Another interesting article from the blog of Guyana-born Rosaliene Bacchus, one of our contributors. Rosaliene lived in Fortaleza, Ceará Brazil for a number of years before moving to the USA.
“My son found my gun. He was only 8 years.” – Protect your family. Disarm-yourself.
National Disarmament Campaign – Brazil
Source: Brazil’s Ministry of Justice Blog
I should have known better. On local and national TV and in the local newspapers, reports abound of people shot to death during arguments between motorists on the streets, in bars, and disputes between neighbors.
I was watching a popular eight o’clock novella (soap opera) when a neighbor arrived in the courtyard below our third-floor apartment. Music blasted from his car. Our TV appeared mute. After a stressful day at work, I could not handle such inconsiderate behavior and, in anger, stormed down the stairs to ask him to lower the volume. I should have exercised self-restraint.
There were two men standing behind the vehicle when I approached. Before I could say anything, one of the men went inside the ground-floor apartment and…
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Technology: This is soooo very true!!! – funny
Technology: This is soooo very true!!!
A good laugh for people in the over 50 group !!!
When I bought my Blackberry some years ago, I thought about the 30-year business I ran with 1800 employees, all without a cell phone that plays music, takes videos, pictures and communicates with Facebook and Twitter. I signed up under duress for Twitter and Facebook so my seven kids, their spouses, 13 grandkids and 2 great grand kids could communicate with me in the modern way. I figured I could handle something as simple as Twitter with only 140 characters of space.
That was before one of my grandkids hooked me up for Tweeter, Tweetree, Twhirl, Twitterfon, Tweetie and Twittererific Tweetdeck, Twitpix and something that sends every message to my cell phone and every other program within the texting world. Continue reading →
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