A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

       One picture I found on a subway. One story I had to uncover. The back of the photo read "New Orleans Trip, 2012, last time I saw my family." "Sarah in black, Mom in white, and Dad in brown." This was last time this person saw their family!? It is 2062 right now. I assumed the girl in the gray was the owner of this photo, because she did not identify herself on the back. Was she on a quest to find her sister? Or her parents if they are still alive? Either way I now have to find her. She deserves to find her family, and how can she without the most recent photo she has of them? 

       Immediately after finding this photo I scanned it into my computer. Technology these days is very useful. I was able to use "face detection" technology and find a Facebook account linked with this girls face. It was hard to tell she was the same person though, because she was now closer to 70 than 20. Her name was Rachel Funkhouser. I was very hesitant to click on this suspicious girl's page. What if this wasn't her and I just turned out to be a huge creep? But on the other hand, what if this is her and I can help her find who she has been searching for the past 50 years of her life? "Click." "Gosh, I did it, I can't believe I did it." My hands were shaky as I crept through this complete strangers profile. I looked at the "about" section on her page and scroll down to the family part. She has a sister, but I am so confused. The picture that shows up by her sister's name looks like she is the same age as she is in the picture I found. It is almost as like she has not been on Facebook for fifty years. I check my Facebook every three hours, there is no way she has gone fifty years without updating her profile picture. Then it hit me. Her sister is missing. Her whole family completely disappeared. I think this poor girl has been searching for her family for the past fifty years not because she lost contact with them, but because they have been either taken or worse, killed.

       After this realization I did more research on Rachel Funkhouser. 109,030,284 results. I have my work cut out for me. But wait, all of these stories are related to one another. "Family Killed in Car Crash; One Survivor." "Funkhouser Family of Four; Only Youngest Daughter Lives." I don't understand. Dead? I was so wrong. I thought she was looking for her family for the past fifty years, and she carried that photo around to show to people. Did she carry this around as a reminder of her beautiful family? I have to find out more.

       Scrolling through more search results I came across a local newspaper article. The article read "Dangerous Woman on the Loose; Many Psychological Problems. If found please call the police department." On the article was a picture of Rachel Funkhouser. The same Rachel Funkhouser I had just felt sympathy for. Now I am so scared that the girl I just felt bad for is some crazy lady that is on the loose. What does this mean? I picked up my cell phone and immediately called the number on the bottom of the article. "Helloooo", said a very rude receptionist, "what is your emergency?"
       "I have a question about an article in your local newspaper, I said, "the one about Rachel Funkhouser."
       "O yes, that poor woman that needs some professional help?"
       "Uhhhh, yes I guess that is her."
       "Do you know where she is at?"
       "No I do not, but I just found a picture that I believe belongs to her on the subway today, and I was just looking to learn a little more about her and what is wrong with her."
       "Well you see, this woman was just a child when she lost the closest people to her. Ever since she has went off the deep end, trying to find her family. She is not psychologically stable to handle the events that happened in her life. She needs to be found so she can be treated and go through some therapy."
       "Okay well thank you for that. I really thought I could help this woman find her family, but now I know I can't. Thank you for your time."

     A psycho on the loose. A woman I thought I could help. I've heard people say "a picture is worth a thousand words", but now I know that the words they portray aren't always the whole story.

Questioning the "Facts"

The London Subway bombing, 911, and the Sandy Hook shooting. What do these three catastrophes have in common? To me the only correlation between these three incidents would be the fact that innocent people were killed and many families lost their loved ones for reasons beyond their control, but YouTube user "ThinkOutsideTheTV"seems to disagree. 

Now, I have seen various conspiracy videos in my lifetime that make me raise an eyebrow, or question the facts, but never in my life have I seen a video that makes me so sick and sad in my life. For those who have yet to see this video here it is. I warn you though, you may not like what you see.

