Driving in the snow

        Just about every year the same ol Michigan drivers forget that the roads get slick. While driving in snowy conditions you should always be cautious, and drive slow even if you think your a pro driver. The very first day it snowed this year I was leaving the school and I seen a lady in the ditch, I thought to myself well I should'nt be so suprised this happens every year. People think they can drive in the snow like they can on the pavement which you cant, no matter what kind of car or truck you have.

      Driving in the snow is very dangerious so please be carefull. Here are some tips on driving in the snow.
1. Decrease your speed and leave yourself plenty of room to stop. You should allow at least three times more space than usual between you and the car in front of you.
2. Brake gently to avoid skidding. If your wheels start to lock up, ease off the brake.
3. Turn on your lights to increase your visibility to other motorists.
4. Keep your lights and windshield clean.
5. Use low gears to keep traction, especially on hills.
6. Don't use cruise control or overdrive on icy roads.
7. Be especially careful on bridges, overpasses and infrequently traveled roads, which will freeze first. Even at temperatures above freezing, if the conditions are wet, you might encounter ice in shady areas or on exposed roadways like bridges.
8. Don't pass snow plows and sanding trucks. The drivers have limited visibility, and you're likely to find the road in front of them worse than the road behind.
9. Don't assume your vehicle can handle all conditions. Even four-wheel and front-wheel drive vehicles can encounter trouble on winter roads.

       The last thing anybody wants is to do  ruin there can and put it in a ditch then your stuck with no car for a while, and a bunch of damage repair bills. So before you go out and race in the snow think about what you read here today.

Detroit Lions 2013 divisional season

     

 This season the Detroit Lions have had a up and down season. We had a great start and with the addition of Reggie Bush the Lions were on a roll. The Lions have played well in divisional games sweeping the Chicago Bears in 2 games. The Green Bay Packers and the Minnesota Vikings are also in the Detroit Lions division. Versus the Packers the Lions lost the first game because there biggest offencive weapon Calvin Johnson was hurt, the second game was a different story blowing out the Packers on Thanksgiving day. The very first game of the year was aginst the Vikings who some might say has the best HB in the game today, Adrian Peterson. On the very first play from scrimmage AP busted out a 76 yard TD run and I think all Lions fans including myself lost it. But as the game went on the Lions slowed down AP and eventually won the game. The lions still have a week 16 game against the Vikings.

       As of right now we lead the NFC North with a 7-6 record, the Bears have a matching record. As long as the Lions win as many games as the Bears, the lions will win the division because of the sweep of the Bears this season. The reason the lions want to win the division is so they can go to the playoffs.

       Some of the problems the Detroit Lions have had has been the turnovers this season which has cost us games. Either Mathew Stafford the Lions QB throwing interceptions, or Reggie Bush the Lions HB fumbling the football. That has been the biggest problem for the Detroit Loins all year long. Even thru all the turnovers the Lions had been putting up big numbers on pretty good defences. Talking about defences, the lions defence in the past years have basically done nothing letting teams run up and down the field on them. But this year has changed with Lions D ranking 5th against the run, and 7th thru the air. As long as the Lions stop turning over the football and stop the penalties they have enough talent to go all the way.

Christmas

  

    Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, everyone is always so happy during the holiday season. Christmas time can be very hectic for most people because there is so much to do. From cooking Christmas dinner to planning a party and doing your shopping. Some might stress because there are so many presents to buy and not enough money. there is always going to be stress during Christmas, but most people forget that it is a time for loving and appreciating everything in your life. Once the stress is passed it is the most wonderful and joyful time of the year. I love Christmas and it has always been my favorite holiday because every one is in such a good mood. All of my family comes together and spends time with each other. Christmas originated on Jesus birth day or the day he was born. Many people traveled from far away to bring this baby presents and goods.
    

  Christmas has many festivities during the holiday season, like Santa houses for the children. Where the kids can go sit on Santa's lap and ask him for what they want. Others are sledding where people of all ages find a big hill and ride there sleds down it. Some might go to Frankenmuth MI. and stay at the Zender's hotel and go for a horse and buggy ride. take your wife and children with you. Its a wonderful time out with your family.

Thanksgiving

      Thanksgiving is a great time of the year, people give thanks to all they have in their lives. Friends and family come together to cook and eat a huge dinner. society has made the main dish for thanksgiving dinner a huge turkey cooked to your liking. don't forget all the side dishes, mashed potatoes and gravy, dinner rolls, stuffing, corn, cranberry, and much more.

       Thanksgiving originated way back when the pilgrims came to America. The native Americans helped the pilgrims learn to fish and all kinds of survival techniques. The pilgrims were so thankful they cooked a huge meal for the Indians and they all came together and feasted.

