Obi-Wan-Kenobi

There was a man that changed his name to be just like the person in star wars. He legally changed it to Obi Wan Kenobi. I do not know if anyone would take him seriously though. He was just recently charged with a hit and run. He is responsible for a 5 car accident. I know that this is a really bad thing and he should not have done it but the only reason that this is a big deal is because he changed his name. If his name was John Smith then I do not think that people would be making such a big deal about it. He spent 5 days in jail is went to court today. I think that he is going to be charged big time since it was such a bad accident and he left the scene which is illegal to do.

Biggest Full Moon This Weekend!

The biggest full moon of the year is going to happen this weekend. I have always loved looking at the stars and the moon because they are just so interesting. The moon will be full at about 11:35pm on Saturday night. The moon will be 221,802 miles from Earth. The scientists have nicknames this moon a supermoon. I am going to have to see this. It will be very interesting to see. This moon is also said to be about 16 percent brighter than it normally is. The reason that this is happening is because the Earth's orbit is not a perfect circle. Because the moon is going to be so close people have been freaking out that earthquakes and other bad things will happen, but scientists have said to not worry because it is just because of the orbit. The last time the moon was really close to Earth like this was in March of last year. To view the moon at its best you need to look at it just after it is rising or right before it is going to set.

Siblings arrested for crime

There were three siblings called the Doughtery gang and they were sentenced to prison today in Colorado. They went on a multi-state crime spree just last year. The youngest one is 22 and he was the last to get sentenced. He is going to have to serve 18 years in prison. He was going to have to face 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to five counts of menacing. The other two siblings were sentenced to 24 years in prison and 32 years in prison.  Their crimes included a Colorado shootout with police and a bank robbery in Georgia. Now these siblings are so sorry for what they have done. Well of course so because they are going to spend the rest of their lives in prison. They did awful things and they deserve to pay the price.

Young women want it all, perhaps more than young men

I was reading this article and it says that in today's times it is more likely for a women to say that they want to be successful than a man. This report was released Thursday and it found that 66 percent of women from the ages 18-34 said that being successfull and having a high-paying job are very important or those are one of the most important things in life and only 59 percent of men said the same thing. At this day and age a lot of men are trying for sports or wanting to be rappers or just stay at farming.  I would say that my main goal in life is to be successful. Young women were also more likely to say that being a good parent and having a good marriage were among the most important things in their life.
I would be one of those women

Interesting!!

 I found these facts and these were just posted yesterday and I thought that they were really interesting.

18/04: The CIA once spent $20 million on a cat equipped with gear to spy on the Soviets, but it was hit by a taxi.

                  I do not understand why the CIA was not smart enough to realize that this cat was probably not going to make it. Our government has to be smarter than that.

18/04: McDonald's did away with its spoon-shaped coffee stirrers because people were using them as cocaine spoons.

                          My sister used to hang out with the wrong crowd and got into drugs pretty bad and I remember her telling me that she used to use those for drugs too. So I am sure that if she did it then that mean many other people did it as well.

Fun Facts!

I found these really cool facts and these 5 really stuck out to me.

1. More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines.
            I do get how this can happen because people are always trying to get their stuff out of the machines because they stop working. I am sure that is not the real reason why but that is what I came up with.

2. Hippo milk is pink.

     I could not really understand this one. I just hope it is ok to drink because I love pink and it would be really cool to just drink pink milk.

3. Women have a better sense of smell than men.

          I thought this was intersesting. I wonder how they know this though, maybe it is something in the brain that triggers it or something.

4. The human brain has the capacity to store everything that you experience.

          This is so weird to think about because people say we only use 10% of our brain but if we really think about everything that has happened to us I bet that this is really true. It is hard to think of everything that has happened to you but I read this article that said this woman knew everything that happened to her since the age of about 11. That would be so hard to rememeber.

5. Ice Cream is chinese food!

           This is probably why that is always the desert at the buffets! Makes sense now!

Robin Gibbs

Robin Gibbs is a former Bee Gee and he is still in a coma.  Dwina Gibb is his wife and he is still right by his side. They have always told people that they have an open marriage because he is a father of their former housekeeper and she said that she also likes women. They have been married for 28 years and you can still tell that they are in love. Many people might think that their relationship is weird but they are just being honest like many other people should be about their relationships. My sisters neighbors have an open marriage oplicy but that is only because they are trying to hide that the man in the relationship is gay and he does not want his family to know. "However absurd their relationship may appear, there's never any question that they are very, very bonded," writer and film professor David N. Meyer, who is writing an unauthorized biography on the Bee Gees, told ABCNews.com. "He has relied on her in a number of ways. She is no joke to him. Their love for one another is very tight."

