Ho Ho Yo

I wanna new par of Avaitor sunglasses 'cuz my mudda stepp'd on my ol' par an' days broke now. I also wanna new headset for ventrilo. My old headset is super duper old and da wires is comin' undone man. I want mo' moneyy ana da-beates pump would b totally legit. That's 'bout da extent of me xmas list. Peace out Santa.

P.S. Santa isn't real so your Christmas wish for students that can spell doesn't count Mrs. Fey.

Christmas Cheer

We're going to have to take this blog back a few years; back before last year when I was in the hospital being diagnosed with diabetes, back before the past 6 or 7 years before last Christmas, back to a time when I was little and believed in Santa.

When I was little our family used to go to Kearney, Nebraska to my grandparents house every year. Along with our family my aunt and her family went to. On Christmas eve we'd invite all of our great aunts and uncles, second cousins, and all sorts of other relatives over to my grandparent's house. There we'd have our famous soup supper, with the choices of soup between chicken noodle soup and oyster. I always picked chicken noodle. After dinner we'd play a variety of different gambling card games as a family. I caught on quickly and loved to gamble my parent's money. Then send all our extra relatives home and go to bed.

I'd wake up the next morning, super early! I'd rush to wake every one else in the house up so that we could open presents. I'd get a new set of Legos which would always make my day. Legos were the best present ever. I hate growing up... Now all I get are a bunch of clothes and lame things. Sometimes are I electronic gadgets which are just as good as Legos, but man... The Legos were: Bomb!

Then we'd eat my grandma's famous egg casserole. One of my favorite meals. We'd play with our cousins the rest of the day. Watch our new movies, play with our new toys, play board games. Later that afternoon, we'd drive home. A holiday well spent.

New York Times

Word of the Day: Nascent-coming or having recently come into existence
The nascent garage band was formed by a group of high school teen-agers who had similar tastes in rock music. They plan to play their first show on Dec. 18 at the local auditorium.

Elisabeth Bumiller has been the White House Correspondent for the New York Times since 2001. Before becoming a reporter for the New York Times, Bumiller worked for the Washington Post and was an author. She wrote "The Secrets of Mariko: A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family" and "May You Be the Mother of A Hundred Sons: A Journey Among the Women of India." Bumiller recieved her B.S. in journalism at Northwestern University and her M.S. in journalism at Columbia University.

David Leonhardt has been the Business and Economics Reporter for the New York Times since 1999. Before working for New York Times, Leonhardt worked for Business Week magazine in Chicago and worked for the Washington Post. He studied mathematics at Yale University, but never recieved a degree. His coverage of corporate executives' pay was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize along with his stories on the business scandals of that year.

Thanks--

For God and Jesus.
To my parents for all they do for me.
To my teachers for helping me gain knowledge.
To all my friends. You're the best.
For Warcraft III: Frozen Throne, Ventrilo, and all my good times with my canadain gamer buddies.
For cell phones! haha.
For music! Couldn't live a day without it.
For having a car to drive.
For having good food to eat. =]
To all my debate buddies. You're my friends away from home.
For the genius creation of South Park.
For GOOD books. GOOD books might still outweigh the crappy Twilight Series and make books overall a net good.

I Hate The Biased Crap Americans Call Media

General VoNguyen Giap was a brilliant, highly respected leader of the North Vietnam military. The following quote is from his memoirs currently found in the Vietnam war memorial in Hanoi : 'What we still don't understand is why you Americans stopped the bombing of Hanoi . You had us on the ropes. If you had pressed us a little harder, just for another day or two, we were ready to surrender! It was the same at the battles of TET. You defeated us! We knew it, and we thought you knew it. But we were elated to notice your media was definitely helping us. They were causing more disruption in America than we could in the battlefields. We were ready to surrender. You had won!'
General Giap has published his memoirs and confirmed what most Americans knew. The Vietnam war was not lost in Vietnam -- it was lost at home. The exact same slippery slope, sponsored by the US media, is currently well underway. It exposes the enormous power of a Biased Media to cut out the heart and will of the American public.

Mrs. Fey never comments my awesome blogs

I'm sad that almost all of my blogs go uncommented. I wish I could get feedback on my creative blog ideas from Mrs. Fey. =(

Summary of Cats Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut:

see the cat? see the cradle?

Phil Bakken makes everyone smile

=]

The case of Fate vs Hope

Hope is defined on Dictionary.com as to look forward to the uncertain with desire and reasonable confidence.

