Cameleon's Open Salon Blog

One Pilgrim to the other

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:11:38 -0500

"You aint seen nothing yet, wait until we build Wall St"

One Pilgrim to the other

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:11:28 -0500

"You aint seen nothing yet, wait until we build Wall St"

Carl Lewis/Willlingboro, NJ/Paris

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:09:34 -0400

I was amazed after entering the Paris subway and there is this larger than life mosaic of Carl Lewis on the wall of the Paris subway. It is beautiful In a way. This shows how the French respect Carl, and I do not suppose it is only there to point out just his atheletic achievements. But more also of his achievements for helping his fellow citizens of the world.

Yet and still some dumb arses in this part of Jersey. Burlington county and his hometown Willingboro, where I now reside, disowned Carl because of his personal life.

He decided to run for state senate and they refuse to put him on the ballot because of some residencey laws.

Hell there are residency laws for police and firemen. That is that they reside in the city they serve. These laws ARE NOT FOLLOWED.

There is more to it than that for Carl, first he is a minority male, and also to honest for Jersey politics. And correct me if I am incorrect Carl leads an alternative life style. That in its self another reason.

Keep it up Carl, one day they will run out of excuses.

Burgess, Christin Deleon, The Cameleon, Dillard

Spelling

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:09:57 -0400

My last post was filled with the word Hugh, which should have been spelled Huge. Sorry

Burgess, Christine Deleon, The Cameleon, Dillard

Maybe my spelling will improve, if I take the time to edit a bit more often.

"College is a Scam"

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 00:09:47 -0400

"Yes College Is a Scam" Who made attending college become the way it is today.

Surely not the students who are failing to pay off their loans. But the fact that Mom and Pops, just want to get their little Darlings out of the nest, is one of the reasons. Yep, no matter what the cost. Well the cost has risen higher than most parents can afford and if the darlings takes out a loan, that cannot be repaid. Then you reap what you sow.

So now the scaming starts when lowering the bar, and demanding hugh sums of cash. and allowing anyone who is able to float a loan or parents willing to pay such hugh sums, leads to a broken system within a broken system.

How is it that I have knowledge of the above. It started as early as the seventies. It seems that as early as then, when everyone thought that everyone should attend college, false. College cost begin to rise, early as then. Some students were given money to attend college equal opportunity grants, some took out loans to pay back the institutions, and did not or could not after graduating. From what I understand, our current first lady had an equal opportunity grant awarded to her. Another example is that students of that era, some bought new autos with part of the monies and partied the remainder away. Well it is not a fun thing to write about, but when at one of out local colleges discovers, that one of their students while high takes a slide down the garbage chute and the corpse is found at the dump.

The presidents, lived the life of Riley. They lowered the bar and at the same time raised the cost.

Well I had a feeling, and was "hipped" to what was going on. I took out only two student loans and worked in the local steel mill during the summer to earn my tuition money. My parents helped also. I paid back both loans.

In conclusion; No, obtaining an education will never be the same in this country. I give kudos to those professors and everyone else who contributed to my success in earning a college degree. When it was really about learning and not about how much money you will earn after graduation. With out an education I would not have been able to enjoy life, when everything I did had to have a dollar sign attached to it.

Burgess, Christine Deleon, The Cameleon, Dillard