A few comments on the current events
1) 8 years and a week ago today, the USA was under attack by Al Qaida!
For my thoughts on 9/11 check out the following blog posts from the past
http://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2004_09_01_archive.html#109497530808413160
Take a moment of silence to remember the innocent victims of the attack, to remember those who attempted to rescue those stuck in the buildings, and all those whose loved ones passed away!
http://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2005_09_01_archive.html#112667000764509312 (discussed how I found out about the 9/11 attacks)
http://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2006_09_01_archive.html#115801887630379524 ( my evolving thoughts on 9/11, foreign policy and the following wars)
2) 2pac passed away 13 years ago this past Sunday! 2pac once said "America isn't ready for a black president". Unfortunately, he died 13 years too early to see it happen in real life!
3) Kanye West is at it again! Hip-Hop's biggest sore loser thinks he's so tough by interrupting Taylor Swift's speech at the VMAs! If he tried that to G-Unit, Three 6 Mafia, The Game or Suge Knight, he wouldn't come out alive! Kanye West is just another punk who only causes trouble to people who can't fight back!
4) Lets' say you have always opposed racism. But you are also skeptical about Obama's health-care plans! You worry it could make things worse.
Guess what? A lot of left-wing pundits think you don't exist! They keep saying "those who protest Obama's plans are racists"
Look, I'm not naive. There are racist people out there who still can't get over Obama being president!
But the idea that "only racists can oppose Obama's plans" is BULL-NONSENSE!
Reality is that even some African-Americans have publicly criticized Obama's policies. They include Larry Elder, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams and Star Parker. And let's not forget that the current chair of the Republican Party is an African-American male named Micheal Steele!
Here's what Thomas Sowell said on Obama's plan
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell091509.php3
What did we do, back during the years when most Americans had no medical insurance? I did what most people did. I depended on a "single payer" — myself. When I didn't have the money, I paid off my medical bills in installments.
The birth of my first child was not covered by medical insurance. I paid off the bill, month by month, until the time finally came when I could tell my wife that the baby was now ours, free and clear.
In a country where everything imaginable is bought and paid for on credit, why is it suddenly a national crisis if some people cannot pay cash up front for medical treatment?
That is not the best way to do things for all people and all medical treatments, which is why most Americans today choose to have medical insurance. But millions of other people choose not to — often young and healthy people, sometimes deadbeats who use emergency rooms and don't pay at all.
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I choose to have health insurance and hope I can continue to afford it! I can pay now or pay later. I prefer to pay now so I can be covered!
The US systems has flaws! Those who can't afford medical procedures can be in deadly situations. Check out http://www.truthout.org/article/bob-herbert-the-divide-caring-our-kids
But that has also happened in so-called single-payer (more accurate word is GOVERNMENT MONOPOLY paid by 300 million taxpayers) health-care nations like Canada.
Check out http://jewishworldreview.com/0709/tracinski.php3
5) Magic Johnson visited McKinley High School (my alma mater) earlier this week!
http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20090917_mckinleys_magic_moment.html
All heads turned as one to the entrance of the gym as the magic moment came at 1:15 p.m. When a big man a foot taller than everyone around him neared the door, the screaming started and burst into a roar as Hall of Fame basketball legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson stepped inside.
No formal introduction was made for 10 minutes -- there was no need -- because the 1,800 kids recognized the smile that has always lit up a room and a basketball court, said emcee Stacie Tamaru, student body president. When Tamaru was told Johnson would appear minutes before the assembly, "I started jumping up and down. I was amazed and shocked. Words cannot describe how it felt to give a lei and hug to Mr. Magic Johnson."
He generated excitement, even though he retired from the NBA just as the current-day high school seniors were about to be born!
What's even more amazing was that when I learned about Johnson having HIV, I was in 5th grade. I thought Johnson wouldn't make it to 2000! It's 2009 and he still exciting crowds in the present!
6) Gangsta rap pioneer EAZY-E once said 1999 was going to be the end of the world. It's 10 years later! EAZY-E died of AIDS in 1995! He never got to see 1999!
I remember learning of Eazy-E's death after returning from a middle-school sponsored field trip to the Big Island!
Ironic, as me & a few other male students were in a car driving into the Volcanoes National Park, a classmate suggested playing a rap CD. The driver told the student he'll have to pay for every swear word being heard. One of those CDs was from Eazy-E. At the time, we didn't know Eazy-E might've just died!
We were sequestered from the outside world! This was a few years before the Internet, text-messaging, etc became popular!
We had to wait before coming back to Oahu before finding out! We were late in hearing the news!
