thanks moi your reminded me of Tiananmen Square and that lone lady with her shopping bags defying a tank, always felt that year there should not of been a man of the year but instead a woman of the year and her being that person

sheesh LOL...I wish...I wish I had their brain power and their intellectual minds, I can barely speak engrish as it is...:o

these days, I am lucky to be just walking straight...

:hug: back :)

I wanted to come back here and say one more thing, that is...I hesitated about posting where I am from. Because I know there is a lot of discussions about that other country right now, and there are a lot of fears, unknown, and rumors, and some of them true while others aren't...

Please do NOT let me deter anyone from wanting to discuss those issues. I do NOT have any problems with it. Once again. I value the freedom of speech greatly. I didn't want to hinder discussions that is why I have kept my ethnic background hidden for so long...alas, can't keep it hidden forever...*sigh...

:cool:

Frank, you always hit a spot in my heart...:)

I agree with you...

Tiananmen Square was awful...but the Nanking Massacre was even worse. It was the Holocaust of the East but not very many people know about it...

(I hesitate to post that as well for I don't want anyone to blame one country for committing such an atrocity to another. It was the PEOPLE that were involved that were at fault...)

if you or anyone are interested:

Part of history....but be warned...very triggering and graphic also(photos)

...and yes, relatives again...LOL Hey, what can I say, there are a lot of us....LOL
(but, I am not related to ALL of them...;) )

concur...

Richest Americans See Their Income Share Grow

By JESSE DRUCKER - July 23, 2008; Page A3

In a new sign of increasing inequality in the U.S., the richest 1% of Americans in 2006 garnered the highest share of the nation's adjusted gross income for two decades, and possibly the highest since 1929, according to Internal Revenue Service data.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1216...gn2008_leftbox

Snap out of it, mwa! *smack* I think you're mostly human. You got born, it happens to everyone someplace on this planet, and if someone has a problem with it that just means that their food sucks and so do they.

Um, can you cook?;)

:eek: how'd you know I am mostly human? Well, actually half human. I got my X-ray last year...

http://www.tetragrammatron.com/fruitimages/centaur.jpg



:eek: again! What're ya, puh sychic???? I had a cooking show, it's on youtube! As a matter of fact, it was a part of TV history!!

look! mwa's cooking show (a monumental TV history!!)

getting scary, you know mah history et al....

speaking of sucky food and sucky people, check this out: :winky:
will the offender please stand up? LMAO.....

Uh, no offense, dude, but that outfit makes your butt look big.


Hey! The friend who made that for me was making an artistic expression, fashionable foods with coordinated clothes!

Back to the actual topic of this thread, I was remembering the band-aid era when dozens of music stars joined forces to make records for foreign and domestic relief to the hungry and farmers.

Those videos bolstered my faith in humanity so much, the impression has been a lasting one. Plus, those recordings were iconic and soooo coool!

"we are the world, we are the children..."

Well put, Cindy. You know, whenever I fill out any type of paperwork/application or even just a survey sort of thing I notice that there is always a section to tell what race or nationality you are. It's always optional but I just can't see how that information is necessary. So......I answer the question anyway but I always check the "other" box and then put "HUMAN". That's what I am - I am of the human race. And I believe that's all that matters. :)

Thanks, Kell, half of me agrees with this and the other half doesn't. Part of history is record keeping and with this information, someday, someone will be able to show the pattern of the peoples of our nation. So, if the government or a bona fide research project is asking, I answer it.

The other thing is that some races are more susceptible to certain medical conditions, or react more seriously to them, so, in a medical situation, I answer it.

Marketing research is the sketchy one to me. On the one hand, it's justified to ask because there are different selling strategies for different demographic groups and that information helps the client identify the correct approaches to appeal to said markets. In this case our differences can make an impact on market trends, but, at the same time, if we're all interested in the same product... you get where I'm going.

Ours seems to be a nation that wants to celebrate our "sameness" yet, simultaneously maintain our "oneness". It's a tough nut to crack, stats seem to be both a blessing and a curse when it comes to us humans. :confused:

LOL Kell,

funny you should mention that, and that is actually a good part of history.

When I first came to the states. There were only three choices:

_white, _black,_other

now, when I was young and defiant, and angry, and a rebel...I always added my own space...it used to make my teachers mad during the first days of school.

we are such a rainbow of people now, and there are alot of beautifully mixed people that it is hard to define it.

My best friend at the time, whom I really really miss and screwed up my friendship with, was a mutt, he called himself.

Indian, black, Irish, French, and others. He felt left out as did I and I think that was one of the reasons why we became best friends cause we lived in the a very racially divided town...

anyways, these days, there are more choices in the forms, and now that I am not angry and young and crass anymore, I actually add in _other...

LMAO...............

I was born on March 8th. International Women's Day. How's that for part of history and moi being there?? I wonder if that is why I am such a cry baby (yikes, I can just see the daggers now, whachu saying moi, that women love to cry? Taffy will slap me all over the place.... ;) )

speaking of Band Aid, nappy. I loved it as well, but always cracked up when Dylan and Petty started to sing cause I didn't know who was whom...

then We are the world came out after that. And then, Farm Aid.

whatever happened to those unity stuff?

Interesting how history of the music industry have now evolved into the Britney Speares and the "moi, moi, moi" era....musicians used to write about the world, now they sing about "don't you wish your girlfriend was more like moi..."

there are good ones out there that care, but they get buried under all the other selfish ones....

interesting....

I remember when Moi came out of the lab, half robot cat, half monkey....

:cool:

yeah and then they put an energizer battery in him and he keeps going and going ........

yep, we're making history right now!

