March 26, 2015
I repeat, The opinions expressed in this blog are solely my own.
The horrific news coming from the voice recordings taken from the Germanwings 'black box' really makes it hard to be funny, but I am still working on that.
I would like to start a movement to radicalize people to persue the common good. I would really like to see a movement that unifies people with a goal of love and respect for one another and to work on making earth a better place for the people of earth and the animals of earth. I just don't know where to start this process.
How is fire and blood and explosions and death ingredients for joy and love and peace?
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Monday, March 23, 2015
Lee Kuan Yew and The Lady Peach
March 23, 2015
So the Latvian brain isn't as big as one claimed, some Bloggers are super successful, and have created multi-million dollar businesses thanks to having millions of followers. Today I am going to try to think about how to become more popular and generate interest in The Peach, as obviously fashion and style have more appeal than the topic of justice. I guess that saying "that's not fair", just sounds like belly aching, cry-baby stuff and a real turn off!
In truth, I have focused on the precept that "I am better than you" creates problems. Last week, I had the passing thought that there must be a way to present ideas, without that irritating and provactive edge, (I am better than you), just like math is taught. Teaching addition and subtraction is very straight forward and every teacher has many ways to present the lessons. Mme. Montessori famously brought tactile things into 'Casa' for 3 and 4 year olds to learn abstract thinking at an ealier age, rather than just teaching by rote. There has to be a way to present good ideas, better ideas and the best ideas known currently, to childern without finger pointing. Co-incidently, CBS this morning showed a clip from an old interview with Charlie Rose and Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, and Yew said that his whole agenda for Singapore was to provide education for his people which in turn would lead to better lives for people, because everyone wants to eat and be happy.
So, how am I going to increase my popularity - and bring my message to people who don't have the means to have a computer or internet access? This is going to require some pondering. First I have to research how many people fall into that demographic in North America and then work on lighter subjects. I need to be amusing, and then somehow get back to the justice and truth topic. HMMMMM.
So the Latvian brain isn't as big as one claimed, some Bloggers are super successful, and have created multi-million dollar businesses thanks to having millions of followers. Today I am going to try to think about how to become more popular and generate interest in The Peach, as obviously fashion and style have more appeal than the topic of justice. I guess that saying "that's not fair", just sounds like belly aching, cry-baby stuff and a real turn off!
In truth, I have focused on the precept that "I am better than you" creates problems. Last week, I had the passing thought that there must be a way to present ideas, without that irritating and provactive edge, (I am better than you), just like math is taught. Teaching addition and subtraction is very straight forward and every teacher has many ways to present the lessons. Mme. Montessori famously brought tactile things into 'Casa' for 3 and 4 year olds to learn abstract thinking at an ealier age, rather than just teaching by rote. There has to be a way to present good ideas, better ideas and the best ideas known currently, to childern without finger pointing. Co-incidently, CBS this morning showed a clip from an old interview with Charlie Rose and Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, and Yew said that his whole agenda for Singapore was to provide education for his people which in turn would lead to better lives for people, because everyone wants to eat and be happy.
So, how am I going to increase my popularity - and bring my message to people who don't have the means to have a computer or internet access? This is going to require some pondering. First I have to research how many people fall into that demographic in North America and then work on lighter subjects. I need to be amusing, and then somehow get back to the justice and truth topic. HMMMMM.
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Tesla the Genius and Peaches
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Opinions expresssed are solely my own and are not those of anyone else, or any business.
My Blog began January 1 2015.
Sufficient time has passed since November 2013, for plenty of wounds to heal. Natalie went to the Dermatologist today - and next week will actually be the one week anniversary of my visit after the melanoma surgery, and able to see my doctor after sitting in Alabama. Because of the melanoma experience, I am now very pro-active about spot and dots and moles, and so I made appointments for Greg et al to be screened when they came to Florida. It is so easy to get to see qualified people, not like back in Ontario!!! BOO Hiss.
Greg is fine, thankfully all of his dark spots were thought to be OK, but Natalie did have an 'ugly duckling syndrome' removed: translation? A mole that does not look like any other on your body is thought to be an ugly duckling and should be investigated.
Based on my own personal experience, I am not worried as I know we are on top of this concern.
But I digress.
