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~J~ is in Wonderland
Mar 4 2010, 07:47 PM
Speaking of watermelon........ every Sunday during the summer,when we went to grandma's house after church.She would sometimes cook, fried chicken, real mashed potato's, brown gravy, corn on the cob,collard or turnip greens and homemade biscuits to sop the gravy. Or she would fix a huge pot of chicken and dumpling.

After the table was cleaned and everything put away all the grandkids were waiting for watermelon. My dad- an only child,would get out the knife and brown paper bags to lay the watermelon on. These were the long seeded watermelons bought off the back of a pick up truck. ( we always has 2 melons)

Anyhoo, my dad would cut the two melon's into long slices.Us kids sat at the kitchen table slurping the watermelon,seeds and all.My grandma made us put a towel down the front of us, so we wouldn't get the juice on our Sunday clothes. When we got through,my brother would clean out the others rind. He would eat down to the green part.

If we stayed at grandma's long enough, my grandpa would bring out the crank ice cream maker. It was always a tiff over what kind of ice cream it was going to be. It was either, banana, peach,or vanilla.
Then us kids would argue over- who's turn it was to set on top off the ice cream maker while grandpa cranked it.

Sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread with memories. Tomorrow would have been my father's birthday and this month is one year since he went over the rainbow .....and I still miss him so much. :cryi:


Carry on....

We have to be relatives. Your memories brought tears to my eyes. I remember my dad thumping the melon to determine the ripest one. I never could figure out how that worked but oh my did it taste good. The the homemade ice cream with the kids taking turns turning the churn and that luscious creaminess. Just too good for words. You are right, Mason. No one is going to hijack my memories.
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Folks, we done been suckered....


Somebody already mentioned that...
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~J~ is in Wonderland
Mar 4 2010, 07:47 PM
Speaking of watermelon........ every Sunday during the summer,when we went to grandma's house after church.She would sometimes cook, fried chicken, real mashed potato's, brown gravy, corn on the cob,collard or turnip greens and homemade biscuits to sop the gravy. Or she would fix a huge pot of chicken and dumpling.

After the table was cleaned and everything put away all the grandkids were waiting for watermelon. My dad- an only child,would get out the knife and brown paper bags to lay the watermelon on. These were the long seeded watermelons bought off the back of a pick up truck. ( we always has 2 melons)

Anyhoo, my dad would cut the two melon's into long slices.Us kids sat at the kitchen table slurping the watermelon,seeds and all.My grandma made us put a towel down the front of us, so we wouldn't get the juice on our Sunday clothes. When we got through,my brother would clean out the others rind. He would eat down to the green part.

If we stayed at grandma's long enough, my grandpa would bring out the crank ice cream maker. It was always a tiff over what kind of ice cream it was going to be. It was either, banana, peach,or vanilla.
Then us kids would argue over- who's turn it was to set on top off the ice cream maker while grandpa cranked it.

Sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread with memories. Tomorrow would have been my father's birthday and this month is one year since he went over the rainbow .....and I still miss him so much. :cryi:


Carry on....

Priceless Memories.

Who wouldn't want to be remembered so fondly and vividly?

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I loved spitting the seeds at my sister. roflmao. Good thing I was only about 7 when that happened. Learned quickly not to spit watermelon seeds at my sister. lol lol
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Press Release
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Judy Piercey, 858-534-6128 or jpiercey@ucsd.edu
Jeff Gattas, 858-822-6914, or jgattas@ucsd.edu

March 4, 2010

UC San Diego and Black Student Union Sign Agreement, Announce Common Goals
Students and administration agree on actions to create a campus that respects differences and ensures diversity

The University of California, San Diego reports success in defining common goals at today’s meeting between senior administrators, faculty and students, led by Black Student Union co-chairs David Ritcherson and Fnann Keflezighi to address diversity issues to improve the campus climate. The adopted recommendations aim to move the university past hurtful incidents and improve the campus climate by enhancing diversity on the campus, in the curriculum and throughout the UC San Diego community.

