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Famous Einstein Bee Quote Is Bogus
I saw this quote in The Happening, did a lil web spelunking and found this very very interesting article. Please, check it out.
“If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live.”
Famous Einstein Bee Quote Is Bogus - thedailygreen.com
h i s t o r y
However you feel about Barack Obama this is now historic fact
Tags: obama, wins, news, history, cnn, iht, msnbc, bbc
A Victim Treats His Mugger Right
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But one night last month, as Diaz stepped off the No. 6 train and onto a nearly empty platform, his evening took an unexpected turn.
He was walking toward the stairs when a teenage boy approached and pulled out a knife.
“He wants my money, so I just gave him my wallet and told him, ‘Here you go,’” Diaz says.
As the teen began to walk away, Diaz told him, “Hey, wait a minute. You forgot something. If you’re going to be robbing people for the rest of the night, you might as well take my coat to keep you warm.”
The would-be robber looked at his would-be victim, “like what’s going on here?” Diaz says. “He asked me, ‘Why are you doing this?’”
Diaz replied: “If you’re willing to risk your freedom for a few dollars, then I guess you must really need the money. I mean, all I wanted to do was get dinner and if you really want to join me … hey, you’re more than welcome.
“You know, I just felt maybe he really needs help,” Diaz says.
Diaz says he and the teen went into the diner and sat in a booth.
“The manager comes by, the dishwashers come by, the waiters come by to say hi,” Diaz says. “The kid was like, ‘You know everybody here. Do you own this place?’”
“No, I just eat here a lot,” Diaz says he told the teen. “He says, ‘But you’re even nice to the dishwasher.’”
Diaz replied, “Well, haven’t you been taught you should be nice to everybody?”
“Yea, but I didn’t think people actually behaved that way,” the teen said.
Diaz asked him what he wanted out of life. “He just had almost a sad face,” Diaz says.
The teen couldn’t answer Diaz — or he didn’t want to.
When the bill arrived, Diaz told the teen, “Look, I guess you’re going to have to pay for this bill ’cause you have my money and I can’t pay for this. So if you give me my wallet back, I’ll gladly treat you.”
The teen “didn’t even think about it” and returned the wallet, Diaz says. “I gave him $20 … I figure maybe it’ll help him. I don’t know.”
Diaz says he asked for something in return — the teen’s knife — “and he gave it to me.”
Afterward, when Diaz told his mother what happened, she said, “You’re the type of kid that if someone asked you for the time, you gave them your watch.”
“I figure, you know, if you treat people right, you can only hope that they treat you right. It’s as simple as it gets in this complicated world.”
Produced for Morning Edition by Michael Garofalo.
Tags: juliodiaz, npr, morning edition, kindness, mugger, teen
Beyond the King
After the firestorm over his Pastor and all the apologies from Geraldine Ferraro, Barack will be making a major speech on race tomorrow. This is a speech that I believed the Senator from Illinois would have to make sooner or later. This will be the most important speech that he will make. Even more important that his New Hampshire “Yes we can” speech. It will probably be remembered even more than his speech at the DNC convention in 2004.
It is that crucial, it is that pivotal.
Although no one will ever top Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream” speech. I think Barack will have to deliver our generation’s definitive speech on race in America. Tomorrow will be a dramatic turning point. This is a beast Barack knew he would have to face and March 18th will define Obama’s campaign like no other date before it.
Tags: obama, brack, yorkali, politics, president, USA, race, black, white
A New Hope - Rolling Stone endorses Obama
An excerpt:
The tides of history are rising higher and faster these days. Read them right and ride them, or be crushed. And then along comes Barack Obama, with the kinds of gifts that appear in politics but once every few generations. There is a sense of dignity, even majesty, about him, and underneath that ease lies a resolute discipline. It’s not just that he is eloquent - with that ability to speak both to you and to speak for you - it’s that he has a quality of thinking and intellectual and emotional honesty that is extraordinary.
read the rest:
Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | Sam Graham-Felsen’s Blog: Rolling Stone: ‘A New Hope’
Tags: barack, obama, back obama, yorkali, rolling stone, magazine
Dem be fightin’ words…..
