Taco Salad

       Taco salad is a great recipe if you're are looking for more ground beef recipes. For some reason, I always have trouble finding ground beef recipes, even though I can always find chicken recipes. I love this recipe because it has enough spice for taste, but it's still mild enough to feed your grandma from the south. 

Ingredients:

• 1 lb ground meat (beef, elk, turkey, etc.)
• 3 clove garlic*
• 1 can dark red kidney beans (16 oz)
• 1 cup taco sauce**
• 1 tablespoon chili powder***
• 6 cups torn iceberg lettuce****
•  4 tomatoes
• 2 cups cheddar cheese
• ^
• 4 green onions^^
• Tortilla cups

Instructions:

1. Cook ground meat with garlic in a heavy skillet until brown. Stir in kidney beans^^^, taco sauce, and Chili powder. 
2. Bring to heavy boil. Simmer, covered, for ten minutes. 
3. Make the salad by making a salad with the lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese, and any other salad ingredients you wish to add. Divide among tortilla cups^^^^. 

 Garnish:

    This recipe can be garnished with whatever Mexican garnish you have, but I have a few suggestions. You can cut an avocado into slices and place on a dollop of sour cream. You can also add salsa and/or guacamole on top. 

Notes:

*You can add more or less garlic depending on how much garlic you like in your food and the size of the garlic cloves.

**I always make my own, but you can use a jar if you're pressed for time (8 oz). Here's the recipe:

Ingredients:

• 1 can tomato sauce (8 oz)
• 1 tablespoon onion
• 1 teaspoon garlic
• chili powder to taste
• 1/4 teaspoon paprika
• 1/4 teaspoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon cumin
• 1 tablespoon white vinegar

Instructions:

1. Blend everything in a blender or food processor until smooth.
2. Cook on in a saucepan for 15-20 minutes. This is really important because it helps blend all the ingredients together.

***This is to taste. I like a lot more than the suggested 1 tablespoon, but if you like you're food a little milder, you can add a little less.
****I would never suggest using iceberg lettuce on account of it has so little nutrition, but if you want to, you can.
^You are making a salad so feel free to put in any other salad ingredients in. I would stay away from fruits and other sweet treats because this is a savory dish.
^^These are mostly for garnish, so if this is the only dish you are using green onions in, I would not buy green onions.
^^^Make sure you do NOT drain or rinse the beans.
^^^^You can make deep-friend tortilla cups, baked, or naked. I love the deep-fried. Here's how to make them.  

Ingredients:

• Cooking oil
• Flour tortillas

Instructions:

1. Heat at least two inches of cooking oil in a deep saucepan to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. 
2. Using a metal ladle, press the tortilla down into the oil from the middle. 
3. Fry for 40-60 seconds until golden brown.
4. Remove from oil and cool on paper towels. 

     Overall I love this recipe and feel like you should take the time to make it. 

Windows vs. Mac

     I personally will always vote for windows computers. I like Apples, but the cons outweigh the pros. Today, someone in our class did a speech on this extremely important topic that we need to ponder in order for our very soul to survive. Okay, that might be just a little overboard, but you should have an opinion. But I think you should have an opinion about everything and you should make up your own mind. Too many people just follow the crowd making the media extremely successful. Take global warming for instance, many people believe in it, but couldn't tell you why.  
     I like windows computers because they are fast, light, easy to carry, and only $200, as opposed to the $2000 you could pay for a just as good or even worst computer. If I were you, I would go for the one that is $1800 cheaper. 

Esther Earl

     One my biggest role models in life is now Esther Earl. You may or may not have heard her. If you have read The Fault in our Stars by John Green, you have indirectly dealt with. Many of his books are bestsellers and I have personally read a few of them. He is a good writer, but by far his best book in The Fault in our Stars. My theory is that since this book was inspired by Esther Earl, it meant more to him. His character, Hazel, had deep insight for her age, just as Esther Earl. But more than that, the most powerful writing comes from things we have actually experienced. 

