300 years later and there still here

When I hear the word pirate I think of Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean. But now there is a new term to go along with pirates; Somalia. In the past few years there has been more and more activity involving these "pirates". They sneak up on big vessels and attempt to hijack then ship and then they try to sell the hostages back to their country for millions of dollars. This has become an extremely profitable business making over and estimates 200 million this year. With most somalians not making over 600$, this is a huge step up. The problem is the countries that have their ships being hijacked can't go to the country to stop this because as of right now, Somalia has no central government. There are tribal regions and the leaders are payed off by the pirates to tell the FBI and CIA that they don't know where they are. In my opinion we should begin to arm the ships with weapons of their own. We need to get rid of old maritime laws and start looking at the 21st century. People are going to commit mutiny anymore, we can trust them.

Take me!

Recently the university of Conneticut was involved in a scandal in which they illegally recruited a player from High School. Supposedly they had a prior personal relationship with the player and therefore, it is illegal. This is not the first time there has been a scandal on recruiting, Maya Moore a girls player from UConn was claimed to have been illegally recruited. And at Florida state there were also a few players who were claimed to have, "To much face time" with the coach. I feel that for a highschooler, there are just to many rules and regulations. It is not their fault that the coach is breaking rules and I feel bad for all that falls on their shoulders (not that I wouldn't love to be recruited). I feel that coaches need to be trustworthy when it comes to this because if they are not, they dont deserve to be coaching.