In addition to the other non-profit organizations that I support by giving time and money I am also a team captain and a board member for the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life Planning committee.
Relay For Life is my personal opportunity to fight back against cancer by raising funds and awareness. I fight so one day no one has to ever face cancer.
The fight against cancer goes on and I know we're going to win this thing! Hardly anyone I know can say they DON'T have a friend or relative that has battled this terrible disease. I'm asking for your help in raising funds because I think it's important that we all join together to help win.
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The best way to fight against cancer is through the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. I will be dedicating my walk to my friend, Ron McMullen, who is currently battling cancer.
Relay for Life is a team event that celebrates cancer survivors, and raises funds for the American Cancer Society research, education, prevention, advocacy and patient services. It is a fun, outdoor and overnight fundraising event where teams take turns walking or running around a track.
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My team, Friends Across The Line, will be joined by hundreds of others on May 1st/2nd at Jurupa Valley High School. You can join our team. Millions of people nationwide take part in Relay for Life events around the country. Relay raises over 40% of the funding for the American Cancer Society.
The Relay starts off with a Survivor's Walk, where cancer survivors walk the initial lap, symbolizing the courage that survivors and their families display and sustain in their lives.
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Opening night, there is a beautiful and touching Luminaria Ceremony that pays tribute to cancer survivors and to loved ones who still live on in our hearts.
How can you help?
You can support the fight by making a tax-deductible contribution to the American Cancer Society, or by joining my team for the relay. http://Cancer.AricIsom.net
As little as $1.00 can help me reach my goals... Please visit http://Cancer.AricIsom.net to help. Thank you for your help!!!
So what's up with you this year? What are your plains for next year? Feel free to pass this article along to your friends. Keep up on what matters in the I.E. and stay away from the nonsense. As always let's make this a two way conversation, and as always please post your comments and opinions in the comment section at the bottom of the article on the blog page (http://www.AricIsom.net). You can also post to past articles in there proper location at the bottom of each. I look forwards to your feedback. Please take note of the added features, such as the daily news feed, video clips, opinion polls, outside links, and Java games.
Cancer!!!
Year End Rap Up 2009
Well, I guess that it's time for my end-of-year rap-up. My blog is a kind of mixture between commentary, current affairs, my worries, and the news. Sometimes I have moments of crystallization on some issues, some concerns, and some observations. A lot of issues are worth the time that I put into writing them, yet some are not.
In the standard news outlets we get politics, healthcare debates, affairs, car crashes, high speed chases, illegal immigration, and other sordid matters, but none of that necessarily brings to mind any issue that I feel compelled to share with you.
This year I wrote about my feelings, my disappointments, racism, local economics, and change. In the coming year I plan on writing about the possibility of Jurupa becoming it's own city, property right infringements, taxes, voluntarism, and crime. Of course in those writing you will see my feelings, fears, joys, and excitement.
It is the end of the year, but it is not yet time to put all matters behind us. We are still dealing with the issue of large, intrusive ugly power lines being erected through an area where the residents simply don't want them. Some believe that it is a public health issue, other just don't like the look, and the FACT that it will bring down property values. Even though it may cost a little more I don't see why they just don't put them underground. After all those line will give no REAL benefit to the people along it's construction path.
It's the end of the year, and a lot of businesses, non-profit organizations, and citizens are struggling to stay afloat. Some cities are even have problems. Obama is trying hard to stimulate our economy while the countries enemies are not only hoping he fails, but actually working towards that end.
It's the end of the year, and the war over seas is still going strong. Drugs are still poring over our border, the teen pregnancy rate is still threw the roof, and partisan politics are ruining our country.
It's the end of the year, not the end of the world. It is not the year 2012, it is not Independence Day, there is no Omen, and we are not having the War of the Worlds. Hollywood predictions of gloom and doom have not come true.
Last year I tried MySpace, it didn't float my boat. This year I tried Facebook and I am hooked. I've always used email, but now I partake in video/web conferencing with Skype. Things change, attitudes change, fashions change, opinions change, and lives change.
Last year I had two dogs, two cats, two son, two grand-children, and two jobs. Some of that has changed. I still have two dogs, but one got hit by a car. I recently rescued a Chiwawa, and added him to the family. Because of outrageous travel rates I've yet to see my youngest grandchild in person. I no longer have two jobs, and boy do I need an extra source of income.
So what's up with you this year? What are your plains for next year? Feel free to pass this article along to your friends. Keep up on what matters in the I.E. and stay away from the nonsense. As always let's make this a two way conversation, and as always please post your comments and opinions in the comment section at the bottom of the article on the blog page (http://www.AricIsomsBlog.com). You can also post to past articles in there proper location at the bottom of each. I look forwards to your feedback. Please take note of the added features, such as the daily news feed, video clips, opinion polls, outside links, and Java games.
