http://angelapearson.edublogs.org Blogging world Current Events Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:06:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On April 14, 2008 there were several bills that were introduced in the House and Senate that would remove and cellular telephone or similar communication equipment from the enumerations of listed property.  The issue is whether the Internal Revenue Service’s can treat the use of cell phones and other devices ... http://angelapearson.edublogs.org/2008/12/10/top-stories-of-2008/ The story is saying how GM is trying to build a car called the Volt that basically runs off of electricity or as they call it a plug in vehicle.  They are so expensive that manufacturers still have not figured out how to produce the vehicles cheaply enough to make ... http://angelapearson.edublogs.org/2008/12/08/car-of-the-future/ Hillary Clinton was appointed as the Secretary of State for President Obama.  On Monday December 1, 2008 President Obama cleared up all the rumors for us Americans and introduced Hillary Clinton as his secretary.  People are just wondering weather they will be a couple to work more together or weather ... http://angelapearson.edublogs.org/2008/12/03/hillary-becoming-obamas-secretary-of-state/ Well Bush has been the President for the past 8 years.  He was the 43rd President of the United States.  He took the U.S. into war, it was agreed upon and disagreed upon by many. That was the major thing that many people hate Bush for.  We have been in the ... http://angelapearson.edublogs.org/2008/12/01/bush-evaluation/ The auto industy is going in to debt at least one billion dollars every month.  So the 10 billion that they want to borrow will only last them 10 months, or the 10 extra months will enable them to become a profitiable company.  Chrysler is owned by a company called Cerberus.  If Cerberus gets the ... http://angelapearson.edublogs.org/2008/11/25/bail-out-of-the-auto-industry/ The Homeland Security is trying to prevent terrorist attacks.  They built a new system called malintent.  They did a screening of some odd people and out of that they could pick up people who had bad intentions on their mind.  This system is not like a polygraph test, it is more like an X-ray for ... http://angelapearson.edublogs.org/2008/11/10/homeland-security-detect-terrorist-threats-by-reading-your-mind/ The election results was Obama 349 and McCain 163.  That pretty much explains who won president of the United States.  History was made on November 4, 2008.  The first African American President of the United States.  Obama said we need a change, and there is hope.  He plans to change the counry so ... http://angelapearson.edublogs.org/2008/11/06/election-results/ People should vote for John McCain because he is experienced in the war.  He has been in the war and knows how it feels for the people that are fighting.  You should vote for John McCain because he believes that everyone should be on health care and it should be ... http://angelapearson.edublogs.org/2008/10/30/persuasive-paragraph/ John Mccain has made necessary choices, producint more power, pushing technology to help free our transportation sector from its use of foreign oil, and he wants the world to have cleaner air, and to have addressing climate change, and ensuring that Americans have advanced transportation technologies and alternative fuels to ... http://angelapearson.edublogs.org/2008/10/23/john-mccain-and-his-view-on-alternative-energy/ John McCain chose Sara Palin to be his Vice President in the 2008 election.  Sara Palin has a 17 year old daughter who is pregnant.  The community is criticizing her for her daughter’s actions.  Claiming that she may not be able to do well in office with five children one ... http://angelapearson.edublogs.org/2008/10/22/republican-national-convention/