April 18, 2007

• This crazy world

  This crazy world of ours makes it difficult to write an upbeat entry.  I complain about the smallest things and then we have a disaster that lets you know how fortunate you really are.  God be with everyone, everywhere in all disasters.  You are the only rock.

  My monitor problem seems to be intermittent.  Right now, no complaints.  I did a restore by a day and it acted exactly the same.  Next I knew, it acts like no problem at all.  It’s like a wild animal waiting for the right moment to show itself.

  A photo Halie took of Eden while still in Spain.

  

  I altered it to black and white and to a paint technique.  Eden has grown up so much since leaving for and returning from their tour of duty.

  Fund raising:  See what has been happening by following the link, http://www.xanga.com/Halie. 

  To Purchase items for your own fund raising for an IB student, follow the link for by Geeks For Geeks in the animation below.  All purchase at this site will also help Eden’s fund raising efforts.

  

  Eden and Halie are going to attend “Displace Me” in Washington D.C. this April 28th.  They are inviting other Xangans to attend with them.  Read more on Halie’s site (Halie) and for more info, follow the Displace Me link as there are other cities included across the country that may be closer to your part of the world.

   

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  A VERY LARGE EDIT

  My daughter asked me to explain why I am an Imus fan.  I guess we all find our humor or our education in different ways.  She finds humor in the situation weekly “Sex in the City” with it’s out of my norm life styles and I like “Boston Legal” also a bit on the adult side and Imus. 

  Imus, with some of his less than perfect remarks, has an easy way about himself.  He is honest and concerned for the future of children and the world.  He promotes and sells ecological ideas.  I think that large companies feel he takes away from their profits and has a lot of thoughts concerning the environment that effects their pocketbooks.  I feel he was a scapegoat for larger things and that his remark, though thoughtless, was made in a lighter fashion, not a remark he meant deliberately to be hurtful.  I think there are much worse things going on in this world of ours being deliberately overlooked and I repeat, purposefully as money is being made by their trashy appeal to people, young and old, who haven’t gotten the larger picture that people no matter their gender, race, religion, sexual orientation are individuals who need to be looked at for their individuality and valued accordingly. I think these same people who enjoy the trash have been elevated to find it to be entertaining because of lifestyle changes instigated by our very own community governments who are now putting on that “mask of indignant” and have thrown up their arms over Imus remark.  These same “now indignant community governments”  continually chip away at the importance of family, the importance of proper disciplines and of good moral values promoting what they want to promote.  What and why? for the almighty dollar, that’s why.  Sunday used to be a day for family togetherness and hopefully of instruction type, monkey see, monkey do and by the reminder each week that moral living should be a part of our lives.  Instead they took away that day and added it to their roster of days to sell to add to their revenues.  Other days to sell now include days once considered Holy like Easter and Christmas and it doesn’t matter what your religion is or whether you claim no religion at all.  What matters is there was a more direct attempt at teaching our kids right from wrong and Sunday was a weekly reminder of values.  Taking away days that reflected on family values was and still is one of the worst things that ever happened in this country of ours.  A real consequence of  a confused mind manifested itself only two days ago in the terrible shootings on the campus of the Virginia Tech university.  All of our less than honest business establishments promote every single day “buy and replace and trash” things that are still useful because what is important to them is the dollar, not our lives or the worth of family.  Business has no respect for the value of the teachings in the Golden Rule, the Ten Commandments, the Beatitudes, the Lord’s Prayer and what these few words can do to improve living conditions within a family when practiced.  All it takes is half a brain to realize you don’t have to be religious to see the truth in those few short guides to living a less than hurtful life.  Business doesn’t want us to be satisfied, they only pretend they do.  Satisfaction means less purchasing by the consumer. 

  YES, Imus single remark forgot to take into account that through his shortsighted thinking of the moment, he was lumping a young group of women into a less than pleasing lifestyle they preferred not to be linked to.  I think that same group of young women would not have even heard of the remark as they are not Imus listeners, (tell me they were listening to Imus when he made the remark).  Imus was and is a target of someone who has been sitting in wait to hurt him because Imus has the guts to say things that need saying.  Someone other than that basketball team was listening to Imus, waiting to scream about something, anything because they don’t like the truths he points to. 

  Have we forgotten there are some who live daily, feeding off, getting rich from, the exploitation of others.  Imus was not, is not one of them but some of those out there doing the screaming have an agenda that benefits themselves and I believe we will be seeing a lot more before we get the idea something is very wrong here. 

  I say, 

  Bring back Imus!

   

  Becca

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