Where do we truly begin ???

Things seen ... of such a challenging devastation of many sorts, and broken lives in fragment pieces, hope spinning in a circle chasing modes of despair . People wondering what is life, and what is fair, and why situation seem as if there is so little of care.

Where do we truly begin ???

I often wonder, how did the classrooms of the nation, escape some of the people, and why some who entered did not gain from the experience. I see the cycle of community, when it accepts itself in lesser terms, then it declines below the dignity of those who could otherwise find their way to rise. Habits, that over-rule education, and patterns in daily living, that voids out the practice of self investment into learning a better way of life.

People who see images on the media from movie to movie - yet feel it is a life on a foreign stage from their own, and they grasp not the identity of growth, to see there is more, and come to know, one can achieve greater.
When means seem to be a challenge, and the feeling of destitution is not only self encircling, the environment of the community, paints so much of the same. Then many find themselves caught within the cycle of decline, and see nothing but the circle of habits, which dominate the neighborhoods, and they are unable to surmount the challenge to rise above.

This is the time, to reach out to learn, ask questions, and seek out the will of others who are available to offer help - As to see a job counselor, ask to see an education counselor, and if you need help coping, go and ask for help from the public service facilities, who can provide counseling on any number of things. Never allow yourself to feel bad, to ask for help, and always know, it is a step in the direction to help yourself, when you seek out asking for the help you want, and the help you need. summon the courage within, and hold your head high and ask with the sincerity of your life, and you will find, there are many avenues to provide you words or encouragement, words of hope, and a listening ear, to hear you share your thoughts, and give you the care to listen to your challenges.

If you are feeling anxious because of a fractured love relationship, or situation of any type, call a help line, and talk about it, go to a church and talk about it, and seek out the listening ears of those avenues that provide you a means to express the feeling. there are countless Churches, there are countless options at the LSU or any college center, who can help you find a counselor. If you run out of options, "Call 911 as an emergency in search of help, if you feel, you will do something wrong, or violent. they can get you help. Don't hold it pent up inside and let it become a raging fury, for it will simply destroy you, or cause you to do things that destroy much more than yourself. when you have the choice, if you take the control, to simply "Seek out Help". It takes more strength of self to seek out help, than it does to act out in fits of violence.
Don't allow yourself to live a small life by letting anxious feeling, anguish you and overcome you with violence, because then you have lost the temperment of self, and you act in ways that weaken yourself even more. If you have the energy of anger, then turn it around and let it become the passion which seeks out help. You will find you are "respected for the choice of doing so". It will help you regain balance within yourself.

The Hood mentality, seems to be a thirst of its own, ever so quenched by identifying with the hood, not only in mindset of despair, but in the dispensing with what is taught in the classroom, and reverting back to the habit of the community. Learning then fails to achieve what it might.

One of Many, become Many who influence each one, and the cycle is like a suction hole, pulling people who have found nothing to grasp on to for the uplift out of the madness.

Where do we truly begin ???

• Start -- with getting up in the morning and groom ones self, it does not matter if you have no designated place to go, you groom yourself to meet and greet the day.
• Choose the clothes that fit properly, it matters not if you go to a job that you get dirty, by all means, leave home clean.
• If you sleep in pajama pants, when the morning comes, put them away, and dress for the day, you never know, if today will deliver your dream, or God will smile a blessing to go along with the blessing of life, you receive each day.
• Don't develop a lazy mind, not fall helpless to a lazy tongue. You make those choices, and liefe gives much of grief to those who challenge not themselves. Life will give you many challenges, lest you choose challenges that will uplift yourself, open your mind to learn more, prepare yourself to do more, and see yourself growing toward the dreams you hold.
• If you find the people around you want to languish sitting under a tree all day, or laying on the porch watching the traffic go by, then you need to know, they will frind themselves day after day, sitting under a tree or on the porch watching traffice go by, until time finds them to have aged, and accomplished nothing more than, watching traffice go by.
• If you can sit all day, with nothing to do, and no thought of anything you could do, and no motivation to try to do anything. Then go and volunteer yourselfto help someone, and you may find you are also being helped in the process.
• If your assocciate want to do nothing, or they have put down comments about everything, and want you to languish in doing nothing, then it is time for you to find new friends.
• Go to the local college, call them up, make an appointment, they can show you how to get a grant to go take some classes, they can show you how to get into the habit of school, and you will find your life changing day by day.

EVERY "YOUNG MAN IN HIS 20's" SHOULD BE RACING TO GET TO SCHOOL - If you are unaware that the world will provide your nothing, if you don't prepare for something. You can get lost in your own mind, rapping and tripping, and find yourself, with years going by, and the result is the same, you will simply grow older, rapping and tripping.
Spending your days looking for something to excite you, rather than to go pursue the excitement in yourself by investing your mind, into learning. You may find the excitement of knowledge may bring your to see more of how to appreciate the gift of your life.

Many young women are outpacing the men, in learning, they are filling the classrooms of the centers of education, they are growing and learning how to better develop themselves, and pursue the dreams, they are not sitting around hoping without putting forth effort. Some young women, care for a child, work a job, and still pursue education.

