blog #5

Israel Syria Strike: Chemical Weapons Transfer Could Bring Israeli Military Attack, Official Warns

The Huffington Post

By: Ian Deitch

Israel has kept out of the civil war that has engulfed Syria and killed more than 60,000 people, but it is concerned that violence could spill over from its northern border into Israel. That is the main reason Israel decided to do something, so that they will not have their borders breached. Syrians really have lost complete control at this point and are extremely dangerous. On Sunday the Israeli deployed their Iron Dome rocket defense system in North of Haifa, that city was bombed by Hezbollah rocket fire, this occurred in 2006 and their military called it a deployment "routine", this is perhaps their way of telling Syrians to back off of Israeli land. "Syria has a massive amount of chemical weapons, and if they fall into hands even more extreme than Syria like Hezbollah or global jihad groups it would completely transform the map of threats," Hasson told Army Radio. In my opinion, if the rebels do get a hand of chemical weapons, I hope American steps in to get everyone back into control, we are just kicking back and watching the show, but soon we will probably be effected by their selfish and stupid acts.

blog #4

Prince Harry Says He Killed Taliban Fighters In Afghanistan Tour
The Huffington Post
by:No name

Prince Harry, third to the throne goes to join the military and serves his country. Prince Harry pilots an Apache helicopter and truly does an extraordinary job at it, he has killed some Taliban Fighters and says,"... We fire when we have to, take a life to save a life". Harry seems to be right on that quote and as a captain he is treated the same as anyone else, just because he is royal that does not mean he gets special treatment, especially in warfare. From all the killing this is what he says, "I probably let myself down, I let my family down, I let other people down," he said of the Vegas incident. "But it was probably a classic example of me being too much army, and not enough prince." Harry's military role really did enhance his reputation and he earned a lot more respect than he had before, he had once wore a nazi uniform at a costume party and got drunk before and the military role helps to cover up some of his mistakes.

Observing Nature

I took thirty minutes of my precious time to sit outside and observe my surroundings. What I heard was a bunch of the neighborhood kids yelling, screaming and running around as if they have never seen each other before, this is only five minutes in and could not wait until my remaining twenty five minutes were over. Once the kids left I started to hear some cars pass by and heard one cars screeching its tires and heard no crash, thankfully. After such occasions, I finally heard some nature, some birds singing and it was a little windy at my side, It was truly great at the moment and I actually wanted to sit a little bit longer; unfortunately I did not stay any longer as my thirty minutes was fulfilled and so I drifted off to play some games and eat. I really felt like cutting my observations short from the neighborhood kids, since they were getting on my last nerve, but as I resisted, I felt like I was beginning to be a part of my surroundings and loved the sound of the birds singing, truly a moment of peace.

A Death Star Will Not Be Built

Death Star Petition Gets White House Rebuff
By Ethan Klapper
There are many Star Wars fans out there, unfortunately I am not one of them. But, there is this really cool thing called a Death Star and what it is, is that it destroys planets. People have signed a petition to get the white house to build one, mainly to create more jobs, but this is completely ridiculous. It seems as though the White House took it into consideration by even responding to it, there were about 35,000 signatures. The White House says that they do no support blowing up planets ( Thank you) and that a project like that would cost 852,000,000,000,000,000 American dollars, that is 852 quadrillion dollars. They are trying to decrease deficit, not increase it. Besides, our planet cannot stand a gravitational pull that large, enough to blow up a planet, something like that should not be taken into consideration and should only be an idea that stays in your own thoughts, blowing up planets should not be something to debate about because there will not be more than 35,000 people supporting it.

Independent Reading Projects

After listening to each and every one of the presentations, I have came up with the decision. I would most likely like to read Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos. I would take pleasure to reading that book because it really caught my attention, I like to read about books about mafia and drug dealers and this is exactly what it is about. It was the presentation that made a difference, compared to all the other depressing or boring books, this was the most interesting; if not this book, I would have chosen the book about Notorious B. I. G. The problem is I already have a good idea what the book is about and it is not as interesting. The book I would most likely not read is Fat Girl: A True Story by Judith Moore. I would not read it starting with the fact that it is a true story, just knowing that it is true and actually occurred, disturbs me. A depressing life of a girl that got fat because her mom did not treat her well is a book that I absolutely despise  I wonder why they would even write a book about their past and share it with others, no lesson to be learned and would only upset you as you keep reading it.