“We’re pleased to see such a great exchange of ideas today. We now have a signed agreement to move forward,” said UC San Diego Chancellor Marye Anne Fox. “We applaud our student leaders, the campus and the San Diego community for their engagement, passion and leadership on finding solutions to these issues. Although there is much work ahead of us, our ongoing partnership will build a healthier campus climate that supports everyone in a meaningful way.”

A joint statement noted: “The UC San Diego administration and students have engaged in a productive wide-ranging conversation about how our common goals can be reached. The conversations of this week show that there is a commitment from all participants to work together for the benefit of the entire campus.”

The administration and students collectively determined measurable steps and concrete milestones to ensure that UC San Diego moves forward in working with students, faculty and staff on complex and vital issues. Suggestions that resulted from meetings during the past week include enhancing programs the campus already has in place to target first-generation and low-income students, attract and retain qualified and diverse faculty, and ensure that the university provides a curriculum that reflects the cultural richness of the state and region.

The campus community will put into action the following recommendations, among others:

Admissions:

◦Fund for three years BSU-initiated yield programs to increase the diversity of the undergraduate student body; work to diversify the graduate student applicant pool and induct more members into the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, which promotes diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate.

Curriculum:

◦Fund the program coordinator position for the African American Studies Minor and Chicano/a Latino/a Arts and Humanities Minor; review requests from the Colleges to establish campuswide diversity curricular requirements for undergraduates, to supplement the requirements already in place in the Colleges.

Culture:

◦Identify appropriate places on campus for the display of outdoor and/or indoor, permanent and/or rotating art representative of underrepresented minority communities; extend the exhibition of the Chicano Legacy mural so that it can be made permanent.
Faculty:

◦Create a task force to promote the recruitment, support and retention of underrepresented faculty; make sure that all faculty searches adhere to best practices on diversity considerations; as funding becomes available, reactivate six unfilled faculty positions dedicated to African Diaspora, Indigenous Studies or California Cultures; allocate three new faculty positions over the next three years for hires that will enhance diversity.

Resources:

◦Match funds from student fees for Student Promoted Access Center for Education and Service (SPACES), where students collaborate to achieve greater educational equity; meet with students to determine details for African American, Native American and Chicano Resource Centers, and assess patterns of use for these resources; ensure continued supplemental funding for the Office of Academic Support and Instructional Services (OASIS), a learning center at UC San Diego, for the 2010-11 academic year; establish a new Campus Climate Commission to examine the campus climate and the university’s diversity-related efforts, and make additional recommendations for future action; consider additional resources for diversity efforts as part of the Campus Climate Commission that is being established.
Research, Student Conduct and Other Actions:

◦Work with interested faculty members to establish an Organized Research Unit (ORU) or Center related to African American, Chicano and Native American-indigenous communities; rewrite the Student Code of Conduct, requiring students to adhere to the Principles of Community to the maximum extent permitted by the First Amendment; identify suitable naming opportunities for colleges and buildings, and review the naming processes; continue to engage both the Kumeyaay Cultural Repatriation Committee, the U.S. Department of Interior, and the UC San Diego faculty in seeking resolution to the disposition of human remains found as a result of University House excavation efforts.

These actions are only part of the university’s numerous on-going efforts to promote diversity on campus and ensure an open and welcoming environment. Students, staff, faculty and the San Diego community will continue to work together to rebuild and restore the university community.

http://battlehate.ucsd.edu/news.php
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Well, we all love to be gracious and splendid, but the problem is money. That is taxpayer money being spent by the "officials" at that school willing to do whatever it takes for the 1.56%, or whatever.

People better get it in their heads, the well has run dry.

Encouraging the Shakedown Business plan is another concern.


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It looks like they left out another protected class - the muslims
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Mar 4 2010, 11:59 PM
Press Release
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Judy Piercey, 858-534-6128 or jpiercey@ucsd.edu
Jeff Gattas, 858-822-6914, or jgattas@ucsd.edu

March 4, 2010

UC San Diego and Black Student Union Sign Agreement, Announce Common Goals
Students and administration agree on actions to create a campus that respects differences and ensures diversity

The University of California, San Diego reports success in defining common goals at today’s meeting between senior administrators, faculty and students, led by Black Student Union co-chairs David Ritcherson and Fnann Keflezighi to address diversity issues to improve the campus climate. The adopted recommendations aim to move the university past hurtful incidents and improve the campus climate by enhancing diversity on the campus, in the curriculum and throughout the UC San Diego community.

“We’re pleased to see such a great exchange of ideas today. We now have a signed agreement to move forward,” said UC San Diego Chancellor Marye Anne Fox. “We applaud our student leaders, the campus and the San Diego community for their engagement, passion and leadership on finding solutions to these issues. Although there is much work ahead of us, our ongoing partnership will build a healthier campus climate that supports everyone in a meaningful way.”

A joint statement noted: “The UC San Diego administration and students have engaged in a productive wide-ranging conversation about how our common goals can be reached. The conversations of this week show that there is a commitment from all participants to work together for the benefit of the entire campus.”

The administration and students collectively determined measurable steps and concrete milestones to ensure that UC San Diego moves forward in working with students, faculty and staff on complex and vital issues. Suggestions that resulted from meetings during the past week include enhancing programs the campus already has in place to target first-generation and low-income students, attract and retain qualified and diverse faculty, and ensure that the university provides a curriculum that reflects the cultural richness of the state and region.

The campus community will put into action the following recommendations, among others:

Admissions:

◦Fund for three years BSU-initiated yield programs to increase the diversity of the undergraduate student body; work to diversify the graduate student applicant pool and induct more members into the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, which promotes diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate.

Curriculum:

◦Fund the program coordinator position for the African American Studies Minor and Chicano/a Latino/a Arts and Humanities Minor; review requests from the Colleges to establish campuswide diversity curricular requirements for undergraduates, to supplement the requirements already in place in the Colleges.

Culture:

◦Identify appropriate places on campus for the display of outdoor and/or indoor, permanent and/or rotating art representative of underrepresented minority communities; extend the exhibition of the Chicano Legacy mural so that it can be made permanent.
Faculty:

◦Create a task force to promote the recruitment, support and retention of underrepresented faculty; make sure that all faculty searches adhere to best practices on diversity considerations; as funding becomes available, reactivate six unfilled faculty positions dedicated to African Diaspora, Indigenous Studies or California Cultures; allocate three new faculty positions over the next three years for hires that will enhance diversity.

Resources:

◦Match funds from student fees for Student Promoted Access Center for Education and Service (SPACES), where students collaborate to achieve greater educational equity; meet with students to determine details for African American, Native American and Chicano Resource Centers, and assess patterns of use for these resources; ensure continued supplemental funding for the Office of Academic Support and Instructional Services (OASIS), a learning center at UC San Diego, for the 2010-11 academic year; establish a new Campus Climate Commission to examine the campus climate and the university’s diversity-related efforts, and make additional recommendations for future action; consider additional resources for diversity efforts as part of the Campus Climate Commission that is being established.
Research, Student Conduct and Other Actions:

◦Work with interested faculty members to establish an Organized Research Unit (ORU) or Center related to African American, Chicano and Native American-indigenous communities; rewrite the Student Code of Conduct, requiring students to adhere to the Principles of Community to the maximum extent permitted by the First Amendment; identify suitable naming opportunities for colleges and buildings, and review the naming processes; continue to engage both the Kumeyaay Cultural Repatriation Committee, the U.S. Department of Interior, and the UC San Diego faculty in seeking resolution to the disposition of human remains found as a result of University House excavation efforts.

These actions are only part of the university’s numerous on-going efforts to promote diversity on campus and ensure an open and welcoming environment. Students, staff, faculty and the San Diego community will continue to work together to rebuild and restore the university community.

http://battlehate.ucsd.edu/news.php
All this talk of "diversity" is really to promote socialism, Marxism and the transformation of society, IMO. It is really not about education but positioning those who would transform society by funding various organizations and jobs promoting "diversity". Those with the 32 demands were just waiting for any "event", real or imagined or staged, to get those demands met, IMO.

Business as usual.
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Marye Ann Fox was Chancellor of North Carolina State University from 1998 to 2004.

