In Memory

I'm so sorry for what happened at Virginia Tech this week.
I hate that people at my school scoffed at the memorial slide show we had this morning.
I'm sorry that there are multiple copy-cat threats everywhere.
It disgusts me that my school is under a threat for tomorrow, so it's going to be a throw-away day.
I'm sorry that we're giving this so much attention, but it is a lose-lose situation.
Everyone wants to know what's going on, and everyone wants to send their condolences to the families and friends, and everyone wants to analyze the events.
We all want someone to blame, someone to hold at fault and punish for this horrendous act.
But we do have that person, and his punishment will be very fair. It's not going to be immediate, but it's going to happen. I don't know when it will happen. But I have faith that it will.
I hope that by publicising this so much, we're not encouraging others to do the same.
What difference does it make if your name and face is plastered and played over and over on the news? You're dead!
And why do people like this assassian and others (like Columbine and the Muslims of 9-11) have to kill others before they can kill themselves? Why not just kill themselves? I know it sounds morbid and pessimissitic, but honestly...
I believe that the reason people like this assassian kill others before killing self is because they want to be rescued. They're in so much pain that they want others to know and save them. They don't want to die. They want to know and experience love. Why else would he have written those kinds of things in his English class, and made several threats, and waited 2 hours to start another round of killing? Why else would he make such a disturbing video and take those pictures, and send them to the post office? And why did the post office send them to MSNBC first?
That's beside the point.
This was an eye-opener. To me, it shows that it can happen anywhere. That we shouldn't push around the loner who has no one. Forget being politically correct! If someone needs help, get him help! Pay attention to what's going on. Don't overlook small details that could lead to something bigger and more terrible, like what happened this week.
Pray for the families. Just because you're not a victim to these tragedies doesn't mean you don't have to think about it or relate it to your life.
If a crazy gunman came into your classroom or workplace, what would you do?
Would you be ready to die?

I'm Concerned...

I'm a little worried about the political future of our nation.
Here are two "now" presidential candidates:

1. Hilary Clinton. Former first woman (I can't bring myself to call her a lady) who didn't mind that her husband was a man whore. Not only that, but she doesn't mind all the vulgarity of rappers, who support her campaign. What's her stance on our war in Iraq? The same as any liberal. Pull out the troops. Basically, leave the Iraqis when they need us most.

2. Barak Obama. Mr. Unelected into the House of Representatives. He hasn't had many years of expierence in office, or around the political arena. Did I mention he abused alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine during his teenage years to "push questions of who I was out of my mind." If that's his excuse for abusing not only illegal drugs, but alcohol UNDERAGE, what kinds of excuses do you think he'll use when he's in office?

Many students are told that voting liberal is good. Most students go to college, which is where they are told that voting liberal is good. Most students don't care about politics and will vote for whoever they are told to vote for. I'm a senior in high school. That means I'm 18. When adults ask me what I want to be when I grow up, and I tell them that I want to be a political talk-show host, they're so impressed because I've "already got opinions about politics." Hello! The voting age is 18. Of course I've got opinions. Shouldn't every 18-year-old?
I worry that our nation will be overrun with "free, open-minded" liberals who are only liberal because they were told to be. And any critically-thinking conservative will be shushed.
Any conservative who has a family needs to start seriously talking to his children. And anyone who hasn't talked politically needs to start thinking about it and looking for evidence to support whatever stance he has taken.
In the mean time, I'll be praying for the future of America.

Fire Imus?

As I'm sure you've heard by now, Mr. Imus, a radio host, called some African American females (to be poltically correct) "nappy-headed hos." And he was fired for it. This is huge. It's all over Google, the news, talk shows...
Why? Why was he fired? He apologized.
Because he's white.
Because blacks can refer to other blacks as the n-word, ho, or the b-word. Have you listened to mainstream hip-hop songs lately? Allow me to enlighten you on some of the things BLACK rappers say in songs...
"...That hoe fine but this hoe killer
She leakin, she's soakin' wet...
Shake it like a salt shaker...
Pussy poppin, till you percolate
First booty on duty no time to wait
Make it work, with your wet t-shirt
Bitch you gotta shake it till ya calf muscles hurt..." (Ying Yang Twins)

"I've got hoes (I've got hoes)
In different area codes (area) area codes (codes)
Hoes (hoes..hoes) in different area codes (area) area codes (codes)" (Ludacris)

So why is it that male black rappers are allowed to call women hos but white men aren't? The lyrics in the first song talk about how much this guy wants to have sex with a girl. And we have scandals, like the one with the Notre Dame lacrosse team. Women advertise themselves as nothing more than a vessel of sex. Then they get angry when men take advantage of them.
But I digress...
The point is: Are we one or two Americas? Why do we live by a double standard? Why is it okay for a black man to call another black man the n-word, and for a black man in a song to call a woman a ho or the b-word?
This is unbelievable, how our society allows special intrest groups to be treated so carefully, while we use reverse discrimination to fire a white male for a comment that was supposed to be funny!
I think the lyrics speak for themselves. You decide what you think, and act on it.