Christmas Time

Do you want to hear a Christmas joke? No? I'll tell you anyway.

If sports players get athlete's foot, what do elves get???

Answer: Mistle Toes!!!

Now, didn't that put you in a much better mood? This is from the Christmas app I have on my phone, and I love it!

Christmas music is the best part of Christmas. I have it on replay on iTunes, and it is all that is joyful. Not really, but that sounds dramatic. My favorite song is Last Christmas by Wham. What's yours?

Final Two Weeks

These next two weeks are going to be the hardest of my entire life. Almost all of my classes have at least two more tests to go, including the finals. Plus, we have busy work, busy work, busy work. For APUS I have to find time to read a book, and write a review thing for it as well as everything else. I have absolutely no idea how I'm going to finish everything. Five of my classes have so much work, so I am so grateful for the easier classes. I'm at the point where I'm picking and choosing what to study for. If I have a 90% I study for that class; if I have a 95% I don't study for that class. I hate that school has finally come to that. All I want to do is sit and watch a Christmas movie, but I can't! The last day of school, I am going to a friend's house. I haven't seen this friend in literally months because of school. So... I'm excited for Christmas. A lot.

Free Speech Does Not Mean Free Insolence

This week in the language arts honors classes, we have started our debate unit. Specifically, whether or not an ammendment should be added to the constitution prohibiting the burning of our American flag. The answer to this question is yes.The American flag represents everything that our country stands for: past, present, and future. Defacing this national symbol not only slams the country as it is today, but how it was intended to be as well as all of the people who have sacrificed their lives for America. Just because you disagree with what is happening in the country today, does not mean you should be allowed to destroy a symbol of the country as a whole.

Most people opposing this arguement were stating, "I don't want to burn the flag, I just want the right to."
Okay, that is a hypocritical statement within itself. You are literally agreeing that flag burning is morally wrong, yet you want to protect the right to do this? Some stated that it was a "peaceful protest." No, I'm sorry there is nothing peaceful about flag burning. People who wish to burn the flag are not peaceful people. There are many other ways to protest the government other than anhilating such an iconic symbol.

The flag represents what gave you the right to free speech in the first place. You would be burning the symbol that protects your right to free speech, in the name of free speech. A classmate informed me that  in America it used to be considered morally wrong to have an interracial marriage, therefore the flag also represents that view point if what I was saying is true. Uh no, as a country we realized the error in that way of thinking and fixed that law, ammended that law. Laws are meant to be changed and transformed and to grow with the country.

Additionally, a "snowball effect" was proposed to happen, claiming that if we prohibit this what else will the government ban. That arguement goes both ways, if we allow flag burning what else will we allow? People cannot have total reign to speak out in any way possible. If this were allowed, chaos would ensue and those truly against our country could cause serious harm.

If you do not have enough pride in our country to feel angered and insulted when somebody burns our national symbol, then maybe you should reflect upon yourself and consider living in a more "free" country that allows defemation of their national symbol.  Good luck finding a place that gives you as many rights that we have here and when that fails maybe you will realize that America protects freedom of speech to an extremely high level of degree.

Youtube Procastinator Problems

Maybe I'm the only one to do this, but I love watching gymnastics videos on youtube. Maybe it's because I can't even attempt a handstand, but I think that what they do is absolutely amazing!

I follow all of the olympic gold medalist team, the fierce five, on twitter, and Shawn Johnson and I talk about them all the time. Ask my mom. I make her watch all the videos. Yup. I'm that kid. Like, right this second, I'm watching Shawn Johnson in 2011 on youtube.

I never watched Dancing with Stars until she was on it. I usually just watched her dances, and then stopped because she was the best! She definitely should have won.

First Spielberg

I've heard of a ton of movies he's done. I've known about certain scenes and whatnot. But I haven't ever seen one of his movies (that I am aware of) until last night when I saw Lincoln. Lincoln was my favorite President- he made me believe in equal rights so strongly today, and the fact that i saw this movie with my dad, someone who I can share all my thoughts with, was something very big. He's not a fan of Spielberg, but he had to admit that this movie was amazing.
This movie had the perfect amount of action, drama, comic relief and seriousness of everything. Well, at least for me. As well, the actors in this movie were superb. JUST SAYIN. So yeah, I loved this movie like I haven't loved a serious movie in a while and I just wanted to say that I loved Lincoln's laugh. and his lines. and the guy that played him! I'm outta time now- I just loved the movie and I had to tell somebody!

Just a spoonful of rice helps the talapia go down!

So last night I was feeling like my mom needed to be cheered up. She's a teacher and the end of the semester can be a bit stressful for her. Off topic: I absolutely despise people who think their teachers do not have feelings. I mean, come on! They are people two! I think I have a different perspective of teacher because I have grown up with one, but high school students seem to think the world revolves around them and teachers must cater to their every whim. 
Now that I got that out of the way, beck to my story. We were eating Talapia for dinner (Which is a type of fish) and rice. I LOVE RICE. I had eaten all mine and was going to go back for more when I started humming "A spoon full of sugar" from Mary Poppins. I then proceeded to start singing it out loud. But I changed sugar to rice and medicine to Talapia. "Just a spoonful of rice helps the talapia go doooooooooowwwwnnnn!" and sang it over and over. It was an interesting dinner . . .

Not Quite Sure

I'm not positive on how this week will go... I'm not sure if I should be prepared for a ton of work, much like last week, or if this will be one relaxing week of school before the last two weeks of the semester kick my butt and irritate the heck out of me.
I have two tests this week; World History and Adv Spanish II, so hopefully those will go well. But other than that, I don't think I have a lot going on this week, thank God. Maybe this week I'll finally have time to write those journalism stories I couldn't write because I was so busy with water polo from August to late October! :D I need to write more web stories. I have to admit, sadly, I have been slacking. Gahh. Just submitted a story today though, and another one I will turn in later this week, hopefully.
Anyway, I've run out of things to say, so... Do I say bye? Thats not what people usually do on Blogs... I'll just end it like this.
Fin.