You might wonder that it is an odd title for a blog entry however I felt it was appropriate. Let me explain. Last week, my daughter was playing with cell phone and she accidentally dropped into the toilet. The phone was pretty much fried after that. I could not use it. And so I went to see my friend Bobby Cherian, who owns a Verizon cell phone store, in Damascus, MD. After twenty minutes of looking around, I found the cell phone I liked. It is Verizon's LG enV which has a keyboard with a descent screen. I, now, use the cell phone to call my friends, use the internet to check my email on Yahoo! and Gmail, and play Madden Football 08. Yes, Madden Football which is not bad for a cell phone. I paid a minimal amount to get the game. I am enjoying my new gadget and therefore it was blessing from the toilet. However I did have to add 2 more years to my Verizon contract. Here is a YouTube video which gives more information about the LG enV
Reflecting on my high school education, I recognize certain classes have had a significant impact on me from a personal and professional standpoint. One of the classes I didn't enjoy much while taking it has made a considerable impact on me as a leader. Nope. It wasn't biology, physics, English, geography, or any other standard high school. It was a course called History of Oklahoma. Yup! In the early 1990s, the state of Oklahoma required students to take and pass a class about Oklahoma history to earn their high school diplomas. I spent my ninth and tenth grades in Oklahoma and then completed my eleventh and twelfth grades in Kansas. In the Spring of 1991, I took History of Oklahoma, which was taught by Mr. Jones. Mr. Jones was a US Air Force pilot who flew sorties during the Vietnam War. A couple of times, he had slide shows with pics of him and his buddies in the military. Mr. Jones' classroom was also quite memorable ...
Today I found out on facebook that one of the guys I used to ride the bus with in India passed away a few years ago. He was a Kenya n and he and I used to ride in the back of the school bus. His name was Leonard but he used to go by the name Lenny. The disturbing part about his death is how he did died. He died in October, 2002 at Springfield, Missouri . According to BlackPressUSA.com , Lenny was found dangling from a microwave tower. The local police stated Lenny killed himself but the evidence shows that he could have been lynched. Springfield, Missouri was known to have racial problems but it hits a bit closer when someone you knew could have been lynched. Leonard Gakinya (Lenny), it was a pleasure knowing you.
After reading the article, Presidential experts rank Biden 14th among presidents in survey, Trump comes in las t by Siock (2024), I was curious about the details of the survey. According to the Official Results of the 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey (Rottinghaus & Vaughn, 2024), the top ten US Presidents are: Abraham Lincoln Franklin Delano Roosevelt George Washington Theodore Roosevelt Thomas Jefferson Harry Truman Barack Obama Dwight David Eisenhower Lyndon Baines Johnson John Fitzgerald Kennedy Donald Trump is listed as the worst president. Overall, I disagree with the list because I don't envision Theodore Roosevelt, Obama, or Kennedy being the top ten presidents. Lincoln, FDR, Washington, Truman, Eisenhower, LBJ, Monroe , and Jackson scored higher in my book because they led the US during war times. What did Obama do? The jury is still out there for his achievements. I'm not sure why Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize during the...
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