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History: It does repeat itself

From Fox News coverage of the nightclub fire in Perm, Russia, where 109 people were killed due to careless use of onstage pyrotechnics.

Very, very sad.

Awfully Yell-O?

Digital photos can be Photoshopped, colors can be changed or enhanced. But considering the diverse flesh tones of those in the background, this man has a definite yellow cast to his skin, signifying either jaundice or some other form of dis-ease, don't you think?

Children in Ghana: Are they just "cheap toss-aways"?

The Children of Sodom and Gomorrah
How Europe's Discarded Computers Are Poisoning Africa's Kids

By Clemens Höges12/04/2009

People in the West throw away millions of old computers every year. Hundreds of thousands of them end up in Africa, where children try to eke out a living by selling the scrap. But the toxic elements in the waste are slowly poisoning them.

According to the Bible, God rained down fire and brimstone to destroy the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. "Sodom and Gomorrah" is also what officials in Accra, Ghana, have come to call a part of their city plagued by toxins of a sort the residents of the Biblical cities couldn't even have imagined. No one sets foot in this place unless they absolutely have to.

Acrid, black smoke drifts over the huts of the slum. The river, too, is black and thick like used oil, as it carries empty computer cases toward the ocean. Fires are blazing on the bank across the way, fueled by foam and slivers of plastic. Their flames consume the plastic material from cables, plugs and motherboards, leaving behind only metal.

There's a wind today, blowing the smoke from these infernal fires low across the ground.

Breathing in too deeply is painful to the lungs, and the people tending the fires are sometimes nothing more than vague, foggy silhouettes.
One small, stooped figure makes his way between the fires. With one hand, the boy drags an old speaker through the ashes and dirt, pulling it along behind him on a cord. His other hand clutches a bag.

The speaker and the bag are all that belong to this boy, who bears the unusual first name of Bismarck, aside from the T-shirt and pants he's wearing. Fourteen-years-old but small for his age, Bismarck scours the ground for anything the older boys might have left behind after burning a batch of computers. It might be bits of copper cable, the motor from a hard drive, or leftover pieces of aluminum. The magnets in his speaker also pick up screws or steel plugs.
Bismarck drops everything he finds into his bag. Once the bag is half full, he can sell the metal and buy some rice, maybe a tomato too, or even a chicken drumstick grilled over a refurbished car wheel rim. But today, the boy says, he still hasn't found enough, and he disappears again into the smoke.

Read the rest...please.

The time is coming soon...

...in the 49th Ward of Chicago to remember Freaky NuNu. He was killed the evening of 20DEC2008. Anyone remember that? Just across the street from Ald. Joe Moore's so-called sattelie office. Just across the street from the Jarvis L station.

Anybody out there remember that? Mmm...mmm...mmm. I guess the Ald., Joe Moore, forgot, didn't he. But he never acknowledged anything about Freaky (Isiah) anyway, did he?

I won't post his pictures, because they may have incriminated him.

So, how you doin', BOYZ? And where is his child, if one was expected?

OOOOOOOH

Yes, this is a screen capture of his Tuesday night speech
Da Bummer at his best, when he yaks and yaks for so long a time you could just....

Yes, I watched it and found it a snakepit of lies. If you didn't, please charge some effete item now, on your Visa, AMEX, Mastercard, or Discover card, right now: You know you want it anyway, right?

Do you think you may be creating jobs when you do this? Well, maybe outsourcing, overseas jobs. In India. Is that OK with you, bunky in Tennessee? Fine.

But not with me. I've been out of a job many times, but mostly because I am over-qualified. I know I could do better than that Rogers woman, though I am not a supporter of "the Won". She wore a better outfit than I could ever hope to afford, but it was ugla-fashon, designed by waiters in Paris, and because Desiree has no idea of Paris fashon, she shall remain in the dark area of the Barack Hussein Obama administration...but don't be surprised if she QUITS their sorry arses.

He makes me cry, all the time

Thank you, SondraK.com !

We, the people...

...who hold selected offices in our varying communities, have a right to say what is correct procedure and what is wrong procedure.

In my instance. that has not been the case. Apparently I am wrong, as a membership is being sold at a premium price, well after a Board has voted to reduce the price by half. I shall not name any names here, yet, but this young man who seems to think he is in charge of things better get himself some education re: the business world!

Perhaps, it would be best...

The signing of the Declaration of Independence

Painting attributed to Trumbull, and a great piece of art it is!

...if we made a new declaration? Of our independence from tyranny? From the lies of those in Washington, DC? Is it not time now? The alarm clock has been set...when we we all wake up? Are not any of you concerned about yourselves? Your loved ones? Or do you all consider

yourselves just a "product of your environment"?

What a cop-out! Ha! You are being used, and will be abused, if you are not already by this so-called ADMINISTRATION. If you value your life, and the lives if those you love , it is time now to speak against what the ADMINISTRATION IS TELLING YOU.

Especially, because we are all older now. Do you really want some upstart young boy (Barack Hussein Obama) to tell you it is your time to die now? When, really,is our time to die? Don't you, yourself, pretty much know when your time will come, barring muggings and shootings and drive-bys?

And, quite frankly, what about that tarted-up old lady, Nancy, who runs the House, and the frantic old man. Harry, who runs the Senate...do you truly believe what they say?

How concerned could these soldiers be...

...about interlopers at a White House State Dinner, when their dinner has consisted of rations? In this decimated region?

'nuff said

Oh, just stop now!

That is not a halo, he has never done anything to deserve a halo

He is not a god,

and can never become a saint.

What or whom has he healed, huh?

And while you're at it, all you scumbags out there...

"Educate your children to self-control,

to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."

--Benjamin Franklin

OOPS!

Phony smiles and aging politicians--mark it on your calendars!


UPDATE

YUM!

And how was your meal yesterday?

Reasons to give thanks today

The First President

George Washington

Gratitude, for what we have been given in the past

When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.

--Chinese Proverb