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tpia:
not all black neighborhoods are unsafe. A large number are, but there are still good black neighborhoods- just not as many as the white ones.

And AAs can also be found in these "safe" white communities.

Absolutely right. Think of places like Hyde Park in South Side Chicago, which is regarded as a prime neighborhood despite the notoriety that the south side of Chicago conveys. There are places in Atlanta and other places where blacks are making a sucessful living and the place are nice and dandy. In the bay area, I can only think of East Palo Alto, and no, I wouldnt want to live there.

Some Africans choose to live in white neighborhoods because it is regarded as a safe neighborhood, unlike blacks. As for me, given the choice and money, I'd rather live in Los Altos, a wealthy white enclave than to live in the Oakland Hills.

*osisi:
My brother abeg there's something wrong with it.
Is it by force to have a wedding and a reception?
can't they have a barbecue in their backyard?
can't they rent an apartment clubhouse for $50 deposit ?
this is so tacky
what  reasonable couple will have a weding reception at a fast food joint
ghetto fabulous

Who are you to make decisions for those couple? This is a free world, and it's their right to host their wedding reception at Macdonalds as they deem fit to do so. If you have a problem with it, then file a complaint with the authorities. And to remind you, others might lump your idea that the couple could 'have a barbecue in the backyard, " in the same category as hosting it at Macdonalds. Dont judge!

How can one bring those perpetrators to justice?

Nothing wrong with it, at least the couple are not pretentious, unlike some of us who would go a-borrowing to impress and then subsist on garri three times a day while trying to pay off our bills.

I culled this from the internet

http://naijablog/2007/12/child-witches-of-akwa-ibom.html

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/index.php/content/view/10710/55

I just ask this question, a 5 year old boy/girl is branded a witch, ok, even if it is true, who initiated them into the coven world of witches? Or did they just wake up and become a 'witch'. Ignorance will kill some of our people, let them prosecute those big ogas and madams who are big time members of this heinous organizations.

By NATE JENKINS, Associated Press Writer Nate Jenkins, Associated Press Writer – 20 mins ago

LINCOLN, Neb. – The mother was running out of more than patience when she abandoned her 18-year-old daughter at a hospital over the weekend under Nebraska's safe-haven law. She was also running out of time: She knew that state lawmakers would soon meet in a special session to amend the ill-fated law so that it would apply to newborns only.

"Where am I going to get help if they change the law?" said the mother, who lives in Lincoln and asked to not be identified by name to protect her adopted child.

To the state's surprise and embarrassment, more than half of the 31 children legally abandoned under the safe-haven law since it took effect in mid-July have been teenagers.

But state officials may have inadvertently made things worse with their hesitant response to the problem: The number of drop-offs has almost tripled to about three a week since Gov. Dave Heineman announced on Oct. 29 that lawmakers would rewrite the law.

With legislators set to convene on Friday, weary parents like the Lincoln mother have been racing to drop off their children while they still can.

On Thursday, authorities searched for two teens — a boy and girl, ages 14 and 17 — who fled an Omaha hospital as their mother tried to abandon them. The mother was trying to take them from the car to the emergency room when they took off.

Child welfare experts said the late deluge of drop-offs was probably inevitable. After all, they said, some date had to be picked to begin changing the law.

But some of them said lawmakers and the governor missed chances to change the law early because they underestimated the number of desperate families looking for help. Heineman called the special session only after a spate of five drop-offs in eight days.

Reluctance to pull senators away from their jobs and election campaigns, along with the estimated $70,000 to $80,000 cost of a special session, were among the reasons Heineman's office cited in holding off on calling a special session sooner.

"I think there was a fair amount of denial on the part of legislators that it would snowball," said Karen Authier, executive director of the Nebraska Children's Home Society.

The safe-haven law was intended to save "Dumpster babies" by allowing desperate young mothers to abandon their newborns at a hospital without fear of prosecution. But lawmakers could not agree on an age limit, and the law as passed uses only the word "child."