Almost SUMMER!!!

I am so excited that the school year is almost over. I have had so much work to do and so little time to do it. It is not like the summer is going to be that relaxing either. I am going to be taking summer classes and working over 40 hours a week. Being a grownup is so exhausting sometimes. I do not know how I do it. I just recently moved into my new apartment and I have not really had the time to enjoy it because I have been so busy with school and work. I have not even unpacked everything because I just go home and go to sleep after I get off of work. On the weekends I sometimes go to Kansas City to visit my family so that does not really leave anytime to relax either. I am hoping that the summer will be a little less stressful though! We will see what happens!!!

2000 pound shark caught!!!

There were two fisherman in Mexico fishing and they caught a great white shark that weighed two thousand pounds. It was measured almost 20 feet long.  It was caught in the Sea of Cortez on Sunday. Apparently the shark was already dead when they found it but still that is a pretty big shark! I do not know how those men even got it up. “We were amazed and immediately realized that we had a huge, dead, great white shark, and then we thought what are we going to do?” Guadalupe told Pisces Sportfishing's Tracy Ehrenberg.  They had to have their boat towed to shore because the shark was so heavy.  There were over 50 other people that helped the men get the shark onto the docks. Pisces Sportfishing reported that the shark “fed the whole town.” I am going to tell my boyfriend that that is where we need to start fishing because they have 2000 pound sharks!!!

School District Pays out $4.2 Million to Student Paralyzed by Bully Attack

Sawyer Rosenstein was a 12 year old boy and on the day of  May 16, 2006 his whole entire life would be different. He went to Eric Smith Middle School in New Jersey. Another student thought that it would be ok to punch him in the stomach.  Because he punched him in the stomack that sent a blood clot to his spine. That paralyzed him from the waist down only a week after that happened. He is now a college student and in a wheelchair and has been in one for the last six years.  His family has now recieved a settlement for over four million dollars.  The attorney of the family said that this case is really unique because he has not ever heard of another bullying case that got a large settlement just based off personal injury.
“This was a three-pronged case,” he told ABC News. “We had to show that his paralysis was a result of the punch. We also found that the school knew Sawyer had been regularly bullied, and didn’t do anything about it, and that the other student had showed violent propensities, and they didn’t do anything about that either.” Rosenstien sent many emails to the administrators for months saying that he was getting bulled and they did nothing about it. Well now that school has lost a lot of money for not doing anything. Because of them this kid will be paralyzed for the rest of his life. I am so sick of people getting bullied. You see things all over the internet about kids killing themselves for something that someone did to them. Why do people think that it is ok to do that to someone. I do not know why these parents are just letting their children bullying other children. That is not ok and there needs to be an end to it.

Nurse Who Snatched Baby Keegan, Killed Mom, Seeks Bail

A Texas nurse who admitted to killing a 28-year-old mother and stealing her infant son from a parking lot in broad daylight appeared before a judge today asking to be released on bond. When I was reading this article I was so dissappointed in that very first sentence. It went on to say that that is not the type of person she is, she would never kill someone or take a baby and that she is so soft spoken and kind. Well I think that she is that type of person if she did it. What kind of person thinks that it is ok to do something like that. I hope that they do not let her out because she killed someone and who is to say that she will not do it again. They let people out of prison for molesting, killing and stealing before they let someone out for drugs. So they really need to think about what they are doing.  Her next trial will be on Monday and I hope that they make her stay in there.

