Monday, May 21, 2012
Medal or Honor 40 years late?
President Obama recently bestowed his 9 Medal of Honor since being elected, and this one had a truly heartbreaking story behind it. The Medal of Honor is the highest honor bestowed by the president onto soldiers and usually given 2 years or less after ones tour has happened. This Medal of Honor was given to Specialist Leslie Sabo Jr. who fought in the Vietnam war 42 years ago was originally nominated a few years after his tour was over, but he didn't receive a medal then, his paperwork "fell through the cracks." A few years ago a researcher discovered more to his story about how even after suffering life threatening injuries, he crawled to an enemy bunker and pulled the pin on a grenade savings the lives of all of his fellow comrades that day. When this was discovered he was once again nominated for the medal and this time he got it. His wife and comrades from that day all attended the recognition ceremony and there was relief and happiness shown in that this man finally received what he always deserved for his service to our country.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-players-abc-news/highest-honor-ultimate-sacrifice-102211016.html
Friday, May 18, 2012
Wasting Money?
Rangers game 20 miles from New Jersey and Delta Airlines is offering a free plane ride to the game. The ride would be 17 minutes long, include a free ride to and from the airport as well, and a free trip to a Rangers away game next year. This is not the first trip like this that Delta airlines has hosted similar to the 20 mile flight. There have been many occasions similar to this and very costly to the buisinesses hosting them. So what do you think? Is it fair to waste money like this on a 20 minute plane ride when it coule be spent on such better things?
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/delta-airlines-offers-rangers-fans-17-minute-flight-181319700.html
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
"Tanorexic" Doll?
The women in New Jersey last week accused and punished for taking her 5 year old daughter tanning has inspired doll to be made. The doll is named the "Tanorexic" doll, for its orange gross looking skin and over tan overall appearance. The company manufacturing the doll is the Hero Builders company, and they manufacture "superhero" dolls. This is actually their way of showing children and people different examples of "bad people" or bad examples of how people can turn out to be. There are many different dolls made by this company are like the "tanorexic"doll. What do you think of these dolls and their purpose?
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/jersey-tanning-mom-inspires-action-figure-182150456.html
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/jersey-tanning-mom-inspires-action-figure-182150456.html
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Mother takes 5 year old tanning?
In New Jersey this past week a mother was questioned for allegedly taking her 5 year old daughter tanning. The mother 44 Patricia is said to overuse the tanning bed and she says when she tans she continually takes her daughter with her, but she tans and her daughter waits in the room outside. One day her 5 year old daughter showed up to school with what appeared to be a sunburn and began to be questioned of it, not only by peers, but her teacher as well. School officials soon reported the incident to local police after the child responded "went tanning with Mommy". Police questioned Patricia and she disputed all allegations of taking or exposing her daughter to the UV rays of the tanning booth. Patricia kept repeating, "This whole big thing happened and everyone got involved. It was 85 degrees out and she got sunburned. Nothing else happened." After much questioning and some research by the police, Patricia was arrested and charged with taking her 5 year old tanning. What do you think? How wrong is this?
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/tanning-booth-mom-says-arrest-taking-daughter-5-153138630.html
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