Person of The Year

  Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert deserve the Persons of The Year award due to their courage to humorously go head to head with the racist and ignorant Tea Party. Outnumbered, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert rallied up the sensible Americans to support the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear.
 
  Educated rich white men who hate President Barrack Obama has influenced and falsely informed Tea Party members. Wealthy republicans purposely use lower middle class and poor whites to do their dirty work, Such as Sarah Palin, Joe the Plummer and Glenn beck (who is the smartest of them all) to turn uninformed and poor Americans against Obama.Even though President Obama tries to lend aid to them in their time of need.

As long as the average American has someone to relate to, they will continually walk blindly toward the destruction of America. Consequently having their rights constantly rapped by oppresses of America.
 

President Obama standing next to Kobe Bryant

  While browsing this topic a comment posted on an article shows how ill informed some Amaricans are. It reads, “Obama has a huge ego for a diluted African; he couldn’t even stand next to LeBron James in a picture fearing that LeBron would overshadow him because of his height. Hey Obama, I know LeBron is a highly paid slave but what are you? Agent, Uncle Tom, mole, etc.” this Comment was posted by user inbred Mutant –Albino. 
Some find the Tea Party’s March On Washington an insult to history and black America. This is where Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert comes in. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert try to bring the truth to the average Tea Party member. Showing Americans that not all Muslims are terrorist, President Obama is here to help and show the tea party how foolish their leaders look.

Broken Promises

Today thousands of UK students stand out of the English Parliament protesting and hoping for their voices to be heard on the vote to raise school tuition. Today the UK’s political heads will vote on the tuition inflation from five thousand to thifteen thousand dollars. Too many Americans five or thifteen thousand dollars is a decrease in school tuition. However, thifteen years ago collage education was free in the UK. Students argue that if their parent’s and grandparent’s could go to school with any expenses why can't they. 

    

   

Although the tuition will triple unlike American students UK students will not have to pay back school tuition until they make a steady income of $35,000 a year. Yet the average income of a UK resident is $23,000. Tuition is not the only thing that will be raised, taxes and everyday living wills also increase. UK students feel betrayed because many of the officials in the Houses of Parliament during the campaign voted not to raise taxes and school tuition. Yet when they were elected, they took back their words. Raising School tuition is the last thing a government should do. It hinders the education of in your country and can raise the poverty rate.

If There is Something To Be Changed

  Jimmy Hendrix once said, “If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.” One of President Barrack Obama’s slogans was change. One might infer that President Obama was only elected because of the support from music and music artistes. I would not argue with that opinion. One can define the last election to be the first technical election. President Barrack Obama was elected with the support of Musical Artist. To trace if Music artist wanted to change the world they can succeed effortlessly.
 
   A music artist has a great deal of power over more things that they may think. To summarize on August 23, 2005 Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans 1,836 deaths were confirmed. Music Artist Kanye West and other music artist hosted a Katrina fund Raiser. During the show, Kanye West described President George W. Bush, as a racist and said “George Bush doesn’t care about black people”. In a recent interview with former President George W. Bush said when artist Kanye West accused him of being a racist was the lowest point of his presidential career. If a single artist saying one line can damage a president’s career, what can’t they do?

   If music artist cannot change the world, they can definitely influence young adults of this day. If one would analyze today’s youth one would find that almost everything we do is influence by some sort of musical artist. From the things we wear, the way we think, and the way we act. In January 2010 Adidas sale rate was at  25.50 in  April 27, 2010 when Artist B.o.B album The Adventures of Bobby Ray was released the sales rating jumped to 35.50, when B.o.B mentioned Adidas’ in his song saying “respect me like I’m Caesar I kick it like Adidas, flowing’ sticky like adhesive”.

   Most Americans and most people in the world are like sheep. They are told what to do, wear, think in 
 almost every aspect of their lives. As humans, we are made to mimic what we see if music artist can make the average person wear their endorsements and bring attention to foreign disaster together there is nothing a music artist cannot do.
 
