Archive for August, 2007
Best-selling author, motivational speaker, and “grown folks” radio talk show host, Mr. Michael Baisden, frequently shares the fact that reading and writing books created a paradigm shift that literally changed his life forever.
I’m one of the many literacy advocates and activists who agrees with Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu’s honest belief that “readers are leaders” and “learners are earners.”
“Illiteracy will hold the blindfold that blinds the great minds of today and allows Ignorance to kill, steal, and destroy the opportunities tomorrow brings.”
–Steppin’ Out Of The Darkness
Imagine how difficult life would be today if you couldn’t read. What book(s) did you read as a child that inspired you to raise the level of your thinking? How many books have you finished reading this year?
“Leaders Are Readers,” by Ms. Thea Westra, is a blog that I inadvertently failed to mention when I initially published this post.
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August 29th, 2007
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Here’s another bookmark I created, while standing “on bended knee,” to remind my humbled soul that it’s difficult to experience a great fall when approaching humanity’s spiritual enemies from positions of power.
“On bended knee, strong men will continue to humble ourselves before the Most High and pray for the day when “equal justice under law” is no longer science fiction, but indeed, a reality.”
–Roderick O. Solomon
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August 28th, 2007
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“Dear Mr. President,” by Pink, is one of those rare music videos that stirs the soul as it tugs at our hearts. Matters not if you’re a Democrat or a Republican. Click on the highlighted words “Dear Mr. President” to watch Pink’s video.
Pink, our “politically corrected” leaders could learn a lot from you if only they’d slow their roll and listen to the voice of reason. It’s a shame the mainstream media, radio stations, and television stations refuse play a song that’s filled with so much relevancy, honesty, and truth.
Kudos to Mr. Jimmy Kimmel for letting Pink perform “Dear Mr. President” on his show.
Pink, as a sign of respect, I tip my hat to you for having the courage, the compassion, the empathy to write such a powerful, insightful, thought-provoking song for such a season as this.
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August 13th, 2007
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“When a great democracy is destroyed it will not be from enemies from without but rather because of enemies from within.”
–Joseph R. McCarthy
The aforementioned quote by Mr. McCarthy is taken from “Speech to the Republican Women’s Club of Wheeling, West Virginia” on February 9, 1950. Although McCarthy was speaking about a different enemy, the same biblical principle applies during the “here and now.”
Matters not who the perceived enemy may appear to be through humanity’s spiritually darkened eyes,
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
What happened in Jena, Louisiana occurred on “our watch” during the post civil rights movement. Here we are, as Americans, still focusing on skin colour instead of focusing on the content of our character.
It’s a crying shame that highly educated, extremely intelligent grown folk are still spilling innocent blood, still killing each other at will, and still dying for nothing fighting civil wars human hands will never win.
The United States of America’s hostile takeover will occur from “without” because our great nation of great people remains too emotionally distracted from “within” by a spiritual enemy with a hidden agenda.
Humanity’s spiritual enemies have mastered the ancient art of “divide and conquer” by employing “systemic, institutionalized hatred” to destroy humanity’s culturally diverse global village one spiritually-blinded mind at a time.
“Why do great people like us with great weaknesses like ours still hate to love one another?”
–Roderick O. Solomon
Think about it.
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August 8th, 2007
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Our current DSL provider has not been able to solve this perplexing dilemma to our satisfaction. For almost a month now, our home’s DSL service has been so unstable that it is now completely unreliable.
Customer service has been out-sourced to a call center housed outside the U.S.A. At times, it’s rather difficult to understand what the help desk technicians are saying. It always sounds as though they’re reading from a script.
Based upon a few heated conversations, I don’t get the impression that our current DSL provider cares about the level of “customer service” they provide as much as they are concerned about extending or renewing existing “contractual commitments.”
Fix my “existing” technical problem “before” trying to “up sell” an unhappy customer a “new” contract.
If you can read this post, maybe the other previously written posts will also appear before my DSL link goes down again. If not, please visit my archives until I can locate another DSL provider and get caught up.
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August 6th, 2007
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