     Esther Earl was truly an amazing person. Currently I am reading a collection of her journals called This Star Won't Go Out. In this book, she describes her struggles with cancer. It's interesting how she apologizes for complaining even though when she was writing it, she probably thought that no one would read it. She writes that the journal is the only place where she can express her complaints. I love her writing because she writes like she talks. She doesn't use big words or proper grammar like most people do when they write. She writes right from the heart. It is a shame that she never lived to adulthood to continue writing. 
    I think the reason she is such an inspiration to me was because she is so selfless. When I first read Divergent  by Veronica Roth, I thought about what it really meant to be selfless. I thought about how I hated being around people who aren't aware of the people around and I vowed to myself that I would be a more selfless person. Esther Earl was a selfless person without even trying. I mean she tried her best never to cry in front of her parents because she knew she needed to stay strong for them because as John Green writes, "The only thing worst than biting it from cancer, is having a kid that bits it from cancer." 
    I hate reading this book because it makes me miss Esther even though I never knew her. It also makes me feel really bad for Esther's parents who will forever feel her loss. 
    Even though I am not a nerd-fighter and have never read the Harry Potter series, I feel really close to Esther and have joined the many mourning for her. 

Chicken Pot Pie

Just for starters, I have never actually made chicken POT pies. I have just made one or two larger pies. I always try to make my own crust even if I am pressed for time. I have to give credit to Better Homes and Garden's New Cook Book Tenth Ring Bound edition because that is were my base recipe came from. I made my own variations, of course. 

Ingredients:

• Variety of fresh or frozen Vegetables*
• 1/2 Cup Chopped Fresh Onion**
• ***
• 1/4 Cup Butter****
• 1/3 Cup All-Purpose Flour
• 1/2 Teaspoon dried Sage, Marjoram, and/or Thyme, Crushed*****
• 1/8 Teaspoon Pepper
• 1 Tablespoon New Mexican Green Chile Powder^
• 2 Cups Chicken Broth
• 3/4 Cup Cubed Chicken or Turkey^^
• 1/4 Cup Snipped Fresh Parsley^^^
• ^^^^

Instructions:

1. Make crust and set aside.
2. Cook Vegetables.
3. In a cast iron skillet^^^^^, cook onion in butter in butter until tender.
4. Stir in flour, salt, spice (s) of your choice, Green Chile powder, and pepper. 
5. Add chicken both and milk all at once. Cook until thick and bubbly. Add vegetables, chicken, and parsley. This is your filling.
6. Fill prepared pie shell and top. Slit holes in the top to let steam escape. 
7. Bake at 450 degrees Fahrenheit for 10-15 minutes or until top crust has lightly browned.

Notes:

*You can use either fresh or frozen though I would recommend fresh and feel free to use any vegetables in your fridge. This is a great chance to eat those vegetables that you bought because you thought that you would eat them and haven't.

**I would definitely recommend fresh. If you don't have a fresh onion on hand, do NOT use dehydrated onion, use a substitute such as celery or carrots and onion powder.

***You can put mushrooms in, but I would never force you to ruin than in your amazing dish with terrible food. I personally would never tell you to use or eat any type of Fungi.

****Yes, you need a whole 1/4 cup of butter. In some recipes you can skimp on the butter, but not this one. You need all of that liquid. Never ever use margarine in anything you eat or cook.

*****You can always use fresh, but use a couple of tablespoons instead of a teaspoon.

^This is optional, but Green Chile makes everything better. You can use more or less depending on how spicy you like your food. I probably wouldn't use more than 2 tablespoons because it will overpower the dish.

^^This is a great dish to make with all that leftover turkey. I made turkey pot pies today.

^^^If you don't have fresh parsley, leave this out. It isn't essential to the dish, but it definitely adds to the flavor.

^^^^You can put pimento if you prefer. I never have and it still turns out great, but if you want to try it, go for it.

^^^^^You don't have to use a cast iron skillet, but I always do. You can use a nonstick skillet or saucepan. 

Too Close of a Look

     Racism is such a problem in our country that people question  everything  you do when people are dealing with a person  of a different race (Mexican, African-American, etc.). So many people are accused of being racist that had evil intent. I have a theory that when people are at one extreme, they go to the other extreme to break it. Take Disney actors and singers such as Miley Cyrus or Demi Lovato for example. They start their careers as happy "be the best that you can be" people and to break that they post porn and other inappropriate things of themselves. So, people used to think it was okay to insult people because they were a different race. Now, racism is so watched that even people question a police officer who shot an African-American man when they wouldn't question the action if he was white. I am NOT saying that he was definitely not being racist, but he could have been completely justified in what he was doing. I'm just saying that sometimes we look a little too closely into these things.