Too many young men
are out looking for a fast dollar, that leads to a jail cell, and a criminal record.
Why have so many young men, become so lazy, and so un-caring about self development. Your days will come and go, so you just as well spend part of it in a classroom, because the time will pass anyway, you just as well be working on self development and growth. instead of thinking you will make fast money and end up and find yourself in a hell hole of a situation with no way out.

Hustling, is nothing but a person being hustles and running a game, that encircles themselves. it cost you 10 times what you think you gain, and you can't afford the expense of hustling, if you think and become aware of what you give up, for the delusion of being a hustler. You simply make of yourself a fool, who waste his time, and gain so little.
many have made dollars, in the game, but they can't buy anything in their name, so they waste it away with cars, clothes and self indulgence. and the hustle become their life, and consumes their living, and they never even know, they have themselves, been hustled !

Be Thankful for your health - and make somthing good of your life.

People.. look around.. there are many of those who are healthy, they can walk freely, talk and utilize their 5 sense and use their ability to mobilize themselves.. If they knew what a blessing it is, they'd do something to learn to be a contributor in life, If they fail to see the gift they have naturall, then they should go visit a hospital and see the sick, or go to a nursing home and see the aged, who can no longer mobilize themselves. If you have not a penny in your pockets, you still have each day..

The breath of life..

Don't waste it, wasting your time away. Each day should be a journey into learning, an adventure into growing and be an experience that builds wonderful memories of you, expressing yourself and making contribution within life and living.

Kids and School ( Part I)

Kids and School ( Part I) " Don't Embarrass Your Child" - Think about what you are doing and how you do it"

Posted 8/21/2009 10:18 PM CDT on shreveporttimes.com

If you are easily frustrated and easily agitated, then you probably don't want to read this!!!
If you realize "kids matter, their feeling matter, and their esteem is important in their ability to communicate in class,
and hold their heads up and feel good about themselves"..

Then maybe you will join in, to help inspire parents to truly consider how they represent themselves, when they interact with the child, and how they present themselves at their Children Schools

Insure your child is professionally neat and well groomed

Some people don't like to read or see anything which talks about the stuff everyone thinks but no one wants to say anything about it.

Well.. I'm saying something about it.. Those who want to chime in feel free, you can agree or disagree, and that is your choice. But I'm saying what I think about the matter, and hope you will too.

Kids - Parents

And

"School"

First and foremost - go to your local school which your kid attends, and introduce yourself to the staff. Maybe it would even be good if you wrote a note, to let the school know, they can count on you, to support your own kid, and to be supporting of the teachers and the other children at the school.

Why do I say that??

• Number one, Do you know what these teachers go through to become teachers? Do you have a thought about the dedication they have to the profession of teaching? They are there to provide education to "YOUR CHILD", yes, Your child... It is far from a whim, or a flight of fancy, these teachers put in the work to become teachers. If you think its not work, then you go and make the effort to become a teacher, so that you might truly understand what it takes.

• Number two: Our schools provide many products and services and its done at no cost to you, as an individual. It does not matter what your income status is, YOUR CHILD IS AFFORDED AN EDUCATION, this is a blessing.. it is something we should all be thankful for in American, and it is certainly something, which no one should take for granted.

The Great Benefits of The American School

Our Schools provide not only things which many people ignore the value and the benefit of, they provide things people take for granted and never know how great of a gift our system provides for children. If you would like to just think of a few things, which so many people ignore.

1. Yes, the classrooms have desk and chair, they have "air conditioner in the hot months, and heaters in the cold months".
2. They have Cafeteria's which prepare a hot meal in a clean and sanitary environment.
3. The school grounds are trash free, and kept neat.
4. Libraries with a wide assortment of books, Classrooms with not only books, but a wide range of other teaching aids and equipment.
5. Your kids have access to a computer, and they have someone who is there to train them on using it.
6. Grounds are watched by security and teachers, who make a strong effort to provide safety and the comfort of a monitored environment.
7. We have Buses, which are provided, and no parent has to worry about gas money for the bus, nor do they have to worry about paying for a driver.
8. The office is staffed, there are people on campus to address any child being sick, and they can and will contact the parent immediately if there is a issue. The office is staffed, to address any interest you have, and any parent can call and make an appointment to see staff or make arrangement to inquire about matters of their concern.
9. Your Child has an assortment of learning experience, including music, art and physical health education and many things, which some kids rarely get even at home.
10. You have a Principal, who is not only committed, but they have a vested interest not only in your child doing well, but they care to insure their teachers do well, and the grounds and facilities are serviced, as well as the many things, which go into running a school, that many parents never give a second thought about.

Now, this list can go on and name more things than many people will even take the time to consider and some won't even take the time to read about or attend open house to find out.

School in Very Poor Countries

Schools in America

Today, many parents can come up with more excuses than a kid who does not want to go to school, when it comes time to attend a PTA meeting, some parents don't even know the name of the Principal or the other members of the staff. Now why is that???

DON'T GO TO THE SCHOOL AND EMBARRASS YOURSELF AND YOUR CHILD, WITH A MASS OF LOUD TALKING AND NEGATIVE ATTITUDES.

It's purely amazing how some parents don't even stop to think of how they embarrass their child, when they go to the school un-groomed, and with loud talking and heavy attitudes, and being with the mindset of contempt. As if they don't have the vaguest idea, these Teachers and Staff are there to help your child.

