The Greatest Beauty Can Be Found

A tender touch
Or a gesture of compassion
Where words aren’t necessary.
Hope that glimmers
Gently and steadfastly
Like a beacon amidst pain and sorrow.
The bark of a tree
A dog’s velvety ear
The noise of people…
Bread, freshly baked
Painting and writing
And springtime raindrops on a metal roof
The sweet breath of a lover, new or old
Childlike wonder that’s never abandoned
In simple pleasures overlooked
The greatest beauty can be found.

Obama Could Face Disastrous Summit Due To Venezuela Sanctions

Most ominously in the present, at a U.S. Senate auricularly discerning on March 17, the State Department’s Alex Lee declared that the current sanctions were just the “First salvo” against Venezuela. From 2000 to 2010, the Colombian military assassinated more than 5,700 innocent civilians; the U.S. regime perpetuated to provide literally billions of dollars of military and police avail. In Honduras, the Obama administration took numerous steps to avail ascertain that the 2009 military coup against the democratically elected regime of Mel Zelaya would prosper. The U.S. regime does not appear to be concerned, and will not even consider reducing its military avail to Mexico.

What the sanctions withal made clear, for those who didn’t already ken, is that Obama’s opening to Cuba represented precisely zero vicissitude in Washington’s overall strategy toward the region: The intention of expanding commercial and diplomatic cognations with Cuba was mainly to pursue a more efficacious strategy of undermining the Cuban regime – and all of the left-wing regimes in the region. Representatives of Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and proximately every country in the Americas verbalized out against the sanctions at the Organization of American States last month in Washington. “If there is a country that is a threat in the Americas,” verbally expressed Ecuadorean Peregrine Minister Ricardo Patiño, “It’s the Coalesced States, because it has perpetually invaded countries. … It has engendered coups d’etat. … And it promoted dictatorships.” The Cuban regime additionally responded forcefully, dashing Obama’s hopes of any deal afore the summit.

I tried telling my Evangelical brothers about the murder of Evangelicals in Central America and Indonesia and got off the wall denial, condescending angelic looks, etc. Ironically, I found out about the murder of up to about a million Evangelicals with the aid or complicity of the US from missionaries, who faced censorship not only from the countries where they worked, but the self censorship from Evangelical Christians. I really don’t get it. Sounds like Southern logic all right: The same sort of logic that considered it fun to fire on Fort Sumter. USA foreign aid policies, security spending, economic sanctions and trade negotiations, have been captured by economic elite goals, intended to open other countries to international investment and the exploitation of resources and workers, at the expense of stated goals of economic development and representative democracy.

The same economic elites promote corporate trade pacts to extend the profits of rentiers, while undermining the protections, which sovereign democracies enact, to protect the environment, public health, and workers (including those of our own country). Despite all evidence, corporate news media in the USA claims that these international corporate trade pacts will improve free trade and our living standards. These same economic elites unanimously (unsucessfully) opposed any USA allies joining the international investment bank of Asia. Economic elites/predators in the United States have had great success undermining democratic representation in their own country, not just in other countries. There are plenty of gringos in the USA, hoping that people everywhere unite, in condemnation of USA policies which undermine President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s third and fourth freedoms, solely to increase the profits of the already most profitable.

What is “Primadonna” About?

It’s about a girl who doesn’t want to work for anything. She wants it all handed and offered to her on a silver platter. She doesn’t want love predicated on emotional connection. She just wants people to adore her and wait on her. She wants instant control over someone. She wants to be judged pristinely on her physical attributes. She wants it all and to give nothing back in reciprocation. I cerebrate it’s about a girl with immensely colossal dreams, who keeps getting reprehended and called selfish by her friends and the people around her, who cerebrate she’s an inordinate amount of a Prima Donna, but she authentically just wants to live a life of glamour that transcends her everyday normalcy. She additionally probably fills her days dreaming and every day she goes without her dreams coming true feel like a chore and are hard to get through but she’s determined to work strenuously to get her dreams to come true. This musical composition, as the ‘theme song’ of her archetype Primadonna, is about the upper class, spoilt, cosseted affluent kids of the Western world, who believe that their bliss and love is quantified in things they have. A plethora of these children don’t ken authentic love, but have been cosseted and spoilt to the point that they believe the world is theirs and everything is about them- when authentically, deep down, they are very dejected and just want to be doted, hence “I’m doleful to the core, core, core… When you give, I optate more, more more/ I wanna be adored”.

Mi Cancion Favorita

Me llamo Christine. Mi cancion favorita es “Primadonna” por la cantante Marina and The Diamonds. Es muy pegajosa. Me gusta la cancion porque tiene una melodia buena y es bailable. Hay un piano, tambores electronicos, y guitarras electronicas. Las letras son un poco triste. Esta cancion es la musica de indie/alternative rock. En mi opinion, la musica de indie/alternative rock es el mejor.

Danielle

Danielle
Happy, sporty, friendly, huggy.
Sister of Nicole,
Lover of puppies, rollercoasters, traveling,
Who feels sad when it rains, happy when it' sunny, sleepy when it's cold,
Who needs love, friends, family,
Who gives hugs, love, friendship,
Who fears snakes, darkness, earthquakes,
Who would like to see the Grand Canyon, a whale, no wars,
Resident of Porter Ranch, Lullabye lane.
Erickson

The High School Graduation Proposal

Our school is mandating its students to participate in unpaid community service as a graduation requirement. Currently, there are many graduating requirements at our school, and adding an additional responsibility is unfair. I believe volunteering is worthwhile for the community and for the volunteers; however, it should not be a mandated graduation requirement.

