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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

What's in a name?

It never ceases to amaze, and at the same time disgust me. I'm talking about the overt hypocrisy of the left. I was reading an editorial column at our local paper's website recently and was particularly peeved by one of the comments posted to the column. This commenter was commenting in response to another commenter who referred to President Obama as "Barry Obama". Now do the fact checking for yourself if you want, but he went by "Barry" while in college. The commenter in question was not using the name as an insult or with any disrespect. He was merely using a nickname that our President adopted for himself when he was younger.

The other commenter, the one who set my teeth on edge, however, said that calling him "Barry" was very disrespectful and that we should all call him by his given name Barack Hussein Obama. I would almost be willing to bet a month's pay that this person belongs to the same ilk that was wringing their hands during the campaign over people's use of his middle name, Hussein. Remember how they all said that was unecessary, bigoted, and disrespectful? Now it's somehow okay and the proper way to refer to him?

I would also almost be willing to bet another month's pay that this person and their ilk were some of the loudest critics of former President Bush, calling him an idiot, an SOB, and everything but his title or his given name, doing so with much hatred and disrespect, and all the while thinking it was perfectly okay. I have a news flash for them, it's not okay. Never has been and never will be.

These people actually seem to think that referring to President Obama as anything less than the Messiah, God Incarnate, and America's best and only hope is somehow racist and disrespectful to him. How stupid can they be? Stupid enough to buy into his rhetoric and elect him apparently. It appears that here in America, for now at least, that the imnates are running the asylum. Or maybe the clowns are running the circus. Either one works.

The bottom line is, respect is earned and not demanded. Only those who know they don't deserve respect try to demand it from those that they themselves show little or no respect for. Barack Hussein Obama has not earned my respect. I respect the office he holds even though I did not vote for him. I do not however, respect him as a person, the views he holds and espouses, or the detrimental change he seeks to force upon America and Americans.

That being said, I will act with way more class and dignity than anyone on their side has done in years, and will refer to him as President Obama. Oh sure, I could lower myself to their gutter level and call him a fool, an idiot, or whatever, but I won't. I'm better than that. I just wish, for the sake of our country, that those on the left were too.

Jim Chitty
Writer/Columnist/Blogger

A very good deed!!

Don't know whether you heard about this but Denzel Washington and his family visited the troops at Brook Army Medical Center , in San Antonio, Texas (BAMC) the other day. This is where soldiers who have been evacuated from Germany come to be hospitalized in the United States, especially burn victims.

There are some buildings there called Fisher Houses. The Fisher House is a Hotel where soldiers' families can stay, for little or no charge, while their soldier is staying on base, but as you can imagine, they are almost filled most of the time.

While Denzel Washington was visiting BAMC, they gave him a tour of one of the Fisher Houses. He asked how much one of them would cost to build.

He took his check book out and wrote a check for the full amount right there on the spot. The soldiers overseas were amazed to hear this story and want to get the word out to the American public, because it warmed their hearts to hear it.

The question is, why do Brittany Spears, Madonna, Tom Cruise, Lindsay Lohan and other Hollywood fluff make front page headlines with their ridiculous antics and Denzel Washington's charity doesn't even make page three in the Metro section of any newspaper except the local newspaper in San Antonio.

Denzel Washington is a class act and this act of selflessness and generosity proves it. The media won't cover this, but that's why blogs like this exist, to do the job they don't have the spine to do. Spread the word. Make sure this gets out!!

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Monday, March 23, 2009

Celebrities in Africa: Philantrophy in Africa Series

The Philanthropy in Africa series continues today by highlighting some of your favorite celebrities that are using their platform to raise funds and to highlight awareness of issues in Africa.

Actor Isaiah Washington’s foundation benefits Sierra Leone, Grammy award singer Alicia Keysis bringing awareness to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in partnership with the organization Keep A Child Alive, NBA player Dikembe Mutumbo has opened a hospital in his native Congo, and Ethopian born supermodel Liya Kebede is a champion for maternal and child health through her foundation, the Liya Kebede Foundation. Although these celebrities are busy with their schedules, they have taken the time to visit countries in Africa, to become more educated on the issues they are championing.

Grammy award winning R&B singer John Legend founded the Show Me Campaign in 2007 after visiting villages in Ghana and Tanzania. The campaign works with Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Millennium Promise, and the people of Mbola, Tanzania to implement practical solutions to poverty including clean water, improved health care and education, higher-yielding agriculture, and internet connectivity. Legend has recorded a song that can be heard on the foundation’s website, as a call to action to join his movement to end global poverty.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

About the Dr. Donda West Foundation

In 2008, Kanye West changed the name of his foundation to the Dr. Donda West foundation, as a permanent tribute to her extraordinary legacy and passion for education and children throughout the world.The mission of the Dr. Donda West Foundation, is to help combat the severe dropout problem in schools across the United States by partnering with community organizations to provide underserved youth access to music production programs that will enable them to unleash their creative ability and reach their full potential. Kanye's vision, and thus the vision of the Dr. Donda West Foundation, is its inaugural program, "Loop Dreams", a music production program designed to motivate students to stay in school and graduate. Dr. Donda West Foundation is committed to providing high quality programs in partnership with community organizations such as Challengers Boys & Girls Club in South Central Los Angeles, California where Loop Dreams is currently implemented.

The vision of the foundation is broad and not easy to attain but understanding the critical role education plays in the success of our youth, and how illiteracy impacts us all, we are committed to the ongoing development of this program across the county and envision a day when the high school dropout rate in cities across this nation will be virtually non-existent. It is Kanye’s belief and the belief of every member of our team that the opportunity to participate in the arts, especially our signature program Loop Dreams will motivate today’s high school students to stay in school and graduate.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Yaiba Bahasa Indonesia

Manga Favorit Gue nih, gokil banget ^_^. Manga karangan Aoyama Gosho, yang menceritakan tentang seorang anak yang bernama Yaiba Kurogane!Jago pedang yang sangat menyukai latihan di hutan dan memiliki jurus yang tidak mengikuti aliran manapun. Kali ini, Yaiba akan beraksi di Jepang, tempat berlatihnya yang terbaru. Setelah hasil pertarungan yang seri dengan Takeshi Onimaru, rival abadinya. Onimaru, musuh besar Yaiba, berubah menjadi setan karena terpikat kekuatan Pedang Dewa Angin. Untuk mengalahkannya, Yaiba mendapatkan pedang dewa petir dan berlatih keras di bawah bimbingan seorang kakek perkasa yang tinggal di Bukit Tengu, Musashi Miyamoto.

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