If parents take the time, to insure their children go to school and follow instructions, it would make the Teachers job much easier, why should the teacher have to waste time, teaching YOUR CHILD, basic discipline, Why does the teacher have to waste time, teaching your child "BASIC KINDNESS". .
The teacher can and will administer discipline, and they do so with the kindness as best they can, to insure they provider a level of discipline that get the message to YOUR CHILD, that they have to cooperate, and they have to learn to work with a group environment and respect the group of students.

NOW AS A PARENT, WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP THAT SITUATION??

Many children come to school and they are flat out starved for attention, because they don't get any at home. many children come to school starved for someone to talk to them in KIND TONES OF VOICE, and sadly, some children as so use to being YELLED AT, NEVER TALKED TO AND TREATED AS IF THEY ARE AN OBJECT, BY THEIR PARENTS. until they come to school with a defense mechanism already active, because they are so use to only hearing someone yell at them, or bark a series of "no", "go sit down", "get outta my face" and every other kind of esteem destroying craziness which is what far too many of them get at home.

Some of these kids come from homes where they have far too much, "LOUD TALKING, AND YELLING PARENTS, WHO NEVER HAVE A KIND THING TO SAY, AND NEVER SAY ANYTHING WITH A KIND TONE, UNLESS THEY WANT SOMETHING IN RETURN.

SOME OF THESE CHILDREN COME FROM HOMES WERE THEY ARE TREATED LIKE THEY LIVE IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP, NEGLECTED, NO ONE EVER TAKES TIME TO ACTUALLY TRY AND HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH THEM, AND NO ONE LISTEN TO THEM, OR TAKE THE TIME TO EXPLAIN ANYTHING TO THEM.

All some of these children hear is someone telling them, "Go someplace and play" - Now what the heck does that mean ?? Have your considered the fact, to a child it only means that you are neglecting them and rejecting their presence in your life. If you want them to go an play, then why not direct them to something they can play with, or some specific thing they can get involved with as an act of playing. And when they come to show you what they have done or what they have learn, don't push them away before you even take the time to find out what they are saying.

YES... YOU AS A PARENT WOULD BE STEAMING MAD AND GET BILLIGERENT IF SOMEONE TREATED YOU, THE WAY SOME PARENTS TREAT THEIR KIDS.. yes.. some one you would be bobbing your head, and slinging your fingers, and talking trash a mile a minute, claiming what you don't have to put up with. But..SOME PARENTS, never stop to think, they do exactly that same things to their children, but they can't stand anyone to do it to them.

You want to know why your child does not learn...?? MAYBE YOU ARE CONTRIBUTING THE PROBLEM!!! If you are a parent who continually breaks down the child’s esteem, until they are practically afraid to even attempt to talk, and afraid to ask a questions, and made to feel stupid if they do ask a question. Then what do you think will happen in the classroom.. YES. !!! THEY WILL BE AFRAID TO TALK, THEY WILL HAVE NO CONFIDENCE WHEN THEY ATTEMPT TO SPEAK, AND THEY WILL FEEL WEAK IN THEIR ABILITY TO EVEN PRONOUNCE THE WORDS THEY KNOW IN THEIR MIND TO USE. YOUR CHILD WILL BECOME SLOW IN READING, THEY WILL BECOME SLOW IN THINKING, AND THEY WILL NOT BE CONFIDENT TO ENGAGE "RATIONAL THINKING", BECAUSE THE RESULT OF YOUR ACTIONS WILL SHOW THEY HAVE CONTINUTALLY BEEN BEAT DOWN AT HOME, FOR EVEN EXISTING, AND TREATED MISERABLE IN EVERY WAY THAT DAMAGES THEIR ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE..

IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE PATIENT TO BE A PARENT, THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT THAT BEFORE YOU HAD A CHILD, BUT NOW THAT YOU HAVE A CHILD, THEN YOU NEED TO THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU SO MINDLESSLY ABUSE YOUR OWN CHILD. AND TREAT THEM WITH THE KINDNESS YOU WOULD WANT FOR YOURSELF.

Sadly, some of the parents who go to the school raising their voice and yelling like someone who has lost their mind, and huffing and puffing and acting like some bully.. ALL YOU ARE DOING IS DEMONSTRATING JUST WHY YOUR CHILD IS HAVING PROBLEMS.

YOUR ACTIONS TELL A TRUTH THAT YOUR LIPS ARE TRYING TO LIE ABOUT, AS TO HOW, MUCH YOU HAVE FAILED TO LEARN IN YOURSELF, OF HOW TO EFFECTIVELY COMMUNICATE.

• YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO YELL AT A TEACHER
• YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO DISRESPECT A TEACHER
• YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO BE RUDE AND INSENSITIVE TO A TEACHER
• AND YOU NEED TO LEARN TO LISTEN TO THE TEACHER AS MUCH AS YOU WANT THE TEACHER TO LISTEN TO YOU
• YOU NEED TO RESPECT THE FACT, THAT EACH TEACHER HAS MORE THAN JUST YOUR STUDENT, TO TEACH.
• YOU SHOULD RESPECT THE FACT, THE TEACHER CANNOT ALLOW YOUR CHILD TO DISRUPT THE CLASS AND DISTRACT OTHER STUDENTS, IT IS NOT FAIR TO THE OTHER STUDENTS.

