Posts from — June 2008

I was reading about this information from the U.S Census Bureau (2001).  I was amazed by how different the make up of the average household differs amongst Races.  So I have to put these questions to people.  WHY?  Check these numbers out:

• Asian Americans:
  • 81% are married couples
  • 12% Female head of household, no husband present
  • 7% Male head of household, no wife present
• Hispanics:
  • 68% are married couples
  • 23% Female head of household, no husband present
  • 9% Male head of household, no wife present
• Whites:
  • 81% are married couples
  • 14% Female head of household, no husband present
  • 5% Male head of household, no wife present
• African Americans:
  • 46% are married couples
  • 45% Female head of household, no husband present
  • 9% Male head of household, no wife present

The numbers are astounding!  Do the math and give me your thoughts on why these numbers are so different!

There’s so much time, energy, empasis and cash spent on picking out the perfect wedding cake for your special day! But what if things don’t turn out the way you planned and a divorce is inevitable? Here are some tasty ideas to help you celebrate your new life alone in style!

#1: The perfect accent to a black and white affair worth remembering.

#2: I think this one was an accident.

#3: This one was definitely not an accident.

#4: 10 paces and draw! I’m betting that there will be some cheating on this cake!

#5: My personal fave…it’s “Splitsville” for these two!

#6: Gravity has certainly taken it’s toll on this onetime happy couple—his head even fell off!

Many thanks to my bud Kathy for sending me this humorous email—keep ‘em coming!

  What are the reasons for prejudice people?  Is it frustration?  Personality conflicts? Cultural Conflicts?  Social Conflicts?….or are people just ignorant?  Let’s look at the theories that social scientists have suggested:

• Scapegoat Theory:  This prejudice springs from frustration among people who are themselves disadvantaged (Dollard, 1939).  Let’s define scapegoat:  a person or category of people typically with little power, whom people unfairly blame for their own troubles.  Have you ever seen this happen?  Think of a low wage person blaming the presence of minority workers at their job instead of the powerful people who operate the establishment.
• Authoritarian Personality Theory:  According to T.W. Adorno et al. (1950), extreme prejudice is a personality trait in certain individuals.  This conclusion is supported by research showing that people who display strong prejudice toward one minority usually are intolerant of all minorities.  These people look upon society as naturally competitive and hierarchical, with “better” people (like them) inevitably dominating those who are weaker.
• Culture Theory:  This theory says that extreme prejudice may be characteristic of certain people, but some prejudice is found in everyone because it is embedded in culture.  Think of a child growing up and their parents telling them they should marry from the same ethnic group.

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  Imagine carrying a trash bag around with you for a single day and collect everything you throw away.  The average people will throw away is a surprising 5lbs per person.  This includes paper, metal, plastic and other materials daily.  Over a lifetime a person will throw away approximately 50 tons! For the country as a whole, this amounts to about 1 billion pounds of solid waste every day.  What is the composition of a normal household’s trash you say?

• 50% paper!  Time to recycle if your not!
• 13% yard waste
• 10% metal
• 7% glass
• 7% plastic
• 3% food waste
• 10% other

  The United States is a disposable society and we consume more products than virtually any other nation.  Many of these products are throw away.  The most familiar case is fast food, swerved with cardboard, plastic, and Styrofoam containers that we discard within minutes.    Think about the way we package simple fishhook?  It is in an elaborate package and . [Read more →]

• I don’t worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
• Jesus had a tough life. I read about that guy. Jesus is the only guy that ever came back from the dead that didn’t scare the F— out of everybody!
• Rock Against Drugs, what a name. Somebody was high when they came up with that title. It’s like Christians Against Christ. Rock created drugs.
• There’s no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out.
• “I got a real depressing letter from my folks about two weeks ago, because I haven’t been taking real good care of my money. They said, ‘Sam, we can’t send you any more money. You’re out of control, and you don’t know what the fuck you’re doing with your cash. And… you’re old enough to be on your own.’ I said, ‘Oh, okay’… and I called them. I said, ‘Mom, get dad on the phone too, wake him up, I know it’s late, but I want you both to hear this. You know, before I was your little son, before I was your baby, before I was your LOAN, I was a free spirit in the next stage of life. I walked in the cosmos, not imprisoned by a body of flesh, but free, in a pure body of light. There were no questions, only answers, no weaknesses, only strengths, I was light, I was truth, I was a spiritual being, I was a God… but you had to F–K and bring my ass down HERE. I didn’t ask to be born! I didn’t call and say: ‘Hey, please have me so I could work in a fuckin’ Winchell’s someday!’ Now you want me to pay my own way? … F–K YOU! PICK UP THE F–KIN’ CHECK, MOM! PICK IT UP!’”

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