The Evils of Our Society

     So it's Thanksgiving Eve and time to make a food that you couldn't have Thanksgiving without it. Other than the obvious turkey, you can't have the special day without pumpkin pie. But how do you make it? I mean I could just use canned pumpkin puree, but that is just so cliché. Everyone uses canned pumpkin and some people so far as to just buy the pie crust ready-made in the pan, or just by the entire pie ready to go. But not me and you don't have to either. I found a recipe online to make my own. Here's the link: http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/suzannes_old_fashioned_pumpkin_pie/. 

My single pie crust recipe (no topping) is as follows... 

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup Whole Wheat Flour
• 3/4 cup All-Purpose Flour
• Dash Salt
• 1/4 Teaspoon Sugar
• 1/3 Cup Even Mix of Butter and Shortening
• 1 Water Bottle( it should squirt water)

Instructions:

1. Mix flours, sugar, and salt.
2. Cut in butter and shortening with pastry cutter. Dough should be about the size of small peas.  
3. Using water bottle, spray water in bowl while tossing with fingers. Do this until the dough forms grape-size balls.
4. Using hands, form the dough into a large ball.
5. Roll out dough on a smooth surface with a rolling pin using excess flour to keep the dough from sticking. Dough should be a little larger than your pan. 
6. Roll up dough to transfer to your pie pan.
7. Using your fingers, try to fill in any gaps or holes in the dough. 

     I really like this recipe because it has a fabulous texture and an amazing taste. The shortening is for texture and the butter and whole wheat flour are for taste. This recipe came from a pie maker named Richard who goes to our church. He makes extremely good pies and that's why I always use his recipe. Thank you for not falling to the shortcomings of this generations who buy pie crusts just for convenience when they don;t taste nearly as good.

A Mystery

     Aliens. A question that has fazed our race for more than a century. There have been many science fiction stories about them such as one I have written: 

I ran from ‘It’. I don’t know what ‘It’ was, but I did know that ‘It’ was scary.

          I live on Or, a planet in a galaxy close to the Milky Way. Everything on Or is always nice, pretty, and wonderful. We have no laws or government, but we do know right from wrong. If someone is waiting, you stop for them, if someone needs help, you help them; little things like that; the unwritten laws that everyone follows because it’s in our nature.

          Our system has worked perfectly for millions of years, until ‘It’ came. ‘It’ arrived about ten minutes ago. As soon as ‘It’ landed his strange ship, ‘It’ immediately started destroying everything; buildings, parks, etc.

          ‘It’ also put a strange piece of fabric on a pole into the ground.

          “I am claiming this land for The United States of America,” stated ‘It’.

          On Or, no one claims land. If you need a place to live, other Amplas (the name of the main species on Or and surrounding planets) near you help you build a house anywhere there is space without demolishing any buildings. I guess we all own all the land, but we just know how to share very well.

Around Or, there are many planets just like Or. Their system works just as well as ours does.

Our personalities are different, but that does not bother anyone. How boring would it be if we were all the same?

In school, the teachers teach about the planets that don’t get along. I've heard that they are always fighting with each other. I didn't really believe it until today.

Well, ‘It’ was here and chasing us and there was nothing we could do about it.

Suddenly ‘It’ stopped.

“I’m hungry, go find me some food,” demanded ‘It’.

“No,” I sassed back.

Oh no, my sassy side came out. My mother says to never let my sassy side come out. It usually doesn't come out especially if the thing is trying to hurt me.

Suddenly my mother was right alongside me talking to ‘It’.

“Please leave Or immediately,” she stated calmly. “Returned to your home planet and leave us in peace. Do not bother any other planets in this galaxy with your nonsense. If you do not take our request, we will be forced to remove you.”

I had never heard this side of my mother before. She was usually quiet and soft spoken. Today she was bold and confident. I wonder what changed her.

“I will contemplate my choices,” ‘It’ said uncertainly. “What will you give me to leave?”

“Nothing,” I boldly declared. “We have stated our circumstances. Either you will leave or we will make you leave. This is the best thing to do for our species.”

“Well, I may not have enough fuel to return home,” argued ‘It’.

“We will help you repair and refuel your ship.”

“May I stay a week, to observe?”

“Yes, but you must follow our ways,” resolved my mother. “Emma will teach you.”

“I will?”

“Yes,” responded my mother.