Are Scotch-Koreans a Contradiction?
What is a Scotch-Korean? A Scottish man mates with a Korean woman and a Scotch-Korean is born. Or a Scottish woman mates with a Korean man and a Scotch-Korean is born. 
On T.V. there is a Starburst candy commercial in which the Scotch-Korean Contradiction is supposedly shown to us. The commercial went like this (done with a Scottish accent):
Scotch-Korean Father: Look at this! One contradiction eating another.
Scotch-Korean Son: What do you mean?
Scotch-Korean Father: You're Scotch-Korean; you both make a wee bit of sense and neither does Starburst, a solid, yet juicy like a liquid.
Scotch-Korean Son: You're right....
Scotch-Korean Father: EHEH HEH HEH HEH HEH! (laughing)
Why is someone who is Scotch-Korean a contradiction? Do the Scottish hate Koreans (or vice-versa)? Also, is the hate so strong they do not want to mate with each other? In the commercial, it appeared the father was Scotch-Korean with red hair. I thought that looked cool.
What about other races? Is it wrong to mix races? I think not, and here is a statement that may lose me some friends: Anyone that thinks race mixing is wrong is a fool.
Take into consideration Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Tiger Woods, Vin Diesel, Keanu Reeves, Mariah Carey, Sean Lennon, my grandchildren, my cousins, my friends — more and more mixed-race people are turning up in American society.
Today, mixed-race people are perceived as ethnically ambiguous, even exotic, and are being touted as a marketer's dream. Mixed-race people are starting Facebook clubs, activist groups, writing books, plays, poetry. They're doing visual art, documentaries, even standup comedy routines. In addition to exploring their own identities, they're challenging our notions of race, ethnicity and national identity. That has implications for public policy as well as society as a whole.
The Census Bureau is being driven crazy every ten years. Groups of people that didn't exist in previous years are popping up everyday. If we are not now “one people” we soon will be.
Why do we look at someone's face and immediately need to know what is their race, or how they got to look that way? It almost feels as rude as asking someone, 'How much do you weigh?' I'm so much more than my race. The answer to who I am is much more then Indian,White, Black, Asian, or Mixed.
Author Lawrence Hill, whose father was Black and mother was White, wrote about how he deals with the question in his best-selling memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice. He wrote:
“What is wrong with The Question? Nothing at all — when it is asked at the right time, when it results in a genuine interest in you as a person, and when the person asking the question actually accepts the answer. Let's dissect the interrogation process. Imagine me at a party, sipping mineral water. A stranger walks up:
STRANGER: "Do you mind me asking where you're from?" [This is code for "What is your race?"]
ME: "Canada." [This is code for "screw off."]
STRANGER: "Yes, but you know, where are you really from?" [This is code for "You know what I mean, so why are you trying to make me come out and say it?"]
ME: "I come from the foreign and distant metropolis of Newmarket. That's Newmarket, Ontario, my place of birth." [Code for "I'm not letting you off the hook, buster."]
STRANGER: "But your place of origin? Your parents? What are your parents?" [Code for, "I want to know your race but this is making me feel very uncomfortable because somehow I'm not supposed to ask that question."] “
Do we act like this in the Inland Empire? Are we so consumed by race that we close our eyes to what really matters in life.
Hill Concludes, "I suppose the reason many of us mixed-race people find The Question offensive is not just that it makes assumptions, which are often false, about our identity, but because it attempts to hang our identity on one factor: our race."
Let's take a look at Mexico, and Mexicans. A few hundred years ago European Spanish came to the New World and had had beautiful babies. We now call these babies and their descendants Mexicans. Are they a race or are they a culture? 
Mexican, Malado, Creole, Eurasians, Hapa, Redbone, and Zambo are some terms for mixed race people, but in my research for this article I came across another term for mixed race people, Race of the Future.
According to Wikipedia the Race of the Future theory/idea states that due to the process of miscegenation, the mixing of different ethnicities or races, especially in marriage, cohabitation, or sexual relations, all the races are blending to become one race in the future.
Feel free to pass this article along to your friends. Keep up on what matters in the I.E. and stay away from the nonsense. As always let's make this a two way conversation, and as always please post your comments and opinions in the comment section at the bottom of the article on the blog page (http://www.AricIsomsBlog.com). You can also post to past articles in there proper location at the bottom of each. I look forwards to your feedback. Please take note of the added features, such as the daily news feed, video clips, opinion polls, outside links, and Java games.
