Conflict follows device that drives away teen loiterers

Are our civil liberties being taken away from us? Well, I think that in one case, yes. That case would be the invention of a new device called the Mosquito. What this device does is emit a high-frequency sound that can be heard by most teens and people in their early twenties. The device is to ward off that unwanted teen loitering from places like malls and grocery stores etc.

There is a debate of about whether or not this device infringes our civil liberties? Does it? I think it does because if you are like me and hardly ever hang out at the mall and just go there to waste time and aren't bugging anyone then where else am I supposed to go? I only go there if i have no place else to go while I'm waiting to be picked up by my parents.

I believe that you can say that this device was created with the "all teens are the same" stereotype. This makes me kind of mad because not all teens are the same, not all of us are trouble makers. I mean a good majority of us are but we've all been there right? Wrong. It's a different time than when our parents were teenagers and the economy and culture is different now too. It's not the same and never is the same. Ten years from now It'll all be different again.

Election 08

So for any of you Obama fans out there don't worry about Hillary winning the Pennsylvania primaries. Obama stills leads and is projected to come out on top in the end. Obama's loss in another big state and the numbers by which he lost by among the blue-collar and rural voters, yesterday, may raise questions about his electability. Some polls showed that Clinton won with a double digit lead in Pennsylvania. But in the weeks before the Pennsylvania primaries Obama was crushing Clinton' advantage. Clinton's ten point margin of victory was larger than recent polls had shown, and all of them showed that Clinton had won, but some of them showed only a 4 to 5% change between candidates.

I am a hard core Obama fan because I don't think America, let alone the world, is ready for the world's super power to have that big of a change right now by having a woman president. I mean, yeah, it would be great to have a female president, but I think we need to transistion in to it a little slower than just, "Bang, you're the new president. Have fun! Bye!"

Land By HollyWood Sign For Sale

From what I hear there's some land next to the Hollywood sign that's for sale. This is creating lots of controversy in the community. Apparently an investment group that owns 138 bush- covered acres above the Los Angeles landmark. The investment group put the land up for sale last month for $22 million. Some residents are afraid that the mansions that will be built there will spoil the sign's uncluttered, postcard backdrop. Some also are worrying that the land will no longer be available to hikers, sightseers, and romantics who often climb the hill for peace and quiet as well as a panoramic view of the Los Angeles basin.
Councilman Tom LaBonge said "That is our Eiffel Tower". "There is the Hollywood sign, there is the open space, and that's all there is, this is ours and it should remain ours."

I think that the city of Los Angeles should get together and make the sign a historical landmark, because if you think about all the people who travel from all around the world each year just to see the Hollywood sign it is definitely worth keeping the look that it has always had.