I feel the need to say that the nba needs to remove the sterling family from the caretaking of the clippers before starting the next nba season. If he is not removed, then I will not go to any games, or buy any tickets, or watch any nba games, or even buy products from any company that sponsors the nba. And it hurts me because I love the nba, wnba, and the nbdl. But basically until the nba owners move as a unit to remove a man who disrepected his wife, had at least one known relationship outside of his marriage, is known to not give tenants places to live in based on skin color, or religion, is known to bad mouth even fans who come to his teams. I will not attend a league or any nba owners who support and do not move to remove this man from ownership and bring in a family that can heal and be caretakers of the league. If necessary than let him keep his team, and build a new league called the ABA and start over with every team owner not named sterling. Let him keep the rights to the team, and let every staff member, coach, and players on his team have the right to cancel their contracts and start a league with FIBA rules called Basketball Lovers League: The BLL is dedicated to any player from any nation that wants to play with teams that used to be part of the NBA or from FIBA or any Olympic Nation that sponsors young children to have an education that includes sports, arts, and acceptance of people from all genders, creeds, religion, country and are part of the human race without judging them prematurely or generalizing them into a category. I as a Roman Catholic Pilipino-American Citizen feel that the Sterling Family excludes people like me who have darker skin and parents that were the first in his family to immigrate to America. I feel like he should hang a "colored people not allowed at games that are owned by Donald Sterling".
2nd) topic it is clear to me that Putin is doing his best to start a large scale war by attacking civilians and the Ukraine by shooting down a plane he is trying to engage a military combat zone. He is a tyrant, his military leaders should put him in a room with Obama and two Ukrainian Soldiers, and the President of the United Nations, as well as Pope Francis, and Pope Benedict. They will all be able to wear clothes, but have no phones, no weapons. They will be given access to water, a bible, and 1 meal per day. And let them settle this as men and women, preferably one male and one female soldier from the Ukraine, that are currently being forced to fight Putin's army. Then lets see how brave Putin is. They cannot leave that room until it is settled. I suggest the room be located in a Ukranian City that Putin has been attacking the most. Or a room that Pope Francis and Pope Benedict feels would be best for this conversation.
I am certain that one meal a day, and these people will be able to handle the situation properly, and the Vice President can of Russia, and the United States can tell the world that it is being working out face to face. The Chapel inside of St Peter's in Italy would probably be a very safe place that God can keep the conversation on topic, and negotiations done concisely and efficiently.
3) 3rd topic is I am now 41 years old, and I am happy to be alive, I feel god has brought me to a state of grace, and has surrounded me with prayerful people from all parts of the world. I feel blessed to be a man who has been humbled over and over again, to finally understand how much God has blessed me, even though at times I felt that he would abandon me when I was younger based on choices I made or events that happened to me. I finally came to understand that God has only given me a cross that I could bear, and that over the years my family, my closest friends, and my on faithwalk as a blessedly single man bound to the holy spirit is ready to continue his journey and accept and submit my life to god's will. God has shown me that he is not my condemner or judge, he is my father in heaven. He knows what is best, and I often ask the the Holy Spirit, and his son Jesus to be with me in good and bad times, and I often call his mother Mama Mary my mother in heaven and she sends a blue mantle of protection and her Fiat means everything to me . She represents everything I loved about my grandmothers who are already with God in Heaven along with my grandfathers. When they left I felt sad, but now I write letters to them in my journals to let them know how I am doing. And I talk to them in the adoration chapels of catholic churches and I often pray for the relatives of my friends and my neighbors so that God's will is done in all of our lives. I was born the same year that abortion became legal, so it will always be knocking on my heart that more than 50 million children have been murdered since the day I arrived in July of 1973. And I ask them to be my strength and my voice when I create art, or write about their murder and martyrdom in heaven before they even left the womb. But this is not my battle, it is all of us who want our families to go to heaven, who do not want to see another world war, and want our siblings and friends to have children who are beloved and never have to say goodbye to children and friends they should have met. I could have had 50 million other friends since then. I do not like politics, but sometimes we must not wait for the world to act, we must pray together as a family and as a team for Servant Hearted men and women to take the reins of leadership and be caretakers of the world instead of owners who just use people, money is a tool to be used, but people are priceless and they are answered prayers and they are not tools. When we treat people as a tool, or give them a monetary price than we put the same price on ourselves, and our children, and our grandparents and our parents. I will not be silent and I will speak for the need of fathers to be responsible for children they create, and at least find an adoption agency for children you cannot care for so that child can be given to a family that longs for a child to nurture and be a member of their family. And for the rights of unborn girls in the womb, and unborn boys they are just as important as the man and the woman who had intercourse together and now want to discard the child because they refuse to be responsible or are unable to be responsible for their own actions in marriage or outside of marriage. If your adult enough to create a child together than be adult enough to find a family through your local churches, schools, governments, other neighborhoods and find a family that will adopt them I know every catholic priest or nun will find a place for your child if you ask them in a catholic church, and most christian churches internationally will do the same, in fact even islamic and jewish people and really anyone who loves children and their own family wil offer you at least a ride or a phone number of an adoption agency in the name of Blessed Mother Teresa.
