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Precision On Collision

It happened countless of Times. The door opens up and it is Time for the routine walk. You both make eye contact and the words are spoken. “I will stay on my path and I will be extra careful.” Of course, your son or daughter will do exactly what they set out to do.  Who are you worried about? You are worried about their life and the skin they are in. Whether or not if your child has a diagnosis of any type of syndrome/disorder it will always be Secondary.  This wasn’t for me but for you. All I could think of if the dots were being connected and the pieces of the puzzle were beginning to fit together. Will we get a whole puzzle? Will some of the pieces come up missing and the story will never be told correctly.

Wow! Mark Zuckerberg got up and put on his sweats and hoodie but he probably didn’t get stopped by the cops for looking suspicious. I had to make sure my son was not wearing a hoodie but there was no guarantee he would make it back home in one piece. He was not dressed to impress but for safety.  Guess what?  Is there such a thing as safety?   Throughout my child’s life, he suffered from asthma and the medication he had taken made it hard for him to lose weight. I don’t know if Mark was sleek all of his life. Mark was socially awkward but it never stopped him from reaching his full potentials. I bet Mark’s hoodies became more of a popular dress code than a non-verbal threat to his community.  It is a shame how the coin is so unpolished on the Flip Side Of The Chart.

There is something about a young black overweight male that is perceived as a gentle giant, a bully, or a huge Mandinka slave.  How did anyone derive from this perception? When my son was in middle school I noticed whenever he would become frustrated the teacher’s documentation read like a horror story. Not only that my son began to look more grown up on paper than his actual age. Something was really wrong with this picture. How can you be only in middle school but look like a full-size adult on paper?  Even at the manifestation hearings, I had to remind the superintendent, the principal, and the teachers my son was a child, not an adult. Was the school system documenting my child for the prison system or for an early grave?  Did the test scores of the schools and their triple-A rating mean more to them than the child? It must have meant something.  So much pressure was put on testing the school districts got busted for cheating nationwide. Many children fell through the cracks when it came to their mental stability. Who was going to be the first draft pick? It sure wasn’t going to be the children whom the school districts stigmatized for many years entering the small yellow bus with Special Education written all over it. Where in the hell does this concept come from when your child acted out he would immediately be thrown in a separate self-contained school better known as the DAY SCHOOL? Parents stay on top of your child’s documentation.

This is probably the hardest stories I have ever written. Knowing for years what the outcome was going to be before the barrage of murders had taken place.  Going from doctor to doctor and the doctors not addressing the race issue. Moving within your family and they didn’t want to address mental illness. Being Black an under attack spelled it in the story Got No Time To be Disabled. My son said it best. “They Can Kill Us With Impunity.” NLD will always be Secondary. Just as he was diagnosed with NLD, panic, anxiety, stress, and depression is Secondary to the original diagnosis of NLD.  This is not an NLD’s world. Inclusiveness instead of isolation is the key.   Having a diagnosis of NLD does not define the person he is.  He has to live in the skin that he is in.  Being Black is not a disability. He now understands he cannot exist inside a group’s thread but has to live with the reality of being Black.   Those prayers were just not for my son.  Knowing the Truth is tough. The Truth rides alongside consequences. The conversation has always existed and the doors of the church will always be open for change.

The sharpness of my son’s tongue is Precision. It is always what he says make people so pissed off and angry. He does not recognize that he has insulted you are if a person thinks he sounds threatening.  There will always be Collision with people who do not want to hear or know the Truth. These are the people who act on their words. Not the ones who speak with a sharp tongue, Precision.  Collision will always turn their back, react, and attack.

Inside These Walls__Existing Condition

To PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN, ERIC HOLDER(Attorney General), NANCY PELOSI(Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives), HILDA SOLIS(United States Secretary of Labor), WARREN BUFFETT, RICHARD BRANSON, BILL GATES, OPRAH, ELLEN, MARK ZUCKERBERG, Matt MULLENWEG, SPECIAL TASK FORCE UNIT MSNBC and to all my readers:

Over here! Tell your secret service man not to use this bush. It will make me lose my train of thoughts. I haven’t stopped counting. On this day it is exactly 61 days. The BIG D jumps off with getting their party started. There is No SPLIT SCREEN and No DIVISION.

