The Schooner Roseway

(photograph by Oberon)


The World Ocean School

is an internationally focused nonprofit,

nonsectarian organization dedicated to providing

challenging educational programs aboard the schooner Roseway.

OBAMA-RAMA

Obama-Rama

Shama-Lama

Ding-Dong

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Hello, I'm Johnny Cash

Happy Birthday

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
(2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948)

We were all thinking it

September 15, 2009 -- BBC -- The Iraqi man who threw his shoes at former U.S. President George W. Bush, has been released from jail in Baghdad, his brother has told the BBC.

Journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi's act of protest made him a hero in large parts of the Arab world and beyond.

Zaidi was convicted of assaulting a foreign leader.

The TV reporter's three-year prison sentence was reduced to one because he had a clean record. He was released three months early for good behaviour.

Zaidi's family has been preparing to hold a party for him and he has received offers of money, jobs and even marriages from sympathisers across the Arab world.

His brother, Dargham al-Zaidi, says the journalist was beaten while in prison, suffering a broken arm, broken ribs and internal bleeding. Those allegations have been rejected by the Iraqi military.

The previously little-known journalist worked for the private Cairo-based al-Baghdadia TV.

As he flung the shoes, Zaidi shouted: "This is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog. This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq."

His action was celebrated in internet games and on T-shirts and some people have offered him their daughters in marriage.

We were all thinking it, now here's your chance.

King Of The World

Muhammad Ali training underwater

Photograph by Flip Schulke

Miami, August,1961

Roz Savage, Ocean Rower

Roz Savage is a British ocean rower, author, motivational speaker and environmental campaigner. She has rowed solo across the Atlantic Ocean and is now rowing across the Pacific Ocean.

Roz Savage rows near Diamond Head in Hawaii. You can see where Roz is at any time using "RozTracker." (Roz & "Junk" meet...video.)

Roz Savage is my new hero. You can visit her website if you click on this post title. Godspeed and good luck to Roz. Wish I was there.

Good Night, and Good Luck

Edward R. Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada.

Fellow journalists Eric Sevareid, Ed Bliss and Alex Kendrick considered Murrow one of journalism's greatest figures, noting his honesty and integrity in delivering the news.

A pioneer of television news broadcasting, Murrow produced a series of TV news reports that helped lead to the censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy.

On October 15, 1958, in a speech before the Radio and Television News Directors Association in Chicago, Murrow blasted TV's emphasis on entertainment and commercialism at the expense of public interest in his "wires and lights" speech in which he said, "During the daily peak viewing periods, television in the main insulates us from the realities of the world in which we live. If this state of affairs continues, we may alter an advertising slogan to read: Look now, pay later."

At the end of his 1958 speech, Murrow made a hopeful statement: "This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference. This weapon of television could be useful."

Seven Samurai

The spirit of a fearless man

is in acceptance of mortality

only the dead are without fear

Which Honour Does Obama Talk About

Which Honour Does Obama Talk About


Agha Amin


At Camp Lejeuene in the Carolinas President Obama while talking to US soldiers talked about honour.

One may ask a simple question " which honour is Obama talking about " or " where is the honour" ?

You attack a country with no air force and air defence with overwhelming forces. So there is hardly any danger to your soldiers which is well proven by your extremely low casualties! So where is the honour without the dignity of danger for which the soldiers profession is honourable?

You waste US tax payers trillions US Dollars to fight a war with no objective so where is your sanity. Was the Iraq war fought so that some private US companies can make money in construction and reconstruction contracts?

You did not go for Iraqs oil as you say. If so why you wasted trillions in Iraq? If USA had gone for the Oil in Iraq we could say , " OK there is an objective".

What USA did in Iraq neither has honour nor sanity nor logic. Its beyond logic.

And no US military or civilian leader dissented! A fine indicator of lack of intellectual honesty!

You attack a pen of chickens with overwhelming superiority so it's not correct to talk about honour!

What is the lesson that Bush and USA have taught the world. If a small country like Iraq does not have WMDs it will attacked with that strange kind of honour that Obama talks about and destroyed.

And then you have totally shameless bulky Arab kings of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Gulf, Egypt etc who buy billions of munitions for killing and controlling their own people! What a disgrace!

So there is logic in North Korea and Pakistan and even India having nukes!

Mug Shots

Rosa Parks

George Carlin

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Girl Effect

GIRL

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Congratulations

Mr. President

Sock and Awe !

Mission Accomplished!

The Great White Hope

Johnson flouted conventions regarding the social and economic "place" of African Americans in American society. As a black man, he broke a powerful taboo in consorting with white women, and would verbally taunt men (both white and black) inside and outside the ring. Johnson was not shy about his affection for white women, nor modest about his physical prowess, both in and out of the ring. Asked the secret of his staying power by a reporter who had watched a succession of women parade into, and out of, the champion's hotel room, Johnson supposedly said, "Eat jellied eels and think distant thoughts."

Thank you America

The Tank Man

Where is the..........Tank Man?....................I want to thank him.

I accept responsibility

I willingly take personal responsibility for every single person on this planet.......Oberon.