I went to Barnes and Noble last week to pick up a copy of "America's Test Kitchen - The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook" and while wandering about the brick and mortar store I saw a 20% discount sticker on a book titled "TESLA", and of course I purchased it after reading the rave reviews featured on the back cover. Actually, it was with some degree of difficulty that I actually found what I was looking for, and I had to ask a store clerk to help me. Her hours were cut after the Christmas season, apparently sales were not as good as they expected at the store, and so she cannot organize everything alphabetically, in the less than 20 hours she is given weekly. Of course B and N can't compete with Amazon - but I sure will miss all of the old fashioned experience of wandering aimlessly and the accidental discovery (much like used to happen in the library with index cards), of a fascinating book, a new trajectory for an attention defficit syndrome brain and explorer! I pine away for the dead - those were great mental gymnastics, were they not? Natalie and Karina never experienced the imaginary travels thanks to well thumbed corners of some of the cards in the index that co-incidence might trigger.
But I digress.
So I bought the Tesla book - a novel written by Vladimir Pistalo, translated from the Serbian.
Although I am actively trying to return to funny subjects - I must say that last year's experiences do make me think about the past, and I recall that in my youth, Eastern Europeans were not so respected. Today I realize that EASTERN EUROPE would include Poland and Chopin - and I guess Latvians and Serbs like Tesla.
The book is difficult to read - but it certainly is clear that those poor Eastern Europeans were taught the keystone philosophies. Even poor children attending school would be given synopses
of the great thoughts and discoveries since the time of cave men who learned how to make fire. I know for a fact that Spinoza, St. Augustine (long list of names found thoughout the lines of the book) are not familiar names in Canadian or American grade 5 social studies classes. I had to think that perhaps, just perhaps, some of our modern problems, as written about by famous Pulitzer prize winners, and respected journalists and 20th Century novelists, recently mentioned in my BLOG, might be related to the fact that school curriculum really has been silly for over a hundred years. Surely, some educators should be able to present a topic in such a manner, that the student would understand that to put your hand into the flame might not be the best option. Surely we can teach 'ideas' that are not tainted by prejudice and biases - but just teach ideas that seem to work!
And the Tesla book is how I learned that I know diddly squat, and kids in school will know even less!
Opinions expresssed are solely my own and are not those of anyone else, or any business.
My Blog began January 1 2015.
Sufficient time has passed since November 2013, for plenty of wounds to heal. Natalie went to the Dermatologist today - and next week will actually be the one week anniversary of my visit after the melanoma surgery, and able to see my doctor after sitting in Alabama. Because of the melanoma experience, I am now very pro-active about spot and dots and moles, and so I made appointments for Greg et al to be screened when they came to Florida. It is so easy to get to see qualified people, not like back in Ontario!!! BOO Hiss.
Greg is fine, thankfully all of his dark spots were thought to be OK, but Natalie did have an 'ugly duckling syndrome' removed: translation? A mole that does not look like any other on your body is thought to be an ugly duckling and should be investigated.
Based on my own personal experience, I am not worried as I know we are on top of this concern.
But I digress.
I went to Barnes and Noble last week to pick up a copy of "America's Test Kitchen - The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook" and while wandering about the brick and mortar store I saw a 20% discount sticker on a book titled "TESLA", and of course I purchased it after reading the rave reviews featured on the back cover. Actually, it was with some degree of difficulty that I actually found what I was looking for, and I had to ask a store clerk to help me. Her hours were cut after the Christmas season, apparently sales were not as good as they expected at the store, and so she cannot organize everything alphabetically, in the less than 20 hours she is given weekly. Of course B and N can't compete with Amazon - but I sure will miss all of the old fashioned experience of wandering aimlessly and the accidental discovery (much like used to happen in the library with index cards), of a fascinating book, a new trajectory for an attention defficit syndrome brain and explorer! I pine away for the dead - those were great mental gymnastics, were they not? Natalie and Karina never experienced the imaginary travels thanks to well thumbed corners of some of the cards in the index that co-incidence might trigger.
But I digress.
So I bought the Tesla book - a novel written by Vladimir Pistalo, translated from the Serbian.
Although I am actively trying to return to funny subjects - I must say that last year's experiences do make me think about the past, and I recall that in my youth, Eastern Europeans were not so respected. Today I realize that EASTERN EUROPE would include Poland and Chopin - and I guess Latvians and Serbs like Tesla.
