Monthly Archives: January 2011

SUNDAY SONG

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I don’t know about you, but I never feel very worthy of a lot of things.  I know my past, I know my present, and I also know that there are ways that people judge me based on their own ways of looking at others.  It all kind of melts together for a total feeling of unworthiness.

When all of this really gets to me, I have to remind myself that in my moments of feeling rather worthless and hopeless, as a result of it all, that God sees me as worthy…when I deserve it least.

 

SOBERING STATISTICS

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Nearly 50 million abortions have been performed in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade made abortion legal.

These are the abortions we know about.

Watch the video below to see the horror that was allowed to persist in Philadelphia for years.

35 percent of all U.S. women will have had an abortion by the age of 45.

93 percent of all abortions are because the mother has decided that child is not wanted.

Instead of taking responsibility for actions that can turn into the rearing of a child into a productive person, the child is killed.

Ugh.

Want a huge paycheck?

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After 9/11, naturally, there were many who wanted to build memorials that honored those killed that dark day.

You would think that people heading up the museum would not see it as an opportunity for major financial gain, and instead do their jobs, at a wage that would allow them to make a living, and yet also allow for as much of the funding as possible go toward the museum, its contents, and its programs…you know…so that those who were lost can be honored.

I must be one of those naive people who think that statement would be true.

Schoolchildren thought their penny jars and bake-sale proceeds would go toward building a 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero — not the six-figure salaries of nonprofit execs.
But 11 staffers at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum each pulled down more than $170,000 in total compensation in 2009, according to the most recent filings. Four execs took home more than $320,000.

Foundation President Joseph Daniels, 38, pocketed $371,307 after receiving hefty raises three years in a row — 28 percent in 2006, when he was promoted from acting president, followed by 12 percent and 6 percent.

Museum director Alice Greenwald made $351,000, and capital planning Vice President Joan Gerner soaked up $337,143 before leaving last spring. Development director Cathy Blaney raked in $322,292. The full-time foundation employee also worked last year as a fund-raiser for Gov. Cuomo’s election campaign.
The money to pay the $5.3 million in compensation for the foundation’s 87 staffers in 2009 came from private donations — $220 million raised in a Herculean grass-roots effort to honor the 2,974 victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and $150 million from blue-ribbon board members. More than 60,000 individuals in all 50 states and 31 countries donated to the cause.

The remainder of the article is definitely worth your time.

I know I shouldn’t be shocked by what people do, especially when the almighty dollar is at hand. I’d like to think that there are people in this world who are not out for only themselves. But, like I said…I tend to be naive.

It all just smells bad to me.

CAPTION CONTEST

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Time for the caption contest.  Provide your witty and entertaining captions, and I will post winners Tuesday evening.

US senator Bernie Sanders, pictured in 2010, expressed disbelief Wednesday that a major museum in the

US capital sells only “crafted in China” busts of US presidents.  (AFP/Getty Images/File/Brendan Smialowski)

 

This week’s winners. . .

2.  Smite A. Hippie

‘Busted’ flat is Bernie Sanders, waitin on a name(sake), feelin nearly faded as his hair.Bernie thumbed a Senator down, just before…

1.  John D

“Spending cuts? You want spending cuts? Here, pull my finger. I’ll show you just how I feel about spending cuts!”

 

OTHER CAPTION CONTESTS:

Cowboy Blob

Family Security Matters

Rodney Dill

Sonic Frog

Wyatt

 

Another stellar study about the supposed erudite /snark

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Well, dang. Why do I work so hard to get kids ready for college?

Apparently, according to a study, they aren’t doing much work.

A study of more than 2,300 undergraduates found 45 percent of students show no significant improvement in the key measures of critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing by the end of their sophomore years.
Not much is asked of students, either. Half did not take a single course requiring 20 pages of writing during their prior semester, and one-third did not take a single course requiring even 40 pages of reading per week.

I grade a lot of student writing. Whenever I make comments about the quality of the essays and how they could be better, the comments are dismissed as unimportant by the students. Yes, their grades suffer in the long run, but they don’t care, because to them, reading and writing do not matter. Critical thinking doesn’t matter.

I wish I had an answer for why students feel this way, but it is across the board.

It is very frustrating. The only card I have to play is how demanding college will be…and now this study.

Ugh.

I was in college 12 years ago. I read about 100 pages (or more) a night, wrote many essays (remember a two-week time period wherein I had seven due), and I did have 20 page papers analyzing literature.

The business majors? They had a lot of fun. That’s all I’m saying. But you know, they had to work on those networking and people skills for the business world, right?

I never have and never will give a person more worth than another, just because he or she went to college. It doesn’t make you smart; it is what you make of the opportunity.

This country needs a re-birth, big time.