Blaming company for own problems

After recently scrolling through aol reading the current top headlines, I seen an article titled "Boy's death from infected rat spurs suit vs. Petco".  The article talks about a boy who's parents adopted him a rat as a pet.  After having the rat, the boy must have been bit, causing him to get the "rat-bite fever", which is caused by an infected rat.  The boy died June 12, 2013, hours after he was rushed to the hospital with severe stomach pains.  Although this is saddening, I do not see how Petco is to blame.  I feel if you adopt a pet, you should have it inspected, just like anything else you go to purchase.  People do not buy a used car, and not test drive to make sure it runs do they? No.  If you were to do this, and the car was broken, at the end of the day its a done-deal, and a lesson learned.  This is why I feel that Petco is not to blame.  Now if Petco were to advertise that all pets have been tested, and then this happened, I could see where you would have a case to file a lawsuit, but if you yourself did not take matters into your own hands and get the pet inspected, then I can only see that individual person is to blame.





http://www.aol.com/article/2014/02/26/boys-death-from-infected-rat-spurs-suit-vs-petco/20838509/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl3%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D447738

California's Rights

Recently reading an article tiled "Gay Rights in California", I seen some known, but interesting things.  In 2008, they passed a vote with 52% - 48% banning gay marriage.  I see reasons as why to ban this, but way more reasons as to why not to.  One being, its not you.  If who you find to be attractive a same-sex person, so be it.  It is none of my business, nor it any business of the government.  They then go into blame Obama for not "talking" about the topic during his presidential race to help keep the ban from going into effect.  Although I feel that it would not have killed him in his race to tell his reasons as to why it should not be banned, it may have.  But now that he is president, why is he not taking the steps to lift this ban.  I feel as though these couples are not hurting anyone, and it should be their choice who they talk to.
On the bright side for these couples in California, it is said that the same demographic trends that doomed gay marriage this year also guarantee its eventual victory, so maybe in a couple of years people voting "no", will realize its not a big deal, and surely none of their business.

Why we need to give up on second chances.

 In a recent news article I read where a woman driving under the influence crashed, killing six others.  To begin, I agree that people make bad mistakes one time, but maybe if we gave up on second chances, we would no longer have issues like these because people would actually think before doing something dumb if they know something, such as driving in this case will be taken away for life.
This girl is currently 21, but in 2010, she got a DUI, and in only 1 year in 2011, her license was reinstated.  Now only two years later, this same girl once again, was under the influence, and possibly drinking and driving as alcohol was found at the scene, and she killed six innocent others.  If our government did not believe in giving these "second chances" to everybody, these issues would be on a decline and innocent lives would not be lost.  We all know drinking and driving is dangerous, and if you do it once, you will do it again.  So if in 2010 we would have taken this girls license for good, the six deaths that occurred because of her could have been prevented.
Of course, you have those that say, people will still drive without a license, so why not give it back to them?  Well, we need more laws in effect.  If you loose you license due to something as harmful as driving under the influence where you are risking lives, even if no lives are hurt and you are caught, we need to treat this the same as though lives were hurt, and possibly, just lock these people up for good!

http://www.aol.com/article/2014/02/11/olivia-culbreath-driver-arrested-in-deadly-crash-had-dui/20827718/?icid=maing-grid7|maing15|dl13|sec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D441562

What Obamas Election Means to Black America

When reading an article in our textbook titled "What Obamas Election Means to Black America", written by Steven Gray, I really began to think.  I began to think how only a few short decades ago, blacks were shamed and hated by many, but today, one is our president.  This was a huge stepping stone for us as Americans to all be apart of.  Something to think about how quickly our country took a change for the better is how only 10 years before the election, Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin stated "it is inconceivable to any of us that we would see an African American win a national party's ticket and then compete effectively.  This is just mind boggling how quickly a change, and a large one at that, can truely take place.

On another note, the article states that "Obama's candidacy inspired scores of blacks to vote for the first time".  When I read this line, I began to ask myself if that is the only reason why he won.  I feel as though if you are 33, like Michael Johnson, and have never voted before, but decide to just because there is a possibility for America to get its first black president, then he should not have been able to vote at all.  That is not a good reason to vote for someone who is going to be in charge of our country, and our futures.

The rich get off easy

Over the last week or so, I have seen seeing Justin Bieber on the news headlines about his recent DUI and street racing arrest.  Bieber was pulled over driving under the influence of alcohol, marijuana, as well as prescription medicine, all awhile being underage at that with a suspended license. Sure, just as every other American resident would get, he was arrested.  But here is what gets to me.  He has had a rough recent-past when it comes to the law, including multiple car incidents as well as run-ins with his neighbor, all resulting in police being called, but nothing being done to him.  Now that one police officer has officially had him in custody, the judge sets him free on a small bail of only $2,500.  As some would say, "it's not like he killed someone".  Well, no he didn't, but he sure could have.
I am waiting to see results of his official court hearing to see if the judge sticks it to him, or if he will ease up on him because he is able to hire a big-time lawyer.  If the judge decides to give him any type of break because he is rich and famous, what will he learn?  He needs to to given some type of punishment to let him see that his money may be able to buy a lot, but not his way out of trouble, otherwise the next time he pulls a stunt like this, he could cause harm to innocent bystanders.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/23/showbiz/justin-bieber-arrest/

Blind Money

In an article titled "Show Us the Money", written by Cyrys Habib, she tells us how the blind get taken advantage of when using paper cash.  The blind, are upset with the Treasury that their is no way to tell the difference between the bills, but with a $75 million dollar price tag to make bills different, I would have a hard time changing the bills when the blind has other options.  Everywhere I go, I see "Debit accepted here".  In the last few years, I never never gone somewhere where credit/debit is not accepted, even with local mom and pop stores.  So for $75 million, why should they change the way bills are made?  I feel the arguments made by the blind are totally different than others.  Such as them saying its the same difference as wheelchair ramps for the handicap.  This is a bad reasoning because someone in a wheelchair can physically not get up on the curb them self, where the blind does have other options.

Credit Cards Good?

I always hear, "credit cards are bad".  I've heard it from my friends and parents, and even hear my friends parents telling them never get into the habit of using credit cards.  I always ask myself why?  Is it that credit cards are bad, or is it that the user of the card is bad?  My vote goes for the user.  I myself got my first credit card at age 18, and I personally use it like a debit card.  Why?  They paid me 1% on all purchases to use it where my checking debit card paid me nothing.  I always limit my spending.  If I do not have the money in my checking account to spend, I don't put it on my credit card.  In under a year, on that card I accumulated over $25.00 in free money just for using the card.  Now, recently I signed up for a discover card.  Just for signing up, I received a free $50.00 bonus, on top of that, I receive 5% cash back on all online purchases up to $1,500.  Since I knew I would be spending over three thousand dollars on a new motor, why wouldn't I put it on the card, and immediately pay it off when I receive the statement?  If you are responsible, I feel you should use credit card because they reward their valued customers.  If you are told not to use them, you are more than likey being told this by someone who was not responsible and build up debt.