U.S. Troops Current Event

My current event is the troops in Iraq requesting legal immunity in order for them to stay in battle through the end of the year. They will not stay if they do not have legal immunity from prosecution.  Mike Mullen and other U.S. officials would like the troops to stay in Iraq past their original December 31 departure date. Washington has offered to let up to 10,000 U.S. troops stay in Iraq and continue training Iraqi forces on tanks, fighter jets, and other equipment.

 Right now there are around 46,000 U.S. troops and are staging there departure. They want to make sure that they have legal immunity if they stay in Iraq any longer past their original departure date. They will come home as scheduled if the request for immunity is denied. Most U.S. troops are still very unpopular among the Iraqis because they are tired of eight straight years of war. Iraq is unable to provide for its own air sovereignty. That is one of the reasons the U.S. troops are still over there training them with our weapons and tactics. If you ask me it’s simply because “we da best”.    

Texas Wild Fires

This current event is on the many high risk wild fires that are ripping through the state of Texas. There are about five different fires that each has covered about three hundred acres. The Texas forest service said that it has responded to one hundred and eighty one different fires that have all together burned over one hundred and eighteen thousand four hundred acres of land. The fires have killed two people and over seven hundred homes since Sunday. The largest fire that is near Austin has spread over thirty thousand acres alone. This Tuesday marks the two hundred and ninety fourth consecutive day of fires in Texas. Over two thousand firefighters are working to stop the spread of the fires all over Texas. More than one thousand homes have been burnt down since fire season began in November. So far in 2011 seven point two million acres of grass, scrub, and forest have been burned in wildfires nationwide. Of those seven point two million acres three point five million of them were in Texas. While most of the damage has been to homes and other structures, a fire near Gladewater, Texas killed a women and her eighteen month old baby when the flames engulfed their house. Firefighters are using all the resources they have, any volunteer firefighters that are able to help are helping. Pray for the families that have to be evacuated due to the fires.          

Marine receives Medal of Honor at White House

Marine receives Medal of Honor at White House

American marine (Dakota Meyer) went far into enemy territory with his small group of men. It was a village, suddenly all of the lights go out, and then he could hear noises that sounded like the valley had exploded. Him and his group had requested to go into the village four times, all four times they had been denied. Dakota finally realized what he needed to do, his right hand man got inside the hum-v and Dakota manned the machine gun up on top. They were driving right into a kill zone; their objective was to retrieve some trapped Americans. He and his team went into the village five times to save the lives are our Americans. Dakota said: “I did not think I was going to die, I knew I was going to”.

Even though he had defied the orders of his commanding officer, he is still recognized for his valiant efforts in Afghanistan. When Obama had called him he was at his civilian job as a construction worker, Dakota said that he was unavailable the first time because he could not miss work because that meant that he would not be making money. The meeting had to be scheduled on his lunch break.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/09/15/marine.medal.of.honor/index.html?hpt=us_c2      

Apple iPhone 4gs or iPhone 5

Apple iPhone 4gs or iPhone 5

Apple will unveil the next generation iPhone at an event on Tuesday, October 4. The phone will be available to customers within a few weeks of the unveiling. There is still some speculation to whether the phone will be called 4S or 5. A version of the new phone was reportedly found in a San Francisco bar. It was a brand new prototype, had not even been released yet. It was sold by the man who found it on eBay for 5,000. Him and the person he sold it to, now face two years in jail and a very large fine. Apple has recently gotten a new CEO, his name is Tim Cook. Steve Jobs left the CEO position on medical leave. Cook will also be handling a majority of the announcements about the release of the new phone. Steve Jobs has been diagnosed with a very rare form of pancreatic cancer. It doesn’t get much to get the tech world to buzz about a new product. There is a lot of speculation about what the iPhone five will look like, how fast it will be and the color options available. There are still very little facts known about the phone. Apple is notorious for hiding the secrets about their new releases. They have done a pretty good job of keeping this one under wraps. Some say that it will just be an improved version of the iPhone 4 and others say that it will be a whole new breed of apple phones. There is even a rumor going around the tech world of the possibility of it being a slide out keyboard phone.