Holise E. Cleveland III's Blog – January 2011 Archive (4)

My grandmother taught me about Santa Claus. She told me how he could see me when I was asleep and he knew when I was awake. We had no chimney, so he could pass through walls. He knew every child in the world by name. He knew my name. No matter what time of year it was, he knew when I was bad. He also knew when I was…

Imagine it’s the early 1940s: World War II. Hitler is engaged in perpetrating the most horrendous atrocity of the twentieth century. He and his army are attempting to take over the world and eliminate all Jewish people in the process. Something must be done! Hitler must be stopped. He’s about to envelop this entire planet in a dark cloud of evil. Not only will the Jewish race be extinct, we will all be his slaves. The world…

“They’re not getting the care in the aquariums. It’s a physical fact that we as humans are separating family groups and we’re deciding which animals should go where and how that should be done. And as a father it just hit me that would be the same as if I put a net into my family and took my son away and said, ’Ok son, you’re going to China to represent Canadians…

I hear about people who seem to be activists just for the brownie points. They are more concerned with their own praise than anything else. We should be wary of those who seem to have the animals’ best interest in mind, when in fact they obviously have their own agenda. This article will hopefully cause some people…