Bad News is Not Always Good News

I would just like to say after yesterday of how the Lions lost and went 0 and 16 that Ford sure is doing a great job in running their business'. I can only hope that their will be change and turn around for both. Michigan needs the Auto Companies others may not see this but a lot around here runs on these companies. People that may not want money for bale out will feel problems hit them later on. One day it will effect the rest too. All we seem to do is like to out source and that helps no one here.

Discuss At How We Work

Today I will turn 16 (on the 15th of Dec) and I am excited but at the same time not looking forward to going to the Secretary of States. They tend to be very rude people that think that they know everything. They don't want to leave their seats to do their jobs'. They would rather tell you all the small things that you should know and have brought. But they make you wait until you get up to get what you want. They should have the person at the front look to check if you have everything. I dislike them so much that I truly think a new born has more common sense then them. When I went to get my permit I had out six things of identification and that's hard to have at my age and needed like eight. The person I went to literally looked like a clown. I went with my pass port and they were like where's your original birth certificate and if she decided to use her brain she would realize that to get a pass port you need your original birth certificate and it also tells where you live. This wasn't like I was trying to fly a plane.

I just am not a big fan of how the government works. Like how the Senate can say no to giving money to the big three but can give money to banks. This makes me mad it's like saying here you go here is a free be and then turn around to another person and say I would never let anyone get away with that. It makes me mad how things like that work.

Winter

I feel as if I was born to love the winter. I was born in winter so I feel as if I hate winter I would hate my birthday and I wouldn't know it any other way. The thing I most love about our winter is that it means we get all the extremes of each weather, don't get me wrong it would be nice to be in the 70's all year long but it is also nice to be able to experience every season. You can see the leaves change, the snow fall, the humid air, and the flowers bloom. Not only was I born during winter I was born 10 days from Christmas. So I tend to be happy even as others might get depressed about the snow or the dark. I first am happy for my birthday, then I am happy for Christmas, then I am happy for the new year and also throw in a few snowdays here and there and it's great. How many Southern States can say that they have a snowday. People think that having a birthday close to Christmas might be a bad thing but I haven't been shafted yet, in fact I am able to get bigger gifts with my birthday and Christmas being so close. Not to mention that I love the snow. I feel that Winter would be very different with out snow. There would be no shoveling or sledding or seeing my dog roll around in the snow and then dry him. Even though all of them come with a price I still love them: shoveling you have to work, sledding you become very cold, and drying off my dog gets annoying after a while, I wouldn't know anything but. I might feel a little forced in a way to love winter but I wouldn't want to have it any other way.

THANKSGIVING

Thanksgiving is a time for family and a time for thanks. It is a time where you might seem to suffer a little bit but it all pays off. This Thanksgiving I went down to Kentucky which is about a seven to eight hour car ride. Lets just say I know how Sardines feel stuffed in a can. My legs wanted to be amputated off for more room. But this is something you just have to suck up and deal with when you only see your other side of the family about twice a year. In the end things end up working out. Once you get there after that ride you have the sense of never wanting to go home. You also have a lot of fun.

Not to mention the best part of Thanksgiving is by far the food. The only problem is there's always too much to choose from. I think there should be a way to spread it out over a little while that way you can try all of your favorite things you would like to eat. The next night we had left overs and I didn't feel like I was very fall and that's a good thing. To have good food and still have room to breath and being comfortable.

Money and Where does it go?

When your mind starts to go wandering the sights end up being pretty scary. As I about to turn 16 I am starting to look for a job (but not sure where just thinking about it). I become scared to find one when the economy is as good as it is now I am afraid that the jobs will be hard to find while everyone is losing jobs. I start to think how scary it would be for everything to go under. Everyone relies on one and another. It's like the butterfly effect every little outcome creates another outcome that keeps effecting...

Once I started thinking about it I started to wounder why we (meaning people far in the pasted) stopped trading and started using money. Of course their are still those who trade but to me that seems few and far. I think the trading is more in poorer countries or places but it seemed like a great method. Something seems wrong when "it takes money to make money". I understand that it has to some how but I think that has been some of the problems of our economy. We pay too much money to those who can slack off and by the time we realize how bad the economy is they are the first to go. Or how about the people who abuse their a time/overtime. Once one part seems to become to over balanced it seems to spill and everything falls apart in some way. It seems very scary how fast the times can turn. Because if you drive around you can see empty building after empty building after empty house (trying to be sold) after empty house.

