I was deeply sadden to learn that we lost Patrick Swayze yesterday. I fell in love with him when I first watched ‘Dirty Dancing’ as did most women. The sexiest dance of the whole move was the one where Baby goes to Johnny’s room to apologize for the way her father had treated him. When she asks him to dance with her…………….Oh my goodness!! I would have done most anything to have danced with Patrick. Rest in Peace Patrick and thank you so very much for all you gave.
I came across a youtube video with Ted Nugent talking about gun control. These are very powerful words he uses and I have to admit I agree with him. I have children to protect and protect them I will. Here’s my hat off to Ted Nugent.
My father is one of those people that has to know what the 5 day forecast for the weather is so he can plan the next five days. Well I couldn’t believe it when I found a 5 day Wireless Weather Forecaster by Brookstone. That is absolutely the most perfect gift I can get for my father. It’s also something that hopefully no one else would think to get him.
One year I got him a scale model of an Indian Motorcycle like he used to have and my sister got him the same thing but it happened to be a different color thank goodness. Well I bet that won’t happen again this year.
It was with mixed emotions that I read the article on the local newspaper’s web-site, that the Vietnamese Pot Bellied pig that has been running loose since early March has been captured. I had been hoping that the pig would be captured soon because I was afraid someone would kill him and eat him, so I was glad that he has been caught and is now safe and sound. And I thought it was funny that the bait used to catch him was french fries. Seems to me you could catch a lot of things using french fries as bait!
What did upset me was reading that the police captured him by baiting him with fries and then using a taser to stun the little guy! In the long run, however, the guy is caught and is safe, and that is the important thing!
I am a bit of a history buff and just found out that today is a day to be celebrated in history. See, today marks the celebration of the ACLU anniversary of the US Supreme Courts decision on student free speech. Here’s how it started:
On Tuesday, the non-profit organization the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released a video and press release commemorating 40 years since the landmark Supreme Court of the United States decision involving freedom of speech in the case Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District. The Tinker case was decided on February 24, 1969. The case involved students in Iowa who chose to wear black armbands with peace symbols in protest of the Vietnam War – in violation of a recent school board policy. In their statement, the ACLU compared issues of freedom of speech in the Tinker case to a more recent case, Gillman v. Holmes County School District, where a school district in Florida forbade students from wearing rainbow symbols in school in support of LGBT rights.
In the Tinker case, John and Mary Beth Tinker and another student decided to wear black armbands with peace symbols to school in protest of the Vietnam War. The school district heard of the students’ plans and decided to ban armbands in school. The three students case were represented by the ACLU of Iowa, and in a 7-2 decision the Supreme Court ruled for the plaintiffs.
Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas wrote in the Opinion of the Court: “It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights…at the schoolhouse gate.”
Unfortunately there are too many young people today that think there’s nothing they can do to make a difference. Well these kids did just that. They made a difference. We all can make a difference if we do it right. There should never be violence when we feel something needs to change. There should only be peaceful means to make the changes we feel are important. Violence never makes a positive change.