Thursday, November 20, 2008

The KKK

“White Power,” is what you would here if you were near the KKK. KKK stands for Ku Klux Klan and they are a terrorist organization that opposes African Americans, Jews, and any other minorities. The KKK was created in 1865 after the civil war ended; it was created to restore white supremacy. The organization decreased between 1868 and 1870, and then finally Ulysses S. Grant ended all of it. Later in 1915 the KKK was found again and majorly grew after WW1. The violence started to raise there were a lot of lynching, beatings, attacks in public and houses, and even murders. Their symbol was burning the cross to intimidate the people.
The Klan decreased during the Great Depression times and fell during WW2. During the Civil Rights Movement the KKK was named out a lot and they were convicted of manslaughter and murders. They had a problem with what is called “The Jim Crow Laws” meaning separate, but equal. African Americans had every right to what whites had, but it had to be seperate. The KKK of course did everything they could to decrease this. The KKK started to decrease more in to the early 1990’s and still from this day there are over 40 groups of them left.
My concern is with Obama being president will this rise again? On the internet it says that the KKK has endorsed Obama and they said that they would rather vote for him than Hillary Clinton any day, but the funny thing is that is a rumor spreading all over the internet. Why would the KKK after 50 years start supporting an African American? There is a clan called “The Knight’s Party” lead by Thomas Robb says now the whites are the minority and they will do anything to protect white supremacy. There are also videos that say he will be assassinated if elected president. Have you noticed though that all the great presidents get assassinated; for example JFK, Lincoln, McKinley, and Garfield. There have already been rumors going around that some people were going to his campaign and had AK’s in the back ready to assassinate him. We could have all predicted this racial thing was going to happen, but it’s great to finally have a change in America having our first ever black president. America has came a long way from what it use to be and for all the people out there that have a problem with other diversities I feel really bad for you.

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Outrages of Celebritys

Why is it that whenever celebritys get in trouble with the law they get away with it...? OR when they do get in trouble they can go to jail for a short amount of time and not have to serve the full sentence? Where as an ordinary person has to suffer and don't get off. One name of a celebrity that shows up alot is Paris Hilton...... She has been arrested multiple times for drunk driving, which is when she finally had to serve her full term. The funny thing is she got out for a little time, because she was having a hard time. Another person is Lindsey Lohan for drunk driving, but just like Paris she gets off easy. There are so many actors, singers, actresses, models, and etc. that get in trouble with the law all the time and get off easy. Normal American citizens never and will ever have it let go and slide by like they do? Why is this? The world is so crooked these days that it is sad... Take O.J. Simpson for example, he's convicted of killing his wife and a friend, I think, and there are so many clues that lead to the murder and he gets let off easy. A little over a year he gets convicted again for a felony, but this time it's I think a robbing.... A little strange huh? He gets let off again, but not too long ago he actually gets convicted of another heist.... Come on people it doesn't take a genious to figure this out? Now if this were a normal average everyday life person there is no way they would've gotten off the first conviction of the murder. This makes me realize that the world is so persuaded by money and wealth that it makes you feel so unsafe.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

The Troubles of Christmas

Christmas is an awesome time of the year. There are cookies, presents, family time, and so much more. Christmas is especially a fun time when you are a kid, because as you get older it's not as fun anymore. The one thing about Christmas though, is they're trying to change it to happy holidays which I think it's bogus. It started out as the American tradition of saying Merry Christmas therefore I think it should stay that way. It's not fair for people from other countries to come over here and say it offends them. Well how about we go over to your country and say it offends us that you say Happy Holidays. Many countries have different ways of celebrating Christmas so why should we have to change how we celebrate it, because you don't like it. Christmas shouldn’t be how you say it that counts; it should be how you celebrate it that counts. Many countries celebrate it from traditions that date back to hundreds years ago, some spend the holiday on the beach and eating cold salad instead of turkey, some celebrate it for many days, some think magical things happen on Christmas Eve, some people celebrate it with festivals and parades. So I sit here and think why does it matter what we call it. We are all celebrating the same thing and that’s Jesus’ birthday. I think that people need to get over what it is called and start having fun. Christmas comes only once a year and we should all celebrate and quit worrying about stupid petty things

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Accidents

Do you think car accidents have to deal with a certain age group or the cell phone issue? The funny thing is my mom tells me I'm an under experience driver if that's so why is it I haven't had any accidents and the accidents I almost do have are older people almost causing them. Car accidents usually happen when it’s 5 kilometers away from home and rarely happen on a vacation trip. When males say woman are the cause for accidents, they are wrong males cause twice as many accidents as female drivers plus they like to have big cars with big engines and the thing about big engines is that you are more likely to cause an accident with a big engine. 39% of crashes are just caused by alcohol and over 10,000 people die from car crashes each year. The most crashes happen between midnight and 3am. Pedestrians are actually at a greater risk than drivers. 14 kid pedestrians each year are killed by a school bus and it’s usually between 3pm and 4pm. The nationality fatality rate for pedestrians is 1.58 to 100,000. Now here’s what I was asking earlier about who causes the most accidents and its people from 16-20 years of age. The most accidents happen during the weekend and over 51% of them are fatal. The most common place to have an accident is in a park aid.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Evolution or Creation?