She was appointed the twelfth chancellor of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina in August 1998, succeeding Dr. Larry K. Monteith. She was the university's first female chief executive, serving until July 2004. During her tenure as Chancellor, the UNC system and its Board of Governors successfully campaigned for a taxpayer-funded bond referendum leading to a significant period of growth of the physical facilities of the campus. Her tenure was also marked by controversy over excessive pay raises for members of her administration and the firing of two prominent vice provosts that led to the resignation of the provost and a formal censuring by the NC State faculty.
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I am more convinced than ever that this was a setup, just as I believe that the Duke response to the lacrosse party was ready and waiting for implementation. All the "activists" on the UCSD campus needed was an "incident." If it hadn't been the Compton Cookout it would have been something else. The noose is especially "fishy," as is the KKK hood on Dr. Seuss. Think back to the unfolding of the protests at Duke, see any similarities here? "Social Justice Jihadists" are well-trained and ready and waiting to wreck havoc on institutions, when called upon by their leadership. ACORN and SEIU are especially able "jihadists" in attacking banks to loan money to those who should not be buying homes or forcing businesses to unionize. The Alinsky techniques are on full display every time one of these "protests" starts. Bully and terrorize the institution by screaming "racism," "misogynism," or "homophobia." Anyone who disagrees is labeled as being racist, misogynist, or homophobic- factual refutation is ignored. Andrew Breitbart is one of the few people I have seen lately who has the cojones to fight back and the platform from which to do so. Perhaps, it is time that we ALL started to fight back. Anyone who decries the "racism" of the Compton Cookout has a beef with a black diskjockey named Jigaboo Jones. Extrapolating HIS mocking of a black cultureal stereotype into "racism" is just RIDICULOUS- and political correctness run amok! Political correctness is killing people- literally and figuratively. It must stop. No one has the cojnes to stand up and say it.

Follow the money- they certainly got what they wanted at both Duke and UCSD.
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Mar 5 2010, 11:35 AM
I am more convinced than ever that this was a setup, just as I believe that the Duke response to the lacrosse party was ready and waiting for implementation. All the "activists" on the UCSD campus needed was an "incident." If it hadn't been the Compton Cookout it would have been something else. The noose is especially "fishy," as is the KKK hood on Dr. Seuss. Think back to the unfolding of the protests at Duke, see any similarities here? "Social Justice Jihadists" are well-trained and ready and waiting to wreck havoc on institutions, when called upon by their leadership. ACORN and SEIU are especially able "jihadists" in attacking banks to loan money to those who should not be buying homes or forcing businesses to unionize. The Alinsky techniques are on full display every time one of these "protests" starts. Bully and terrorize the institution by screaming "racism," "misogynism," or "homophobia." Anyone who disagrees is labeled as being racist, misogynist, or homophobic- factual refutation is ignored. Andrew Breitbart is one of the few people I have seen lately who has the cojones to fight back and the platform from which to do so. Perhaps, it is time that we ALL started to fight back. Anyone who decries the "racism" of the Compton Cookout has a beef with a black diskjockey named Jigaboo Jones. Extrapolating HIS mocking of a black cultureal stereotype into "racism" is just RIDICULOUS- and political correctness run amok! Political correctness is killing people- literally and figuratively. It must stop. No one has the cojnes to stand up and say it.

Follow the money- they certainly got what they wanted at both Duke and UCSD.
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I tell ya, that KKK pillowcase went away really quick, the media stopped writing about it as fast and furiously as they started.

The KKK white Pillowcase being dropped from the coverage is highly suspicious to me. I wonder what we don''t know in that regard.

Yes, Texas-Mom, these cases are cash cows and most of the criminal allegations regarding "race" crimes turn out to have money paid to the claimants.