All states have safe-haven laws, but in every state but Nebraska, the law applies to infants only.

Authier said her group and others had warned senators after the law passed early this year that there could be problems, but the lawmakers did not believe it.

"It wasn't like talking to a stone wall," Authier said. "It was just that people who aren't in the business of dealing with families, they aren't aware how desperate some of these families are."

Sure enough, 18 teenagers — five 17-year-olds, two 16-year-olds, six 15-year-olds, two 14-year-olds, three 13-year-olds — have been abandoned, along with eight children who were 11 or 12. Five of the children dropped off have been from out of state.

The Lincoln mother who dropped off her 18-year-old daughter said she was repeatedly turned down when she sought help from police, state social services authorities and the girl's school. The woman said her daughter had been diagnosed with a mental illness when she was 12 and had deep psychological scars from childhood abuse and from being left alone with her dead biological mother for a week.

The woman said she felt she had no choice but to leave her daughter at the hospital after a recent flurry of assault, stealing, sleeping around and cutting school.

"I thought she would get help" through the safe-haven law, the mother said.

However, state authorities refused to take the young woman into custody, saying Nebraska law regarding juveniles does not let authorities take in anyone older than 17. The woman left with her daughter.

Fourteen children in all have been left at three hospitals operated by Alegent Health in the Omaha area.

"These are largely families at a point of incredible desperation," said Wayne Sensor, chief executive of Alegent Health. "They aren't bad parents or bad kids. They simply don't know what services are available out there."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_on_re_us/safe_haven;_ylt=AqckbIi_lcT4Etl1wjCBdFis0NUE

Sadly, the big time wizards and witches are spared from this inhumane treatment, while they are practising their heinous activities in the covens, while these kids are treated mercilessly. Lets rise up and defend them!

wirinet:
I am shocked by your statement that Of all the above so called 'virgin births' and even the ones unmentioned.Jesus birth has proven to be the most useful,most valid and most believed. It is amazing you are looking at the world though your tiny pin-hole. Are you saying that the over 1[b].5 Billions buddhist in the world (yes there are more Buddhists in the world than Christians)[/b]do not believe the virgin birth of their Buddha? or that the hundreds of millions of hindus do not believe in the Virgin Birth of their saviour Chrishna?

Christians outnumber buddhists in the world. Do your research

At times, I do wonder now (and I posed that question to a friend) if colonialism is a detriment to the future of Africa or a blessing. In the olden days, it was rare, almost unheard of to see a homeless person in the village. The villagers would rally around to build a thatched house for that person. Our forefathers walked with their barefoot, rode their bike and lived a simple life. Now, it's all about me, me, me. 130 million Naira for a house in Lekki? How many people can afford that?

Upon the roadblocks in Nigeria.

Europe and Spanish are not represented in his heritage, so if you are trying to make him a global citizen, you are not right.

H2O2:
This is not pre-colonial times.  Of course it is illegal.  Nigeria didn't "put them there", THEY forced their way there. There's a difference.

Which was illegal. Now, if a Nigerian is elected to rule Britain, that would be legal.

North Carolina Senate Candidates Battle Over 'Godless' Ad
Sen. Elizabeth Dole's campaign is refusing to take down an ad that accuses her Democratic rival, Kay Hagan, of accepting money from "godless Americans."

FOXNews.com

Wednesday, October 29, 2008


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North Carolina Sen. Elizabeth Dole's campaign is refusing to take down an ad that accuses her Democratic rival, Kay Hagan, of accepting money from "godless Americans," after Hagan demanded that the Republican incumbent "cease and desist."

The two campaigns are in a nasty dispute over the commercial, which began running statewide in North Carolina Tuesday.

Hagan sent Dole a letter Wednesday demanding she take down the ad, and held a press conference in the morning at which, according to prepared remarks, she called it an attack on her "Christian faith."

