That makes sense... I never really thought of it that way but I guess some people have to do what they have to do. But I dont think that someone should change who they are just so they can be accepted in the world. What if they dont have the money then that would be really rough...

marriage

As weird as it sounds, I think it makes sense why this person chose this. Put yourself in their shoes, if you wanted to be married, and the 'one' just happens to be a girl, the only way to make that possible is to get a 'sex change' and after all that, the couple wants to have a baby. If you think about it, its not all that odd, because 1) most couples want to get married, if you found your special 'one' wouldn't you want to do anything you could to be married? Also, most couples want to reproduce, homosexual couples or heterosexual couples, they're still a couple. If you really think about it its not that odd.

He or she is still a girl... when you are born a women you are a women no matter how much you want to try and change yourself. B96 was talking about that this morning on the radio. Bailey is right she is legally a guy in the united states but she is still a girl no matter what so she can get pregnant. You can't just make a girl a guy it can't be done

The issue of gay marriage isn't a part of this pregnant guy's story because he was born a woman, but he legally changed his sexual status to a man. Once he did that he was no longer recognized as a female on any government issued ID like his birth certificate, passport, or driver's license and so he got married to a woman. The only thing that I can't understand is why he would want to be pregnant if he did not feel right being a female before he legally became a man.

the man who is pregnant

So on oprah the other day, she had a guest come on that was born a woman, but had a recent sex-change. That wasn't all that was discussed on the show, it turns out that the man was pregnant. This was not one of those rumors going around the internet..... also, she was legally married to a woman not too long ago. What i don't understand is why gay marriage is not legal but if technically he was a woman, that he got to get married to another woman?

Georgia students

Wow, that is some serious messed up stuff right there! I agree with Liz a lot with this. Especially with the fact that these kids need a serious ass-whooping. And that got me to thinking maybe how these things are happening with younger kids now.

Recently society has become extremely PC. I'm sure all of you, if not more than half, got spanked or something to that nature when you were younger. And I am completely all for spankings. But within in the past 5 years or so, these shows like "Supernanny" or "Nanny 911" have said that it is absolutely wrong and unethical to hit your kids if they do something wrong.
I think our generation is the last to have a majority of kids who were spanked.

If the parents are hitting them when it's unnecessary, then yeah, it's wrong. Jeez. I go to the store and see kids throwing themselves on the ground and screaming cause they want something. And most of the time the parents give in a buy it! If I ever did something like that in public I would get the beating of a lifetime.... and that doesn't upset me at all, if I'm gonna act obnoxious, and reasoning doesn't work (it barely ever works on children), then yes, you need to open up a can of whoop-ass.

I guess it has a different effect on everyone, but nowadays if a parent was seen spanking a kid in public they'd get DCFS called on them and get sent to jail for child abuse... and it's totally ridiculous.

These kids need to be taught lessons! If I ever acted up my parents would threaten to send me to boot camp. They'd show me a Sally Jesse episode where bad kids were sent to boot camp and it set me straight.

je-freaking-sus beth. does your fingers cramp from typing so much? LOL loooove ya.

anyways.. i loove csi (las vegas). and i do admit that the kids could've totally got all those ideas from watching that. but since when are little kinds so cynical? i'm not gonna lie, hearing that makes me kinda scared of little kids now and what they're capable of.

PROM FASHION SHOW TOMORROW, NIGEL BARKERRRRRRR. =D hey, at least its friday tomorrow, ok?

Georgia Students

Alright, this whole young children with attempted murder completely freaks me out! I don't know about anyone else, but in third grade I was dreaming about playing hide-n-seek and playing with Barbies. Where is our society headed? What kind of parents do these kids have?? One of my biggest pet peeves is watching bad parenting happen. It's almost as if I can't even do anything about it, when I want to yell in their face. This is one of the worst cases yet. Do these parents realize what's happening? In third grade, all those nasty thought stem from their parents. The students are only imitating their biggest role models. At this young, kids practically worship their parents. It's still OK to hug your mom. Wouldn't you notice if you're kid was taking a knife to school? Also, the fact that the kids know all these procedures and how to get away with this crime, that's just crazy! what kid of kids are they? Special Ed. or not, third graders should NOT be thinking about things such as this. Maybe ,the theory about mind destroying video games is true. Did these kids play too many video games? Is there a way to save societies future??

side note: I might just miss writing these BLOGS...ahhh did i really say that?