“Turn off the television set and put away the Game Boy and make sure that you’re talking to your teacher and that we get over the anti-intellectualism that exists in some of our communities where if you conjugate your verbs and if you read a book that somehow means you are acting white,”
Barack Obama,
Selma, Alabama
I know this quote is old, but anti-intellectualism is rampant across many lower income communities outside of the US. This unfortunate attitude makes it even harder for kids who want to study to actually do better. The unfortunate label of teachers pet and being a social cast out looms large at the end of repeat correct answers in class. This is a class issue not racial or ethnic….class and perception. In Jamaica we call it,
Crab inna Barrell.
peace,
Yorkali
Why Vick, Why Now…
The ball just would not stop rising. I watched in awe as a ball whose last point of contact was Michael Vick’s hand rose almost to the very top of the stadium.
Whoa…I gasped.
That collective “whoa” swept the US and anyone that followed American football. That Whoa led to contracts with Nike and others, that whoa landed him in Atlanta as quarter-back demi-god. That whoa got me rooting for the Falcons. Now this.
whoa…
Is this another case of jock immunity.
I went to a high school in Jamaica called, Jamaica College. It’s over 200 hundred years old. A prime minister-to-be . Michael Manley, graduated from my alma mater. He was a track star. In the years to come JC was to establish itself as a track power house. As time passed, the school’s administration relied more and more on scouting for talent to keep our “rich tradition” alive. Some of the recruited athletes were not, might I say, above board. They stabbed the Jamaica College reputation to death with horrible behavior on the streets, total disrespect for teachers and so much more. The other students, looked up to these thugs and a pattern developed. All thanks to jock immunity. This happens in the US too of course. Celebrity status covers all manner of sins almost everywhere you go. And it is why I believe it took 6 YEARS for this indictment to happen.
Unfortunately, if he is innocent or guilty that is inconsequential in the court of public opinion as we all know by now. What was done to these poor dogs is absolutely revolting. Absolutely. It is incredible sickening and shocking. And I hope that the powers that be, will pursue the other rings that exist around US. But why Vick, why now.
The following is not conspiracy theory, for me, it is conspiracy fact. The activities on Vick’s property have been known for a long time and this “distraction” as some call it, is happening now, just before the start of the football season in order to get him out of the team.
That’s my story and I am sticking to it.
Is he guilty, is he innocent, I do not know. But just there is more than meets the eye to us humans, much more than meets the eye. Why did it take six years for this to surface. I do not believe he was being targeted, I believe his jock immunity bought him time. But after so much time and no Super Bowl, it was obvious that Vick was distracted by something.
His under-performance was glaring.
Too much talent and not enough payback. I believe there are people close to Vick who don’t care about him but use his influence and capital for evil things. Was Vick fully aware of this? I’m pretty darn sure. Did he participate? That has to be proven. This happens all to often. “Nice guy” athlete with sub-prime friends. But there is another connection that deserves attention. I believe someone close to dear Uncle Arthur knew all along.
whoa…..
Leaving on a jet plane…
Hi Everyone,
Some of you know, others not. My family continues our nomadic ways, we are moving to State College from Panama. Felisa was recently offered a job as a professor to teach Supply Chain Management in the business school at Penn State University. Lots of changes are about to happen. weird that we are leaving while Panama is about to explode of the map. But things are changing again, but for the best. There are many opportunities and State College is a wonderful place to raise kids, and Felisa will be able to really pursue her true passion…teaching. This is what makes the move so bitter-sweet.
Anyway that’s the long and short of it.
To our friends and family in Panama we miss you already, to our friends and fam’ in the US, wi soon com’.
peace an’ luv
Yorkali
p.s. watch this space as I update our chaos in transit.