Fired for being Muslim

There were four men that were managers at IHOP in Texas.  They all have worked there for many years. One of them has worked there over 20 years and the others have worked there for 12 years and 5 years.  They are all fighting the owner of IHOP in court because they were fired without a reason.  They all think that it is because of their nationality and religion. On court papers they all identified themselves as Muslims of Arab decent. "They weren't terminated because someone complained or because someone didn't like their attitude," said Sara Kane, a civil rights attorney representing the men. "They were fired because of who they are. That is the determining factor." All of these men were fired between March and October of 2010.  All of these men together filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.  They knew that they had a case with these mens complaint. "The IHOP corporation has a four-step disciplinary procedure," Kane said. "The franchisee did not follow any of those steps." Kane, along with attorney Jay Ellwanger, filed suit on behalf of the men Tuesday, against IHOP and Anthraper Investments, the firm that owns the four franchises involved in Plano, Fort Worth, Arlington and Burleston, Texas. These men say that they experienced harrassment from the company's President and the COO and also the Vice President.  The four men said that the President and the Vice President used derogatory comments to these men.
In one instance, the complaint states the men were attending a managers' meeting in 2010, where Hawker said, "Arab men treat women poorly and with disrespect, we're going to let these people go and have new faces coming in."
Outraged by the company's actions, Kane said, "This is not a Muslim issue, this is a human issue."
"It is completely disheartening and disgraceful to know that this is still going on and should not be tolerated by anyone in our society," she said. "No one else should take this case lightly because if it can happen to them, it can happen to you." It is so crazy that this is going on because you would think that we have all gotten passed the inequality.  I have been to the IHOP in Plano Texas because my family lives there and I never have had bad service there. I hope that these men win their case because they deserve it.
Kane said her clients are seeking back wages and payment for emotional damages following their terminations.

Feds scour basement where Etan Patz met carpenter, sources say

THere was a little boy age 6 named Etan Patz who went missing in 1979. The day before he went missing he came in contact with a man that is 42 years old. He was a carpenter and this kids went to his basement.  The police are just now searching this basement because there is a source with knowledge of the investigation.  The man gave the little boy a dollar the day before he wernt missing. Patz went missing on his way to the bus stop the next day.  One of the sources thought that they should bring in a search dog and the dog found the scent of human remains. 

"We're looking for human remains, clothing or other personal effects of Etan Patz," New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said of the current investigation. "It's a very painstaking process."  Because this boy went missing they put his picture on the side of a milk carton and that is the first time that authorities have ever decided to do that for a missing child. Jose Antonia Ramos is a convicted child molester and was aquianted with Etan's baby sitter.  He has been identified as a suspect in the case but he was never charged. Jose is in the prison in Pennsylvania on unrelated charges.  The man that gave Etan the dollar, the carpenter, is now 75 years old and is not in custody.  The police say that they know where he is and are in contact with him. They do not want to say a name because that man has not been charged with anything yet. The day of his disappearance the police and Etan's family searched for him and could not find him. They searched for weeks and nothing of Etan was found.

I do not know why it took the police over 30 years to figure out that it might be this man. That little boys family has probably wondered about this everyday of their lives.

The boy's disappearance was thought to raise awareness of child abductions and led to new ways to search for missing children.

President Ronald Reagan named May 25, the day Etan went missing, National Missing Children's Day.

R.I.P Dick Clark

 Dick Clark died on Wednesday April 18, 2012. He was known to many as Americas Oldest Teenager.  He was a force behind so many things like, television, radio and real estate.  He was one of the greatest entrepreneurs.  He had a degree in business from Syracuse University. He once said "I knew being a performer does not necessarily carry with it a lot of longevity. That's why I became a producer." He saw the opportunities he had and he took them.  I remember when I was younger every New Year we would all watch the ball drop on New Years with Dick Clark.  Dick Clark was the host of American Bandstand.  The show first started out as Bandstand whenever rock'n'roll was first being established as the new pop music and Dick Clark was there on the ground floor.  Whenever the show proved to promote very good artists they decided to make it national and call it American Bandstand.  Dick Clark is going to be missed by so many people and his legacy will always live on.  

 

 

 

GMA beats the Today Show

NBC's Today show was outperformed but the cast of Good Morning America for the first time in 16 years. There were 31,000 more viewers last week for Good Morning America than the Today show. I think that might be because the host of the Today show was out all that week, that was Matt Lauer. There is so much competition with the morning shows because if the morning show is good for that network then more people will tune into watch the shows on that network. The Good Morning America morning show drew in over 5 million viewers and that show was also ranked number 1 in the morning slot for the week of April 9th. This was according to the Nielsen ratings on Thursday. All of the people involved with Good Morning America and the network are very excited that it all happened.

Tim Tebow booed!!!

