about me #4

Last night I went to the Nationals game and it was insane. The rain and the thunder and lightning was crucial and I looked like I had jumped into a pool. Straight up wet dog. The Nats didnt even end up playing and I had to sprint to my car in the POOOORRRINGGG rain. It was awesome. Other then that, this week has been extremly slow, and I am totally ready to graduate. CANT WAIT FOR GRADUATIONNN SENIORRSS 09 REPPPPPPPPPREEESSSENNNTTTT.

about me- 3

Ummm so this weekend the pools opened, and I worked everyday, it was a total blast. I worked all day everyday and got really sunburnt. I called 911 twice for people hitting their heads which was definately the highlight of my day considering my days were so boring. Other then that, this wekend was full of me being lame. Just like this post. Hopefully this week isnt to bad considering we have SOL's scheduled. I'm sooo ready to get out of here. only 2 more monthss! thank goodness

number4- free choice

WASHINGTON POST- Susan Boyle makes final on ‘Talent’

Susan Boyle a Scottish singer has become a YouTube sensation and has been voted to the final of “Britain’s got talent.” The 48 year old sang the song Memory from Cats and won all the television votes. Simon Cowell who is one of the three judges told her how special of a lady she was and brought the audience up for a standing applause. Her looks improve ten times better then the beginning of the show improved rating and brought in more fans who first thought she couldn’t sing. Singing songs that thrilled viewers and saw what a potential star she was, made Boyle a internet sensation. Simon apologized toward the end of the show to harsh comments he said in the past and quoted that he was proud of her. Boyle’s acts on Sundays semifinal hopefully was enough to push her to win on Saturday.

number 3- free choice

CLINTONS SAX SOLD AT AUCTION FOR AIDS RESEARCH
Washington post


Bill Clinton’s saxophone and Robert Pattinsons “lips” were helped raise money to help people fight AIDS. Clintons sax being sold at Cannes Film Festival for $180,000 while two kisses from the Twilight star were auctioned at $28,000 each. Sharon Stone hosted the event on Thursday night and urged people to give generously and forget about the economy for one night. The proceeds of the event go to the American Foundation for AIDS research that also is lined with HIV research. This auction was more popular then any other with more A stars and a record of $10 million raised. Clinton quoted that he was at the event with people who show life lessons and spill life stories as a living. He told people that you don’t need movies or novels to make a story, yet everyone has their own and every time someone dies of AIDS in the world, that light made has disappeared. Other items at the auction were a Fiat 500 for $111,000 and a Karl Lagerfeld guitar case filled with champagne for $42,000. Many famous singers sang and entertained guests at the event and dedicated songs to those with AIDS.

number 2- free choice

word mistake at face value- washington post

Donald trump who is the head of the USA Miss American Pageant talks to people about how the “mouth has to do with the beauty queens Barbie doll looks”. Mostly people who watch the show take track of the lovely women, but that doesn’t mean that they pay any attention to what the girl may be saying. Carrie Prejean, talks about how people make assumptions on archetypes. And when looks and archetypes don’t match up, it comes with a different out put. For example, when the druggie looking bum in the class turns out to be the smartest one. People are going crazy over certain responses that Carrie had even though she wasn’t even the overall winner. When Perez asked her about same sex marriage, she had a very conservative stance on it which many were very surprised about. The words that came from her mouth caused a “sucker punch” as they called it. Edwards another runner up talks about the publicity of her memoir and talks about how her baby is not her biggest concern causing more controversy. This article mainly just goes beyond about how appearances can be very deceiving, yet they sometimes leave people speechless.

about me #2

This weekend was pretty boringg. All I did was do some lifeguard class and met my staff for this summer that ill be working with at north hills. I also went and attempted to swim laps at the pool for the first time since districts, it was not fun. It stareted to storm so atleast I had a good excuse to stop because I was dyinggggg.Any ways, I feel like its kinda lame this post is like writing in a diary but I guess thats cool and all. Well, todays the house inspectors coming to inspect my house so Ive gotta get out of my house for 5 hours. soo cya!!!

about me #1

So today is mothers day and its absolutely beautiful outside! Considering that it has rained alot the past two weeks, today was definately a plus. I went out to breakfast with my family and it was kinda lame. We went to silver diner with my grandparents and we had some crazy server who called himself "biscuit boy". ANYWAYS. I woke up this morning pretty upset that the caps lost. SUCHH A BUMMMERRRR. If Malkin plays well in the next game and crosby picks up the game, then looks like the caps will be sol. Ovechkin slacked a bit last night, and backstrom definately picked up his game, but that last goal by the caps was totally put together by mike green. He's my favorite. well game 6 looks like itll be on monday away unfortunately, hopefully we can win that. On another note, im going to enjoy the weather.

