MY EDITORIAL
written starting on June 1, 2008, 5:20 p.m. ( June 1 starts at the bottom of this blog to the most recent entries at the top of this blog ).
January 20, 2009 - The Inauguration of the 44th President of the United States: Barack Obama !!!
Stephen's Inauguration BreakdownAfter watching Barack Obama's inauguration, Stephen wants to be black for just one day.
I can't tell you how we African-Americans felt on November 4, 2008 !! We simultaneously felt the jubilation of the moment AND our painful historic memories of 1863 when Lincoln freed the slaves and 1619 when the first Africans came to Virginia. I can't imagine the sheer happiness, hope, and ecstacy that the slaves must have felt when President Lincoln freed them in 1863 !!!!!! So, to put it short . . . like it or not, America, we have a new president. ( By the way, pardon the language of the 1st video. It is just part of our culture, a culture of 389 years of suffering and pain. )
November 5, 2008: Advice to Obama
October 1, 2008: Poet Maya Angelou’s Benedition – Her Inaugural Poem for President Obama
I’m a high school English teacher, and David Allen Grier does a fantastic Maya Angelou !! Watch: November 3, 2008: Indecision 2008 - Last Day October 23, 2008: Bus Tour of the Other America
After Sarah Palin’s speech about real Americans live in small town America, Rob Riggle gave a tour of the “scary” big city: 10,000 McCainiacs ( October 14, 2008 )
John McCain has created a monster that has turned on him. The incredulous saga continues of the:
"NO ISSUES discussed - It's ALL ABOUT OBAMA" thing.
The year isn't 1848 in America, folks. Last time I looked at the calendar today, it said, "October 2008". This is SUPPOSED to be 21ST CENTURY AMERICA!!! Not the DARK AGES in EUROPE !!!
Look at your calendars, people. It SHOULD say October 2008, not October 1008 . . . Haven't we learned anything in this span of time ?!!! Not only do we literally have at our fingertips centuries and millennia worth of great classic literature that warns us of the "monster in us" and the "monster without" by such writers as Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley ( author of "Frankenstein" ), Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Oscar Wilde ( "The Picture of Dorian Gray" ), etc., but hollywood has also made THOUSANDS of movies on this theme, the latest movie which is at theaters right now, "Quarantine".
MOST OF ALL, the Bible gives dire warning about hate mongers and those who cultivates and encourages fear in others and spreads discord among people. Yet, . . . who listens to the Bible or the writers of literature, or hollywood's offering on the subject, for that matter. People say, "It's just a STORY or a movie !!! It's not talking about us." How many TIMES have I told my English classes that this is NOT true !!! The messages of these books and movies ARE trying to convey to you that very message about life and humanity !! Yet . . . "It was just a good story" . . . SAD !!! So, the madness and insanity continues down through history . . .
Case in point, take a look at this latest political occurrence on October 14, 2008. It's just so incredible, it's really FUNNY and pathetic:
He's getting ready to ANNOUNCE HIS VICTORY !! Yes, Obama is a Chicago resident in my own town, Chicago. Our Chicago Channel 7 News station showed Obama coming out of a building at 500 N. Kingsbury just a mile from my house !!
I'm African-American, and I think everybody has been making "Much Ado About Nothing" as Shakespeare wisely put it. I think people are falling back on their old racial fears and are trying to cover them up by pointing a finger at others for what they themselves already are. This situation is one step from becoming like the Salem Witch Hunt of 1692.
If you want my own opinion, all of this is one big, tired, old YAWN, one big deja vu in sheep's clothing. Like Shakespeare said, this is "Much Ado about Nothing"!! Obama is a man running for office just like Abraham Lincoln did 150 years ago before him. In fact, Abraham Lincoln AND Martin Luther King would both be EXTREMELY proud of Obama and themselves, and would encourage Obama all the way !!
On the other hand, it's shameful how this country is acting ! I thought there was a SEPARATION of Church and State. Yet, ALL OF A SUDDEN, people are so hypocritically concerned about its inseparability when it concerns Obama !!!!!!!!!!!! And the man has to stand up there alone and defend himself before a land full of hypocrites !!!
But the second you talk about putting the Ten Commandments back into the schools where they need it more today than EVER before, people want to immediately scream, "Separation of Church and State !!!"
CHRIST PUT IT BEST:
"HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN, CAST THE FIRST STONE."
How that SOOOOOO well applies to America's attempts of trying to slam Obama and all of these ministers, both black and white. These pastors are speaking from a whole other context, historical and spiritual, and from an entirely different arena !!! If Jesus were here, I want to know how many of you ( who are against Obama, that is ) would lie through your teeth saying you wouldn't do the same thing to HIM ! Because, TRUST ME, Jesus would have said something today that would have completely ticked you off !!!
Let's be honest, "YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH !!!"
