INNOCENT 9 YEAR OLD SUSPENDED FROM SCHOOL FOR CALLING A TEACHER 'CUTE'

THIS IS SO SAD: Yes,you heard it, a poor, innocent, nine year old fourth grader, was immediatly suspended from his school, after calling a teacher 'cute'.
Shocked Chiquita Lockett of Gastonia, N.C., told WSOC-TV of Charlotte, N.C., which first reported the story, that her innocent 9-year-old son, Emanyea, shouldn't have been forced home from Brookside Elementary School.
"It's not like he went up to the woman and tried to grab her or touch her in an innapropriate way," Lockett told WSOC. "So why would he be suspended for two days?"
The Gaston County school district said it couldn't discuss the incident beyond confirming that Emanyea was suspended for "inappropriate behavior" after making "inappropriate statements." PSHH! YA RIGHT! Get a life Gaston County school district! Gee I wonder what's gonna happen next?
Freedom...YA RIGHT! WHERE IS AMERICA?! The 2 biggest things America has lost:
1. freedom
2. COMMON SENSE!!!! Doesn't this make you wanna stand up and say something? Protest? I am losing all my pride for living in america! If we have no freedom, what are our troops fighting for? Now, all of a sudden nine year old innocent boys are getting disciplined for complementing teachers. GGRR!!
I am taking a stand, to try to make our U.S a better place. Please give your opinion in the comment box.(:

Where is our freedom? If are freedom is slowly being taken away, then what are our troops fighting for?

TEEN MISSES FLIGHT DUE TO (not so) "THREATENING" DESIGN ON PURSE

Flying fashionistas with a thing for the second-ammenment may want to leave their gun-themed purses and other paraphernalia at home, lest they be flagged as a security risk and miss their flights. Wow!! Everyone on the plane should be so scared, and so threatened and worried for their safety because “Somebody has a harmless design on their purse!! And it looks like a gun that has been engraved on to that purse from the dollar store!”

As she was innocently flying home after the recent, hectic, holiday weekend, Virginia Gibbs' gun-themed purse was flagged as a major security risk by Transportation Security Administration officials at the Norfolk, Virginia, airport.

While Gibbs told CNN that she's carried the purse on many flights, the 17-year-old says she was told that the purse "was a federal offense because it's in the shape of a toy gun.” I'm like, 'it’s a design on a purse. How is it a federal offense?'  By the time TSA officials figured out that the purse was a fake, (Gee! It probably took the TSA at LEAST an hour to come to conclusion that the design on Gibb’s purse was NOT a real gun!) TSA’s offered Gibbs the opportunity to give up the purse, or check it. But it was too late, the innocent 17 year old Virginia Gibbs, had missed her flight, and was placed on another plane to Orlando. Her worried, and frantic mother drove from Jacksonville to Orlando to pick her “threat to the TSA” daughter up. Oh give us a break! Anyone with one third of a brain could decide in two seconds that’s a toy gun, So, I can see why the TSA would be fooled. The TSA fumbled around and made her miss her flight, then blames her for not showing up six hours early to give the TSA agents enough time to analyze the toy revolver on a tacky purse. Such ignorance and arrogance! TSA scanners are 3D, and the image can be rotated in any direction (for baggage). If it looked like a gun from the side, like the photo, when they rotated it 90º in any direction - they would have seen that it was less than a quarter inch thick. WHAT kind of gun is this? And as soon as it was opened and examined, they would have realized it was made of leather. Some danger!  If she were in Germany she could carry around a gun purse, drive 100 mph, drink a beer, go topless at the beach, or smoke a joint, but she'd miss America, with the most freedom in the world. I am not trying to criticize America…but seriously?! This is the most unbelievable act of injustice I have ever hear of! Do you guys see what is going on in America? Yes, there are lots of robberies, murderers, Serial killers, terrorists, and threats to the people of America. But do you think that a design on a purse that looks like a gun, should cause an innocent citizen of America to miss their flight? And I thought that nothing could get more ridiculous than the teen in Orlando who got a 5-day suspension for hugging in school. Please leave your thoughts below.

