Blog Five

I was appauled to read this article in the newspaper this morning... when i read it my jaw dropped.
A driver was accused of dragging a trooper. A Robbinsdale man, who has been convicted six times of drunken driving and aressted very many times while intoxicated, stays in jail after he is accused of dragging a trooper about fifty feet while trying to get away. His name is Derek Alan Thompson and he's thirty six years old. He was charged with felony first-degree drunken driving and fleeing an officer. He was also charged with fourth-degree felony assault which was filed in Hennepin County District Court. Since his first conviction of driving drunk, he's had eleven other convictions, including fleeing a police officer, having no driver's license, careless driving and refusing to take a chemical test. Now here's the most recent story, apparently a state trooper stopped to help him because Derek seemed to be stranded. His jeep hood was up and Thompson claims he was trying to figure out why his car stalled but eventually got it to start. Dan Dixon, trooper, noticed Thompson was having trouble keeping his balance, his eyes were watery and his sppech was slurred. Thompson refused to take a field sobriety test but agreeed to take a breath test and had a blood-alcohol level of 0.237 percent, when the legal limit is 0.08, Yikes!!! That is very high. Then, when Dixon put his under arrest he punched the trooper and ran back to his Jeep. The officer tried to taser his, but failed so he reached into the car and was dragged 40-50 feet. Eventually he was caught by many squad cars after he crashed into a fence. How can you do this so many times and not understand that it is dangerous, dumb, and clearly insane. Thompson should've understood the first time he got a DWI conviction that it was not a good thing, and to not do it again. Lesson here is to think before you act and learn from YOUR mistakes.

blog four

There is this one book that I have always wanted to read that just sits on my lamp post every night called, Just Listen. So since we are blogging, I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to start it.

So far, so good. It is about a girl named Annabel Greene who has everything. Well at least that is how she comes off as and how people know her.. she is a model, popular cheerleader, top student, and prom queen with lots of friends. In reality though, she has nothing. When she got in a huge fight with her friend Sophie, she doesn't have a best friend anymore, and there is no peace what so ever at home. Her older sister has an eating disorder and that pretty much preoccupies the family's time. Annabel doesn't have anyone to let her feelings out, or to tell what's on her mind. At Annabel's school there is always lots of drama and rumors always flying around... I feel bad for her because everyone thinks she has everything, but really has nothing. That just says that you should never make fun of or be mean to anyone, because you never know what their life is like back home.

blog three

I was reading the outdoors section of the star tribune and noticed some people wearing bright, neon orange outfits. I read it because my dad and brother hunt, so I became interested. Since the law in Minnesota has changed and now ten and eleven year olds can hunt, a little boy, named Nick Dryer joined his dad and thirteen year old brother's hunting group. Their group had hunted together for the past thirty years and Nick had always wanted to hunt with them from age five. Nick and his family are from Victoria and hunt near Brainerd. (Which is right by my cabin!) Anyways, Nick shot this eight-point, 200-pound buck on the opening morning. He took only ONE shot from his 270-caliber rifle, and this was the biggest buck the group had ever seen! "It was a pretty exciting experience for all of us", said his dad. I think this is incredible, especially because I have never heard or seen a buck that large, and also this boy, Nick, is only eleven years old... quite frankly in my opinion that is a very young age to be hunting.
"FIRST TIME IS A CHARM, apparently."

blog 2

To tell the truth, whenever i open up the newspaper, all i see and read about is our new president OBAMA. i am not going to lie, but i am getting somewhat annoyed. Not because I don't care about our country's leader but because that's all ive been hearing about. I guess i will write my blog today about what i did read on our new president, however i was pretty interested in this article...
Barak Obama's father apparently was born in central Kisumu, kenya (which i did not know) and when Obama visited south africa he seemed to be very popular. Many africans are conviced that Obama's victory is going to put them into the world's spotlight. The question the article states though is, "Will a president who inherits two wars and a deepening global recession really usher in an era of hope for the world's poorest continent?" some think that there will be a tremendous change economically, socially and politically.
all i want to say is that just because a black man is the president of the US shouldn't mean that it will now solve the solutions to all the blacks around the world. as Nigerian sen. iyabo obasanjo bello recalls, "we are putting too much hope and expectations on one man to save the black race."

blog 1

I read a article in the newspaper about fireworks. "At fireworks shed, pops, then booms, 'like a cannon'.
An explosion at a firework manufacturing building in a rural Dodge county, a man was seriously burned. This was twelve years after another explosion occurred in a firework factory he owned that killed a woman. Harrison Freeman, seventy-two years old, was taken by a helicopter to the burn unit at Regions Hospital in St. Paul. He was in critical condition and the only person in the fireworks building. Neighbors did not realize what happened because they were used to hearing crackling noises and loud sounds coming from the shed in Ripley Township, about fifteen miles from Owatonna. Freeman's next door neighbor, Sid Schroeder, heard the loud bangs and booms and her husband, Kerry, was outside getting ready to go hunting when the explosion blew him right off his feet. Freeman turned out to be fine.