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Did you know, , that today is the birthday of Traffic Rules? Writing in a horse magazine, Rider & Driver, William Phelps Eno introduced the first rules in 1900 for facilitating the flow of traffic. Among the first rules: drivers must stay to the right, signal for turns, be licensed, and follow a speed limit. Excellent rules to follow -- even to this day! ~~~ Today's Inspirational Quote: "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." Bill Cosby |
Based on a conversation with a girlfriend, she said its best to have a Virgin man. Why? You get to coach through the entire act. and everything is more comfortable because they seem to take things slower and gentler and more romantic, which many of us women would prefer sometimes. Me, Personally I would be honored if a man saved himself for me. I would respect him and love him for it the rest of my life. But in this day and age - a man saving himself for a woman he loves is like listening to a fairy tale story or should i say a myth. Let me log off b4 i get in trouble One love |
There are many things that remind me of my ex and I'll smile. To say i miss him. . . . . . . NAAAAH One love |
Climb Till Your Dream Comes True by: Helen Steiner Rice often your task will be many, and more than you think you can do, often the hills insurmountable, too, but always remember, the hills ahead are never as steep as they seem, and with faith in your heart, start upward and climb 'til you reach your dream. for nothing in life that is worthy is ever too hard to achieve if you have the faith to believe, for faith is a force that is greater than knowledge or power or skill and many defeats turn to triumph if you trust in God's wisdom and will, there is nothing that God cannot do, so start out today with faith in your heart and climb 'til your dream comes true. |
SeanT21:oh that One love |
@Poster Let me know where, when and what time you want me to show up with my Placard. ![]()
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maybe because it's snowing and fetching cold What's the weather like in your neck of the woods? |
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Quiet Unique Intelligent Lagos Lover S T U N T |
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ha ha ha. . .funny avatar. LMAO ![]() |
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I am Gummi Bears You are a big softy at heart! You are cute and sweet with a very refreshing personality. Just don’t let people take advantage of you and bite your head off Gosh!!! This is sooo true that it's scary. Folks always say the highlighted to me.
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I love cooking with garlic My mom eats raw garlic. Yikes!!! Hey ever try garlic tea? And if you are wondering, it doesn't taste bad. It's good for headache Add 1 peg of garlic Tea cup with hot water Add milk and sugar to taste |
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Peach, watermelon and mango (in respective order) One love |
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This question about the word because has been asked several times, because it appears smart to be using "because" thrice in one whole sentence |
"put the fucking ring on it or get killed" @Princess Well this is soo dayum funny that I shared it with family and friends. You are something else. T'was like, off the chair, on the floor, DWL ![]() |
@poster Checked your blog. Thank you so much for sharing your stories and memories. Great!!! Enjoyed to the fullest. One love |
Did you know, , that today is Horror Novels Are Horrendous Day? On the birthday (1809) of Edgar Allan Poe, author of many horror tales, we honor all horror novelists who scare the dickens out of us. Happy birthday, Edgar, and thanks for the chills! ;-) ~~~ Today's Inspirational Quote: "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." -- Will Rogers |
The I Have a Dream Speech I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children. It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone. As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "For Whites Only". We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring." And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring. And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!" |
Epi walks through the crowd. Puts on her best smile and grabs mic from Bluespice . . . .she watch Cupped hands whispering into ears Is it because you’re consumed with hate, fear, envy and jealousy Why all the whispering? Oh let me guess, he told you to make war with me? Don’t be an ostrich, pull your head out of the sand Like Maya Angelou we’ve got to be Strong Black Women Is that’s your worth –for a man you want to fight Abeg remember Variety is the spice of life [i]Epi: Gripping the mic tight in her hand, fighting back the rush of emotions, The crowd gave her a standing ovation[/i] |
where to? Will you wait for me until i get back |
get my ass out of here b4 i miss my flight |
2 legs 2 eyes 12 hands |
Can Lisa Introduce Coconut Killers L A T E R |
that I am working on a Project for children who are less fortunate |
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