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I am more convinced than ever that this was a setup, just as I believe that the Duke response to the lacrosse party was ready and waiting for implementation. All the "activists" on the UCSD campus needed was an "incident." If it hadn't been the Compton Cookout it would have been something else. The noose is especially "fishy," as is the KKK hood on Dr. Seuss. Think back to the unfolding of the protests at Duke, see any similarities here? "Social Justice Jihadists" are well-trained and ready and waiting to wreck havoc on institutions, when called upon by their leadership. ACORN and SEIU are especially able "jihadists" in attacking banks to loan money to those who should not be buying homes or forcing businesses to unionize. The Alinsky techniques are on full display every time one of these "protests" starts. Bully and terrorize the institution by screaming "racism," "misogynism," or "homophobia." Anyone who disagrees is labeled as being racist, misogynist, or homophobic- factual refutation is ignored. Andrew Breitbart is one of the few people I have seen lately who has the cojones to fight back and the platform from which to do so. Perhaps, it is time that we ALL started to fight back. Anyone who decries the "racism" of the Compton Cookout has a beef with a black diskjockey named Jigaboo Jones. Extrapolating HIS mocking of a black cultureal stereotype into "racism" is just RIDICULOUS- and political correctness run amok! Political correctness is killing people- literally and figuratively. It must stop. No one has the cojnes to stand up and say it.

Follow the money- they certainly got what they wanted at both Duke and UCSD.
:bd: :bd: :bd: :bd:

Well said Texas Mom. It time to take the kid gloves off and put the boxing gloves on. We find ourselves carefully measuring our responses to some of these stories out of fear of judgment by others. We have see that happen all to often. Unfortunately, academia is filled with limp wrist wimps who are begging to be blamed for every ill infecting society. Paying the debt makes them feel all the more moral and superior to those who call it as they see it - thug behavior.
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Mar 5 2010, 11:35 AM
I am more convinced than ever that this was a setup, just as I believe that the Duke response to the lacrosse party was ready and waiting for implementation. All the "activists" on the UCSD campus needed was an "incident." If it hadn't been the Compton Cookout it would have been something else. The noose is especially "fishy," as is the KKK hood on Dr. Seuss. Think back to the unfolding of the protests at Duke, see any similarities here? "Social Justice Jihadists" are well-trained and ready and waiting to wreck havoc on institutions, when called upon by their leadership. ACORN and SEIU are especially able "jihadists" in attacking banks to loan money to those who should not be buying homes or forcing businesses to unionize. The Alinsky techniques are on full display every time one of these "protests" starts. Bully and terrorize the institution by screaming "racism," "misogynism," or "homophobia." Anyone who disagrees is labeled as being racist, misogynist, or homophobic- factual refutation is ignored. Andrew Breitbart is one of the few people I have seen lately who has the cojones to fight back and the platform from which to do so. Perhaps, it is time that we ALL started to fight back. Anyone who decries the "racism" of the Compton Cookout has a beef with a black diskjockey named Jigaboo Jones. Extrapolating HIS mocking of a black cultureal stereotype into "racism" is just RIDICULOUS- and political correctness run amok! Political correctness is killing people- literally and figuratively. It must stop. No one has the cojnes to stand up and say it.

Follow the money- they certainly got what they wanted at both Duke and UCSD.
:bd: :bd: :bd: :bd:

Well said Texas Mom. It time to take the kid gloves off and put the boxing gloves on. We find ourselves carefully measuring our responses to some of these stories out of fear of judgment by others. We have see that happen all to often. Unfortunately, academia is filled with limp wrist wimps who are begging to be blamed for every ill infecting society. Paying the debt makes them feel all the more moral and superior to those who call it as they see it - thug behavior.
Supposedly, our government will not negotiate with terrorists- perhaps it is time that our citizenry do the same with our own "social justice jihadists." :swf:
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I think they left out something very important in their goals. I admit that I don't know how to go about putting it into action but people need to learn to realize that something that they might see as harmless fun could be hurtful to another. Even if you think the hurt is misplaced, recognize the hurt and apologize for any unintended pain. On the other side, people need to realize that an item can't be racist on its own. It is the intent behind the item that makes it a racist symbol. Before assuming the worst about something, find the source and make sure it was intended that way. (Yes there are some depictions that are just going to be racist - even if you think it is funny, dressing like a member of the KKK is offensive to many groups of people.)
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" dressing like a member of the KKK is offensive to many groups of people."

I don't disagree with this; however, most klansmen didn't carry a rose in one hand. I agree with someone up thread who said the entire episode looks staged - in other words, what do we have to do to create a right to bellyache?
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