Blog Post # I don't remember

I know the general gist of the Trayvon Martin case. I do not really know too many specifics and I have not really looked into the case much. Most of the info I have gotten from it has been from hearing the TV on MSNBC from the other room. I know that the kid was walking home from the store and some guy shot and killed him. The shooter claims it was in self defense and that Trayvon had assaulted him. It is a huge story and is receiving a lot of attention but that's about where the end of my knowledge about it is.

I do not really like to comment on things that I do not really know about. Because my breadth of knowledge on this subject is comparatively limited I would rather not delve too deep into my opinion about it for fear of appearing ignorant, uninformed, etc... From the view that I have taken, I believe the Martin family's side of the story, and disagree with the shooter's side. Going out on a limb without actual factual basis, I would say that the shooter dude shot him, and then was like 'oh crap, I either A) become a demon-worshiping warlock and perform some voodoo witchcraft black magic necromancy and bring this guy back to life or B) claim I did this in self defense and make up a story about it'. On the other hand, if he really did just shoot Treyvon, without any self defense involved, what was the reason for it? Did he just not like the way he looked or what? It was probably based on his past experiences and he was probably really tied to his past, so those previous experiences forced him to act dramatically to the situation, unforunately in a terrible manner.

Blog Post # I don't remember

Even as Barcelona FC, the kings of Catalonia, face AC Milan in the round of 16, they are going to win the 2011-2012 Uefa Champions League hands down. Barcelona is, for lack of want to use better wording, an 'unfair' team. It is personally my favorite but even compared to their Spanish rivals, Real Madrid, they are stacked. Valdes is a great goal keeper; Puyol, Pique, Dani Alves, and Abidal form a nearly impenetrable wall in the defense; Adriano, Iniesta, and Xavi (who is probably the greatest midfield playmaker in the world) orchestrate the games, playing pin point passes every time; and then is Barcelona's terror-instigators. Sanchez, Villa, and, of course, the best player in the world Lionel Messi. Those three, in particular Messi, render most team's defenses utterly useless. No other team has the skill and ability for total football that Barcelona does. Sure Real Madrid's Ronaldo, Ozil, and Benzema and Bayern Munchen's Robben, Gomez, and Ribery are superb world-class players, but they simply are not as good as Barca is. If they are 9.8s then Barcelona is their 10. Not even the English giants in Chelsea nor the Italian maestros in AC Milan, can stand up to Barca. And other managers agree. There is simply no stopping them. Yes, the matches will be tough, but if all of the teams play to 100%, Barca's 100% is higher than everyone else's.

Blog Post 7

Relapse- Eminem
If being twisted and crazy was anyone's job,it would be Eminem's. This album is not for the faint of heart. It contains very offensive language and the subject matter/rhymes are beyond inappropriate. Singing most of the lyrics in school might get you in alot of trouble, so I cannot write them here. And yet, it is a fantastic album. From the melodic (yet insanely twisted) "Stay Wide Awake" to the absolutely maniacle (yet fantastic) "Insane", the album reaches out past the taboo, as Eminem has done on many occasions. All of the songs are expertly crafted in terms of rhyming and flow as Eminem has a reputation for being crazy and can thus rhyme with any line he wants to. Eminem takes shots at multiple people in the album, again as he always, including Christopher Reeves, Kim Kardashian, Linsday Lohan, Jessica Simpson, John Mayer, his own mom, his stepfather, his ex-wife. And yet even through the various songs in which Eminem brutally murders several people (like "3 am" and "Stay Wide Awake") and the other songs where Eminem talks about his previous drug addiction (like "Must be the Ganja" and "Deja Vu") comes a song which can actually be played on the radio; "Beautiful". Even through the great and masterfully crafted twisted darkness of the other songs, Eminem is also able to create an equally well crafted song with a true message, in which he says "Don't let anyone tell you you aint beautiful". It is really a great album, and it contains NO WITCHCRAFT. So you won't be burned at the stake for listening to it... you witch. It is an album which touches back on the things that made Eminem famous; back to the songs like "Kill You", "Kim", and "Just Lose It" with there crazy murder themes and just outright funny insults on celeberties. It shows the true fans what Eminem still is despite his newer, more mainstream, songs like "Lighters" and the slightly annoyingly non-Eminem-like song "Not Afraid". Thats $3 dollars and a 100 year warranty. It holds 20,000 times its weight in liquid. Look if you don't buy this he will kill you, or I will break your collarbones with a wrench. KONY 2012

