Fox News

I get really upset by Fox News... for one, I am a Liberal Democrat. But recently, Fox News had an ad in the paper that read "How did ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN miss this story?"

The story was about the 2009 Tea Party.

None of these news stations missed the story at all. Fox just advertised their news story. They claimed that they went into more depth with their story, but I believe that to be untrue. What they didn't tell us is that they hyped up the crowd more by telling them to yell and scream. They made motions with their arms to make them louder. How is that real news? The news is something that is supposed to cover the story, not create the story.

Possible Lyrics for my Analysis

When there's nowhere else to run
Is there room for one more son
One more son
If you can hold on
If you can hold on, hold on

I wanna stand up, I wanna let go
You know, you know - no you don't, you don't
I wanna shine on in the hearts of men
I want a meaning from the back of my broken hand

Another head aches, another heart breaks
I am so much older than I can take
And my affection, well it comes and goes
I need direction to perfection, no no no no

Help me out
Yeah, you know you got to help me out
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the backburner
You know you got to help me out, yeah

And when there's nowhere else to run
Is there room for one more son
These changes ain't changing me
The cold-hearted boy I used to be

Yeah, you know you got to help me out
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the backburner
You know you got to help me out, yeah
You're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, you're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, you're gonna bring yourself down

I got soul, but I'm not a soldier (x10)

(Time, truth and hearts)

Yeah, you know you got to help me out
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the backburner
You know you got to help me out, yeah
You're gonna bring yourself down, yeah
You're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the backburner
You're gonna bring yourself down, yeah
You're gonna bring yourself down

Over and out, last call for sin
While everyone's lost, the battle is won
With all these things that I've done
All these things that I've done

(Time, truth and hearts)

If you can hold on
If you can hold on

Ismael Beah

I was so impressed by his speech. I thought he was incredible!

One of my favorite parts was when he talked of his new mother. I loved that everyone at his high school was like "did your mom go to Africa and meet your father". His adopted mother is a white, Jewish-American so it is no wonder he got asked lots of questions.

I think it was really sweet that at even such an older age for and adopted child, he still eventually called her mom. I mean it would be so dfficult to have had a mother that you loved so dearly before the war and after, be adopted by a stranger. He still learned to love her.

She did such a great deed by taking in a child that came from a war. It would be difficult to take it him in. I know I might have been scared for my life. It is nice to see people with such faith in our world today. There is good in everyone, I guess you just have to search deep down to find it.

Family

I realized this weekend how much I truly miss my family. My little brother and I used to fight all the time. I mean, he is 9 so it is very difficult to reason with him. I love him, though.

We didn't fight all weekend and it was a nice change of pace. I felt that he really missed me after he hadn't seen me for a month. When my family took me back to Ball State, right before they left, my little brother got all teary eyed. It was the cutest thing my brother has ever done.

I love my family and I miss them while I'm here at Ball State.

It isn't right.

I just don't understand how it is ok for our nation not back up the president. I feel like there is so much prejudice towards him. I mean, we went along with Bush until the VERY end of his presidency. Honestly, he was awful. Obama is already raising the economy, so why don't we praise him for that instead of attacking him because he hasn't followed through with ALL of his promises. He just took office not even a year ago! Rome wasn't built in a day. Bush left our nation in a frenzy... now everyone thinks Obama is responsible?

You know what else I can't stand? People that are SO ignorant when they are trying to back up their claims. Oh yeah.. Obama is a Muslim terrorist....
I actually have a friend that believes that. He is not a Muslim and he definitely is NOT a terrorist. And so what if he was a Muslim anyway? It is a free country... or at least it supposed to be.

People are afraid of what they don't understand. Ignorance isn't bliss for the people that are getting bashed by the naive.

Global Warming 2

Environment

SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2009 03:30 PDT

Deadly heat

A controversial report from Kofi Annan's group says global warming is killing hundreds of thousands a year.

BY KATHARINE MIESZKOWSKI

Reuters/Paulo Whitaker/Files

Residents paddle their boat in a street flooded by the Mearim river in Trizidela do Vale, in the northeastern state of Maranhao, Brazil, in this May 13, 2009 file photo. A bout of extreme weather, including floods in the north and drought in the south, has reignited the debate about how climate change is affecting Latin America's largest country, home to the world's biggest rain forest and one of the world's bread baskets.

Climate change is currently killing 300,000 people a year around the world, while seriously impacting the lives of hundreds of millions more, states a controversial new report from the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva. The report, "Human Impact Report: Climate Change -- The Anatomy of a Silent Crisis," predicts that by 2030, approximately 500,000 people will lose their lives to global warming annually. Even today, it charges that 325 million people are seriously affected by climate change, at a total economic cost of $125 billion a year.

"Climate change is a silent human crisis. Yet it is the greatest emerging humanitarian challenge of our time," said Kofi Annan, former secretary-general of the United Nations, who is now the president of the Global Humanitarian Forum, in a statement. "Already today it causes suffering to hundreds of millions of people, most of whom are not even aware that they are victims of climate change. We need an international agreement to contain climate change and reduce its widespread suffering."

Memoir

I'm honestly not sure where to start with my memoir. Mine is going to be about a couple of events that intertwined last year.

I was so upset this past October when I sprained all of the ligaments in my right leg. It was my senior year of marching band, and we were trying out a new body movement in the middle of the show. A freshman knocked into me making us both crash down on the pavement. She had a much softer landing for she fell on my ankle. My ankle twisted in a way that no bone in any human should twist. At that moment, all sound and vision disappeared. My body was taken over by a stinging pain in the lower half of my right leg and a loud ringing in my ear. People rushed over to me to help me off the blacktop.

The other part of my story is a little different. I'm not sure how I should connect these events yet, but I will figure it out. Also, I don't think I want to write anymore until I'm sure how I want it to sound.