Lady GaGa's Message to the Senate: Repeal DADT

Recently, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (a.k.a. Lady GaGa) created a video on YouTube to contact the Senate. In her video, she asked the Senate to repeal the DADT (Don't Ask, Don't Tell) policy. She also called her Senator, Chuck Schumer, attempting to leave a voice message asking him to vote with Hary Reid and Carl Levin to repeal the DADT policy in the United States of America.

For those of you who do not know of the DADT policy, it is, as Stefani stated, "A law that was created in 1993 that prevents gays from serving openly in the military."

She also states, "Since then, 14,000 Americans have been discharged from the Armed Forces, refused the right to serve their country, and sent home, regardless of honorable service or how valuable they may have been to their units. 400 soldiers under President Obama's administration alone were discharged under DADT."

Stefani continued to explain, "Advocacy by organizations such as the SLDN, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, have shown the inconsistent and unconstitutional enforcement of this law. 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' asks that serving gay and lesbian soldiers hide and keep private their sexual orientation under the protection and the promise that the government will not ask them to tell or disclose their sexuality."

"SLDN's advocacy," pop-star Lady GaGa explained, "proves that these soldiers are being searched, superiors are going through their e-mails and private belongings, calling family members and operating based on assumptions. Ultimately, the law is being enforced using gay profiling, and gay soldiers have become targets."

"In short," Stefani explained to her viewers, "not only is the law unconstitutional, but it's not even being properly or fairly enforced by the government."

These quotes came directly from Stefani (a.k.a. Lady GaGa) herself. To find her video, search YouTube for "A message from Lady Gaga to the Senate Sept 16 2010" or navigate to her channel by searching for "ladygagaofficial".

To take action against the DADT policy, visit SLDN's website to find more information. There, you'll find, on the homepage itself, more information about Stefani's movement to abolish the DADT policy.

Thank you for taking the time to read my post and I hope that you, too, will help in repealing and abolishing the DADT policy.

Lady GaGa's Message to the Senate: Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

In this video, Lady GaGa takes a stand against "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", asking senators to repeal the law. I support her and all the soldiers affected by this law and plan to, in any way, help the law be abolished. Will you do the same and save thousands of homosexuals from being booted from what they chose to do for our country?

Do Students Feel Powerless Against Their School?

When it comes to school, do students feel powerless? Are students afraid to stand up to their school and to object to their rules and way of order? Around the schools, you can hear that students are not at all happy about the way their school run things. A majority of students don't realize that their schools could be violating their own rights. Students would think that the school has them on lock down when it comes to the rules, but they don't. School rules have many holes in them. Students are able to widen those holes and reveal the areas in which the school has not covered. When a student actually reads the guidelines, they figure out ways to bypass the rules. The school staff think that they know the rules and what to do if one of those rules in broken, but they don't. School rules are overly absurd now in days. It makes me wonder if they actually take time to think about how the students would feel about these rules and if these certain rules are of need. Which brings me back to students feeling powerless. Students will not stand up against their school because they are afraid of the consequences and most of all, afraid of their own parents. Why? Because their parents are free to take away everything they have. I urge for students to really read the guidelines carefully to find the holes. I urge the students to find the rules that don't belong. I urge the students to take a stand against their school and say "this isn't right". Parents are reasonable. Parents will agree with the student if they let the student explain their reason for the outburst. As for the consequences, there is nothing the school can do that would be reasonable for punishing the student for wanting a change in the way of order. Why do I feel so strongly about this? Because I've had to sit and watch students' rights be abused by the staff who think they know the rules like the back of their hand, one student being my dear friend Martelia Tallent. She brought her new camcorder to school, thinking that if she brought it to lunch, she wouldn't get in trouble. She was wrong. The vic-principal actually was the one who took it from her. Why? His reason was "you can't have that here". If it were me, I would have demanded a better answer. I've read the guidelines and know that her bringing the camcorder to lunch wasn't a violation of the rules. The section I found this hole was in the following guideline:

"Playing cards, dice, headphones, radios, CD players, cell-phones, i-Pods, mp3 players, digital cameras, DVD players and other types of devices that would disrupt learning are not to be out or on between 7:00 a.m. and 2:45 p.m. will be taken up and parents will have to come by the principal's office in order to recover them."

First of all, if someone can't understand how to use proper punctuation and spelling, they shouldn't be making rules. Notice that "iPod" and cell phone don't have dashes in the words and also notice that after starting ". . .between 7:00 a.m. and 2:45 p.m. . . .", the creator of this guideline leaves out proper sentence structor and starts a new statement. If these rules are to be taken seriously, the people who create them should take them seriously. Now, back to the camcorder. The guidelines states " . . . would disrupt learning . . ." Pardon me if I'm wrong, but the cafeteria is absolutely not a place in which students learn. Having the banned items in the cafeteria would not violate the rules, right? Yes. Students should be able to have fun in the cafeteria. Students should be allowed to have their cameras, iPods, and CD players out during lunch. As for the other items, I would understand why they wouldn't be allowed. In fact, this specific guideline doesn't mention anything about having these items during lunch.
The second reason as to why I feel so strongly about students standing up against their school is because on Friday, I had to watch as a girl's food, which was brought to her by a parent or family member, was taken up by a lunchroom assistant and put in the teacher's lounge. You may be wondering why the assistant done this. The truth is, she only done it because the food was from McDonald's. The handbook says that there is not to be any outside food in the cafeteria. Food is food, though, and it was absurd for the assistant to have to take the food and drink from her.
Once again, I urge students to take a stand against their school. Many schools also urge their students to complain against the rules. But how many students will take that stand?

Draft

This is a draft for a story I'm planning on writing after finishing my first three or four books. It wouldn't make much since to any of you unless I've told you what my books are about. But please reply to me what you think of the idea of the book. Thanks! -Nathan.

It's been years since I've encountered a catastrophic event. Since the end of the Vietnam War, everything has been pretty much normal. Martha, Yasmin, and I moved to the United States just a few months ago. We're currently living in New York City, New York. We're planning to move to Clearwater, Florida in a few months. The last time I had ever encountered a catastrophic event was during WWII. Now it's 2001, and America is about to undergo a terrible change. I remember the day so very vividly. I remember the rumble of the engines as the plane swept just above our apartment. I remember the loud explosion, the screaming, and suddenly all news stations were hot with a scoop. I remember the unearthly smell of the burning jet fuel. I remember the smell of the fresh blood. It was so hard to keep myself calm. People were running, people were screaming, I even witnessed people just standing and staring. I wish I could have told them to run. They had no idea as to what was about to happen. They had no idea of the massive scar this event would leave on the United States. They had no idea that their own lives would be taken away from them in a matter of just a few minutes. They, nor I or Martha, had any idea that this was one of America's darkest days. Over three-thousand were lost, hundreds were injured, and America was changed for many years to come. I remember the day so vividly. September 11, 2001.