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entucky in december of 2008 to begin serving a 92 month sentence on the first two charges he risked the longer sentence so he could watch his son s freshman season and was apprehended in the family s hometown of flint mich just hours before alabama played in the 2009 sugar bowl it shows the type of relationship we have the type of bond that we have as father and son ingram said that he d sacrifice that any son has to love that and appreciate that that s not sacrifice that s going to make mark the younger feel guilty when his dad serves the extra time because he was supporting mark look ten minutes into the future duh i know that feel good stories sell but let s focus here the dad is in jail because he committed crimes and then ran away from the law he is a convict he is not there because he was wrongfully imprisoned and he s not there because that s the best place for him to support his son s career how many words were said about mark ingram s mom she was at the game i bet she even raised him i bet she s the one he calls when he needs to talk i bet she cooks for him when he goes home wtf is wrong with these people november 28 2009 generation what change posted by cassie frequelz under blogging books politics teen u s military white house youth 4 comments tengrain at mock paper scissors was recently asked to review a book and because the target audience was people under 30 he asked me if i wanted to take on the project i agreed then emailed him and a few other people about how to go about reviewing a book i didn t like taking only some of their advice this is the result cassie generation change by jayan kalathil and melissa bolton klinger fails in its attempt to encourage the obama generation to continue the campaign for change published by skyhorse publishing and subtitled 150 ways we can change ourselves our country and our world this book is geared toward readers under age 30 the unsigned description on the back cover indicates that the fun witty and optimistic approach is sure to attract readers of all ages but the font size and writing style are more appropriate for middle class or wealthier sixth graders if reduced to a size 12 font with chapter titles at size 14 the book would likely fit into 150 pages rather than the current 210 would you pay 12 95 to read a book that tells you to stay young at heart and devotes a chapter to flossing the best suggestion is 5 which encourages us to blog for good we re already doing that find the cause that keeps you up at night and get blogging more november 19 2009 one in a million posted by cassie frequelz under blogging 3 comments i m a millionaire image from http www flickr com photos wrphotograpic 1424263977 not rich not yet but i do have 1 000 000 hits on my blog yay thanks to david for letting me know i never keep track of these things november 14 2009 op ed reaction to the fort hood memorial service posted by cassie frequelz under current events education hypocrisy iraq pentagon politics schools teen teens texas u s military tags fort hood high school war 3 comments the united states has been at war in afghanistan since the fall of my second grade year and in iraq for half of the years i have been in school in all that time and in all of the years that we watched channel one news in the mornings we never saw a casket never heard about the war dead or the loss of limbs and only heard about veterans one day a year that changed last tuesday bill clinton george w bush and barack obama have all been president of the united states during my schooling and all three have addressed the nation s students in the first weeks of school clips of these addresses were shown on channel one or the existence of the speeches was mentioned in news stories there was never any controversy that changed this september this august we were warned that the president was scheduled to speak to students across the nation and the news media was full of dire predictions of this unprecedented address we were originally asked to have our parents sign a form saying that we could listen to the fifteen minute national pep rally for paying attention and focusing on our studies with the option of spending that time in another room then the speech was canceled except in u s government classes our infantile minds were apparently not prepared to absorb such concepts as hard work and setting goals image via fort hood sentinel and yet we were apparently sufficiently mature to watch last week s memorial service from fort hood without warning and without parental permission this solemn service and the words of the president and several reverends were shown school wide in class more november 6 2009 who is mourning posted by cassie frequelz under current events tags fort hood 9 comments there was a memorial vigil at fort hood tonight but i didn t get a chance to go i have been thinking all day about who might be mourning the soldiers who died do you know this dixie chicks song the girl who is mourning the dead soldier from the vietnam war is mourning alone under the stands at a hs football game and no one even knows that she knew him that she fell in love with him president obama and everyone else has sent their sympathies to the families of all of the people who were killed yesterday here in texas but i wonder if there s anyone else mourning who is just crying by themselves under the stands it s a real tragedy i don t think we understand enough about what happened but we know enough that it s time to end all of the wars lyrics travelin soldier two days past eighteen he was waiting for the bus in his army green sat down in a booth in a cafe there gave his order to a girl with a bow in her hair he s a little shy so she gives him a smile and he said would you mind sittin down for a while and talking to me i m feeling a little low she said i m off in an hour and i know where we can go so they went down and they sat on the pier he said i bet you got a boyfriend but i don t care i got no one to send a letter to would you mind if i sent one back here to you chorus i cried never gonna hold the hand of another guy too young for him they told her waitin for the love of a travelin soldier our love will never end waitin for the soldier to come back again never more to be alone when the letter said a soldier s coming home so the letters came from an army camp in california then vietnam and he told her of his heart it might be love and all of the things he was so scared of he said when it s getting kinda rough over here i think of that day sittin down at the pier and i close my eyes and see your pretty smile don t worry but i won t be able to write for awhile chorus one friday night at a football game the lord s prayer said and the anthem sang a man said folks would you bow your heads for a list of local vietnam dead crying all alone under the stands was a piccolo player in the marching band and one name read but nobody really cared but a pretty little girl with a bow in her hair chorus x2 august 24 2009 why is this in a magazine posted by cassie frequelz under political 11 comments school started today and i have to find a news story for a current events assignment i don t think i am using this time story but i do find it weird and interesting a florida culture war circus over rifqa bary by tim padgett miami monday aug 24 2009 rifqa bary 17 reads a bible during her court proceedings in orlando fla on aug 21 2009 ricardo ramirez buxeda orlando sentinel landov florida