Blog Post 6

The thing that annoys me the most is when people to me to "chill" or to "relax" when I am not hype or overly excited. I might be slightly annoyed but when you to me to chill when I do not need to you do absolutely nothing productive. You tell me to stop being something that I am not, and in the process you would just make me more annoyed. What is this witchcraft? Why are you thinking that way? Do you want me to be more angry even when you are telling me to not be while I am not? What if this is some kind of trick that they are trying to pull off? Are they trying to drive me into madness with this contradicting instructions? I am I on the other side of sanity? You are not invited. How can one not be something, be told not to be it, and then suddenly be it? Nurse help! This straight jacket is crooked.... Ok, sorry. I am back you witchcraft practicer. I apologize for my tangent, but seriously, do not tell me to relax when I am already relaxed, or the next thing that is going to happen is that you'll probably have 7 or 95 crossbow bolts driven through your knee.

The best footballer (soccer player) of all time is Lionel Messi. Sure the great classics like Pele, Maradona, Cryuff, Best, Jarzinho, Cantona, Koeman, and Zico were all fantastic player. But nowadays when you watch Messi you simply have to be amazed. No one can do it the way he does. Cristiano Ronaldo dances around the ball, waits for a defensive mistake, and beats one defender. Messi simply runs at top speed forward, sliding the ball this way and that with his left foot between 1 2 3 4 5 6 defenders and then has the composer to chip the goalie, or fake the first shot and slot it on the inside corner. When Messi gets the ball and there are less than 4 defenders infront him there is usually only ever one outcome: he will score. No one can stop him. He has an all time scoring/game record of nearly 1.5, in a sport where anything anywhere near .5 makes you a national hero. At only 24 Messi still isn't even in his soccer prime (27 years old) and has at minimum 8 years still to play competitively in top flight top league teams.

The best place to get food in the area around us is the sonic by LA Fitness and Facenda-Whiticker bowling ally. It is relatively close to most places in Blue Bell, and is around alot of hang out places (including most of the party houses). I also heard that they will not serve witchcraft practicers so it is a perfectly safe place to host giraffe neck fight bouts. They serve everything from ice cream shakes to hot fast food. It is all delicious, though maybe slightly unhealthy, and kind of cheap. Forget the unhealthy part though because there is a gym, LA Fitness, almost right there. There is also no problem parking because the parking lot is huge and it is also close to Shop Rite and who doesn't love just chilling at ShopRite? They also sell crossbows and greatswords in the back if you have the money and an Ancient Weapons Holding License, but those are easy to come by as you can purchase them at the bowling ally arcade for like 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 tickets. Happy hunting.

Blog Post 5

1. Sofia certainly has changed from her experiences, and it is exemplified in one of the first chapters. After her first failed boyfriend she found, in pretty much the same day, a new guy. Her new love was in the form of a German tourist whom she met in Colombia (or some other country in South America, as she explains it frequently changes between stories) changed her as person in terms of her relationship with her father. Considering that her father, Carlos, is a very traditional Dominican, the fact that she married a European foreigner was a shock to him. In accordance with this Sofia's character is changed as she no longer acts the same around her father anymore in that she is constantly trying to do things to get back on a good basis with him. She has a relationship forever altered and that is certainly a change to her character because now her entire being shifts into a different 'mode' when around her father because she knows he hates things about her and it is awkward; like a formal friend you do not like but have to talk to kind of awkward, which is alot like witchcraft.

2. Although most of the chapters are almost exclusively about the various problems between the sisters and the people around them some conflicts actually prompt positive things. For example, the conflict in the Dominican Republic (the war) forces the Garcias to move to the United States. This is certainly positive considering they have just left a dangerous, possibly life-threatening, situation to move to a, at least respectively, safe place. Although nothing is specifically said, for example no one says the house was blown up a day later so they only just escaped, it can be infered that something bad probably would have happened to at least one member of the Garcia family had they stayed in the Dominican Republic and not have moved the United STates of America. Now that they have moved they are in a much safer place and how could that be considered as anything other than positive? They may have possibly saved lives in their own family and thus anyone who thinks that is not positive is probably a witchcraft practicer and should be burned at the stake.

