Wakamoley

Is such a destructive jerk.

I haven't been able to use the internet for 2 days now, because of Hurricane Ike, which happened to hit the Texas coast (right where Galveston is). We didn't have power for a whole day, which sucked really bad, because it's so hot in Texas, and no AC is like death. And not only that, I couldn't use the internet, either. The hurricane came to my house at around 12-2 AM on Saturday morning, and the damage wasn't all that bad. Some of our shingles fell off the roof and into the backyard, but the damage is superficial and can be repaired with no problem. Hearing the strong, howling wind though, was extremely scary. At one point I thought a car was gonna fly into my house because the wind is just that strong.

But the place that suffered the most damage would have to be Galveston, since most the houses in the city are destroyed, and the beach houses pretty much collapsed. Even the memorial for the 1900 hurricane isn't there anymore, and I'm surprised the sea wall couldn't save the city this time around. If a window in a house is broken, the strong wind could blow through the whole house, and would lift the entire roof off, which is exactly what happened to some of the houses in Galveston. It's pretty much a ghost town now, and most of the city is flooded. Houston, of course, is damaged, but it's definitely not as bad as Galveston. Some of the tall buildings in Downtown Houston have had their windows shattered, and downtown Houston looks like one of those zombies-infested cities, with the damage and the desolation and all.

Luckily, there are not a lot of reports on deaths. There are two, which is a 10 year old boy who died by a tree limb his dad was cutting down, and a woman who died because of a tree falling into her house. But other than that, we haven't heard anything else. My family and I are really lucky, because nothing major happened to us.

Sarah Palin, the candidate on the vice-presidential election on McCain's side, has been considered pretty hypocritical lately, but then again, a lot of government officials are.

First of all, she claims to be a strong supporter of feminism, yet she opposes same-sex marriage, and we ALL know that a lot of lesbians are feminists, and this is not an assumption. She once vetoed a bill that would have denied benefits to employees in same-sex relationships (said she did this because it was unconstitutional), but again, that goes against her stand against same-sex marriage. Sarah is known to be an avid hunter, who loves hunting with her family, hence her firm belief in the rights to bear arms.

She opposes abortion, even in the cases of rape or incests, which is really stupid in my opinion, because if children are born out of incestry, chances are they're gonna be suffering from down syndrome or some sort of mental disability, and if a woman was raped, there are chances that the baby born will grow up to be like its father, which is never a good thing. She recently gave birth to her youngest son, who suffers from down syndrome, so hopefully she would change her stand on that.

She also encourages the teaching of creationism alongside evolution in public schools, but we all know that would never work out if it were to happen. Some of you guys have probably seen my other journal about Christian extremists, but I'm not gonna go into that again. What we just need to know is that creationism cannot be taught alongside evolutionism without having to stir a huge debate between religions and science. That would just be really hectic on the teacher, therefore it shouldn't happen at all.

But the most ground-breaking story on Palin is probably the fact that her underage daughter is pregnant out of wedlock. Bristol, who is 17, has been pregnant for five months now, and she is gonna have to marry her boyfriend, Levi, because of the baby. Even though teenage pregnancy might not be a big deal for American families, it's still apparently a huge deal for celebrities. When Jamie Lynn Spears got pregnant, everybody got on her case and called her all sorts of names, but it seems everyone is okay with Bristol being pregnant, since she got the republican party rallying for her and the way they forgave her sins...

I don't hate Palin, but I just don't think she would be a good president if McCain were to win and dies due to old age. So please make the decision carefully, people, and choose the candidate that would be best for the United States.