JOAN WALSH said it best with the title of her new book, What’s The Matter With White People? I am the zero count AFRICAN AMERICA vote Inside These Walls. Outside of These Wall MITT ROMNEY holds the zero count on AFRICAN AMERICANS votes. Either way, this is the NO PLAN OF INCLUSION ACT. I want to be included and respected as being intelligent. Instead, I am viewed as the other side of daylight and midnight just won’t cut it. What do YOU PEOPLE know? Give the DIVERSITY CREW a chance and we will show you what we know and what we can do. Yes, this is the remix of TRADING PLACES.

Follow me. I made some special badges. It is TIME to clock in with DEATH. I want to tell you this story from the perspective of what can happen when people ignore the obvious or they just don’t give a damn. Money is more important than a living will ever be. Policies are put in place to help one group of people and everyone else is EXCLUDED. LIES will replace the TRUTH. The DEMOCRACY of our nation will become INVISIBLE.

A spreadsheet of DIVERSITY is pasted to the wall on the bulletin board but the message is so mixed. As I look at the pictures I realize the policy has not been put in place to help everyone. Where have I seen this picture? I remember now at the RNC 2012(REPUBLICAN NATION CONVENTION).

Will the people Inside These Walls of the Existing Condition survive and make it through their shift? Outside these walls can the people and the nation continue to survive policies that will only benefit the ELITE? What is The BIG PICTURE?

Our FIRST RESPONDERS have been taken away and our lives aren’t worth a PLUG NICKEl to a COMPANY THAT IS TOO BIG TOO FAIL. Overall our company has had several bomb threats. We had to take a CBL in A SAFE WORKPLACE. Where is the CBL for a SAFE NATION?

Dr. LARRY BARTON centered his CBL computer-based learning) around the PROBLEM ASSOCIATE versus the ASSOCIATE WITH THE PROBLEM. I was saddened because none of the responsibility was placed on MANAGEMENT. You know the MITT ROMNEY and PAUL RYAN technique.

LIES have been told and the BLAME has been placed. The most recent gripe is “your chair.” I tried to explained to MITT and PAUL their AT&T network was off. The PEOPLE request to be ACCEPTED, know the TRUTH in order to TRUST. The LIES continue and the FIREWALL has come down. Who is the real threat Inside These Walls? Is it Management or the Associate? Who is the real threat Outside These Walls? Is it ROMNEY/RYAN? Is it OBAMA/BIDEN? There is good management and there is bad management. The same applies to the REPUBLICANS and
the DEMOCRATS.

Recently an associate threatens management in the TOO BIG TOO FAIL COMPANY. It is never appropriate to threaten anyone. It is never appropriate to place the blame on one side. Fact Checking is very important if you want to know the TRUTH.
Chris MATTHEWS would be disappointed but he would not be surprised. What made the associate become disgruntled? What did management do for the associate to respond in this manner? The climate has changed inside these walls. Global Warming does exist.

Cannons to the right of me. These are the angry customers who are totally dissatisfied with our services. Cannons to the left of me. These are the associates or other members of management who cannot communicate with HURRICANE RANDI. This is the new storm in town that is destroying the self-confidence of the employees like BAIN CAPITAL destroyed GS STEELE. If changes aren’t made, problems aren’t addressed and resolved, this store will be headed down a dangerous path. The COLORADO MOVIE SHOOTING, CON AGRA FOODS, and the latest edition added to this list of many tragedies was PATHMARK STORE in New Jersey. The last management was the failed Bush Era but Dick Cheney remains behind. The suffering has not ceased but has increased. HURRICANE ROMNEY/RYAN can increase the PEOPLE and NATION suffering.

