Lent

Howdy!

For this weeks blog i am talking about lent. I am giving up fast food for lent this year. i have always done this but i am now considering it to be my last year of giving it up. you see i need to gin weight and fast food is a good way to do it so for next year i am giving up C's, D's, F's(even though i never get D's or F's on my school work). i want Lent next year to help build my character and to help me do a lot better on my grades.

German Shooting

WINNENDEN, Germany (AFP) – Flags flew at half mast acrossGermany on Thursday as the numbed nation mourned the 15 mainly female victims of a teenage gunman in a picturesque town.

Hundreds of candles were left outside the school in Winnenden where 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer picked off nine pupils and three teachers before killing three other people in the town. He then turned the gun on himself in a shootout with police.

Churches were packed for special services held late Wednesday and dozens of people held a vigil outside the school on what Chancellor Angela Merkel called "a day of mourning for all of Germany."

"Our thoughts go out to the families and the friends. We are thinking of you and we are praying for you," she added.

The front page of the local paper, the Winnender Zeitung, was just a blank black page on Thursday, except for a single word: "Why?"

The same question was being asked on the streets and in the churches of the town north of Stuttgart.

"There is more violence than there was 10 years ago," Heidi Loebe, a saleswoman told AFP. "I do not understand it. This is a boy who had finished his studies and begun a training course."

"We have perhaps all failed," one man, a tax advisor, said without giving his name. "The big question now is: Why did he do it?"

Police have given no motive for the slaughter. Eleven of his 12 victims at the school were female, and nearly all were expertly shot in the head.

However, Ralf Michelfelder, police chief in Waiblingen whose officers also cover Winnenden, said the "first indications" as to motive were emerging.

More details should be available at a news conference later in the day, he said.

Kretschmer went into one classroom three times, the Bild daily said. On the third visit he told the class: "Aren't you all dead yet?" A teacher threw herself in front of a female pupil -- and was shot by the gunman, Bild said.

Heribert Rech, interior minister of the southern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg where the massacre took place, said there was nothing to indicate that the teenager held a grudge against the school.

After leaving last year, Kretschmer had enrolled on a course to train as a salesman. He regularly worked out at the gym and belonged to a sports club.

"He was completely unremarkable, there was nothing in his background to suggest this could have happened," the minister said. Fellow students described him as "quiet" and "reserved," even "friendly."

Kretschmer came from a prosperous family. His father is a successful businessman who employs 150 people, according to media reports. His parents and sister, still in shock, have been taken to a secret location, German television reported.

However, he found it difficult to fit in at school and had few friends. "He was simply not accepted by anyone and just sat all day in front of his computer," a school colleague identified at Mario told German television station N24.

Reports also say he was obsessed with computer shooting games -- especially the violent shoot-em-up Counterstrike -- and had become a crack shot. It appears most of his victims died from accurate shots to the head.

His father owned over a dozen guns, all locked away except the nine millimetre Beretta that caused the carnage. According to media reports, Kretschmer senior was "domineering" and a member of a local gun club, which his son also visited.

Rech said Kretschmer had "destroyed the soul of an entire school and ripped into the heart of a town."

The rampage ended in the car park of a shopping centre about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from Winnenden.

Cornered in the car park, there was a shootout between the teenager and the police in which he was shot in the leg, Rech said.

"He fell down, got up again and reloaded his gun. He was found soon afterwards dead," Rech said. State police chief Erwin Hetger said it was believed he had turned the gun on himself.

The school remains cordoned off and will not open for the rest of the week. There have been calls for it to remain closed forever as a sign of respect.

Irish Poem

Little Black Rose (17th to 19th centuries)
[this is actually about Ireland, but could be used for a person]

Roisin, have no sorrow for all that has happened to you
the Friars are out on the brine,. they are travelling the sea
your pardon from the Pope will come, from Rome in the East
and we won't spare the Spanish wine for my Roisin Dubh

Far have we journeyed together, since days gone by.
I've crossed over mountains with her, and sailed the sea
I have cleared the Erne, though in spate, at a single leap
and like music of the strings all about me, my Roisin Dubh

You have driven me mad, fickle girl- may it do you no good!
My soul is in thrall, not just yesterday nor today
You have left me weary and weak in body and mind
O deceive not the one who loves you, my Roisin Dubh

I would walk in the dew beside you, or the bitter desert
in hopes I might have your affection, or part of your love
Fragrant small branch, you have given your word you love me
the choicest flower of Munster, my Roisin Dubh

If I had six horses, I would plough against the hill-
I'd make Roisin Dubh my Gospel in the middle of Mass-
I'd kiss the young girl who would grant me her maidenhead
and do deeds behind the lios with my Roisin Dubh!

