What will it take to find a solution to the U.S. debt crisis?

Share your thoughts. How does the debt crisis affect you? what would you like to be done about it?

United We Stand: Septemeber 11, 2001

.....date: September 10, 2010....As the day quickly approaches, I wanted to take this time to reflect and ask you all to join me in doing so. This reflection is on one of the worse attacks on the United Sates perhaps since, Pearl Harbor.  At that moment on September 11, 2001, most of us for the first time in our lives realized what it meant to be an American.  The feeling of unity far and wide was felt from the tri-state area to the banks of all states in the United States.  This great nation of promised democracy was put to the ultimate test....Lives were lost! Families were torn! Children were left with no mothers, fathers, brothers, uncles, aunts, grandparents and cousins, who were so familiar in their lives. The lives of each individual throughout the United States was initially impacted by this attack on our great nation.  Yet, as a nation mourns on what will be nine years later on September 11, 2010 we still stand strong knowing that we will rebuild and our faith will carry us to moments of peace that can never be taken away...............
Where were you on September 11, 2001?

"I was in high school. On my way to my Algebra II class." You could see the smoke in the air.  I will never forget that day because for the first time in my life I heard the silence of the American people as we watched and waited, watched and waited, watched and waited, watched and waited....I knew that this great nation would forever be changed. I knew that we were under attack.........................................

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It wasn't me!

Fantasia's suicide attempt after being accused of breaking up a marriage, AND A SEX TAPE! She claims he told her they were separated.  

Her rep said that she was, "overwhelmed by the lawsuit and the media attention" surrounding her relationship with her on-again, off-again boyfriend Antwaun Cook ... who happens to be married.  Fantasia believed Mr. Cook when he told her he was not happy in his marriage and his heart was not in it. She believed him when he told her he and Mrs. Cook separated in the late summer of 2009. She believed Mr. Cook when he told her he lived elsewhere.

WHO DO YOU BLAME?

How young is too young...

Is there an appropriate age to be in a serious relationship? What are the measurements of a serious relationship?

It is said that often times, the younger we are, the less mature we are due to a lack of life experience. Does this impact the status of a 'serious relationship' if the pair is thought as being to young?  Does the lack of experience bring constant temptation, that may arise from emotions beginning to develop as the attraction to the other person deepens? We can agree that each day brings new feelings such as doubts, fears, and confusion coupled with joys and exhilaration.  With that in mind how does this affect a serious relationship? How do our emotions help us determine if we are "ready" to commit ourselves? So the essential question remains, at what age is it appropriate for someone to become seriously committed?

When will it end? [Teacher sentenced for sex with teens.]

Again, another teacher is sentenced to jail for having sexual relations with her students.  Where do we begin to solve this issue? Do we blame the teacher and the student? Do we blame just the teacher? Do we blame just the students? What is going on with our children that they are able to attract the attention of fully grown adults to a point where their relationship becomes sexualized?  Are these teachers not mentally capable of walking away? Are these teachers mentally ill? What is the issue? Who do we trust with our children if we can't trust our teachers?

(CNN) -- A judge in Tampa, Florida, on Monday sentenced Stephanie Ragusa, a former middle school math teacher, to 10 years in prison for having sex with two underage students in 2008.

"As parents, we place our trust in teachers to provide a safe environment in which our children can learn," Hillsborough County Circuit Judge Chet Tharpe said in handing down the sentence. "You violated that trust in the worst imaginable way."

Tharpe also sentenced Ragusa to 15 years of sex offender probation following her prison time.

Ragusa, 31, pleaded guilty in April to three counts of lewd and lascivious battery in a March 2008 case involving a 14-year-old boy, and two counts of having unlawful sex with a minor in an April 2008 case involving a 16-year-old student.