Archive for July, 2009
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I wrote a post titled “Money can buy anything if you have enough of it” where I talked about the illegal Black Market for organs. I made a reference to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs who was reported to have just had a kidney transplant. While I had no knowledge that Mr. Jobs had purchased a kidney, and I still don’t, I speculated that with enough money you can indeed buy one.
I was immediately chastised by people who said that I was one of those “irresponsible bloggers” who make statements with nothing to back them up. They said it was virtually impossible to buy an organ and that even though I had referenced two other “real news articles” that I had watched the movie “Coma” one too many times. For you young heads, the premise of the movie is that relatively healthy people wind up in comas after minor surgeries. A suspicious doctor finds out that the coma patients are being used as organ donors.
This past week, over 44 people were arrested in New Jersey for corruption. This is not news. New Jersey has been corrupt for decades. What is news is that most of the people arrested were either in local or state politics and were well known and respected Rabbis! But it doesn’t end there. The real story is that many of the Rabbis involved in this scandal were involved with Black Market organ sales!
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If you have been watching the news lately, you know that a Prominent African American Harvard Professor was arrested at his house because a white neighbor, Lucia Whalen, called the police to report that “two black males with backpacks were on the porch, with one attempting to wedge his shoulder in the door.” With that call, police came “a runnin.” I have linked the police report for you to read. Make your own conclusions. But there are three things that stand out in my mind.
The first thing is that after Gates handed Officer Crowley his Harvard ID verifying that he lived there. Why was there a need for the police to still be in and around Henry’s House? The report clearly says that ID was given.
The second thing is that Crowley admits having verified Gates’ Identification. Then why didn’t the police clear out? Why were “several Cambridge and Harvard policers still standing around? If Crowley felt it was OK to leave the residence, why stand around? Clearly there was no break in. Clearly there was no crime. And contrary to published reports, Gates did comply with the request for identification.
The third thing is that Henry was asked to leave the house by Crowley and he would answer his questions there. With the EXCUSE that the kitchen was having an echo effect and making it hard to hear and transport information to “ECC.” It was only after leaving his house was Gates arrested. Hmmmmm. That alone seems suspicious to me. And I will explain why I feel this act, asking Henry to leave his house, amounts to ENTRAPMENT!
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I’m not going to lie, I’m not really a baseball fan at all. I haven’t been to a game in decades. I find the sport to be boring and unless you are physically at the game where you can people watch and/or get you “eat on“, I’d much rather be doing something else. Damn near ANYTHING ELSE! The only time you will see me watching part of a baseball game is if I happen to flip through and see A-Rod, Manny, or someone who might hit the ball out of the park up to bat. Other than that, baseball doesn’t grace my TV screen. But I did happen to see the beginning of the All Star game last week and I watched President Barack Obama throw out the ceremonial “first pitch.” I didn’t get to see if it was a strike or not because they didn’t show it. But I did see him throw the ball.
A few days later while surfing the web, I saw a story about someone saying that the president was wearing “baggy jeans” and how it was not something a president should do. Thinking back, I didn’t remember seeing anything wrong with the jeans. And when I did a web search, nothing changed. I then went looking for the article and the reporter who said the jeans were baggy and saw that Meredith Vieira made that statement. I guess it must have been a slow news day because that comment held no merit whatsoever.
If you are a regular follower of this blog, you already know that I spent five years working with kids who were in the system. Many of them belonged in gangs, clicks, or crews, and I can’t count the number of times I saw true “baggy jeans” being worn. The style is called “jailin” and got its origins from prison. That is how some prisoners took to wearing their pants. I can remember one kid who I literally had to stop every morning and have him pull up his pants and buckle them correctly. And if I got distracted and didn’t see him walk in the door, he would wait for me to “chastise” him about his jeans. I even teased my mother when she would wear her “denim jean” outfit and ask her if she was “jailin.”
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