Gail-Tzipporah Saunders: February 2012 Archives

Race should never be a factor in college admissions because society's downtrodden, many of whom are the reason we need special task forces, don't really need a hand up. After all, they have access to schools and textbooks like the rest of us. They might not be the best schools with the best teachers and the best textbooks but they are a place to learn for anyone wishing to take advantage of the opportunity, which many choose not to do.

They are those who have yielded to the call of the wild instead, to the easy money of drugs by hanging out in the streets, frittering their lives away and causing others harm. Anyone who wants to learn to read and write and think can, even coming from a broken home in a broken neighborhood. It is just harder that way but it can be done because it has been done too many times. Even though a loving and supportive family helps, some things are just a matter of internal motivation and learning to read and write and calculate are among them. Opportunities are created, and the desire to go to school and make something of oneself is among them. Besides, there is the Internet, and there are libraries filled with books for the borrowing and there are opportunities for those who care and are willing to put in long hours and sweat for their goals.

But in our effort to help too many who don't really care and have created excuses for themselves more numerous and repetitive than grains of sand at the beach, the system has bent over backwards to even up the score much to the determent of those who do deserve a seat and ironically, are held back because of their color. To avoid this, they should assign each student a number and pick from that because it rewards the most deserving in the long run and is also less colorblind.

Allo, again....

Yes, there's another post up on wordpress about the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune of Internet dating.

Shalom and a Bientot,

Yours Truly,

G.Tz. ; )

For anyone who's ever doubted that I have a more sensitive side, read on.

G. Tz. ; )

Allo, Again. I am back on wordpress.

Thanks, Shalom, Nostrovia and a Bientot,

G. Tz. ; )

Politicians are like countries; they have neither permanent friends or enemies, only permanent interests. And that's why Obama, who's no dummy, asked Villaraigosa to host the DNC. He wants to get in good with the Hispanics and keep his job.

After all, who else is he going to use to woo for one of the largest voting blocs in the nation? He can't ask Florida Senator Marco Rubio because he's in the opposing party. So he needs someone who is a.) Hispanic and b.) head of a city or state with one of the largest Hispanic populations in the country. By process of elimination, or desperation, I'm not sure which, that leaves Antonio Villaraigosa. Party boy, glamor puss Antonio Villaraigosa. The same guy who's off jetting around the world while the unemployment rate in his hometown hovered at around 13%. Given their spending habits and such they may have more in common that we think, aside from the fact that one is Mayor Love in Bloom and the other is not.

But this too shall pass. I predict it will all be over when we see pictures of the overpriced inaugural ball of President Gingrich or President Romney or President Santorum or President Whoever because once people look at their bank accounts or at the foreclosed signs on their and their neighbors' lawns, they will vote for president whoever else.

Hello. I'm here. I never left. Just had technical difficulties, which I fixed with the help of the wondrous and ever-kind and helpful Steve Rosenberg.

Here's my latest @ wordpress.

Thanks, amen, shalom, a bientot and all that jazz.

Blessings,

G. Tz. ; )

Obama has done and gone too far and stepped on more than a few religious toes. I don't know whose constitution he's been reading, but in the good, old U S of A it is unconstitutional for the administration to require privately funded religious organization to pay for their female employee's birth control and contraceptives.

Even some Democrats are incensed over this recent turn that Obamacare has taken except Senator Barbara Boxer who said that "it's medicine and women deserve their medicine."

Now, we all know that Senator Boxer is also not a doctor, so maybe she thinks that birth control is in the same category as aspirin, antibiotics and other life-saving medication, but birth control does not constitute a medical emergency, except for the mothers of criminals and the like who should be have been paid to use it. Otherwise, it is in the category all its own.

Besides, our Constitution calls for the separation of church and state and forcing Catholic-run organizations to pay for their female employees violates that clause. Though it always appeared odd to me that the moral majority and religious right, comprised mostly of men and women well past their child-bearing years should tell others to carry, have and raise babies. If they are so hepped up on the idea of peopling the planet, they should try it themselves.