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Chardon High School Shooting: Second Student Dies as Alleged Gunman Is Identified – Yahoo!.

via Chardon High School Shooting: Second Student Dies as Alleged Gunman Is Identified – Yahoo!.

This is just sad! My heart breaks for these families and these children. I am especially sad for the youth who felt that this was the solution to his problems. Somewhere we are failing our children and we are not teaching them about endurance, perseverance, struggle, the value of life….somewhere along this journey we have failed our youth and now they’re killing each other. Wehave a 5th grade girl dead after a fight over a young boy, we have students shooting up schools….what is going on? This poem is inspired by the recent unnecessary deaths that have taken place in our youth.

Mothers drowning babies

kids shooting schools

little girls posting videos on youtube

asking if they’re ugly

wanting to be liked

little girls dying after a school fistfight?

We all turn our backs

no one feels ashamed

we’d rather watch the oscars and the all-star game

blood stains our hands

we are to blame

their future and our legacy are one and the same

Lost souls

the world has gone mad

molesting, sex, drugs, crime, fear

2012 is here

pregnant women crowd the streets

Their births forecasts many deaths

Purity

Hoping to be seen

The world values sex and greed

Invisible me

Hopeful

And yet the truth remains
that the only thing that stays the same is change

You walked in my world and handed me the game
I tried to play along but the rules consistently changed
I was meant to lose, the game was never in my reach
you were the team captain, the coach and the referee
I was just a player to be used at your discretion
Whatever position you needed me to be in
I played it to the fullest without question

I never liked the game and I didn’t get much play time
No matter the level of my dedication
you constantly kept me on the sideline
So I put on my helmet
and I pulled it down over my eyes so I couldn’t see
’cause when you blind yourself,
your world can be whatever you want it to be
All I ever wanted was you and me
I took a leap of faith off the cliff of trust
thinking that love could come from lust
But the two are not interchangeable
and for all that I gave,
there just was no changing you

So the change must then begin with me
I’m taking my name off the roster
I’ve been sidelined by injuries
This time to fix my heart, I’ll need surgery
You see, my heart never fully healed from the last injury
and I should have known better
than to play the game with a heart that’s weak
I can only hope that the hurt I suffered won’t last permanently
To be on the safe side, I’m not just sitting on the sidelines
I’m walking out the building completely
The temptation to play will always remain
Yet every time I play the game doesn’t seem to change

And yet the truth remains
that the only thing that stays the same is change

Then…Now

When you came into my life
I thought you were so tall
I idolized your every move
and worshipped the ground you walked on

But now I see the real you
I laugh because you’re so small
Your world is lived inside a box
You’re not worth the gum I step on

Back then your pedestal was out of reach
It was so hard for me to let you go
But now I overstand your petty ways
and refuse to drop below

Why oh why?

In this time where obesity is running rampant through the American society, why oh why are fast food companies still pushing these ridiculously unhealthy foods?! McDonald’s and KFC are constantly in competition with one another and it seems the stiffer the competition the more unhealthy the food! McDonald’s angus burger has 750 calories, 39 grams of fat, and 1700mg of sodium! They also have a mushroom version and a bacon version, but as with all fast food the more condiments, the higher the fat and calories
Ok so do we really need 1/3 pounds of meat?! I like my body fat and blood pressure just the way it is thank you very much!

Just absolutely disgusting! Are we trying to promote heart attack and clogged arteries? Two pieces of fried chicken? With the Bacon? Come on now!

In the other corner we have KFCs double-down chicken sandwich. There is a fried and grilled version calculated at 540 and 460 calories respectively and 10 and 9 grams of saturated fat respectively. Both sandwiches have a sodium content of over 1200 mg

Why are they pushing this stuff?! This is just death in bag or box, whichever format the food arrives in! we need to not support this trend in fast food. Yes, due to the fact that many Americans must work and do not have the time to make home-cooked meals. Fast food should help us…not kill us! Over the years the fast food industry has pushed greasier foods at larger portions and Americans literally eat it up! Changes need to be made!

Freddy’s Back!!!!

Oh yes! Oh yes! and one more time YES!!!! A nightmare on Elm Street was the BUSINESS!!! I thoroughly enjoyed that movie. Although Jackie Earle Haley was no Robert Englund, he still did not disappoint. This is how a movie should be remade! They took the old Freddy and revamped him in a way that was fresh and unique but still vintage Fred Krueger. What I really enjoyed about this movie was that it was a flash back to old school horror/slasher movies. It wasn’t like these new-age scary movies where you have a bunch of naked, overly sexed teens romping around without any morals. There wasn’t so much as a boob shot in this movie. This movie held it’s own on the grounds of a strong plot, fairly decent acting and great slasher scenes.

This movie did have some new additions and deeper explanations than the original, which helped to pull the viewer in more. Old school Freddy Krueger lovers get a treat because we get to actually see how twisted and sick Freddy’s mind was. The younger generation will love how the plot unfolds to reveal the twisted mind of a psychopath. The movie also paid it’s respects to the original by having classic Freddy scenes…I know I would definitely have been disappointed if the scene where the girl gets killed in her sleep right in front of her boyfriend would have been left out. That scene was a classic in the 1984 A Nightmare on Elm Street However I was hoping to see the creepy girl in the hall say “Hey, Nancy…no running in the hallway” That part freaked me out as a child because my elementary school hallways were just like that one and after seeing that movie, I was terrified to roam the halls alone.

All in all I think the cast did a great job! This movie was fantastically done and Jackie Earle Haley was great and right on point with his witty remarks and crude humor. This movie is definitely a must see and I hope they do a part two! This was an updated tribute to a classic horror series…FREDDY’S BACK!!!!