Smoke Signals

I liked the movie a lot, it is amazing how different it was with out stopping to go to my other classes. The movie came off stronger then when I was in high school, I know I am still in high school but it's different when you are with a more mature audience. It's kind of funny though that I have seen the movie for the past three years. Every year in high school I have seen it. I plan to see it again my senior year. Then I will have seen it every year in high school.

For Pedestrians

I am a pedestrian and we all have been at one time or another. I have one huge pet peeve and that is people texting ILLEGALLY might I add while driving. I have had many close calls with drivers who are texting. I can name ten times when I was walking and almost got hit by a car. The only reason I think that it's worthy of blogging about is because the snow seemed to make it worse. I was walking looking both ways and I started walking across the street and this car speeding/sliding while looking down at there phone texting.
Bottom line PLEASE don't text and drive. I have to walk part ways to and from school and it can be scary.

John T. William's

I just watched the dash camera video of John T. William's shotting. All I can say is WTF (where the fire which may not make since but I do not like to swear). I was originally going to blog about the excessive force the police used against protesters and then I saw to video. Oh my goodness. I do believe that there was so much excessiveness that I cannot even describe it. I remember going every week to Pike Place and seeing John carve. My mom who works for Seattle Parks and Recreation remembers having to clean up the shavings from his wood carving. Another part of my knowing or John is that my mom's ex-boyfriend is from the same tribe as him. I remember as a child going to the reservation up in Canada and eating his mom's homemade blackberry pie and freshly BBQ'd seal meat. That was the good times. I also remember fishing up there and eating it fresh. I am so astonished at how brutal our police has become. Please tell me how you all feel about this.

Grandmother Spirit and Eugen

It did really hit me the way both Grandmother Spirit and Eugen died because it had to do with drinking. My family has been messed up by a mix of alcohol and drugs. It has ruined relationships and torn a part friendships. I most definitely have a thing against the two. I understand and believe that to a degree marijuana, opium, coca (cocaine), and anything else derived from plants. I think that if you can lead a normal life with out having to smoke two joints before you leave the house and then have to take it with you just in case you can't come home early enough, or you cannot function without it that concerns me and that's over doing it. Then opium in it's true form and not over done your good. I don't know as much about opium as I do about Coca. My thought is if you chew the leaf like it was interned it would be fine. I definitely believe in herbology but if it is used the right way and not over used. Then as for drinking it 43% of people know someone who are alcoholics. That is royally screwed up. All the negatively that might be in those home's it's quite heart breaking.

Rowdy

I had a Rowdy when I was a kid. Her name was Hayley. I was picked on a lot in Elementary and Jr. High School but in Elementary school a girl named Hayley came into my life and threw everything that was done to me back at them. Except for when they beat me up then she pushed them away. The sad part was I was taller then the boys that picked on me and in all realities I could have beat them up if I had the nerve to. I am a bit of an amazon not as much am I used to but I have a lot of hidden strength. Anyways I was wondering if anyone else had a Rowdy?

Egypt

I am so exited for those who live in Egypt and are now free. The battle seemed long and hard on our end. The strength and the togetherness that it took. I am amazed at your countries strength to keep protesting even though people we being jailed, beaten, even killed. I am so happy for you and that you get to hopefully move into a democracy.

Colbert VS Alexie 2008 Pt. 1

Colbert VS Alexie <- Video link.
Video Portion: 0:00-2:40

Alright you know you have an excellent speaker when you can stump Steven Colbert. I like Colbert to a degree but I don't care for how rude he is. My mom made the point that he is rude to everyone. Anyways I got a kick at how no matter what Colbert said Alexie had a come back.

I thought it was entertaining that Alexie was able to get Colbert with the fact that Columbus was in front of his hotel room. With Colbert there seems to be a need to have psychological warfare to even have a chance on his show. Honestly I think Colbert had his butt handed to him. He finally concedes and says that Alexie and himself shouldn't be fighting but in reality I think he doesn't have any come backs.

Now the Anglo's forgiving the Native Americans was a little wack but funny because then there was a come back. I like I said think Colbert got his butt handed to him. Alexie hit Colbert with a left hook saying that they forgave Anglo's for small pox. Then Colbert tried to slap Alexie with asking for the blakcets to be returned but dry cleaned.

I thought it was interesting when Colbert brought up spirit voices. I believe that we all have them in our own way but a wolf like Colbert assumes. I think not. Then again Alexie feels the need to correct Colbert's assumption of everyone having a wolf spirit voice by saying he has an the spirit voice of a squirrel. We all have a voice of our own and it shows it's self in different ways you just need to listen to it.

Another thing that stuck out to me the assumption that all Native American's can talk to animals. That got to because we all make assumptions about different races. We assume that anyone of hespanic race is a hard labor worker or a maid. We assume that all Asian's are smart and tech oriented. We assume that whites are rich. We assume African-American's deal drugs. We assume Muslims are terrorists and opressive towrds women. The list goes on. You may not agree with these view but it happends everywhere. WE ALL MAKE SOME SORT OF ASSUMPTION ABOUT PEOPLE.