Facebook says apps shared user data, promises fix

Facebook said that some of its applications violated the social networking company’s policy for sharing user information and Facebook said the problem will be fixed. They also said that the information sharing was not intentional. Farmville was one of the applications that gave id information to outside companies. The vice president of facebook wrote a letter to congressman Joe Barton and Edward Markey saying that the applications would be deleted and that the id info would be deleted too.
It annoys me that information can be given to other companies from applications. Facebook has privacy settings that shouldn’t have been violated. Facebook should be a safe website where people don’t have to worry about their information being stolen. Even though facebook said they didn’t know that applications were taking information, I still think it is there fault. They should check into applications more before they let them start up on facebook. I’m glad that Facebook is trying to stop this problem and get rid of the bad applications though.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39994197/ns/technology_and_science-security/

Experts ask: Did U.N. troops infect Haiti?

In Haiti, 442 people have died from an outbreak of cholera and researchers are trying to figure out if the UN peace keepers were the source of the outbreak. U.S. center of disease control thought that the strand came from south asia. There is debate whether time should be spent on investigating the outbreak or not. People are worried that the disease started from a Nepalese base with men from Nepal. Experts can’t prove anything but they are pretty sure that it was carried into Haiti.

I think that outbreaks in diseases happen too much. People don’t usually know what to do about them either. It’s not fair that Haiti had to suffer through a bad earthquake, and is now struggling from disease. People should spend time trying to figure out where the disease came from and how it works because then they can prevent it from spreading and killing other people. If there was an outbreak of cholera in Nepalese then those men should have been tested for the disease before they were allowed to enter Haiti which was already suffering.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39996103/ns/health-infectious_diseases/

After 'shellacking,' Obama laments disconnect with voters

The Republicans now control the House and improved in the Senate too. They want to roll back government and the health care law. Obama thinks that the democrats lost the election because they lost track of the ways they connected with the people that got them there in the first place. He says he has to do a better job. Boehner thinks that the people want less government and want the health care law changed or repealed.

People should have to work hard to pay for what they have, it shouldn’t just be given to them. Obama just wants to raise taxes so that he can give people food stamps and other free money. We shouldn’t have to be responsible for anybody else because this is a free country. People want less government and the health care law changed. Before Obama was elected he talked about change and he hasn’t done anything to help anyone which is why they voted opposite. We are just in more debt nohttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39987154/ns/politics-decision_2010/w and unemployment is still high.

Quake Hits Indonesia

The quake hit around 10:42 in the morning and was reported to be a magnitude of 7.2. Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics Agency at first issued a tsunami warning but ended. it within a short while. The quake would create waves that would do some damage and be irregular but nothing that would intiate a tsunami. Indonesia is prone to quakes and volcanic activity because it it located on the pacific ring of fire.
I think that too many quakes hit countries that are not prepared for any environmental crisis's. There is no known way of stopping a earthquake or any other thing like it but i think that most countries that have expirienced them before should become better prepared but maybe having shelters ready that are stocked with water and food. If these countries were better prepared then it could lead to much less deaths and better coping.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39831929/ns/world_news-asiapacific/

Time Square Bomber Gets Life Sentence

The Pakistani who tried to set off a car bomb in time square was sentenced to life in prison on tuesday. He did not feel any remorse for what he had tried to do. Him and the judge did not get along very well and she told him he had lots of time to think about if the koran wants him to kill many people. She also said that she needed to set an example to help protect people from this happening again. The Pakistani warned that this was just the start of muslim attacks if we do not leave his land alone.
I believe that the judge did the right thing. The only thing that the judge could of done better was to give the death penalty which is most likey outlawed. I believe that we should take more action against the muslims and either bomb the whole middle east and end it or just pull out and leave them be to better protect our soldiers from dying over there and for better protection of our own people from attacks like this one. If the man wasnt lying and there will be more attacks then we need to be better prepared.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39513363/ns/us_news-security/

War Dollars

The constitution says that the president is the commander in cheif of the armed forces but he shouldn't be able to spend money for war in any way he wants. Congress has the right to aprrove or deny the way the president wants to spend the money. The people vote for who they want to represent them and then those people end up in congress. Congress having a say in what happens to the money means that the people will generally be kept happy because they elected who is in congress. The people should have control over how money is spent because it is their money in taxes that are paying for it. If the american people don't like the war in iraq then they should be able to stop funding it and then possibly get a taxcut.


The president shouldn't have to worry about what congress says when it comes to war dollars. The american people elected the president in the first place so they should give him a chance to spend their money in the right way. The president is better prepared to make war decisions than congress anyways which is why the president is our commander in chief.


I think that congress should still have a say in how the president spends money when it comes to war. We elected the president but the war is being supported by our tax dollars so we should be able to monitor his spending through congress. When the president was elected war might not have even been an issue at the time so we should still be able to control how he spends money in war just in case we don't like how he handles it. War costs a lot which is why the people should know where it's going. The National Priorites Project shows that the war in iraq and afghanistan has cost each tax payer almost $8000 since 2001. In just iraq, the war has cost the u.s. $750,658,711,552 and it's still going up. This shows that the people are paying for the war so the people that they elect in congress should be able to control how it's spent.


http://www.costofwar.com/

http://www.peaceactioncleveland.org/files/imagemanagermodule/

http://erin-oneil.blogspot.com/

http://connorsundberg.blogspot.com/

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Gay Ban in Military is Unconstitutional

A Federal Judge in California declares that she thinks the gay ban in the military is unconstitutional. She also says that she will help to stop it. She says that the ban is in a direct violation of the first ammendment rights of gays and lesbians. The policy says that the military doesnt ask about the soldiers sexual orientation but will ban any that are aknowledging being gay or involved in homosexual activitys. She says this policy does not help military readiness in any way.
I believe that the military should ask the orientation of the enlisted soldier to be fair to everyone else. Everyone should have the right to know about it to better protect their rights. If a homosexual were to be in the shower with other soldiers who are heterosexual it wouldnt be fair the the heterosexual soldier. Also i believe that the military shouldn't just kick them out of the force but should instead find a different solution such as maybe different showers for them or something along those lines. They should still be able to fight for their country but in fairness should have some differences that the normal heterosexual soldiers.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39089475/ns/us_news-life/