This took some thought. Teaching ‘It’ would certainly be difficult. I could already see that. ‘It’ had no common sense—‘It’ probably didn't even know what common sense was. But what would the right thing to do be? This is a two-sided problem. Teaching ‘It’ would certainly be very difficult, so forgoing the teaching might be the right thing to do. But then again, it could be wrong not to try. This problem has no correct answer.

“What do you think I should do?” I inquired from my mother.

“I think we should let him observe and you should teach him,” my mother forenamed. “Repairing the ship may take a week anyway.”

“Okay.”

My mother turned to ‘It’, “We have reached a decision, we will let you stay a week.”

So ‘It’ will stay in our house (we had a lengthy discussion about this). I would tell you—but I don’t want to bore you.

For the next week I tried my best to teach ‘It’. I had to explain everything to ‘It’ even the easy things such as helping the elderly lady who lives across with her groceries. My word of wisdom to ‘It was to follow everyone else. I started with telling ‘It’ (and yes, I called him ‘It’) to never claim land because no one owns the land so claiming the land has no purpose. An Ampla’s nature tells us never to do wrong, ever. That isn't in ‘It’s’ nature, I can tell. ‘It’ is so self-centered. He never thinks to do what is best for another person before himself.

Two Days Later

          It has been two days since ‘It’ came and ‘It’ has done nothing but cause problems.

          On Or, volcanoes exploded, the fields ruined and all the food for winter was destroyed—why?—all because of ‘It’. Okay, let me explain. The volcanoes were really vinegar, baking soda, and red die. They were obviously ‘Its’ idea. I didn't know the volcano was going to explode. We don’t have volcanoes on Or and apparently we’re lucky. Never before have we had an explosion on Or.

          Then ‘It’ wanted to look at the fields. ‘It’ was feeling generous and gave us a pesticide. ‘It’ said the pesticide would kill all the harmful bugs. What are harmful bugs? Well we use the substance anyway thinking it would make the food better in one way or another. I didn’t know ‘It’ would lie. Okay, lie is a little too harsh. I didn't know the substance would make the food unsafe to eat. One of the workers ate a berry and died. Now we have no food. I can’t wait till ‘It’ leaves.

          ‘It also called our world boring. How dare him. Just because we don’t have conflict does not mean we don’t have change. We have unexpected changes all the time. We might move houses or towns and make new friends. We don’t all like each other. If you are alone someone will come talk to you because that is the right thing to do. But if you have friends, other Amplas so not fell obligated to talk to you and that is just fine. This shows that Or is not boring.

           The week dragged on forever. that week was the longest week I have ever experienced, but like every bad thing, (actually this was my first bad thing) the week came to an end. ‘It flew away in his space ship.

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Two Weeks Later

          We heard from a neighboring planet, And, about ‘It’. He has been causing problems there too! And disposed of ‘It’ much quicker than we did.

          We call upon other neighboring planets including But, For, Yet, and So, about ‘It’. ‘It’ has been to all of them. Finally ‘It’ returns home and the peace is restored, but not forever.

     So that's my alien/Utopian story, but do aliens really exist? There is evidence on Mars of water, but water does not always mean life. But Mars is so close to us. Here is a video of how big we are in relation to the universe. I really like this video because it shows me that the universe is so large that every mistake I make is so small because I don't really matter, but God reminds me that he cares about me and my good and bad sides. Anyway, my point was that the universe is so big that aliens could exist anywhere and we wouldn't even know about it. I really don't think aliens exist for religious reasons. I believe that when God created us, we were the only ones. I don't think he can handle more than us. I know I certainly wouldn't be able to. So I don't aliens exist, but you might think that they do. 

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The Influences of our Lives

     Yesterday I was at a speech and debate tournament and did and expository (informational) speech on autism spectrum disorder (ASD). One of my competitors did a speech on swear words. It was very well done. She explained why people swear and the entomology of swear words. I didn't know how you could do a speech on this topic, but I found the topic very interesting and decided to talk about it today.
     One of the parts of the speech she mentioned was  idiomatic swearing or swearing for no purpose. I think this is really shown through modern music. I don't know why musicians have to put "bad" words in their songs. You would think that people wouldn't buy them because of that, but really, the teenage population is more drawn to them. They are another way to rebel against parent. In South Korea, all music is edited for swear words and sexual meaning. This is much different than America where we look for that. Why, I don't know. A lot of music features swear words. At least new music. I'm very sure that classical music didn't have swear words, but that's beside the point. The younger generations are continually to drawn to things viewed as rebellious or "bad". It is my theory that teenagers are tired of their parents after spending so much of their younger years with them, but we don't even consider the fact that they spend even more time with us and are probably glad to be away form us.
    Music has more of an influence on us than we think. For example, right now I am listening to the radio and a song called "Stay High" is playing. Someone could hear this song and think that drugs are a okay way to deal with your problems because an iconic person uses them, while really, drugs will have a much worse long-term affect on your brain.
   I am hoping you will not listen to the lyrics of music now that you have read this and don't curse for no reason. There should always be a reason.

