I may be just a bit late on this, but there is this kid named Genarlow Wilson. He is currently serving time in a Georgia correctional facility on aggravated child molestation charges, but he is only 20 years old. Genarlow was a stand out high school athlete that received attention from all major colleges and had begun to receive offers from recruiters all over the country. Well, it turns out that as a senior in high school, he received oral sex from a 10th grade girl. He was 17 and she was 15, but Ga law states that it is a misdemeanor for two teenagers less than three years apart to have intercourse, but the same law states that oral sex between the two is a felony.

Many people think that this charge was racially motivated since Genarlow was black and the girl was white. Throughout the case both sides stated that the girl initiated the sexual act. Since then, Ga law officials have re-written the law that convicted the athlete, but it’s not retroactive. A new law may be coming soon that can help him.

What do you think about all of this??
Please keep Genarlow, his mother, and our law makers in your prayers.

My info came from this article on ESPN. Check it out, it has a lot of good information in it.

I know many of you have made New Year’s resolutions and one of those aspirations may be to get out of debt. Well, I’ve searched high and low, long and hard, North and South, East and West…anyway, the answer is here in this blog entry. If you take advantage of these two easy steps, you will be debt free in a matter of months. So here it is:

• Find a homeless person or two
• Sue them for a million dollars

I can’t help you beyond that, it’s up to you at that point to actually pay your bills off and not squander the money on booze and iTunes. This debt elimination plan comes to us courtesy of Michael Kemp, the owner of a ritzy NY antique shop that is suing three men and a woman for trying to keep warm from the heat that emanates from a vent on one of the city’s sidewalks – a vent that just so happens to be in front of his store. This is great because now the rich homeless people of the world can now pay for whatever circumstances that got us into debt as well as their own! I Love America! Don’t you?

In a related story, officials at the World Alliance of Clichés (WAC) have noted that it is now culturally acceptable to “kick a man when he’s down”.

For all of you that think TV has no effect on kids, check out this article taken from the Associated Press on the site abc13.com, a local site from Houston:

Saddam’s Execution Cited in Boy’s Accidental Hanging Death

(1/04/07 – HOUSTON) – Police and family members said a 10-year-old boy who died by hanging himself from a bunk bed was apparently mimicking the execution of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

Sergio Pelico was found dead Sunday in his apartment bedroom in the Houston-area city of Webster, said Webster police Lt. Tom Claunch. Pelico’s mother told police he had previously watched a news report on Saddam’s death.”It appears to be accidental,” Claunch said. “Our gut reaction is that he was experimenting.”

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I know you’re probably looking at the title like, “what the heck is he talking about?”, but I didn’t have to think of this one on my own. The great people of Tufts University took it upon themselves to create what they call a “satirical” Christmas card to parody the carol “O Come All Ye Faithful”…and as you may have guessed by now they titled it “Oh Come All Ye Black Folk”. Now, they say it was written to discuss the issue of affirmitive action, grab your own opinion:

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