Our NATION is headed on a dangerous path with the SPLIT SCREEN of HURRICANE ROMNEY/RYAN. This is the platform of DIVISION. The EYE of THE STORM is not the CALM of their POLICIES.
The EYE of THE STORM is who their POLICIES will FAIL to HELP and who will benefit the most under their FAILED POLICIES. ROMNEY/RYAN refuses to listen to the people’s needs but is willing to destroy everything within its path. A HURRICANE that refuses to PAY ATTENTION to the shift of the WIND and the DIRECTION our NATION is now traveling.

I do not wish to look back and think I could have been the solution to the problem but failed to reach out. I understand the weight on my shoulders. When a customer comes inside the store and says, “TIMES have gotten hard and you have been here a long TIME.”
I know the wind is about to shift. When the customer says, “I would never want to hurt you but in the mist of my madness, I can’t think clearly. I might accidentally hurt you.” I’m listening closely and PAYING ATTENTION. The tide is about to rise. “Even if I make it through my madness and the dust settles I would have to kill you because you know me.” OH BOY! I can’t count the TIMES I have been called a NIGGER in the FRONT END. Customers get pissed off at the lines and say all the TIME I’m going to blow this BI–ATCH UP.

I had a customer who was cussing, ranting, and raving because he did not make the alcohol sale in TIME. His solution was to blow the store up. He said he would let me go because I reminded him of his grandmother. I can live with that but this is what I couldn’t live with. I would get the opportunity to walk away and everyone else goes down. That’s not cool at all. Are you really getting away? Can you live with the fact you left so many lives behind to be destroyed without warning? I understand PRESIDENT OBAMA second term. He would not walk out on the nation without putting POLICIES in place that everyone could benefit from. He would not walk out on a NATION and say, “YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN.” PRESIDENT OBAMA would not walk us BACKWARD into SLAVERY. PRESIDENT OBAMA would not leave our lives in shambles nor in a pool of blood. CONGRESS blew the PRESIDENT UP TIME after TIME. He has taken a risk for our NATION. He is our FIRST RESPONDER and has RESPONDED every time. President Obama is at HOME. This BROTHER HERE, GOT BRAGGING RIGHTS UP IN THE HOUSE! THIS BROTHER WILL ALWAYS HAVE A HOME. He has BONDED WITH THE PEOPLE AND THE NATION.

HOME OFFICE is the HOME of the TOO BIG TO FAIL COMPANY. It is not my HOME. I’M JUST SAYING. HOME OFFICE concern is how well the store looks not how well the employees are. They don’t check in on our lives. They have NOT RESPONDED. Outside These Walls, it would be how much BAIN CAPITAL gain versus the people lose. It could be their job or LIFE. It is hard to separate the two for most people.

Do you know any single person that want so much control and power they manage by INTIMIDATION/RETALIATION? Do you Richard Branson? Do you BILL Gates? What about you Warren Buffett? It sounds familiar inside and outside of these walls.

LARRY BARTON states the best crisis is the one we can prevent. What about the crisis that is INITIATED? What about the crisis that is put in place beforehand so you will never be able to succeed, especially if you are of a diverse race. What happens Inside These Walls of the Existing Condition that no matter what you do it has already been a plan for you to be set up for failure? It has happened Outside These Walls. The Existing Condition is the Conservative Values of the ELITE who are so ELITE our vote doesn’t matter and their program is EXCLUSION ACT 2012.

Why would you go to a member of Management when Inside These Walls the Existing Condition will not get resolved? You will be RETALIATE against by MANAGEMENT? LARRY BARTON did not explain the difference from holding a person ACCOUNTABLE versus RETALIATION. I wonder why. If you cannot remember anything from this story, KNOW THIS.

RETALIATION is DELAY, FEAR, and PUNISHMENT. Most of the TIME people don’t have a clue the RETALIATION FACTOR has taken shape. A very decent person will always give you the benefit of doubt. This is the OBAMA/BIDEN FACTOR. First, you are given the runaround or the “I will get back to you” Mr. DELAY speech, not TOM DeLay. This is the rhetoric CONGRESS, GOP, and the REPUBLICANS gave to the PRESIDENT. Next, you have NO RESPONDERS and you are now the LONE WOLF. FEAR kicks in and you are afraid because you realize YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN. This is the ROMNEY/RYAN FACTOR. Who walks through the door? MANAGEMENT walks through the door. You realize if they cannot have it their way all hell will break loose. WAR and PURE PUNISHMENT has raised its head. The LIES start, sh..t is made upon you, they shut you down, you have no voice/choice, suppress the vote, and totally obstruct justice. ROMNEY/RYAN FACTOR is operating just like Management Inside These Walls of an Existing Condition that has failed to LEAN FORWARD and have a PROGRESSIVE AGENDA.