Wasted Time

     I have a theory. I think that we just like to waste time. Every day, I spend from 8:00 to 3:00 in school. I think that time could be significantly reduced. I don't learn enough in science for that to be an entire period and social studies is completely useless. We are studying New Mexico history right now. If you've ever studied the history of New Mexico, then you'd know that there's not much to learn. We don't do very much in language arts either, except learn third grade grammar. I have a computers class completely devoted to wasting time. My point is that we don't need a seven hour school day. It's not necessary. No matter how much we value education, we don't need to learn how the "Indians" (Christopher Columbus was completely justified in calling that) roamed and land and where. There isn't much that happened in New Mexico. 
     I believe that education would be okay if the government wasn't involved. Especially the federal government. When the standards are lowered, people respond. There is a problem now that people aren't being thought the proper amount of material in the lower education. Colleges are having to teach materials that should have been thought in high school. And if it should have been thought in high school, it must be extremely easily because high schools doesn't teach much. But now that Common Core Standards are being brought into our sacred education, the education is spiraling downhill. 
      Currently in language arts, we are reading The Call of the Wild by Jack London and reading articles that connect to it. Today, we read an article on dog packs and it talked about the hierarchy of the dog packs. To understand what hierarchy means, we talked about the hierarchy currently existing in America. We decided on a triangle that looked like this. 

If you have one, two, or all three of these things, then you high on the hierarchy in America. That is just the sad truth. 
     Every week, we read what we are going to "learn" that week. It is usually the same from week to week. I don't think there are enough standards for them to vary it form week to week.
    Here's a link if you want to read a bout dog packs:http://www.laschools.net/cms/lib07/NM01000458/Centricity/Domain/512/Dog%20Pack%20Mentality.pdf

"Beyond Mountains, There Will Be Mountains"

There mountains beyond mountains. This saying is taken to be encouraging and discouraging. My take on this is not encouraging. This Haitian saying means that after you conquer one challenge there will always be another. That just seems overwhelming to me. Why would I want to know that  if I conquer what I’m going through now, then there will be a bigger problem to conquer?

I read about this in a book called Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder, adapted for young people by Michael French. I would have read the unabridged version, except that I found it in a library with a sign saying “I’m a true story.” I thought it looked interesting so I read it. It was, until the end. The book was about this doctor name Paul Farmer who gave up all his power and fame to conquer tuberculous in the central plateau of Port-Au-Prince, in Haiti. Port-Au-Prince is the capital of Haiti and the central plateau is an area of farmers. Before the hydroelectric dam was built, the Artibonite River’s banks was farmed by Haitians. When the dam was built, the fertile farm land was flooded leaving the farmers nowhere but the steep, rocky banks to farm. You can read more about that at http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2010/11/21/a_dam_for_the_people_and_a_people_damned.html
Because the people were now living so close together, tuberculous and other diseases were a major problem. Paul worked for a few years raising money and buying medications and finally treating this problem. There were five types of medications. People in the area started having a problem MDR-TB which is a disease that the patient is resistant to four out of the five medications for TB. According to WHO (World Health Organization) MDR-TB was not treatable in third-world countries. But Paul refused to give up, he treated that and then took his accomplishments to a world-wide scale. Farmer obviously found this statement encouraging.
     This statement is the one reason I hate science. I mean I love science except for this one aspect. Sometimes science can feel like I'm not really moving forward. I'm not making process. Because answers lead to more question, I feel overwhelmed is a good way to put it. But I want to be a scientist when I grow up and go to college and have to work. I know that it is very difficult to make money in a non-science related occupation. And most of the time, I love finding the answers even if it does make me wonder. I love how science shows us how the search is of more worth than the answer. I love that science makes so much sense. 
     Now that you've read this, you can decide for yourself whether you'll be encouraged or discouraged by this proverb. 
  

