Teacher: How old is your father?
Kid: He is 6 years old
Teacher: How is that possible?
Kid: He became a father only when I was born
Teacher: Maria, go to the map and find North America
Maria: Here it is
Teacher: Correct. Now class, who discovered America
Class: Maria
Teacher: Glenn, how do you spell “crocodile?”
Glenn: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L
Teacher: No, that’s wrong
Glenn: Maybe it is wrong, but you asked me how I spell it
Teacher: Donald, what is the chemical formula for water?
Donald: H I J K L M N O
Teacher: What are you talking about?
Donald: Yesterday, you said it’s H to O
Teacher: Harold, what do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested?
Harold: A teacher.
COLUMBIA REPORTS MORE THAN 2,100 PREGNANT WOMEN HAVE ZIKA VIRUS….Not good…..not good…..the country’s national health institute says Columbian women are infected with the mosquito-borne Zika virus as the disease continues its spread across the Americas…..this virus has been linked to the devastating birth defect microephaly……which prevents the brain of a fetus from developing properly…..and there is no vaccine…..so far there are over 20,297 confirmed cases in Columbia…..the Center for Disease and Control is saying;….the disease is spreading in about two dozen countries, mostly in Latin America and the Caribbean (a few cases have been reported in Europe)…..some newborns exposed to Zika should be tested for vision and hearing problems…..women should get blood tests and ultrasound scans..microephaly usually is not detected before the end of the second trimester..…Columbia is urging women to delay pregnancy for six to eight months to avoid potential infection.….Brazil is the country hardest hit…..3,700 cases of microephaly that are suspected to be related to Zika.
GANESH RAKH: THE DOCTOR WHO DELIVERS INDIA’S GIRL FOR FREE…..Great man.….he waives his fee if a girl is born in his hospital…..he calls it his tiny contribution to improving the lot of the girl in a country where a traditional preference for boys and an easy antenatal sex screening has resulted in a skewed gender ratio…..in 1961..…there were 976 girls to every 1,000 boys under the age of seven…..by 2011…..the figure has dropped to 914…..he states..… “Whenever a pregnant woman came for her delivery, all her relatives would come with the hope that the baby would be a boy. They would celebrate and distribute sweets if a male child was born. But if a girl was born, the relatives would leave the hospital, the mother would cry, and the families would ask for a discount.”
SPOTLIGHT…..This is one of the films up for an Oscar….and Nicole was disgusted by it…..and I was appalled by it…..due to the fact the sexual abuse and pedophilia has been going on within the Catholic Church since……forever…..and they “KNEW” it was happening..…and not only within this religious institution..… “MANY”…so my question is.….why haven’t many of the abusers been arrested and brought in front of a judge in court.….and if the Church knew this was happening.….why did they choose to send them to another parish.….or give them a one-way ticket to the Vatican?….before they ran the end credits of the film.….they listed the cities where there have been documented cases of abuse…..GLOBALLY!….and it’s a very long list.
AND JANUARY CONTINUED ITS DEATH TOLL…..Jimmy Bain (Bassist for Dio / Rainbow)….Abe Vigoda (Barney Miller / The Godfather)….Colin Verncombe (Musician)….Yusef Lateef (Musician)….Thornton Dial (Artist)…..Benjamin Shobe (Judge / Civil Rights lawyer)…..Georgia Powers (Civil Rights leader)….Alyce Dixon (Oldest female veteran) …..Yvonne Chateau (Native American dancer)….Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane founder)…Singe Anderson (original Jefferson Airplane singer)….Edmonde Charles-Roux (French author)….Mirnalini Sarabhai (Legendary Indian Dancer)….Dale Griffin (Mott The Hoople)….Glen Frey (The Eagles)…Mic Gilette (Tower of Power)…Yolanda King (Dr. Martin Luther King daughter)…Ettore Scola (Italian film director)….and family and friends.