The ad accuses Hagan of attending a "secret fundraiser" hosted by the Godless Americans PAC last month.

"Godless Americans and Kay Hagan. She hid from cameras. Took godless money," the narrator says. "What did Kay Hagan promise in return?"

The ad then plays a clip of a female voice saying, "There is no God."

Hagan complained Wednesday that the final clip is not her voice.

"This entire ad was a deliberate attempt to mislead, and it speaks volumes about Ms. Dole's character and conviction and how she feels about how she's doing in the polls right now," Hagan spokesman Colleen Flanagan told FOXNews.com.

Hagan, a North Carolina state senator, is leading Dole by a few points in several state polls. An Associated Press-GfK poll out Wednesday showed the Democratic challenger leading by 47 to 43 percent.

Dole's campaign said the ad never implied that the voice at the end of the ad was Hagan's.

Dole spokesman Dan McLagan said the "There is no God" line was actually a recycled quote from a Godless Americans PAC representative played earlier in the commercial.

"She bears no resemblance to Hagan. She's blonde, sounds totally different," he said.

He told FOXNews.com the ad is 100 percent accurate and the campaign will "absolutely not" take it down.

"Every word in the ad is true," he said. "They know it. They don't like it, but it's staying up."

Hagan's campaign says the fundraiser was hosted by 40 people, including Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry. But McLagan noted that the event was held at the home of a Godless Americans PAC member.

He said Dole was not questioning Hagan's Christian faith, but whether Hagan would support the PAC's call for the "elimination of God from all the public domain."

"What we're questioning is a public policy issue," he said.

Dole's seat is one of several Republican Senate seats that are at risk on Election Day.

"We've been up in every single poll for just about a month," Flanagan said. "This is nothing more than a desperate political attempt to save her seat. This kind of personal attack on Kay's faith is atrocious.

"Does Elizabeth Dole vet her supporters based on religious faith? It's just so offensive."

Flanagan said the September event was "not a Godless Americans fundraiser," and that Hagan has not accepted money from the PAC.

Campaign finance records, however, show that Woody Kaplan -- who is listed as an advisory board member for the PAC and according to Dole's campaign hosted the September fundraiser -- contributed the maximum $2,300 to Hagan's campaign in September.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee says Hagan raised at least $35,000 from the Boston fundraiser.

Click here to see the Dole ad.

FOXNews.com's Judson Berger contributed to this report.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/29/north-carolina-senate-candidates-battle-godless-ad/comments/


P:S Dole lost the election to Hagan.

H2O2:
This is now. Does the constitution allow it? If not, then no.

Well, if our constitution does not permit it, then it is illegal. Now, if their constitution approves of it, then it is ok. Or, is there anything wrong for a black to rule Britain? They ruled us pre-colonial times, took our people as slaves, even though it is illegal.

~Sauron~:
Ask them if they would let a whiteman rule Nigeria. . . .
Buncha hypocrites!!!

And who ruled us pre-colonial times?

If there is an African that I could think of who is prominent in Britain's political world, it is this Ghanian, Paul Boateng. Who knows, he could be the next PM of Britain.

adconline:
Ndipe, You cannot have an honest discussion until you start seeing black Americans as individuals. Did you ever think that you would be as successful as you are if your  Parents were Born in Katagori LG in Sokoto? Or did you think that Bill Gates would been successful if he were born in Darfur? Some Nigerians always think that racism was long time ago in America without thinking that Nigeria had  voting rights  before  all African Americans. Have you ever considered unevenness of opportunities? A kid schooled on the South west side of Chicago cannot educationally compete with a kid schooled in New Haven Conn. Here is the difference but not an excuse for some slackers.  If  unevenness of opportunity benefited or disadvantaged some folks, then some folks were direct and indirect  beneficiaries . I believe Bill Cosby's  school of thought on  black issues in America. "If sentencing guidelines on crack cocaine Vs powder cocaine disproportionately target black folks, then you should not do  drugs"

Just like a kid who attends public school in the village can't have the same opportunity for advancement with their counterparts who goes to a private school in Victoria Island. Ok, but then again, the child on the south side of chicago can without a doubt overcome all obstacles, and get a free ride to college at harvard. It happens, but back home? How many? I look at the wasted opportunities of girls serving as maids in households, of boys riding motorcycles because of a lack of opportunity. Now, these are the same people who had "voting rights before all African Americans.", And probably exercised those rights with no beneficial results in their lives.

