Maybe We Should Investigate!

It seems as if no one likes to do research on certain subjects. The other day in class I made a statement about companies that were build from slavery. Some people started to criticize the statement but they would fall out of their seats if they knew the truth. They have to understand that I like to research on different subjects. At first a history teacher told me about these companies. I was like some of the class members. I did not want to believe that certain companies were built from slavery. Well, I did research on my own and I had some help from history instructors. Let it be known. The stories that some of the companies had told the public was not true. The companies that the person named was built from old slave money. The people who did not believe me really need to investigate this for themselves. There is nothing wrong with these companies. I found out that some other companies of today were built from drug trafficking and other unfamiliar cases. One company that I really look up to is Miramax. Miramax in the early 80s made there first money from porn. Yes the great company that filmed and produced some of the greatest movies of our time also produced x-rated films back in the day. Although some companies were built from strange business ventures from the past does not make the company a bad one. Always remember do research before you disagree with a person. If you do not believe a person, investigate and research their statement and prove them wrong, if it means so much to you. I DARE YOU. The only reason why I say these things is to teach people the truth. If I just tell them the truth they will never know the truth but if the person who do not believe me please investigate for themselves then they can not call themselves a lie.

Is Kanye West A Racist!

Some people might consider the rapper Kayne West is a racist. They probably believe this because of the statement he said during the Katrina tragedy. This is only a paraphrase, they claimed that he made the a statement" Bush does not like black people and whites will pay for what they did of did not do about the Katrina victims." Since he only put the word whites and did not point out which ones, some people thought that he was talking about all whites. It seems sort of strange some people believe that he is a racist. First you have to know the definition of racism. Racism is owning a business, holding a high position in office or governmental status and making laws, using money and other ways to stop one or more ethnic groups from prospering and making a living. It also stops civil rights and liberties for certain ethnic groups. This is highly unlikely with Kanye West since he does not own any companies or hold office in this country. When Terry Bradshaw said that the only reason why New Orleans did not receive any help right away was that most of that city was African American, did that make Terry a racist also. In other statements about race, when the Indian's wrote in history pamphlets about how the white man took their land and committed genocide against them, does that make the Indian's racist, since they did not point out the white people who committed these crimes against them? I really do not think so! In the case of the Katrina victims, as an educated person no one could not say the events that occurred in this tragedy did not have anything to do with racism. A person would have to look at how race related on how this problem was handled. Maybe Kanye West should have worded it a little different but the actions of some people that had the power to send help sooner showed the real racists.

We Should Remember!

In class the other day a person made a statement about how Asians were slaves in America and they did not talk about the situation nor remembered the ordeal in any fashion. It literally struck me by surprise that she would not consider on taking the initiative to even reflect the tragedy of that history. History tend to repeat itself and every type of history should be remembered in every shape or form, good or bad. If America can study the great progress and strides that made this country then we can also consider the horrific events that shaped this country. Lets not forget that slavery made this country and we should always remember this problem. Slavery also stemmed racism, bigotry, prejudice, Jim Crow laws and the civil rights movement. Of course slavery should not be celebrated but we should recognize the struggles and the accomplishments certain ethnic groups transpired through the times of building this great country. We should also remember the old saying in the world "We can not find where we are going if we do not know where we have been."