This all seems to go back to each other. The circle of poverty seems to seem pretty true and hard to break. Just like the economy and the parties that are in control of Congress it goes in spurts where one time it will be up and another it will go down (sometimes a lot) and for congress one time Democrats will be in control and another Republicans will be. It is just a sick on going circle. My questions are: How do we become so bad? Where does the money go? Why does it take so long to realize that we should jump over board? Are we just to arrogant like the Titanic that we think we are the best and we can't go under?

OBAMATION

It makes me happy to have Obama as the first black president. People may say Obamation and I get confused if they mean abomination because I don't feel disgraced or even outraged. The past is the past, people need to put their racism behind them if they don't like him. I understand if they do not like his policies that is a good reason. But not a good enough reason to hate him it is a reason to dislike him. I did not get that mad when Bush was elected the first time or the second. I was more sad but after a while you just have to let the past be the past.

After this election I gained huge respect for McCain. With his speech it made me happy to hear what he said. The gist of his speech was let bygones be bygones. When some of his supporters started to boo what he was saying good about Obama he basically said now stop doing this he is not only my president but also yours lets unite together and help out one and another. It made me think a lot the president goes through so much and they are constantly fixing mistakes from the previous president (these next four years will need a lot of help).

I am looking forward to see what Obama is going to do. He has made history as is which makes me scare because it is hard to be the first at anything and he will be constantly watched for every little move he makes. It is definitely hard to work under pressure and he not only has the pressure of being the First African-American president but also the huge pressure of our crumbling economy. I look forward to see what tricks he holds up his sleeves. And I hope this will bring our era further down the road and unite us. After we are the United States lets stand strong next to one and another and defend each other.

Halloween Origin

As time progresses we tend to over look things. We just sweep the meaining under the door and accept the results. We need to go back generations to find how these things started to discover the truth. However we tend not to...Halloween is no exception. I have always seen it as the most meaning less Holiday(not that there is anything wrong with it). I just never questioned it. I just saw it as a Holiday where people dressed up and gave away candy or where people try and scare others.

Recently I have learn the pass to it. It is just like any other thing were over time it has changes to make "better". It turns out that Halloween started out as a Celtic Holiday. They celebrated the end of the year(Nov 1) . Which if you think about it; it makes perfect sense. After the Great Harvest and then come the cold and ice what more perfect time. Now in this time period they would associate this with human death. And the Celts believed that the two worlds came together on the day before (Oct 31). So they would celebrate Samhein. During their celebration the Celts would wear costumes of dead animal heads and skin and danced around a fire.

Then Romans started to conquer Celtic territories. And there cultures started to merge. Two of the Romans festivals combined with Samhein. They were Feralia and Pomona. Feralia was a day of celebrating the dead. Pomona was a day for celebrating the Goddess of fruit and trees. Might be why apples are popular during the time of Halloween. Such as Carmel Apples, Cider, and the game where you bob for apples. Then Christianity started to have a huge influence over in this area. As they did they started to try and show how their religions are pretty close to try and convert them. They used some other techniques too...would rather not believe. They showed that they had a way of celebrating death. That is probably why All Saints' Day (Nov 1) and (Nov 2) is All Souls' Day. The word HALLOWEEN means All Hallows' Even.

It then progressed to the Halloween I know today through various means. The truth is sometimes people or groups try to be liked by too many people that they are either hated or they get over looked. I believe Halloween has out shadow the Christian Holiday's that follow the next fue days (All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day). It has turned to a day where people like free candy and scare people. It reminds me of another holiday Colubus Day. He was the one who discovered America(?). People will over look that other people were here first and just accept how things are. Not that is a popular holiday it is just wrong to give credit to people that have just added to an underlining idea.

source:http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&content_type_id=713&display_order=1&mini_id=1076

Books vs. Movies

It depends on what type of person you are if you like movies over books or the opposite. I always feel that when you read a book first and then see the movie base on the book you are let down. The characters look so much different from your imagination. They leave out that smallest of detail that only you would notice that seems to bug you the whole movie. Now if you do it the opposite your hopes aren't really given up you know what the characters look like so if it is a series you can picture them that way so it doesn't bug you.

Most movies do a great job at capturing a big book and making it into a movie. I think books give you a better sense of what is going on because you are allowed to read at your pace and go back and reread. In movies there is only one pace moving forward. Of course if you rent it you can rewind but most of the time you won't go back and check what you were confused about. I think a book that does a great job in the plots of the movies are Harry Potter books. They tend to be long but are still able in making the plot pretty close. The problem people face is they don't like to see something that much over two hours. And if they intend to read a book it mioght take longer. I think depending if you like a book or movie better depends on your patience.

