Salmonella warning lifted for tomatoes, not hot peppers

This is pretty crazy that everyone was saying that the reason for the salmonella outbreak. Now they are contradicting what they said and says that it's not the tomatoes its the hot peppers. I think that they are having such a hard time figuring out what is causing it.

I think that it would be pretty simple to find what it is and where its coming from. The should be able to find where the outbreak is and then trace the veggie all the way to the source. Maybe I'm underestimating how hard it would to trace them but if you can trace terrorists and stuff like that then it shouldn't be that hard to find this out.

Stocks soar because of oil prices

I heard that people these days are getting mad because of the rising gas prices, and because of that were having to change out lifes around it. Along with out lives changing with the rising cost of oil the american economy is getting a beating from all that is going on. Thousand of people are loosing their jobs, companies are going out of buisness, and the price of living is going up. I think that there should be something done so that this isn't effecting us in the future.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080717/news_1n17econ.html

Swimmer with a tought desicion, Cancer Treatment or Olympics

Its pretty sad that a man of his age has to go through this type of desicion. Right when he's about to go into the olympics the doctors tell him that he has testicular cancer. Now he has to choose weather he want to hold off on the surgery and go onto the olympics or does he want to do the surgery and miss out on his first olympics.

If I were in his position it would be very hard for me to choose. I know that I don't have to get the surgery done right away but then again something unexpected could happen during the olympics. But what I would do is that I would go for it and go to the Olympics and do what I have to do. Once I have done that and one my prize the I would fly back home and have the surgery done. But I would then think as I'm flying off in the plane if I had made the right decision.

I'm sure that not many people who have testicular cancer have had to make a decision like this. But well find out what he's going to do.

Link to Article:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080712/news_1n12swimmer.html

Senate approves wiretap measure

These days it seems that the government is wanting so much to listen to the conversations that we are having. I know that is good to have them do it for the nations security but all in all they could also be using it to listening to random connversations.

Sometimes I think that if we would have never got into this war if some things would have never happend, such as wire tapping. But with bush at the head of everything we went to war. So now we have to put up with the government listening to out conversations.

Im glad to hear that not everyone wants to have it since it took a 69 to 28 vote to be able to approve it. But it still concerns me. It always because what if your talking to friend and then say something about a bombing or something like that and then have police or something come in to my drive way. That would scare the S**t out of me.

The types of things that the government are doing are kind of rediculous in order to "protect us". A great example of something rediculous is not allowing us bring a regular un-opened tube of tooth past on a plane for a 30 min flight.

Bush is making the us safer but by allowing wiretapping to take place he is also not givving us our privacy anymore. There is not much we can have when were talking on the phone or on the internet or tv (i think), and its helping but hurting the economy at the same time.

Link To Article:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080710/news_1n10wiretap.html

Job Cuts Worsen Economic

Its hard to hear that job cuts are going to effect the future that I am going to working in. I don't really like the fact that this is starting to happen right when I'm at the age that I am going to be starting to look for a job.

To kinda give an example of whats happening, my neighbors had both gotten cut form their jobs. Its hard on them and now they are having to go through foreclosure which his very hard on them. This is one of the reason that job cuts are bad. Now they are having to move all to South Carolina.

So its really effecting the people around me and the people that I care about. So because of this I am worried for my future in the working world.

Link To Article:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080704/news_1n4econ.html

Crews can't battle all of state's wildfires

From reading this article it is sort of scary freaky that all these wild fires are going on in California that our fire crews aren't able to handle. Every year fire conditions are getting worse and it seems to me that Global Warming is helping all of this happen.

While the earth is warming up its creating drought type weather in some parts of the state which dry out lots of brush and weeds and makes it the perfect weather and landscape conditions for a firestorm, which is happening now across the state.

Fires have been going on in San Diego county and other counties for the past several years. We thought that those were bad. These are going to be worse and there going to get worse if Global Warming continues and these hot conditions keep drying out the plants.

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http://www.signonsandiego.com

FDA Focuses on Safty of drugs

Drug Development is going down hill since the pharmaceutical drug companies Merck & Co took the painkiller Vioxx off of market shelves around the U.S. in 2004. Some drug companies which include Schering-Ploughs Chief Executive Fred Hassan and his top scientists say that they have stopped the process of making two drugs; one a cholesterol lower and the other, to help with obesity.

Hassan believes that the only way that they would be able to get a drug out onto the market is that if we spend more time and money. He thinks that the reason that drugs are not being passed is because of an intensifying focus on safety and a diminished tolerance for drug side effects; which was brought up at the food and drug administration.

“What will it take to get new drugs approved?” Hassan asked. “The point is, we don't know.”

Within the last year, 19 new medicines were approved by the FDA which is the least amount in 24 years. Along with the new drugs, the FDA also announced that there were 75 new or revised "black-box" warning which were about the side effects of the new drugs, which is twice the number in 2004.

Joseph Panetta says that the approvals of drugs aren't because of the drug industries is being less innovative, but more because the FDA doesn't have many staffers with a lot of experience, so they are trying to get more. This means that they don’t have very many people doing the testing so they have to slow down the process.

It seems to me that things are starting to go towards the positive side because of what’s happening. Because of the larger slow down in drug approvals the safeties of drugs are going to go up, hopefully.

Link to Original Artical:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080701/news_1n1drugs.html