DIAMONDS AND PEARLS

As we approach the day honoring fathers I would like to take advantage of the sentiment by paying homage to those who made this a very special day for one such as me. Dear Mother of My Child... “Thank You,” for being the wonderful mother you have been since our child's conception. Months before I could claim to be a father you were already a mother nurturing our child inside your womb with the utmost tender loving care. You did all the necessary things and made bodily sacrifices to ensure that our love making developed into a God fearing healthy human being. Our miracle of creation! As a man I can only imagine what you experienced during that journey. Things like morning sickness, weight gain, a change in your body chemistry, your craving for as well as your dislike for certain foods and let’s not mention the pain you suffered during labor on your delivery day! After giving birth to our child you continued to nurture, teach, help develop, and show an undying love for him/her. Even...

.An Insane Slavery Tactic! Are we slaves and have we been enslaved into a system that has been designed for the sake of greed? In the movie Con-Air, Garland Greene a mass murderer (played by Steve Buscemi) said after being called insane by Poe (played by Nicholas Cage); “Now you’re talking semantics! What if I told you that insane was working 50 hours a week in the same office for 50 years after which they tell you to piss off, ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet in time. Wouldn’t you consider that to be insane?” Maybe I’m talking semantics! What if I told you that using a credit card when you have cash available to pay for an item is insane! Okay, say you make $8,000 a month and after every bill for this particular month has been satisfied you see a Bose stereo system for sale that will only cost you $600 dollars plus tax. You decide to use your credit card to purchase it instead of using the cash you def...