Most 4-year-olds don't know the name of every state on the map, let alone the capitals. Ananla Beevers invited to MENSA is an international organization for people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardized, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test.
"Jennifer-Cari Green, a secretary at the Madigan Army Medical Center in Washington State and the single mother of a six-year-old son, said that she had struggled to make ends meet under a three-year military pay freeze even before the sequester hit. Now she calculates that her take-home pay will drop from $1,477 a month to $1,008 through the end of September (the end of the fiscal year) as she is forced to take 11 days of furlough -- a 32% reduction over two weeks, or a 4.5% annual reduction.
She is falling dangerously close to the poverty line, even while she makes too much to qualify for food stamps or free school lunches for her son."
Doesn't seem like the rich over paid federal employees or may be she's the 47% feeling entitled. Remind me - was Congress part of the sequester?
Could adults be trying to poison our children’s minds, encouraging their own personal prejudices?
Some people just aren't happy unless they're making someone else's life miserable. Watch out, karma ALWAYS comes back. Nishan Panwar Quotes
“It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.” ― Tom
Peters, Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution
Confusion is my reaction to the Trayvon Martin verdict. I keep
trying to remind myself, logic and common sense has nothing to do with the “letter
of the law.” Compounded this confusion
are the remarks made by the defense lawyers.
“Zimmerman's lawyer
Mark O'Mara also practically dared the family of Trayvon Martin to file a
widely expected civil suit against him, but said that Zimmerman might be filing
lawsuits of his own.” (exclusive interview with ABC News)
“O'Mara, in an exclusive interview with ABC News, suggested
that Zimmerman has no regrets about carrying a gun on Feb. 26, 2012, the night
he killed Martin, a teenager.”
See remarks like those confuse me into thinking the defense
could care less for the loss of human life – for whatever reason. Are dead children not a loss to their
generation? In my confusion, the remarks
seem callous, self-righteous, and arrogant. Is that lawyer talk?
“Each new life, no matter how brief, forever changes the
world.” Trayvon Martin matters because he was.
He has add to our history – the American experience of bringing a gun to
a fist fight. As a parent – mother – who
carried a child for nine months, realizing you could not help your child reach
home safely.
”There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in its
entire dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I
could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at
her empty arms.” -Charlotte Bronte
The pink, blue, orange child is as important to the parent
as the brown, yellow, green child – when you look at your empty arms.
“Some say you’re too painful to remember. I say you’re too
precious to forget.”
On November 28, 2008, Plaxico Antonio Burress suffered an
accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound to the right thigh in the New York City. On August 20, 2009, Burress accepted a plea
deal that would put him in prison for two years with an additional two years of
supervised release. He shot himself.
In July 2007, Michael Dwayne Vick and three other men were
charged by federal authorities with felony charges of operating an unlawful
interstate dog fighting venture. Vick
was assigned to United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, a federal prison
facility in Leavenworth, Kansas, to serve his sentence. Separate Virginia charges against Vick in the
dog-fighting case were brought following indictments by the Surry County grand
jury when it met on September 25, 2007. He
submitted a guilty plea to a single Virginia felony charge for dog fighting,
receiving a 3-year prison sentence suspended on condition of good behavior, and
a $2,500 fine.
Tammy Brown lives off $508 a month. That's the Social
Security disability payment she gets because of her degenerative bone disease
and hypertension. About $300 goes to the mortgage and utilities leaving $200
for food, medicines and whatever else comes up.
She didn’t have money for vet care for her dog. The case went to trial, and on March 20, 2013
a jury convicted her of animal cruelty. She
could face up to five years in prison.
Two former Butterball workers at a North Carolina turkey
facility were convicted of animal cruelty on Feb. 22. 2013 following a 2011
undercover investigation It revealed mistreatment of the birds, including kicking,
dragging and throwing. These birds
ultimately ended up as someone meal.
Jurors convicted a Dallas man Friday of felony animal
cruelty for killing his girlfriend’s cat.
The same jury acquitted Edwon Julian of assault after the woman and her
two teenage daughters said he attacked them with a stun gun that same day. Julian could face two to 20 years in prison.
An Alaska mother who disciplined her 7-year-old for
misbehaving in school by pouring hot sauce down his throat and then giving him
a cold shower – all the time videotaping what she was doing so she could be
considered for an appearance on Dr. Phil – was found guilty of one misdemeanor
count of child abuse.
We send people to prison for shooting themselves, but not
stalking a child. We send people to
prison for animal abuse, but not the abuse of killing, harming or terrorizing a
child. I’m so confused!
“We are grieving, We are not contagious, We are not sad all
the time, We laugh, We smile, We cry, We weep for being happy, We live, We
talk, We feel, We come from every background, We are sad, we lost a baby, We
are…” -Jennifer Davis
"Two weeks ago, I wrote that the transit system would look silly if it let perish 1,000 flowers planted secretly at the Dupont Circle station by local garden artist Henry Docter, the self-described Phantom Planter."
Robert McCartney
Columnist
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