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Author Archives: ngolubin
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Hero turned Mobster
A man that was a war hero in World War II now become a mobster that was involved in man slaughter and gang related crimes. It is not easy to tell who has deviance inside him, you can never tell until that person actually commits a crime. It’s a clear example with Sam Volpendesto, a veteran War hero that saved lives and earned several medals now will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Due to this convicted Sam might not even be able to be buried at the Arlington National Cemetry outside of Washington D.C. for war veterans. Sam still denies any claims that he was part of any gang related activity and that he never made a dime from these crimes.
This shows the deviance can take over anybody, even a person that was brought up in the military and was taught ethic and moral judgment. But unfortunately Sam learned how to assist in murder and crime during the years of service. Wars can bring up trained killers inside of respectfully humble individuals. Its a disgrace not only for himself but also for his family that was proud of his service in WWII. Now the remaining years of his life he will look at them behind bars…just like the men he put away. As the article stated,”War service is not a license to commit crimes.” I believe that some people believe they can get away with anything if they serviced in the army, and it is not unusually because US give a lot of power to those in the forces.
Punishing children
After reading this article it was funny to me how the mother punished the little boy. All the little kid did was lie about misbehaving in school. I understand the mother is trying to implement the right morals and conduct on the boy but with hot sauce and a cold shower. Come on is the boy actually going to learn anything from that, I really doubt it. The boy is from Russia, your not going to teach this boy anything by squeezing hot sauce in his month and making him tell you that you lied. Coming from a Russia, you better have something better than that, that little kid is not going to learn anything. You got to come up with something better than that.
Funny thing is this story made Dr.Phil and now the mother is on trial. Yeah it is kinda harsh to do that to a little kid but putting somebody on trial for that, I wonder what kind of punishment the court is going to give her. You got all these lunatics on the lose in US and their worried about a mother that punishes her kid with hot sauce and a cold shower. Cold shower probably helped since his mouth was burning a bit. When this kid is going to grow up, he will definitely laugh about this. This just shows how some small deviance is taking out of proportion. I think US just tries to show how good their justice system is but it just shows how ridiculous it is.
Cash-Strapped Port Authority
I had to post about this article because it just makes me sick to think how the port authority is ripping us off. I mean every year they implement these new price hikes on tolls and buses or wherever they just try to make easy money off of the public. It really gets ridiculous more and more, port authority lacks in responsibility, quickens, and just more moral reasoning.
But every year they try to raise the prices…how does that work?? I still dont get it to this date, and all these oppositions approve their hikes…Why? It bewilders me every single time. Especially with this new hike on port authority, this one particularly doesnt affect me because I take the MTA everyday to work to school but what makes me crazy is that they paid over 86.5 million in overtime to their employees last year..and now they want a bigger spending budget and more money. Does that make any sense? Why should we honor their price hike and it is their own fault for capping the budget and paying out so much overtime to their employees. One employee made 156, 000 in overtime in one year…..does that sound reasonable. Learn how to create a better spending plan and ask for price hikes. If this price hike gets approved I just cant see how we are not being robbed. I mean how much do we have to pay for these damn bridges that have to be repaired every single year. Verrazano Bridge is already 13 dollars…I dont even go on that bridge anymore. I cant wait till it costs 20…Im going to love that day.
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I survived…beyond and back
I caught this show on the Biography channel Sunday night. It got me really interested, since i realized this show is about people who have died and come back to life. At first I didn’t really think this was real, i mean i still have my doubts, but after watching this episode it seems pretty realistic to me. This particular episode was about two people, Sandy and Matthew.
Sandy’s story was that she drowned in a white water rafting accident. She was dead for 5 minutes and was resuscitated through CPR. During the 5 minutes that her heart has stopped, she witness death, and what it means to be dead. She says she firsts sees a flash show of her sons in the future, when she is losing consciousness. When she actually dies, she describes herself as seeing her lifeless body in the water. She watches her rag doll body, while she is being saved by the main leader in her excursion group. He pulls her out of the water and drops her onto the boat. When her lifeless body hits the bottom of the boat, it shocks her body enough to get her heart beating again. That is when she says, she suddenly remembers being back in her body and gasping for air.
The second story involves Matthew, another individual that died and came back. However, his story was a bit more horrific. He was shot in the head by a random drive by shooting, and was dead instantly by the shot. He was rushed into the ER and for 5 minutes the paramedic performed everything they could to get his heart beating. For those 5 minutes, he describes himself being changed in a dark abyss..which he says is hell. Believer it or not, but it seemed like a real story, and he is not the only one with such crazy stories.
US Troops killed in Afghan…
Hearing this news on a Saturday morning gave me some shivers. I just can’t believe that 30 US troops, 22 Elite Navy seals perished in this helicopter. What are we still doing there??…We got to get our troops out of there asap. This war is becoming more and more like Vietnam War, senseless deaths. And to add to this matter, this was the biggest loss of troops US had in one day. I feel like in a way this was staged by the Afghan troops that were with the US troops on that helicopter . The weird thing is that 22 of the Seals that were killed, were part of the same same unit that took out Bin Laden, kinda stirs a bit of a controversy. How can elite group of Seals be easily taken out…just like that. We’ll definitely never know the truth of the matter, because the government in some way or form tries to hide some bit of the truth.
US Government will never end up telling the public what exactly happened because then that would start even a bigger situation. After this type of tragedy, more and more people will start to lose faith in this war, which by now probably already happened. The Obama administration is not doing a good job taking the troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq. This war is not going to stop. America always tries to be the world Police, trying to fix everybody else s’ issues, when it got some serious problems of its own. Our economy is once again hitting a rough patch, while we are trying to fight a war we can’t really win anymore.