NOt gonna lie, as much as i HAtE HATE HATE HATE doing this blog a couple times a week to make sure I don’t have to take finals....I am gonna miss talkin on the blog. Not like as an assignment, but as a way to connect with our class. We don't always get to hear everyone’s view point or options on important topics or just random crap, but on this blog everyone has a chance to speak their minds however they want. It is interesting to see where everyone is coming from and I think we have all gained a greater respect from each other because of that. And as cheesy as it sounds I feel like it has brought our class together more as a family. These blogs make us put ourselves out there on the table for anyone of us to judge. And I think it is a wonderful idea Mr. Spoor. Ok I’m done being lame now.

Peace...

My thoughts on the Georgia Kidds

OK sooo I think these Georgia kids are watching way too much CSI. I mean seriously know. If you see what they all brought to school, it is intense! They even assigned jobs. Like someone was to cover all the windows with paper, there’s a CSI tactic right there, because if no one saw the crime how could it be them right? (Granted I’m sure they police would have figured out that the kids were the only ones in the room when the crime was committed, but in their heads they probably thought they were in the clear). Or how about the fact that they brought little fuzzy gloves so as not to leave figure prints, and assigned someone to clean up the mess. See, they even out smarted the TV show because in CSI the detectives always find a trace of a print or a fiber, but these kids, nope they thought out of the box on this one lol. Ok so I shouldn’t laugh, but come on, like are we serious! Is our society honestly that F*cked up where little 3 foot kids are turning into monsters we have to fear!! And the problem is there is nothing the justice system can really do! They are too young to be sentenced to life in jail, yes I get that, but they should be sent away to some hardcore boot camp and get some reality smacked into their heads. I think one thing that pissed me off the most was when reading one of the articles about the kids planning an attack against their teacher is that professionals were saying they doubted the children could have actually carried out the attack. UMM HELLLLO dumbasses, anyone at any size given enough of those kids with the right weapons and right force could have taken any adult down. Just because they are between the ages of 8 and 10 doesn’t mean anything. If every single one of those kids wanted in on the attack, together they all could have done some serious damage to the poor teacher. Another that really pissed me off and just proved how dumb people are is that professionals were saying that the children probably didn’t mean harm or wouldn’t have intended to kill the teacher. That they probably thought of it almost like a cartoon and that the teacher would just stand up when they were done. UMM WHAT!?!?!? I don’t think so and because they were children who had some learning disabilities and were a little troubled so I’m sure everyone is going to be playing that card in this kids defense. But it’s so bull. I mean come one, just because these kids needed to read “See Spot Run” a year longer then the rest of us doesn’t mean they didn’t know what they were doing. They deliberately planned it. They knew they were going to hurt her or even kill her. I mean if it was so much of a cartoon or if they thought it was so fake then why did they feel the need to cover the windows, why would they need gloves, why would they need to clean it up or cuff her down. If you are able to come up with a well thought out plane, then yeah there has to be something loose in your head, but you are obviously not incompetent.
All I have to say is, thank the lord the teacher is ok, but these kids need some serious hard core, ass whooping boot camp to go to for a year. And we need to start thinking what are we doing every day in our life that is effecting our society in such a negative way. 20 years ago this was never a problem, but within the last 10 years something happened that completely switch our society, our views points and our values and it is only getting worse. We have no one but ourselves to blame.