Now whether or not you took the 30 minutes to watch that video or not, you should know that it is based upon the fact that the London Subway bombing, 911, and the Sandy Hook shooting are all fake. It's main focus is on the Sandy Hook Shooting. Throughout this video I found myself thinking, "that makes too much sense" or "why would the government do this". Now I look back and I think, "how dare me for even believing this for a second", but whether or not I feel remorse for believing this man's conspiracy, I can't help but thinking some of his information may be plausible. 

He presented the fact that a day before each of these incidents, a version or multiple versions of the Department of Homeland Security was in the area, practicing for disasters exactly like the ones that happened the next day. Now I don't know about you, but that made me raise an eyebrow to the facts. The other thing that made me wonder was when he showed the clip of the man who was supposed to be mourning over the loss of his daughter, but instead was laughing and joking around. If I had just lost my child in a school shooting I don't think I would laugh or smile for weeks. Right before his interview he is caught saying, "are we ready to start", while he is laughing. Only moments later he is hyperventilating and crying over the loss of his daughter. The creator of the video relates this with an actor trying to get into character. That just made me sick. 

I feel shameful to think that all these disasters could be planned out. It makes me sick that I doubt that there are real people in the world mourning the loss of their children. To me this video basically shows everyone that the government is not to be trusted. The only thing I don't understand is, why would the government pretend to kill, or actually kill people? What would be the benefit in making people die, or making it seem as if they are dead? I can't come up with a single reason this would make any sense. That alone is enough evidence to me that these are all coincidences and not planned out by the government. 

I don't want to tell anybody what to think about this video, but I do have a couple last things to inform each and everyone of you on. One, if this is real and there are families mourning over the lost of their beloved little ones, we can not support the viewing of this video. No one in the world has the right to question the loss of someone else's loved ones. I for one do not feel comfortable spreading around the questioning of the loss of 20 children and 8 adults. So my opinion is that this video is very offensive, and makes me really feel bad for the victims that have to deal with people not supporting their losses, and saying that they are fake. But on the flip side, I do not think that the creator of this video is all wrong. I commend him for all his research, and hard work to present his evidence. I think that he is fighting for something he believes in, which I can not say is the wrong thing to do. I have the right to disagree with his position and I very much do so. And as for the rest of you, it is completely your choice to question the evidence and form your own opinion. Just remember either way there is a great deal of wrong in this world, and the fact that you can no longer choose a good side makes me incredibly sad.

Miss Congeniality 

          FBI agent is really all Gracie Hart ever wanted to be, and then one day that dream job of hers took her to an unimaginable place full of hairspray, world peace, and eating disorders. That doesn't sound like the life of any ordinary FBI agent. Hart was demoted to a desk job after she didn't follow orders on a mission, and one of her partners gets shot, but if that wasn't enough she was selected to go undercover on a mission at the Miss America Pageant. Now as you may know by the images in your head, most FBI agents aren't that concerned about their "girly" traits. Hart is forced through an agonizing day full of waxing, plucking, lasers, hair gurus, and an unbearable lesson on table manners and walking correctly. 

        Once at the pageant Hart is faced with the hard task of acting like a prim and proper pageant queen, while trying to find the suspect for the threat of a bombing. Now I commend her, because after three days at that pageant I think that the only threat to those girls would be me. I would go insane. One of my favorite quotes in the movie would have to be when she is imitating one of the girls and she says, "look she's going to cry again" and then makes fun of her some more and goes, "if I only had a brain". that part gets me every time. After days of accusing innocent men of crimes, jumping off of stages, and breaking almost all the rules of pageants, Hart is able to find the actual mastermind behind this horrible threat. It turned out to be the pageant coordinators son, Stan. Hart ended up saving her best friend Cheryl's life and became a pageant hero. 

       She is my favorite character because she is always making me laugh by being different than normal girls, being a little inappropriate, and always there when you need her. I know that we would be good friends if we were to ever meet in real life.