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.