9/11: A passport was found

If Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were called in by the U.S. Government to investigate “Who-done-it?” in the 9/11 tragedy of the Twin Towers and had the following clues presented to them:

- #1. A passport of one of the hijackers found in the rubble.

- #2. No name or physical description of the hero who found the passport and turned it over to the authorities and

- #3. they are informed the body of the owner of the passport could not be found, “We tried, Mr. Holmes.”

Mr. Holmes would turn saying, “This is an easy one, Dr. Watson. (Yawn) It’s elementary, you see.”
As always,
BB

Another 911 'Passport Miracle'!
By Greg Szymanski
11-10-5
Excerpt:
One day after 9/11 the perfectly unscathed passport of Satam Al Suqami, one of the alleged 19 hijackers, was found several blocks from Ground Zero, even though its next to impossible such a flimsy item escaped the towering inferno unblemished.
Read more at:
http://www.rense.com/general68/pass.htm

Teaching by example

The President spoke to Congress tonight.

Now that the President has spoken to people who understood what he was talking about, it is time for him to talk to people who did not fully understand what he was talking about.

In other words, you can not talk to your students, people who you want to understand you, the same way you talk to your colleagues in the teachers’ lounge.

You can not throw words around like “deficit, adding to the deficit, tax cuts, cut spending, corporate tax rates, stimulus, payroll tax cuts, collective bargaining, free trade” etc., to neophytes.

For example, if you want beginners to know what two o’clock is, you tell them it is two o’clock when the long hand is on the twelve and the short hand is on the two. You take nothing for granted when you want people to understand you. Nothing!

Once you have told people what you mean when you use certain words, they can fully follow you. Also, they would now be placed in a position to know when somebody does not know what they are talking about or are lying to them. I think the word is "Bamboozled!" People would remember what you have said as the model.

One of my favorite parts of the early shows of Rachel Maddow was when she and Kent Jones would have a skit or something explaining a situation. A lot of learning was done during those episodes and I learned a lot. The strongest teaching tools you have is the ability to give examples by any means necessary.

In my opinion, when the President takes his Jobs’ Bill on the road to further expose it to his constituents, it would be nice if he would explain it in terms of a young adults’ first pay check using the words he used in his speech to Congress. If he could get the scenes dramatizes on stage, so much the better. I guarantee there would be gasps, tears and laughter but above all, there would be learning.

Want another example of a good teacher? Thomas (The world is flat) Freidman. How’s that? And there is Ms. Melissa Harris-Perry. Enough already?
As always,
BB
P.S. When you want people to understand something, you must always go from the known to the un-known. How can a person understand you when you start ‘splanin’ something using words they don’t know the meaning of? You can always start with "Three little pigs".

View video of Job Speech 9/8/2011
http://www.google.com/#q=president+speech+tonight&hl=en&prmd=ivnsu&source=univ&tbm=nws&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=T3xpTvmtM8T50gHrs4XnBA&ved=0CD8QqAI&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=289517196f4192bf&biw=560&bih=286

State Law Vs. Federal Law

There is much talk today regarding having a smaller government with implications regarding States’ Rights. The general rhetoric is states will do what it can for its citizens due to the fact the state knows the situation of its citizens better than the Federal Government and should therefore be allowed to control its own destiny.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 made me realize State Laws do not protect all of its citizens, especially the rights of Black. That is why the Federal Government had to step in to make laws regarding equal treatment of all its citizens. The same rationale prompted Brown Vs. Board of Ed. In 1954.

States’ Rights would unquestionably work well if the U.S. were a monolithic society.

What continues to bother me, however, are the un-written mixure (cacophony?) of laws that go under the radar as follow:

- I am mindful F. Lee Bailey saying his law practice was black-balled due to his defense of O. J. Simpson.

- Many years ago, Ex-Mayor Marion Berry telling us when a Black becomes Mayor of a city, large corporations abandon the city thereby eroding its tax base.

- Standards & Poor’s suggesting Republican ill will toward a Black President has put the country on poor economic footing. The erosion continues to date.

- Sports barons making modifications to games due to Black performers i.e. modifications to the basketball hoop and, in the case of Tiger Woods, lengthening some distances to get a golf ball into a hole.

- Tightening drug laws to financially enhance revenue for private prisons by arresting and sentencing mostly Blacks participants.