Pepper Spray Video):

Ouch!Wow- May God Bless the eyes of those that were pepper sprayed! This really made me mad!!!! Don't use words- use pepper spray. Why can't we remember that people are people and they have feelings too? The University of California, Davis, is launching an investigation into the actions of a police officer who pepper sprayed a group of students. Chancellor Linda Katehi said that she found UC Davis pepper spray incident “chilling” but that she would not stop down as Chancellor.
Katehi wrote in a statement:

“The events of this intervention have been videotaped and widely distributed. As indicated in various videos, the police used pepper spray against the students who were blocking the way. The use of pepper spray as shown on the video is chilling to us all and raises many questions about how best to handle situations like this.”

Here’s the video of the incident.

The New York Daily News reports that the students were participating in the “Occupy UC Davis” movement. Chancellor Katehi allowed police on to the campus so that they could remove students who had set up tents in the University’s quad.
From the video, it doesn’t look like the police were threatened in any way. The officer seems perfectly calm as he walks up and down the line of protesters spraying them with pepper spray.
In an open letter to Katehi, Nathan Brown, an assistant professor in the English Department, wrote:

“You are responsible for it because this is what happens when UC Chancellors order police onto our campuses to disperse peaceful protesters through the use of force: students get hurt. Faculty get hurt…. You are responsible for the police violence directed against students on the UC Davis quad on November 18, 2011. As I said, I am writing to hold you responsible and to demand your immediate resignation on these grounds.”

Should Katehi step down as Chancellor? Should the officer in the video be stripped of his badge? This is so sad and so mean- what a bully this "officer" is.

CONRAD MURRAY VERDICT: GUILTY!

BREAKINGNEWS: Dr. Conrad Murray has been found guilty of manslaughter! The verdict was announced today around 1:00pm. After Verdict was read, a hush fell over the courtroom as jaws dropped, and the court house erupted in screams of triumph as the shocking verdict was read. WOW!! Towards the back of the courtroom, a loud scream of shock was slipped out by one of the defense jurors!!! The Jackson family celebrates in react to Murray verdict.

The cheerful and smiling La Toya Jackson told E! News that she was "very happy" with the the shocking guilty verdict for Dr. Conrad Murray who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death from an overdose of the anesthetic propofol.
WHOA- Just outside the chaotic courthouse, hundreds and dozens of sign-wielding fans had erupted into rambunctious cheers. "This is the best day of my life!" one ebullient woman told E! in reaction to the verdict.
But though the wild Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office got its desired result, there is one thorn sticking in its side.....):
God bless you these next 4years Dr. Murray!

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Teens punished for hugging. Wow, yep this is America. Where we have "freedom". Please submit your thoughts and comments on this story, below.

So, in Orlando, Florida, 14 year old Nick Martinez, an honor-roll Southwest Middle School student said he innocently, and briefly hugged his best friend, a female student, between classes, according to WKMG-TV, Orlando. But never did he think the gesture would result in an immediate school-suspension. The principal at Southwest Middle School in Palm Bay, saw the hug and brought the two students to the dean, who issued a one-day in-school suspension.

 

“Honestly, I didn’t know, because I didn’t think hugging was a bad thing. I didn’t know you could get suspended for it,” Martinez told WKMG-TV. “A lot of friends are hugging. I just happened to be the one caught doing it.”

Nick says that he was simply Comforting her, after she broke down in tears,one of her parents had recently passed away. Well apparently Southwest is Drug Free, gun free, and now Hug- free. Coulter’s parents protested but say she was threatened with suspension from school. The 13-year-old is serving her detentions, and promises to stop hugging her friends rather than risking further punishment. Nick is an honor roll student. He just received a certificate of outstanding performance Thursday, signed by the principal. He was shocked when the incident happened.

Protests go global, rampage, tear gas in Rome

Right now in Rome, hundreds of highly dangerous, vicious, hooded, masked protesters rampaged through Rome in some of the most terrifying violence in the Italian capital for years and years, Saturday, madly torching cars and shattering windows during a more huger peaceful protest against elites blamed for economic downturn.