Tim Tebow was booed on Sunday night when he went to a Yankees game. He is the backup quarterback for the Jets so you would think that the New Yorkers would not boo him.  He was even in a Yankees baseball cap. He was in the third row next to the Angels dugout.  When the camera was on him he smiled to acknowledge it.  There were some cheers when he showed that smile but most of the crowed booed him.  The person that he was sitting next to which was Miami Heat basketball player Dwyane Wade also got booed later on in the game. I do not know why people decided to do that but it happened. Maybe because neither of them are baseball players. Wades boos quickly turned to cheers after he put his Yankees hat in the air. So maybe that is why they did it to Tebow. The Miami Heat beat the New York Knicks that Sunday afternoon at Madison Square Garden. I do not think that I could ever boo Tebow!! He is too cute and he is an awesome Christian!

Grandmas are criminals too!!!!

I read this article and it kind of made me laugh. This older woman was found with four pounds of pot and $276,000 all in cash.  Police say that she is Oklahomas biggest drug kingpin.  Whenever the police found $15,000 bundles of cash stashed away in her home she told the police officers that it was for her retirement fund. That part really made me laugh because why would she think that the police would believe her!!!  She also had a semiautomatic pistol and revolver. This grandma is not about playing games haha!!  Her pot dealing network went from Tulsa to Arkansas to Kansas and Missouri! The police believe that she supplied up to 40 percent of the pot in that area! Because the area was so large police believe that she had many dealers.  Her son was arrested as well because they think that he was helping her.  Brad Garrett is in law enforcement and he says that seniors that look harmless can sometimes be the most efficient drug dealers.  He says that if those kind of people keep a low profile and do not talk to people then they can go on with these types of things for years because there is so much money that can be made. I better watch out for my grandma haha!!

Brides Shedding Pounds With Feeding Tubes!!!

I saw this ad and I figured that I just had to post about it. It made me sick to my stomach. These brides that want to lose weight fast right before their wedding are putting feeding tubes in their noses for about ten days. This diet is called the K-E diet. It promises people that they will lose 20 pounds in just 10 days. I do not think that is healthy at all. What happens when they take the feeding tube out. They are just going to gain the weight right back on. It is just like taking diet pills or all of that other stuff that says you lose a certain amount in so many days. I do not think that this is healthy at all. The people that are doing this diet are fed a constant slow drip of protein and fat which is mixed in with water. It contains zero carbohydrates and is only 800 calories a day!! That is not enough for people to stay healthy. We will see what happens to all of these women that are taking it. This is a video about the feeding tube that is on Good Morning America.

Man dies on Operating table

So a man was donating 60% of his liver to his brother-in-law. The reason that Paul was giving part of his liver to Tim was because Tim suffered from liver disease. Both of the wives of the men were waiting in the waiting room while the men were under the knife. Lorraine is Paul's wife and Susie is Tim's wife. Lorraine was not as worried with her husband donating his liver because the doctors said that even though there are risks he will be fine because he is 56 years old and in really good health. Lorraine prayed that both of the men would heal and be alright. Her prayers did not come true because he husband died on the operating table and Tim died less than a year later.

"We walked into the hospital a married couple, and I left the hospital at the end of the day as they loaded my husband onto the coroner's truck," says Lorraine, who has hired a lawyer and plans to file a lawsuit against the hospital."I want everyone to know what a generous, wonderful man Paul was. When he found out Tim needed a liver, he didn't hesitate to say yes," said Lorraine

I would sue that hospital like crazy. I would do everything in my power to get what we deserve. I know that it would not get my family back but it would give me some closure. I read this story and I thought that it was the saddest thing. A man dies for a good deed!Here is a link to the whole story if you all would like to read it.

GO KU!!!

I have not been a Kansas fan very long. I normally go toward Missouri but now that they are in different conferences, I feel that it is alright! I am really looking forward to the game tonight. I think that Kansas actually has a shot in winning tonight even though we know that Kentucky is better. Kansas is behind Kentucky by 6 points which makes them the underdog. There has been many times that Kansas has made a big win when people did not think that it was going to happen. In 1988 they beat Oklahoma by 4 points, in 1991 they beat UNLV, in 1997 they beat Kentucky by 5 points and in 1999 they beat Duke by 3 points.  In all of these games Kansas was ranked lower than all of them and they pulled it through to win the game.  I think that they can do it again. I think that the players, fans and coaches are ready for the rematch against Kentucky.  Looking back on stats really helps people remember how the game went for those teams. 

