Finished Last Man Standing

I finished the book Last Man Standing by David Baldacci this week. After this, Web is reassigned to protect a family, named the Canfields, whose son was in a hostage situation at a school that Web took part in stopping, but in the process their son had died. Web has to protect them because someone is killing people that were involved with the presecution of the organization that took the school hostage. After this, Randall Cove, an undercover agent, is killed by the head of the Canfields farm who is using the horse trailers to smuggle drugs into cities. You also find out that it was Gwen Canfield that was killing the people involved with the death of her son and she is also the one that killed Web's team. She ends up dying in the end and so does the farm hand/drug lord. In the end Web is considering leaving the FBI, and meet up with his old father that he has never met and start a new life.

Last Man Standing

I'm about half way done with the book Last Man Standing by David baldacci, and it is a very interesting book. The media has taken an interest in Web London because at a funeral for one of his team members, the wife had come and screamed at him in front of the cameras. When he arrives back at his house and his house is surrounded by reporters and he pulls his gun on them and that makes him one of the top stories in the nation. Later, he decides to visit the home of the undercover agent that gave them the information on the building where his team got ambushed. The house is already being watched by the FBI and when he arrives, he finds out that the agent had lost his family due to a blunder made by the FBI and that he may be trying to get back at them and he may have set London's team up. When they are leaving the house, the agent watching over the house is killed right in front of London by a sniper in the forest.

Started Last Man Standing

I started a book today called Last Man Standing by David Baldacci. It starts out with a group of FBI agents going into a hotel to get a drug lord and his financing people. the team is led by a man named Web London who has sort of panic attack upon enterint the hotel that ended up saving his life because a trap was set to ambush he and his team when they entered the courtyard of his hotel. He was the only one to survive the ambush out of a seven man team and the FBI has no idea who is behind the attack or how they the ambushers knew they would be coming. This makes them want to questiont the undercover agent that they were getting their information from, a man named Randall Cove, but there is one problem, he was attacked and left for dead after the ambush and is nowhere to be found. The book is very interesting so far and i have only just started it but look forward to finishing it.

Withdrawl from Iraq

I read an article today in the Star Tribune that was about how on sunday, Iraq's cabinet accepted a plan that would allow the U.S. forces in Iraq to stay there longer. Under the U.N.'s current mandate, U.S. troops will have to withdraw from iraqi cities by the end of June, and fully withdraw from iraq by december 31, 2011. Although the bill was passed by a large margin in the iraqi Cabinet, it is expected to face more opposistion from lawmakers in Praliment. Some of both Shiite and sunni lawmakers oppose the law and some would like it to go on a public referendum for the people to vote on. The lawmakers are being pressured to make the descision before they leave to attend a hajj in Saudi Arabia. It is still unclear whether or not the bill will be passed, and if it is not, the U.S. troops still have 3 years to withdraw before the country is one hundred percent under iraqi control.

Transplants

I read an article in the Star Tribune today by HJ Cummins that was about how the first bone marrow transplant was performed 40 years ago at the university of minnesota and it was celebrating that fact. The article talked about a man named Dr. John Wagner who performed the first marrow transplant that was used to cure a disease other than a bone or blood disorder, which was a deadly skin disease. The University of minnesota medical facility is one of the best in the country, a fact i learned last august when my mom had a new kind of liver transplant where the took a piece of my mom's sister's, my aunt's, liver and put it in my mom, and not having her wait for a whole one from a cadaver. Medicine has come a long way in the last 40 years, and this article was written to show how much people appreciate the life saving work doctors all around the country do.

Bad ways to die

I was looking for something to read for my post for today and i came across a pretty amusing website, www.darwinawards.com. This site is a collection of articles and urban legends about the stupidest ways people have died. My favorite article was about a polish man who claimed he was the macho man in the world. When he and his friends were drinking one night, his friend sawed off the end of his foot, and the man just couldn't be outdone by his friend, so he took the saw and sawed off his own head. another good one i read was about a terrorist who didn't put enough postage on a letter bomb he was sending and it came back to him marked "return to sender", and he opened it and was killed. My other favorite was about a group of protesters who were protesting how pigs are sent to slaughterhouses so they freed a herd of pigs and then were trampled to death by 2,000 pigs.