Police repeatedly fired tear gas and water cannon in attempts to disperse them but the clashes with a minority of violent demonstrators stretched into the evening, just hours after tens of thousands of people in Rome joined a global "day of rage" against bankers and politicians.

Sizzling smoke flooded over numerous parts of the chaosed neighborhood between the Colosseum and St John's Basilica, forcing many residents and peaceful demonstrators to race into buildings and churches for shelter as militant protesters ran wild.

After police managed to shove the well-organized radicals away from the St. John's area, they ravaged a major thoroughfare, the Via Merulana — building barricades with garbage cans and setting the netting of the scaffolding of a building flaming, on fire.

Discontent is smoldering in Italy over high unemployment, political paralysis and a whoppin'60 billion euros ($83 billion) of austerity measures that have raised taxes and the cost of health care.

The violence at times resembled urban guerrilla warfare as protesters chucked, and hurled sharp rocks, giant bottles and bursting fireworks at police, who responded by repeatedly charging the demonstrators.

Around 70 people were very injured, according to updated news reports, including one man who tried to force the strange, vicious, dangerous protesters from chucking bottles. It kills me to think that people are this un-caring.

Right now- In New York City, hundreds of protesters, emboldened by the growing national outcry against what they see as the greed of Wall Street, flooded past the fine homes of some of the country's richest, wealthiest residents Tuesday in a "Millionaires March."

Members of the Occupy Wall Street movement stomped along the sidewalks of Manhattan's East Side, along world-famous streets like Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue, stopping to jeer "Tax the rich!" and "Where's my bailout?" -Hold on a second- Is this the honest, humble, responsible way to get what we want?

NO it is not. Let's take a look at the next papragraph of this story:

They paused outside buildings where they said media mogul Rupert Murdoch, banker Jamie Dimon and oil tycoon David Koch had homes and expressed concern about how much less the wealthy will pay — and who would be harmed because of those lowered tax revenues — when New York's 2 percent "millionaires' tax" expires in December.

"I have nothing against these people personally; I just think they should pay their fair share of taxes," said Michael Pollack, 52, an office worker in a law firm. (That's reasonable!!!)

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He held up a sign with a saying attributed to department store founder Edward Filene: "Why shouldn't the American people take half my money from me? I took all of it from them." That is not cool.

Hello Everyone,

Thank you so much for visiting my blog! I have been very disappointed in our world, lately. So many court trials, murderers, protesters, ect. All I want is for the world to be a peaceful place. Why are so many children afraid of the world? The world should not be someting to fear. But for something to enjoy life on. So might us all join in and make a change. For everyone. "It takes one person to make a difference for everyone!"
-Life's moments. Thank you. You are here to make a change!

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What's Going On?

