Follow the money!

In a recent article I read titled "Education Funding: Follow the Money", I learned some interesting facts.  As we all know, home owners and businesses pay taxes.  Much of these taxes go to our public schools.  Well, if you are a tax payer as a home owner, you will know that your taxes have probably never dropped, but very well may have increased.  But apparently businesses and corporations often are able to get their taxes "reduced".  They do this to stimulate economic development.  But in reality, this is NOT happening.  All that is happening is we are "shortbillioning" our schools, where we once or currently are attending.  Why is it that these businesses are able to pull off paying roughly 50% less in taxes for something that has been proven to do nothing in the last 20 years?  Well that's a question to ask our government!

Returning to school after a stabbing

 A week ago today a stabbing at a Pennsylvania school took place where 21 students and a security officer was hurt.  Students are not required to return to the school.  Although I understand you cant stay out of school forever because of a freak incident, but at the same time is a week long enough?  Kids, and their friends were harmed in a bloody crisis, and with only a week "lay-off", I just don't see this being long enough to sit in a class that was recently covered in your or your friends blood.
Not to mention, updates to school security.  If a kid was able to affect 21 students, the school should be re-thinking its security and how to prevent a similar incident from happening, or at least not getting so out of control that it affects 21 students, and 1 week is just not enough time to implement a new security plan, whether it be metal detectors or just hiring extra security officers.


http://www.aol.com/article/2014/04/16/classes-to-resume-at-pennsylvania-stabbing-school/20870198/?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl6|sec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D465359

Florida Darwinian Interlude

When reading a passage titles Florida's Darwinian Interlude, it caught my attention when they ask:
How did the universe start?
Where did matter come from?
Where did energy come from?
Where did gravity come from?
And a few other questions similar to these.  The reason these caught my attention is because nobody TRULY knows where such things came from.  As Ben Stein states, Darwin and Warwinism have absolutely no verified answers, meaning no proof as to how they believe these things came to be.
Makes you wonder how with all of the technology we currently have, how we are unable to know how this "technology" began.  We live on a place that we call our universe, yet have absolutely no clue how this universe started.  Makes myself wonder was it an accident?  Did something physically make it?  And since we have no clue how it started, do we actually have any idea of when it will end?
We always hear people saying the world will end in (blah blah), yet it never happens and scientists believe it wont end any time soon, but who is to say that they truly have any idea since they can't tell us how it came to be in the first place?

School shooting prank

 With all of the recent mass shootings that have been occurring in schools, why would anyone find it a joking matter, or a topic to play an April fools prank about.  Well apparently, one lady thought it would be a good one.
A Virginia college mom texted her daughter saying "shots had been fired at the campus and that she was hiding".  When her daughter sent a reply to her mother and never received a reply, she dialed 911 to report the "shooting".  The mother was arrested, but this is not a joking manner and although it was meant to be a prank, some action should be taken against her when in court.
I really hope that people will learn from this and learn that joking about a shooting is simply not funny, and quite ignorant at that.


http://www.aol.com/article/2014/04/02/april-fools-prank-lands-woman-in-jail/20861636/?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl2|sec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D460322

Schools are destroying freedom of speech

In a recent article I read titled "The Schools Are Destroying Freedom of Speech" talks about how schools do not spend enough time teaching about out government and its constitution and bill of rights.  They also tell of multiple stories how schools "take" away these rights from its students.
My thoughts on this is nothing but true.  Being a recent high school graduate, I first hand know how schools react to students bashing the school or administration.  In the article a student refers to the school as a "prison" during a commencement address in front of 1000 people, and the administration unplugged the microphone before he could finish.  Talk about breaking the right to free speech.  With the government agreeing to this type of activity, whats next?  Will our government begin to "pull the cord" on a microphone when a citizen says something they disagree with?  This is just crazy!  Especially considering that the first amendment, right to free speech, is said to apply to everyone, no matter their beliefs.  So why are we allowing schools to sensor the voice of its students?

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370

I am in no way means a professional on the way airplanes work, but when a plane is up in the air, talking to traffic control like any normal day, and then suddenly, the plane "disappears", I get left with many questions.
How does a plane just disappear?  This just doesn't seem to be something that just happens.  Was the plane damaged?  Or was it in some way attacked?  Being the plane is still lost, it is safe to say the plane went down.  But how does nobody have any answers?  You would think any pilot would be requesting help before hitting the ground, or give some type of hints that the plane is having issues.  Which is why I feel somebody, is hiding something, because a plane just does not disappear.  If the plane went off radar, why are we not searching the area of where it was lost?  Something in this story just does not add up, but I guess time will tell.

The real Scandal of AIG

Did you know that you have contributed to a 170 billion dollar bailout to AIG as a bailout?  Well neither have most other Americans.  Out government is one to collect out tax dollars, and spend it where they deem necessary, with out any vote for the people paying in this money to choose where it will go.  AIG's bailout was the largest single bailout our government has ever done.  The worst part about all of this?  The company is still failing.  The company executives are planning to give themselves a 100 million dollar bonus.  Remind you, this company just collected 170 billion as a bailout, and is continuing to fail, yet they want to give themselves a bonus? 
This is why I feel that if our government gives out a bailout using our tax dollars, it should be a vote that all tax payers are able to decide if they want our tax dollars going to a specific company.  If this company continues to fail, that is 170 billion dollars wasted, that could have been spent on something more worthy, such as schooling, or even given to states for roads, ECT.