Final Report

Super moons also produce super babies, one mother found out at Anne Arundel Medical Center early Saturday morning.             

            “I wasn’t due for another week,” said 30-year-old new mother Maria Greenwell.  “I for sure wasn’t expecting him to be almost 10 pounds a week early. I’ve only gained 25 pounds.” 

            On Saturday, May 5 at 4:48am Joseph Michael Greenwell was born weighing in at nine pounds 14 ounces; making him 17 percent larger than the average seven-pound-six-ounce United States newborn.  On the same night came the super moon, which was 14 percent larger than the average full moon. 

“Full moon babies usually bigger,” said Fabiola Tellarico, a labor and delivery nurse at AAMC.  “Joseph is the biggest baby we’ve had so far though, his poor mother!” 

            Full moons are often cited as explanations for strange happenings and Saturday’s super moon was no exception. 

            “I told Maria he was going to be a big baby,” said five-time grandmother Christine Nehman.  “I just had a feeling, this was the night, he’s a week early, but full moons have a way of making things happen; it’s a little freaky, honestly.” 

            “At the last appointment, the doctor said he was going to weight about eight pounds,” said first-time-dad Jimmy Greenwell.  “That was three days ago.”

            Baby Joseph turned out to be the biggest baby during the entire night.  No doubt, according to his eleven-year-old cousin Emma Nehman, because of the super moon. 

            “We have do to a project on the super moon for my science class and it’s due on Monday,” said Nehman.  “I was so glad Joseph was born on the super moon, and he was a chunky-monkey.  I’m going to have the best project, my teacher loves babies!”

            Diet, exercise and apparently super moons are all contributing factors of infant birth weight.  One of Joseph’s new cousins doesn’t believe that the super moon has anything to do with his cousin’s large stature. 

            “The moon isn’t why Joseph is so fat,” said nine-year-old Nicholas Nehman.  “Aunt Maria ate lots of meatloaf when Joseph was in her belly.  That’s why he’s so big! I’m calling him meatloaf from now on.” 

            Joseph’s family and friends were taking bets on when he would be born and how much he would weigh.  Family friend, 20-year-old Erin Malley turned out to have the closest guess, being that Joseph would be born on Saturday, May 5 and weight 10 pounds one ounce. 

            “I’m really superstitious,” said Malley.  “I knew the super moon was coming, I keep up with that kind of stuff.  I just had this feeling that he would be born on Saturday, and he would be one big baby!  Turns out, I was right!”

Gay Marriage Campus Survey

    Most Anne Arundel Community College students are in support of gay marriage according to a recent campus survey.  

    "I'm a Christian and I believe that God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve." said nursing student Megan McConnon 

      Gay marriage in the State of Maryland has become a very hot topic as of late due to the voting in the House and the Senate on the same sex marriage.  This bill has been the topic of conversation for over a year in Annapolis.  The saga continues as the Senate voted the bill through 25:22 last thursday.   Although the law is not even close to coming into effect because of anti gay lawmakers trying to force a referendum, although they would need 55,736 signatures to do so.  

   The vote among AACC students also favored in support of gay marriage, 4:2. Tiffany Yang said that she thinks everyone has the right to believe what they want to believe, and if that belief is to marry a partner of the same sex, why should a law stop them from being happy?  

   Art Education student Rebekah Wiskey had a different feeling on the issue.  Because of her biblical beliefs, she does not support gay marriage, and believes that a referendum would be the best and most fair way to decide on the law.  

America the Beautiful

After having pretty much no idea what was going on in Syria for the most part, finding out the extent of the protests and the reasons for them was totally shocking to me.  I am not totally nieve about the fact that the middle east is obviously restless in many of its countries, and that not all of the governments are stable, safe, or have the best interest of the people in mind, they don't even attempt to pretend that their overall goal is to improve their nation.
Honestly I have never been so happy to know that I live in a place where I am free to write this blog post without the immediate fear of dying for what I say or expressing my belief on some issue whether in Syria or even in the United States.  Syria has been rebelling and protesting against President Bashar al-Assad since the arrest of a group of young teenagers for anti-regime graffiti tagging and they were taken off to jail without their parents even knowing they were taken into custody.  If that happened in the United States, there would be a giant law suite and a bunch of people in expensive suites chewing each other out.  In Syria, instead of law suites, they just kill their own people.  Since the protestors started after the arrest of these children, 6 Syrian's were killed by the government on march 18th, just 3 days after the arrests of the children.  
Overall, Syria has serious issues and they are not going to be resolved by protestors continuing to lose their lives over a courrupt government.  The United States does not need another war on our hands, so I am no suggesting we get involved, but someone needs to, before things escalate into an even more irreversible situation.  

Here Comes the Brides?

Let me first start off by stating that I am a Catholic and have been brought up in a very conservative household.  With that being said, throughout my life I have been opposed to gay marriage.  Not simply because of the fact that my family is opposed to it, but because I believe that marriage is something not to be taken lightly, and the sanctity of it should be protected.  People will argue that divorce is breaking the sanctity of marriage as well, but I don't believe in divorce either.  If you are going to be married, it needs to be until death do us part, unless obviously there are EXTREME circumstances, (abuse, etc.).  Overall, I really hope that this bill does NOT pass in Maryland.  It really bothers me when homosexuals run around and flaunt their sexuality, I don't need to run around screaming "I'm straight and I love it" why do some gay people feel the need to do that?  Does that make me a homophobe? Maybe. But let me also say that my Uncle is gay, and he is not married, nor has he ever pushed to be so.  He is a large part of our family, and is not treated any differently because of his sexuality despite my family's strong religious beliefs.  Just because I don't want my Uncle to be married doesn't mean I love him any less, it just means that I have strong religious beliefs that suggest otherwise.  Overall, I understand the desire for gay marriage, but I also believe that it would cause a HUGE rift in the wedding business because of some wedding planner/vendors beliefs, and no one should have to be that uncomfortable giving someone what they want.

State of the Union, Not So Unified.

President Obama's State of the Union Address was extremely underwhelming for me.  There seemed to be no sense of urgency to fix the things that have been ongoing issues in the United States over the past few years such as healthcare, unemployment and the economy as a whole.  I understand that "healthcare for everyone" sounds great in theory, but do I really want to be paying for other people's abortions? The answer is no.  If President Obama was to go thru with his plans for universal healthcare, who's to say his pro choice position on abortion would not creep into healthcare plans?  Yes, I believe that everyone should have the right to health insurance, and I agree that it is extremely expensive, but having the upper class pay for the lower class's healthcare is just ridiculous to me.  Why should people who happen to be wealthy have to give their money up to other people who have the very same opportunities to aquire money and jobs.  Although clearly someone who is born into poverty is going to have a harder time achieving a state of wealth rather than someone who is born into money would, the impoverished person still has the opportunity to become a CEO of a company one day.  America is about equal opportunity, not equal social status from taxing wealthy people whom have often worked very hard to earn the money that they have.  President Obama's address, while very well delivered, worries me because one, I don't agree for his plans on the future, and two, the address was more of a campaign tactic more than anything else, he was supposed to be putting American's at ease with the tough economic situation we are facing, but instead he promoted his own image and used this address as a way to grab media attention away from the republicans and back onto him.  I also thought that President Obama's run-in with the Governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer was absolutely ridiculous.  Both of them were wrong for having such a heated public argument but President Obama completely denying that the book Brewer wrote about his immigration policies was falsified is ridiculous, especially if there is record of the two having a meeting in the oval office about the topic.  Overall, I believe that President Obama's State of The Union Address highlighted his "accomplishments" and did not touch the tough issues republicans and democrats want answers to.