BEFORE YOU RUN TO THE SCHOOL, CLAIMING YOUR LITTLE CHILD IS AN "ANGEL".. YOU FIRST NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO HOW YOU COMMUNICATE WITH YOUR OWN CHILD, AND DON'T GO TO THE SCHOOL AND EMBARRASS YOURSELF AND YOUR CHILD, WITH A MASS OF LOUD TALKING AND NEGATIVE ATTITUDES.

• IF YOU THINK YOU HAVE AN ISSUE, THEN TAKE THE TIME AND SIT DOWN AND WRITE IT OUT, MAKE AN OUTLINE, IF YOU EXPECT TO ACHIEVE A CONSTRUCTIVE RESULT. IF YOU HAVE NOT THE TIME TO DO SO, THEN YOU PROBABLY HAVE NOT TAKEN THE TIME TO TRULY UNDERSTAND AND INVEST YOURSELF INTO THE SITUATION TO ADDRESS IT WITH THE FULL CIRCLE OF RESPECT.

1. DON’T!!!!! LET ME REPEAT!!! Don't go to the school in your "hot pants',
   
   and your butt high dresses,
   
   
   
   or with your breast hanging out as if you are in a night club.
   
   Go there and respect the fact, this is a school, and dress yourself with a respectful attire.
2. If you want to go there and talk to the teacher, make sure you wear a clean change of clothes, and look neat and presentable. There is absolutely no reason that you should not prepare yourself, if you "PLAN" to go to the schools to conduct any kind of activity.

YOUNG MEN...

1. DON'T GO TO THE SCHOOL TO SEE YOUR CHILD, OR CONDUCT ANY BUSINESS WITH A "DO RAG" ON YOUR HEAD, AND YOUR PANTS HANING DOWN, AND LOOKING LIKE YOU'VE LOST YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF WHERE YOU ARE.
2. , THIS IS A SCHOOL; IT IS A PLACE WHERE YOUNG CHILDREN ARE BEING EDUCATED. NOT ALL PARENTS NEED YOU LOOKING LIKE SOEMTHING; THEY DON'T EVEN LET THE CHILDREN WEAR TO SCHOOL. YOU ARE NOT IMPRESSING ANYONE OF ANYTHING, OTHER THAN THE FACT, THAT YOU DON'T EVEN RESPECT THE INSTITUTION OF SCHOOL, TO PREPARE YOURSELF TO PRESENT YOURSELF IN A BUSINESS CASUAL RESPECTFUL PRESENTATION.
3. THIS IS NOT A 'HIP HOP' CLUB ENVIORNMENT, IT IS A SCHOOL.
4. WHEN YOU WALK, WALK LIKE A MAN, "AT LEAST WHILE YOU ARE ON CAMPUS", UNLESS YOU HAVE A NATURAL "LIMP, BECAUSE OF A PHYSICAL AILMENT OR SOME MEDICAL MATTER, DON'T GO UP WITH THAT 'BROKE DOWN, BOUNCE, AS IF YOU THINK THIS IS SOME "RUNWAY, TO PRETNED TO BE COOL'.
5. IF YOUR CHILD IS BEING TAUGHT AT THE SCHOOL.. RESPECT THE TEACHERS, THEY ARE NOT THERE FOR YOU TO COME TO THE SCHOOL, TRYING TO "HIT ON THEM', THEY COULD CARE LESS ABOUT YOUR MACHO, WOMAN CHASING INTENTIONS. THEY HAVE A POSITION OF "INTEGRITY', AND THEY DON'T NEED YOU, TO INSULT IT, WITH YOUR ATTEMPTS TO TRYING TO "HIT ON THEM".
6. PRESENT YOURSELF AS A MAN, AND RESPECT YOURSELF AS SOMEONE, WHO HAS A SINCERE INTERST IN YOUR CHILD AND THEIR EDUCATION, AND PRESENT TO THE SCHOOL AND ITS STAFF, THAT YOU ARE SOMEONE WHOM THEY CAN COUN'T ON TO HELP WITH ANY ISSUE THAT ARISES WHICH INVOLVES YOUR CHILD.

IF YOU CAN'T DO THAT.. THEN MAYBE YOUR SHOULD GET AN "ADULT TO GO WITH YOU, WHO CAN KEEP YOU IN CHECK". AND LET THE ADULT DO THE TALKING, BECAUSE YOUR SILENCE JUST MAY GAIN YOU RESPECT, WHICH YOUR "SLANG TALKING" WILL SURELY DESTROY.

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO GET UPSET AND GET ANGRY.. THEN IF THAT IS YOUR ATTITUDE, THEN GO SOME PLACE AND YELL AT A TREE IN THE PARK, AND GET YOUR FRUSTRATIONS OUT.. AND THEN SIT DOWN SOME PLACE AND THINK... YOU JUST MIGHT BE GLAD YOU DID, BEFORE YOU DO SOMETHING THAT INSULTS YOUR OWN INTEGRITY.

TALKING...