   

Ebola and Yellow Fever

Why are people so worried about ebola? It’s only in Ohio and Texas and who cares about them anyway. Okay, if you have family there, you might care, a little. But still, I would be worried if I lived in the northern part or middle of Africa.

People tend to just group Africa together, while in reality, Africa is a big continent with many countries, not just one big country. People also tend to think that if something is in one part of Africa, then it’s in all of Africa, but really that’s not the case. It’s only in a very small part of Africa.

Still, people are very worried. I only know one person who knows a person who has ebola. If you think I’m trying to tell you that this is not an issue, that is not my purpose. My purpose is to calm your nerves and tell you that they are being very careful. As you fly back from Africa, they require you to fly through one of the five major airports and go through a very meticulous and careful screening.

Ebola is under control in America, but not in Liberia, Sierra Leone, or Guiana. The total number of cases in these countries is about 8,400, but the total number of deaths is about half that. If you think about the New Orleans yellow fever epidemic of 1853, this is barely anything. In 1853, about 7, 850 people died, about 10% of the city, This all happened in ONE city, which quite significant, thinking how the number of deaths for Ebola is spread across three countries.

In my seventh grade class, the big joke when someone is absent is that they have Ebola. Even though Ebola is not nearly as significant as you may have thought before reading this article, it is still a serious problem. The one big difference between now and 1853 other than the different diseases is that that epidemic is over and this one isn’t. Remember to hope for the best and hopefully this disease will end soon, but you never know. Someday this will only be another big epidemic in history without any feeling attached to it. It will just be a date and statics.

The "Theory" of Evolution

Apes. So many people think that they are stupid enough to come from a hairy and gross animal. Well I don’t. Many of people do though. Have you heard of the cell theory? It says that life comes from life. A long time ago, people thought that life came from nonliving things, but that’s crazy. They thought that because a flower would grow out of the soil and and soil was not living so life MUST come from NONliving things. People thought some crazy things and still do.

In the 1950s, people thought that communism would take over the world. That scare was so bad that there was a black list and anyone who was on it, didn’t have a job, family, or friends. A politician searched doctors and all kinds of people to see if they ever made a little comment about communism and then he put them on there. That is just so wrong. I Can't even imagine someone being so evil that they would make people go into extreme poverty. So much of the world is already at that point so why make other people so poor and hungry. That is just so beyond my understanding. Just so we’re on the same page, communism is NOT going to take over the world.

Back to the point, why would people believe in such crazy things. I can’t imagine Christopher Columbus's fear as he sailed across the world and thought that at any moment he might fall off and never be seen again.

We didn’t come from apes. At least I didn’t. Maybe the male species did. Okay, that was a joke, no one came from hairy, smelly animals. We don’t even have very much evidence to support that claim, if it can even be considered a claim. The most complete skeleton of the in between of an ape and a human is not nearly complete. Actually, quite the opposite of complete. My point is evolution is not proved by a half finished skeleton.

How could the first bacteria come from nothing? I don’t know, but I do know that spontaneous generation did not happen in the beginning of time. I hope you know that too, now that you have read this post.

"Global Cooling"

So many people hate global warming, yet so many of them still drive cars. They still buy things from China made in factories that pollute the atmosphere. But...why? Because cars, factory made items, etc. make life easier and that’s all we care about in the U. S. of A. How easy and efficient can something be? For example, how many people make their own pie crusts? I do, but not many other people. It’s much cleaner, faster, and easier to just buy it already in the pan. We don’t even care if homemade pie crusts tastes better. Processed foods, pesticides, and freeways are some of the main reasons one in every 68 children in America have autism. Next time you buy processed foods, think about that, especially if your pregnant. Also, make sure to take plenty of vitamins while pregnant. Anyway, moving on, why do so many people worry about global warming? Climate change is a more accurate term, but no, the ice on the North Pole is melting, everyone just waste your money on stopping this problem that doesn’t exist. The whole earth has to be warming for Global Warming to be a proper name, not just the northern hemisphere. Southern hemisphere, we don’t care about you. It doesn't even seem to matter that the south pole is gaining more ice. But the climate is always changing. Remember that when you think of climate change as a problem. The ice age wasn’t called Global Cooling. I find it very interesting that the didn’t blame the apes for that one. Not that humans came from apes anyway, but that’s a different topic. I’ll talk about that some other day.