After reading Slaughterhouse Five, I believe that hope is a non-existent force because there is no such thing as uncertainness when examining time. There is only fate.

In Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut argues that time is a human creation and that only humans view events as one moment after another. In other words, humans are only able to view the present dimension.

You started reading this article a few seconds ago, meaning that the moment you started reading this article is in the past. The moment you started reading this article has always existed and will always exist, even though humans cannot continue to see it.

This is the same concept that modern-day scientist use to examine time travel. Scientists believe that any given moment has always existed and will always continue to exist, even if it is in an alternative dimension. Time travel simply takes you to that moment.

This excerpt from Slaughterhouse Five best explains how the forces of time and fate work,
“How does the Universe end?” said Billy.
“We blow it up, experimenting with new fuels for our flying saucers. A Tralfamadorian test pilot presses a starter button, and the whole Universe disappears.”
“If you know this,” said Billy, “isn’t there some way you can prevent it? Can’t you keep the pilot from pressing the button?”
“He has always pressed it, and he always will. We always let him and we always will let him. The moment is structured that way.”

I leave you with this quotation that Master Yoda once told young Luke Skywalker regarding the forces of fate and hope,
“Do or do not, there is no try.”

I believe...

South Park captures the humor of real life and may be one of the funnest shows ever.

Last night, South Park protrayed the country after the recent historical election. McCain supporters were constructing an arc, because they thought the world was going to end. The supporters that couldn't fit on the arc were committing suicide. The Obama supporters took to the streets to party. The supporters were getting drunk, causing fights, tipping over police cars, and chanting "Obama! Obama! Obama! Obama!"

While this was happening, Obama and McCain were revealed to be part of Ocean's 11, lead by genius Sarah Palin. The plan was to run a historical and important election inorder to use it as a big distraction so that they could steal the biggest diamond in the United States. Needless to say, the plan worked perfectly, because the people of the United States have not be considered with anything else.

Haha.

Chlorophyll, More like Bor-ophyll

I'm so bored of high school, I've been bored since about the middle of my junior year. The only classes I still enjoy are journalism, debate, and ap literature. Today in ap biology, we were studying the parts of a plant. Over half the class had their heads down. All I could think about was the line from Adam Sandler's "Billy Madison" that goes something like, "Chlorophyll, more like bor-ophyll!" This has become my attitude towards high school. I need a new incentive to come to school or to try in some of my other classes. I'm off to college any ways pretty soon, so honestly why should I try?

I've Learned:

-Several nerdy AP stylebook rules =]
-Writers become easily offended when given corrections, have patience with them.
-How to make a blog!
-Interview tips from the UNL workshop (Always verbally talk to who you want to interview. Don't write down questions, write down subjects or ideas to discuss.)
-Communication with the other editors is a MUST!
-A story idea is an angle on a subject, not simply a subject.

Frat houses are so fly

'nuff said.

Top Ten

Suggestions for the top ten:
1 Top ten movies that suck, that we love.
2 Top ten things to do on Halloween.
3 Top ten scary movies

Top Ten Reasons Why Being In Journalism Rocks:
10 All the awesome kids you get to be with
9 Learning to appreciate the media
8 Showing off my writing skills to the school =P
7 Learning AP stylebook rules (Makes me feel SMART!)
6 Talking to random people at FHS I would have never met
5 Time to read and reflect on News
4 Mrs. Fey and the best sub., Mr. Jay
3 Team Building Activities (we are slacking so far this year)
2 Travel to places!
1 Learning something N E W about the world, the school, and every one around me.

Children's Hospital

The boy constantly wearing the helmet with his hands physically backwards, trying to throw coins his dad gives him into the creek. The gurl with no hair. She'll b dead from cancer within the week. The family gathered around the surgery waiting room crying. A destroyed body of a child is in there, trying to be rebuilt.

A Ship without a Crew

Ever since the Great War, I've been the captain, sailing the ship in the vast sea of clouds. Planes full of people fly by our ship. They never see us; they are too concerned about their Earthly problems. We laugh at this. Today we are protecting the Arc of the Covenant. We’ve been guarding treasures for centuries. Like most of the other angels, my crew has begun to desire flesh. We sail our ship in the direction of God’s throne. I stand before him surrounded by my crew. I ask Him to make us into flesh. I say, “We wish to know what our Lord, Jesus Christ, has suffered, so that we may better understand and appreciate Him.” God likes this argument. We are born within days of one another, and we will die within weeks of each other. Our ship awaits at Heaven’s gateway for its crew, to protect the treasures of Heaven forevermore.