IF YOUR CHILD IS GOING TO SCHOOL TO LEARN NEW WORDS, LEARN HOW TO SPEAK NEW WORDS, AND LEARN HOW TO SPELL NEW WORDS,
Don't you think you can be a tremendous help, if you also practice that same thing at home. Don’t make your child feel uncomfortable, because they speak words correctly, just because you want to butcher words at home.

Think about what you say, and how you say it, AT HOME, because if you destroy the language at home, you simply defeat the education which is being taught in the school of how to speak words, and how to utilize words.

Don't make life difficult for your child.. give them a full opportunity, to grow, learn and develop where they can function any place in the world and do so with quality confidence and performance as an individual.

America's Best Places to Find a Job 2009

America's Best Places to Find a Job 2009

By Liz Wolgemuth
On Tuesday August 25, 2009, 9:53 am EDT

Take a look -

Shreveport, La.

It's quite possible that sometime in the future when you're watching Columbia Pictures' film Battle: Los Angeles, you'll be spying the scenery of Shreveport, rather than Southern California. Thanks to a thick package of tax incentives, Louisiana boasts one of the nation's most thriving film production industries. After Hurricane Katrina, Shreveport embraced filmmakers who had been forced out of New Orleans but still wanted to capture state tax incentives, and launched a new industry for its workers. "We've easily had 60 film projects in the last three years," says Kurt Foreman, president of North Louisiana Economic Partnership, a regional economic development group.

Entertainment, such as gaming, is no small industry in this city, which has worked hard to recover from harder times. Leisure and hospitality employment has actually grown in the past 12 months. Shreveport also has a new $100 million convention center, the stabilizing force of Barksdale Air Force Base, and Louisiana State University-Shreveport.

Economists at IHS Global Insight expect Louisiana will have lost just 2 percent of its jobs by the end of the recession and will have returned to its prerecession peak by 2012. The state will be in the top four for fewest jobs lost, according to IHS. One significant development is Haynesville Shale, a Jurassic-age rock settlement that may be the largest deposit of natural gas in the continental United States. More than $3 billion has already been paid out in land leases and royalties. "We're sort of blessed with a lot of things at once," Foreman says.

(end story).

WE NEED TO CAPATILIZE ON THIS PUBLICITY,

THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO REASON TO STOP US FROM BEING

AMERICA'S BEST "ALL AROUND" CITY.

We only need to be committed to the goal

Two things Major and One thing within a matter of Process, and one thing which is a must do.

We can Achieve it !!!! if we Believe it.

Major: "We have to reduce crime" ! - There is no other choice, and no need to ignore the reality, that we need to push for the mass reduction in crime. We need a city wide campaign, to take all the young people in their 20-30's who have just languished to become hanging out and doing nothing, to set up programs, at both the local colleges and local tech schools, which provide "certificate courses", that accept the Pell Grant, as fully payment for course, and we need to make that quick and simply qualifying and approval process. We can get these young adults back in school. We need to task some of the film makers in the city, to do a short film, on showing these kids in images of hanging out in neighborhoods doing nothing, and caption what it leads to and contrast that to show them how to get and develop skills that will give them dignity.

• We need to modify our system to look at "Felonies", and make change in our system where non violent felonies, can be removed, with the completion of an educational course in a tech or vocation, and work on a job for at least 3 years. To promote and support the program, "What the student gets, is a letter from their school, which supports them being hired, and being in a program to remove the felonies, and this makes people eligible for employment in areas they would otherwise be denied, and this provides hope for people truly having a "second chance that is real, and not just fictional. They have a chance to work their way back to society, without having a deterrent of a felony following them and impeding their options.

THIS IS A MUCH NEEDED PROGRAM" and we have enough smart people in our city to make it work -

• It would be a great program for the Council Members and the Mayor to push for it as a

“Re-Connect in Society Second Chance".

This can be a tremendous success. I've seen an old school building on Laurel Street, which would be Ideal as a "Second Chance Head Start Program"- this facility would be excellent for it, They can have both Day classes and Night Classes.

• We have far too many black neighborhoods,and surely this has a parallel in poor white communities as well, both are ravaged with drugs and drop outs. and we see this impacting and straying young women as well in these same economically challenged areas of the city, where too many of the young people, get hung up into things which have a "dead end" result.
• We have far too many young men, who are thinking of being hip and cool, and lost on what matters in the world, and result to be caught in a cycle of "thuggin to prison" - Wasting their lives away, languishing behind bars, when they could be in a classroom learning how to function in society as a decent human being who is trying to develop a means to be a contributor to society.

• Sadly, may of these young men, who ride the railway of "thug to prison" - are talented in ways if they learn to develop it, and stop looking for fast money, and flash bang material stuff, that gets old once it leaves the store shelf - yet too many throw their lives away on this non-sense.

Major: "We need Parents to Step up" !!!, from pre-school to graduation from High school, and on to a career track - PARENTS, have to take a vested interest in insuring the work is done by their child in the classrooms. ( We have in Shreveport, some of the best schools in the nation, we may not know it, and some may not pay attention to that fact, but Our Schools are truly exceptional in their provisions to groom and promote world class citizens who can compete in any place in the world market. ) People need to believe it and acknowledge it as being a true and real fact.