ACCOUNTABILITY means you are responsible for your BEHAVIOR/ACTION. You are liable.
If you were in charge and you screw it up then you have to ANSWER for it. You do not take HOSTAGES! NEIL ARMSTRONG would say, “THAT’S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND.” The GOP would say, “GLOBAL WARMING WHO, we don’t believe in science.”

I just want the world to know Inside These Walls the Existing Condition is RETALIATION NOT ACCOUNTABILITY. I want the world to know Outside These Walls the Existing Condition is RETALIATION NOT ACCOUNTABILITY. For the Last four years, OUR PRESIDENT was held hostage and RETALIATED AGAINST by CONGRESS. We have been held hostage Inside These Walls. BLAME GAME
IS ON. A FIREWALL no longer exists and there is nothing to regulate the merging of the INSIDE from the OUTSIDE and keeping us from all being destroyed (GLASS-STEGALL EFFECT).
Remember you have swipe your badge. The workday has begun. Hopefully, it will not end tragically.

Let me introduce myself. I play the role of ERIC HOLDER JR., Attorney General, and I’m holding the fort down on contempt charges in the ATF GUN WALKING SCANDAL. I am the star of getting CARTER. I am semiautomatic decent and I am not down with the NRA. They can’t hang me on my attendance. People use to say don’t give them any ammunition to get you. ERIC HOLDER did everything to satisfy DARYL ISSA. We saw how much sh..t the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Made up of ERIC HOLDER. There were a lot of OVERSIGHTS but the TRUTH was the largest oversight.

Management set behind the cameras in office 100 and makes up BS to take you out just like DARRYL ISSA. They feel the need to GET CARTER and as the CROONER would say, “YOU JUST CAN’T MAKE THINGS UP.” Inside these walls just like the ROMNEY/RYAN CREW, the TOO BIG TO FAIL COMPANY BENT OVER BACKWARDS instead of LEANING FORWARD. They were REACTIVE instead of PROACTIVE. This can cost the lives of many. Inside these walls, the EXISTING CONDITION has been covered up by slapping paint on the walls and putting a bandage over a dam that is about to burst. This is not the SOLUTION.

At RESIDENT EVIL, the UMBRELLA CORPORATION has PLAGUED the lives of employees submission into the BACKWARDNESS of SLAVERY. These are the souls of the employees who have been there too long. Our lives are put on the ROLLBACK WALL. From there we are shuffled over to CLEARANCE. Finally, the employees are shipped to CLAIMS and the company receives the credit for the lives that were EXPENDABLE. This is STRAIGHT UP MITT ROMNEY and PAUL RYAN.

It has the effect of the ROMNEY/RYAN EMPLOYEE CUT VOUCHER PLAN which will be used for our SENIOR CITIZENS. The only difference you are rocking to the beat of a very long EXISTING CONDITION of the 1967 group BLOOD, SWEAT, and TEARS (BS&T) and age and race doesn’t matter. WALL STREET has rolled the dice on your 401k plan and it is now a 201k plan.

GRANDMA has come out of retirement to help the grandchildren when mom and dad get laid off. GRANDMA is taking care of the babies when their knucklehead children screw up and off to jail they go. GRANDMA doesn’t believe in DFS(DIVISION of FAMILY SERVICES) GRANDMA will rumble with you over her children and will give you KNUCKLE SOUP over the GRAND-BABIES. GRANDMA is living longer and has gotten stronger. GRANDMA couldn’t afford to CRY. GRANDMA AIN’T GOT TIME TO DIE! GRANDMA needs a better HEALTH PLAN. GRANDMA has to take a STAND. PAUL RYAN’S mother can afford a summer and winter resort. GRANDMA can’t afford to fart. GRANDMA can’t afford a nursing home. GRANDMA will be left on the streets to roam. Who takes the weight when GRANDMA gets too old? GRANDMA prays it will be the SENSIBLE CHILD and not the PAUL RYAN CHILD who is trying to RIP GRANDMA OFF and steal GRANDMA’S SOUL.

