This was the old house that me, Guy, and Ruben lived in back in our Baylor days from 1999 to 2000. There were a lot of memories made here. Lindsay, Bill, and I stopped by here on our way up to Dallas to pick up some cars from an auction that we won the week prior. I wanted them to see this ugly and memorable place from my past and I was suprised to find that it was left open for us to explore. I can’t believe how small our rooms were — but, dang, the yard was huge — hey guys, do you remember when we cut that big tree in the back and the fire we had?
“Give a man to fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him to fish and he will eat for life.”
This is my plan for handling the homeless in this country; I would like your serious thoughts and consideration.
This is an idea I am trying to turn into a reality.
It will happen . . .
As for now it’s still in its conceptual development phase.
This is an active work in progress, here’s the current working plan:
(3 year program)
Provide
free education in a series of levels to the homeless:
1. Ethics and life decision skills - non religious
2. Provided spiritual education (optional)
3. Provide education in basics skills:
(phase 1) -reading, writing, math, basic science
(phase 2) -art appreciation, music, philosophy
4. Provide testing to develop functional skill set
5. Technical education and development.
Financial and housing incentives provided in return for development scale . . . Or grades.
All residents of this program must stay in mandatory dormitories in program.
Program provided by a first come first serve basis, with an allowance made for 1 formal entry a month.
Freedom limited in accordance with progress in courses.
Those in dorms required to provide state base work from 6AM to 2PM . . .
Rewards of freedom for outstanding progress.
If citizens do not progress, they will be assigned under the direct care of a mentor
(a resident of the program) who will receive additional freedom for his student’s progress . . . Brothers helping brothers and sisters helping sisters.
There will be an assignment of levels given; with each level more freedom is allowed.
These mini communities will be set throughout the city and be a refuge to only those who agree to it’s tenants.
Healthcare is given, food is provided, but at a cost paid by labor and progress in classes and in community involvement.
Exercise and personal care will be taught and promoted with freedom. . . Cleanliness, grooming, and body fat will be measured and graded.
These centers will be run by a series of prominent community members and companies, who are offered substantial tax relief in exchange and with each center’s progress graded they will receive additional tax and financial incentives.
The highest performing center will be awarded a 100% tax waiver to its sponsor.
University professors, teachers, business professionals, religious leaders, and community leaders will be offered tax incentives in exchange for their services and awarded additional financial rewards for each student’s progress.
For hiring graduates of this program, businesses will be given additional tax incentives.
Graduates may continue education in ethics, religion, math, philosophy and receive additional financial rewards for monthly testing progress.
How do you feel how this program will affect the economy and local communities?
What drawbacks will be encountered?
How can this program be improved?
Please provide your feedback . ..together we can make a difference today.
KID WARNING! THERE’S A SWEAR WORD AT THE END.
Christopher Walken tells the tale of Romeo and Juliet, and how cupid (John Madden) was actually responsible for the tragedy that befell them. Starring Nicholas Cage as Romeo and Natalie Portman as Juliet.From BlameSociety.net
Look for new Celebrity Bric-a-brac Theatre episodes on atomfilms.com, starting in April/May.
This is one of my favorite passages from C.S.Lewis from his book The Four Loves:
There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.I believe that the most lawless and inordinate loves are less contrary to God’s will than a self-invited and self-protective lovelessness…We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as a way in which they should break, so be it.
What I know about love and believe about love and giving ones heart began in this.
In short, to love is to risk and we will feel pain when we love . . . but the alternate of not letting go and feeling free to love is a worse place to be.
In the end, above all else, feel free to love and love without question.
Only then, will we experience true love . . . swing for the fences kiddos, we’ve got a lot of life left ahead of us!
I decided to make this graphic to share with a friend, then I decided to share it with all of you.
(just click on the image below to enlarge and feel free to save this, it’s my gift to all of you)
meets on the morning radio show Opie & Anthony talking about making a blockbuster movie on only 25 million dollars (most of which went to special effects). Also, it seems not even they knew what was going on even while they were shooting the film and most of the scrip was ad-libed.
I went to go see Cloverfiled last night and I saw this trailer and I am
hooked.
You have me at “Iron Man” Mr. Favreau — I loved the tings you’ve graced so far
– “Swingers“
and “Elf“
(GENIUS!).
Now onto
Iron Man — he’s like
Batman, but far cooler, metal-ier, and he can fly . . . Ok, actually, Batman
is sort of lame next to Iron Man. (But I still love you Batman, don’t cry.)
Look, they’re both billionaires both have cool gadgets, but Iron Man is more
flawed. He’s actually a dying man in a suit. He’s weak, he’s an alcoholic, he’s
a little bit more of assh*le — he’s more real,
but then he’s not.
There is a better human element, with more flaws to him.
Bruce Wayne has a trouble psyche due to his shattered past.
Tony Stark (catch the “iron”y in the last name) has just so much more
against him– but here he is, frail but powerful.
He’s more than a modern Achilles, his weakness is his own health (at least in
the comic). I hope they bring this to the movie and I feel that they will, it
makes for a much better screen play.
Ok, this is just speculation, but in the battle of Batman vs. Iron Man this
summer, Iron Man will trump the “Caped Crusader” with a far a more developed
character, better story line, and bada** gizmos galore.
This is also one reason Marvel Comic has seen such incredible growth in the
past decade. Stan Lee has really done an incredible job at making heroes that
are more believable and they are all flawed with human error.
Superman sucks, he’s cool because he’s unstoppable, but then Kryptonite? What
they hell is that. I’ve never fallen to that who has? But Marvel characters have
pain, deep pain, loss, addictions, and they have a dark side that they battle
with in — this is human.
Anyhow, that aside Iron Man must be seen . . . Oh,and the video game looks
epic.
So I Googled around a little and I found some pics of the monster, if any of you wondering what it looks like.
I can’t confirm anything, because I haven’t seen the flick yet.
Anyhow, here you go:
NOTE: These first four shots are what have been passed around as pics of the Cloverfield monster, the last (fifth) pic is the closest representation that is in the movie.
THE ACTUAL MONSTER LOOKS LIKE THIS ONE (below):
THE VIDEO OF THE CLOVERFIELD MONSTER.
Last 3 secs in better quality and slow motion:
SLOW MOTION FOOTAGE:
This is a promo video the was leaked . . . it’s a fake news cast that is a
prelude to the Monster’s appearance in New York City:
This is a clip that has had some shot of the monster edited out, except at
the end when he/she is just a hundred yards from the escape chopper:
Here’s a clip of our gang trying to rescue Beth from her collapsed apartment:
