Mary’s sweet dreams

Mary Wollens of Toronto is arguably the luckiest women on earth. You’re blessed if you win one lottery but she won the lottery twice. Mary even says quote “I don’t really play the lottery, it’s an occasional thing.” witch in proving how lucky she is. In more fascinating, its how Mary got the numbers. BOTH times she dreamed of what numbers to pick, she just knew to buy a ticket. If that’s true or not it’s on her, but it’s an amazing story. According to the article, she is a kind of person deserving of money. In Mary’s younger days she worked on a farm with immigrate parents and after a family her daughter died, shortly after her husband’s death too. It’s a no wonder why Mary would have trouble sleeping. The numbers, 1, 10, 18, 24, 31 and 46 came to her in her second win. She got two-thirds of the lottery second time around (16 million dollars.) some says it’s crazy to buy two tickets; the odds of coarse are slim. Mary is reportedly not spending too much and staying down to earth.
This sort of story makes me think that maybe there’s some out there in the universe. I don’t know but it’s a remarkable story. And it’s nice to hear these kinds of happy stories.http://www.dailygrail.com/node/3716

Frozen Minneapolis homicide victim ID'd: pregnant teen

http://www.startribune.com/local/36846594.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiU

According to the Star Tribune two weeks ago police found a frozen to death in the snow, then tossed at an unattached garage. Or that’s what they thought. The medical examiner said she suffered from multiple blunt force injuries. In other words, this means the cause of death was beaten to death and was just left in the snow. But it gets worse. Her name is Annshalike Shanta Hamilton and she was 15, and pregnant. Approximately six to seven months, pretty far along. The fetus of coarse died along with Annshalike. Because she with noticeably pregnant police conceder this a double homicide. The reason why this information was not released earlier was because they needed to thaw the body out before confirming. Obviously this is horrible for multiple reasons. She was young, pregnant, and they was they killed her was horrifying. No one deserves this and I really hope they catch the murderers. When things like this happen it tends to bring the community together in witch to peruse the killer(s) witch is an up, but still.

No one notices

Ten trillion, that’s a thousand billions, in dollars, that the U.S. is in debt. …and counting. The Time Square’s national count down didn’t even have enough room for the number. But as big as this number is, no one seems to notice, maybe denial. According to the article on Huffington post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-bittle-and-jean-johnson/national-debt-passes-10-t_b_132732.html says that people don’t really care about our national debt. I think Americans attitude is that someone will come and save us. Or that everyone keeps saying that America is the greatest country in the world, and it’ll be solved. But that’s just my theory. I’m sure they had a good reason, right? Well there’s the Iraq war, witch were still not out of, so KA CHING! It its estimated that the wars cost was about $400 billion - but that was before the Wall Street bailout. The war has taken a big chunk of money, but it’s not the only thing. to fix the bailout we are now borrowing money!? In this money crisis, people don’t have jobs so they can’t really pay for there share. Many politicians DON’T talk about tax increases or spending cuts. Instead they just barrow, just the place we need to be. People need to pay back loans; there are the baby boomers, fix Social Security, and Medicare. There is no way of denying it people, we need real a fix. If you haven’t cried by the end of reading this, do something. Start saving or move. We have been irresponsible long enough. I’m not even an adult yet and the place I’m living in sounds bad and getting worse. I know its a lot of work but no way around it. DO SOMETHING!

rehab

I saw an old Seventeen magazine lying around and found an article on what rehab is really like. It seems these days that rehab is cool, all the celebrities go. But what is it really like. It’s a lot of work. In the article, they follow one girl named Emily. The habit started out innocent. At 13, to be cool, she did drink but only on weekends. Of course, things soon got bigger, going to school high, and doing cock ecstasy and more. But this story is not about her, it’s about how hard rehab is and getting your on track after drugs. At Comprehensive Alcoholism Rehabilitation Program ran a tight schedule. Wake up at seven thirty for breakfast, ten to three was school (even though its summer). Three to nine was group therapy and lastly nine to ten AA meeting and bed. She was very mad at everyone when she and got sick and lots of stuff but could through it. It only shows that when you have a bad habit its harder to come out of it and the sooner you stop the better.

cults

I read a section of this book called “cults” by Karen Zeinert. It tells you about the many cults that have been and still are going on today. Many people are afraid of cults, think they are evil. Some think they are just have different views from other people and are misunderstood and bring diverse people to America. Either way, it is a very sensitive issue and gets people talking. The stereotypical cult is involves brainwashing, some sort of sexual abuse, and weird belief often resulting in death. Such as groups called Waco, the Charles Manson followers and Jeffery Lundgren groups to name a few. But there are “good” cults. By definition (according to the book) is a certain group that has a belief(s) and has followers and (a) leader(s). So, basically, a lot of things are cults. Like big religious groups or certain government. Most think it’s a group that they think is wrong, and small amount of individuals. There are many definitions of a cult, and it’s pretty much up to you. I think people feel the need to belong, so will join. And some like to have power, and drives them to start cults. It’s to spread out what they belief in witch is both good and bad.

The Bible

This story was from the chicken soup for the teenage soul. volume 1. multiple writers. Stories found by Jack Canfield, Mark Hasen and Kim Kirberger.

This story is short, simple, story that gets to the point; basically a modern folktale. The son is on his graduation day, hoping to get a big fancy present for his special, well earned day. Family tradition is that the son of whomever is graduating gets a car. So graduation day comes, but the father hands him a bible, no car! The son makes a fit, threw the bible on the floor, left, and father and son never saw each other again. Years later the father dies. In the will, he got the same bible. To his surprise, he found a check inside the bible. The amount was the exact total of money of the car he wanted.
This teaches us that things are not what they seem. The sons fury was so strong he didn’t even thing to look inside it. Its very sad. This also teaches us that people should be gracious for what we have. For example, the son lost his father without saying goodbye or anything. If he was glad with the gift he had, the father would have been in the son’s life, and would have gotten the car.