Jonathon Anderson's Weblog

Has anyone else noticed the rising gas prices over the last few days? Although this tends to happen during holiday times, the price per barrel of crude oil has shot up over $100. Why is this you might ask? Well with all of our worries about green house gases and the availability of oil in [...]

Ok for our next project I wanted to take on a topic that has become very hot lately with all of the rising fuel costs, so I am going to choose alternative fuels. I am not a tree hugger or anything crazy like that but the prices of oil right now are unreasonably high and [...]

In Dillon County, South Carolina, a 10 year old boy shot his sister in the face with a shotgun after she refused to give up the potato chips. It all started when the boy wanted the chips and his sister refused to give them to him. He then went into another room and grabbed his [...]

Here is my turn to rant on about something that really pisses me off. In today’s economy, we are searching for replacement fuels to take the place of the crude oil driven vehicles that we all own, and now may car and truck manufactures are coming out with what is known as flex-fuel vehicles that [...]

In Washington, President Bush made a budget proposal asking Congress to spend money to help root out illegal workers from businesses, but he did not request more money to help legal immigrants become American citizens more quickly. In his budget proposal issued this week, Bush asked for $100 million to expand E-Verify, the system employers [...]

Each day about five U.S. troops try to kill themselves, and before the war in Iraq that number was down to around one. New Army figures showed that nearly 2,100 soldiers tried to commit suicide in 2007. “Our troops and their families are under unprecedented levels of stress due to the pace and frequency of [...]

After the discussion in class I still have the same perception, so to speak. I think that if you want to help them out take them out to get food so they don’t spend their money on alcohol or drugs. I have had some experiences with people asking for a couple of bucks and at [...]