After pastors have for centuries put it in every conceivable way for people to understand, sometimes all that is left is to just start slinging it around any ol' kind of way. After all, it's the only way that seems to get anybody's attention anymore these days. People will prick up their ears only when they can find something to protest.
And who is going to deny that in Lincoln's day if there had been television, the press, the pompous news media, and diabolical sound bites of Lincoln spinning 24-hours out of control, who would deny that Abraham Lincoln wouldn't have been run out of town before he could have ever had the chance to be shot in the head?
So . . . all of a sudden, America is soooooo concerned, and now a STATE person is tethered to the CHURCH, as if by magic !
This is SOOOOOO prophetic and foreshadowing, people !!! In the Book of Revelation, God warns that you too will be FORCED to deny Him. Only you will be MADE to deny Him on a GRAND SCALE; look it up in the Book of Revelations. What you've done to Obama is just a snapshot of what the future holds for you; it's just the tip of the iceberg. What goes around really WILL eventually come around, folks !! I was just forced off my job of 31 years exactly a year ago this month of June by a crooked principal ( or headmistress, as the British say ), and I get freakin' flashbacks now every time I see cruelty's ugly head raised and camouflaged behind so many different masks !!
But I can't tell you how MANY, MANY times God has blessed me for what I had suffered under that horrible woman's reign of terror !!! I can't watch the witches of the "Wizard of Oz", "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe", "Prince Caspian", or any horror flick, for that matter, without thinking of her, BIG TIME !!! However, if my principal had only known how much I am being blessed and will continue to be blessed FOREVERMORE for what she had done to me, she WOULD HAVE NEVER EVEN TRIED to unknowingly give me that honor.
You see, there is "A SECRET" that religious people like me have known for a long time. "The Secret" is no secret at all, really; it amazes me how people think that the book and movie known as "The Secret" is so incredible. I've known that and much more for a long time. Just like gravity, there are invisible things and Laws that GOD has built into the Universe. If you want to know some of what I'm talking about, go see the new movie "Prince Caspian". C. S. Lewis wrote about "THE TRUE Secret" in his book, Prince Caspian, around 60 years ago. This is the true "Secret" we Christians know. You also saw it in the movie "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" based C. S. Lewis' novel, but "Prince Caspian" portrays it even more. So the "bad guys" in the movies AND IN REAL LIFE are the actual BIG LOSERS; this is just one of the many invisible Laws of the Universe ! This week I'm writing a blog on my review of the movie "Prince Caspian". I'll announce it on the Yuwie Message Board. Don't miss it !!
I would NEVER deny the Church because that just comes too close to denying Christ. And none of the ministers associated TO Obama OR McCain should feel that they've been half-nelsoned or full-nelsoned into any apologies. I say let GOD be the Judge to determine who is telling more truth here, the ministers or the people who judge them !!!! Who has the incredible gall to take HIS place in this matter?
Well . . . I have been trying to laugh my way through this bunch of "stuff" ( expletive deleted ), so let me continue to do so by offering you the latest on the:
********** OBAMA DRAMA ***********:
Recognizing that humor is an important part of life, all of the political candidates, Obama, Clinton, McCain, as well as President Bush, have poked fun at themselves lately on Saturday Night Live and other television events.
If you need to relax from the stress of all of the political 'drama' and need a laugh, here's my take on the lighter side of all of this "Obama Drama". It's true, "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine." - Proverbs 17:22.
So today, May 27, there's more humor to be had on the campaign trail. Political journalists and analysts are once again on the prowl, sniffing out a story in the Obama camp. Man, it's got to be A LOT of fun being a journalist !
Take a look:
Today, 5/1/08, on late night, the saga continues. Though the media has in any other situation traditionally raised the banner for the Constitutional concept of the Separation of Church and State, it hypocritically can't stop its insatiable feasting like vultures on this particular story, as the paparazzi would do in their own chaotic arena. The news media has now tasted blood on its lip. As they have put it today, Obama has "thrown Reverend Wright under the bus". But with blood now in the mouth of the media, they have regressed and given into their primal instincts and fears, and can't stop their insatiable lust for feasting on this unprecedented story.
So . . . get out your blood pressure medication, ice bag and thermometer, and put your feet in some cold, ice water. Today, 5/1/08, on late night, the saga continues. Here is today's rendering of a comic review of showman extraordinaire Rev. Jeremiah Wright's "Reverending Story":
Monday, 4/28/08, on late night TV, Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his entertainment skills were given the spotlight from a comic point of view. So get an ice bag, thermometer, a chill pill, and watch the latest political goings-on from a humorous perspective.
The first segment is humorous news concerning Congo, Africa, and the last segment was a visit from our former President Jimmy Carter, who thankfully presented much needed sanity and levity to today's insane political world and to the program, as well.
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