       For as long as I can remember, my family Thanksgiving routine was that we always go to my uncle Charlie's house in St. Charles MI. It was always fun to go there he had seven horses, a donkey, a pig, and a bunch of peacocks an chickens. I loved to see all the animals as a child, and when my uncle Charlie would set up the buggy with the horses and take the family thru the woods. There normally was a bunch of snow so it was always beautiful. I also loved watching football with the older guys, I was about 8 and all the guys liked to drink beer. My uncle Charlie's house had a bar in it so I would sit behind it a get beers for the guys, I normally left with about 20 bucks and at 8 it felt like a million.

       Unfortunately a few years ago my uncle Charlie got a brain tumor and passed away. I loved him and will never forget the good times I had at his house. But that is my thanksgiving story, and I hope every one has a happy thanksgiving.

Freddy Mercury

       Today I'm going to talk about one of my favorite artist, Freddy Mercury. Born September 5, 1946. Mercury was a British musician, singer, and song writer. Most know Freddy Mercury as the lead vocalist of the band Queen.

     Queen had a ton of hits such as "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Killer Queen", "Somebody to love", "We are the champions", "Under pressure". As a live performer Mercury delivered to stadiums and audiences around the world. He displayed a highly theatrical style that often evoked a great deal of particepation from the crowd. Writers described him as "A performer out to tease, shock, and ultimately charm his audience with multiple extravagant versions of himself". He was definitely a man who could hold an audience in the palm of his hand. Queen guitarist Brian May said that Mercury could make the last person at the back of the furthest stand in a stadium feel that he was connected. Over the course of his career Mercury performed an estimated 700 concerts in country's all over the world. The band was the first ever to play in South American stadiums, breaking world records for concert attendance in the Morumbi stadium in Sao Paulo, in 1981.

      In 1986 Queen also played behind the Iron Curtain when the performed to a crowd of 80,000 in Budapest, in what was one of the biggest rock concerts ever held in Eastern Europe. Mercury's final live performance with Queen took place on August 9, 1986 at Knebworth park in England and drew an attendance estimated as high as 300,000.

     As a young boy in India, Mercury received piano training up to the age of 9. Later on, while living in London, he learned guitar. Much of the music he liked was guitar-oriented, his favorite artist at the time were The Who, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, and Led Zeppelin. In 1987, Mercury was diagnosed with AIDS, died November 24, 1991 at the age of 45 in him home in London, England.

HALLOWEEN

 

      The definition of Halloween is a contraction of "All Hallows Evening" also known as Hallows eve, and the day initiating the triduum of hallomas.

      Halloween has a lot of festivities such as Trick or Treating, haunted houses, hay rides, costume parties, ect. Halloween is on October 31, every year. I'd say Trick or Treating is the biggest event on Halloween, all the kids dress up as spooky monsters and ghost. They don't always have to be in scary costumes a lot of kids dress up as princess's or there favorite T.V characters.

      After the kids are all dressed up in there costumes there parents walk them around the neighborhood. The houses with lights on means that they are passing out candy. The children have to walk up to the house and say Trick or Treat to get there candy.

 

     Haunted houses have grew a lot over the years. There are houses in Flint, MI that are four stories high, and are supposed to be the scariest place ever. Inside these haunted houses its normally pitch black, people with chainsaws, and monsters trying to jump out at you and scare you. I haven't been to this one but I heard there is a haunted house with lighted floors that moves so it looks like your going to fall thru the floor.

      Halloween is one of my favorite holidays because everybody is always in a good mood and its a super fun time. I love to take my son Trick or Treating because he has so much fun, he loves to dress up and see all the other kids in there costumes.

Our Government today

 

 

Does anyone really know whats going on with our government today?

   You might think you know but there is a lot. I'm sure know our government is shut down. Petitions of impeachment upon Barack Obama. Talks about cutting Welfare and Social Security. I'm going to go over a few of these topics and give my opinion on these matters.

    First I will start with the Government shutdown, my definition of this is in American politics, when lawmakers cannot pass the necessary funding measures in time. Between 1976 and 2013 there have been 18 Government shutdowns. Politics are not getting paid during the shutdown.

    Now on this subject I'm going to jump over to the cutting of Welfare and Social Security. A lot of people have been seriously injured and can not work and deserve disability. But nowadays I see a lot of fat an lazy people out there that live off of the Government funds. Same with food stamps, a lot of people need the help and use it right to feed there families. Again I see people with 5 to 7 kids to support, no jobs and no fathers around, they need an education. If I'm not mistaking it is Wyoming that is making drug testing a requirement for food stamps. Which I think is an amazing idea people should not be able to get high all day and have the Government pay there bills.

    Now on to Barack Obama and this impeachment petition controversy. I wont be the first or last to say I did not vote for Obama either term. His whole (change) theory was a bunch of bull shit he is a uneducated liar and deserves to get his presidency revoked. These are a few facts posted right on the petition.

