Martin agrees to five-year extension with Creators Syndicate

Way to go Roland ,Im there monday at 8:00 !

The problem is Mr Martin hasn’t a clue. When the tax is raised on cigarrettes many people quit…ouch…less revenue…more taxes on other things. Also when the companies who make cigarettes are taxed more they have less sales soooo what do they do? They raise the price of the macaroni and cheese, the soda, the chips, the mayonaise, whatever, in order to recapture the lost revenue from less smokers. Gee Mr Martin, unless you don’t eat, I guess YOU pay more too. And another issue, alcohol has been proven to be FAR FAR worse than cigarettes, healthwise, economically etc. Hmmm, lets make beer 10 bucks a can, sure we can add more taxes to everything that some liberal claims is unhealthy! Great idea! While we’re at it, obesity is the number one killer in America, let’s start by taxing by the pound. Hmmmm, hefty guys should pay more since they eat more. Yikes there are a gazillion “bad” things we can tax! I know, maybe people with speeding tickets (studies show them to be dangerous), people getting bonuses (hey we didn’t get one!), Left handed people, after all they are more likely to be into art and therefore make less than their right handed counterparts, Let’s tax BACON, it IS unhealthy! Grits! (LOVE EM, but with butter they are unhealthy!), Beef, white bread, potatoes, in fact let’s tax ALL carbohydrates…….Well, we started with suing tobacco companies, then raising the taxes on em, now it is bonuses and almost everything else…where will it stop? Maybe Mr Martin has some ideas on that? *wink

Mr. Martin I am sending this e-mail to inform you of the shared parenting movement in North Carolina. What makes this movement unique is that the Africian Americian male is a tremendous part of this movement in North Carolina.

The shared parenting movemnt in North Carolina has reached out to us and they have found that the sterotype of the hit and run Africian American father is a myth. As the shared parenting movement has reached out to us they have found that as parents we love our children deeply, and we want to be a part of our children lives. What they have also found is that Africian American fathers have been suffering in silence for years with the demon of a bias family court system.

Now this demon of a bias famiy courtl system has seeped into other cultures, which creates an enviroment of tremendous conflict as it relates to custody of minor children. Historically as Africian American males we have not had the resources to challenge for equality as it relates to parental involvemnet in disputed custody cases. Many times the African American male will see his child or children moved away with no regard for his input or the role he plays in their life and development.

The acceptable standard of the abscent father has now seeped into the main streams culture. They now see the demons the African American male has suffered with for over thirty years. This has given the Africian American male a tremendous ally.

Please, take a look at what we are doing. I beleive a challenge in the current custody laws will help the entire whole of society. This is a national problem that needs a voice.

Vada Whitaker 919-280-4892

1) Children do best with the active and continuous involvement of two
fit parents, regardless of their marital status or residential
arrangements;
2) Research tells us that numerous social risks such as incarceration
rates and teenage pregnancy increase when one parent is absent from
their lives;
3) The inherently adversarial court process pits loving parents against
each other and robs families of the emotional and financial resources
that would otherwise be available to their children; and
4) parental conflict is the single most reliable predictor of maladjustment
by children while often the only source of detrimental conflict between
parents is or stems from the custody dispute itself; and
5) Our current laws and judicial practices are based on outdated
perceptions of parental roles and need to be refined to reflect modern
realities and social science research.

Vada, it’s whitey’s fault. It’s their grand plan to keep other’s than Europeans DOWN!