    However, this is easier said than done. Music artist have influenced this generation to the extent that when someone does speak out they are mostly looked down on and shutout. This is not a by coincidence. The music industry does not want their music artist speaking out against the system and filling today’s youth with knowledge nor does some of the music artist themselves. 

Wiki Leaked?

A quarter-million Cables have been leaked from the United States Government. Now I am  referring to someone stealing TV cables from the White House but  classified information. The cables where leaked by the now known to the government as the infamous Wikileaks. What is Wikileaks? Wikileaks is a website that’s publishes classified files from the government, corporations, and even religious documents. Sometimes leaks are purposely leaked by government officials. 

Wikileaks gained popularity off of a video of American soldiers killing unarmed Arab civilians and wounding children. Over 66 thousand civilians have been killed since the US invaded Iraq. There are three questions. What should be done about Wikileaks? Sense the leakers are not in America but a soldier in Bagdad. Is Wikileaks good? Finally does Wikileaks put people’s lives in danger?

The most recent leaked was a conversation between General David Petraeus and Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh talking about covering up US military strikes on Al-Qaeda. President Ali Abdullah Saleh said they will cover up the strikes by saying Yemeni forces were behind the attacks.

The first leaks were by a American soldier who had access to a government computer and simply downloads the files to a USB giving birth to Wikileaks. Some are calling Wikileaks a truth digger however President Barrack Obama said leaking the files only hindered the United States. The government is conducting a criminal investigation. General Eric Holder said the investigation will hold “anybody who is involved in the breaking of American law."

Wikileaks may be a truth digger however the person behind Wikileaks is putting people’s lives in danger? After the leaks an Iranian nuclear scientist was killed in a suicide bomb attack and another wounded after a motorcycle pulled up side them with and attached a bomb to the car. One can look at Wikileaks as a older brother bringing his new girlfriend to dinner, and when the date leaves and the whole family gets together and talks about the date. Then one of the family members tells the date all of the bad things the family said about her.

In the end Wikileaks needs to be shut down and the person behind it should be arrested. Wikileaks is toying with a fragile economy and democracy.

North Vs. South

North Vs. South

By HeadBerry

As many Americans got ready for work North Korea bombed South Korea with over 100 coastline artillery rounds on the western coast of Yeonpyeong island. The bomb shelling set fire to thousands of houses of fishermen and marine bases leaving them to flea for their lives. Two Korean marines have been declared dead. North Korea has made false accusations saying South Korea fired first. However after the North Korean attack South Korea immediately counter the attack with 80 self propelled artillery shells, which lasted for an hour.

This is the first official attack exchanged by Korean nations since the Korean War which ended in July 27, 1953 with an armistice. An armistice is when both conflicting side agree to stop fighting. However, the war is not officially over.  In my last post I talked about the START treaty and what it meant to the world and how unstable the world’s nations are. With one bad move the whole world would go in to chaos.

The North Korean attacks could be that one incident. The South Korean President, Lee Myung-bak has all military units placed on high alert.  North Korea has threaten the South with more attacks if the cross sea borders by 0.001 mm. the last sea skirmishes was in march when North Korea open fire on Southern ships killing 46 South Korean sailors.

North Korea attacking the South was foolish (or whoever attacked first). 

If peace is not made in North and South Korean the attacks might led to a bigger war. Though this conflict is dangerous most nations are not willing just to go to war. China and Russia siding with the North and America, Japan and India siding with the south is not a good mix. Most really  do not want to go to war, Russia wanting to sign the START treaty will prohibit Russia and America from exchanging attacks. China wanting to be number one in the economy war will not be in their best interest.

If china does go to war they will force the hand of India. Basically when one war is started other will follow. Please post comments below

NEW START

  One of the most important treaties that keeps peace between the USA and the USSR is the START treaty (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty). START was proposed by former Commander and Chef Ronald Reagan. It was to reduce the number of strategic arms in both the US and  the USSR. The START Treaty was renewed under George H.W. Bush and renamed START II. However START will end December, 2010.

  President Barrack Obama and the Democratic Party want to get the treaty renewed as swiftly as possible. However, the Republicans want to delay the renewing of the treaty in anticipation of a new congress arriving in January; where the republican house will be expanded by six. The reason for this is when the Republican Party expandes in the congress they will be able to overturn the START treaty.

