Boom Goes the Dynamite

Freedom of Religion response

The most shocking piece of information that I received in that last 24 hours is that only 61% of the U.S. population can name the freedom of speech as a first amendment right, that's right you heard me... only 61 PERCENT. In hearing this information, my friend Jake, a very smart future politician, said this, "now you know why we elect all these Republicans." Him being an avid Obama follower, he makes the point that America is not a very well educated country, obviously, and that only 61% can name the freedom of speech as a first amendment right. I was also able to read an article about The Pledge of Allegiance in public schools, and if students should be forced to recite it without it infringing on their first amendment rights. Students should not be forced to recite the pledge if they do not want to, in fact, I myself don't recite the pledge because I feel it is an unnecessary action in which we say things that we are not completely sure of what they mean. The pledge is something that is affective if you say it once because you have pledged your allegiance to the United States and I don't believe you should have to pledge it again, day after day. The article I read and most of the controversies surrounding the pledge is that the part where is says "under God", that is the part that stirs up trouble because of the people who don't believe in God. The atheists argue that it should be removed or it should not be said because some people don't believe in God and that our country should not be molded under God. This is a very valid point because they should not have to recite something that they do not understand or do not believe in. As Americans it should be our duty to make everyone understand why we say the pledge and what it means and then give the students a choice whether or not they want to say it or not.

7 Days in September: A Movie Review

"7 Days in September" was a very heart warming movie, it shows the tragedy of September 11 and the days that follow. It is a documentry from many different people, and it shows how the civilians of New York reacted and handled that tradgic day. It really shows how New York and America came together over those days and they put everything aside to get over the tragedy. There is this one scene that shows how it tore every apart and then they realized it wasn't worth fighting with each other about. It shows this crowd of people in a very chaotic situation. Someone wrote on the ground in chalk about how the propaganda of the American flag is terrible for our country. This starts a lot of people yelling at each other over different view points. One guy is talking to this woman how they should kill everyone who made this happen and he will die in the line of fire for the country that God gave him. A woman is yelling back at him that we should try and make peace and he doesn't like her view point. This one guy steps in and tells everybody to shut the F*** up and he starts swearing saying he was pulling body parts out of the trade center rubble. He starts getting into an argument with a woman and they don't what they are arguing about and it ends up with them hugging each other crying, and that was the scene that really caught my attention because it showed how it was useless to fight with each other about what to do.
This movie sends a great message but also in a way in sort of lacks a point. When we got done watching the movie I didn't really understand what point this movie was trying to put across. Yes, America did come together in a way for these days and yes, it was a tradgic event, but it doesn't make an overall argument for a point like most documentries are trying to do. It doesn't go out and make any specific argument about what happened on that day or in those following months. And I think that was what this movie lacked. For some reason when we were done watching that movie I couldn't figure out what it was all about. I think the reason why is because it flashes to 6 months later right at the end of the movie and the guy who is filiming this part just seems to say that everyone pretty much went back to the way they were and went on living their life after that, and I think that is where this movie should make a great argument saying like why didn't we continue to be a helping nation... or something like that. I feel like although it was great in showing everyone came together for those seven days, it lacked elsewhere and I didn't really understand what the point of the movie was.

"Love is Gone" Ole Miss baseball at Swayze

God's greatest creation: Fantasy Football!

Fantasy football may be the greatest thing known to sports fans. It is our time to become a general manager of a football team... or pretty close to it. Every football fan's dream job is to be the general manager of their favorite team, the bears, the jets, the saints, the ravens. Whatever team it is. Well fantasy football is their chance to become a general manager and manage teams against their best friends or complete strangers, whatever the preference. I had a great week scoring 123 points becoming 1-0. Here are my studs.
Peyton Manning, Aquan Boldin, and the Jets D

You Can't Handle The Truth

Herm Edwards You Play To Win The Game

Dennis Green Goes Nuts

Speech Code

In the latest addition of Issues in America we took part in an activity about speech codes and a specific frat party that posted racial pictures of some men dressed in FUBU with black painted on their face, and other men dressed in Klan outfits. These pictures were posted on a website that a lot of people knew about and where it could be viewed by the entire public and people could take serious offense to these pictures. These kids should get in trouble and should be expelled from their school because the speech code of that university does not protect those acts. Speech codes are a very important part of the academic process because it sets a limit on what can and cannot be done and it protects students if they are accused a violating codes and they really didnt. Every school has their own speech codes and when applying to a school you may want to check out these specific speech codes because it may affect you depending on your behavior. Speech codes are important to have but for several reasons.
your thoughts?