CAIRO (AP) — On her first day to school, 15-year-old Christian student Ferial Habib was unexpectedly quickly cut-short at the large doorstep of her new high school with clear, simple instructions: either put on a headscarf, or no school this year.
Habib firmly refused. While most Muslim women in Egypt wear the headscarf, Christians do not, and the move by administrators to force a Christian student to don it was unprecedented. For the next two stressful weeks, Habib reported to school in the southern Egyptian village of Sheik Fadl every day in her school uniform, without the head covering, only to be turned back by determined teachers.
One day, Habib heard the school loudspeakers echoing her name and teachers with megaphones leading a very large number of students in chants of "We don't want Ferial here," the neglected teenager told The Associated Press.
Habib's was allowed last week to attend without the scarf, and civil rights advocates say her case is a very rare one. But it stokes the fears of Egypt's significant Christian minority that they will become the victims as Islamists grow more assertive after the Feb. 11 toppling of President Hosni Mubarak. It also illustrates how amid the country's political turmoil, with little sense of who is in charge and government control weakened, Islamic conservatives in low-level posts can step in and try to unilaterally enforce their own decisions.
Wagdi Halfa, one of Habib's lawyers, said the root problem is a lack of the rule of law.
"We don't want more laws but we want to activate the laws already in place," he said. "We are in a dark tunnel in terms of sectarian tension. Even if you have the majority who are moderate Muslims, a minority of extremists can make big impact on them and poison their minds."
In the past weeks, riots have broken out at two churches in southern Egypt, prompted by Muslim crowds angered by church construction. One riot broke out, near the city of Aswan, even after church officials agreed to a demand by local ultraconservative Muslims, called Salafis, that a cross and bells be removed from the building.
The violence is particularly frustrating for Christians because soon after Mubarak's fall the new government promised to review and lift heavy Mubarak-era restrictions on building or renovating churches. The promise raised hopes among Christians that the government would establish a clear legal right to build, resolving an issue that in recent years has increasingly sparked riots. But the review never came, and Salafi clerics have increased their rhetoric against Christians, including accusing them of seeking to spread their faith with new churches.
Habib's experience was startling because in general, Egypt's Christians, who make up at least 10 percent of the population of 80 million, have enjoyed relative freedom in terms of dress and worship. The vast majority of Muslim women in Egypt put on the headscarf, known as the higab, either for religious or social reasons, but there's little expectation that Christians wear it.
The demand that all students wear the higab was a decision by administrators and teachers at the high school in Sheik Fadl, 110 miles (180 kilometers) south of Cairo in Minya province. They said the headscarf was part of the school uniform, necessary to protect girls from sexual harassment.
A top provincial Education Ministry official, Abdel-Gawad Abdullah, said in an interview with CTV, a private Egyptian Christian television network, that the ministry gives schools the right to decide on school uniforms, and that parents during screening and application can either accept or refuse.
"And if the father wants to move his daughter to another school, it is OK," he said. "All the girls, including the Christians, put on the head cover and they have no problem," he added.
Habib's father Sorial complained to officials, demanding his daughter be allowed to attend without a scarf.
"After the revolution, there are no administration and no officials to go to. The system is lax and there is no supervision from the ministry," he told AP. "If things were under control, extremists would not have a free hand to act as they wish."
Habib was finally allowed to attend last Tuesday.
"I am happy I did what I want and that no one can force something on me. But I am afraid of the students and the teachers," she told AP. "The teachers are not normal with me and I am sure they will give me low grades at the end of the year."
Hossam Bahgat, head of the Cairo-based Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, which tracks religious discrimination and other civil rights issues, said he had not seen a case like Habib's before. "We know that there is pressure on Muslim girls to put on the higab, especially in secondary school, not from the administration but from the girls."
He said some Muslim girls in general put on the veil to distinguish themselves from Christians.
Recent attacks on churches in southern Egypt also illustrate the heat Christians are under. Under Mubarak-era rules, the building of a church or repairs for an existing one required permission from local authorities and the state security agency — a rule not applied to mosques. The rules sought to avoid outbursts of violence from Muslim hard-liners. Since permission was rarely given, Christians at times resorted to building churches in secret, often in parish guesthouses.
On Sept. 30, a Muslim mob attacked a church in southern village of Marynab in Aswan province because they believed the Christians were illegally constructing a new church. Church officials had documents showing they had permission to build a new church to replace a previous, run-down one at the same site.
Even before the attack, Muslim protests prompted priests to turn to security officials, who arranged a meeting with local elders and Salafis. In the face of their demands, the priests agreed to take down a cross and bells on the church, according to church officials. Still, after the Christians erected a dome, the mob attacked, setting the church and nearby homes and shops on fire.
Aswan's governor, Gen. Mustafa Kamel al-Sayyed, further hiked tensions by telling the media that the church was being built on the site of a guesthouse, suggesting it was illegal.
In response, hundreds of Christians marched in front of the governor's office last week, demanding those behind the attack be prosecuted and families who lost homes be compensated. Christians also protested in Cairo, cutting off a main avenue in the heart of the capital, demanding the governor's ouster, until soldiers dispersed them by force.
Days after the Aswan attack, Muslim villagers in the southern province of Sohag tried to storm Saint Girgis church, shouting "No to church construction," as Christians on rooftops rained stones down on them. The assault was prompted by construction of a church in a guesthouse.