  Republicans articulate that the treaty has several holes in it and is against the good of the county. Republicans claims that the treaty will do three things. The New START will hinder US defense systems, Russia will swindle their way though parts of the treaty and the US cannot afford to send inspectors to Russian land and will have to wait until next year and the treaty can not truly determine how many nuclear warheads each side has.

  To resolve the first accusation, New START does not put constraints on any side to diminish missile defense. The missile defense system does not contain nuclear weapons. They are made to intercepted nuclear tripped weapons. Secondly, Russia will not be able to cheat the treaty due to all  the intense inspections. In the end, it would be harder to determine the count of nuclear weapons without the treaty.

  Now the republicans are not malingering for nothing. The Republicans are prohibiting the treaty as a result in the 2012 elections President Barrack Obama will not have NEW START under his arm. Some republicans have stated that their “number one priority is to make sure president Obama is not re-elected”

  Renewing the START treaty is important. The START treaty holds the safety and peace of the world. The stability of the world’s nations are very unstable, If the peace of the United States and Russia are fractured and interact with conflicted will start a chain reaction of wars possibility creating a WWIII.   

A new study of the most commonly used drug has been released. Marijuana makes up for 76 percent of illegal drugs used in the US. Many people  who use Marijuana are blind to the effects. The new study led by Mary Kathryn Dahlgren says that Marijuana effects user that started at a young age the most. 

Marijuana effects cognitive abilities, causes mass activity in the frontal lobe of the brain, and endures brain development. This new research has uncovered new questions about legalizing Marijuana, and how to stop the use of Marijuana among youth.

While we are talking about marijuana let's use California as an example. Marijuana clinics are more common then Starbucks and schools in California. These clinics are for people with health issues. In many cases marijuana subdues pain to many people. However, is California going too far with legalized marijuana? How (Junky proof is their system)? How does this affect the youth?

The act of legalizing marijuana is a good thing. A person should not be imprisoned for  the procession of marijuana. When walking into a marijuana clinic it looks and feels more like a ShopRite. Marijuana is showcased in glass jars throughout the clinic. The patient can choose from different types of marijuana from Blue Dream, Train Wreck, to Chem Dawg and more.  Most clinics serve more the 600 people a day.

  

What are the long term affects of medical marijuana? Will the patient develop the same cognitive abilities as the test subjects? 

Day In History

November 15, 1397 pope Nicholas V ended the great schism from 1447-55 and founded Vatican Library. 

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Smoking

By HeadBerry

The U.S. Department of Health, Human Services, has teamed up to issue new warning labels on all cigarette boxes by 2012. These warnings will also include picture. The bottom half of the box will advertise the brand. However the top half and 20 percent of the back of the box will depict either a man smoking through his tracheotomy hole from his throat, a mother blowing smoke into her baby’s face, a man who is suffering  from a heart attack, or a dead man with a large scar on his chest. To top it off a Warning saying “CIGARETTES WILL CAUSE CANCER” will be slapped next to the new graphic pictures. These are only a few of the many warning labels. 

The new cancer Advertisements has raised questions. Will the warning labels really reduce smoking? Some say the new warning signs are trying to control people’s lives. Will the labels backfire?  This will be a new law for American companies however this has been in Canada’s law for the last few year.  The new labels on the boxes have done wonders for Canada by reducing their smoking by populations 20 percent. Nevertheless, will this work of America?

 

The federal government expectations are not to wipe out smoking in America and a lot of people are going to smoke regardless. Although, in the long term the new warning labels will reduce smoking just by letting people know the effects of smoking. Letting people know the effects of smoking should reduce smoking especially in impoverished cities and in children. By panting a bad image on cigarettes will change the view of cigarettes in the mind of our child today.

In the case of the labels controlling people’s live is blaspheme. The labels are just informing people the effects of smoking. For a question for the reader is it better to keep the causes of smoking a secret and let people kill them self without letting them know the full effect of smoking?

