Bin Laden is Dead!

President Barack Obama called for a press conference Sunday night before a national TV audience. Shortly the TV broadcast word got out and breaking news occurred that Osama Bin Laden was in fact dead. This news was huge! He was #1 on Americas Most Wanted List for almost ten years. He was responsible for thousands of dead people on September 11, 2001. He mocked America, made videos of burning American flags, and said more attacks would happen. Then like a coward, he hid. No one could find him. When troops went to the Middle East they searched in foxholes, caves and all over. Still they were not able to find Bin Laden.

Then about a week ago special troops got intel that someone knew where Bin Laden was hiding. Obama put a plan together to go and kill him, then on Sunday the plan was executed flawless. They killed Bin Laden, buried his body in the ocean and the man responsible for the deaths of so many Americans is now dead.

Next thought though:In my opinion I believe that this basically has sealed up the the presidency for Obama in 2012. What do you think?

Ford Motor Company Doing Well

Despite the current economic struggles Ford Motor Company seems to be doing well. The company posted their best first quarter profit in a year since 1998. Not since 2008, but you read that right, since 1998. When the economy started to struggle vehicle sales began to go down. But Ford combined strong sales and improved pricing to post a strong 3 month period. Things are only looking positive to for Ford. Vehicle sales tend to go up in the summer months. Ford had a 22% improvement from this time last year. That speaks volume to how well the company is doing. A question for you to think about though. Do you think this hike in vehile buying is due to the gas prices? Maybe people are noticing gas prices are going to stay high so they are trading in their trucks and SUV's to buy more fuel efficient cars.

Six-year old brings gun to school.

A loaded hand gun fell out a student's backpack and went off and shot him and two other students. Nobody was seriously injured. But that is honestly beside the point. There are so many ways in which this story is wrong. How on earth does a school let one of their youngest students bring a handgun into school. Now granted I would never expect a kindergardener to bring a gun to school, but with the society that we live in today nothing is surprising me these days. Also, another point to bring up is how do the parents let this happen? How do the parents make the gun that easily acessible for the young boy. There needs to be tighter restrictions at the boy's home for the gun. That where the first problem came from. Luckily though nobody was seriously injured. That is one positive that can be taken away from this story.

Why Professional Athletes Get On My Nerves

So I am going to be venting in this blog post. Clearly by my title you will be able to tell what it is going to be about. But I'm sorry, these athletes are just getting on my nerves. They have the opportunities to have some of the easiest jobs in the world. I mean think about it, they go out and play a sport that they are good at and get paid for it. But yet, in some sports we still have those athletes who will not come to training camp or sit out games because they feel that they are not getting paid enough. I'm sorry but those athletes need to get over themselves. They are already making millions of dollars as is, and they basically only "work" for maybe 3 months out of a season. The rest of the time is spent training and preparing for the upcoming season. Albert Pujols used to be one of my favorite baseball players, until this past off season. He waited until the last minute to come to training camp and then decided to tell the Cardinals he felt like he was not getting paid enough. Sorry if this post got on your nerves I just do not see how people who are making millions upon millions yearly can complain about how they think they are not getting enough money.

Forces in Ivory Coast Surrender!

After many days of heavy fighting in the country of Ivory Coast it finally looks like things are beginning to settle down. Just in this semester we have seen so many countries begin to fight within each other. Riots, fights in the streets, people being killed over disputes, we basically have seen it all. With all the bad that has gone on the world over the past 3 months I was thankful to hear this "good" news because it had been a while since we had heard some sort of good news in another country.

Question for you to think and respond to classmates. How close do you think the world is to having another World War? Do you think that the United States would be involved in this World War III? How scared does it make you feel to have to think of the idea about a 3rd World War?

March Madness is finally here!

Besides Christmas, this is the most wonderful time of the year. For 3 weeks sports fanatics and others all across the country and other parts of the world take part in what is called by some as "March Madness." Others call it the NCAA(National Collegiate Athletic Association) Basketball Tournament. While I call it one of the best things ever invented. In case you do not know what this is I am going to fill you in. Basically it is a basketball tournament with 68 teams in it that lasts 3 weeks throughout March and on into the beginning of April. Millions of people all across the country take part and get involved by filling out brackets and entering bracket challenges at the chance of winning bragging rights and sometimes even money.

This year's tournament is different in a couple of ways and I for one love it! Firstly, they expanded the amount of teams in the tournament by 3. Where as in year's past only 65 teams got in, this year 68 teams made the tournament. In year's past games were only shown on CBS. So at points you were not guaranteed to see the game you wanted and it all depended on what region of the country you were in. This year every game is being broadcast on national TV. It is awesome! CBS, TBS, TNT and Tru TV are all broadcasting the games. We are only 1 week into the tournament and it is getting crazy. What are your thoughts on March Madness?

Disaster in Japan

I am sure that you all have heard about the disaster that has struck the country of Japan. As if one natural disaster is not enough, they basically had two back to back of each other. A earthquake that was of the magnitude above a 9 struck the country, then the quake caused a tsunami to occur. These two events have caused so much damage to the country. My thoughts and prayers go out to people in this country and whoever else has been affected by these catastrophic events. It truly is a sad thing to see. I am fearful for the death toll.

As if that was not enough on the country they are now having to worry about the nuclear plants exploding and the damage that the radiation is causing. We can help in so many ways. You may not realize it but you can. If you know an organization that is taking up donations you could donate money to them, even the smallest amount would help. You could help by maybe donating some supplies. The easiest way you could help Japan is just by simply praying for the country daily and everyone that has been affected by it