by Walter Allen Bennett, Jr. on April 1, 2010
It is said that the most diverse moments in most people’s lives happen at work, school, and shopping or any place or function that they do not have direct control over. While the least diverse moments are at church and family gatherings. Facebook and MySpace are social networking juggernauts, with Facebook now seemingly taking the lead. But no matter who’s up or who’s down, they basically perform a function that only Alexander Graham Bell or Antonio Meucci could have imagined way back when, during the early days of the telephone. People connect. However, now days it’s more than just merely connecting, it’s chatting, sharing photos, music, businesses, ideas, views of the world, but mostly it’s a way to amass friends from all walks of life, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, religions, social and educational backgrounds.
So… taking a look at your Facebook friends that you’ve carefully amassed through accepting, requesting and ignoring, just how diverse are you? Has today’s technology changed previous perceptions of when you are and are not interconnected with those whom you may not necessarily be considered part of your tribe.
Many make claims about how they have all kinds of friends and how the world is getting smaller because of technology. But how much do we actually take advantage of the opportunity that social networking provides for expanding our world? Read more... (545 words, 21 images, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)
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by Walter Allen Bennett, Jr. on March 31, 2010
HEY! It’s hard times out there. I mean everybody is struggling. Folks who used to never ever look at the cash register when checking out at the grocery store now keep one eye on what’s being dragged across the scanner and another eye on the numbers that are jumping across the register screen. It makes for some cross eyed moments but hey, it’s a different world. There’s nothing like the feeling of walking out of the store with one bag and knowing that you just dropped a hundred bucks for bagels, coffee, a couple of bags of salad, some eggs, toothpaste, paper towels, plastic garbage bags, eggos, a bottle of Mrs. Butterworth, two magazines you just had to have and Jiffy. Now, you’re saying, there is no way in the world that cost a hundred bucks, but… you were counting weren’t you? You knew I was getting close. And you know exactly what I’m talking about. This ain’t the seventies, this ain’t even the eighties. You go to the grocery store, you better be ready to take out a second mortgage.
THINK ABOUT IT, you can’t even find your credit, debit or whatever card you use to pony up the cash because all of your club cards are in the way. You’ve got cards to Costco, Walgreens, CVS, and five different grocery stores you hardly even go to. If they’ve got plastic to save you money, you’ve got it, hanging off your key chains and swelling up your wallets. So… why is it folks still don’t want to break down and cut out a coupon. The stigma that goes along with the almighty store coupon is just amazing. Why? I have no clue. Check out the video… there are some folks who have no shame to their game. They’re saving big bucks, coupons and all. Read more... (384 words, 21 images, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)
by Walter Allen Bennett, Jr. on March 28, 2010
It was called the Grand Old Party. That’s what G-O-P used to stand for. Some may say it still does, but for all intents and purposes one can honestly say, there is nothing grand about the current edition of the Republican Party and it has disappeared when it’s most needed. No, I don’t mean to save the country from a liberal President or even a Democratic House and Senate. It is as simple as Ying and Yang. The honest to goodness push back of the left not by simply saying “No” but with legitimate alternative ideas to bring to the table. The left needs you, not to substitute your ideas for theirs but more so to test their ideas against yours. But where are the legitimate new ideas, ideas that were not woefully followed during the Bush Administration?
Michael Steele has become the poster child for the party’s idiosyncrasies. It is no secret that as qualified as he may be for the position, he was and clearly is a GOP push back to Obama’s candidacy and Presidency. The GOP played a not so subtle race card the same way McCain played with gender when he selected Sarah Palin for his running mate in the 2008 Presidential Election. Subsequently, both Steele and Palin made for great photo ops and the appearance that the GOP had a progressive bone in its body politic, however, at the end of the day they became thin veils inadequately masking the GOP’s internal and philosophical dysfunction. Read more... (1178 words, 21 images, estimated 4:43 mins reading time)
by Walter Allen Bennett, Jr. on March 25, 2010
Senate Republicans succeeded early Thursday morning in finding two flaws in the House-passed health care reconciliation package. Neither is of any substance, but the Senate parliamentarian informed Democratic leaders that both are in violation of the Byrd Rule.
Though at first blush this may appear to be a victory for the GOP, it may just back fire on the “Party of No”. Their move to send the legislation back over small issues and amendments also gives Democrats an opportunity to add amendments of their own on a much grander scale and only needing fifty votes in the Senate to achieve passage; namely, the Public Option. Read More Here.
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