Kids and School ( Part I) " Don't Embarrass Your Child" - Think about what you are doing and how you do it"
Frustrated, Irritated and Anguished

What makes our school become even greater is "parental involvement with their children".... If that improves, there is nothing to stop us from having "THE BEST", school system in the nation. When Parents push their children to excel.. and produce higher scores, then what that brings back to schools will be a great benefit to the children, which will include, "foreign language classes, of multiple world used languages, each schools can expand their sporting programs, in all levels of school, We can include drama in every level of school, because all our schools are equipped with a stage for performance. The attributes we can add can be without limits of what is needed to compete in today’s world. It is the "young minds of today, who will build the future of tomorrow".. If you as a parent have true regard for that and what that means, you will seek and pursue a means to stand behind your child being educated.

Process: "Learning what matters" , many of the young men, have been deluded by many means to not know what matters.

1. What matters is you, developing a means to give back to society, it's not about how much fast money you can make, or what kind of swindle you can do, but it matter, how much you apply yourself to learning, and making education a life long process. It will help you become a better contributor to society, year after year and you contribute to a legacy that makes the world better.
2. GET OFF THE "DUMB DOWN, IGNORAGE OF SAGGING PANTS... IT MAKES YOU LOOK LIKE THE MOST STUPID PERSON ON THE PLANET. Your whole image shows that you do not want to join society, which you want to go against it, and disrespect yourself and others who have no interest in seeing your underwear or your butt. The only thing your image does is make people want to get as far away from you as possible. YOU INSULT YOURSELF WITH YOUR BITT HANING OUT, WITH YOUR UNDERWARE SHOWING, THAT IS A TRUE SIGN THAT YOU ARE NOT ONLY BEING IGNORANCE, YOU ARE DELIGHTING IN BEING IGNORANCE, AND THAT MAKES YOU CHOOSE TO BE "STUPID".. AND THEN YOU PURSUE THE NEGATIVE THINGS THAT GO ALONG WITH YOUR BUTT HANGING OUT. No one wants you in their business, not their establishment, because you insult the environment of the business, and run away the customers who choose to dress decent and put their pants up and wear them like 95% of the rest of the world. !!

Process: "Get up, on Sunday Morning and *GO* TO CHURCH" if you can lay on your butt !! All week doing nothing but hanging out here and there, and walking down the street looking lost, or driving around wasting gasoline. Then you can thank God enough to go and give an hour of your time, to learn something about how truth matters in the world, and what the value of life is. If you think you know everything, then that is the first sign to tell you, that you are a fool, and if you truly think you know everything, then that is the second sign to tell you, you are a damn fool... There's a Church in Walking distance from where ever you live in this city. so don't lie and say you don't have a way, or you don't have anything to wear or some silly excuse that shows, you won't even respect the God which gives you life, day after day. ANY Church in the city will be "GLAD", to have you... They will give you a welcome if you can stand to accept it, and get off your high horse of thinking you rule something, and realize, that you need to learn something to help get you on the pathway to living your life as a "productive and considerate and engaging human being, who has a will and want to do so good in society"
If you feel like you are a leader, the church will help you organize a group within the church, you can lead as long as you are leading a cause to promote good and do some good in the community.

If that's too much of a challenge for you.. Then Life probably is too much of a challenge for you, which is why you always try to take a short cut, and end up on a dead end trail. You probably will end up trying to drown it with drink, or make it null and void with drugs, or create violence that functions like a dog chasing its own tail, and you will go out an attack or hurt someone, because you frustrasted yourself, because you failed to apply yourself to doing something which keeps your mind and hands busy with something, that contributes to the betterment of life.

Must Do !!
We Must ... work to rebuild our neighborhoods.. If you see something wrong, then try and fix it, if you see people doing things that bring down the neighborhood, if you can't face the challenge to address it, call your council person, and talk with them, they can help you find a way to address it.
If you don't know who your council person is: SHREVEPORT CITY COUNCIL

"YOUR LIFE BECOME BETTER, WHEN YOU MAKE THE DECISION TO MAKE IT BETTER"

Until you make that decision, you will be spinning in a circle

If you
Fail to Plan,
then
You have certainly
Planned to Fail

Don't give people the satisfaction of a laugh when you see them doing something stupid, it only wrongfully encourage them to continue with the stupidity. Don't sit around and edge others on, when you see a situation is leadning to conflict. Don't patronize people who are doing things, which bring down your community and the general enviornment. and don't solicit people to support things you know are wrong.

Frustrated, Irritated and Anguished

Frustrated, Irritated and Anguished

Yes, those are certainly real feelings, and they are all across the nation.

But we still sit afraid to grow, afraid to take on the debt to rebuild ourselves, but we have no problem taking on the debt to blow up another country from one end of its landscape to the next, at the tune of over 10 billion a month, and probably another 5 billion a month to blow on a second country. We live as if we are war mongers, who have absolutely no problem taking on debt, as long as we get to blow up something. We are getting young people killed and maimed in ways they may never get to rebuild their lives, while we can't spend to even give every kid in American a school book. We certainly should insure these soldier's kids and all other kids in America, have the best and most up to date schools and technology. But we claim to be educating nations that we've blown their towns into rubble, and here we've become the drop out capital of the world in education fade out; and left our school systems void of the 21st Century Technology. How is this even possible or reasonable to accept ??


