Boston Celtics Rondo is suspended 2 games.

Rondo is suspended for his involvement in a tussle with Brooklyn Nets Kris Humphries after a hard foul against Rondo's fellow teammate Kevin Garnett. 

This is Rondo's 3rd suspension over a nine-month time frame. He was also given a two game ban in February for throwing a ball at an official,  A one game suspension in April for making contact with an official during game one of the quarterfinals.

Rondo spoke to the league officials and hoping that he would be spared, seeing that nobody who plays basketball wants to be sitting on a bench.  The Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers said "he didn't believe that Rondo's actions deserved a suspension." 

Not only did Rondo get hammered with a 2 game suspension, His teammate Kevin Garnett was fined $25,000 for "escalating the altercation" along with a technical foul, and Brooklyn Nets forward Gerald Wallace was fined $35,000. Rondo, Wallace, and Kris Humphries were all ejected from Wednesday's game.

America Immigrant Dumping Ground? C.Harris

A phoenix police officer patrolling near 14th and Polk discovered a horse trailer in an alleyway, when he further expected he found that it was stuffed with 79 hungry, hot, thirsty immigrants hopeful to start a new life in America. 

Shocking yes, new not even close this phoenix neighborhood has been subject to immigrants constantly being bought a crossed the border and dumped. A local business owner Bob Brunelle says " I’ve called before and told them there was a van in the alley with a lot of people in it, by the time they get contacted they are gone.”

That rise the question how many other UN inspecting to neighborhoods have been the gateway for illegal immigrants into America? Will  the dumping of mothers and children all optimistically waiting to be American citizens stop since this bust. Bob Brunelle doesn’t think so " I don’t think they’ll drop them off in this neighborhood again for a while"

The 11 children (2 in infancy) and 68 adults where transferred to an immigrant holding facility waiting to be ship back to there life’s where they seem to eager to run away from at any cost. Is this an American victory or a dream crushed? 

Who Was Here First?

How many times have you seen someone write on a desk, wall, or textbook, "John was here" or "Sarah was here?" Have you ever done it yourself? Have you ever stopped to think who the first person was to graffiti that somewhere?

The graffiti phrase was started by Shipyard inspector doing his job. His name was James J. Kilroy. During WWII, shipyard inspectors were in charge of making sure that all rivets were properly in place and checked. To allow for the next inspector to know where the last left off, they would chalk their signatures or make some type of indication on the ones checked. J.J. Kilroy's way of indicated what he had checked was by writing "Kilroy was here" accompanied by a man looking over a fence.

The phrase "Kilroy was here" became a symbol of hope for soldiers. It had displayed to them that someone else has been to the unfamiliar territories they were in. Soldiers began to copy the phrase for others. This later gave others the idea to write there name in different places to indicate that just like Kilroy, he too was there. 

The phenomenon has continued ever since with others scribbling there name in various locations for others to see. 

Reasons to love

I keep hearing different kinds stories everyday about kids committing suicides because they keep getting bullied. The story that cut my heart in two was when i heard about a 11 year old boy hanging himself because he just couldn't take the hurting other kids were dishing out to him anymore.

I keep wondering everyday. what would drive a person with so much hatred that they would go out their way to hurt someone to the extent that the person their bully can't take it anymore and feel like the necessary step they need to take is to just not exist anymore? Is it because we feel that they are just different from others? or because you think that they are so ugly, you just can't to look at their face anymore? this is all wrong.

I believe we were all created a different way for a reason. we need to find a reason to love. we need to go out of our way to show love to others. when we see someone been treated wrongly, stand up for them. Do not stay silent. Learn to love always.

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Neighbors have complained that it happens all the time. This afternoon, Phoenix Police discovered a horse trailer packed with 79 illegal immigrants.

An officer patrolling near 14^th street and Polk Avenue spotted a pickup truck connected to a dated wooden trailer. The driver was startled by the officer and bolted from the pickup when he discovered the officer approaching rapidly towards the vehicle which was illegally parked at a fire hydrant. The officer had noticed a hand hanging out through an opening in the trailer.

The officer, concerned for public safety, opened the trailer. Once opened, he saw jammed inside 68 adults and 11 young children, some as young as two years old clinging onto their mother’s bosom. The smell of urine and feces was overwhelming. The officer felt the heat inside like an oven door opening after baking a pot roast. He began to sweet.

A nearby business owner Bob Brunelle, stated, “It’s a weekly occurrence. You see vans pull in here, drop’em off, and then the guy drives off and the people just disperse in the neighborhood.”

Brunelle says he’s owned a discount auto business in the neighborhood for 30 years, but just recently, he says the community has become a dumping ground for illegal immigrants.

Brunelle goes on to say, “I’ve called before and told them there was a van in the alley here with a lot of people in it, well, you’ll have to contact so-and-so, and by the time they get contacted, the van’s gone.

This time Brunelle did not have to make a call. A Phoenix police officer spotted the horse trailer, investigated and found the 79 people inside. After two days in an un-air-conditioned trailer, everyone was thirsty and hungry, but no one was seriously ill. 

“I’m glad they did something about this. It’s too bad there were those two babies in there, they took a hell of a chance, “said Brunelle.

Immigration Customs Enforcement loaded everyone on a bus, hauling them to the temporary holding facility in downtown Phoenix. Brunelle said he was glad to see it, “I don’t think they’ll drop off in this neighborhood again for a while.”

An Immigrations Customs Enforcement Spokesperson says, “he expects most of the illegal immigrants will be sent back home tonight.”

Kobe Bryant sets another NBA record

 

Los Angeles Lakers mega-star Kobe Bryant now has another NBA record to his name. With 1:17 left in the first half of Wednesday night's game against the New Orleans Hornets, Kobe cut through the lane and scored over center Robin Lopez to score the 30,000th and 30,001st points of his illustrious 17-year career. At 34 years, three months, and 12 days, that makes Bryant, the NBA's scoring leader this season at 27.9 points per game, the youngest in the history of the NBA to hit the mark. The previous youngest, Wilt Chamberlain, was more than a year older when he accomplished the feat during the 1971-72 season.

 

Only four other players have reached the 30,000-point mark in their career: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Michael Jordan, and Wilt Chamberlain, all of whom but Jordan played for the Lakers. That's very impressive company, obviously, and the only question now is just how far Kobe will get before he retires. Adbul-Jabbar, the all-time leader, is more than 8,000 points away. Assuming that Kobe averages 25 points per game for the rest of his career it would take him more than four full seasons to set the all-time record. Perhaps he'll settle for besting the player he's been compared to for most of his career, Michael Jordan, who sits at third all-time with 32,292 points. All of Bryant's points have come as a member of the Lakers, and it looks increasingly likely that he'll retire widely acknowledged as the best player in franchise history.

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Doomsday

According to the Mayan calendar, a galactic alignment between the earth, sun, and a black hole is supposed to create chaos on earth on December 21st 2012. Many suggest that this date marks the end of the world, and a beginning of a new era. According to NASA, we have nothing to worry about as the earth has been getting along fine for the past 4 billion years and there is no threat to our planet this year. NASA is claiming that all of the assertions being made are clearly fictional, and that there is no concrete scientific evidence to support this theory. Yet this does not convince the naysayers. There are many people across the world that believe in the 1,300 year old hieroglyphics. The Inscriptions were found carved in the ruins of La Corona in Guatemala, and suggest an "end date" and not the actual end of the world as we see it. Whether you choose to believe in the Mayan calendar or not we are all aware of the publicity this phenomenon is getting, and all we can do is wait and see what happens the morning of December 21st, 2012.