The book is difficult to read - but it certainly is clear that those poor Eastern Europeans were taught the keystone philosophies. Even poor children attending school would be given synopses
of the great thoughts and discoveries since the time of cave men who learned how to make fire. I know for a fact that Spinoza, St. Augustine (long list of names found thoughout the lines of the book) are not familiar names in Canadian or American grade 5 social studies classes. I had to think that perhaps, just perhaps, some of our modern problems, as written about by famous Pulitzer prize winners, and respected journalists and 20th Century novelists, recently mentioned in my BLOG, might be related to the fact that school curriculum really has been silly for over a hundred years. Surely, some educators should be able to present a topic in such a manner, that the student would understand that to put your hand into the flame might not be the best option. Surely we can teach 'ideas' that are not tainted by prejudice and biases - but just teach ideas that seem to work!
And the Tesla book is how I learned that I know diddly squat, and kids in school will know even less!
Friday, March 13, 2015
First World Problems and Alabama
March 14, 2015.
I just have to write something on Friday the thirteenth mindful of the "Ides of March" just around the corner, especially since the 15 of March will fall on a Sunday which of course lines up with my day of rest, and I know I have had many days of rest that were not Sundays, but I have indulged myself!
(Please read my blog - which started on January 1 2015, so that you understand where I am coming from).
After telling my 'Tale' I lost interest in regurgitating the horror of being falsely accused of a crime, while trapped for a full year in the legal system that exists in the United States, but today, it is odd that the most amazing stories in the news continue to come out of Alabama. Is it possible that others are not hearing what I am paying attention to? Today, the Alabama Supreme Court struck down Federal law regarding same sex legislation. Juxtaposed is the Apple CEO who outed himself, in Alabama. Apple introduced the Apple time piece this week. Huntsville, Alabama: a Judge decreed same sex divorce, legally.
In all sincerity I want my blog to be a source of comedy and humour, but since I am living first world problems, as is everyone in the 'first world' - I want to put to rest this stupid viewpoint, summarized in three words. "First World Problems"
In my opinion, and I speak for no one else, and I do not reflect the opinions of any business or any institution or any person connected to either, what the hell does that mean? "First World Problems".
It is tough to be in a society where we 'think' about how to make life better. It is tough to run an economy that is based on 'profit' which easily transforms into greed. Just try and get union folks to back off from their piece of the pie, and try to get shareholders of public companies to back off from their return on investment, and try to get the bosses to back off from their perks and salaries. Those are first world problems. Gay rights and equality for women and visible minorities, those are first world problems. I am so sick of conversations of real substance that are dismissed with this phrase "First World problems".
What should we be talking about? First world problems are not third world problems. Third world problems continue, but please don't dismiss the validity and serious aspects of "First WORLD". Is it really that horrid to stress over equal pay? Is it horrible to debate education standards and the value of a University degree? Is it bad to talk about who can afford an education? Is that silly? Have the accomplishments of the inventions and progress in the first world not worthy or continual debate? Is democracy not worth talking about?
So, while I was in Florence Alabama, one night, Greg and I were in our new home, getting to enjoy our new nest, and we were cooking on our new grill and preparing a home cooked meal. (always a challenge). We had bought an 'infra-red' grill and I had positioned it under a roof on our deck. The house had two doors off of the kitchen to access the grill which was out on the deck. Greg was busy, I was busy, and living with the stress of the tracer bracelet, and fearful that the boogey man would come out and murder us at any given moment, we were on edge about unlocked doors. I don't want to blame anyone, but somehow.....
One of those doors ended up being locked. Then, the second door somehow, also ended up locked. Here we were, locked out of our house, new in the neighbourhood, (of course every one must know about the criminals next door) and we had no hidden key, no cell phone, no back up plan. I was in my pyjamas, Greg was wearing shorts and a Ralph Lauren undershirt, ankle jewels in full view - certainly not our 'Sunday best' outfits! The only person who had a key to the place was our contractor - but we had no phone and no cell phone, and alas, no keys to the car to use On Star! (or use the car, for that matter).
We were in a panic, and obviously we had to think up a plan. We looked around the back yard to see if any of our neighbours' lights were on. I spotted some movement directly next door. Our only option was for Greg to go next door. In bare feet, he walked up the street and around the corner and knocked on the neighbour's door. "Hey, I am your neighbour, I just locked myself out of my house, I don't know anyone, but I saw your light on, can I borrow your car to drive to my contactor's house, since he has a key?"
Can you believe it - Greg immediately got a key to his truck!!! Greg taxed his memory, barefoot pressed his foot on the gas pedal, and guessed in the dark of night where the contractor drove that one time! Now that's a plan. I stood outside peering over the fence. About a half hour later, the neighbours wandered over to see who I was and how I was.
