iKill :)

The coolest app I have seen would have to be Arcade Hoop Basketball Lite. I don't have anything that I could have apps on but I play on a lot of my friends iTouch's. One of the weirdest apps that I have seen is Pimple Pop. If you play this app all you do is pop zits. It shows a picture of a big (virtual) zit and you bring your fingers together and "pop" the zit. If I were to come up with an app I would make one where you could either be a cop or gangster. After you pick what you want to be you either if you were the cop kill all the gangsters. However if you were the gangster you would kill your enemy gangsters. My app would definitely Not be too graphic. When you killed the gangsters their blood wouldn't go flying everywhere like in movies.

Technology!?

Do iPods and iPads help in school? Yes, in elementary, in grades 6-12 the kids would be so distracted it wouldn't work for more than a week. The elementary kids, however, don't know how to use technology like Jr High and High school kids. The older kids know how to get all the apps, play games, etc. The elementary kids more than likely wouldn't even want to mess things up and get them taken away. I can see iPads helping more than iPods too. With iPad's you have more room to work and you can see way better. You can also pull up several windows and work on more than just one thing at a time. I disagree with adding iPods and iPads to grades 6-12 but with elementary it could work! I also disagree with having them work on the iPad for too long. My eye sight has gotten a lot worse since our school started using laptops. They should use the iPads every other day or for only a short amount of time each day.

↓ Mexico Under Drugs ↓

Mexico's President, Felipe Calderon, has a few problems on his hands. Calderon meets with Mexico's army and navy everyday. They are working together planing a seven month old presidency: a military assault against the drug cartels. Their plans are to wage street-by-street battles with the drug cartels. Calderon's main plan is to stop all the killing by the time he is done being president. Although Felipe's hopes are to stop the killing there have been 28,000 people killed since he became president. The drug cartels have committed over 3,000 execution-style killings in the past year and a half. Unfortunately, for us, the cartels ammunition comes from the United States. Their guns, for the past two years, have come mainly from Texas, Arizona, and California. The main deals are made near highways that cross the border and go deep into Mexico. Another problem for the Untied States involvement with the Mexican drug cartels is most of the drugs are coming our way! In 2008 the cartels sent at least 90% drugs to the US, now the percentage must be higher.The main cartels are the Gulf Cartel, the Juarez Cartel, and the Los Negros Cartel. The biggest cartel is called La Familia. La Familia announced a one month truce by letters, media, announcing it in the streets, and publicity. The gang claims it will halt all crime activity for the month of January. Their truce pretty much states that they want the people in Mexico to realize they aren't the only, or biggest trouble in their country. However the other cartels are still active with their crimes. Currently Mexico is having many problemos with drug cartels, obviously. The cartels are, without details, rebelling against their government, killing anyone that gets in their way, trafficking drugs, and kidnapping kids. In my opinion I don't think Felipe knows how to take care of his country. He should have taken care of this before it got out of hand. I would make sure my family was safe before I even thought about myself. I would definitely be paranoid of every little thing and every person I came in contact with. I would make sure I was updated everyday of things that might happen. I would be SUPER cautious!!

Money, Money, Money!

Our President is paid $400,000 annual salary. Cliff Lee is paid a salary of $11 million. Why do sports players get paid more than the leader of our country?? Is it because we want more entertainment than leadership? If we lost our leader to sports we would be in a ton of trouble. Sports idols should not be paid more than the leader of our country. The President also gets $50,000 annual expense account, $100,000 non-taxable travel account, and $19,000 for entertainment. Cliff Lee just starts every season with $11 million, he started his contract with $120 million and gets an increase on his salary every new year. Cliff Lee still makes several million dollars more than our President. Our country is big on entertainment. We get it in our mind that we can lead ourselves and do O.K. We need to realize it takes more than just self-confidence! I believe our President deserves more!