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September 15, 2010 New York City Miracle landing It's amazing how American soicety has become so attached to inanimate objects, cars, money, and so on. To the point where a car's damagae has become more emotionally moving, than your car being the one who catched his fall. When someone has decided to take their life into their own hands to the point where they have attempted suicide ( Thomas Magill), its not a game anymore. Reasons why anyone will attemept this range, from bullying, finical stress, abuse, and so on, yet that doens't matter to Maria Mcgormack who cares more about the car than the mentally/emotionally unstable man who attempted ending his life. Which is worth more a saved life or a car? Attempting suicide is serious, and not fullfining it is devastating and sends that person into a deeper deppression, they don't feel like an idiot yet more of a failure. "How he feels now that he made it. Does he feel like an idiot?" that was the question Maria McCormack is dying to ask him. Does she feel like an idiot in even releasing that disgusting, self centered, ignorant comment to the press. A man just attempted to end his life, does she even care? She isn't the one lying in a hospital bed with a collapsed lung, broken legs and a shattered ankle, no shes the one whos freaking out about $ 14, 000 in car damage. She doesn't have that costly bill that will; be given to Magill or the future bills that will be required to attempt to cure his deppression by medicine, inpatient therapy, and probally out after. Its amazing how weve become so fixied on items that can be easily restored almost new, rather than the broken heart, soul, mind of a man who is living in a world of sadness, and unsureness. What has society come too?

September 26, 2010 The World at a Glance

"Belgium reeled this week after an independent commission reporthed that clergy or church workers had sexually abused children in ever single Catholic parish in this country. From the 1950s to the 1980s, the investigation found, hundreds of boys and girls were repeatedly raped or molested by hundreds of priests, with some chirldren abused over many years. At least 13 commited suicide. "None of us was prepared for the severity of some of the accounts of abuse" said Peter Adrianssens, a psychiatrist who headed the commision. Belgium's Catholic Church said it needed time to analyze the report. "The challenege is so big and touches so manu raw emotions, it's not possible to present new proposaks right now." said Archbishop Andre-Mutien Leonard."

There not dumb, they know how few priests are in the world wide practice of the Chatolic religion, and they know how few are willing to join. I mean in their minds they know and believe they will be able to get away with these acts, its not like a job where we can just fire them. And in doing that every time something like this happens no one will be able to go to Sunday mass, or practice their beliefs because of the sins of these so called priests. Priests touching little boys has always been a huge sterotype, but now its coming true. We know its happening yet the ones in charge of them, Pope, Archbishops, and others turn their heads the other way, and when it becomes so hard to turn their head away any longer they move the priest to a new church, full of new innoncent boys and girls, and the same process keeps occuring. Being a catholic I find this totally revolting, we go to church to praise and worship GOD. Not to go in and worry about if the preist is looking at us or maybe trying to touch us,this has been going on for to long, and we need to stop looking the other way. This needs to be adressed now and soon before 13 more kids commit suicide.

P Well thought out Nikell....great detail

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October, 10, 2010 US At A Glance


 * Student g****oes on shooting spree:** A quiet math major with excellent grades pulled on a dark ski mask and began spraying the University of Texas campus with bullets from an assault rifle this week, before killing himself. Colton Tooley, a sophomore described as “brilliant,” “meticulous,” and “respectful,” suddenly appeared on a campus street with an AK-47, and fired at least six shots toward a church and into the air. It was unclear, police said, if he actually shot at anyone, and no one was hurt. When police arrived, Tooley ran into a library, where he turned the weapon on himself. A relative said the family was shocked, describing Tooley as “a very smart guy” who “wouldn’t or couldn’t hurt a fly.” In 1966, the same campus was the scene of one of the nation’s worst mass shootings, when Charles Whitman shot and killed 16 people and wounded nearly three dozen

Honestly, we all know this isn't the first time we've read a stroy similar to this or heard one like it. And you would thik after all the similar stories and ideas we would open our eyes to the fact that many yound kids are being harrassed, and tormented, and almost forced to do this. Forced to end their pain, as well as the ones who had inflicted it. Its sad that it has come to this so many times, but after x amount of times you would think we would open out eyes and see that we need to do something as a country, and a socitey. Need to show that this isn't the only solution, and this is definatley not an option. This is not inane, this is not silly, this is serious, this is life, this is the college we may be going to down the road. In the end we may be the ones shooting, or being shot at and we need to put a stop to this together. Not point fingers, but join hands to make this stop, and put a stop to the triger about to be pulled.

The Main Stories November 2nd 2010 The Iraq war, as revealed by WikiLeaks

Nearly a hundred thousand militray documents, revealing tourtring and killing of Iraqi civilians that portray the U.S as the ones responsible. The documents cover a period from early 2004 to 2009, uncovering the truth that has been tried to be covered. From our army firing on Iraqi civilians, that resulted in 15,000 unreported deaths that brought the total to 100,000. The Washington Post says that this document dump was "reckless and politically motivated," the leaks confirm what was reported, and reveals the engament in firing on innocent Iraqi civilians. The Wikileaks again, reveals this war as another ugly eposide in our history, and the truth is finially is out about what really happens over there. The truth to what our soliders are doing, and how ones we called heros who saved lives are now taking them.

This is unbelievable, after all the lives that were lost over there, soliders who never able to have a Christmas or Thanksgiving with their family, who have missed their siblings birthday parties, because they have lost their life to this foolish game, we call war. Ones who lost their lives, for their belifs and their country now would be discraced to ever admit to their involvement with the US armed force, because of the trigger happy soliders that have tried to make a name for themselves by killing innocent Iraqi civilians. Reading this article brought out new found anger, expecially because my second cousin lost his life over there, and now what he was fighting for has been lost in sight, and now we believe as if its a video game, not realizing that the lives me take are not for points but are permnament. I am ashamed that my country, would allow soliders to do this, and some wonder why were heading down hill. Maybe things could be resolved, and be fixed if we addressed the problems instead of attempting to hide it from publice view.