Presidential Debate #3

Through out the presidential debates I don't believe there has been exactly a clear winner. They have both made good comments that probably make it hard for someone undecided to pick who they would like to vote for. However after the third debate and putting all their information together I believe that there was a clear winner. Of course I tend to already have a favorite to begin with being a DEMOCRAT in the heart. I might not see some of the good things about McCain.

I think after the debates all together that McCain has made statements that contradict each other. And also has decided to sugar coat a lot of things. For example one of the questions asked in one of the debates was something like what if anything will you have to go back on your word when you become president. His response was something like I won't go back on any thing I have said. Lets be honest now... he was implying the whole time that we should do more this and that yet still not raise taxes. In all the things he said he would probably have to raise the taxes some where.

Presidential Debate number three was by far the most interesting. Seeing a double screen of each and watching their facial responses' was not the most appealing thing to see. I would get mad at each of them for their facial remarks. In this debate I thought that McCain was a little cranky. He tended to interrupt a lot. Also he spoke very poorly about Biden while Obama was very picky in the words he chose about Palin. He seemed to want to hold back his thoughts so that Americans were the ones to decide and not force feed his thoughts down Americans throats. I also thought McCain was very rude when he would interrupt, but the one time that Obama did he looked like ummmmm... your not suppose to do that, that is a very rude thing to do. This was after about McCain's seventh or so interruption. Also I found it very weird how McCain took it so hard about some one bashing him. When you get that far in politics should probably have discovered not to take things that personal. And he was practically begging Obama to apologize on behalf of this guys choice of words. First of all he went on with this for a very long time and it took away from some more important topics they could of talked about. The bad things said about him can't be that bad for example being old. You really can't help that. However some of the things said about Obama are extremely bad and racial for example people have called him a terrorist. If you think about that, that is completely crazy he has lived in America his whole life and that is the RESPECT that you give him? He would like to take his American pride even one step further in being able to represent America as the First African American Man. And you don't hear Obama getting angry and exploding about something so crazy and absurd that people have claimed against him. After all to meet with other world leaders you would have to take harsh criticism. And I thought that was something McCain claimed to know. I am not sure he truly does. After all to have someone meet preconditions with someone you want to talk to is pretty crazy I think. If you really need to talk to them about something important the preconditions are probably what you want to talk to them about. For example if you wanted to talk to Iran about nuclear bombs I bet the precondition would be to talk is to get rid of all nuclear bombs. Now that's going to get no one anywhere. One last thing about McCain during the presidential debate it seemed to me his hearing went bad during one part of the debate. It was about taxes. Obama said that he would like to raise taxes for the top 5% of America. And McCain's response was something like this OH, That's a real patriotic thing to do go and raise taxes on the American people. What Obama wants to do is raise taxes for people that can afford it. Instead of where McCain would like to not raise any at all and stay in a war longer so that our debt grows larger and larger. And with all his new ideas he expects not to raise any. I think he is just trying to make the rich happy that donate to him. Unlike Obama who is willing to do the nasty work to help out America. I also like how Obama was like so people like me and McCain who can afford this will pay more to help out and to contribute more to our government. Another rich person was like Oh no I don't know what I will do if taxes are raised, I guess I will have to stop buying hundred dollar tissues.

What is an American?

America was the land of opportunities. The place where you could rise out of the shadows and succeed. We have only had one idea that has lasted all the way through the years the thought that we are better than others. While we still voice are loud opinions and not back down. Other than that we have changed dramatically. The land of opportunities has faded to a minimum.

The great idea of bringing Nations and races together seems to have just missed the mark. As our economy slowly crumbles as pressure is added we start to fall behind. We help out others in times that are unnecessary. That is one of our problems we are constantly worrying about how others judge us. Because of that our money is plummeting at a fast rate while our prices rise dramatically (gas prices). America was a land of opportunity but now it is a place where we look for new answers and stick to the old solution. From all our looking we have sent jobs off to other areas. A place where we have stopped working our asses off to get the job done so we out source it. America is also a place where almost everything is made in China. The one thing we hold on to with all our might is our pride.

I guess to be an American is just like the song sings “I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free…” As we help out it is just to make our pride stronger and show how great we can be to help out. America is the place where we tend to spread ourselves out to thin. We are constantly juggling too many tasks at once. We fight while others take flight. To be an American is to stick threw in good times and bad because that shows just how loyal you are to your home team.