Karma

Awww Scotty that was so sweet of you. Even if it was $3 lol. Hopefully it wasn’t some scam to get drug money, but then again if it was he probably would laughed at your $3.
I totally get what you mean through about karma, I completely believe in what goes around comes around and I don’t think it is necessarily a religious thing. I just think it has to do with the energy you give off. I see it as the world being a huge mirror and by doing something good, no matter how big or small it will reflect back to you. So by giving off the good energy by helping someone else out, that positive energy is reflected back towards you. OK yeah I just realized how weird that might sound but it makes sense in my head. But maybe it’s a mixture of both. My mom and I always kid around that my grandma had connections up there (with the “lord” or whomever you think it is), because whenever we visit her and help her out as far as giving her showers, rolling up her hair, doing her laundry or whatever the case might be, she always says a pray in our name that night. And then the next day my mom’s knee might act up or it might be raining out but when we leave to go shopping we will find a parking spot right by the entrance so she doesn’t have to walk far. Or like recently, I got 50% off my prom dress that was a really expressive dress because the store was having a one day only sale which I just happened to stumble in and try on dresses randomly. Or like the day my family and I were moving my brother into NIU and he was driving behind us with his friend Tom in Tom’s car and a part on his car fell off while we were on the expressway and so we pulled over and within 5mins an expressway help truck pulled be side us, blocked cars from getting close to us and fixed the car, which was funny because my family and I are always on the expressway and have never once seen one of those maintenance trucks that are there to help you when you have car problems. So even little, simple things like that I see as karma. And maybe it is something higher that helps us out when we help others, maybe it’s just luck.

tesst

Yeah that test the other day was kind of tricky if you didn’t study. I only wish I had been there to play the review game because everything would have been sooooo much easier. But I have to say, with that one probably being one of the easier test it was nice that he let us do test corrections. Some of my friends from class went over what you are talked about during the review game and that helped me through my test corrections immensely. But yeah defiantly was a major bummer that we had spring break and then a huge test and then quarter ends. The distract is so dumb, like why do we end quarters after winter break and then spring break. Don’t they think GPAs would be so much higher if the endings were before a large break? UM YEAH!!! THEY WOULD!!! DUHH!!!. Even if that meant starting school a week sooner then we usually do or spring break being a week later then so be it. I’d rather have the better grades anyways.
And yes I also agree with everyone else that the only class I am really worried about getting through is Spoors and one other. Everything else is smooth sailing. And I really hope I don’t have to take the Final. I think I’m kind of up to date with this Blog thing. Bu I don’t know. It’s hard to keep tract. And for the longest time I totally thought he had said he wasn’t counting the new weeks until Mondays, not Sundays anymore because that gave us time over the weekend to complete the blogs, but I was wrong? I don’t know. Well If I am wrong then I just might have to take the final now which would suck because if I’m already not doing well in this class and I have all my work turned in then the final will just kill me grade. And I really really really want to graduate and take some time over the summer to get better! lol

tesst

Yeah that test the other day was kind of tricky if you didn’t study. I only wish I had been there to play the review game because everything would have been sooooo much easier. But I have to say, with that one probably being one of the easier test it was nice that he let us do test corrections. Some of my friends from class went over what you are talked about during the review game and that helped me through my test corrections immensely. But yeah defiantly was a major bummer that we had spring break and then a huge test and then quarter ends. The distract is so dumb, like why do we end quarters after winter break and then spring break. Don’t they think GPAs would be so much higher if the endings were before a large break? UM YEAH!!! THEY WOULD!!! DUHH!!!. Even if that meant starting school a week sooner then we usually do or spring break being a week later then so be it. I’d rather have the better grades anyways.
And yes I also agree with everyone else that the only class I am really worried about getting through is Spoors and one other. Everything else is smooth sailing. And I really hope I don’t have to take the Final. I think I’m kind of up to date with this Blog thing. Bu I don’t know. It’s hard to keep tract. And for the longest time I totally thought he had said he wasn’t counting the new weeks until Mondays, not Sundays anymore because that gave us time over the weekend to complete the blogs, but I was wrong? I don’t know. Well If I am wrong then I just might have to take the final now which would suck because if I’m already not doing well in this class and I have all my work turned in then the final will just kill me grade. And I really really really want to graduate and take some time over the summer to get better! lol

The Nitti Beat's LAST Post

OK, i'll admit that when i was a young kid i joked about getting rid of my teachers, but never was it more than a joke. i don't think we should see this as positive or negative, but as how parents are teaching their kids. What ever happened to kids and teens respecting their elders and doing things the way their parents would want them to. Me personaly, I blame it 20%-25% on the parents and 75%-80% on the school system. I understand that education is one of the most important things in life, but I think that the pressure on the students could be lesseded. Why is it that if you get one bad grade on one test that could set you back to the point of not getting into the collage you want to get into. All i'm saying is, if you want to get to the root of the problem, look where it started. If the students weren't so stressed, yes i know their 9 yrs old, they wouldn't have plotted this murdur. Anyway, what do you guys think about the NFL rejecting the "Hester Rule".

