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About to get my body fluid balance back and when I do so, I should be back to normal as far as writing goes. The possum story is finished in my mind and I have to get it to run down my arms and through my fingertips into the PC.
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Another subsidized and legal murder is about to take place in Georgia. There are serious doubts about the convict’s guilt, but the God fearing people of that state have decided to kill Troy Davis anyway just in case he is a murderer; his execution is due to take place tomorrow. Wouldn’t it be nice if the United States were to take its place alongside the other civilized nations of the world by outlawing capital punishment? It would be a way to begin regaining some of the international respect we have lost over the past decade.
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I just saw Chicken Little running down the road hollering the sky will fall come Friday! Hell, why not? Everything else has happened.
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The$10 million per year salary of the C.E.O. of Bank of America has convinced him that the company needs to fire 3,000 every day people. Makes my milk curdle!
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I’ve been watching via Netflix the very first episodes (1975) of NBC’s Saturday Night which later was renamed Saturday Night Live (SNL). I watched the show fairly often back in its early days, at least until most of the original players moved on to bigger and better things. The cast was made up of young men and women whom were pretty well just breaking into big-time show business. The original group had a mix of men and women, but only one black person, Garrett Morris. In the late 60′s through most of the 70′s, a lot of TV shows had a “token” negro mainly because it was “the thing to do” because of the Civil Rights movement, and because producers and studios were beginning to realize there was a huge audience of black consumers whom were becoming more affluent and able to buy sponsor’s products. Yep, many of the promos also had a token black person onscreen. I always figured Morris was SNL’s token negro.
The old shows got me to thinking about then and now, and how African-Americans are presented on modern TV. Of course, much has changed and a black actor no longer has to be a Fred Sanford to be appreciated by most people. Much to do yet.
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I wonder if Barack Obama considers himself as a token black president?
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Congratulations to Cyrus and Megashot.net; they finally were able to get the new servers online and everything seems much faster and snappier.
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Back to the eye doctor for me tomorrow; more dilating to bear through.
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Have a Tuesday!
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