How about that?

Jakumo:
Ndipe regardless of how long you have resided in America as a free-born immigrant, you can never BEGIN to fully grasp the true and full story of Black America, and how that legacy of slavery CONTINUES to affect American-born blacks from their earliest years in grade school, until the time their hair turns grey .   The American civil rights struggle has been a long and bloody one that claimed the lives of many of the brightest and best black Americans to ever walk that land, and so is NOT a chapter of American history that can so easily be closed and forgotten like the Boston Tea Party.

So many of those who actively engaged in that civil rights struggle are still alive today, thus it is natural and fitting that they would recall, on the day a black man FINALLY rose above it all to become president of the United States of America, the tortuous struggle that culminated in this epic victory for the downtrodden and forgotten race that first arrived on America's shores in shackles.  Yes sir, Rev Jesse Jackson's tears were as heartfelt as those streaming down the faces of so many who stood around him on that chilly Chicago night as President Obama addressed America.

Now a few words from jazz guitarist George Benson

There were times when I thought
That I couldn't last for long
Ah, but now I'm able
To carry on
Its been a long, long time coming
But I know
A change is going to come
Oh yeah, a change is going to come

I am an American born Nigerian, and while I can understand the plight of black americans in the USA, can they confidently say that they are worse off than their counterparts in Africa? don't think so. What dont blacks have? There is UNCF, an organization that offers scholarship to blacks (or minority) exclusively, there are black magazines, black this, black that, and let a white man create an organization that caters exclusively to their race, and katakata go burst in this country.

Tears streamed down the face of the Reverend Jesse Jackson as he waited to hear Barack Obama's victory speech.
But cynical commentators wondered if they were tears of joy for America's first black president or of frustration because the veteran civil rights leader knows he will be an outsider looking in at the new administration.
Sincere? Reverend Jesse Jackson reacts after projections show that Senator Barack Obama will be elected to serve as the next President of the United States of America

Relations have been frosty since Jackson was caught out crudely criticising Obama when a microphone was switched on before a television interview in July.
While celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey were in the Obama inner circle to celebrate his victory in Chicago's Grant Park, Jackson was lingering at the back.
He insisted his tears were because he was thinking of the history of black people in the US. and their rise from slavery to president.


Why do some blacks like to harp over stuff that happened a long time ago? can't we just move on with our lives? Granted, the election of Obama is history, but when people like Jesse Jackson keep harping on the civil rights movement and it's end result over and over again, it kind of becomes monotonous and makes it seem as if the whole world, or rather, the white world owes black Americans a debt that can never be repaid, or have been repaid.

Am I being insensitive? What do you think?

lacrimose:
Thank you people of California

Ndipe God bless you!!!

Amen!

Kidnapped, robbed & raped
•Agonizing story of woman politician
By Joe Effiong, Uyo
Sunday, June 15, 2008



•Nkoyo Edet Bassey
Photo: Sun News Publishing  
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It is not easy for ladies to open their mouth and declare that they have been raped. So when one is bold enough to make that confession, then it means her agony runneth over.

That appears to be the fate of Nkoyo Edet Bassey, the Action Congress (AC) councillorship candidate for Southern Uruan Ward II of Uruan Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom at the just concluded council polls.

Bassey told Sunday Sun in the party office along Ekpo Obot Street, Uyo, that her major opponent in the contest, also a woman, not only masterminded her kidnap, but organized two men who took their turns to rape her.

