Absolutely disgusting.

WARNING: These are not my words. I do not agree with ANY of the words in the following picture. If you continue to read this post, please know that you will most likely feel a sense of anger that you have never felt before. At least I did...

"This must be a joke, right?" Unfortunately... it's not. These people are dead serious. How are you feeling right now? Do you want to scream? Do you want to punch something? Yeah, me too. The WBC is probably the hardest thing for me to handle. The Wesboro Baptist Church is a "church" (more like a cult) that preaches hate. They believe that America is doomed and everyone is going to hell because we allow homosexuality. Their website is www.godhatesfags.com. I think you can get the picture just be seeing their URL. When they picket, their signs say things such as "Thank God for dead soldiers," "God hates fags," "Thank God for 9/11," "Pray for more dead soldiers." I think you get the point. I can't even write about them without getting so angry I feel like there is steam coming out of my ears. I don't believe in violence, but when ever I read about the WBC, I feel like hurting them all. Now, I would never actually hurt them (I'd be too afraid!), so I think the best way to react is with love. I know this sounds crazy and hard, and believe me, it is! But what else can you do? When the WBC protests at things such soldiers funerals or other big events, there is almost always counter protestors. They come and stand on the other side of the street with messages of love. I did this in the winter of 2008. I won't lie and tell you it was fun or easy. I wanted to cry the entire time. There were 5-year-olds holding signs that had the WBC's signature phrase: "God hates fags." FIVE YEAR OLDS! I am happy to say though, there are usually more lovers than haters, and in our case, they were outnumbered by at least 100.

Crisis on the high seas.

A friend of mine sent me a video of a story that she saw on the news. My stomach dropped as I watched it! There was a cruise ship being tossed around by incredible rough seas off the Antarctica Peninsula. It lost an engine, and the water broke some windows on the bridge, killing a lot of it's power. Everyone on the ship is safe now, and it is slowly but surely making it's way back to land. Now, normally, this would be just another news story to me. But not this time. Starting next month, I will be living on a cruise ship for four months, so this video is TERRIFYING to me! I can't imagine being those passengers! Recently, I've been seeing and hearing stories about crazy ocean stuff, like rogue waves and hurricanes... and it's making me nervous! Multiple people have called me asking how I feel about it, which isn't helping the nerves! My ship is bigger than this though, I'll just keep telling myself that.

Tumblr takes a tumble

My personal favorite blogging site has CRASHED! Tumblr, an online blogging site made to simplify blogging, has been down for 24 hours. People all over have been tweaking out all day. It's all over the internet! Even CNN covers the story (click the picture). I can't lie, even I get a little frustrated when things like this happen, but is so fascinating me is that CNN thought it was important enough to report about. I mean, I guess it is news, seeing as so many people use Tumblr, but what is so horrible about taking a 24 hour break? I think people should appreciate the fact that we even have such a great outlet for our "creativity" (if that's what you want to call it) such as Tumblr in the first place! This meltdown reminds me of my favorite youtube video. Check it out by clicking the link below and you'll see why!

Every thing us Amazing and Nobody is Happy

The Onion at Keene

On Thursday night, Professor Borozinski took our class to see the speakers from The Onion. The Onion is a parody newspaper that prints an issue a week in 10 cities, as well as online. John Harris and Will Tracy are two writers from the Onion. They started off their presentation by giving a brief history on the paper. It clearly was all made up, as is the rest of the Onion. They showed us a couple of articles that the paper has published. My favorite of the night had the headline "Trapped Chilean Miners Considering How Funny It Would Be If They All Died Right As Rescuers Completed Tunnel"(read the article here). I'm sure you can get the gist of this news source by that headline. Another of my favorite's was "Poll: 1 in 5 Americans Believe Obama is a Cactus" (read the article here). Tracy and Harris said "We cover when someone does something stupid" and later "We don't shit on people for no reason, we go after people who deserve it."

Well done, Onion, well done.

Here you go, Prof. Borozinski!

I love Jbiebs, but I also love when people find clever ways to make fun of him.