Before I just want to say I'm not trying to persuade anyone to believe that "this" conspiracy happened I'm just giving facts of the two topics and want to hear what you think. I don't want to offend anyone, and I'm not trying to. If you ask me I don't know what to believe? I believe in God, but then again the evolution thing is really close to. There are many conspiracies in the world, but they two main ones are evolution and creation. Evolution is traits inheritated and passed down, but there can be a change in some traits. The theory is supposedly man was made from the evolution of monkeys. The fact is that chimpanzees have 95.6% of our DNA. Now if you ask me thats a little creepy. Then there's the conspiracy of creation from God. Then again the thing is the bible has been re-written so many times. Evolutionist or the "scientist" believe that if we can't touch, hear, smell, or see the creator, then they cannot test the creator. They believe that they whole universe couldn't explode from nothing, therefore there's an scientific explanation for everything, but the thing is they haven't found anything to explain it Then we have Adam and Eve the first man and woman that were created. If you have never heard of the story it goes that Adam and Eve were to never eat off a special tree in the Eden Garden, well one day a snake came by "the devil" and convinced them to eat it. So they took a bit and the story goes God cursed all man from then on. Evolution started in Europe and later a man named Charles Darwin wrote a book about evolution and this started a big controversy with the church. As for creation everyone accepted it and it goes way back? There are many trials for this controversy like Daniel vs. Waters and The Butler Act and Monkey Scopes trail. To tell you the truth I don't think we will ever find out and if we do there will still be a big controversy.

The problem with obesity

There is so much obesity and America is the number one country with the most people who are obese. Obesity means when fat becomes so extensive that it starts affecting the health. The BMI (Body Mass Index) should be between 18.5-24.9 kg/m for a normal BMI. Overweight is between 25-29.9 kg/m. Most health problems that occur are cardiovascular disease, diabetes type 2 which is the worst one to have, sleep apnea, osteoarthritis, types of cancer, and it can reduce your life expectancy. How you get obese is when you take in too much energy (food) then what your metabolism can handle and also with the lack of physical activity. Most people who are obese have it from a genetic, medical, or psychiatric condition. It has become a really bad problem now that you see younger children become obese. Most of it has to do with video games, instead of going outside to waste all their energy and working their intake they took in that day they sit inside and play video games all day long. A lot of it also has to do with fast food places. It is so convenient to just stop by on the way home or on your lunch break to a fast food place that no one is getting the nutrition they need instead they get all the fatty foods and no calcium, Vitamins, and etc. Now the statistics are 80% of offspring from two obese parents are obese versus 10% of normal weight offspring had normal weight parents. The medical part is some medicines can make you can weight. For example birth control, insulin, steroids, hormonal contraception, and etc. The psychiatric part is it is not a disorder it’s just an illness. How we can fix all this are a balanced diet and a physical exercise. But it's not that easy most of the time that means you has to manage your own calorie intake for the day and this is really hard for some people. You can also take drugs to maintain a weight loss. You can take a pill that absorbs fat or you can do surgery where they can remove part of your stomach so you can get fuller faster, but that can also be dangerous and can lead to health problems to. So what I would stick to is the nutrious diet and exercise, because it is the most affective way to lose weight. Obesity has become a problem in the U.S. no doubt about it.

Friday, October 17, 2008

World Hunger

What's funny is there are so many people who have nice things, have a house over their head, have food and water and etc. while there are so many other kids who are starving. It's sad because most kids who do have these values abuse and don't realize how blessed they are. There are kids who would kill to have the things we do. When you see on the commercials people who are starving and they ask to give money; most people don't even stop to really think about it. Put yourself in their positions, if you were starving wouldn't you want someone to give you something. Poverty is such a terrible thing, and most people sometimes don't have that choice they are just born in to poverty. What if the world didn't have to suffer this? Sitting here trying to trace back to where everything started and wondering if it started with the first person? Wouldn't it be nice to give people food and clothing and shelter, but not even enough money could do that. It's not fair how some people can't help that they are born in to it and have to suffer. Even thinking about it, it is really hard to come up with any solutions on how to solve this. There could be the solution of just not having money anymore so people could survive, but then again we do need that to hold some structure in life. So what can we do? Alot of people die everyday from this problem alot of it is from malnutrition. There are two types of malnutrition micronutrient deficiency and protein energy malnutrution. More than 50 million people suffer from this and the number keeps on growing. Most kids who suffer malnutrition can suffer up to 160 days of being sick plus may cause a life times of problems. The funny thing is the world DOES produce enough food to feed everyone, so if these people suffer and we have enough food to feed them why don't we? Every 3.6 seconds someone dies from hunger and about 15 million children die every year. Race has a big part to do with it to 46% African American, 40% are Latino, and only 16% of whites starve. Most of the starvation is in Europe. Don't you think this is a problem. It would be nice to solve this, but reality is it will never happen, but it would be nice to take measures to try to reduce the statistics.