Every time the store is remodeled there will be shortening of hours and firing of staff. The elderly will be disrespected and LIED to just like in PAUL RYAN SPEECH. There will be holiday cuts, cuts, and more cuts. The big BONUS goes to BIG MANAGEMENT or the ELITE.

Inside these walls of TOO BIG TOO FAIL COMPANY a class action lawsuit was ousted out against WOMEN. It claims the lawsuit was TOO BIG and would take the company down. This was definitely a WAR on WOMEN. WOMEN’S pay inside these walls are far from being equal to a man. One day I hope the LILLY LEDBETTER FAIR PAY ACT knock on the door of RESIDENT EVIL and PREVENT the plague of “WOMEN ARE SECOND CLASS CITIZENS and HAVE LESS SELF WORTH THAN A MAN.” This is not for REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ONLY but for the RIGHTS of WOMEN as A WHOLE

DIVERSITY in the walls of BAIN CAPITAL’S BROTHER is only SLAVERY and one huge COLLAGE of a FACADE. MARTIN BASHIR and MIKE PAPANTONIO it is devastating to see the shackles removed from one’s feet and FORCED around one’s MIND. The minorities and white included are made to feel: 1)You need us. 2)This job pays 2 more crumbs than BAIN CAPITOL companies. 3)Be thankful because we are your WELFARE DADDIES. 4)This is not your home and HR works for the TOO BIG
TOO FAIL COMPANY. 5)If you don’t like it we will have ALLEN WEST send you back to your country. On the way out the door trying not to speak in your language. You are pissing the TOO BIG TO FAIL COMPANY OFF. We feel you are talking about us behind our backs. This is our HOME. ENGLISH ONLY PLEASE!

See STEVE KING, of IOWA, 5th Congressional District will explain it to you. He is your man for wanting DIVERSE cultures to speak the ENGLISH LANGUAGE ONLY. Every 25 years it is TIME to renew THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT. In 1965 STEVE KING, REPUBLICAN voted against the CIVIL RIGHT ACT. He wanted to remove every foreign language off the ballot. He is the KING of NO COMMUNICATION and STRAIGHT UP VOTERS SUPPRESSION. NINA TURNER, Democratic Senator from Ohio, representing the 25th District, if you ever run into STEVE KING let him know you are the QUEEN. Give your biggest smile and say, “STEVE KING THE PLAN DID NOT WORK.”

I know you said RAPE is RAPE. PAUL RYAN called it STOCK LANGUAGE. FORCIBLE RAPE is PAUL RYAN’S LEGACY of language. JOAN WALSH you know how this plays itself out. This language has been an EXISTING CONDITION of PAUL RYAN since 1992. RAPE DOESN’T MATTER! The NEANDERTHAL THINKING of RAPE is another method of CONCEPTION and a HEINOUS CRIME. Within these walls, PAUL RYAN’S FORCIBLE RAPE is raping the mind to be a condition to think the LIE is the TRUTH and the TRUTH is a LIE. TOO BIG TO FAIL companies play and rehearse the same script over and over. The bubble burst inside the wall of the mind and our brain suffers an ANEURYSM.