3. I think that Jeremy is perfect example of an adequate connection with the book and its questions about identity of nationalities. I think that Jeremy Lin's success has forced people to look at race identities, particularly Asian, in a different. Besides odd balls like Yao Ming, who could barely speak English and did not really embody the Asian -American persona, Lin is the first person to portray what Asian -Americans can actually do. Basketball could have been stereotypically attributed as an African-American sport where even white americans had trouble getting in. The fact that Lin has gotten into the professional league, and caused such a fervor and stir and "Linsanity" at that, attests to the fact that people should get rid of this block views of races. Where an Asian can become a basketball star a white guy can dominate rap (Eminem anyone?). Whether Lin meant to cause such interest or not is not sure, though he is probably riding the wave pretty enjoyably, but he certainly has cause more than simply changing views, but only time will tell how the 'revolution' evolves and goes through its course in the NBA and the US.

Blog Post 4

Linsanity:
I have to admit that I too have contracted Linsanity of a sorts. Although I am 6'3 I have no real interest in basketball. I only occasionally watch the sport, and that is just with friends, never by myself. I only ever play the sport at the park or in gym class, it is usually with reluctance and annoyance that no one else wants to play soccer. And yet, I still like Lin. I have only seen one game of Lin's, last Friday's game against the Lakers. I saw Lin cutting in, scoring, assisting. He was really on his game and the entire crowd was behind, with many people wearing shirts with things like "All I do is Lin, Lin, Lin" and that sort of material. The obsession is probably associated because Lin is such a good player who does not fit the stereotypical basketball star mold. He, along with Kobe during that game, are very fun to watch and I admit without shame that I do, to at least some extent, been caught up with Jeremy Lin.

MIA:
In my opinion, there is probably not much to MIA's bird towards the camera at the Super Bowl and the arguments on youtube are probably equally as pointless. People argue on youtube all the time and vastly different topics on the pages of vastly different videos and these arguments are almost always nonsensical. MIA should only be happy that her probably arbitrary action caused so much fervor on her youtube video for "Bad Girls". It is just adding viewers to the video's page, and she should like that. Her action, however, probably had no real significance and the fact that people are arguing about the overarching symbolism and reason for it are, like most things that get analyzed, getting OVER-analyzed. It was such an insignificant event that I hardly remember it, and I know no one I talked to that following Monday even mentioned. People should just move on and find something more interesting to do/talk about.

PA Gun Law:
First off, the article is obviously biased. The author clearly believes the bill should have been passed without complications and that legislators should not have taken action at places that enacted local laws. This however, is not necessarily a bad thing considering I agree with the author; at least in the way he/she described what was going on. What is wrong with punishing those who inadvertantly cause life-taking crimes when all they'd have to do is report that there gun was stolen or lost. It makes sense, why wouldn't they alert someone that their most dangerous possesion has been stolen? Is everyone a witchcraft practicer or something? It is odd that they'd be scared of putting this bill in place and it raises some sort of speculation about those people. There seems to be no negative side to the bill; all it'd be doing is preventing violent crimes. Do these legislators want violent crime?

Blog Post 3

I think now, in 2012, the gender roles in our society have been diminished in the sense of clarity. In the 1800s, for example, it was very clear which gender was expected to do what. Now, these distinctions have become less pronounced, but still exist. Men are the ones who are supposed to make money while the women raise the kids (the fathers do as well, but the women do more so). Men, whether they are joking or being serious, usually say that the women should 'be in the kitchen making them a sandwhich'. Even when a women says 'Men, you say you want us in the kitchen, just remember, thats where the knives are' a man would respond 'good, I like my sandwhichs with the crust cut off'. Men have it more difficult because they are responsible for running most things, but this is not also to downplay the difficulties of women; they cannot go to the bathroom standing up. A common stereotype associated with women in 2012 is that they are witch craft practicers who dance naked in forbidden woods and try to call upon the ancestral spirits of Taiwan around green fire. Women also, apparently, hate giraffe neck fights (which is totally unacceptable), because everyone should love giraffe neck fights. Men are occasionally stereotyped as the breadwinners; this is true absolutely true. Men should be bringing home the bacon. Men are also pinned as stronger and more able to resist the temptations of witchcraft, which should never, under any circumstances be practiced, ever. Witches should be burned at the stake.
If Carlos where to find that wizard he would pay him alot of money because he believes he has alot of money and is a 'breadwinner'. He also wants a male heir and is kind of old now, so if he were to make himself really attractive, even in old age, he could find a young women who would have kids with him and he would keep trying until she produced a boy and then he would be so worried about having only girls and wouldn't be so worried about his only male grandson and, thus, would probably be in a better relations with his daughter, Sofia.