comet on Thursday, tracking it just 435 miles (700 kilometers) from the comet's nucleus. The agency's EPOXI spacecraft is expected to acquire data with two imagers and an infrared instrument of a comet named Hartley 2 as it traveled at speeds of more than 27,000 mph.
I think that this is very important to all scientists and Nasa because it is going to give very important info and new discoveries about comets and space in general that know one has ever had a chance to find out. This could be a revolutionary thing that is good for all space scientists around and it is also good that the comet didnt reck any of the expensive spacecraft

Authorities investigate mass grave in Mexico

 Mexican authorities have recovered 10 bodies and expect to pull out more from a mass grave in a village outside of Acapulco, the state-run Notimex news agency reported, citing police.

 People in mexico beleive that this mass grave might hold bodies of many american tourists that were taken and killed and they believe that they could finally find many of the missing people that were never seen again after coming to mexico. i think that this would be huge because they could finally catch the people and find out who are all of the dead bodies in this grave.

Disease in Haiti

Public health officials are working to keep the country's cholera outbreak from spreading in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where tens of thousands of people are still living in sprawling tent cities after January's devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake.

I don't think that this outspread will affect many people because they are starting to fight against it and stop the spread of the disease but anything can happpen just like the swine flu case and it can spread rapidly and kill off all of the people in the make shift tent towns. I still think that it is just a scare and it won't last very long.

War Dollars

http://currenteventsbyhayley.blogspot.com/2010/01/all-things-being-unequal.html
                The Constitution designates the president the commander in chief of the U.S. armed forces. But it grants Congress the authority to approve federal spend­ing. In the past, Congress has used its "power of the purse" to rein in war efforts. After years of the unpopular Vietnam War, Congress imposed a cap on troops, and in 1982, Congress denied President Ronald Reagan's request to fund the Contra rebels fighting in Nicaragua. Today, as public disillusionment with the war in Iraq grows, policymakers and others debate whether Congress should use its appropriations powers to influence or restrict President Bush's military policy in Iraq.

               I think that Obama is doing an okay with his spending of the war dollars because people think that the troops will be pulled out of Iraq and Afganistan soon. The war is a big budget that the governtment has to pay for and it just adds to the debt of the country. The country has a budget set aside from all the rest of its money to help pay for the war but that fund keeps dieing very fast because it is very expensive and very time consuming. The government needs to figure something out about the war to help clear up the war funds.