About an hour later the contractor arrived with a key, thanks to our neighbours who had called his number and left him a message. Then we all waited to see if Greg would make it back. He was driving with an electronic monitor on his leg, no ID and barefoot in a borrowed truck, with that indictment out there. Can you imagine???? Holy SHitters, what could have happened if he had been pulled over by a cop?
Greg did come back, he returned the neighbour's truck, and he asked him, "Why on earth did you give a complete stranger keys to your car?"
"Well", he replied " I don't really know, but I thought your story was too crazy not to believe you".
"Twenty minutes later, after I gave you the keys to the truck, I started to wonder if I would see my truck again, and then I though I should go and meet your wife."
We all laughed.
And that is why I think there are a lot of good people out there, and that is how I learned it is important to believe in the good.
I just have to write something on Friday the thirteenth mindful of the "Ides of March" just around the corner, especially since the 15 of March will fall on a Sunday which of course lines up with my day of rest, and I know I have had many days of rest that were not Sundays, but I have indulged myself!
(Please read my blog - which started on January 1 2015, so that you understand where I am coming from).
After telling my 'Tale' I lost interest in regurgitating the horror of being falsely accused of a crime, while trapped for a full year in the legal system that exists in the United States, but today, it is odd that the most amazing stories in the news continue to come out of Alabama. Is it possible that others are not hearing what I am paying attention to? Today, the Alabama Supreme Court struck down Federal law regarding same sex legislation. Juxtaposed is the Apple CEO who outed himself, in Alabama. Apple introduced the Apple time piece this week. Huntsville, Alabama: a Judge decreed same sex divorce, legally.
In all sincerity I want my blog to be a source of comedy and humour, but since I am living first world problems, as is everyone in the 'first world' - I want to put to rest this stupid viewpoint, summarized in three words. "First World Problems"
In my opinion, and I speak for no one else, and I do not reflect the opinions of any business or any institution or any person connected to either, what the hell does that mean? "First World Problems".
It is tough to be in a society where we 'think' about how to make life better. It is tough to run an economy that is based on 'profit' which easily transforms into greed. Just try and get union folks to back off from their piece of the pie, and try to get shareholders of public companies to back off from their return on investment, and try to get the bosses to back off from their perks and salaries. Those are first world problems. Gay rights and equality for women and visible minorities, those are first world problems. I am so sick of conversations of real substance that are dismissed with this phrase "First World problems".
What should we be talking about? First world problems are not third world problems. Third world problems continue, but please don't dismiss the validity and serious aspects of "First WORLD". Is it really that horrid to stress over equal pay? Is it horrible to debate education standards and the value of a University degree? Is it bad to talk about who can afford an education? Is that silly? Have the accomplishments of the inventions and progress in the first world not worthy or continual debate? Is democracy not worth talking about?
So, while I was in Florence Alabama, one night, Greg and I were in our new home, getting to enjoy our new nest, and we were cooking on our new grill and preparing a home cooked meal. (always a challenge). We had bought an 'infra-red' grill and I had positioned it under a roof on our deck. The house had two doors off of the kitchen to access the grill which was out on the deck. Greg was busy, I was busy, and living with the stress of the tracer bracelet, and fearful that the boogey man would come out and murder us at any given moment, we were on edge about unlocked doors. I don't want to blame anyone, but somehow.....
One of those doors ended up being locked. Then, the second door somehow, also ended up locked. Here we were, locked out of our house, new in the neighbourhood, (of course every one must know about the criminals next door) and we had no hidden key, no cell phone, no back up plan. I was in my pyjamas, Greg was wearing shorts and a Ralph Lauren undershirt, ankle jewels in full view - certainly not our 'Sunday best' outfits! The only person who had a key to the place was our contractor - but we had no phone and no cell phone, and alas, no keys to the car to use On Star! (or use the car, for that matter).
We were in a panic, and obviously we had to think up a plan. We looked around the back yard to see if any of our neighbours' lights were on. I spotted some movement directly next door. Our only option was for Greg to go next door. In bare feet, he walked up the street and around the corner and knocked on the neighbour's door. "Hey, I am your neighbour, I just locked myself out of my house, I don't know anyone, but I saw your light on, can I borrow your car to drive to my contactor's house, since he has a key?"
Can you believe it - Greg immediately got a key to his truck!!! Greg taxed his memory, barefoot pressed his foot on the gas pedal, and guessed in the dark of night where the contractor drove that one time! Now that's a plan. I stood outside peering over the fence. About a half hour later, the neighbours wandered over to see who I was and how I was.
