SHOULD THE STATUE OF LIBERTY PLAQUE BE REMOVED?

Below is the writing on the plaque o the Statue of Liberty from the Emma Lazarus Sonnet...


New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Mother of Exiles is her name.  Um...Mother of exiles...Give me your tired, your poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.  Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed to me.

Those are the last few lines....mixed in there is the phrase...World Wide Welcome. 

Is it just me, or should the USA have that plaque removed?

 With Trump and his protectionist policies...this kinda makes the entire US of A, a bunch of hypocrites.   Through no fault of there own Trump has made a mockery of this once great statue, what it stands for and the people of the United States.

PENMANSHIP?

Bugger.  They taught us to 'write' in school.  We had to have good penmanship.  I would consistently get into trouble for printing instead of writing. 

Enter computers.  Does ANYBODY actually write anymore?  I do when the opportunity presents itself.  I had to learn it.  Im going to use it.  It really messes people up today.  Im guessing they no longer teach it???

Typewriters are a thing of the past.  Computers use key boards.  So shouldn't 'keying' now replace the word typing?

Sterilization Should Be Considered

Whats with women?  Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.  Indeed.

A woman drugs her 9 yr old daughter and then sets her on fire to spite her ex.   ?????

She's not eligible for parole for 18 years.  A 9 year old girl was betrayed by the very person who should have been willing to die to protect her.  HER MOTHER.  She was 9 years old and her only crime was having a monster for a mother.

Its time to start considering Sterilization as a means of enhanced punishment for 'extreme' cases to prevent these monsters from having a chance to do it again. 

Sadly, this type of thing is becoming more and more frequent where children are mere objects, pawns in a deadly game of Im gonna get even.

Its time we stepped up as a society and start protecting our future to the fullest.  These are our children.  Our most precious resource.  Its time we protect and treat them as such. 

EDMONTON WORLD of WHEELS 2017 A MEDIA NON-EVENT

The 2017 World of Wheels Edmonton Event was a NON news story.  A back page side story about a dragster donated to the Reynolds Museum.  No pictures of the actual event besides hood ornaments and tires. 

No category Winners or explanation of the event.  No mention of special guests like...WWE's " BIG SHOW."  NOTHING!!!

This was a 3 Day Event.  A garage sale gets more media attention than they got.  And all they could mention was a dragster being donated to a museum.  This is early March.  There is nothing going on competing with the event.

A chance to promote Edmonton and an event that was at one point cancelled here and trying to revive itself and the city of Edmonton and its media deemed it not important enough to cover.  A dragster donated to the Reynolds Museum...There was more to the event than that.

But you would never know it based on the way the media skimmed the event.  The coverage that was given gives the impression that the person covering the event wasn't even a car enthusiast.  I used to write book reports back in grade school the same way.  Read the prologue, epilogue and back cover.  A guaranteed C.

This is a HUGE problem in Edmonton.  Events are poorly promoted and then the media does a flash and dash news story AFTER the event which does nothing to promote or help the event for the following year.  I originally had plans to enter the event this year.  But I wanted to get to know my car first.  I was hoping to see what the event was about first and would maybe enter next year. 

Events in Edmonton could be so much more, the city could be so much more...but unless its supporting the military or the Stollery or says Oilers on it...its not important to the media or the City.

In fairness, Gobal News did the best job covering the event,  there were over 150 vehicles...but the event could have been described much better.  There were also competitions/prizes and judging for different categories.  The coverage downplayed the event instead of celebrating it. 

Just my opinion.

 

This is just part of the AMC Clubs' Entries.  There were over 150 entries.  But you'd never know it by the media coverage.   What a shame.

Men and Hair

Teenage and young men grow their hair long usually out of rebellion of some type.  If not their parents then society.

Old men grow their hair long...because they can and simply to rub it in for those who cant.  A full head of hair at 50...is a status symbol.