Christmas party

I love Christmas. I am going to a gift exchange at my friends house this Friday. I hope it will be fun, her mom is making us pizza! If you don't like pizza then you might wanna get a taste bud transplant. It is one of the 7 wonders of the world. I got everyone presents, and hopefully their presents to me will be as good as mine to them. I don't really like eggnog, its not very delicious...lol. My dad drinks it with a little rum in it. Now i bet that would be good! nah i'm just playing. I hope everyone gets presents this season...unless you deserve coal...(Sarah&Tori)...


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Christmas Break!

I think its about 6 more days until winter break. I am so excited. I need a break soo bad. I will upload a lot more stuff over break when i have more time. Lately i haven't had a lot of time to post. I'mmm sorryyyy. lol

Randomness

Hello everyone who reads or follows my blog(Sarah)...I am simply uploading this because i felt the sudden urge to do so. It is the weekend after thanksgiving and i wish the holiday could go on forever. I love turkey and stuffing and food in general. It is the one time of year where you can eat your wait in whatever you can get your hands on and nobody will think poorly of you. I just recently got a haircut, so that means that my blog profile picture is no longer accurate. Looking forward to Christmas and hopefully there will be lots of snow. I want so much snow that you cant even walk down the street without drowning...have a nice day.

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Calvin Coolidge

            Calvin Coolidge was our 30^th president of the US. Calvin was born in Plymouth, Vermont, on July 4, 1872. Plymouth was a community of farmers who were very self-sufficient. Plymouth was small and simple, Calvin thought of it as a clean place to live. He was the son of a village storekeeper/farmer. Being the son of a farmer, Calvin quickly learned how to do outdoor chores to help keep the farm up and running. Coolidge valued what school time he received. He graduated Amherst College with full honors. He entered politics and law in Northampton, Massachusetts, and as many other politicians he began to move up the official ladder, starting as a councilman then moved up to governor of Massachusetts. Calvin was known as a man of his word, an honest man with good morals. When he attended the Black River Academy at the age of 13, he had to walk miles home every day after class was over. He was most popular in 1924; his campaign was known as “Coolidge prosperity”.

 He went from the Black River Academy to Amherst College, then to move to Massachusetts to become the governor. Calvin had a lot of coaching by his father on how to become successful in life. Calvin was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and the Republican club. In 1905 Calvin met and married a woman by the name of Grace Anna Goodhue who was a teacher at the Clarke School for the Deaf. They were married on October 4, 1905, in Grace’s parents’ house in Burlington, Vermont. They had two sons together, John who was born in 1906 and Calvin Jr. in 1908. As Coolidge wrote in one of his Autobiographies “I thought we were made for each other”. While Calvin was the governor of Massachusetts, he faced a strike by the police of the city of Boston. He stood firm and said that you would never have the right to strike against public safety for any reason. Around 1897 he then opened a law office and began participating in local republican politics in Northampton.

Calvin soon became the governor of Massachusetts; it was a narrow victory over democrat Richard H. Long. He quickly won the attention of the nation when he called upon the National Guard to break a strike by Boston city police. He supported a cost-of-living pay increase for public employees, Limited the workweek for women and children to 48 hours, and placed outdoor advertisement limits. Many think that his most important feat was reconstructing and consolidating the state government. On his way to the white house, he went to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois but he only got 34 votes on the first ballot. When Coolidge’s name was entered into nomination, a flood of delegates put him right on the ticket.

Although many people liked Calvin, the great depression that started in 1929 damaged his reputation and how he appeared in the public spotlight. Most of the public linked the economic downfall of the U.S. to policies made by Calvin. Coolidge’s foreign policy was also up for questioning, because it became clear that his signature achievements were the Dawes plan and the Kellogg-Briand Pact.         

Thanksgiving

I <3 it...

Math & Other School Subjects

               I have a difficult time paying attention in math class because i just don't know how i will apply the skills that i learn in that class to real life situations. I can understand learning simple math like addition, subtraction, division, and finding the perimeter of things. That stuff could be useful in many situations. As for other things like Pythagorean theorem are just a complete waste of time.
               As a very wise man once said "that stuff is only useful if you are going to be a math teacher". You have to see where i am coming from, i mean would you want to sit through an hour and a half of a subject that you knew that you would never use again? Pythagorean theorem is not the only thing that i can think of as being unimportant, it was just the first thing that came to mind. I think it is just sad that everyone in today's education system has to learn the same things.

Christmas Ski Trip?

I am so excited. Hopefully i will be able to stay on my feet.

Track 2011

So...the new track season is coming up, and i just got back from my sports physical and it went very well. I hope i have improved as an athlete, (last year i wasn't the fastest) i still do my best. I cant wait for the up coming season. Anyone who views this article has either been on a track team before and knows what its like or just likes reading random posts by me. Either way i thank you, any followers and views are helpful. I am going to start to upload COD videos on my YouTube channel, and also some air rifle scope reviews and maybe some air soft. I will leave the link to my channel below...

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Snowshoe 2011

I can't wait to go to snowshoe. Hopefully i will be able to make it down the slope without falling, should be fun. I will take lots of pictures and maybe some vids.

U.S. Troops Current Event

My current event is the troops in Iraq requesting legal immunity in order for them to stay in battle through the end of the year. They will not stay if they do not have legal immunity from prosecution.  Mike Mullen and other U.S. officials would like the troops to stay in Iraq past their original December 31 departure date. Washington has offered to let up to 10,000 U.S. troops stay in Iraq and continue training Iraqi forces on tanks, fighter jets, and other equipment.

 Right now there are around 46,000 U.S. troops and are staging there departure. They want to make sure that they have legal immunity if they stay in Iraq any longer past their original departure date. They will come home as scheduled if the request for immunity is denied. Most U.S. troops are still very unpopular among the Iraqis because they are tired of eight straight years of war. Iraq is unable to provide for its own air sovereignty. That is one of the reasons the U.S. troops are still over there training them with our weapons and tactics. If you ask me it’s simply because “we da best”.    

Texas Wild Fires

This current event is on the many high risk wild fires that are ripping through the state of Texas. There are about five different fires that each has covered about three hundred acres. The Texas forest service said that it has responded to one hundred and eighty one different fires that have all together burned over one hundred and eighteen thousand four hundred acres of land. The fires have killed two people and over seven hundred homes since Sunday. The largest fire that is near Austin has spread over thirty thousand acres alone. This Tuesday marks the two hundred and ninety fourth consecutive day of fires in Texas. Over two thousand firefighters are working to stop the spread of the fires all over Texas. More than one thousand homes have been burnt down since fire season began in November. So far in 2011 seven point two million acres of grass, scrub, and forest have been burned in wildfires nationwide. Of those seven point two million acres three point five million of them were in Texas. While most of the damage has been to homes and other structures, a fire near Gladewater, Texas killed a women and her eighteen month old baby when the flames engulfed their house. Firefighters are using all the resources they have, any volunteer firefighters that are able to help are helping. Pray for the families that have to be evacuated due to the fires.          

Marine receives Medal of Honor at White House

Marine receives Medal of Honor at White House

American marine (Dakota Meyer) went far into enemy territory with his small group of men. It was a village, suddenly all of the lights go out, and then he could hear noises that sounded like the valley had exploded. Him and his group had requested to go into the village four times, all four times they had been denied. Dakota finally realized what he needed to do, his right hand man got inside the hum-v and Dakota manned the machine gun up on top. They were driving right into a kill zone; their objective was to retrieve some trapped Americans. He and his team went into the village five times to save the lives are our Americans. Dakota said: “I did not think I was going to die, I knew I was going to”.

Even though he had defied the orders of his commanding officer, he is still recognized for his valiant efforts in Afghanistan. When Obama had called him he was at his civilian job as a construction worker, Dakota said that he was unavailable the first time because he could not miss work because that meant that he would not be making money. The meeting had to be scheduled on his lunch break.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/09/15/marine.medal.of.honor/index.html?hpt=us_c2      

Apple iPhone 4gs or iPhone 5

Apple iPhone 4gs or iPhone 5

Apple will unveil the next generation iPhone at an event on Tuesday, October 4. The phone will be available to customers within a few weeks of the unveiling. There is still some speculation to whether the phone will be called 4S or 5. A version of the new phone was reportedly found in a San Francisco bar. It was a brand new prototype, had not even been released yet. It was sold by the man who found it on eBay for 5,000. Him and the person he sold it to, now face two years in jail and a very large fine. Apple has recently gotten a new CEO, his name is Tim Cook. Steve Jobs left the CEO position on medical leave. Cook will also be handling a majority of the announcements about the release of the new phone. Steve Jobs has been diagnosed with a very rare form of pancreatic cancer. It doesn’t get much to get the tech world to buzz about a new product. There is a lot of speculation about what the iPhone five will look like, how fast it will be and the color options available. There are still very little facts known about the phone. Apple is notorious for hiding the secrets about their new releases. They have done a pretty good job of keeping this one under wraps. Some say that it will just be an improved version of the iPhone 4 and others say that it will be a whole new breed of apple phones. There is even a rumor going around the tech world of the possibility of it being a slide out keyboard phone.