About an hour later the contractor arrived with a key, thanks to our neighbours who had called his number and left him a message. Then we all waited to see if Greg would make it back. He was driving with an electronic monitor on his leg, no ID and barefoot in a borrowed truck, with that indictment out there. Can you imagine???? Holy SHitters, what could have happened if he had been pulled over by a cop?
Greg did come back, he returned the neighbour's truck, and he asked him, "Why on earth did you give a complete stranger keys to your car?"
"Well", he replied " I don't really know, but I thought your story was too crazy not to believe you".
"Twenty minutes later, after I gave you the keys to the truck, I started to wonder if I would see my truck again, and then I though I should go and meet your wife."
We all laughed.
And that is why I think there are a lot of good people out there, and that is how I learned it is important to believe in the good.
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Selma is a Battleship
March 12, 2015.
Too many important anniversaries and news stories have just happened for me to ignore! Although I sit comfortably in Florida while escaping the cruel winter affecting most of North America, I feel uncomforable to pontificate, and weigh in on these various topics, however, living through last year actually left me with my PHD and the perspective to voice an opinion.
I am referring to Selma, terrorism, and Ferguson, the Department of Justice, and lastly board games!
Selma - made me Google the name of the Bridge where 'Bloody Sunday' took place, and I have to admit I was troubled by what I learned about Edmund Winston Pettus. I had to think back to how in Ontario we renamed towns because of WWII and how we have this strategy to erase and pretend that the past wasn't really what it was. Amelian Boynton Robinson, the lady beaten unconscious on the Pettus Bridge, on a Sunday, in the Bible Belt (unbelievable irony) attended the funeral of the Sherrif who refused to call in an ambulance, who even suggested, on tape, a disgusting option on how to clean up the problem at the time. Some think that it is best to erace facts and rewrite textbooks. Today I happened to catch an interview with John Ridley (the screenplay author "Twelve Years a Slave") he was very clear in objecting to this trend. We as a society are missing a teaching moment he said, and it seemed clear to me that he was right - the non-violence movement of the Civil Rights Movements of Dr. Martin Luther King has been missed by a whole generation. Amelia B. Robinson who is 103 years old just said " Get off my shoulders and do something". Without a civilized discussion, society cannot progress. Violence will only lead to a victory for the most violent, it is naive to think that 'right and might' always go hand in hand. How can young people identify an old problem and continue to press for change if they haven't learned from the past simply because they have not been taught the past and learned from history, how to make change happen?
The religious sanctioning of slavery, as was the reality of Christians in the South, should be a very important topic in every classroom today. How can religion sanction atrocities? This is the crisis we face with international terrorist who are defending Religious beliefs, hoping to receive 72 virgins in heaven. These are important philosophical concepts that must be, in my opinion, out there, discussed in classrooms and institutions, so that the strongest voice does not hijack the topic and end up sanctioning slavery, or the oppression of women, or severing heads, all in the name of religion. Again - the same concept "I am better than you. My religion is better than yours. My skin colour is better than yours." You may add your 'betters' but this human frailt, the belief that "I am Right" is to be taught and fought in schools. How else could the Fraternity scandal have happened? These were twenty something year old kids. How did they not know that times have changes and that it is no longer acceptable to lynch and hang people and use the n word and think this is funny? Natalie told me that she heard that that some fraternities had parties where they sprinkled cotton balls from the drug store and hired black kids to pick them up, and this was considered funny? HUH? Those kids missed something. Society missed something. How can you change the homes that these kids grew up in? John Ridley said - its not what happens behind the glass of a bus - its what is happening right out in the open of daylight, that troubles him. He is a success, he says because he is a product of change and took advantage of the opportuity to change.
Ferguson? Would the prejudices continue if Martin Luther King's non violence Civil Rights Movement be taught in every classroom over the past 20 years? 30 years? forty years? Selma is 50 years old!!! Would the white kids, learning about the movement, who choose police work as a career, behave like the people resigning now? Are we really not wanting the same thing?
Department of Justice. In my opinion, too little too late, they did not do enough to help black kids in jail. Obama. He did not do enough to help black kids in jail. You know how I know? Cuz Greg, a 65 year old white business man was processed as a black man and was in jail with kids 18 to 30 years old for 10 days, in Cook county Chicago and Tuscumbia Alabama, and he told me about the injustice he saw first hand.