Patrick Basham, adjunct scholar says the graphic warnings on cigarette packages may actually increase smoking. Basham says "It's an explicit act of rebellion." he also says "And increasingly we're suggesting -- unintentionally -- to young people that if they take up smoking, it's an avenue, an instrument by which they can express their rebellion against authority.”To comment on Mr. Basham there will always be a rebellious group conversely the group that the warning labels will turn away will outweigh the rebellious group. 

In the end the new labels will save the government millions of dollars year.  450,000 people die in America ever year from  smoking and second hand smoke. smoking also causes health care 100 billion dollars a year to treat smoking patient.
For you ill informed smokers out there here is a good link to inform you.

Incarceration In Camden

Let’s take the city of Camden New Jersey. The city of Camden local jail has around 1,650 inmates. However, the jail was built to hold 1,250, this mean the jail is over 500 people over capacity. The State pays 50,000 Dollars a person to keep in jail a year and over a year the states will have given Camden County Jail 82,500,000 Dollars a year.

By privatizing jails and prisons instead of the giving the city 50,000 Dollars the owner would ask for 30,000. How do they make money from this when they are given less money? Instead of quality materials and guards they will use cheaper metals for beds and cells, hire cheaper guards and foods.   
 

How does this link to US incarceration rates. If prison become privatized police will enforce  peccadillo arrest. There already have been cases of police and parole-officers falsely violating young teens on parole. Therefore privatizing jails and prisons will only make this matter like these worse.

For minors Camden County has Lakeland that has tried to do the same thing under to control of Mary Previte. 

Who is Mary Previte? Mary Previte was Born in China in 1932, she was the daughter of two parents who were missionary and the great-great granddaughter of James Hudson Taylor. (Who was James Taylor?) James Taylor was the first British Protestant Christian missionary to China. Mr. Taylor was known as China's greatest missionary. He also founder of the China Inland Mission that provided China with 800 missionary that lead to the opening to over a 100 schools, 300 work places, and 18,000 Christians. Now that was have a back ground from where Miss Mary comes from let’s get back.  

At the age of 9 she was separated from her parents for five and a half years, Do to  her imprisonment for three years during World War II in a Chinese concentration camp. At the age of 14 she was reunited with her family and moved to America and lost her hand in a buzz saw accident. 

Mary went on in life to get her education. later Mary Previty went on to get a B.A. from  Greenville Collage and a M.A. from Glassboro State Collage. She is elected to Voorhees Board of education, and then elected Administrator of Camden County Youth Center also known as Lakeland.  

 What is Lakeland? Lakeland is a pre-trial juvenile detention center for minors. Teens come in and are put up with a mentor to work with them and help them when they got out. In some cases when they get out teens are occupied by a (so called mentor) call eda probation officer to help them get back on track.

Mary found out that the more inmates Lakeland housed the more money the state gave them. Therefore Mary Previty violated over 37 teens on parole. She probably did this to update work related things such as a new office, to extend her organizations, to give her workers more vacation days or better pay. 

These are all great thing for the worker and the organization but two wrongs does not make a right. However at the end of the year Mary was not able to see the end of the year as the head the Camden county youth center do to Judge Leon Hornstein.

Judge Leon Hornstein had launched a investigation on Mary Previte. In the end the center did not receive any extra money.

The chart above brakes down the inmates in Lakeland. The first 25 percent represented in the red are children between the ages of 13-18 suffering from mental health problems. 

The other 25 percent shown in the green also represents adolescents incarcerated for minor offences or action that are not illegal. Such as running away from home or skipping school.

15 percent represented by the yellow are people incarcerated for minor possession. Such as the possession of cigarettes, weed, or alcohol, where in most cases they should have gotten a call to their parents or at most a fine.

And finally the blue represents inmates that belong in Lakeland and foster children. Yes In some cases Lakeland acts as a foster home. This is illegal and is also used to boost numbers. In the end Lakeland only houses less than 30 percent of the inmate that should be there. A total Lakeland houses over 117 inmates. This is over 40 percent over its capacity. This is very high but in early 2002 and late 2003 Lakeland had over 240 inmates equaling to six a room, where lake land was built for every inmate to have his or her own room.