2nd) topic it is clear to me that Putin is doing his best to start a large scale war by attacking civilians and the Ukraine by shooting down a plane he is trying to engage a military combat zone. He is a tyrant, his military leaders should put him in a room with Obama and two Ukrainian Soldiers, and the President of the United Nations, as well as Pope Francis, and Pope Benedict. They will all be able to wear clothes, but have no phones, no weapons. They will be given access to water, a bible, and 1 meal per day. And let them settle this as men and women, preferably one male and one female soldier from the Ukraine, that are currently being forced to fight Putin's army. Then lets see how brave Putin is. They cannot leave that room until it is settled. I suggest the room be located in a Ukranian City that Putin has been attacking the most. Or a room that Pope Francis and Pope Benedict feels would be best for this conversation.
I am certain that one meal a day, and these people will be able to handle the situation properly, and the Vice President can of Russia, and the United States can tell the world that it is being working out face to face. The Chapel inside of St Peter's in Italy would probably be a very safe place that God can keep the conversation on topic, and negotiations done concisely and efficiently.
3) 3rd topic is I am now 41 years old, and I am happy to be alive, I feel god has brought me to a state of grace, and has surrounded me with prayerful people from all parts of the world. I feel blessed to be a man who has been humbled over and over again, to finally understand how much God has blessed me, even though at times I felt that he would abandon me when I was younger based on choices I made or events that happened to me. I finally came to understand that God has only given me a cross that I could bear, and that over the years my family, my closest friends, and my on faithwalk as a blessedly single man bound to the holy spirit is ready to continue his journey and accept and submit my life to god's will. God has shown me that he is not my condemner or judge, he is my father in heaven. He knows what is best, and I often ask the the Holy Spirit, and his son Jesus to be with me in good and bad times, and I often call his mother Mama Mary my mother in heaven and she sends a blue mantle of protection and her Fiat means everything to me . She represents everything I loved about my grandmothers who are already with God in Heaven along with my grandfathers. When they left I felt sad, but now I write letters to them in my journals to let them know how I am doing. And I talk to them in the adoration chapels of catholic churches and I often pray for the relatives of my friends and my neighbors so that God's will is done in all of our lives. I was born the same year that abortion became legal, so it will always be knocking on my heart that more than 50 million children have been murdered since the day I arrived in July of 1973. And I ask them to be my strength and my voice when I create art, or write about their murder and martyrdom in heaven before they even left the womb. But this is not my battle, it is all of us who want our families to go to heaven, who do not want to see another world war, and want our siblings and friends to have children who are beloved and never have to say goodbye to children and friends they should have met. I could have had 50 million other friends since then. I do not like politics, but sometimes we must not wait for the world to act, we must pray together as a family and as a team for Servant Hearted men and women to take the reins of leadership and be caretakers of the world instead of owners who just use people, money is a tool to be used, but people are priceless and they are answered prayers and they are not tools. When we treat people as a tool, or give them a monetary price than we put the same price on ourselves, and our children, and our grandparents and our parents. I will not be silent and I will speak for the need of fathers to be responsible for children they create, and at least find an adoption agency for children you cannot care for so that child can be given to a family that longs for a child to nurture and be a member of their family. And for the rights of unborn girls in the womb, and unborn boys they are just as important as the man and the woman who had intercourse together and now want to discard the child because they refuse to be responsible or are unable to be responsible for their own actions in marriage or outside of marriage. If your adult enough to create a child together than be adult enough to find a family through your local churches, schools, governments, other neighborhoods and find a family that will adopt them I know every catholic priest or nun will find a place for your child if you ask them in a catholic church, and most christian churches internationally will do the same, in fact even islamic and jewish people and really anyone who loves children and their own family wil offer you at least a ride or a phone number of an adoption agency in the name of Blessed Mother Teresa.