What makes us unaware to make these changes, Why not add technology which has existed now more than a quarter of a century. Yet, here we are today, and we can't even computer equip our schools, for the students to use the current technology. This is a very very sad situation, in a world where the computer dominates and is within every business in American landscape. For what we spent blowing up the hills in Tora Bora, and still could not find one single man. We could have equipped 1/3 of the schools in the nation with computer systems for students.

Basic data processing and basic programming should have been a part of education in the Jr. high level, more than 10 years ago. Here we are today, and it still is not even a vague thought in the mind of the administrators of the educations systems to do so. They can'[t even equip schools with collective rooms with computers for the Teachers to make use of, so surely the idea to provide it to students is greatly lacking of even being a remote concept of consideration.

But we whine like babies, if the mention of taking on debt to build and repair our own cities, our own industry and our own landscape.
We pinch pennies when it come to investing to upgrade our schools, all the while we fall near 30th in the world as far as education, and we pinch pennies and whine about changing policy and implementing programs.

We see industry falling, but we won't make contracts to put computers in the classrooms and on every desk, while the same computers put people to work building them, and that make money circulate and we grow in the process. people say .. where is the money coming from, Well it comes from the same place money has always come from, and that's "from putting people to work". Money circulates and things develop and places grow. Thank God,


President Roosevelt understood that concept.. The New Deal Created some of the Greatest Building within the United States - American Regained motivation and believe in itself. $32 billion (Est), Inflation Adjusted Cost: $500 billion (Est)

Dwight Eisenhower understood it. His task to build the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly called the Interstate Highway System
which connected the cities of this nation with expressways across the nation, estimate for the system was $25 billion over 12 years; it ended up costing $114 billion (adjusted for inflation, $425 billion in 2006 dollars) and taking 35 years to complete

Thank God, President Obama understands that concept. To rebuild the way the economy function, and re build the infrastructure of Industry, and create a regulatory system that finally brings the financial system into respecting governance and management, while forging health reforms, along with maintaining, and repairing our aged and damaged highway systems. While make a reformed nations where all people can engage opportunity in the rebuilding of a nation, to meet the challenges of the future. Each era the cost of things increase and was not disproportionate as some would like us to believe. - The measures are nominally worth $787 billion. The Act includes federal tax cuts, expansion of unemployment benefits and other social welfare provisions, and domestic spending in education, health care, and infrastructure, including the energy sector. The Act also includes numerous non-economic recovery related items that were either part of longer-term plans (e.g. a study of the effectiveness of medical treatments) or desired by Congress




But unfortunately we have segments of American that only want to think in despair terms, and only want to see corporations profits and the people to gain nothing, We have become a nation, that let big corporations tell us that American is no good and can't do anything. Yet people are the same human beings, who still want and need the same things they wanted and needed, before the corporations told us that we are not capable of doing anything, and that we are not competent to do do anything.. and We as a nation swallowed the whole spill.

We became a Nation, that functions like the Slave nation it use to be, Only now, slavery is not based on color, its based on the Rich controlling the poor. What kind of difference is it to see. The CEO's making 10's and 100's of millions A YEAR, and we have a poverty level wage and income for the poor hovering at 10K A YEAR.

corporations cut workers and cut service and lower product quality, and the Executives give themselves another bonus and a raise to the tune of Millions upon Millions of dollars, and they have Amerian's in such a worship mode, people sit back and assume and even claim it is fair for them to make a kings ransom, while the American people are laid off and their home foreclosed. That is exactly no different than how a slave nation functions. The Slave Masters profited, but the population lived like peasants, or worst. Now this is included in the image of a nation that has been ripped, and robbed its people, and left them in a cycle of despair and destitution.
Min. Wage equals no more than it cost to house and feed a slave, in substandard housing and substandard food, and poor or no health care. And people by right, should be angry!!! It is not possible to get nor have any better on a min wage. When the corporate executives make in 7.5 seconds, more than a worker can make in an 8 hr days work and in some cases, more than a worker can earn in a week they make in a matter of minutes. And we wonder why American has failed and continues to fail.

We wonder how 500 years of wealth has disappeared and re-appeared only in the hands of a few, while the mass of American's find themselves homeless, and politician's on the right, want to do nothing to make better or help the situation to improve. They claim they can't help people who speculated, but they help banks who speculated, and the bank speculation crashed the country and looted its industry and sold out the value of the average American home, and ripped off the saving of the working poor and left a trail of bankrupt people who worked their lives, and result to have nothing but worthless stock, and banks failure that wiped out their entire life savings.

Anguished Frustrated Angry.

And still we sit un-aware and ready to worship and continue to pay the executives, who have claimed to be the best and brightest, but they sit and claim clue-less, when the truth ask questions to reveal the truths. Yet, they sit atop bank accounts, hidden in foreign shores, with the wealth of a nation, claimed as their own.