To conclude if you subtract all of the inmates that do not belong there an estamenet of 30 inmates belong in Lakeland less than the number that lake land was built to hold.

 Finally to end this blog post should or should not this teen in the video below have been sent to prison for life, does she have mental health problems? or was she forced to do this crime?  or is this the effect of the city of Camden please leave a comment.Until next time Headberry is signing out.

In Tribute to Indigenous People Day

The Big Bully

In the last two years the news has broadcasted reports of suicide linking to cases of school Bullying. Recently there has been three cases surrounding bullying. Phoebe Prince was a 15-year-old student at a school in South Jersey. Phoebe Prince was found hanging off of her house banister by her younger sister.

Phoebe Prince is said to be bullied to death by six of her classmates. Next, two 13-year-old boys also committed suicides do to school bullies contently calling them gay. The most recent accident was Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi. Tyler Clementi was tape during a sexual act with a male classmate.

Bullying seems to be a growing matter. With the recent suicides questions have been raised about criminalizing bullying. Should bullying be criminalized? What does the recent suicide have to say about parenting? Are parents raising their children too safely?  

Although bullying seems to be growing matter, it is at an all time low. However, when a tragic event accurse the whole world hears about it do to media. 20 years ago if a heinous act was carried out in Florida, people in California would not be informed. Bullying to some extent is a problem. Nevertheless, bullying should not be criminalized. America is called the land of the free, although America has the highest incarceration rate in the world. This is not because Americans commits more crimes then other countries; America just has too many laws. 

Criminalizing bullying would also backfire in the future. Sending a high school bully to prison with murderers and rapist does not match the crime (if there is a crime). If the system does criminalize bullying what will happen when the bully is released. Society will now house  more uneducated citizens with a criminal record for a crime not worth the time. Bullying can be beneficial to some people.

America is one of the wealthiest countries in the world and I think everyone should go through some hardships to sympathize with the less fortunate and their ancestors. In the end bullying can make you stronger. Although, bullying can be beneficial to some it is still wrong. 

Stopping bullying, school suicides, and school attacks starts in the student’s home. Sometimes we dislike people do to personal dislikes or characteristics. However, in most cases low self-esteem causes bullying. If or when parents promotes self-promotion, encourages self-esteem, and supports self-image will truly eliminate both bullying and school suicides.      

"Thats Long" "Thats What Eddie Said"

Eddie Long, pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church has been accused of sexually assaulting fore teen boys. Now, right off the back there is something wrong. Anyone who knows about Eddie Long Knows that Eddie is a heterosexual multimillionaire pastor how is against homosexuality. Well that is what they thought. When I heard about a multimillion-dollar pastor accused of sexually assaulting fore teen boys I did some research.

With In the first 30 minutes of researching I was not surprised of his actuation's made against him. I’m not saying Eddie is gay or any thing, but the first sermons I heard from him he was perishing about spreading gods sperm to young boys. Secondly, he made a youth group for boys called The Long Fellows, yes The Long Fellows. Next, when I heard that he was sending pictures of him posing in a muscle shirt to teen boys. That put the icing on the cake.

Many people say that the pictures are just showing them that he is proud of his body. As a pastor, sending any youth in your community a picture of yourself in a bathroom is always inappropriate. If a nearly 50-year-old man sent me a photo of himself in any form would be scary.

 What took it over the top is when reading about him bringing these young boys into his house alone and asking them to rub his leg. Ok being a heterosexual male, if a nearly 50-year-old man sent me a photo of himself flexing the first think to come to mind is Herbert from Family Guy.

Herbert from Family Guy

The only thing left, is to see if Eddie is found guilty or innocent and if found guilty this will raise two issues, if found guilty will his congregation stick behind him and how much of this has to do with homosexuality in the church.