“When electoral materials were eventually distributed at Idu, the council headquarters, as late as 6.30pm, those belonging to our ward were taken into an Akwa Transport Company (AKBC) bus. My opponent and I entered. But instead of going to the ward for the election, they diverted the bus to Uyo and were driving through routes that I don’t even know. My opponent’s husband was also following us. They chased away all my supporters.

“When they eventually stopped at a location I didn’t know, they pushed me out of the bus, chained me and detailed four armed thugs to guard me in the bush. It was about 2am the following day that they came back with a motorcycle; ordered me to sit on it and another man sat behind me.

“They gave the two men instruction to rape and later kill me and dump my corpse in a pool of water. It was by that pool that the raped me. But when they brought out the gun to shoot me I snatched the gun and threw it into the pool which I realized was somewhere around Ikot Akpanabia, where we have the state police headquarters.

“After depriving them of the gun they began to beat me; trying to strangle me and I screamed. Luckily for me a motorcyclist was coming along that path. He heard my voice and came to the scene. Then the two people ran away. It was this other man who took me to his place at Mbiabong. I sat there on his veranda till 5 am before I could return home.”

Apart from the kidnap and rape and attempted murder, Bassey also alleged that her opponent’s gang seized her two phones and also stole N350, 000 cash from her. She alleged that even on Monday, June 9, 2008, her opponent’s husband was still using one of the phones seized from her, and even dared her to go to hell.
“I want AKISIEC to cancel the election in Uruan because it was conducted in Uyo.”

Another tale of woe
It was a similar tale of woes by another AC councillorship candidate, Christian Titus Martin from Nnung Attai Ube Ward I of Okobo Local Government Area. While the lady said she managed to get back home early Sunday, Martin said he was only released on Monday, more than 24 hours after AKISEIC had declared his PDP opponent a winner in an election he was kidnapped, blindfolded and kept incommunicado for 48 hours.

He said his opponent similarly hijacked the bus containing electoral materials; attached the bus carrying security operatives and ordered his arrest by the thugs who took him blindfolded to a location he could not trace.

“They kept two men to guard me in the hold. When they came to release me on Monday, they blindfolded me again and dropped me at a street in Uyo.
Martin quoted the registration number of the Volvo car that brought him back.
Ironically, the two candidates said they never reported the matter to the police as at the time of narrating it to Sunday Sun. But they insisted that the election was not free and fair, as such should be cancelled.
“But AKISIEC appears not interested in such a critical assignment as none of the two wards is among where bi-election has been scheduled.

The AKISIEC Chairman, Mrs. Gloria Ukpong insists that the election was free and fair.
But the state chairman of CNPP, who is also the chairman of AC, Chief David Ekanem said there was no election in the state, and asked for the dissolution of all states electoral commissions, saying alleging that they are worse than INEC.

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P:S Caused by another woman, all in the name of power/money

Confirmed!!!

Obama is the New President of the USA

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Slideshow: Election '08  Play Video Video: Obama wins battleground state of Ohio AP  Play Video Video: Grant Park Fills Up For Obama Rally CBS 2 Chicago Related PhotosFlickr       Submit a Photo » WASHINGTON – Barack Obama was elected the nation's first black president Tuesday night in a historic triumph that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself.

The 47-year-old Democratic senator from Illinois sealed his victory by defeating Republican Sen. John McCain in a string of wins in hardfought battleground states — Ohio, Florida, Virginia and Iowa.

A huge crowd thronged Grant Park in Chicago to cheer his improbable triumph and await his first public speech as president-elect.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama seized command of the race for the White House Tuesday night, defeating John McCain in Ohio and Iowa and building a near insurmountable Electoral College advantage in his historic bid to become the first black president. Fellow Democrats padded their majorities in both houses of Congress.

