Nearly nine decades ago, former President Franklin D. Roosevelt uttered these famous words, “The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is Fear Itself.” Now, it’s not just fear, but rather it’s fear of a “Mad Man,” Putin. Consequently America and its NATO Alliances are held hostage by Putin threats to NUKE Ukraine; thus, also causing fear of the inevitable, World War III.
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The Broward County criminal justice system has taken a giant step forward on monetary bond reform. The newly issued Uniform Bond Schedule, which takes effect March 1, 2022, aims to balance the need to protect the public from dangerous crimes with the need to re-duce overcrowding in our jails. Another desired and anticipated result will be that people will be treated equally and more fairly when their bonds are set. By setting a uniform and standard amount of bond for certain non-violent crimes, everyone charged with the same offense will be entitled to release on the same conditions.
The Gantt Report Book Club has only one member, me. I thought the club title would have some significance because when Oprah Winfrey talked about books in her book club, many of the writings subsequently became best sellers and made top 10 lists in newspapers like The New York Times.
Credit Cards Will Keep You Going Backwards Instead of Forward
One of the most painful scenes in this drama is when the white plantation overseer demands that the enslaved Kunta Kinte accept the slave-name “Toby,” and has him whipped to the point of near death until he does.
Republicans and their base of white supremacist have focused their homophobic attacks on society’s most vulnerable, our children. Unfortunately, their demonic logic suggests that if there’s no mention made of the word “gay” they somehow merely become invisible and develop as heterosexuals.
I will post one or two words every Sunday on my Facebook page (James Hankins). The two words for today are visionary and fruition. A person who can imagine or look into the future is called a visionary. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King is a great example of a visionary with his “I Have a Dream Speech” at the Washington Monument in 1963. Dr. King said, “We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and hotels of the cities.”
Admittedly, I am a work in progress and will be that way for as long as I continue to inhale and exhale. Since I have no idea when those actions will cease, I just keep on keeping on — living and learning with the understanding that when you know better, you do better.
At one time during my long media career, I was hired as the news and public affairs director of a radio station in Florida’s capitol city and subsequently hired as the Executive Producer of “Vibrations”, a highly rated television news and talk show that ran for 15 years in Tallahassee.
America now finds itself held hostage by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. He’s a mad man whose head appears to have become too heavy to remain upright or to think sensibly. If you notice, it always tilted to his right. Just maybe, he does this because he wants to be able to dodge the plane carrying the nuclear bomb he’s threatening to launch. In fact, his table is literally long enough to serve as a runway for an airplane to take off carrying a nuclear bomb.