Swine flu

The heads of different government possisions including Obama have decided to keep schools open if the swine flu hits. They said that they should only close the schools if they can not function or if the swine flu mutates into a more deadly virus. They know that last spring the swine flu infected 800,000 people but if they knew then what they know now it wouldnt have been as big an epidemic. The experts say that the swine flu isnt any different then the normal seasonal flus that are around. The professionals know that school inevitably are going to still close down but they say that it will cause a social disruption if they do. They know that the schools with pregnant teens and kids with lung dissabilities will probably have to close to keep them safe from the virus but some communities are using reactive dissmissals. This means closing the school if there is excessive absenteeism, if large numbers of kids are visiting the school health office, if the school isn't able to keep sick people out, if they cant maintain school functions, should also cancel school-related mass gatherings.

The Attacks

On Thursday morning Facebook Twitter and Livejournal were attacked by a hacker disrupting the usage of the sites to 306 million users. The hacker had the website send out request that made it so the websites couldnt be access. Experts say that twitter was shut down in most of the world for about three hours and couldnt send out tweets for most of that time. Facebook and Livejournal were shut down for around an hour before technitions fixed the problem but the Live Journal still couldnt be reached hrough iPhones or in Eastern Europe. Experts say that they havnt seen anything like this sence the attacks on Yahoo, eBay, Amazon.com, Etrade, ZDNET and CNN in Febuary of 2000. They also beleive that these hackers are doing this to show how strong these computer bots can be in the hands of crimals.

American Idol

Paula Abdul has told the news and the reporters that she has left American Idol to search for some more jobs. I was listening to it on the radio and she didnt give a exact reason why she has decided to leave but Nigel Lythgoe told the reporters that she left because she wants more money. Nigel Lythgoe who is a dancer and a choreographer for So You Think You Can Dance told reporters that he also thinks that she decided to leave because she might have some issues with some of the other judges. He also stated that he thinks that if Simon put up some of his own money Paula still probably wouldnt have stayed. I just think that she was the nicest judge on that squad from what I saw in the screenings and that they are going to have to find another one just to be where they were.

Big Papi

I was lisining to WEEI today and they were talking about David Ortiz and the steriod scandel that is going on. I guess Ortiz will making a statment this weekend about his use of steriods. Lou Maloney was talking about how he really feels that Ortiz didnt know that he was useing steriods and that it was just a supplement that contained them. This means that he thinks that Ortiz never accually put a needle into his body and this is what is making this scandel so contraversal. When the results come out and says weather or not Ortiz used a needle and anabolic steriods, this will either make or break Ortiz. If the results come back and Ortiz was just useing a supplement he can actually say that he didnt know what he was usinng. I honestly beleive that Ortiz knew exactly what he was putting in his body. But I really dont blame him at all because it was the steriod era and every one else was using it. I probably would have done the same thing if i was a professional baseball player because it is your job and the only way you get paid is to put of big numbers and the ability to stay on the feild.

Michael "Scott" Speicher

The remains of a navy pilot were found yesterday in a grave in Irag. The remains were of Micheal Spieicher who had crashed his plane in 1991 during the gulf war. After he had gone missing the navy and cia searched for 5 years for the remains of the crash or Speicher. In 1995 the crash site was found but the remains of the body were not there. After the crash was found the department declared him killed in action but in 2001 the CIA beleived that he survived by ejecting from his plane. This is the first time that the department has changed the status of someone that has gone missing during the war. For the third time the pentagon decided to change his staus again from missing in action to missing-captured during the war. The invasion of Iraq in 2003 gave new hope of finding his remains and a tip from an Iraqi citizen said that they had taking his body and burried it after finding the crash. When they finally did the test on the bones found they declaired that they were the bones tof Michael Speicher.

Travis Pastrana

Travis is a mainiac I cant beleive that someone in their right mind would even try something like this. Honestly i dont watch alot of Motorcross and dont really know who is good in the sport right now but Travis still looks pretty good. I remember when i was younger i used to watch the Xgames alot but as i grew i forgot about all of it. I think it is weird not watching something for a while and then turning it on one day and watching people doing tricks you have never even thought of. I defenatly think that we will see more major injureys in these sports as the years go on because people are just pushing their bodies harder and harder. Also people are getting more and more athletic as well. Like a year or two ago I saw on ESPN that a guy fell from a skatebaord 50 or so feet and fell right on his back. He got up and walked but it just shows how far these athletes will go to win.