No disrespect to my late mother but … she always gave me good advice. However, she also did not practice what she preached. Consequently, not only did I receive the benefits of being taught or guided by her to avoid many pitfalls in my life; but I also got to see what happened when she didn’t follow her own advice. Then I knew for sure that her words of wisdom were the right path for me to take.

LOL. I was attending the University of Miami and two of the students got into a similar discussion. The guy was adamant about how smoking was bad for you and the girl was insisting that one of her relatives smoked like two packs a day and was an old fart! I’ll never forget the guy’s response. He said: “The criteria is not longevity of life but quality of life.”

So I guess my question would be: “I’ve heard that smoking ages the skin and make you look older than you really are. So she’s 117. But how old does she look and what do her insides look like? Would they look any different if she didn’t smoke? Would she be enjoying an even better quality of life if she didn’t smoke?” LOL. 🙂

Most of the time older folks are sat in their was so it really don’t do any good to try and tell them what s right and what’s not. Half the time they don’t even like to hear our opinion. I normally just listen in steady of doing too much talking. Plus you always learn something from them anyways.
I have relatives like this. And boy are they say in their ways. Really enjoy listening to what they have to say cause it’s like a history lesson.
So no they shouldn’t even try and give the 117 year ladie advice about what not good for you and what is good for you. They lived longer and experience way more then us.

This is an amazing story. 117 years is not a joke she has really lived her years, we would not know what she does to keep herself going for that long but as you say she’s doing quite well for herself. Considering the century that she was born where she was born could have something to do with where she is at right now. You know back in the days out grannies knew how to take care of themselves especially when it came to food. They knew what worked for them and what didn’t. Unlike nowadays where we eat all sorts of junk food, then we smoke and drink things that have so many chemicals in them how then can we even start to compare ourselves with this old people. Most of them used to get good fresh from their farms. I remember watching a documentary on a woman who is 109 years of age, she looks well kept and can still strike a pose for a picture at that age. When she was asked what has kept her going all this while she says my glass of red wine everyday keeps me a float. And you wonder you, you are being told not to take wine because it’s not good for you. So what do you make it that really. Anyway we cannot match up to their game that’s the reality let them do what they know best. Kudos to that old lady. She got swag hahaha

So you’re saying the average Jamaican probably has the same mindset or attitude as the Native Americans. Who cares who is in charge? It changes nothing for us!

I just have one thing to say to the Jamaican people. There will always be greedy money grabbing power mongers out there. These kind of people don’t see any border lines. There are no countries. They think the world is theirs for the TAKING!

Voting or not voting isn’t the issue. If you don’t care what happens to you, nobody else will either. If you don’t mobilize yourself and stand and defend yourself, your world will be a giant ghetto! Or … you’ll live on a reservation and people will tell you that you have some autonomy in governing yourselves, but if push come to shove and they want to take your land … THEY’LL TAKE IT!! That’s the real world. It don’t just happen in Jamaica.

It’s not about politics. It’s about your survival versus greed and power. Politics is just a system that’s conveniently useful to the TAKERS. If you – Mr. or Ms. Average Jamaican – don’t have a plan, YOU CAN’T TAKE IT BACK! If the political system don’t work for you, use something that does!

I am somewhat familiar with the political and historical situation in Jamaica. My dad was from The Bahamas and had Jamaican friends. My husband also is from The Bahamas and had Jamaican friends. Two generations and they – my dad and my husband – were both in tune with the politics of their countries. All I’m saying is you can’t lift up an apathetic person much less a large group of apathetic people. So somebody needs to inspire them or they need to motivate themselves. Otherwise, life will stand still for them for as long as they live. Do I sound like I’m putting down Jamaica or does it sound like what I’m saying applies to any human being on the planet no matter where they live?

In the 1970s Michael Manley inspired. He put forth a great deal of social legislation, more than before or after. We believed in him. When he retired there was an in house election which was crooked, and PJ Patterson became leader. We put a brave face on it, but he couldn’t inspire. By the time Portia Simpson took over she was a shell of who she had been. Golding replaced Seaga and he is a thoroughly despicable man who resigned, was replaced by Andrew Holness who at first was so obnoxious that he lost, then he developed some ability to act as if he cared about the people and was elected.

There was a 43% turn out for the General…. the lowest in history. At local there was a 30%, the lowest in history.

The entire leadership of the PNP has to change and it must adopt ideas and principles.

I doubt there will be any improvement. As is usually with 4th World nations, the corruption takes over and people go into politics to get money and power, not to do anything positive for anyone.

Right now, Jamaica in 2016 is in worse condition that it was under the British, then it was when Edward Seaga became PM in 1980. Nothing works. There are very few local entreprenuers. I had to search to find a store which sold Usain Bolt tee shirts that were NOT made in China, but made here.

Fake news is nothing new. Neither are hoaxes. However, the Internet makes these kinds of reports much easier to circulate. Did they influence the election results? Seriously? I seriously doubt it!!

