Snow, Sluts and Skiing

This past weekend, our final weekend on earth, was an incredible weekend.  The sheer amount of snow in combination with hot tubs and friends.  Being that this blog is about wonderfully, whoreful, women this video ties it all together perfectly in an incredibly erotic and arousing clip.

Barry O. Is My Homie

The 2012 Presidential election is a difficult decision for many.  Why is that?  When looking at the policies and plans of both candidates there is a clear choice.  President Barack Obama is that choice. He has a long-term economic plan to level the playing field for middle-class Americans and a strategy to protect our climate, using renewable energy sources, while making the U.S. less dependent on foreign oil.  Also, the President has already proven he can be an effective leader. He ended the war in Iraq, as well as taking down the world’s most wanted criminal.  A vote for Barack Obama is a vote for the future.

The President understands that the middle-class is the backbone of the United States of America.  That is why he is doing everything he can to lower taxes for the average American.  He can do this by asking the ultra-rich, elite class of Americans to pay a little more for the commonwealth of the United States.  His plan also includes reducing the national deficit by 4 trillion dollars.  His opponent, multi-millionaire Mitt Romney, would increase the national debt by 5 trillion dollars, as well as make tax-cuts for super-rich people, like himself.  Romney’s plan will take America back to the ideas that got us into this recession.  It is obvious that President Obama is the leader we need to help us through these rough economic times.

Obama’s plan for America realizes that in todays world we must look to new sources of energy, while cutting our ties to foreign oil.  He wants to develop all aspects of renewable energy, including solar, wind and nuclear energy, as well as natural gas, clean coal and bio fuels.  These are the future and the President is taking the right steps towards a cleaner, more efficient America.  In addition, President Obama has already begun lowering our dependence on foreign oil and bring oil production right back home to America.  U.S oil production is at an 8-year high, and we are less reliant on foreign fuels now than at any other time in the last 16 years.  Barack Obama is clearly the man we need for the job, and has already begun taking us down the correct path.

President Obama has a great plan for the future of America but don’t forget what he has already done for our country and the world.  He has kept his promise and ended the war in Iraq.  The President understands the sacrifices that veterans have made for our country and has been tireless in his efforts to support the troops and their families. 

Not only has he assisted the people of our nation, he has also helped citizens all around the world.  No action attests to this more than his relentless pursuit and strategic elimination of Osama Bin Laden.  President Obama has proven to be highly effective in his role of commander in chief and has made our great nation safer by crippling terrorist group, Al Qaeda. He brought justice to a man responsible for the 9/11 attacks.  President Obama deserves another term because of his plan for the future as well as his accomplishments so far.

The United States of America needs to move forward from the war ridden days of economic downfall and foreign oil dependence.  President Barack Obama has and will continue to address these issues in the most effective and responsible way.  Vote Barack Obama for president on November 6th and he will carry this great nation into a bright and prosperous future.

Speedballin' In Da Club

Anthony Kiedis' auto-biography, Scar Tissue, is a look into the life of a punk-rocker who gets caught up in the dreadful world of drug abuse. Kiedis gives the reader a vivid look into the life of a troubled child turned rockstar, who all the while is battling with his impulsive character.  While experimenting with new sounds for the band, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, as well as new drugs and women, he finds himself and learns the terrors of compulsive behavior.  The book comes at an important time when many people, as well as musicians, deal with drug addiction.  Whether it is Kurt Cobain or more recently Whitney Houston, Scar Tissue gives insight into the drug habits these talented artists had before their demise.

This book was written to warn today's youth of the slippery slope one can ride down on a toboggan of bad decisions and reckless behavior.  Kiedis began smoking marijuana at the very young age of 12 and a decade later he was addicted to heroin, cocaine and many other high-risk drugs.  He glaringly recounts the incredible highs but also retells the nightmarish lows as he itched for his next fix. Another audience this book can relate to are people fighting to get sober.  Kiedis relapses over 10 times in the course of the book and has some thought provoking ideas on the reasons for addiction and getting sober. I think part of the reason he told his story was a way to help himself on the road to self purification.  Explaining his journey will help him rid the demons of the past.

Anthony is a musician not a writer so it could have had some stylistic improvements. That being said Kiedis is incredible at retelling events in his life.  So intensely that it makes the reader feel as if they are backstage with Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love and Pearl Jam doing lines of cocaine and shooting up China White heroin. Kiedis also used his music to compliment his writing.  When he spoke of a failed relationship or another relapse, typically he brought in a few lines from a song he had written about that situation.  Kiedis is an incredibly talented song writer and when he combined his lyrics with his writing, it was stylistically an awesome fusion. The manner that he uses is a frank, unsparing, meticulous account of a life lived entirely on impulse, for pleasure and for kicks.

Shawty's First Chapter Book

On the very first day of the first grade, I could not have been any more ecstatic to discover I was in the highest level reading group. The Black Group. Each week students were required to pick a book out of a selection based on their color of reading level. Being excited about my high level designation, I grabbed the only chapter book in the array of brightly colored novels. It was from the Magic Treehouse Series. That night, I blew through all seventy-five pages of "Dinosaurs Before Dark". The history fascinated me as well as the simplicity of the writing. The next week, I again chose another from the series, I was hooked.

Mary Pope Osbourne, the author of the Magic Treehouse series, was the first person in my young life who had ever gotten through to me and explained the tales of history in a way that I could understand them.  It is my firm belief now that without these books, I wouldn't have become the history buff that I am today.  The book "Tonight on the Titanic" gave me my very first obsession with a historial event. After I read that book, a couple of buddies and I went to the library and read all about the Titanic.  We even used to pretend that the playground was the bridge of the Titanic and we were the captains trying to avoid the massive icebergs of the Northern Atlantic.

The reason these books connected to me so well was the way they were organized.  Each story began with siblings, Jack and Annie playing at their home. Then they would race over to the treehouse where, once they opened a book, the aerial fort would begin to spin and take them back in time. The first chapter of every book ended the same way. With my favorite words, "Then everything stood still, absolutely still." Those words signified that Jack and Annie had arrived back in time.  Also, the word "absolutely" was the first "big word" I ever learned.  The tale would continue with Jack and Annie living the actual event in history. Which ranged from Gettysburg to the moon landing to the volcanic eruption at Pompei.  Vivid descriptions and the perfect balance of pictures and text created the ultimate reading experience.

Everything about these books just clicked with me. I really loved the way Osbourne would use alliterations in her titles. Each book had an unique and catchy title that combined an alliteration and a time of the day. "Midnight on the Moon", "Sunset of the Sabertooth"and "Pirates Past Noon" just to name a few.

As I write this essay it blows me away to think how much these books actually affected my life.  Today, I have a passion for history and I'm enrolled in AP U.S History. History excites me and I feel I owe thanks to Mary Pope Osbourne for writing these great books that got me so thrilled about stories from long ago. I realized this summer, while on a family trip to Washington D.C. how much I actually like history. Whether it was walking through the Capitol building or The Smithsonian Institute of Aviation History, I felt like Jack and Annie, living the past, thanks to their magic treehouse.