There are many reasons why students go to school. First and foremost, they go to receive an education. They can also participate in sports, clubs, or other activities. Since there are so many activities a student can participate in and so many rigorous academic requirements, it is unfair to mandate an additional requirement, especially a requirement that is so time-consuming and needs to be completed in the students own time.

Additionally, many students have after-school and weekend commitments that they are responsible for—after-school sports practice, studying for test/quizzes, babysitting siblings, or working at a job to earn money for college and other expenses. By adding mandatory volunteer hours, the time students have for these important responsibilities in their lives limited.

I do not have a bias against volunteering. I just do not think it should be a school requirement. If a student wants to volunteer, he or she will make time for it without having to be burdened with an extra requirement. Volunteering is important and does good for the community. It is important to give back to the community and to work for worthy causes; however, it should be by our free will.

Accident, Suicide, or Homicide?

Detectives Dodge and Summer discovered a body in a residential garage with various evidence that contributed to the hypothesis that a suspect had fled the scene of the crime by fleeing across the backyard and over a wooden fence. A damp, torn piece of cloth was visible at the top of the wooden fence. On the other side of the fence (in a neighbor*s back yard) was a shiny object lying under a shrub at the right-hand corner of the house. After back-up help was summoned, a house-to-house search was initiated at 11:42 am to apprehend the suspect. After the forensics technicians had arrived on the scene at 11:52 am, the shiny object (a Smith and Wesson .357 magnum, 6-shot revolver) was retrieved from under the neighbor*s backyard shrub. One spent cartridge casing was found in the cylinder and the revolver*s serial number had been filed off with a metal file. A good set of latent fingerprints was found on the barrel of the revolver and a partial latent print on the cartridge casing. The torn piece of damp cloth was placed into a paper bag, sealed with evidence tape, labeled properly and sent to the crime lab for analysis. The victim*s blood was collected in a test tube containing an anti-coagulant.

Blood was discovered on the garage floor between the victim and the front door of the garage and in a “V” shaped pattern originating at the feet of the victim and expanding outward toward the front garage door. Blood was also discovered under the fingernails of the left hand of the victim. All collected blood samples were marked, sealed, and sent to the medical lab for analysis. Latent fingerprints were found on the rear garage door and on the rear garage window and window sill. The revolver was labeled and placed in a sealed paper bag and sent to the crime lab for analysis. A request was conducted through the phone company and the names and work phone numbers were obtained for the residents of the house. They were informed of the homicide in their garage and asked to return home to identify the victim. A Mr. Morganson arrived at 12:05 pm and was unable to identify the victim. At 12:07 Mrs. Morganson arrived and was greatly relieved that the victim was not her son. She was unable to identify the victim by name, since she had only seen him a few times in the neighborhood. According to the Morganson*s, their son was in school. A quick check by detective Summer revealed that their son, Bill Morganson, had not been in school that day.

A search of the residence provided no additional information. Bill Morganson was missing and was assumed to have fled out the back door of the garage. Summer, at 12:10 pm, radioed an APB to all units and provided the description of Bill Morganson given by the parents. Mr. Rodriguez, a witness at the crime scene, had provided the police network with a detailed description of three teenagers he had seen in the neighborhood. At about 65 minutes after the search had been initiated, patrol officers Bodine and Lancaster noticed two youths, who matched the descriptions, standing by an abandoned commercial building, five blocks from the crime scene. When the officers attempted to detain them, at 1:15 pm, one young man fled the area and is still at large. The second, a young, Caucasian male was successfully apprehended. He stood about 5'-10", medium length dark brown hair, was wearing blue jeans which were torn on the back of the right leg. He also wore white tennis shoes and a brown silk shirt. He said his name was Eric Bendor and presented an out-of-state drivers license. He refused to reveal the identity of the young male who had run away and denied any connection with the crime scene.

Officer Lancaster told Eric Bendor that he was being arrested as a suspect in connection with a homicide. Office Bodine recited the Miranda provision which informs individuals of their right to remain silent and their right to seek legal aid. Bendor chose to remain silent. He was taken to police headquarters. After a search warrant was obtained, he was told to remove his clothing (over clean white paper) and given detention clothing. Each piece of clothing was carefully folded and placed in individual paper bags which had been labeled. About 15 hair samples (scalp, chest, underarm, groin, and leg) were pulled from each area and stored in individually marked containers. A blood sample was also collected by a blood lab technician. Fingernails were clipped and scrapings from them saved in marked plastic vials. His hands and clothing were sampled for gun shot residue (GSR).

After his physical markings were recorded, he was taken to a holding cell. All of this was done in order to be able to connect this individual with the crime scene, or, to eliminate him as a possible suspect. The police had probable cause (based on a description supplied by a witness) to suspect this individual of the crime. All affidavits and search warrants were completed before the search was conducted. Had this procedure not been conducted, an attorney would be able to clear this suspect, even if he was guilty, because there would have been a violation of the 4th Amendment of the United States Constitution’s Bill of Rights, which states: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.