Welcome to America!!

Wow, we've had some real winner's in the news this week(and its only Wednesday!). Leading our headlines in the last several days we've had 17 girls seemingly make, and follow through with, a pregnancy pact in Gloucester, Mass.; Barack tosses out the first racial grenade of the years presidential race; and in the last couple of days 2 of America's most colorful characters got caught speaking their minds. Yup, I said it-they were speaking their minds...If you missed it, Imus is claiming to be standing up for the NFL's Adam 'Pac-man' Jones, and Shaq made up a freestyle rap in which he dissed Kobe Bryant...Well, dissing is being way too polite. It was more like a pimp slap followed by a punk kick lol. I was pretty surprised that Shaq let it out on Kobe like that, but I think he meant every word. As for what Imus had to say-I expect nothing less from him after the 'nappy headed hoes' fiasco. His biggest problem is that he misplaces his humor. Funnier about Imus though, is the response of his supposed target. Jones is claiming he will pray for Imus (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3458377&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines.
All of these recent headlines point to a real problem in America. All of these headlines are indicative of American culture. In ways, all of these things are representative to who we are as Americans...How sad that this is what we have become. In these stories can be found nearly every reason for why American's are viewed the way they are by other countries. Greed, arrogance, ignorance...All of these traits are present in each of these stories. The scariest of all of these is this supposed pregnancy pact in Mass. No surprise, really, that something like this should happen in one of the most liberal states in union, but this story points out just how bad America is getting...