The New Tradition

Homecoming was going to be awful another year. A hopeless football team was going to create a negative cloud around the student body Friday night. To make it worse we had a "mandatory" pep rally that day, which was totally a drag... forcing someone to get excited about their school is a joke, especially when our football team hasn't won a game all season. Hell, we've only scored 21 points between our V and JV this season. After 45 mandatory minutes of pep, school was released. Thank God, I thought. We have no chance of beating the Rockets, I thought.

Shmags was stuck babysitting his little sister and Netty’s cell phone broke sometime Friday. (Shmags being Jourdon Winterstein, one of my closest buddies, and Netty being Annette Bilava, the girl I like.) Which meant I would have to show up at the game alone. For a high school student games are social events, and its awkward to have to walk up alone to the group of standing high school students, even though you know the names of every one of them.

Within the first 5 minutes of the game, Lincoln Northeast had scored a touchdown. The worst part of it was that they were the team that kicked off at the start of the game. The game progressed rather sluggishly from the touchdown. It looked like it was going to be another disaster, and on Homecoming… What a drag… Just before halftime, Charlie Simmons bolted down the field into the in-zone and caught a perfectly thrown pass. We scored! We made the extra point which put us ahead by one as we went into halftime. (The Rockets, failed to score their extra point.) The crowd was going wild, Midland College students had showed up to the game and stood beside us. They started chants and the wave and passed around noise makers, which were incredibly annoying little things.

Just after halftime, the Fremont study body formed a plan. We were going to storm the field if our team won. Being our Homecoming game and our first win, we found this as a very splendid idea. As the game was coming to a close it became apparent that we would actually win! The entire student body started rushing towards the track to charge the field. Our activity director tried to hold us back, but ended up being overpowered by the crowd as we pushed our way onto the field and ran at the football team with all our might. A huge huddle of football players, coaches, and students hugging and screaming, was formed. Most of the football coaches and players were in tears. This should be a new tradition remarked one of the coaches.

Maybe that ol’ pep rally did something after all. Maybe spirit did put on some pads and lead our team to victory. Maybe we have a new school tradition.

My Boy, McCain

This presidential race is being called one of the biggest and most historical race in a long time for the United States. Our nation needs a president with moderate views to unify the nation. I'm very excited to vote for the first time in my life, but its scary to think that which ever presidential hopeful wins will be the president for the next four years. (My college years) Therefore, the most important issue to me is the economy. Even as a nation one of the most important topics is the economy. McCain stated on the economy issue, The first thing we need to do is stop the out-of-control spending. Out-of-control spending is what caused the interest rates to rise. It causes people to be less able to afford to own their own homes. The second thing that we need to do, of course, is stop spending $400 billion a year overseas to oil-producing countries. Our economy is driven by consumers, we need to reverse our consumer economy.

The other big issue important to me and that our nation needs to address is the energy crisis. The energy crisis is a key factor to fixing our economy. McCain encourages development of alternative energy to reduce pollution and wants to strengthen emission controls on all gasoline or diesel powered engines, including cars and trucks. He is also for increased domestic off shore drilling. McCain recently stated, We have got to achieve energy independence, oil independence in this nation. I will make it a Manhattan Project, and we will in five years become oil independent. Although experts have serious doubts that our nation can become energy independent in five years, as a nation we should strive for this goal.

I really like McCain's stances on social issues such as gun control, crime, and abortion.

On gun control, McCain stands by the second ammendment, which reads, a well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. McCain said he was open to voting for an assault weapon ban. Assault rifles are guns that fire multiple rounds everytime you pull the trigger, making them useless for hunting. They can only be used for attacking a person. Because I believe that a "well regulated Militia" should be interprepted as the police, national gaurd, or army, these weapons should be banned from citizens.

On crime, McCain stated, we must not allow the First Amendment to be abused as a shield for those who advocate or conspire to commit acts of violence. He is also infavor of the death penalty for violent offenders rather than paying ridiculous amounts of money to keep them in prision for the rest of their lives. (The average cost to keep an inmate in jail is around $31,650.)

On abortion, McCain said, Roe v. Wade should be overturned and said he would support exceptions to a ban on abortion in cases of rape, incest, and when the mother’s life is in danger. I'm pro-life and I love this exact stance. Regarding this same issue, McCain said, I believe that we need to fund [stem cell research]. This is a tough issue for those of us in the pro-life community.We need to do what we can to relieve human suffering. It's a tough issue, but I support federal funding. I believe that stem cell research could do wonders to cure diseases.