When Kenny Chesney comes to town, rest assured there will be party. At Pittsburg's Heinz Field, literal boatloads of fans arrive days before the performance, tying up along the river posing a potential hazard. Meantime, on land, parking is $40 a car and police abound. This does not deter over-the-top behavior who party long and hard for many hours before the show. Garbage and human waste abound.
The recent show in Pittsburgh was notable. Of 50,000 fans, about 75 people were arrested and 45 required medical attention
(Thanks to http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/editorials/pittsburgh-pigsty-kenny-chesney-fans-should-clean-up-their-act-693146/)
(from http://factcheck.org/2013/06/jeb-bush-gets-f-on-school-spending/)
Jeb Bush has repeatedly — and falsely — claimed that the United States spends “more per student than any country in the world.” Luxembourg, Norway and Switzerland all spend more than the U.S. on elementary and secondary education.
The former Florida governor most recently made this claim at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s annual Road to Majority Conference, held on June 14 in Washington, D.C. At the conference, Bush spoke about the need to create sustainable economic growth and cited education (at the 15:23 mark) as the “greatest challenge our country faces.”
Bush, June 14: To me the greatest challenge our country faces is that 40 percent of our kids — truly, truly, honestly — 40 percent of our kids are college or career ready. And we spend more per student than any country in the world. That is not acceptable. Too many young people now have shattered dreams because they don’t have the skills to be successful.
Bush made a similar claim in an earlier interview with Newsmax TV (about 19 minutes into the video):
Bush, March 31: We have a third of our kids that don’t make it through the system, even though we spend more per student than any country in the world. And a lot of students could be doing college-level work by the time they’ve graduated from high school but in effect they’re held back because we have this adult-centered homogenized learning model.
We asked Bush spokeswoman Jaryn Emhof for information that would support the governor’s claim that the U.S. has the highest per-student expenditure rate. But the information she provided contradicted his claim.
“I think this is absolutely crazy. Why would you want to
increase the cost of energy and kill more American jobs at a time when
the American people are still asking where are the jobs? Clear enough?”
If you guessed John Boehner, 61st and current Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, member of the Republican Party, U.S. Representative from Ohio's 8th congressional district, government crybaby and leader of all job makers, who by the way, don't really make many jobs, you are correct.
That what OHO is doing. . . (give a listen to the latest take of 'Blood Brother')
I'll be your Blood Brother
By your side through thick and thin
I'll be your Blood Brother
Just as long as I don't have to bloody
My hands hands
Bar rooms sure have a funny way
Of bringing loyalty out in a man
Buy a drink and tell a joke
And buddy you've got you a friend
But keep a good eye upon that friend
Because he really doesn't give two hoots
And don't say anything about his Mom
His girlfriend or his army boots
I'll be your Blood Brother
By your side through thick and thin
I'll
be your Blood Brother
Just as long as I don't have to bloody
My
hands hands
Walked into an auto-mo-showroom
I need some wheels but got no money to spend
When a guy with an ugly tie
Walks out and acts like he's my long-lost friend
I said hey Buddy I've a purpose here
And if you please I will accomplish my goal
So don't you slap me on the back again
Cause if you do I might just lose my control
I'll be your Blood Brother
By your side through thick and thin
I'll
be your Blood Brother
Just as long as I don't have to bloody
My
hands hands
So please be careful when you meet someone
Who'll make a promise at the drop of a hat
And don't provide them with encouragement
You will regret the day you offered him that
Cause everybody needs some empathy
But just how willing
And how far will they go
To really help you when the chips are down
Can they be trusted half as far as you throw them
I'll be your Blood Brother
By your side through thick and thin
I'll
be your Blood Brother
Just as long as I don't have to bloody
My
hands hands
(from http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/mistakes)
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein
“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
― Salvador DalÃ
“Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
“It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care
“It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Alma Mater
“We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.”
― Alison Croggon
“Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.”
― Brandon Mull, Fablehaven
“I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Under The Deodars
Gadolfini! Dead. At 51. Only fifty ONE!! (Yesterday's news- maybe. But the loss of a human life that will require some time and some grieving for many family members.)
Is this part of a plan by some almighty Santa on a golden throne in the sky? I think NOT! Any supreme being that would plan such a thing would be an arbitrary, hateful being.
Does such tragedy make us stronger? Maybe. That is up to us. But a PLAN!!?? C'MON!!!!
Every time I learn of such a tragedy, it becomes even clearer to me that every waking moment must be savored and every opportunity for joy, good, beauty and humanity must be taken. Our time here is short and no one knows what follows.
