Let me start by saying I am a student at Virginia Tech on my way to a degree in mechanical engineering. I have not been on this site in a while due mainly to the events last week which I am sure most of you have heard about. In light of the tragedy we have been forced to undergo, I have a lot to say. Let me first start with my story.
I was recently looking at one of the posts that proposed changing the point systems and everything for this contest and I came up with a few ideas about how to keep comments on target and not completly random.
Since when was it a bad idea to teach abstinence in schools? Isn't it the responsibility of the school to better it's students and to keep them out of trouble? I recently read an article in the Washington Post that seems rather troubling to me. The article was titled "Christian Sex-Ed Lesson Criticized"
Illegal immigrants have recently fallen under even harder times since the government has begun to crack down on them. Raids on companies that are employing illegal immigrants have been more common of late, and many of these families are being torn apart. This really isn't anything new, but the issue here is that of the children of these immigrants who were born on American soil.
On April 1, 2007 (THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE), a 33 year old mother in Taylor, Michigan was charged with prostituting her 7 year old daughter. Police ran a sting operation during which she offered an investigator to take nude pictures of her young daughter for free and attempted to negotiate a price for sleeping with the girl.
Currently, music that retailers are given to make available to the public is full of what they call Digital Rights Management (DMR). DMR is the stuff on music downloads that attempts to curb piracy by making it difficult to transfer music to another computer or burn copies of music onto cd's.
Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the house, recently stated that bilingual education with the "language of the ghetto." Gingrich was opposing the vote for ballots to be printed in multiple languages. He claims that English should be the national language and that bilingual education programs should be removed from schools so that students can be assimilated into the English language.
A Homeowner's group in Largo, Florida has come together to sue Judie and Jimmy Stottler because of their 3-year old granddaughter who is living with them. The community bans residents under the age of 18 and the Stottler's admit to signing a contract to that effect. Their granddaughter, Kimberly Boffman, has been living with them against their contract for three years.
