LAST BLOG!

This story is about a young boy, Dynasty Smith, who was just expelled form tech for bringing a stun gun to school. His mother was the one who gave it to him because he was being bullied. He was being bullied due to the fact that he was an obvious homosexual. The school wouldn't do anything about the bullying because they said that he brought it upon himself for being so flamboyant. He was expelled due to their zero tolerance policy on guns and weapons. The following article is from a popular columnist who responded to the incident.

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012205090317

This is freaking stupid. Ok, Tech High School, you have a zero tolerance policy for guns, yet you allow an innocent kid to be bullied and feel threatened at a school? Cool guys. I feel like the school should have and could have done so much more to help this poor kid. For almost an entire school year, plus some, he's had to deal with these guys, and I completely understood why he finally snapped and ended up using it on some kid who was hurting him. He shouldn't have been expelled. I'm so happy for him for not changing himself so that others and society accept him. However, at this point I feel like the majority of society would accept him. President Obama just said he is for gay marriage, but that's another story...

Week 15

A teacher who worked at St. Vincent de Paul claims she was fired due to recieving in vitro fertalization. She is now sueing the school for firing her. Since in vitro goes against what the church says (depending on the day) she says that this is what made her be fired. She had been teaching there for eight years, and there was no other reason for as to why she was fired. This brings up the issue of the seperation of church and state.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/25/catholic-school-ivf_n_1453524.html?1335386848&icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D155337

I believe that she had no reason to be fired. The church is always preaching about how they want life, and that they are prolife. This is so stupid that she was fired for attempting to bring life into the world. I think that she should win this case and get her job back too. Since the church is saying that they want life, and this can cause it, I don't see why they are so against it. She should get her job back. I know that teachers here must not do anything that goes against the catholic church, but this is silly.

Week 14 (?)

This article is about the major sex scandal among 11 secret service men and 10 army personnel. In America, all prostitution is illegal. However, in Chartagena, it is perfectly legal, unless the girl is under age. So for us, it seems like a huge deal and they should be fired, which makes sense because what they did was wrong. However, to the people there, it seems normal because this sort of thing happens often. Also, it seems like a big deal to us because instead of doing their job, they were drinking and having sex with random women.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/19/secret-service-prostitute-scandal-sex-cartagena-colombia_n_1437845.html?&icid=maing-grid7%7Cmaing7%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D153539#s887879

I think that the men who were involved in this need to be fired. They obviously don't do their job properly, and if I were the president I would be extremely upset. Also, the fact that they took advantage of a country's laws being different than ours for their own wants is selfish and disgusting. I think that since it's illegal here, then they should be charged with whatever it would be for if they had done it here.

week 13

This article is about the newest bout of attacks in Afghanistan. The Taliban went into the capital of Kabul and open fired. They attempted to attack the government buildings. Specifically, they were after NATO. The attacks also included a suicide bomber and many high tech and high powered weapons.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/15/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-coordinated-attacks-2012_n_1426497.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmaing7%7Cdl5%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D152199

My opinion on Afghanistan is that this just has to stop. It's completely horrid the events that happen there. I really wish I could give a solution to the problem, but I can't. I know that getting the majority of the troops out of there by 2014 won't help, but keeping them there doesn't seem to help much either. There needs to be major changes in Afghanistan for anything to begin to be gotten done.

WEEK 12-maybe? who knows...

The hacker group "Anonymous" now says that they have a new plan. This new plan being to hack into Chinese computers to show that they are violating human rights. China has said that yes in fact, many companies have been hacked recently, but won't say which. The leader was arrested last year, but there are still many more hackers.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/09/anonymous-china-hackers_n_1411775.html?ref=technology&icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl3%7Csec3_lnk2%26pLid%3D150351

I think that what Anonymous is doing is good. They are bringing light to issues that need addressing. However, how they are going about getting their ideas across is wrong. They should instead use their hacking powers for good. They should help the government to get intel from other countries, but they should still know when the US is being stupid and then not hack.

WEEK 10

So this story is about a Rick Santorum rally. But at this rally, there were two men- Timothy and Ben who decided to kiss each other. They did this in front of the entire crowd. The crowd soon there after began booing them, and chanting "USA." After this little fiasco, they were asked to leave the rally-more like kicked out.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/17/rick-santorum-protest-two-men-kissing_n_1355897.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D144417

My view on this is more power to them. They obviously have something that they want heard, so they should be able to get it out there. I am so happy for them to be this brave about their sexuality, especially is front of such an anti-gay crowd. You see, I've never fully been able to understand why people worry so much about what other people do, especially when it in no way affects them. People just need to back off and let people do what they want to do. They're not hurting or bothering you, so shut your face.

week 9

This video is one that just recently came out and has have about 40 million hits within the past four days. What it is about is trying to bring awareness to this man's horrible war crimes. His name is Joseph Kony. He kid napes children, takes them hostage, forces them to kill their parents, and then makes them either child soldiers or sex slaves. He is the number one international war criminal. This video is about how we are trying to stop him, and by doing so, we will help so many children.  

My opinion on this is that this is an amazing organization. By stopping Kony, we would be saving so many lives. I think that what this man is doing is absolutely amazing and I think that he should absolutely be praised because of it. I plan to help this cause as well.