Obama's Ohio victory denied McCain particularly precious territory. No Republican has ever won the presidency without it.

The 47-year-old Illinois senator watched returns at a downtown Chicago hotel, then went home to a family dinner after a marathon campaign across 49 states and 21 months.

A jubilant crowd of thousands gathered in Grant Park across town on an unseasonably mild night. Cheers went up each time Obama was announced the winner in another state. The roar was particularly loud when Pennsylvania fell — the Democratic-leaning state where McCain had tried hardest to break through.

A survey of voters leaving polling places showed the economy was by far the top Election Day issue. Six in 10 voters said so, and none of the other top issues — energy, Iraq, terrorism and health care — was picked by more than one in 10.

"May God bless whoever wins tonight," President Bush told dinner guests at the White House, where his tenure runs out on Jan. 20.

He'll depart with the economy almost certainly in recession and millions of Americans counting their investment losses after a stock market swoon. The next commander in chief will inherit two wars, as well, one in Iraq, the other in Afghanistan.

On Election Day, Obama swept through traditionally Democratic states in the East and Midwest.

McCain countered in normally secure Republican territory.

That left a string of battleground states. All had voted for President Bush in his narrow victory in 2004, but Obama invested heavily in hopes of succeeding Bush as the nation's 44th president.

In addition to Ohio and Iowa, he led narrowly in Florida and by even less in Virginia and North Carolina. McCain owned a small advantage in Missouri and the two were virtually tied in Indiana.

Interviews with voters suggested that almost six in 10 women were backing Obama nationwide, and men leaned his way by a narrow margin. Just over half of whites supported McCain, giving him a slim advantage in a group that Bush carried overwhelmingly in 2004.

The results of The Associated Press survey were based on a preliminary partial sample of nearly 10,000 voters in Election Day polls and in telephone interviews over the past week for early voters.

Obama had 202 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House. McCain had 114.

The Democrat's states included Iowa, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland and New Jersey, as well as the District of Columbia.

McCain had Texas, Utah, Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Alabama, South Carolina, Louisiana, West Virginia and North Dakota.

The nationwide popular vote was remarkably close. Totals from 41 percent of all U.S. precincts showed Obama with 50.5 percent and McCain with 48.3.

Democrats celebrated Senate successes in Virginia, where former Gov. Mark Warner won an open seat, and in New Mexico, where Rep. Tom Udall did likewise. In New Hampshire, former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen defeated Republican Sen. John Sununu in a rematch of their 2002 race, and Sen. Elizabeth Dole fell to Democrat Kay Hagan in North Carolina.

That wasn't the end of the Democratic targets, though. Republicans all but conceded in advance they would lose a seat in Colorado, and perhaps elsewhere.

Democrats also looked for gains in the House. They found their first in Florida, defeating Rep. Tom Feeney, and another in Connecticut, where 22-year veteran Chris Shays was swept away by the Democratic tide.

The resurgent Democrats also elected a governor in one of the nation's traditional bellwether states when Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon won his race.

The White House was the main prize of the night on which 35 Senate seats and all 435 House seats were at stake. In both houses, Democrats hoped to pad their existing majorities, and Republicans braced for losses.

A dozen states elected governors, and ballots across the country were dotted with issues ranging from taxes to gay rights.

An estimated 187 million voters were registered, and in an indication of interest in the battle for the White House, 40 million or so had already voted as Election Day dawned.

At 47, with only four years in the Senate, he sought election as one of the youngest presidents, and one of the least experienced in national political affairs.

That wasn't what set the Illinois senator apart, though — neither from his rivals nor from the 43 men who had served as president since the nation's founding more than two centuries ago. A black man, he confronted a previously unbreakable barrier as he campaigned on twin themes of change and hope in uncertain times.

McCain, a prisoner of war during Vietnam, a generation older than his rival at 72, waited in Arizona to learn the outcome of the election. It was his second try for the White House, following his defeat in the battle for the GOP nomination in 2000.