What is going on in this world...seriously-now children are plotting to murder their teacher. This scares me to think that someone so young could do something so horrible. It angers me that these kids had the mind set to go through with something like this. I do somewhat blame it on TV and video games because video games can be so violent and who knows maybe it is effecting the child psychologically, but then i wonder why it effects some kids and not others, why are some kids at this age even thiking about murder...when they are suppost to be playing baseball and other stuff not plotting a murder.

i tihnk that the worst part about all of this is that fact that little kids are so impressionable. They're obviously getting the ideas from TV shows and movies and maybe even the news. When i was that old i was allowed to watch PG13 movies and even R but when i look back at movies that were rated PG13 them and ones that are rated PG13 now, there's a huge difference. i guess it was only a matter of time before little kids were getting to idea that these things are ok. but whose giving these kids the time to plot against their teacher? shouldn't they be learning or playing tag on the play ground? this isn't going to be the first and last time that this happens either. i just think its really sad that now the elementary schools are becoming unsafe and thier innocence just for being young is being taken away from them so quickly.

I thought the beginning of the test was easy, but it was kind of difficult to remember the representatives near the end.

I heard about the third graders who planned on killing their teacher and I think it is beyond ridiculous. Part of their plan consisted of having a kid tape paper over the windows so no one would see what they were doing, and they also had kids to clean up after them…this is so sick…they are nine years old! How did these kids get this horrible idea?

Shannon's Post

Am I the only one that thought the test was one of Spoor's easiest? For once, we actually went over specifically what was on the test, unlike last semester's final.

Anyways. Did anyone here about the third grade class in Georgia that developed a well thought out plan to stab their teacher?

"11 of the 12 children in the special education class at Center Elementary School in Waycross, Georgia, made detailed plans to kill their teacher and each of the eleven 3rd-graders had an assigned specific task to perform during and after the plotted murder, one of the children was even assigned cleaning the blood after the teacher's death. "

I find that so ridiculous to believe. Police confiscated a crystal paper weight, a knife, and handcuffs from the children. They're not quite sure how to properly punish the students since they're too young to be sent to a correction center..

Obviously something in our society needs to change. Although like Spoor said way back, we need to figure out what's happening to our boys... two girls were the ones who brought in the paper weight and the knife. Maybe what has been causing the boys to turn violent is now also affecting the girls? Point is, where can we find an end to all of this violence?

article: http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=4577231&page=1

The Nitti Beat's Post

So, that test sucked. I'll agree that the first two pages were relatively easy, but the rest had to have been the hardest test I have ever taken. Nothing against spoor, but that test was asking way to much of us right after spring break. I am glad however that he did give us the extra day to prepare, but I still don't think that it was enough time. For next year's students I propose that the quarter ends before spring break so that you start out with a fresh slate and you have the rest of 4th quarter to make up any mulligan that you may have. I think by moving spring break back one week that it will improve the GPA of the entire district, not just the school.

The Nitti Beat's Post

I think I did well on the test today. It wasn't that hard, at least the first two pages because those were the questions from the game but the other questions were from tests or quizes we took. Janny, I'm still doing paperwork and stuff like that for college too but I'm almost done...I'm just still not sure if I want to go to the college I'm planning on going to..ugh

eh.. the test was ok. i didnt know every question, but i think i did pretty well. anyways.. is anyone else sick of doing college stuff? like fafsa, and filling out forms, and blah blah blah.. its getting old. i just wanna fricken go to college already. so much paperwork to do =(

scotty, that was so nice of you. i would do something like that too if something like that happened to me.

That was pretty nice of you to do, Scotty. I believe in karma sometimes and hopefully something good will happen to you for what you did.

About the test... I didn't think it was as bad as I thought it would be probably because the first 15 questions were the same ones from the review game, but was unsure on other parts like the liberal, moderate, and conservative matching section.