has a knack for turning family dysfunction into national spectacle ten years ago it gave us the elian gonzalez mess five years later came the terri schiavo debacle now we have a new domestic dispute that threatens to become another culture war circus complete with a clash of religions angle to boot the battle for rifqa bary a 17 year old girl from columbus ohio who ran away to an evangelical church in orlando fla because she claims her sri lankan muslim family has threatened to kill her for recently converting to christianity forget for a minute that this story has nothing to do with florida being dysfunctional the real question is why this is in the news either she s a minor and her name shouldn t be used or she s an adult and can make her own decisions and why is she reading the bible in court there s a lot in the right wing blogs about this story because they see it as anti christian discrimination they re focusing on this the orlando lawyer who claims to represent rifqa conservative activist john stemberger head of the florida family policy council which fought in 2005 to keep terri schiavo on life support last week wrote in a petition to keep the girl in florida that she is in imminent threat of harm from the extreme radical muslim community in her hometown of columbus he warned that one of the world s largest cells of al qaeda operatives once worked from a columbus mosque the barys have attended but there s a lot more in this story to be concerned about for instance how did they go two weeks without telling the police or cps i have left my home four or five times and the police have always known about it at the time or an hour or two later almost three weeks why didn t the people in florida tell anyone did her parents report her missing did her friends know where she went my best friend knows if i go out of my house for 5 minutes the saga began in mid july when rifqa after a dispute with her parents bolted from her home and rode a bus to orlando there she took refuge with the rev blake lorenz the pastor of a conservative christian congregation the global revolution church and his wife beverly whom the cheerleader and honor student had met on facebook almost three weeks later on aug 6 the lorenzes finally let authorities and rifqa s frantic parents know the girl was with them then a few days later rifqa dropped a bombshell to an orlando television station she had run away she claimed because her family angry about her conversion to christianity had threatened to kill me maybe she was taken away from the pastor and his family because it took them so long to contact authorities after its probe of the situation this month florida s department of children and family services took rifqa from the lorenzes and placed her in foster care at a hearing in orlando on aug 21 a judge ruled that she could remain in florida until he decides probably at a later hearing slated for sept 3 where she should ultimately go as fox news sees it court expected to send runaway teen home despite muslim honor killing fears personally i think they are exploiting it this girl s story may be good for a newspaper for judges and social workers but it shouldn t be on fox news or in time magazine august 22 2009 open letter to levi mercede johnston posted by cassie frequelz under addiction current events jail justice kids politics prisons teen teens youth 13 comments dear levi mercede i was sorry to hear about your mom s arrest a nd plea for drug use and selling drugs i was even more sorry that it s in the newspapers and on the blogs and that people are making fun of her i am around your age nearly 18 and my mom has been in jail for almost eight years on drug charges so i know some of what you are going through i am also completely a busybody and am going to use this blog post to give both of you some advice go to alateen or acoa or someplace that s not your church where you can learn about addicts and addiction how none of this is your fault and that you can t cure your mom also mercede if there s a support group in your town or in your hs for kids who have a parent in prison go mercede i don t know who you are living with these days but my brother became my guardian when he was 18 and he was way too young and that s without being a father himself or having reporters and photographers following him around i hope that you stay with a family a whole real family at least until you finish hs you will find out really soon who your real friends are and who thinks a lot less of you because your mom is in jail sometimes even good friends can be insensitive but at least they still like you for who you are some kids are incredibly creepy and think it s cool to know someone who knows someone in jail stay away from them same thing with overly curious adults people will ask you what they can do to help it s a dumb question but if they ask twice tell them to do something to improve life for prisoners and provide treatment for addicts you may even want to join organizations that encourage treatment instead of prison for addicts stand up for your mom make sure that the lawyers and guardians and corrections people all know that someone is watching and that someone cares i don t visit anymore but i do have an adult in my life who communicates with my mom and with the prison because your mom is an addict like my mom and because we watched our moms use drugs instead of facing problems head on all three of us can become an addict more easily than most people so learn what the signs are and be careful and watch out for each other we all need to work on making this country less inclined to incarcerate addicts and more inclined to help them find treatment and that starts with making sure that drug use is not a crime prohibition didn t work for alcohol and it s not working for drugs i hope you do go to alateen and counseling and get all the help you need to not have to ride your mother s roller coaster addiction you didn t cause it and you can t cure it but you can learn healthy ways to get through the next few years your friend cassie august 15 2009 welcome beach bumz posted by cassie frequelz under political 20 comments i don t have a view of the same beach from here but it s a nice place and we can hang out until peanut butter gets the electricity turned back on over at relaxed politics no dancing on the tables or breaking stuff july 11 2009 on obama and teenage girls posted by cassie frequelz under current events feminism feminist hypocrisy photo political politics teen teens youth tags media obama video 8 comments president obama got in a lot of trouble this week when the press took a still picture from a video and made it seem like he was looking at a 16 or 17 year old girl s ass in a tight dress a few comments on this that s not what he was looking at watch the whole video us magazine says this pictures can be deceiving yesterday a photo surfaced of president barack obama seemingly checking out the backside of a 17 year old junior delegate at the g 8 summit in italy but new video tells a different story see obama s just like us moments it appears obama wasn t sneaking a peak instead he was just helping another young delegate down the stairs but french president nicholas sarkozy s intentions aren t as clear the head of state who s married to former model carla bruni keeps his face drawn toward the 17 year old i am a 17 year old girl and i know that if i wear sexy clothes and walk a certain way most 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