Former Marine Banned From Daughters School

Former Marine, Kevin Wood, was banned from La Plata High school when he had an issue with his daughter project on the history of Islam. Kevin Wood believes his daughter shouldn't learn the Islamic traditions and asked the school to let his daughter do an alternative project. The school declined his request in which he stated 'I will bring down a sh*t storm on the school. I'm contacting the media, the newspaper, and contacting an attorney. After this statement the school issued a school ban on the parents. The parents were outraged and pulled out their daughter from the class, and since it is a required course, she will receive zero's.

I believe the parents are being intolerant towards the Islam religion which is unacceptable. Their intolerance is toward the extremists, not towards the good Muslims which practice peace instead of violence. They are being unreasonable and unfair to their daughter, where she can't graduate now because of the zero she received. The school should be right to deny the parents access to the school, but allow the daughter to still have school benefits.

https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/former-marine-gets-banned-from-daughters-school-over-101349990312.html

Pastor Suspended From Church

Alabama minister Juan McFarland confessed to having sex with married church members and not telling them he had AIDS.

The charges against McFarland is having sex and not informing his sex partners that he had aids, and the use of illegal drugs, After the court hearing on Thursday, the Judge decreed that McFarland must give back his church keys and the church provided Mercedes while also being banned for 24 years. After McFarland give out his confession, the congregation tried to fire McFarland to which he refused to leave changing the locks to the church and control of the church's bank account. Another hearing is set for December 1st for a permanent ban against McFarland.

Juan McFarland committed a crimes against the church and betraying the trust of the congregation. He should have come forth with his actions sooner and told his fellow church goers of his condition. He should not have thrown a fit of rage on his suspension and accepted the fact that he did wrong to others. How he acted was not in good faith towards the Christian religion.

http://thegrio.com/2014/10/09/alabama-pastor-aids-slept-church-members/

Whites Only Town

In the small town of Orania South Africa the Apartheid seems not to be over. Orania is a small town community located a few hundred miles away from major cities, it has a population of 1000 cultural Africans. The problem however is that the community only allows white people to live there. The community claims that they are not racist, but preserving their own cultural that they had for 300 years. The President of Orania, Carel Boshoff, claims that "there are thousands of blacks only community in South Africa and nobody asks questions about that." Since Orania is privately owned that can legally tell who can live in the community and who can not. This community shows that South Africa still has a lot of work to do with racial segregation within their country.

I believe that all of the communities that are segregated within South Africa, should be open to all people that want to live in the community. Orania claims that they are preserving their way of living, but they should change there way so that they are open to other opportunities of life where quality rules, not segregation. Carel Boshoff should realize that this is the 21st century and that there are are missing out on opportunities to meet great people and hear their stories.

https://www.yahoo.com/travel/twenty-years-after-apartheid-ended-in-south-99934221807.html

Republicans Use Beheading Video As Smear Campaign

House Republican candidate uses the beheading video of James Foley as a smear campaign against the Democrats.

The Republican Wendy Rodgers has made a commercial that shows an ISIS agent holding a knife to James Foley's neck taken right out of the beheading video. The commercial however, does not show the actual beheading. The commercial then shows Rodgers stating that "Terrorist threats are growing. Are we secure? Are we protected? Keeping us safe and secure is Congress's job. Kyrsten Sinema hasn't done her job... She's allowed her liberal agenda to get in the way of our safety."

The Republicans have essentially called the Democrats weak on terrorism and the Democrats are enraged. They demanded that the Republicans take down the ad, but Republican retorted saying that it was a fair use of current affairs.

I think that the Republicans are right to do this. In times of hardship you can't be soft you have to change and be hard. Of course the Republicans should ask the family members if it is okay to display the video, and if they did the commercial is justified. The Republicans are trying to change and develop the situation on ISIS and the only way for the Americans to see that is to be brutally honest.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/house-gop-candidate-beheading-video-attack-ad-article-1.1966037

43 Missing Students Found Dead

Just 125 miles off of Mexico City, 43 dead bodies have been uncovered in a mass grave.

The Mexican president vowed today that he will bring the doers of this deed to justice. 43 bodies have been found in conjoining mass graves and the bodies are thought to be of students where they took a field trip to. DNA test will take about 2 weeks and until then we (the public) will not know their names. This deed has thought to be done by the Guerreros Unidos Gang along with crooked police officers. Two gang hit men form the gang have confessed to killing 17 of the 43, so authorities know that the Guerreros Unidos Gang is directly involved. The parents of the students are heart broken and mad. Some however, believe that the students in the ditch are not their sons and daughters and believe that they are still alive somewhere. Only time will tell.

I believe that this was a horrible thing to have been done. Mexico needs to straighten out their police force so that there are no crooked cops, and directly invade the drug cartels along with American federal DEA agents. The only way to win against these gangs is to fight fire with fire, not with posters and warnings.

http://news.yahoo.com/hitmen-admit-killing-17-mexican-students-prosecutor-005040009.html

California Becomes the First State to Ban Plastic Bags

The Governor of California has decreed a state wide ban on plastic bags in hope that it will prove effective to preserve the environment.

In California plastic bags have been banned in retail stores and supermarkets as carrying bags starting this Summer. They are however, allowed to use plastic bags for meats, fruits, and vegetables to keep them fresh, but this is the only reason to use them. Grocers, instead of plastic bags, can only now use the alternate paper bag which costs 10 cents, or that they bring their own.

The Governor states that "This bill is a step in the right direction - it reduces the torrent of plastic polluting our beaches, parks and even the vast ocean itself. We're the first to ban these bags and we won't be the last.

I agree with the Governor that we should protect the environment and get rid of the plastic bags. They are polluting the Earth making the ozone layer decrease and creating an ocean of non-degradable substances. I believe this will spread and soon other American states will adopt this law.

http://news.yahoo.com/brown-says-hes-likely-sign-070121415.html