Violence In Chicago
President Obama was disappointed that the Olympic Committee decided not to choose Chicago as the venue for the 2016 Olympics. As President Obama was formerly a successful “community organizer” in Chicago, this defeat must have been especially disappointing. Part of the reason that Chicago may not have been selected is due to how Violence has stricken much of the city. Just a couple of days ago a Chicago student videotaped a murder of an honor student. http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0929/p02s01-usgn.html (As a side note, it seems to be especially dangers to be a Black honor student. In the stories linked below, all the victims happened to be honor students.) http://www.smmirror.com/volume3/issue23/samohi_honor_student.asp http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/article?f=/c/a/2005/09/27/BAG4OEUD661.DTL http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-79459073.html http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/01/26/2009-01-26_progun_senatordesignate_gillibrand_shoul.html Link to raw video: http://www.myfox
Interesting that barbie now has a tramp stamp.
ReplyDeleteI recently had a conversation with a woman about how barbie's wholesomeness had been replaced with Bratz sluttiness. But as in all markets, competition must be ... so now we have a tramp stamped barbie :)
I also agree that people should do what they want to do. I expect tattoos will go out of style as fast as they came into style, but that's neither here nor there. The key is being authentic.
Ya know what is so funny about it all?
ReplyDeleteIf people really want to be different, edgy, then they should not try to be a carbon copy of everyone else.
It takes far more courage to stand out and be a person of one's own self.
I have never gone along with the crowd. And oddly enough, attention is not anything that I have ever lacked.
hmm..... Is that a good thing?
hehe...
Debra J.M. Smith
Remember the Cabbage Patch Kids parody from the 1980s, the Garbage Pail Kids. Someone should make a paradoy of Bratz and call them Skanz.-Norm
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