And my last story is that Board games have become popular again. Sales are up, and cafes are opening up to play games with people. And that bring me to Battleship. Did I mention I was Latvian? My Dad and I would play battle ship. He would pull out two sheets of graph paper. He made two 10 x 10 squares on his sheet and taught me to make my squares on my peice of paper, and we drew in out our ships, and away we went, playing Battleship! Fifty years ago, the game probably cost us 2 cents if that! Hahaha, I just learned that my apple laptop doesn't even have the cent symbol anymore. And that is how I learned that you don't need a board game to have fun, you just need graph paper! ( and you have to be taught to make a 10x10 square).
Too many important anniversaries and news stories have just happened for me to ignore! Although I sit comfortably in Florida while escaping the cruel winter affecting most of North America, I feel uncomforable to pontificate, and weigh in on these various topics, however, living through last year actually left me with my PHD and the perspective to voice an opinion.
I am referring to Selma, terrorism, and Ferguson, the Department of Justice, and lastly board games!
Selma - made me Google the name of the Bridge where 'Bloody Sunday' took place, and I have to admit I was troubled by what I learned about Edmund Winston Pettus. I had to think back to how in Ontario we renamed towns because of WWII and how we have this strategy to erase and pretend that the past wasn't really what it was. Amelian Boynton Robinson, the lady beaten unconscious on the Pettus Bridge, on a Sunday, in the Bible Belt (unbelievable irony) attended the funeral of the Sherrif who refused to call in an ambulance, who even suggested, on tape, a disgusting option on how to clean up the problem at the time. Some think that it is best to erace facts and rewrite textbooks. Today I happened to catch an interview with John Ridley (the screenplay author "Twelve Years a Slave") he was very clear in objecting to this trend. We as a society are missing a teaching moment he said, and it seemed clear to me that he was right - the non-violence movement of the Civil Rights Movements of Dr. Martin Luther King has been missed by a whole generation. Amelia B. Robinson who is 103 years old just said " Get off my shoulders and do something". Without a civilized discussion, society cannot progress. Violence will only lead to a victory for the most violent, it is naive to think that 'right and might' always go hand in hand. How can young people identify an old problem and continue to press for change if they haven't learned from the past simply because they have not been taught the past and learned from history, how to make change happen?
The religious sanctioning of slavery, as was the reality of Christians in the South, should be a very important topic in every classroom today. How can religion sanction atrocities? This is the crisis we face with international terrorist who are defending Religious beliefs, hoping to receive 72 virgins in heaven. These are important philosophical concepts that must be, in my opinion, out there, discussed in classrooms and institutions, so that the strongest voice does not hijack the topic and end up sanctioning slavery, or the oppression of women, or severing heads, all in the name of religion. Again - the same concept "I am better than you. My religion is better than yours. My skin colour is better than yours." You may add your 'betters' but this human frailt, the belief that "I am Right" is to be taught and fought in schools. How else could the Fraternity scandal have happened? These were twenty something year old kids. How did they not know that times have changes and that it is no longer acceptable to lynch and hang people and use the n word and think this is funny? Natalie told me that she heard that that some fraternities had parties where they sprinkled cotton balls from the drug store and hired black kids to pick them up, and this was considered funny? HUH? Those kids missed something. Society missed something. How can you change the homes that these kids grew up in? John Ridley said - its not what happens behind the glass of a bus - its what is happening right out in the open of daylight, that troubles him. He is a success, he says because he is a product of change and took advantage of the opportuity to change.
Ferguson? Would the prejudices continue if Martin Luther King's non violence Civil Rights Movement be taught in every classroom over the past 20 years? 30 years? forty years? Selma is 50 years old!!! Would the white kids, learning about the movement, who choose police work as a career, behave like the people resigning now? Are we really not wanting the same thing?
Department of Justice. In my opinion, too little too late, they did not do enough to help black kids in jail. Obama. He did not do enough to help black kids in jail. You know how I know? Cuz Greg, a 65 year old white business man was processed as a black man and was in jail with kids 18 to 30 years old for 10 days, in Cook county Chicago and Tuscumbia Alabama, and he told me about the injustice he saw first hand.
And my last story is that Board games have become popular again. Sales are up, and cafes are opening up to play games with people. And that bring me to Battleship. Did I mention I was Latvian? My Dad and I would play battle ship. He would pull out two sheets of graph paper. He made two 10 x 10 squares on his sheet and taught me to make my squares on my peice of paper, and we drew in out our ships, and away we went, playing Battleship! Fifty years ago, the game probably cost us 2 cents if that! Hahaha, I just learned that my apple laptop doesn't even have the cent symbol anymore. And that is how I learned that you don't need a board game to have fun, you just need graph paper! ( and you have to be taught to make a 10x10 square).
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