Texas man gets 20 years for trying to contact al Qaeda

A Texas man was convicted thursday for trying to contact Anwar al-Awlaki's and ask for advice about raising money for jihadists. He earned himself 20 years in prison. Barry Walter Bujol Jr., a 30-year-old Hempstead, Texas, resident and former student at Prairie View A&M University, had been convicted in November of attempting to provide material support to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, as well as an aggravated identity theft charge.

Airplane door falls off and lands on golf course

A Florida bound plane from Canada lost its door over a Florida golf course Thursday. The FAA is currnetly investigating what happened but the plane still managed to make a safe landing. The door, with retractable boarding stairs attached, crashed through trees, bouncing onto a golf course near Hallandale Beach.

Near normal hurricane season predicted

The NOAA has predicted a normal hurricane season with the possibility to sway either for the better or worse. They say there could be anywhere between 12 and 18 named storms this year. El Nino will have a large effect on what happens with the storms this year.

SpaceX Docks

Today, Friday May 25, 2012, the Private space craft known as SpaceX, has docked successfully with the international space station. There was a few mix ups but all in all it was successful. They completed the dock a total of 2 hours later than expected and delivered cargo which included food, clothing, 22 pounds of computer equipment and 46 pounds of supplies for science experiments. The rocket will stay attached to the station for two weeks before splash down in the pacific.

BREN tower brought down

The BREN tower in Nevada was demolished wednesday, in less than ten secconds. It was the tallest free standing tower on the west side of the mississippi. The BREN tower was used for nuclear testing in the cold war and WWII. It stood at 1,527 feet tall, the height at which the Little Boy bomb was detonated at.

North Korea still bent on Nuclear power

There is evidnce provide by satilites and South Korean sources that say North Korea is ramping up to a nuclear test. They have pictures of a full mining train exiting a tunnel at the nuclear site. Some say this was unplanned and some say it was just a matter of time.

Iran helps the U.S.

Iranian sailos chase off pirates from a U.S. cargo ship in the Golf of Oman as reported on thursday. This is just but one example of U.S. and Iran helping each other and getting along. http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/24/world/meast/iran-pirates/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Privatized rocket delivery... SpaceX

The founder of paypal, Elon Musk, backed the launch of a rocket carrying 1300Lbs of supplies for the international space station. This event opens up many possibilities for commercial space exploration. The rocket was 180 feet tall and 12 feet in diameter. They plan to return the rocket with experiments and use material. SpaceX also has another 11 flights planned for the future.

Airline scare.

A woman threatening to have a device surgically placed into her body, put a little over 180 lives in danger Tuesday. Doctors on board examined her body and saw no signs of recent scars and ruled out a bomb, but it still caused the flight from Paris to Charlotte to be diverted. When looking back on the incident, they say there was basically no threat because all she did was pass an attendant a note saying that she had a device in her body, not specifying whether or not it was harmful.

"Avengers" crushes "Battleship"

The movie "The Avengers" broke records for sales with a whoping $450+ million in 17 days. "Battleship" was killed on arival with a mere $25.3 million in its first weekend, thats the lowest gross domestic income for a movie of its reported budget of $200 milion.

Fake Police officer in Mississippi.

An unknown individual in Mississippi is allegedly driving around, disguised as a police officer, pulling people over, and killing them. There have been two deaths so far, the first was a 74 year old man named Thomas Schlender who was killed at about 1:30 a.m. on May 8th. The second was Lori Anne Carswell, 48, at 2:15 a.m. that Friday. Both murders were in desolate highways.

Arizona Charter Athletic Association state championship baseball game.

Our Lady Of Sorrows Academy forfeited the state championship game because the other team, Mesa Prep, had a female playing at second base. They say  its against their religious views. It is all official, Mesa Prep has the title but they never played their final game.

Five found dead in Florida home.

Florida authorities found 5 people dead in a home and one woman dead in the yard as a result of a police stand off that involved the swat team. The gunman appeared to be among the dead and there is no clear motive.

Coach's anti-gay comments an embarrasement but not a fireable offence

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/11/us/nebraska-coach-anti-gay-comments/index.html?hpt=us_c1
In Lincoln, Nebraska, assistant coach Ron Brown spoke out to the Omaha city Council against a proposal to protect sexual identity. Brown is a born again christian and a preacher and believes that homosexuality is a sin. The University cannot do anything about it though because he was speaking as a privet citizen.

U.S. plans to sue controversial Arizona sheriff

Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio is facing a civil lawsuit from the U.S. Justice Department over civil Rights violations. Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas Perez told the Maricopa county sheriffs office Wednesday, that the county's failure to address racial discrimination and other violations found by the federal government in December will go to litigation. One reason for this is that while in the sheriffs jail, there were racial slurs being used directly to their respective race.

Nasty Chinese BABY FLESH pills.

China is being accused, and of course denying, producing and smuggling pills filled with ground up baby flesh. there are 29 smugglers that have been caught trying to bring in 11000 pills into Korea. 17000 pills total have been found since August.

'supermoon' over Cinco de Mayo

This Saturday, at 11:35, Earths moon will be at it closest proximity to Earth of all year. They say that the moon will appear very large and about 16% brighter. If you catch it on the horizon, that would be the best spot for a picture because buildings would make an optical illusion making it look bigger and make a great pic. On Saturday, the moon will be at its perigee and thus very close to Earth – about 221,000 miles away.

Penguins eliminated Flyers continue.

In game six of the pens-flyers series, the penguins reverted back to their previous style of play. They didn't quite add up to the game the flyers brought and paid the price for it in the form of a 5-1 loss. That means that in the Eastern conference the Rangers, Capitals, Devils and the Flyers will all advance to round two. In the Western conference the Kings, Blues, Coyotes, and the Predators will advance.

Pens Dominate Flyers 10-3 game 4

Yesterday was game four of the first series in the playoffs for the Penguins and the Flyers and it definitely strayed away from the norm for the past three games. The game was called tighter than anything I've ever seen before and that most likely made a difference. As you can see in the title the end score totaled at 10-3 Pens. The three stars of the game were Jordan Staal (1) Evgeni Malkin (2) and Matt Niskanen (3). Stall had  an awesome 3 goals for the night out of 3 shots on goal. Malkin ended up with 2 goals and one assist giving him 3 points. Niskanen had 1 goal and 1 assist. I'm looking forward to seeing game 5 and hopefully a 6th and 7th.

NHL Playoffs Game one Pens

Today is my first post on a new blog. The playoffs for hockey have started and yesterday the Pittsburgh Penguins played the Philadelphia Flyers. The game was close with the Pens leading by two into the second period. Then they started playing bad and let the Flyers tie it and take it into overtime where they won 4-3 Flyers. That was the first game in a seven game series for the playoffs.