2 posts tagged “news”

Actually I'm not sure if I'm skipping class or not, as I'm not sure class even happened today. I was outside checking out the ground breaking stuff and the 60's protest when I noticed that most of the people from my class were hanging out and participating. I went down to the room and nobody was in there haha. So I'm sitting here in the library for a little bit eating crunch'n munch with Chrissy and checking up on headlines. Two things have caught my attention in the past two days. Firstly I was at work last night and saw that this HIDEOUSLY terrifying man raped...a 3 year old. What kind of SICK, disgusting person could ever even dream of such a thing. If you saw the report on CNN then you know what this guy looks like. He looks like a totally freaked out wild-haired form of Charles Manson. The only reason he was turned in was because his ex-girlfriend did it. Can you imagine how many other people are out there like that who never get punished? Scary.

Something else was a headline I saw right now about a Maine middle school that's going to offer contraceptives. Apparently in 3 middle schools through 4 years there were 17 pregnancies. That's just appalling. I mean, I wish I could get into these kids' heads now. When I was in middle school I never even once gave a single thought to something like that. I don't know, I just don't understand how they would want to have sex. Don't kids wanna play anymore? Someday it'll be like damn, I should've been a kid for longer.

Well in other news the Penguins lost last night to the Devils in an absolutely insane game. I hate the Devils. But that game was nuts. There was this amazing Crosby pass while he was sliding on his ass to Sykora but he couldn't make the goal. Either way the game made me mad. Sure they had some bad calls but not all of them were bad. Six consecutive penalties? Total crap.

Well I'm off, time to do some running around til I get to see my baby <3

I'm absolutely disgusted right now. I was watching the news ticker across the escalators at work today, which I tend to be way more interested in when I'm there, and saw a headline about something that happened in the news recently. A 14 year old boy in Pennsylvania was apparently planning to enact another school massacre. He was arrested Wednesday and was found to have in his possession a semiautomatic rifle and 30 other air-powered guns made to look like higher-powered weapons. There were knives, a bomb-making book, tapes of the Columbine shooting, and notebooks filled with hate. What is happening to these people? As soon as something like this happens it never stops. Why are people so filled with hate that they become so selfish as to believe it doesn't matter who they kill. Who they kill? So some kids pick on you. Why is the answer to this problem now to go on a massive killing spree and then commit suicide? What is resolved by any of it? NOTHING! The only resolution you have come to is that you're dead along with x number of people who didn't do a thing to you. I wanna know what goes through their minds. How do they possibly believe that doing such TERRIBLE things will make them feel BETTER? Or make bullies stop picking on people? It saddens me really, that things like this have students all over the country shifting uncomfortably in their chairs when they hear about another school shooting. Another one! Like it's some commonplace thing now! It could happen anywhere and that makes me sick. It just makes me sick!

Before I keep going with that I also want to mention that that semiautomatic rifle was bought for that kid by his mother, because he was unhappy. How could you do such a thing? Not that she was aware of what he was thinking to use it for, but the boy is FOURTEEN! I don't even think some adults are mature enough to understand what they could do if they have a gun in the house. You could kill somebody. You could KILL somebody. Kill. Do people even understand that word anymore? I'm not anti-guns but I do believe that most people who own one don't understand that they have extinguished a life. A life that wasn't theirs to take. I mean perhaps if it was in defense it couldn't be helped. I don't know, I'm getting tired and I'm just fed up with this kind of shit.

Something else though, I heard this morning I think that they're trying to get teachers to be paid to take some class that lets them be licensed to carry a gun around campus. Now tell me what part of that doesn't make you sick? I'm not saying it may not be what has to be done in this day and age, but that's just the sickening part...that it's what has to be done. It's what the American race has resorted to these days. Always living in fear. We live in fear of being attacked everyday even if we don't consciously know it, whether by some guy on campus or by a terrorist organization. It's sickening, and it needs to stop. I'm not antiwar at all, I'm not gonna sit here and pretend that if we hadn't gone over there to the Middle East, we would still all be completely safe just like we have been "all that time" before 9/11. The fact is we wouldn't be. We need to be over there. At least that's what I think anyway. But I've tired myself out with all that...it's time for bed. Long day of work ahead.