Citizens get justice themselves

A peaceful Alabama family's house was robbed the other day, where Christmas gifts were stolen from right under their Christmas tree.  The same burglars then went to a neighbors house and broke into their house as well a few days later, which is where they got video of the criminals.  Most people would call the police and have the law enforcement deal with the problem.  Not this Alabama family... when the husband and wife found out the whereabouts of the thief's.  They quickly got in their car and gave the burglars a little visit.  The family held the guilty thief's at gun point for a half an hour until police arrived at the scene.  It is great to see that people are taking the law into their own hands and at the same time aren't doing anything drastically.  These thief's deserve whatever punishment that will come to them, stealing little children's Christmas gifts from under their own tree is an all time low.  I think that it is great that this family took the responsibility and took matters into their own hands in order to deal with the problem without any mishaps.  This saves police time to deal with other crimes that are much worse.  This is what I would call personal justice.

Terrorist are in our own backyards

Since 2013 there has been about 20 "American" citizens that have been trying to support or join Islamic terrorist states.  Federal law enforcement is dealing with one of these American terrorist at least once every week.  Lots of these members live in the United States or have legal residency.  This makes them stay under the radar and very hard for law enforcement to catch.  These "American" terrorist are very dangerous and are a very big threat to our Nation.  Its very difficult to track down these men considering they don't have credit cards and use pre paid cell phones which the police and other law enforcement cannot track.  They are trying their best to make sure that these men are put away, in order to keep our great country safe and secure.

Newtown families have had enough of guns

Nine families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, that happened back in 2012 are now suing the manufacturer of the weapon that was used during the shooting.  In the morning of Dec. 14, 2012 a man named Adam Lanza shot and killed his mother, then drove to the Sandy Hook school where he shot 20 children and six educators/teachers.  When police arrive Lanza then shot and killed himself.  The nine suing are saying that the weapon the Lanza used should not be in the peoples hands because it was designed for military use.  They say that it is not suitable for hunting or home defense so therefore it is pointless to be able to own in the civilian world. 

The kettle thief

In Gulfport, Mississippi police are looking for a thief that pushed a salvation army bell ringer that was working her post at a grocery store, and ran off with the kettle.  Micelle Pope was the bell ringer that was volunteering to make money for the Salvation Army.  The money that people generously drop in the little kettles goes to help out families for the Holidays and also to buy Christmas gifts for children.  Salvation Army Maj. Gary Sturdivant says that each kettle station makes about $150-$300 each shift.  In his thirty years he has never had this problem before.  Police are looking for the thief now, they have video of the person that is responsible.  I'm sure the police will find this man and will be thrown in jail for what he has done.

The government controls what I eat

A new bill that was passed by congress on December 9 now doesn't allow schools to opt out of healthier school meal standards started by first lady Michelle Obama.  School directors have been trying to ease the standards that have been passed by saying the whole grain food is more expensive, harder to prepare, and that kids don't like the meals.  Another standard that is talked about in the bill is lowering the sodium in school lunches and meals.  A member of the American Heart Association CEO Nancy Brown said in an interview, 

"If Congress hits the pause button now on the sodium reduction, it's possible that more children could develop high blood pressure and be at risk for heart disease or stroke before they even become adults,"

Republicans have been fighting the bill saying that it is an going to far and overreaching the governments limit.  They argue that the bill will be to costly in the future and that kids will just end up throwing the food away. 

As a student that gets the school lunch I can honestly say that most students just end up throwing away the pieces of food that they don't like or end up not eating at all.  Certain items that they serve in the cafeteria for lunch are even a little to gross for me to eat, and I will eat anything... I think that it is absurd that the government is trying to control what I eat and what goes into MY body.  I am a athlete and in excellent shape so if I want to eat junk food I will.  Maybe instead of controlling and making students eat bad tasting food, maybe they should force them to play a school sport and get some activity.  That will solve all the problems.

Playing hide and seek

For the past while the United states has been playing a game of hide and seek with  ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.  Finding and killing this man would be a very big accomplishment for the United States military.  Killing ISIS's leader would cause dramatic damage toward the terror group.  It would also dismantle a group like ISIS.  You can kill as many of their ground soldiers as you want but until you start knocking off leaders the group will still continue to cause terror.  If The United States were able to find this man, I believe that ISIS would slowly fall and no longer exist.

Big headache

Studies have recently showed that high school football players can have significant brain damage after playing just a single season.  The crazy thing is that kids can have brain injuries without having any symptoms of concussions.  These injuries are not visible to the naked eye so they are very hard to detect.  Studies have also observed that about two thirds of head injuries occur during practices rather than games.  This could happen because the lack of athletic trainers that are present during practices.  Athletic trainers are trained to pick out athletes that might have signs or symptoms of concussions or other injuries.  Practices also seem to be more physical and longer than the typical football game that occurs once a week.  Coming from a current high school football player I have noticed that practices are usually more tough on the players than games.  We do drills after drills and wee keep doing them till we get them right.  Many of these football drills involve full on contact with another player multiple times.