#CutForBieber

Earlier this week, the pop sensation singer, Justin Bieber, was caught photographed with marijuana or some other kind of drug.  Many fans have started to react to the pictures causing up rages throughout the country.  Bieber was also photographed drinking.  He is a Canadian citizen, so he can drink in his home country, because the drinking age is lower, but was photographed in California. After the pictures were seen online, a site called 4Chan started a 'hoax' about what to do to get Bieber's attention. 

The anonymous writer posted "Tweet a bunch of pics of people cutting themselves and claim we did it because Bieber was smoking weed.. See if we can get some little girls to cut themselves".  After word spread, the Twitter and Facebook world became involved, and the hashtag #cutforbieber started trending all over.  Pictures of girls cutting themselves until Justin would stop using drugs surfaced. Many of the pictures surfacing on Twitter and Facebook were of fake or old pictures, but captions on the pictures read something like "We'll stop cutting when you stop doing drugs" or "It hurt so bad, but I did it for Justin".

I think the whole situation is terrible. I don't understand why someone would joke about cutting themselves, because a lot of people are dealing with self harm. Maybe new pictures didn't surface online, but I'm sure there are at least a few fans that had cut themselves after they heard of the situation. 4Chan was also part of the same trending hashtag that surfaces last fall, in an attempt to get girls to shave their heads because Bieber had 'cancer'. What do you guys think of the situation?

Gunman wounds man at St. Louis school

On Tuesday, January 15, a former part-time student at Stevens Institute of Business and Arts shot a man in the chest before shooting himself. They believe that his intents appeared to be targeted because he came in searching for the man. Although, this event cause a chaotic scene with the students in a frenzy to find protection from the horrifying sounds that they must have heard in the building. The police quickly found both bodies and rushed to a hospital where a doctor says they should both make a full recovery but specific details were not released to the public. To read the entire article click here.  I think that this situation is very scary and it would be terrifying to hear gunshots outside of my classroom. I personally think that something should be done about the safety of all of our school in America because situations like this one have been happening way too often across the country. I know that if I had a child in school I would want something done about the situation. I understand that it would be hard to control, but I think it is necessary to take some safety precautions for our children.
  

Early Kidnapping and Murder

           On Jan. 3 in Early, Iowa a farmer, Gary Schramm had pulled over expecting to help a car that had slid into the ditch but, was not expecting to find a woman being kidnapped and a criminal that had ran as soon as he approached the vehicle.
      The criminal was Kirk Levlin and the woman was Jessica Vega. Levlin had just gotten out of jail in Wisconsin before coming back to Early were his mother, Marilyn Schmitt, lived. Levin came back to Early and killed his mother with a belt and a knife, Schmitt was choked and stabbed.
      After Levlin killed his mom he went to Storm Lake to "meet" up with an old friend, Vega. Vega was surprised to see Levlin after so many years. Levlin asked Vega if she could give him a ride home because his car had broke down, Vega agreed to give him a ride. Levlin lead Vega to a old barn and had told her that he wanted to show her something so Vega said he had to make it quick because she had to get to work. Levlin took her in the barn and tied her up with a rope and told her he was kidnapping her. After Levlin tied her up he threw her in the car and took off. This is where they went in the ditch.
      Vega was saved by Schramm and Levlin was found in a barn where he was arrested for murder and kidnapping. He was also planning on raping Vega but slid into the ditch before anything could happen.

Legendary Giant Squid

        *Not actual photo

After years of expeditions up to 3,000 ft underwater Japanese scientist finally capture the first ever Giant Squid. Oh and in its natural habitat. They spent 400 hours in the abyss ( not actually 400 hours, they just added it up) anyways they also did more than a hundred scuba dives. Although it was just a baby it's about as long as a bus. They said that they were originally doing the footage for Discovery Channels upcoming episode of the Curiosity series. Well good for you Discovery Channel. Interesting stuff. Yes, interesting stuff. Well if you want to read the story I would click here. Wait! The people who wrote the real story was ABC News. Okay, now you can click "here".                                          

The Most Watched Video

I have recently read an artical on CNN titled "'Gangnam Style' is the Most Watched Video in History." Many people have been raving about Psy, the singer of 'Gangnam Style.' Psy has become very well known for his single and also for his unique dance moves. The catchy song has reched 1 billion hits on Youtube just the other day. It has blown Justin Bieber's song 'Baby' out of the water.  Justin's song only has 803 million views and is expected to reach 1 billion in 2014. This proves that Psy is a musical favorite in the United States. There are many videos of people copying Psy's crazy dance moves. Not only can you find different clips of the dance moves, you can find different videos of the song in mant different ways such as:  the English version, the version with lyrics, and different versions of other individuals trying to remake the song. 

I personally enjoy the song 'Gangnam Style' because it is kind of catchy. Even though I don't       actually know what Psy is saying, my friends and I always try to sing along. I find the song catchy and very fun to dance along with. I really enjoyed when we performed the song at halftime with the light show at the last home football game this year. What do you think of the song 'Gangnam Style' by Psy? Do you enjoy the actual song or the dance moves better?

The Color Purple

I recently read the book The Color Purple. It was a book about a girl named Celie and how her life was. The book was so sad. In the beginning of her life her father rapes her and she ended up having two babies which he took from her and gave them away. After her mother dies she then takes the role of wife to her father. She does have a sister named Nette who she is extremely close with. As the years go by it tells about how a man wanted to marry Nette but the father was so stuck on keeping her he made the man take Celie. Celie took a lot of physical and mental abuse. Once she got married her husband raped her too and said hurtful things to her. Her husband had kids with another woman and the kids threw rocks at her and got Celie in trouble with her husband a lot also. My favorite part in the book is when Celie and her husbands ex-wife find all the letters he hid from her and then Celie starts speaking for herself and starts to stand up to her husband. I like the book because it shows a quiet and abused girl becoming a outspoken and warmhearted woman again. It was kind of like a bride taking off her veil in sense of you don't see me and who i am & then once its off you do. The ending was a surprise for me and made me think the Celie changed people. I think every woman should read this book.

December 19 Snowstorm

On December 19th the midwest was pounded by a snowstorm.  The storm extends from Minnesota all the way to Florida.  There are tornados expected in Alabama.  The Omaha, Nebraska utility crew worked throught the night in white out condition the restore power to 38,000 homes due to the storm.  Near Des Moines there were 30,000 homes without power.  Today is expected to be windy with blizzard conditions throughout the day.  Christmas is aproaching and this snowstorm didn't help with traveling.  In our area we recived about seven inches.  The bad part about this storm is it was right in the middle of semester tests and pushed every test into one day which I think sucks.  What do you think?      Merry Christmas