The same technique is used in the 5 VIDEOS on WELFARE now being FORCE on the public as the TRUTH when it is a LIE. “YOU JUST CAN’T MAKE THESE THINGS UP! “This is now showing at ROMNEY’S IMAX THEATER near you in 3D where the LIES JUMP OUT AT YOU. It would have the same effect as the classic movie CLOCKWORK ORANGE. PAUL RYAN plays the role of ALEX. ALEX is RUSSIAN born. This couldn’t be AYN RAND, son. NAH! Paul is strapped to the chair with the MITT ROMNEY smirk on his face. Walking away from the movie you get the feeling he wasn’t cured. The TRUTH, he wasn’t cured because of the MITT ROMNEY SMIRK and the MITT LIES. PAUL RYAN came back with the term STOCK LANGUAGE. It was an EXISTING CONDITION in 1992 and it is their platform now. STILL an EXISTING CONDITION.

MITT ROMNEY’S father left a wonderful LEGACY and MITT ROMNEY did not follow in his footsteps. TOURE, you could plainly see MITT’S father personality. Secret Agent RA-RA, on the FLIP SIDE OF THE CHART, if you turn the chair the other way guess what happens. Every speaker showed you. You cannot talk about a person who doesn’t know himself. It takes a life TIME to discover who you are. Some people go on trips to discover themselves. Maybe MITT will figure it out on his boat ride. I hope MITT ROMNEY never make cuts to the DISCOVERY CHANNEL.

Bottomline: Children who are labeled disable have a SPONSOR. Whether you are in the PRIVATE JOB SECTOR or PUBLIC JOB SECTOR, UNION or NON-UNION there should be someone there to SPEAK OUT in a PERSON’S behalf to fight for the individuals, rights (an attorney, a teacher, a minister and our FIRST RESPONDER-THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES). Coming from the FLIP SIDE OF THE CHART these are our INTERPRETERS.

Our government has LEAN FORWARD and has provided DAYCARE, RESPITE, 504 and IEPS in our educational system, transportation for the DISABLE, PELL GRANTS, and much more. Government is RESPECTING WOMEN RIGHTS and IT IS A WOMAN’S DECISION. Government is not the ENEMY. ASK GM. We can’t ask BIN LADEN. In our GOVERNMENT SYSTEM, something should be put in place to help everyone in this nation. If not then GOVERNMENT will go BACK to the DRAWING BOARD and LEAN FORWARD with PROGRESSIVE IDEAS.

There is another man who left a LEGACY of a magnificent company, now a HUGE CORPORATION. His name was SAM WALTON. I never got a chance to meet this man but I have ALWAYS heard wonderful things about him. His company has taken a different direction. The wind has shifted. The tide has risen. The Dam is about to break. The last story in the December 2011 archives I had expressed deep concern. Well, it has gone beyond my fears. If it doesn’t happen to this store it can and will happen to another store. The associates have no HOME. The ALWAYS BOND has been BROKEN. Many of the associates/management feel ALWAYS A SLAVES AT WALMART. Where are their RESPONDERS?

Our PRESIDENT has carried a heavy load within his heart and mind. He is being held ACCOUNTABLE by WE THE PEOPLE and OUR NATION. He needs your SUPPORT and VOTE for his SECOND CHANCE. He’s not trying to turn back the hand of TIME. He needs more TIME to TURN US AWAY FROM SLAVERY.

TOM BROKAW once stated he never was worried about the bullet that has his name on it. He was always worried about the bullet that stated: “To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.”

MIKE DUKE(President and CEO) of WALMART, SAMUEL ROBSON WALTON(CHAIRMAN), and TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

What you live is never hard to tell. Putting one’s thoughts on paper is the biggest struggle for most NLDER. ONE STEP AT A TIME. NLD MOM/cancer survivor

This story was published on September 4, 2012, an error has occurred with the date. Please refer the second paragraph of Inside These Walls__Existing Conditions and to Twitter for the release date.

A Bite Of The Apple__A Tribute to Steve Jobs

Scene: This conversation takes place at Steve Jobs’ underground compound in the middle of who in the hell knows where. We are talking about Steve Jobs, Okay. Smokelbg has decided to pay Steve a visit and have a heart to heart chat.

Smokelbg:

Hey, where you at? Steve, Steve is you here? Hey man, you better show up real fast. Some of your neighbors are looking at me really crazy. I can’t believe this. Steve wears this outfit all the time. I wonder why I’m having so much trouble wearing these blue jeans and black tee-shirt? I don’t have no ski mask on. What is this, the neighborhood watch? Okay, I see how this works. Don’t make me show your neighbors who’re the real Mac Genius. Why you laughing Steve?

