26th
Im Reading walden/civil disobedience/poems by Thoreau , so i dont plan on touching a computer or xbox for a while
just thought i would let you know
-kevin
In addition to the immediate trigger of the verdict, many other factors were cited as reasons for the unrest, including extremely high unemployment among residents of South Central Los Angeles, which had been hit very hard by the nation-wide recession; a long-standing perception that the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) engaged in racial profiling and used excessive force, subsequently supported by the Christopher Commission, an investigation led by Warren Christopher (who two years later would become Secretary of State under president Bill Clinton); and specific anger over the sentence given to a Korean American shop-owner for the killing of Latasha Harlins, an African American girl. Additionally, in the time between the public revelation of King’s arrest and the trial verdict, the two L.A. street gangs, the Bloods and the Crips, agreed to a truce with each other, and began working together to make political demands of the police and the L.A. political establishment. On March 3, 1991, Rodney King was heavily beaten with clubs, tackled, and tasered by four L.A.P.D. officers.
“So what? Director Mel Gibson chooses the most unenlightened and mundane elements of Jesus’ life to show us. He chooses the least effective of the “Beatitudes”, the least inspiring talks to his disciples and the most ridiculous moments in Jesus’ life to show us. Did you know that Jesus invented the dinette set? According to Gibson he did. Perhaps the Jews were angry because now they had to sit in chairs at a high table rather than on the floor with a short table”
” “The Passion of the Christ” is not a good movie. Sure it looks great, but so did Janusz Kaminski’s cinematography in the Vanilla Ice film “Cools as Ice.” “
” Finally, the movie isn’t for anyone who likes movies.”
“To his credit, President Bush did respond quickly and he did send troops as soon as he found out Louisiana had oil.”
“Michael Brown, the director of FEMA, was nominated by President Bush in 2003 and plans to start the job any day now.”
A Hurricane Katrina evacuee walks up to a woman in a bar and says, “Want to go back to my place?”
”I’d love to,” the woman replies.
“So would I,” the man says.
Its a bird, it’s a plane… OH SHIT! It actually is a plane!
What is Alkheida’s favorite football team?
The New York Jets