Scotty, that was so nice of you! I think about karma some times too. I thought your story was gonna be like "he tried robbing me" or some bad incident, but it ended up being a positive one, and that makes me happy.

As for this test.... Geeeeez louise. I'm so glad I took notes today in class, because I tried opening the study guide on my computer, and it won't let me. This class is basically the only one that I have to worry about this last quarter. Well, this and Physics.

And the big wild cat animal thing, that is really messed up. What person decides, "Oh, I can't keep this animal anymore, so instead of probably selling it to a zoo for money, I'm just gonna let it out into society, where I'll probably get charged some sort of fine." Dang, I'll make sure to watch for any giant cats while I'm driving to school tomorrow!


GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE ON THE TEST TOMORROW!

Post.

Seriously this test is crazy. I think we should have had it before spring break because the only night i could study would be tuesday night and i worked and now i am stuck studying til like 2 a.m. Sweet. But next week we will all be 4th quarter seniors... : ). its crazy college is SO close. The only class that i have that im going to have to work in is going to be spoor's class...of course he piles on the work to make out lives miserable-because no one is going to want to be doing all that work. Last week at this time i was in cancun having fun...now i am stuck in cold chi-town with a huge test tomorrow....this suckks

strange

Soo I haven't posted in a long while but tonight something kinda strange happened so I decided to share.
Ok so I had just gotten off work and was sitting in my car letting it warm up for a few minutes when this black dude pulled up next to me. He motioned for me to roll down my window so I did. He was like "Hey sorry to bother you, my name's Devon, I came here from chicago and my girl is in labor right now havin my baby at northwest community hospital and my car's about to die so any gas money you could spare would help me out a lot"
I said " sure man I'll give you all I've got." So I gave him all my money, which was a whopping 3 dollars, he thanked me, I wished him good luck, and he was on his way.
Now I am not a very religious person at all , but I do believe in Karma and this made me feel really good.
Has anyone else had any similar experiences?

Shannon's Response

A wild cat loose is kind of scary... I don't understand how people could think these wild cats could be tamed. It's in their nature to attack, why would you want to risk your life to change that? Just like that clip we watched in survey yesterday where that trainer had over 40 cuts and bites....that's scary. Even scarier to think that a wild cat may be loose somewhere in Illinois.

As for the test, this is ridiculous, there is just so much material, and the study guide isn't a lot of help. The game today did help, but I felt so clueless, I didn't know any of the answers. I'm really nervous for the test tomorrow.

I did hear about the cougar that is out here somewhere!! It's kind of shocking and scary to know that a wild animal might be somewhere in your neighborhood! I think it'll be hard to trace where it is too and to catch it as well. But yea..the test tomorrow..I dont know where to start studying. There is so much to review but I think the game we played today in class was very helpful!

wild cat (cougar) lose in the Northern Suburbs of IL

Sooo did you guys hear about the big wild cat that’s on the lose in Northern suburbs of Illinois?
Haha yeah apparently someone much of thought they could keep and tam a baby cougar until it grew too big to handle and just let it lose.
People in McHenry have called up local police stations claiming they have seen a huge cat walking down their streets or in their front yards. And I guess no one has been able to catch it yet. So be on the look out, it could be heading our way soon.


ugh now it's time to study for that test tomorrow...grosss

earth hour

Yeah about the Earth hour thing, I got some facebook invite about it, but I never heard anymore after that so I didn't think it was really going to happen. And I don't know if it was on the news or not since I decided not to watch the new much anymore because they only talk about negative crap, but if that was something that was suppose to help our environment, you'd think if people actually cared as much as they say, they would have made a bigger deal out of it and get the word out there. I think it would have been something great to participate in but there was no information out there for us. I don’t even know when it happened or maybe it hasn’t even happened yet. Hmmm I don’t know. Good try though.

back from break

Ugh Spring Break is over. How lame! It was one hell of an exciting week and i think a vacation well deserved to most of us lol. But too bad the weather couldn't have been better. It was like we would have one day of summer and then 3 days of snow rain and winter, grrr I think we need to redo spring break next week lol.
well I hope everyone had a fun break while it lasted.
Now we're back to the real world of school where every damn teacher is loading us up with paper after paper after paper....give us a break will ya?