Steve:

Smokelbg, you are hilarious. I’m so glad you could drop by. It’s good seeing you. It has been a long TIME.

Smokelbg:

More like Delirious and you don’t hear me singing Prince’s song. Come on now, I didn’t just drop by. I had to catch 2 planes, sail across the Mojave Desert, take a boat through Vienna, sing Oleta Adam’s Song-Get Here If You Can, and stung gun your neighbor’s dog. Where did Cujo come from? Was he trained to take a bite out of crime? Hey, Prince designed his butt-out pants. I did not need any help from Cujo. Okay!

Steve:

What?! Is Fefe okay? He is harmless. He just wanted to play. I can’t believe you used a taser gun on Tim’s dog.

Smokelbg:

Did you say Tim’s dog? Please tell me I didn’t taser Timothy D. Cook’s dog. Damn it!

Fefe is the canine dog from hell. You should be asking is Smokelbg okay. Do I look like IAMS or Purina One Dog Chow to you? Where is this place anyway? Anytime Air Force One drops you off in the middle of the desert, you got to be hiding some secrets. I get along with dogs on a regular day but Fefe and I aren’t making any love connections. Can I use your bathroom? Ahhh! Steve, there is a robot up here in your bathroom trying to tell me how many square feet are in toilet paper. Steve get up here I push a button and I’m not sure if I Googled my butt across the nation. I just need some peroxide for my butt and I need to flush the toilet. Steveeee!

Steve:

Are you finding everything you need Smokelbg? There are some special treats behind the mirror glass shaped like an APPLE. This would make any woman’s head spin.

Smokelbg:

I don’t want my head to spin. I need some toilet tissue to keep me from having issues with Roberta the Robot who will not let me wipe my Ahh….! Steve get up here NOW!

Steve:

Oh, Dear, I meant to tell you if you put your hands in a certain position the robot will defend herself and put you in a headlock. Smokelbg, Tim designed the robot. It was a birthday gift for my daughter.

Smokelbg:

I should have known. Who is going to believe that my torn A… graduated with a whiplashed neck. Only at Steve’s Jobs compound. Do you have a pair of pants I can borrow and a soft pillow I can sit on?

Steve:

The pants may not fit. I mean they may be too long.

Smokelbg:

Just cut them in half… I need something to cover my butt.

Steve:

Hold tight, I got something that will make you feel really comfortable. There you go. I know how you like soft fabrics and this robe is just perfect. Smokelbg, I’m not cutting my pants.

Smokelbg:

Fair enough but I could have done without the APPLES on the robe. This robe feels like a giant cotton ball. Steve, it is TIME for us to take A BITE OF THE APPLE. Would you like to go first?

Steve:

Since you’ve come so far I want you to tell me what is on your mind.

Smokelbg:

I remember when I first told you about my son’s extraordinary mind, unique abilities, and multi-intelligence learning style. You looked directly in my face and said, Thank God he isn’t disabled. At least his head is still attached to his neck. I never liked labels that hinder people from achievement. At that point, I wanted to cry. You sat there and you listened to me go on and on about Nonverbal Learning Disability. You asked me to take a trip out to one of the APPLE STORES. I did and it was an amazing adventure. When I stepped out of the car and entered the store it begins to pull me and my son right into all the applications that could be purchased along with all the different products. My son and I were both dressed in our black tee shirts and blue jeans. We had struggled with the schools for years and it was TIME to move on and find the latest technology of teaching tools for home. Every person in the store regardless of race, age, and the geographical location was fascinated with the products. They were all interested in learning. We felt at home. Every school across the nation should feel this way for all children to hold their interest in learning. This store’s atmosphere was non-threatening, created a conducive environment and every customer in the store was paying attention. Steve, from the TIME I walked into the APPLE STORE there were people conversing, exchanging email addresses, and their cell phone numbers. My son began to really shine and start asking for numbers too. He didn’t get this opportunity at school. I thought he would become overwhelmed because the store was so crowded. He jumped right on it. He was so excited and he began to open up for the first time.