 

• President Barack Obama not only failed to aid U.S. personnel under lethal and prolonged terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012, resulting in the deaths of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, but also led an outrageously deceitful cover-up for weeks afterward, rivaling the Watergate-era cover-up that ended the presidency of Richard Nixon;
•  the IRS under Obama – in accord with direct instructions from congressional Democrats – has engthe Obama Justice Department, on top of its many first-term scandals, has spied on and harassed journalists at Fox News and the Associated Press, prompting widespread, bipartisan condemnation of the DOJ for “criminalizing journalism”;
• top constitutional attorneys from across the political spectrum now agree that Obama has committed certain specific offenses that unquestionably rise to the level of impeachable “high crimes and misdemeanors”;
• Obama’s Justice Department has presided over the disastrous “Fast and Furious” operation in which approximately 2,000 firearms were directed from U.S. gun shops across the U.S.-Mexico border and into the hands of members of Mexican drug cartels, resulting in the deaths of as many as 100 people, including U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry – a scandal that constitutional experts agree constitutes, at a minimum, clear grounds for impeaching Attorney General Eric Holder;

   People all have different opinions on everything this is just mine.

 Hey blogger today I want to talk about a baseball player by the name of Alex Rodriguez (ARod), he recently had made baseball history.

 On September 20, 2013 Alex Rodriguez hit his 24th grand slam, which is most by any player in MLB history, he passes Lou Gehrig who held the record for years.

 I want to talk about Alex Rodriguez because he has been going through a lot of problems lately, I don't think anybody can deny Alex Rodriguez has had a very nice career in the twenty years he's played pro baseball, but he has had a lot of issues in his career also like PED usages (performance enhancing drugs).

 In Alex's career he has hit .300 batting average in about 2,560 career games with about 9,808 at bats, Alex has scored about 1,900 runs, 2,940 hits,654 home runs, and 1,970 run batted in.

Alex has played for three teams in his career, Seattle Mariners drafted Alex in 1994 where he played until he was traded in 2000 to the Texas Rangers where he played for three years, there Alex was traded to the New York Yankees in 2004 to present.

 Alex Rodriguez has had had a lot of career highlights and career awards such as 2009 world series champion, 2009 Babe Ruth award, three time American league MVP, fourteen time MLB all star, and 500 home run club.

 In 2007 Rodriguez and the New York Yankees signed a $275 million dollar contract, which was the richest contract in MLB history.

 In 2009 Alex Rodriguez denied using performance enhancing drugs, when in 2007 Alex was on the T.V show 60 minutes and admitted using steroids while playing with the Texas Rangers.

 On August 5, 2013 Alex Rodriguez was suspended for 211 games from the bio genesis  scandal which Alex can still play while under appeal, if the suspension is upheld it will be the longest non-life suspension in baseball history.

Detroit Lions

Dear Blog,
  This is my first blog so today im going to write about my favorite sport football, the 2013-2014 NFL season has just kicked off week two.
  I started to watch football when i was a young boy, and ive liked it ever since, I played football as a boy growing up at home with my friends and also at school thru middle school, and high school.
  My favorite NFL team is the Detroit Lions, there not only my favorite team because i grew up watching them and of course im from Michigan, but because they have one of the best wide receivers in the league in Calvin Johnson.
   I consider Calvin Johnson one of the best wide receivers in the league because no matter what defense the Detroit Lions play they always have wide receiver Calvin Johnson double teamed, another reason I consider him one of the best is because last year Calvin Johnson beat Jerry Rices single season receiving yards record which was 1,848 yards set in 1995, Johnson last year caught 1,964 yards to beat Rices record.
   The Detroit Lions also signed running back Reggie Bush, Detroit signed him for four years with a contract worth 16 million dollars, Reggie Bush won a Heisman trophy in 2005 while he set records at the University of Southern California, Reggie Bush was drafted number two overall in the 2006 NFL draft.
   Getting back the Detroit Lions earlier in this blog I was talking about wide receiver Calvin Johnson, and how he gets double teamed by all defenses, now with the signing of running back Reggie Bush will actually help his fellow wide receiver, as long as Bush can run like he always has like being speedy, elusive, and tough, that will cause defenses to bring another defender in the box to try an stop the run which will open up man to man, one on one coverage on Calvin Johnson where he is one of the best and can break any defender.
   The Detroit Lions are still a young team but they have a lot of potential to make a good deep run in the playoffs this season, in which the Lions haven't made the playoffs sense the 2011 season where they lost the wildcard game against New Orleans Saints.
  The only worries I have about the Detroit Lions this season are the penalty's the Lions accused of, the Lions give up a lot of yards on unnecessary penalty's which will hurt the team and can lead to losses.