I completely agree with what this writer is saying. If we would all make Christmas all about the birth of Our Lord and Savior then the companies would only make things that advertised that. Since we now go for the wintery things instead of the CHRISTmas things, the companies will go to what makes them the most money with winter. As for the part about the Christmas season starting before Thanksgiving now instead of the normal day after Thanksgiving is a totally different debate. Everyone these days wants to get their shopping done earlier and earlier, so stores are taking advantage of that and getting their Christmas stuff out as early as people will start coming in and buying that. I don’t think that has anything to do with Christians, that just has to do with consumers. I do agree though with this writers first paragraph as well, why do we have to call our Christmas trees, holiday trees? No other religions call their religious traditions, holiday traditions. I think we need to see where our priorities lie, if we keep trying to make everything politically correct then we will have nothing that is unique to the Christian religion. We keep trying to make Christianity a politically correct religion but we make no other religion take part. If we keep doing this, Christianity will be non-existent. I have no problem if we want to try and make things politically correct, but we need to do it across all areas of thought, not just certain groups. This is why, I feel were going down a slippery slope, allowing minority groups, not just race but areas of thoughts and religions too, take control over the way the majority acts. Pretty soon, those minorities will be able to get whatever they want because we continue to bend our backs for them, which is something we are doing all to often.

I think it was wrong taking the obese child away from his mother, but I also believe that the mother should get extra help for her son weighing 200 pounds. If I had a kid that weighed that much, I would do something to try and find out what exactly was wrong with him and was causing him to gain as much weight as he had. That way if it was a case of neglect, the child could be taken away, and if not, then the child could stay and get the help he needs. They say that the weight problem was a result of their home environment. Personally, for a kid be over 200 lbs as an eight year old kid is pretty bad. How can y0u honestly say you are raising a kid right when you have a kid weigh that much and it not be an eating disorder. If they would go out and find out exactly what was wrong with the kid, then they could get special help for the kid, allowing him to lose weight and stay at home. I don’t know how long the person would have to stay, or if they would need some form of an intervention where the child leaves for a while to get out of the temptations, but something needs to get done for the kid to start losing weight. But and no time do I believe the child should be taken away for being overweight, especially with how many young Americans are overweight now. Do we need to go door to door and take any obese kid away from the parents for neglect? That’s what this story is advertising.

As  a republican, nothing makes me more mad then the current democratic president leaving the office to pitch a completely different campaign than his previous one when he never followed through on them. Yeah, he did bring in universal health care, or Obamacare, as I like to refer to it. That is about the only thing that has happened that he said he would do with his “CHANGE” promise. I think he should rerun this year with the same promises he said he would run with last election and see how many votes he would get this time. My bet would be he would struggle to win a single state besides California because he was running on his own agenda and not listening to Americans voice their opinion in opposition to what he was trying to push through. It also makes me crazy thinking about how he is out campaigning right now when America is in the state it is. He was elected to lead the country, not to get a second term. If we wanted him for a second term, we would elect him again based on what he has done, not by what he “promises again.” I don’t want anymore of those unfilled promises. We need to fix America, and were not accomplishing that with a president who runs around the country from a campaign and leaves a person more unqualified than himself in charge. This is what scares me about America, we try to fix it without the proper people who should be in charge, in charge.

I am going to start out this post by saying that I do not like Tim Tebow, I do not really have a reason why but I have just never liked him. I do not think that it has anything to do with the fact that he is an in your face christian, because I have no problem with that, as I am a man of the Christian faith as well. I think the reason I don’t like him is that when he was at Florida, the offense was changed to revolve around him. I know he was successful and all that, but I have never like players that have an offense revolving around them. I don’t like Payton Manning for the same reason, but that isn’t the point of my post. My point is, people are just making to big of a deal about Tebow being such a devout Christian. Look around the league and you will find a large majority of them are Christians, but no one makes a big deal about that. One player comes in and shows that he’s a christian and all of America finds it outrageous that he is would do that. His parents are missionaries and he was born in another country while they were there spreading the word of God, so how can you get mad at him, he grew up in it. If the only reason why you don’t like Tebow is because he shows his faith, you should turn around and look at yourself and why you are talking about him in the first place.

This article discussed how college football coaches receive huge amounts of money for the job they do, while college students have to squeeze every drop out of their dollars to get by in college. I find it crazy that coaches at a college university can make 3+ million dollars a year, when college tuition continues to rise. If the college didn’t have to pay their coaches that much every year, then the tuition wouldn’t have to rise as much as it has been. When the average state college price is right around $8,200. With that as a tuition, it takes 365 students to pay his salary. With that in mind, there are coaches for a multitude of sports, not all the sports demand that amount of money, but then you take all the colleges other costs and you see the problem, not enough money for the school to continue without raising tuition. And then these same colleges give full rides to its athletes, and gives them money for food on road trips, and then they give them their shoes and jerseys for free. All of this money is going into its athletics and not into the academics that the school offers. Some of the smartest students at a university are paying the full price of tuition. Yeah, the schools get most of their money from athletics but it should being going into what they schools are actually there for, teaching the students. That is the problem with colleges today, they focus on what makes them money and rewards those areas, not what the school is actually for. Thats the problem with america today….money, money, money.