UNA STUDENTS PRAY FOR THE STUDENTS AT UA AS WELL AS THE OTHERS!

For college students it is a normal thing to drive down to T-Town to party and hang-out with your high school friends who now attend the University of Alabama. Many of our family and friends live along Birmingham, Alabama as well as in T-Town. The University that I attend is also in the state of Alabama. Our experience was not like the students in  Tuscaloosa but we all experienced something. I take this time out of my busy daily life to SIMPLY THANK GOD for keeping us in HIS loving hands.


Waves of severe thunderstorms rumbled through the Tennessee Valley on Wednesday, leaving a trail of destruction stretching the width of north Alabama. Winds gusting to more than 70 mph toppled trees and utility poles from Cherokee to Rogersville, causing widespread power outages. At the peak of the power outages in Lauderdale County early Wednesday, Florence Utilities officials said about 8,000 customers were without electricity. Utility crews worked into the night repairing the damage. Street and road department crews and volunteer firefighters worked into the night clearing fallen trees from roadways. 

A massive tornado judged to be almost a mile wide struck Tuscaloosa late Wednesday afternoon.University of Alabama officials say there is no structural damage to the buildings on campus. The storm moved on toward 

Birmingham. As of 6 p.m, over 250,000 residents in the Birmingham area and hundreds of thousands more across the region had lost power, according to  Alabama Power. ABC 33/40 reported that Birmingham airport has evacuated all passengers from concourses and flights are delayed, but no major damage has been reported.

IF YOU CAN FIND IT IN YOUR HEART PLEASE DONATE TO THE RED CROSS TO HELP THE VICTIMS OF THIS DISASTER. MANY OF US MAY NOT HAVE BEENIN THE STORM BUT SOME OF OUR FAMILIES WERE. 

****Many of you have asked how to help: Right now the best way to give here:http://bit.ly/cNuH67 or text REDCROSS to 90999 to give $10****

PRAYING FOR YOU ALL!

Elle

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Al Jazeera-English

Al Jazeera-English is a growing interest among America and its journalist. The U.S government is constantly watching Islamic television to see what they think about American and what we have and have not done.

Al Jazeera-English offers many jobs for Journalist and I am sure the pay is worth the trip to the other side of the world. They currently have a job openings and are looking for people of all races. For Job information Read This: Work for Al Jazeera-English

 
Al Jazeera Network has more than 3,000 staff members across the world, including more than 400 journalists from more than 60 countries. Al Jazeera English has more than 1,000 highly experienced staff from more than 50 nationalities, making AJE’s newsroom among the most diverse in the world. Al Jazeera Network has more than 65 bureaus across the globe - the majority are rooted in the global South. 

Al Jazeera English is headquartered in Doha, Qatar. The 24-hour news and current affairs channel is the first international English-language news channel to broadcast across the globe from the Middle East.

Al Jazeera television is known for airing Islamic extremist videos and even hosted an on-air birthday celebration for convicted Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar who murdered four Israelis in 1979."It is a professional institution but it is a militant institution that wants to convey an ideological Jihadi message," said Walid Phares, a terrorism analyst for FOX News.

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Fired NPR CEO

As read on the Nation FOX website. This post is mostly a video post so be sure to check out the link.

Fired NPR CEO Vivian Schiller spoke Tuesday at the Paley Center for Media in New York and lashed out at the videographers who exposed the bigotry in her organization, calling the undercover sting an "abomination." She admitted the rest of the establishment is "terrified" of being the next NPR, Planned Parenthood or ACORN...and speculated that the goal of these stings is to instill fear. "It's terrifying," Schiller said, that's their "objective."

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VIVIAN SCHILLER, FIRED NPR CEO: Extremely concerned. I think it's an abomination. I mean, this kind of tactic -- for somebody to attach the word, some are calling this a form of journalism, this is not journalism. You don't ensnare people; you don't entrap people with hidden cameras; you don't pretend to be somebody who you're not. This is, I don't know what this is, but it's got nothing to do with anything that resembles the journalism that I know. And it's very troubling, it's very troubling and I think, I worry in particular about the impact it will have I think because of this latest ACORN and Planned Parenthood had come before this, I think with this NPR sting, I don't know what else to call it

Right-Wing Media Respond By Complaining That Obama "Blame[d] Bush" In Budget Speech

In Obama's speech many people believed that he was blaming BUSH for Budget situation that we are in now. I think that if this had a happen is the 1950s or 1960's nobody would have been openly talking about their president. This is what Kilmeade: Obama's Speech Was "Blame Bush." On the April 14 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade claimed that the theme of Obama's budget speech amounted to "blame Bush." Guest co-host Peter Johnson Jr. responded by saying, "All the way. Very perceptive, Brian." Kilmeade then stated, "How could you possibly, three years into your presidency, blame what happened eight years ago or along the way?"

taken form the website Media Matters to America.org

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Media Matters

We some times act as if everything was so GREAT when Bush was in office. As media practitioners we have to be objective and never take sides. I think a lot of media related people are taking sides and losing track of  that innocent college student that they once were wanting to be objective in every way and wanting to get that story. This is what  Jim Geraghty: "There Is A Lot Of Blaming Bush In This Speech." From an April 13 National Review Online post by Jim Geraghty:

There is a lot of blaming Bush in this speech. Quick perspective: Using numbers from the U.S. Treasury, we see that the debt during Bush's eight years in office increased from $5.7 trillion to $10.6 trillion, or $4.9 trillion over eight years. That's bad; that's basically $610 billion per year. But in the less than three years Obama has been in office, the debt has increased from $10.6 trillion to $14.2 trillion, a $3.6 trillion increase in about 27 months.  In other words, Obama is increasing the debt by $1.6 trillion per year, three times as fast as Bush. [National Review Online, 4/13/11]