number 1- free choice

This week I read about the Wizard of Oz’s Mickey Carroll (the munchkin) died. At the age of 89, he died in his sleep at his own home. Although he had heart problems and had a peacemaker placed in him in February, his caretaker Linda Dodge said he was a healthy man. Carroll was one of the more than 100 children casted in the movie and made $125 a week for interviews during the movie filming. Carroll also did many fundraisers for “Oz-related” events after the movie was filmed. He has always said how he loves how his roll makes people think of their child hood. Carroll was born in 1919 and grew up in St. Louis with a twin sister and four other siblings in a Italian neighborhood. Throughout his life he loved theatre and worked in clubs to earn money. He also did live radio ads and appeared in shows with Mae West, although the muchkin roll was what made him popular. In the movie, he is the munchkin who escorted Dorothy to emerald city. In 2007, he received a star on the Hollywood walk of fame with the other munchkins for this small roll.

editorial

this editorial talks about a new train thatll be considered "high speed" although it only goes 110 mph. In many other countries there are trains that actually reach 125, yet arent even considered high speed. This train may be good for short trips due to a speed difference, or even saving the enviorment and time due to no weather delays. Yet i believe its ridiculous that they are even talking about this in an editorial. Its a waste of time and effort to write an artical on this and express feelings on a trains speed. As the article is closed it quotes, "President Eisenhower approved construction of highways so lets get on with it", which is the truth and adds humor to the piece.

Editorial

This week I read about the fairfax county board changing the sleep times for middle schools, highschools, and elementary schools. If passed, highschools would start at 820 while middle schools at 930. The problem with this would be elementary school students would get home before older kids causing many issues. A recent meeting reported that this is not going to pass this year but may in the future. With investigations in saving money with bus roots this may come into effect even next year. I think this sleep thing is good considering I'm always so tired in school yet I don't think students will get more sleep because theyll stay up later.

editorial 3

Recently the six principles for global warming legislation was released by Barbara Boxer of California. Maninly pointing out that there will be no consideration of carbon tax. The chairman of enviorment and public works committee says that the cap and trade is the way to go. Cap and trade regimes have many advantages, mainly integrating with other coountries yet dont garuntee success. With controversies in the years passed with such areas in Europe, people dont know which way to neccesarily swing towards helping solve global warming.With cap and trade syste,. the money made by a carbon tax could be given back to americans.

This editorial is important due to the fact that global warming is such a large issue in our society today. I do believe that this carbon tax would do our soceity well and in the end may really save not only us yet our surroundings.

editorial 2

This editorial was about Kerrys analysis of the tough challenges before US forces arrived in Afganistan. Yet Kerry left out a major issue,army equipment is absolete and desperately need an upgrade. Fighting for seven years, our troppes and equipment which in fact was designed in the 70s, has warn down. So our troopes must become more flexible because of offensive attackers. Unfortunatly funding for better weapons has been cut, maybe mr kerry himself will rise a voice to help improve the weapon conditions in the end.

I believe this editorial is not only very interesting yet very important. Not only does it convey the message to americans that our soliders need better support for weapons, yet sends out a message that we all need to speek out about this issue.

Editorial ce one

This weekend I read an editorial about justice ruth Ginsburg announcing that she has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She is a 75 year old lady and a very healthy and energetic woman of our time. Going through colon cancer in 1999, she has fought harsh illnesss before. Many are hoping that being a posstive woman will help her alot getting through this bad time. But public poblicity takes a large part in this, due to privacy. Yet many feel like we should know what's wrong with our chief justcies due to the fact this is such a huge job in our country. And I agree with this due to the fact that with them having such a large part in our lives, we should be updated with thier health.

CE5

This week i did my political cartoon on Obama and Bush having a talk about the trillion dollar deficits. In the cartoon, "w" is handing over a big fat baby to obama that has trillion dollar deficits written on him. W says to Obama this is your baby now, you kiss it. Referring to you kiss its butt now because its your problems. Obama is just standing there in shock and waiting for whats to come with little emotion. I find this cartoon very easy to interpret and i really do agree with it when it says its his issues now and to kiss it, because obama doesnt know what hard times it may bring.

ce 4 post

This week i did a political cartoon that involvesd obama and his situation that he is falling into with the stimulas plan. in the picture it has a tiny picture of obama about to jump onto a seasaw off a ladder, then on the other side of the seasaw is all the problems he is going to take on when he becomes president. it seems to show that the weight/pressure that obama is going to be taking on is going to be way to much for him to handle. uh- oh obama supporters, looks like obamas going to end up in a pickle