I know many people think the American voters are stupid. But I don’t share their point of view. When it comes to choosing our presidents as you can tell by this last election and any of the elections before TRUMP vs CLINTON … people vote according to matters of their heart, i.e. what’s important to them.

(Although, with this last election, I sometimes wonder if the decision may have been made by a flip of the coin. Heads = Hillary. Tails = Trump. Sorry. We didn’t have really great choices! But those were the two who hung in there all the way!)

Sure! A bogus news report may make people stop and think … Hmmm? True or false? But in the end, when that lever is pulled to cast a vote … they’re thinking of whether or not the candidate they vote for is going to make life better for them.

It takes a lot more than a fake news report for a person to not be able to recognize what their own “priorities” are.

For the record, folks who call Facebook Fakebook are probably similar to the same people who called our Central Intelligence Agency, the Central Stupidity Agency. Eh! It sounds catchy!

The fact is, that kids in Macedonia created a lot of propaganda and like the Ulsterman Report, could not have stood up to any scrutiny, but few scrutinised.

The Internet has made this kind of activity more common and more people are taken in.

Take particular ‘heath products’ which have been completely exposed. Yet, on the Internet, you can find site after site selling these ‘health products’.

Scams are schemes to con you out of your money. They can arrive by post, phone call, text message or email, or from someone coming to your home.

It’s very distressing to be caught out by a scam. But it’s important to report it to try and stop the scammer striking again

This page tells you what you can do if you’ve been a victim of a scam and who you can report it to.

f you’ve lost money because of a scam report it to Action Fraud, the national fraud reporting centre.

You can report the scam through online or by phone.

You’ll need to provide as much information as possible, for example any names or other information about the scammer, dates and details about how the money has been lost or how you were threatened.

If you’ve been threatened with physical violence on your doorstep, you can report this to the police by calling 101.

Oh!!If Hillary had won these the Macedonian propaganda would not have been there…What we are thinking about u.s voters is that they not only think in terms of their National but the Relationship of their country with the neighboring countries and other nations of the world.
I have been campaigning for Mr. Donald as I have seen something conspicuous in his statements and remarks which are very safe for India as well as to the other Nations of the world. It is not only the U.S citizen who participated and voted in the U.S elections the Nations of the world have set for themselves some benefits, losses, advantages, and disadvantages in taking a side
How can the U.S voters go and vote for Clinton who was time and again pleading guilty of her emails scandal whenever it was made a point of attack.
The facebook propaganda can not be a Macedonian propaganda and even then the websites so created therein might have earned something through Adsense account, not from the treasury of their own Nations.
We can not even say that the reports and website are scams. That phase has gone and ended with a positive result in favor of Mr. Donald.
Let us view this with a positive perspective.

Fake news work all over the world just make human beings minds negative from all respects and it is launched from the opposite part with a solid plan. they want to draw in American visitors through Facebook and make money off of sales of display ads on their bootleg politics sites. “In Macedonia the economy is very weak and teenagers are not allowed to work, so we need to find creative ways to make some money,

The business model is not particularly different from any mainstream publisher’s social-media strategy in an era where more people look at Facebook than all news outlets combined: Build a Facebook page, gather a large following, and try to draw that audience off of Facebook and onto your site, where you’re serving the ads off of which you draw revenue. If you’re a mainstream publisher,

it’s a frustrating model, since the margins are extremely thin — the aggregate cost of enticing a given reader is, at best, only slightly less than the ad revenue they generate, and is often more.

This Facebook-news arbitrage scheme is booming this election season, thanks to this confluence of Facebook (and its ability to drive an audience), Google (and its ability to seamlessly monetize any website), and this particular election (and its ability to fill people with passionate, spitting rage).

Thanks to our new media landscape, hoaxes, exaggerations, and outright lies aren’t just able to propagate but are actually incentivized. And it’s not clear that there’s an easy way to fix it.

LOL. LOL. Hilarious! That was a great story. You kept my attention from start to finish! I was visualizing everything while I was reading and also thinking ‘Sounds like my house’. LOL. LOL. 🙂

In Greek mythology Thetis dipped her son Achilles in the mythical River Styx. Anyone who was immersed in the river became invulnerable. However Thetis held Achilles by his heel. Since her hand covered this part of his body the water did not touch it and so it remained vulnerable. Achilles was eventually killed when Paris of Troy fired an arrow at him and it hit his heel.

A bakers dozen means thirteen. This old saying is said to come from the days when bakers were severely punished for baking underweight loaves. Some added a loaf to a batch of a dozen to be above suspicion.

On a ship the beams are horizontal timbers that stretch across the ship and support the decks. If you are on your beam-ends your ship is leaning at a dangerous angle. In other words you are in a precarious situation.

This old saying means to grin and bear a painful situation. It comes from the days before anesthetics. A soldier about to undergo an operation was given a bullet to bite.

Anchor cable was wrapped around posts called bitts. The last piece of cable was called the bitter end. If you let out the cable to the bitter end there was nothing else you could do, you had reached the end of your resources.

Cadfael (Mystery TV Series 1994–1996)

I always struggled with writer’s block, especially when I was writing stories for projects. Such a helpful post!

