Is Our New National Nightmare Over?
Are We Repeating History... Again?
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by Joe B. I am suppose to be 'chillin with family and friends. Maybe watching sports, a strip club, or in the company of that special woman or women in a star-studded gathering waiting to ring in 2002. Once in a while I leave "The City" on special occasions such as these. I'm in POOR Magazine's office Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2001, only because I need to because coming back on the 27th the day of taping POOR's Radio show anything can happen and I need the extra day to read, feel, and hear the script and see where changes were made, cuts because of time, sudden last second add-ins all are important as bumper music. Between, Dee, Tiny, guests, and sometimes myself speaking our lines there are lots of frustrations, minor irritations, last minute fumbling, or cancellations... its a wonder to me how most people do this weekly and not just monthly as we do - I respect those unseen though familiar voices floating about and listened to by us their fickle public. OK, after this warm-up I do have questions to ask. This has been a frightening, exciting, dangerous, deadly, and yet joyous time. BetweenINDECISION 2000, aptly titled by "The Daily Show" Floridian sideshow with hanging, floating, wet, wrongly punched, dented-perforated though still intact Chad's. The real economy spun rapidly from recession to depression then at a little after 6 am. on New York's the September 11, 2001 World Twin Tower Suicide Tragedy when everything changed. Imagine China saying "Never wake a sleeping giant. "I always though China was the giant. Japan seemed to collectively say And it was our own planes highjacked with innocents aboard, becoming a flying bomb! All of a sudden all American's are in shock but a few millions who have warned of such things happening were justified but also now suspects. I almost missed the whole thing doing my regular work but when it hit me I wrote my "What The Fuck Were They Thinking?" Cloned cows, Stem Cells, Dark Matter, Physicists concur? Time Travel a plausible and not as impossible as one believed, a multi millionaire with Russian not American help takes a 20 million dollar tourist's guide to the International Space Station and returns safely home, more embryo's created but stopped before they become embryo's, Child, Keone Penn is 15, but looks younger suffers from sickle cell anemia is given a donated an infants umbilical cord blood. Sickle cell stunted his growth - he’s just 4 feet, 9 inches, tall and restricted what he could do. After a few weeks, something extraordinary happened-the stem cells changed his entire blood system from type O to type B. The umbilical cord cell’s donor, he took on their blood type. The young teen is Type O the cord blood Type B. The teen's blood is now Type B and he no longer has sickle the cell disease. A year later, doctors declared that the sickle Keone’s body had disappeared. Today, he is considered cured. A two wheeled called "It", faster chips, and many more astounding things than what I've mentioned. These old/new and other miracles of science and technology ignored or are less known because of Sept. 11th and events following it. I only gleaned a few items as examples of continued accelerate change this world and we are going through. Well, I hope this war ends and America is better for its suffering in 2002. I've said enough, more eloquent pendants will weigh in and review this incredible year that was. Happy New Year To All, May next year be better. Bye... Please donate what can to Joe at 255 9th St. For Joe only my snail CA 94102 My House Care prices range from: E-mail is quicker but Snail-m is more personable. |