FIGHT NIGHT

Many can testify that boxing has lost its shine in recent years, but in the last few months, the richest fight of all time has been developing. This fight has been dubbed “The Fight of the Century” by the boxing community and is drawing the public’s eyes back into boxing.  The cocky American persona of Floyd Mayweather Jr. will meet in the ring with the noble Filipino Manny Pacquiao this Saturday night in what is the biggest event to come to Las Vegas. The fight's outcome is in the air right now. It seems that everyone has a different idea on the winner of the fight. Some argue that Mayweather’s tough defense will win him the fight against the offensive Pacquiao.

Personally, I think Pacquiao will come out on top. The fight will not end early, and PacMan’s fast hands will tire out Mayweather.  Mayweather’s tough defense must be picked apart by Pacquiao, and lots of punches are the secret to Pacquiao’s victory.  Psychological hurdles are the only thing standing between Pacquiao and the win. He can keep his mental strength into the later rounds and strike when the gassed Mayweather slows down. Hitting counter punches is PacMan’s specialty. When Mayweather gets tired, he’ll let his guard down, and pretty much hand the win to Pacquiao.

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WWII Vet Restricted from Handing Out Meals

A Florida man has been cited for giving meals to the local homeless people in public. A charitable worker, he has served the community for over two decades, passing out lunches to the local homeless. One may ask why a law preventing charitable works exists in the first place. Well, Fort Lauderdale legislature passed an ordinance on Oct. 22, an ordinance restricting charitable groups from feeding homeless people in public. The law was created to keep trash out of the streets, among other reasons. Business owners are complaining about trash left behind and homeless people living in public areas, arguing that they are a nuisance.

Now, I’m going to take a step back and look at this. To me, it seems like those supporting the ordinance are trying to get rid of homeless people. Instead of worrying about eliminating homelessness, they are trying to dump the underprivileged somewhere. Suppose you spill hot magma on your nice hardwood floors. The smart thing to do would be to get the magma off the hardwood floors and eliminate the problem as whole. Instead, you keep putting paper towels over it in an attempt to eradicate the molten lava. When you continually give a perpetual problem a temporary solution, you cannot expect a good outcome. How about instead of taking the food that keeps the homeless alive in an effort to make them go away, we attack the problem at its root and give some sort of place to live and a chance to get back on their feet?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/04/man-90-arrested-feeding-homeless_n_6100738.html

Radon?!

Radon is a carcinogenic gas. Readings of radon levels have been constantly increasing in areas like Pennsylvania, where fracking, a method of acquiring natural gas, has become more common. Fracking involves bombarding pressurized water onto shale and other solid fuel reserves to release natural gas. But the water and rocks used in fracking give off radon, which is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the US. Recently, fracking and other methods of horizontal mining have increased in use. Although the industry denies any sort of contamination to the environment or water supply, many researchers say otherwise.

I believe that natural gas is a great alternative to dirty coal use, but I think more risk comes from these mining methods than reward. In the world today, many countries are facing drought conditions, including the US. Even without our aquifers and rivers being contaminated, we are facing huge numbers of cancer patients in the US. The radon level in houses in Pennsylvania has been steadily increasing since 2004. Sacrificing the health and well-being of people to harvest a better fuel is a bad deal, and as of now, cancer is an incurable disease. Why would we contribute to the causes of cancer in times like these?

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/fracking-or-drinking-water-may-become-choice-n202231

sport shooting

This article, found on the New York Times website, touches on a subject I feel is rarely dabbled in by today's journalists and writers. The article explores the culture of sport shooting among the people of Switzerland. An important thing to understand is that Switzerland has a gun ownership rate only topped by that of the United States and Yemen. Maybe the prominence of sport shooting has heightened this whole idea of gun literacy (knowing how to use a gun, what responsibilities come with it, etc.) among Swiss people which in turn made Switzerland a bearer of a super low gun violence rate. 
 As many of you may know, I am part of the Creighton Prep trapshooting team. Some people are scared off by the idea of a trap range filled with 12-17 year olds waving around guns, but one thing I can affirm is  that safety is the #1 priority on these ranges. The high school shooters on these ranges are among the more well versed when it comes to firearms, what they really are, and how to be safe with them. Perhaps a future of sport shooting will lead to a safer and more gun-literate society!!!

Everyone is doing it! Even presidents George Bush and Barack Obama!? Yes!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/02/magazine/the-fashion-forward-gun-clubs-of-switzerland.html

3/19/2015

hey im andrew
todays been pretty average. i dont remember falling asleep last night, i think i went to bed at like seven considering i didnt do any of my homework. i woke up this morning at 6:14 because i never set my 3 alarm clocks. heres a real picture of me.

i put each alarm clock in a different part of my room so i have to get up and turn them off, ensuring that i dont just turn them off right when i wake up and go back to sleep. i couldnt find my wallet or my keys. eventually i found them both in my car, which i left unlocked. oops. i ate a Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwich this morning and then began chewing two sticks of 5 brand gum, cobalt flavor, a cooling peppermint, once i got to school. nice!

my phone wasnt charged this morning either which is just unfortunate. silly me also left my wallet in my car when i walked into school. this is a problem as i didnt have the ten dollars that i was gonna use to buy my parking permit. if you were wondering i have been parking in the soph lot for four weeks and i still dont have my parking permit. oops. i am eternally grateful to whoever decided to give us a half day of school. oh yeah i also didnt do my PE homework. well see how that goes??? so yeah thats my day so far! heres another real picture of me earlier today. 

im gonna skip the part of the blog where i tell you how great i am, cause you should know that by now.

anyway as many of you may know i play football, i wrestle, and i shoot trap. these things are nice. i am an avid supporter of the prophetic 1.49 10-piece chicken nugget deal at burger king. 

wanna know something bad? someone hit my car in the soph lot the other day, now theres a lil swipe on the side of my NISSAN ROGUE. i took this picture of my NISSAN ROGUE on my way to school today.

Mrs. Hake just told me that I have to use correct capitalization and stuff. I'll do that from now on. Today, while I was traveling eastbound on Dodge and some guy in a Toyota Prelude cut me off. I have hit the point in the blog post where i really have nothing to say. My plan for the rest of the day is to go to HuHot Mongolian Grill and then go shoot some trap.

I opened my basement freezer this morning and a fully intact perfectly preserved frozen fish fell out! What do you call a park that you go to so you can look at Giraffes?








giraffic park

the end andrew emodi signing off