Frustrated, Irritated and Anguished

We have a nation whining about Health Care, but willing to sit back and let insurance companies control their lives and the health of their family by crazy cost and denied service, rather than accept and support an option, that force the private companies to begin to respect people with lowered premiums and better service and coverage for those they have denied for so long. and people nit pick and claim every kind of delusion, rather than see the simplicity, that if there is nothing to force the insurance companies to change. they simply will not change, and service will be denied and the type of service will continue to be rationed out only to the wealthy, while the denial of treatment is engaged by insurance companies to save a dollar, to pay the executives more. While the lives of people are forfeited, for this end. and the cycle of despair continue to deprive the people of a nation, the old and the sick, are kicked to the curb and left to fade away.

Insurance companies only want to cover people whom they think are less likely to need the services they pretend to offer, all the while a nation becomes unhealthy and left in despair, and people have the audacity to fight having an option and conjuring up any level of ignorance, as if they can only think to support a insurance industry, that see them as nothing but easy prey. We should be thankful we have a government which has enough concern for its people to create options and create opportunity for the average person to get coverage, and to force the private companies to respect the citizens of this nations with reasonable coverage, that is better than being just a sham. people are so busy talking about what we can't afford, they have lost faith in the ability of the human being. all because they have been told, that we are despaired and worthless and can't progress.. and people have bought the whole line, as if they have submitted to become indentured servants to corporations that seek them as indentured minions.

America has seemingly become a nation that despise anything that helps its own people, and have violent anguish at the thought that our system may do anything which provides the least of help to American people.

It's sad, but the same mindset is what kept this as a slave making nation for so many hunderds of years, It resented to do and give to help all its people, and that mindset is now today as dominant as it was a few 100 years ago, only now, it is not just against skin color, but against the status of people being poor, or the working poor, regardless of skin color.

It's almost no different than the way you groom a child, if you groom it with that kind of thoughts, then as it grows it will keep those kind of thoughts, and that is what American has and continue to show, is the bias that it was built upon, continue to reverberate in the systems and the core of its mentality, it just changed from being solely about color, to be where it includes the poor, the sick and the needy. All of whom are treated no differnt than 250 years ago the people who were in forced indenture and servititude. We need a mindset change as a nation and how our system operate and how our considerations are managed.


We are a nation that has simply become unaware, and led by the mob mentality, supported by lobbyist and big industry pushing delusion that keep itself propped up, by the mobs it can arouse to support it's continual ripping of a nation of people. And American become to be treated like a nation of sheep, lining up for the shaving on a regular scheduled cycle. This has been going on, in a 10 year cycle and people can't and don't seem to connect the dots.


People cry about stimulus money, but none stop and think, about the bail out of the Saving and Loans, and all through history there have been bail out, even back in 1864-65, the bail out of slave holders, who demanded federal stimulus to free slaves, and some demanded the right to keep slaves, for their economic benefit as a stimulus to keep their industry going. yet.. we as a people whine when our Government makes efforts to shore up the economy and provide stimulus to create paying jobs for American people to work, and to rebuild our infrastructure of society and it's landscape.

Yes, those are certainly real feelings, and they are all across the nation.

We have outrageous cost, for Universities that boast of their multi Billion dollars in assets, yet, young people are strapped with outrageous cost to get an education, and put through a long drawn out process, to get a certification for work, while we have tech schools and other vocation specific training, that can prepare people in half the time, and provide them with more up to date training in doing so, which fits with real world applications.

Maybe as a nation we may need to come to understand more and not be manipulated through emotional mob rousing insufficient information, and then deterred from seeking out the clarity, by pundits, and radio talk people, getting paid to keep the people riled up and in a mob natured frenzy, telling us what is not good for the nations, while people continue to loose homes, and families made jobless and homeless. The vile nature of the rebel rousers, who publicly declare their aim and want to see a nation failed, simply because they don't like the leader or the color of the leaders skin. Playing Party affiliation games, with the lives of the American people as a whole.

We are running across the globe a the lone crusader, while other countries sit back, doing nothing, and waiting to flood the shores of America with cheap goods, and over saturated products of ever sort, destroying the whole concept of industry within our own shores. Result is leaving American people jobless, and we remain unaware to be aware.

Cities can't operate and can't keep basic service functioning, because they have played into the despair game, and now crying broke, but too afraid to figure out how to invest in itself to build itself back. While part of its citizens are so afraid someone may be assisted or helped, they'd rather see the city crumble, than to see the city provide any help to its own citizens to build back its own cities.

We have a mass of people who want to privatize everything, as if the American people are not unaware of the robbery and rip off that privatize has shown is not a good things for a nation to turn its operations over unto. We see the results of unregulated banks, and unregulated financial markets, and companies that sold away its production to enrich the executives, at the expense of a nation being made unemployed, and no place to even consider to seek employment. We certainly can't trust the organization which are ran by the government, to be in the hands of private industry, because it will simply rip and rob the people and hold the public hostage for jacked up prices and scaled down service. yet, those who see to gain from the masses at the expense of the progress of a people, would and do care less about the nation, but more about enriching themselves at the expense of the nations, they'd dismantle the government to fill their own pockets, and decimate the nations systems, if they can gain opulence by holding hostage a nation to do so.

Frustrated, Irritated and Anguished

Yes, those are certainly real feelings, and they are all across the nation.





yep.... I'm sure you too, have your frustrations..

whether you voice them or not...