A conservative, he stressed his maverick's streak. And a Republican, he did what he could to separate himself from an unpopular president.

For the most part, the two presidential candidates and their running mates, Republican Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska and Democratic Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, spent weeks campaigning in states that went for Bush four years ago. Virginia, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Iowa, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada drew most of their time. Pennsylvania also drew attention as McCain sought to invade traditionally Democratic turf.

McCain and Obama each won contested nominations — the Democrat outdistancing former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton — and promptly set out to claim the mantle of change.

"I am not George W. Bush," McCain said in one debate.

Obama retorted that he might as well be, telling audiences in state after state that the Republican had voted with the president 90 percent of the time across eight years of the Bush administration.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/election_rdp

I was the closest grandchild to my maternal grandmom out of her many grandchildren. I loved her.

Baby Jinx:
LOL! Parents of toddlers are so funny.

Okay, you say he rearranges your furniture. . . how so? Does he have a particular pattern or order he wants things? For instance, does he arrange by color or by size? What you should be worried about is what is he trying to express, You'll be surprised to know how geniuses started.

Please don't stiffle his creativity and genius ooh.

About the remote control, don't ask for it. . . just pick up something else, something YOU want him to have and pay attention to that thing. Gush over it, make a big deal over it. . . soon he's going to want that, then you make a production about not giving to him, even tell him to go play with the remote control, while you play with what you have. When you do give it to him, do it grudgingly. The goal is to make the remote control as unattractive to him as possible. Do this a few times and trust me, your remote control will be yours in no time.

Reverse Psychology Baby! You have no idea how many things I've gotten children to do using that method. The power is yours. . . use it wisely. 

Good Luck.

Great answer!

Boy shocked after man powers up campaign sign

Caught On Tape: Duo Stealing Obama Signs
Play Video Video: Across America FOX News Play Video Video: Caught on Tape: Obama campaign sign thief AP AP – Pedestrians walk along a sidewalk that is lined with dozens of election signs in front of a early voting … CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Shawn Turschak of Chapel Hill was tired of someone stealing McCain-Palin campaign signs from his yard. Turschak, with a degree in electrical engineering, hooked up a third sign to a power source for an electric pet fence Monday and also put up a surveillance camera.

The News & Observer of Raleigh reported that a 9-year-old boy with an Obama-Biden sign grabbed the McCain-Palin sign and got a jolt on Tuesday.

The boy's father, Andrew Noble, upset that his son had been shocked, showed up at Turschak's door. Soon an Orange County sheriff's deputy also showed up at the Turschak's home.

Noble said his son just wanted to see how the sign was put together. Turschak said the boy intended to swap out the signs.

Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass said he doesn't plan to file charges.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081030/ap_on_fe_st/odd_shocking_sign

Nimshi:
Are you sure?

JWs do not deny that Jesus Christ was resurrected.

At 1st Corinthians 15:42 - 44:

JWs hold that the resurrection was physical, but that the 'body' was different, being spiritual.
.

Yeah, they do deny the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. I am not making it up, that was one of the sole reason why I refused to join the group, otherwise, I would have fallen hook line and sinker to their deceit. The Holy Bible has clearly stated that the next coming of Jesus Christ will be visible, so the 1914 claim of His second coming by JW clearly contradicts the teachings of the Holy Bible.

P:S: I am not a perfect human being.

And what about the JW's claim that only 144,000 people will go to heaven? Is anybody familiar with this false doctrine of theirs?

Racism/Apartheid. Publicize these bigotry to the media house before we become the next south africa.

JW claim that Jesus Christ came in 1914, right, thereby contradicting this Biblical Verse:

"Behold, He cometh with the clouds; and every eye shall see Him, and they that pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth shall mourn over Him. Even so, Amen."

Revelation 1:7

PS: Stay away from JW. I almost joined that group, but their denial on the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ was a turn off.