Blog Post this week: Leads

1.) “How many steers or dairy cows can a pride of lions eat in a week?”
This is the evolution of Darwin’s Survival of the Fittest theory.
Many ecologists and biologists are suggesting ranchers find out, what would happen if different continental animals merged?


2.) Imagine: your six-month-old daughter lay innocently sleeping as you pulled up to get gas.
You left the keys in the ignition.
As you get out someone, strong, angry and in a hurry pushes you aside.
And gets into your car. Where your baby sleeps.
Living your worst nightmare you scream, “My baby’s in the back seat,” as your car screeches out of the gas station parking lot out of sight in ten seconds flat.


3.) What happens when the issue that you are fighting passionately against, comes back and hits you with $8,000 in damage?
After protesting the thought that talking on the cell phone while driving causes wrecks, Representative Wei was talking on her own cell phone when she did not see cars stopped at an intersection and rammed into the car in front of her.


4.) Cutting back on Student’s education and Teacher positions never saved so much money.
With the state announcing that it does not have enough of a budget to fund schools, school boards are hoping to preserve your child’s education by, cutting back on after-school programs, eliminating teacher aides’ positions, and cutting back to a four day school week. This will save the school board an average of $1 million dollars, but impact your kids’ lives forever.


5.) Willie Hattaway Carter was a millionaire in a poor man’s clothing.
For 60 years, Willie was just the friendly neighbor who lived in the modest two-story, white clapboard house. When he died he left his true self behind: a check for $2 million dollars to the city in order to build the long awaited community center.


6.) “Mommy! Mommy! I’m going to be late for school!”
The mom of the kindergartner keeps snoring, loud enough, to almost wake herself up. Almost.
The little girl just wants to go to school- to play on the monkey bars, to eat PB&J sandwiches, but mostly to learn. However, she finds herself watching her mommy and her learning sleep. The child’s sponge-like brain, that’s eager to learn, has missed 111 out of the 180 days of school. Watching Mommy sleep, counting her snores.