July 25, 2008 - ECONOMY - Think Progress

"Home foreclosure filings rose 14 percent in the second quarter, the eighth consecutive quarterly climb, and more than doubled from the same period a year-earlier, real estate data firm RealtyTrac said on Friday."

Home foreclosures were up 121 percent from a year earlier "amid the worst U.S. housing market downturn since the Great Depression."

http://pr.thinkprogress.org/2008/07/pr20080725

;) doraemon, wee wee...LOL

here's a nice history for you, brainy (see if you can guess this one)

in 1996, a song was released with this phrase:

""And if there is a way to find you I will find you/but will you find me if ____ makes me a tree?"

please name the singer and the name of the song.

Now, after that, it is followed by this trivia:

what is that phrase/song pertaining to? and who was that sentence dedicated to?

(there is a number 3 but the first two will have to be revealed first. LOL ;) :D

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;) :D

Not a clue.... :confused:

Give me an oldie (like 70's or 60's).

*sniff*sniff...but you would've loved this one...well, I think...*sigh...LOL

"And if there is a way to find you I will find you/but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree"

singer, Tori Amos

song: horses

she was referencing to Neil Gaiman, who wrote Stardust.

he wrote in Stardust, a large tree with red leaves that talks.

the tree was in reference to Tori Amos.

and I was going to play with "Death" and "Sandman" and "American Gods" and "Liliam" *sniff*sniff

should've done it backwards but then I know you'd know and it would've been too easy... LOLOL

OK, 60's...

let's do it Jeopardy Style:

Catergory: Films

Answer: Kubrick, Peter, George, and Sterling in where Peter had three personalities

what's the question? ;)

bonus point: name the alternative title

Mwa, why did you turn this cool thread about history into a song trivia game?:confused:

oops...sorry...LOL

was thinking history...arts and music...

just ignore moi. :)

you know I am not sure how this falls into history, the day elvis died I was in vegas, and heard it on some nice harmon carmen products, i was window shopping while my folks were losing our college funds, the store owner ask me to turn that up and i went out of the store a bit stunned and went down half a block to the golden nugget and entered which was a bozo no no and i told the guard elvis is dead and have to go tell my mom and walked past him. it was the eeriest thing i have ever experienced in my life, a few people heard what i said to the guard and like a slow moving body of water a hush fell upon the casino everything stopped four corners literally stopped as everyone started to hear about elvis, vegas can be a rather noisy town, to say you can hear a pin drop in vegas is a joke but at that moment, you could


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That gave me chills!!! I remember that day. I was baby-sitting....didn't fully comprehend the magnitude of it then....

Been so busy that I havent had time to play on the web. Come in and see this and have to add my experiences too :p

I remember Nov 63, JFK died and that was all that was on TV. Bummed me out no end lol.

Aug 65 the Watts riots were going strong and everyone was locked in the house, again no fun!

[IMG]file:///C:/Users/Allen/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg[/IMG][IMG]file:///C:/Users/Allen/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg[/IMG]Summers of 68 and 69 watching the Fire Fall! Lived in yosemite and loved that every night. Wish things like that still happen.

July 69 watching the men walk on the moon as I looked out the window looking up at the moon. Was a surreal experience for me.

1970 living in Los Angeles, the city was rocked everyday by earthquakes. I remember one morning being shook awake as my bed bounced across the room and bounced off my brothers bed several times. There were about 6 quakes in an hour with the worst one waking me up. That was finally enough for my dad to want to leave southern california, and I was very happy to leave LOL.

!991 sitting in the hospital waiting to hear if my foster son was gonna live from cancer surgery. He did and continues on even though they gave him a 5% chance to live. While waiting the TV was playing the attack on Iraq, missle and bombs raining down with precision unseen ever before. Will never ever forget that day.

Ahhh the memories :D

This may not be 'history' to you but it is to me. ..... The moment my dad told my siblings & I that our mom had died. January 1967. We were standing in the dinning room. I did something I'm a little ashamed of..Since my siblings often made fun of my actions, when I squealed for a second before crying, I gave out a fake chuckle thinking they would overlook my actions. I was 8 yrs old, soon to be 9.

9/11 I was in my neuro's office, about to leave. The nurse came in as I was leaving & told us we should see TV. My FIL was waiting for me in the parking lot & we listened to it on the radio till I got home then I turn on the TV. (Like my kids, I think most all kids were watching it on TV, at school, if at school yet.)

1992 Rodney King riots. DH was working in the area where the riots began. His boss let all the sales reps of the area head for home.

My friend's DH is a firefighter so he was down there manning hoses to dowse fires.

I support law enforcement but I support laws more. Rodney King was a danger, he could have killed someone while hyped up on PCP like he was. But the beating was excessive.

I just watched another police beating after a bad guy was subdued. I want the law to protect me. These policemen should be stopped from using their billie clubs like they do. I keep wondering why the other policemen do not stop the beatings.

There is a clear line between enforcing the law and breaking the law. Not a fine line, a clear line.

I forgot one of the looooongest running history things LOL

70's CB's and country truckin songs!

Hang ten everyone! :winky:

November ?, 2000 & January 20, 2001 When Bush Got "elected". I was in the 8th (?) grade. Since it was a long time ago (and a long span of time), and I didn't think of it as amazing then i don't remember where I was exactly.

September 11, 2001 I was in Homeroom in 8th (?) Grade. We were about to change to the first class when the principal made an announcement that 2 planes had crashed onto the towers. We were not allowed near phones, TV's, or Radios all day (unless a parent pulled their kid out that day, which a few did) so I didn't know what really happened (They crashed into the towers) until I got home. Then I watched the TV for hours that evening.

I am borrowing this from shelley and I think it fits this thread. LOL

and we're there...right NOW :)