- Making “To kill a mockingbird” and “The diary of Anna Frank” required reading in the newly integrated schools.

- I am mindful hearing there is a movement in New Jersey to have anti-bullying laws and the schools having a mandate to implement them. I saw a representative of the initiative on C-Span this past week-end. Anti-bullying has now become the newest cottage industry vying for the American dollar and it will be members of the prison complex lending credence.

- This from CNN last week, “Michael Vick has just signed a million dollar contract. At this time last year, he was in jail.”

- The movie “The color purple” receiving no Oscar awards in any category.

Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-SPAN and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
P.S. American racism is very difficult to write about due to its various complexities but just as the Congressman said at a hearing regarding pornography, “I can’t describe it to you but I know it when I see it.”
P.P.S. I think the President will be re-elected and he and his constituents will be comfortable seeing this country, due to racism, drift backwards to its pre-Columbian era for a new beginning. "Play it again, Sam!" Casablanca, 1942.

Obama and the end of The Yellow Brick Road

For a few years now I have followed Pres. Obama joyously strutting, skipping and hopping down the Yellow Brick Road on our way to Oz only to find the same thing Dorothy found: a fake!

Now that we have both seen the same thing and I not wanting to pull a Cowardly Lion on him, there are some realities I have to confront. Our only hope is for him to click his heels three times this Thursday night.

Enough said. The end.

As always,
BB

Were any Blacks killed during 9/11?

During these many years since 9/11, I can not recall seeing a single Black survivor from this tragedy nor have I seen or heard from a family member of a Black deceased victim.

I do remember a controversy about a movie or documentary wherein a Black fireman was considered a hero by a survivor but the producer re-wrote history by casting a white actor to perform the heroic act.

As always,
BB

Tea Party: A noun, a verb and Obama

(Taken from a quote of VP Biden in reference to Mayor Guliani: A noun, a verb and 911)

It was an accident I landed on C-Span to catch the beginning of a rally for Sarah Palin this past Saturday. The event was called Tea Party of America Rally and it was in Ohio.

This would be my first time seeing an entire rally featuring Ms. Palin so I felt it was time to “edumacate” myself as to what really goes on at one of her throw-downs.

There were female singers and four guys doing the warm-ups for the rally. All of the guys were radio personalities from the Ohio area.

One guy came on stage smoking and sporting a large cigar ala Groucho Marx and after him there was a comedian who told us several times that he was a Jewish comedian and he told a few Jewish jokes.

It was raining, umbrellas were up and the audience, at that time, was thin. I was trying my best to understand what was going on when Charlie Gruschow, VP and co-founder of the rally said during his warm-up remarks, “Barack Husein Obama, what an insane name.” and went on to sing praises to Sarah Palin.

At that point and after such a long warm-up period, I felt that Sarah had decided not to participate in such a charade. I was wrong. She did come on stage and continued what I had already heard from the warm-up boys: A noun, a verb and Obama.

By this time, the audience had grown larger and it had stopped raining. The grey heads with umbrellas and lawn chairs had faded into the background and I grew weary of hearing Ms. Palins' voice and all of those unusual vocal inflections.

~The next show I saw on Saturday was one on the Koch brothers wherein I learned they have a tea party chapter called Americans for Prosperity. I remember hearing that VP Chaney also has a Tea Party chapter.

The reality has become apparent there are different chapters in the Tea Party movement just as there are different chapters of the VFW, Rotary Club and Boys Scouts of America. In my opinion, a person who makes references to the Tea Party should identify the chapter and its founder. They can’t all be the same. I learned a lot on Saturday. (Pat on the back)

Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-SPAN and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB

Lo and behold!! Article actually gives names! Mr. Schinella does what a good journalist is expected to do.
Liberty Groups Rail Against Romney
By Tony Schinella
Excerpt:
Tea Party organizations in New Hampshire....(and) the candidate was speaking at the Tea Party Express rally....(and) Jerry DeLemus, of the Granite State Patriots Liberty PAC,....(and) Tim Carter, a leader within the Lakes Region Tea Party (and) Andrew Hemingway, the chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire....(and) Jackie Bodnar, a representative of FreedomWorks,
Read more at:
http://concord-nh.patch.com/articles/liberty-groups-rail-against-romney