Colin+O'Kell

9/15/10

This is nothing compared to page editing on wikipedia. This is a whole lot more like it. In fact, this feels kind of like my own personal journal, only it is for schoolwork/homework which kind of sucks. However, I could actually use this for business letters for the Oalkstars Fountains. In other words, I could use this to edit recipes. As a result, I might need this for stuff to do on some of my spare time.


 * Colin, I'm afraid that while you did write on the Wikispace, you did not follow the directions and write a one paragraph reaction to one of the news blurbs from __The Week.__ I'm glad you like the Wikispace and you are more than welcome to make your own page and edit that, but keep this page just for school related work.**

I just found out that a lot of museum items that were stolen from Iraq in 2003 have been returned. These artifacts include a 4,000 year old statue, and gold earings from an Assyrian queen. Over 500 artifacts were returned from other countries. I believe that this is actually a peaceful jesture to help end the war between us and Iraq. This shows that the world cares about the central importance of history, thus by trying to recover as many items as possible to this historical country. However, 632 artifacts disappeared while being returned, so not all of the artifacts will return to Baghdad. In fact, I feel that the country is still believed to be corrupt because of the mysterious disappearance of those 632 artifacts given directly to the government. Therefore, there is still some question about independence in Iraq.

Teen banned from the U.S.: Apparently Luke Angel, who is seventeen years old and from the U.K., sent an e-mail to President Obama trashing him and calling him inappropriate things. Now this young man is banned from ever stepping foot on American soil ever again. It is really a shame that someone would have the guts to not only just talk about the president, who is of extrmely high authority, badly but then send an e-mail to him loaded with abusive sayings. The worst part is, is that Luke does not even care that he is banned from the United States. How could you not care? The U.S. is a great place and he just got kicked out for life. For example, Luke should've been persecuted before alienated. One more thing is that Luke was drunk and high while he wrote this terrible and offensive e-mail. Obama should have thought twice about what he should do about Luke's nonchalant insulting before alienating him from the US forever. In fact, that is what a lot of people do about it. That is just pathetic, awful, and embarrasing. Is this really what people these days are raising their children up to be like? If so, than this is embarrassing, especially for some drunk imbicile.

"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."
 * Colin, watch your spelling. Do a little spell check. Try avoiding unanswerable questions, ie "How could you not care?" You can say he should care more and explain why, but the unanswerable questions can take away from your otherwise good writing foundation.**

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.