Living in different world is easy if we all of us have a clear conscious but we have make our minds narrow due to which people are living with too much difficulties all over the wold and we must keep in mind that we all of is for each other on earth. We must live peacefully.

People from ethnic minorities still face “entrenched” race inequality across many strands of modern life in Britain, according to the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

A sweeping review examining areas including education, employment, housing, pay, health and criminal justice painted an “alarming picture
The commission, which carried out an analysis of existing evidence, found Black people in England are more than three times more likely to be a victim of homicide than those who are white.

Unemployment rates were “significantly higher” for ethnic minorities and ethnic minority people were more likely to live in poverty than white people.

Ethnic minorities are still “hugely under-represented” in positions of power – such as judges and police chiefs. Poorer white communities also face “continuing disadvantage

I think that ‘Living in a different world: A joint review of disability hate crime’ details the findings of a joint inspection by HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate, HMIC and HM Inspectorate of Probation. Inspectors wanted to find out how the police, CPS and probation trusts deal with crimes against disabled people.

This involved reviewing how the three agencies work and revealed problems in the detection and recording of crimes targeted against people because of their disability.

I recall writing an article, being attacked because the reader thought I was writing from America. You find most Americans assume everyone lives in America. When you say no… it’s like you don’t know what you are talking about.

If you realise a site is made up of people from all over the world you can read their items and learn. If you think everyone lives the same life as you do, then you will miss all the interesting facts.

When one is in America, say a super market and certain things happen… and you write about it and someone immediately attacks and denies… as if it’s not possible.

Also what I found…

I had written an item about something and mentioned Keisha was at the front desk. A black American woman instantly attacked me saying that Black women wouldn’t be at the front desk of a 5 Star Hotel.

Duh

I think that racism means that Belief in the superiority of one race over another; discrimination against an individual or group of people, based on racial background, usually colour.

Main causes of racism
Children get prejudice from their parents and peer groups. Racism is learned. We are not born with it.
Ignorance and Fear: People fear things they do not know much about, e.g. coming into contact with people who have different customs, language or appearance, they might express their anxiety through racism.

Bullying: People make themselves feel better by picking on a person or group they feel are weaker than them. Sometimes, we all want to feel we belong to an “in group” and “hate” those not in “our group”.
Poverty and unemployment: Racism can form in areas of poverty or unemployment. People look for someone to blame: “Pakistanis are buying our corner shops, foreigners scrounge our benefits!”

minorities are often given poorer housing, inferior education, not given a job or promotion. Many cities have ‘ghettoes’ where the majority of residents are ethnic minorities with poor living conditions and high unemployment. Recently the police was found to be guilty of institutional racism.

The Stephen Lawrence case saw five white youths get away with the murder of a black boy because of the way the police handled the case. Other countries have seen the worst sort of racial violence, with millions of people killed in genocide (an attempt to wipe out a whole race of people), particularly in Rwanda and Bosnia but also in other racially-motivated disputes around the world.

The problem is when people don’t see their prejudice.

WOW! I am amazed at your praise of this man and I have a totally different point of view. I was not impressed with his visionary leadership at all and didn’t think he was all that extraordinary. That’s not to say he did not do anything good FOR THE PEOPLE! He did some good thing. But on his report card for an overall grade he gets a “D” in my book. Yep. He just barely passed.

I will say one thing though. When it came to building a good relationship with Cuba, America dropped the ball. Kennedy and/or his foreign policy advisors or both missed a golden opportunity. The island of Cuba is a pearl in the Caribbean! We could have had a mutually beneficial relationship and I don’t blame Castro that it did not work out. America was the bigger country and had a significant place on the world stage. America should have stepped up to the plate and came up with a way to make the relationship work!

Nevertheless, Obama tried to make a change for the better. Let’s hope the President Elect follows through and does make things better. I went to school with Cubans and there is a lot the people and culture have to offer. I don’t see any reason why the two countries can’t get along. The USA screwed up 50 years ago. We should try again and get it right time time!

good article about cuban hero..

HOMELAND
Was starting to get into it and just as quickly got annoyed with it. Don’t know whatever happened because it was on cable TV and we stopped subscribing to cable.

THE FALL
Never heard of it! (O.o)

QUANTICO
Very disappointing show. The flashbacks are super annoying! My husband only watches it because he like Priyanka Chopra.

With Homeland, I forced myself to watch it… as soon as Brody was out… so was I. The Fall is British. It’s the tracking of a serial killer. The Police Officer is as horrible as he is so I stopped watching. Priya is nice to look at, but if I watch I’ll hate her.

Indeed you selected the right option. We must learn to be happy and enjoy every incident of life. It is not so difficult but requires some sort of practice. We must be perfect in this art that is going to change our life.

Being positive with things coming in our life is a key to make us happy.
To be happy is not difficult, and yes it is. Only we can not feel happiness if we always look into those problems. We must deal with struggles positively, and we’ll feel true happiness.

I do too. I stay away from miserable people or those who see the worst.