A Little Celebration of our own

Well, we had Jordan this weekend and celebrated his birthday, his FIRST birthday, by taking him to get his picture taken. He did great and when I get those pictures back, You know, they'll be posted on here! On the right is some I took at home. He had a real nice Elmo cake. And enjoyed it immensely.



One year olds are busy. He wore me out! Always roaming and exploring, and trying to explore where little ones shouldn't go because it's not safe. Can't blame him for trying and when you tell him no-no, he usually stops and goes on to something else. Wouldn't you love to know what's going on in that little head of his? I would. Life through the eyes of an innocent child............

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It is Martin Luther King Jr's birthday observance today. Dean was off work, since his restaurant is in a bank. No schools, or government offices, no mail. Why is this a holiday? I don't get it. If the blacks need to celebrate someone doing great things for their race, shouldn't be Abraham Lincoln. Did he not stand up, fight a war, the Civil War, over slavery? Did he not write "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war. . .testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated. . . can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate. . .we cannot consecrate. . . we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us. . .that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. . . that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. . . that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. . . and that government of the people. . .by the people. . .for the people. . . shall not perish from the earth."



I believe that Dr. King was a great preacher and gave the blacks something to believe was their right to have, and alot of his work led to desegregation, but I think that his " I have Dream speech was as well written as Lincon's Gettysburg Address.And as he said, some 100 years later, the black people were not free as intended by Lincoln. It was 1965 and there was segregation. Seperate restrooms, entrances, water fountains, and even swimming pools.
"Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow. I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream." I wonder what he would think of the blacks today? Instead of ghettos and slums, there are now projects over run with blacks who are low income people. They deal drugs, live on welfare and shoot and kill each other. I don't think this was Dr. King's Dream. Not all blacks live like that. There are many successful blacks in our country. But the majority, in my opinion..........
What about George Washington Carver? Why don't we celebrate his birthday? Hmmmmm? Why do we put Martin Luther King, Jr. in the same "league" as Washington and Lincoln by celebrating his birthday? I am sorry, but I don't think he was as great as the afore mentioned Presidents........But maybe because he life was shortened......

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Well, Whisenhunt will not be the Steelers Head Coach. He has taken the Arizona job. So who will it be? Chan Gailey? Russ Grimm? Coach Rivera? I tend to lean toward Rivera. Chan Gailey is tooooo southern to be a Pittsburgher. Russ Grimm would be a hire from the inside and I don't think the Rooneys like to hire from within. I think it will be Rivera. We'll keep ya posted on that one!