What’s interesting in the news today?
Today we’re gonna take Michelle’s advice. There’s bad news everywhere, but today we’ll just concentrate on some good news for a change. I’ll start off with a few, and you can share any you may have come across.
We’ll get back to the bad news tomorrow. 🙂
1. We’ll start off with some good kids in the news.
From FoxNews “A group of middle school basketball players walked off the court in the middle of a game when they heard bullying coming from the stands directed at cheerleader, Desiree Andrews, who has Down syndrome.
“We walked off the court and went to the bullies and told them to stop because that’s not right to be mean to another person,” said Miles Rodriguez, one of the players, told Fox & Friends Friday.
The athletic director at Lincoln Middle School in Wisconsin told the show he was proud of the boys for what they did, as well as Desiree and the other cheerleaders.”
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2. Here’s another.
From NBCNews “A 9-year-old girl who sprung into action when her mom had a seizure behind the wheel was hailed as a hero this week.
Michigan state police awarded Jacey Jones with a Distinguished Citizens Award on Thursday for her quick thinking back in September, when her mother, Samantha Jones, started seizing while driving Jacey and her sister to school in their hometown of Bay City.
“I was just driving her to school like any other day and I woke up a few hours later in the hospital,” Samantha told NBC 25 in Michigan. “I had a seizure while driving.”
Jacey, who was in the back seat with her sister, climbed to the front of the car. Clutching the steering wheel on the family’s Hyundai, Jacey managed to steer the car away from the curvy road they were on and into the school’s parking lot. She then drove in circles, attracting the attention of another parent.
“A parent had jumped in and put the car in park … and took the kids out,” Samantha said. “I didn’t really believe it.””
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3. Here’s a fun one. Where does some of our favorite junk food come from?
From TheDailyMeal/MSN “”Junk food” is a term we use to describe snack foods that and full of calories and sugar and/or fat but has little to no nutritional value (yes, we are talking about that bag of chips you probably have open on your desk right now) — baked goods, candy bars, and other salty snacks.
Today, junk food is popular the world over, from Israel ‘s Cheetos-like Bamba to Peru’s Doña Pepe, a chocolate cookie doused in sprinkles. We recently published an article callked This is What Junk Food Looks Like Around the World, and our research got us thinking: Exactly where did junk food come from in the first place?
Unsurprisingly, its origins trace themselves back to our own country, where two brothers selling a delicious concoction of popcorn, peanuts, and molasses at the Chicago World Fair might well have invented the genre.
Since then, the junk food wheel of creation has continued to spin, churning out everything from chocolate bars and corn chips to today’s creations of cake pops or yogurt-covered pretzels (and no, just because they are covered in yogurt does not mean they are healthy).”
Now you’ll know who to thank. Or blame, if you’re like me and Oreo’s are a favorite. 😉
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4. And it’s mid-March already, so it’s tournament time! If you’re in need of a bracket, here ya’ go…
2015 NCAA Tournament
I’m picking Duke. Shocking right? 🙂
I won’t be picking them in my bracket because that’s a good way to kill it, but on the first full night my heart says Go Lafayette!
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Wandering Views 
It’s likely Kentucky. But if the Gamecocks or Boilermakers aren’t in it, I don’t care.
My youngest GD married a Kentucky man. He’s big on this.
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I just made homemade Oreos last week. I had to use up some left-over frosting and decided I would do that instead of using graham crackers. All things in moderation includes junk food, IMO.
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3 hits a little close to home since I had Girl Scout cookies for breakfast. 🙂
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I mentioned on the Daily Thread that I had been rummaging through my files. In the process I came across this. It’s about a 1991 interview Judy Woodruff, CNN, had with (the late) writer, Tom Clancy.
“….Intelligence gathering was the topic, and the noted author spoke about too much reliance on technology and not enough human effort. In his civilized way, he pointed out the lack of enthusiasm by the media for the intelligence community over a long time now”
“’What do you think they should do?’ the interviewer wondered. ‘They have to get down into the dirt, infiltrate organizations and situations, and find out what is being planned’, replied Mr. Clancy. ‘But that’s spying’, shrieked Ms Woodruff.”
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