Ashton Kutcher becomes Steve Jobs

Ashton Kutcher has already replaced Charlie Sheen in Two and a Half Men. Ashton Kutcher is going to play Steve Jobs, the apple founder because they say that he looks a lot like him. It will be an indie biopic that is titled, Jobs, Variety reports. The film will be about Jobs and how he became the Apple founder.  They are going to start with his life as the "wayward hippie" and go from there. He is one of the most respected and most powerful entrepreneurs in the world of business and technology.  Last October Jobs passed away. This film that Ashton Kutcher is going to be in will be based on the best-selling bio about Jobs.  Walter Isaacson is the author of that book. They are not sure yet if Ashton Kutcher is going to do another season of Two and a Half Men because he has not signed his deal for another season. E! says that Ashton Kutcher will most likely be back for another season of the show.  They would film while the show is off in May. I am looking forward to seeing Ashton Kutcher play this role because we do not really see him in many serious shows or movies.

Easter!!

I cannot believe that it is already April and that Easter is almost here. I feel like that it just snuck up on us. I have so many things to do before Easter weekend. I finally get to move into my new apartment on Friday, but it stinks that I will not get to stay in my own place until Sunday night because I have to go to Kansas City to see my family.  I have to get Easter baskets for my nieces and nephews.  My family does not know that I get to come home for Easter so I am really excited that I will get to surprise them!! They will be so happy that I am home!! It stinks to be so far away but it is kind of nice too because I get spoiled when I come see them!! I hope everyone has a safe and happy Easter.

April Fools!!!

Mitt Romney got a joke played on him today, and he says that it is a day that he will never forget.  His staff put him in this empty room and said he had to speak in it even though there was no one in there. He was supposed to speak in a packed ballroom with an actual audience.  This all happened just days before the Wisconsin primary. I think that it is really neat that even when things are stressful they can still make light of things and play jokes and still be professional. I did not even know that it was April fools day until this afternoon when one of my friends played a trick on me. I felt really stupid after I realized what the date was.

The EGG!!!!!

According to ABC news the egg is used around the world as a symbol of the start of new life and they are given to celebrate Easter or springtime.  Eggs are so much a part of our everyday lives that some of us might have forgotten their many benefits: nutrition powerhouse, economic protein, culinary necessity and delicious taste.  Here’s some fun and helpful info about this wonderful little ellipsoid.
For nutrition the egg contains the highest quality protein with the right mix of essential amino acids needed by humans to build tissues, second only to mothers milk for human nutrition. One large egg only has 70 calories and 5 grams of fat and one egg white only has 17 calories and zero fat. A fun fact about the egg is that in France the egg is broken over the brides threshold of the new home before she walks in. It is for luck and healthy babies.

Scoot your booty J Lo!!!

On American Idol another singer went home.  Nicki Minaj performs one of her songs on the show. She had a really good performance and right before she sang she came out of a spaceship. She says that she wants to be a host on American Idol and asked J Lo if she would just scoot over a little bit. She said that there is not enough room for both of them and J Lo laughed nervously. The singer from last season was on there, Scotty, and he was presented with a plaque because he sold over a million copies of his cd. I used to watch American Idol all the time because it was so different and interesting. Now there are so many singing shows, they are all starting to run together. I do not really watch it anymore.

New Anchorman!!!!!!

I am so excited that there is going to be a sequel to the movie Anchorman! I really love this movie and I have seen it too many times to count. I can basically state the entire movie. I think I will probably do it with this movie as well. I know that sometimes the second movie is not as good as the first so we will see how it goes. I think it will still be good because Will Ferrell will be in it.

“I want to announce this to all of our friends in the Americas, Spain, Turkey and the U.K. — including England — that as of 0900 mountain time, Paramount pictures and myself … have come to terms on a sequel to ‘Anchorman,’” Ferrell said to massive audience applause. “There will be a sequel.”

5 people dead from motor home crash

The motor home was filled with 18 people and it was also pulling a trailor.  The motor home crashed and killed 5 people and sent the rest to the hospital. The driver lost control on Interstate 35 at 9 o'clock in the morning. The vehicle hit a guard rail and a conrete bridge.  This happened in Williamsburg, Kansas. That is only 70 miles away from Kansas City, Missouri. The people that were dead included adults and chilren. When this was posted they had not yet released the names of the people that were hurt and dead because their families still did not know. Many of the people that were injured have been released from the hospitals that they were staying at.  One of the officers said that there are times that they get many fatalities in one accident but he is glad that they do not happen all the time. I am glad that nothing like this has happened in my life yet. I mean I have lost people in my life but not all at once. I could not even imagine what that would be like.