The Erne will be strong in flood, the hills be torn
the ocean will be all red waves, the sky all blood,
every mountain and bog in Ireland will shake
one day, before she shall perish, my Roisin Dubh.

My top 26 movies(in order)

1. Lord of the Rings Trilogy- great story, good battle scenes, great characters, 11 oscars, Precious.
2. Jurassic Park- good movie, Velociraptor Awareness Day, (clever girl- best scene because of guy's stupidity).
3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail- Funniest Movie ever made, Ni.
4. Pineapple Express-Funniest Pothead movie ever made.
5. Gladiator- good fight scenes, great movie.
6. Braveheart- good battle scenes, great plot, very accurate.
7. The Patriot- good movie, good battle scenes.
8. DodgeBall- 2nd funniest movie ever made.
9. Hot Fuzz- A movie of Pure Awsomeness.
10. Iron Man- Good movie, Robert Downey Jr., Audi R8.
11. Transformers- good story and fight scenes, Optimus Prime, and most importantly Megan Fox!
12. Cloverfield- Great movie and the Monster is cool.
13. The Sixth Sense- Greatest thrilller movie made, good scary scenes, best Shamalyan movie ever made.
14. Signs- Great Movie, very spiritual, 2nd best Shamalyan movie ever made.
15. Saving Private Ryan- Great Story, great acting, great battle scenes, and it has an awsome sniper.
16. Borat- Hilarious, it kicks Uzbeckistan's butt.
17. Airplane- 3rd funniest movie ever made.
18. Billy Madison- Great funny movie, Giant Pengiuns and 
19. Anchorman- 4th funniest movie ever made. Fantastic, Super Duper!
20. Jackass(#1)- the stupidity of the movie is hilarious. Golf Course Air Horn lol.
21. I am Legend- Good movie but it is sad. 
22. Irobot- Great gun scenes.
23. Kung Fu Panda- "It's pure awsomeness will blind you"-(line from the movie)
24. Waterboy- funny movie, The abdolablunggata.
25. Jackass(#2)- the stupidity is x2 hilarious.
26. Shaun of the Dead- hilarious story of idiots running from zombies. a must see.

25 Things i want to do

1. Rule the world.
2. Go on a date with Megan Fox.
3. Get Superpowers.
   
4. Get Taller.
5. Get first in Wresting State Tourney.
6. Hang out with Optimus Prime.
7. Hang out with Jesus.
8. Wave to Becker.
9. See the Seven Wonders of the World.
10. Beat Josh Swank in a wrestling match.
11. I am going to restore the Economy.
12. Get a 100% on Mrs. Lavin's paper.
13. Win American Idol.
14. Become a high ranking general in the Army.
15. Visit China and Europe.
16. Hang out with Master Chief
17. Set a new World Record in awsomeness.
18.  Become a lumberjack.
19. Find the Holy Grail.
20. Beat Jackie Chan, Chuck Norris, Mr. T, and Jet Li in one fight.
21. Own a Dolphin as a pet.
22. Become filthy stinking rich.
23. Use the Wushi Finger Hold on someone.
24. Own my favorite car: Audi R8.
25. Finish all 50 levels in Horde(Gears of War 2).

cool new characters

• Mudflap and Skids, respectively a red Chevrolet Trax and green Chevrolet Beat.^[61] Mudflap is very hyperactive, while Skids believes himself to be the smarter of the two and tries to come across as mature, but nevertheless appears unable to keep quiet.^[65]Bay chose the Beat and Trax for the Autobot twins because he thought those two small cars looked good together.^[66] Ed Welburn added when they had designed the cars before Bay selected them, the "character" they wanted to bring to the concepts was a sense that small cars could be as cool as large ones.^[62] According to leaked daily call sheets that Bay claimed he faked,^[67] they begin the film by combining into an ice cream van.^[68] Skids was mentioned by the other Autobots in the Transformers: The Reign of Starscream movie sequel comics.