Weird Happenings

Last Thursday on March 27, 2008 was one of the strangest days of my life. My wife, (Angie) was feeling bad and I had to take her to St. Francis emergency room. Her left jaw felt tight and she was losing feeling on her left side of her body. When entered the emergency room she checked in and they immediately was sent to the back. I went to use the bathroom and decided to purchase a diet Pepsi. I ate some barbecue skins with that drink. After the so called delicious meal, I went to the back to check on my wife. As she was getting undressed I slid her shoes to the corner so no one would trip over them. Well, almost fell over them and the nurse said " Don't fall because only one bed can fit in each room. We laughed but while the nurse was checking Angie's blood pressure I started to feel dizzy. My stomach felt bad so I went to the bathroom in the waiting room. I stayed in the bathroom for awhile. When I felt a little better I walked to the car to get some information for the doctor. I had to lay in the car for awhile because it seemed like the world was spinning. Finally I staggered to the emergency room and asked the receptionist if I could get my sugar level tested. He said "I would have to sign in first". I signed in they called a few more people and then they called me to the back. When the nurse checked my sugar level, it was 319. When they I went to the room in the back, the nurse checked my sugar level again and it went up to 394. The doctor kept me in the room until my sugar level went down. The nurse gave me a glucose shot and my sugar level was brought down to 284. I was in room 5 and Angie was in room 8. We were both in the hospital at the same time. Angie was looking for me and the nurse told her that I was a patient also. So we started to text message each other. The doctor finally let me go and I went to see my wife. They kept her for the weekend. The doctors found out that her iron was very low and she would have to take medicine for the rest of her life but she came in at the right time. If she would have waited she would have been in a worse shape. The same can be said about me. This was the highest my sugar level had ever been and I am glad I was near an hospital at that time.

The Adventures of Writing a Sript

I am a film producer slash actor, director, editor, special effects, and script writer. Some people might think that writing a scrip is very hard but a beg the differ. Here is an easy way to start a script or a rough draft of one. First open your mind and think of a situation that you have been in or someone else's. Then think on how you would play the scenario out. I would usually create characters while I write the script. Always think of storytelling rather than scenes. Just writing scenes will make a movie very boring. As a person writes a scene the strangest thing might happen. You will become the movie. It is very easy to become lost in your writing. In other words you will become one of the characters and the movie will be your reality at that moment. The character will become you and you will become the character. When you are in this mode make sure you are in a place where you are alone because if you are writing a sex scene then you might say the wrong things out loud and if you are writing a horror scene or movie then you might yell at the top of your lungs. The people around will probably call the crazy house and admit you.

Losing Weight

In the year of 2003 I weighed at a staggering figure of 245 pounds. It does not sound that much but if you are 5'8 then it is a massive problem and a person would have realize that the weight was all fat not muscle. I had overlapping disease at its worst form. If you do not know what that is then picture this in you mind. My stomach almost reached my lap and that is large. It puts you in the mind of a black Homer Simpson. That is right I was just that fat. What made me realize that I was over weight when I was lying down in bed and my wife told me to role over. I said why should I role over and she said I was snoring. I told her that I was not sleep. I weighed so much by breathing was loud. That next day I went on a diet and the next few weeks I lost over 30 pounds. In that same year I lost over 6o pounds. The weight came off years before I was diagnosed for diabetes, that came 3 years later. Now I have one other problem besides diabetes, I would like to work out more but for some reason I can not find the time. I want to work on my abs and get a six pack. The ab lounge in my living room is used for a coat hanger. I am about to star in my own movies and I would like to look good or descent in them. Can someone give me so pointers on how I can achieve these goals. With my diabetes I know I have to start exercising more to become healthy again. I also just found out that I have high cholesterol also.

The Wrecking of the Gray Goose

Last Thursday, me and my children was traveling to West Memphis, Arkansas from my doctors office. I was driving on Crump and was on my way to cross the old bridge when all in a sudden a starter fell off of a truck. I had only a couple of choices. The first one was to try of avoid it and turn to my left. If I would have tried to swerve in the right land I would have hit a car beside me. The second option would have been to stop. In that case an 18 wheeler would have rammed us in the back. The third thing to try to avoid the starter was to turn to the left and I would have hit the medium. So I did what anyone else would have done and hit the starter. I hit the starter so hard that it knocked a big hole in my transmission pan. Fluid spewed on to the ground and I had to put on my emergency signals on to wait for traffic and pull to the side of the road. When my children heard the impact of the starter at the bottom of the car, it scared half to death. My oldest daughter got on the cell phone and called my wife and she was on her way. She got there in record time because she was worked up the street. The strangest was when I looked for the starter it was gone. Someone picked it up while I was inspecting the car. The truck that was carrying the load of starters could not be found. My brother in-laws pulled my car to his house and he said if I buy the parts then he will fix it. My wife and I is sharing one car right now and it is very hard to do so since our schedule is very different.