Today I was awoken by a tapping on my door. One of the young people was eager to tell me about a plan for community safety. I was awoken again about an hour later by the same young person and three of his friends who were bored and wanted some work to do. I gave them some flyers to deliver and they were on their way. Fifteen minutes later they were back and I was getting ready to go to the grocery store. They wanted to come with, so we went and asked their parents and away we were. We stopped at McDonald's on the way back, too, where, much to their surprise I got a Happy Meal (no meat).

It was a good day, but I was appalled to see how the adults talk to them. The language they use - and they wonder where the kids get it! They always seem to assume the worst with them, as well. It's like the kids are merely acting out some self fulfilling prophecy or something. Like Kate (my boss, the director of the project) says, if we don't expect great things from them, who will?

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This just arrived in my e-mail box.

Question 1:
If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already,
three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded,
and she had syphilis; would you recommend that she have an
abortion?
Read the next question before scrolling down to the answer of this one.

Question 2:
It is time to elect a new world leader, and your vote counts. Here are the
facts about the three leading candidates:

Candidate A: Associates with crooked politicians, and consults
with astrologists. He's had two mistresses. He also chain smokes
and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.

Candidate B: He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon,used
opium in college and drinks a quart of whiskey every evening.

Candidate C: He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian,
doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and hasn't had any
extramarital affairs.

Which of these candidates would be your choice?
(Decide first, no peeking, then scroll down for the answer).












Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Candidate B is Winston Churchill,
Candidate C is Adolph Hitler.


And by the way: Answer to the abortion question if you said yes,
you just killed Beethoven.

Pretty interesting isn't it?