Eddie Long has a 3.07 million dollar Salary from charity, a 1.4 million house with  six bedrooms and 9 baths, drives a $350.000 Bentley, and accepts patron and love offerings from the church. Meaning he gets side money from his congregation, ( maybe Eddie had fore to many love offerings).  It would be hard to follow a man that is making that much money off the word of god. When asked about how much money he makes a he states, “I’m not your average black pastor I met the president”. He says that but the man he preaches about salary was being nailed to a cross. If sentenced, the question is when he is released will he be accepted back as the pastor of the church, if accepted back into the congregation would not be shocking. This has happened before, Pastor Timothy Lee Leonard, was convicted for rapping up to 22 boys and girls. Leonard was released after 72 days in jail and when released he was welcomed back with open arms.

Homosexuality is growing with in the church. From my view, Homosexuality in church is due to the shortage of fathers in the church. When a boy is influenced more by his grandmother and mother more then a male figure that boy will act like his grandmother and mother. Some will argue that Eddie Long was trying to play that male figure in the young boy’s life. However, a father does not ask his son to massage his leg and if Eddie is innocent he needs to be more careful.

We Have To Wear What? ಠ_ಠ

School Uniforms

By Headberry

Waking up in the mooning and getting dress the why you want might be your favorite part of your day, but for others getting dress is a way to be late to school and be the worst part of the day. Then when they get to school late they get teased by the way they look. Because one person is wearing American Eagle and Air Jordan’s while the other person is wearing an old shirt their grandma gave them for their birthday and cheap five dollar knockoff Pole sneakers that are falling apart at the rim.

That’s were school uniforms come in. The science behind School uniforms is supposed to eliminate bullying and make students feel equal, but does school uniforms violate student’s right and does it dull student’s creativity. As a young male student myself I am against school uniforms. A person should be entitled to what they can wear. Having students wear uniforms is almost like putting tape over someone’s mouth and taking away their right of speech.

School uniforms were also made to make sure students will not wear anything inappropriate in school. However some might say catholic uniforms skirts are somewhat inappropriate you can be the juge of that. Although, I am against school uniforms every school should have a dress code. Another factor on how a student dresses is their parents. A parent plays a big role in what their kids look like when they leave the house for school.

Teens are the reflection of their parents so if a parent has taught their teen self-confidence will eliminate bullying.  

Repeating time                                                                                     

  They say history always repeats itself. History maybe repeating its self right now, President Barrack Obama our 44th president, our youngest president, and our first black president is in almost the same position has our 26th president Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt also the youngest president of his time at 43 years old was almost overthrown while in its second year in office. There are two similarities, one possibility, and one group of people involved in both presidents terms.  

    To start both presidents was elected in to office under the same circumstances, in the middle of a war. Both presidents came into office during a debatable war. Roosevelt was World War one and Obama is unfortunately is in the middle of The Iraq War. Both wars created a bad economy casing a depression.

Roosevelt tried to balance the interests of farmers, workers, and businesspeople. He also preferred continuous regulation of giant corporations. To translate this in to modern day Obama is trying to balance the interests of the poor, middle, and small businesses. Obama also prefers regulations and raised taxes on the rich and large corporations. Raising taxes and regulations did not sit right with large corporations in the 20th or 21st century.

    Corporations in the 20th and 21st century used the poor to do their dirty work for them. In the early 90s, Singer Sewing supported nervous solders to try to overthrow President Roosevelt and replace him with a dictator. They would use unemployed World War I veterans has their power. They chose Douglas MacArthur title a great general in American history to lead the soldiers and to be the successor of Roosevelt if over thrown. The people trying to overthrow FDR saw that Douglass would be easy to control and he would get the support of the veterans.

     Douglass often got in trouble when he publicly criticized Roosevelt’s foreign forums. Douglass later retires from his military duty and takes up being a professional speaker. Protected by the constitution Douglas was able to speak more freely about more subjects.

    The Koch brother’s owner of bounty paper towels has given the teabag movement and the war against 

Obama over hundred million dollars to the tea party movement alone. The Koch brothers are much like Singer Sewing; Sara Palin is the modern day Douglas MacArthur, and the tea baggers are the soldiers. Sara Palin easily controlled acting as the face of the tea bag movement while big power and corporations are controlling behind the scene. The only different thing about Palin and Douglas is that Douglas McArthur questioned who was trying to control him.