My son didn’t have to feel the hurt and pain of having manifestation hearings, getting suspended, or ever having to worry about another due process hearing. Most parents feel children who are labeled “disabled” will become budget cuts in the educational system. Why would you want to fix a child that was already broken? Why should a school system RECOGNIZE or make accommodations for a diagnosis that has not been validated by the AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION? This store gave us a new way of looking at educating your child. It gave us hope outside of the educational system regardless what the educational system would or wouldn’t offer.

Why should a child go to school for twelve years of his life and find it hard to develop friends? It shouldn’t come down to TEST SCORES or the educational system FUNDING. Teachers shouldn’t be pressured to the point they LIE and CHEAT to bring children TEST SCORES up for ACCREDITATION. It should be about the child’s education because they are the ones who suffer the most. I kept trying to convince myself that I was in a store. This was more than just a store. Once again through your vision and innovation, something magical was going on inside the APPLE STORE that made people not want to leave and learn more. It felt safe, people’s’ questions were being answered, there was so much support, and the employees cared.

I was so glad when you met with PRESIDENT OBAMA, ERIC SMITH one of the founders of GOOGLE and MARK ZUCKERBERG, founder and CEO of FACEBOOK. All I could think of was, “If anyone could get the educational system on track it would be you guys.” Alternative methods of teaching children are on the rise. Steve, parents need to understand if they can’t find support in their own schools and districts then they need to find another way. APPLE STORE has created a learning environment. The educational system needed to take notes BIG TIME.

I found one of your sayings you had written on June 12, 2005, and it is your TIME to take a BITE OF THE APPLE. Do you remember Steve?

Steve:

I may not remember offhand but I can pull it up on my computer. Let me see. Hear it is.

Smokelbg:

Okay, you read it.

Steve:

You want me to read it.

Smokelbg:

Yes Steve, if you want to sing it you can. Just do it. This is your BITE OF THE APPLE.

Steve:

Here it goes. I look in the mirror and ask myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “NO” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Because of almost everything all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things fell away in the face of death leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Smokelbg:

This is how I responded to your message on FaceBook. Hi, this Smokelbg. I have always been puzzled by those who are GONE but not FORGOTTEN. These are the ones that never die and live in our hearts forever. The impact they make in our lives leaves such a great impression. You see them so clearly. You remember the smell of their cologne, the sound of their laughter, and their wonderful words of wisdom. We walk around every day of our lives and we can’t remember the person’s name, what they wore that day, or where they work. Who is alive and who has passed on? There are many who are no longer with us. There are those who are expected to EXIT who will always have a PERMANENT ENTRANCE.

Steve, you have inspired me to be a follower of my heart. When Tim’s dog tore into my APPLE BOTTOM JEANS I looked back and saw that I too was butt-naked. It would be a shame if I survived cancer and not Tim’s dog. I just want the world to understand NLD Syndrome and hopefully, parents will understand there is another diagnosis out there they may need to check out. Everybody is not ASPERGER, AUTISM, or PDD-NOS. Good Grief! I want those parents out there asking questions, getting an early start on getting their child diagnosed, and not to be afraid. I don’t want to read any more ho-hum stories about NLD SYNDROME. I’m tired of the gloomy picture that is painted of people who have been diagnosed with NLD SYNDROME. These children/adults have to live with NLD SYNDROME and should not have to suffer the consequences of it. I want those doctors up, running, and developing strategies and coping skills and doing consistent testing for NLDERS. Sure DEATH is IMMINENT but to arrive at one’s destination at a much early TIME without any knowledge of knowing what you are up against is one hell of a trap.The KNOWLEDGE of KNOWING will help with INTERVENTIONS even if there is NO CURE it will give you HOPE.

DEDICATED: To STEVES JOBS of APPLE, who has given the EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM HOPE and has given the WORLD EVERYTHING OF HIMSELF. NLD Mom/cancer survivor