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National: N.Y. School Renamed for Obama; MLK Memorial May Have Hit a Snag; Obama Pool Table Selling on eBay for $500,000
November 22nd, 2008
A N.Y. school is renamed for Obama. The Barack Obama name seems to be catching on everywhere - even at schools. The former Ludlum Elementary School in Hempstead, New York, was renamed at a school board meeting Thursday - effective immediately - in honor of the president-elect. The new name is the Barack Obama Elementary School. The school, which is made up of about 440 students, is mostly Black and Hispanic.
MLK Memorial may have hit a snag. Wal-Mart is kicking in a large chunk of change to help along plans for the Martin Luther King Memorial in Washington, D.C., The Associated Press reports. The Wal-Mart Foundation has announced a $12.5 million letter of credit for the planned memorial. The group working to build the King memorial says it has raised $100 million of the $120 million needed for the project. Meanwhile, the memorial may hit a snag over a disagreement about how to secure the site. The National Park Service wants the design to include security measures, feeling the memorial might be targeted by racist extremist groups, AP reports. But the National Capital Planning Commission doesn’t want the security barriers, saying it’s an affront to King’s legacy of inclusiveness.
Obama pool table selling on eBay for $500,000. Just about everything Obama touches seem to turn to “sold” these days. The owner of the pool hall in West Virginia is planning to sell the tournament-size pool table along with the cues, balls and lamp used by Obama during a campaign stop back in May. John Mawyer, the owner of the pool hall, posted the pool table on eBay with a starting price of $500,000. Some of the proceeds will go to charity.
I think it’s awesome that Obama has a school named after him, he ispired mulitple generations of people with his campaign his victorious win. I am ery glad and think it is well deserved!
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It very nice but I do have a compound question- who was Ludlum & what did he/she do to have their legacy taken away? Why couldn’t they name a new building for him instead?
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Thak god………cause with a name that sound like hoodlum, some one needed 2 come 2 tha rescue of those kids. Plus, they can become an inspiration 2 each other now, attending a school named after a man who not only made HISTORY but, let us know that…YES WE CAN…………become anyone we believe we can become. just believe and stay prayed up……………………PEACE OUT
A NY school named after Mr. President BARACK OBAMA? Only in New York, my town. Praise the Lord!
That will become a true ghetto school..!!!!
WELL HE IS THE KING OF THE LORD ,AND THE PRESIDENT FOR THE WORLD AND UNITED-STATES WHAT TO EXPECT .
THAT JUST CAN BE WORDERFUL
HE INSPIRE ME SINCE DAY ONE AND I BELIEVE .AND I LOVE HIM DEARLY OBAMA AND ALL HIS FAMILY MICHELLE ROBINSON AND SASHA AND MALIA I LOVE THEM ALL THEM DEARLY BYE. WORDERFUL .
GOOD JOB………
YEP DAVID…………GHETTO IS WHERE IT IS AT………….GOOD, HEALTHY, EVERYLASTING, THOUGHTFUL, TALENTED, ORIGINATORS………..(GHETTO)…..now take that……….may God penetrate that hateful, blasphemous, racist soul of yours. I bind every negative thing you have said on this blog. I pray that the same hurt and negativity you spread fall upon you and your generation and generations to come seven fold. I pray that a man or woman of color will have to be the one to save your life one day. I pray that your hands be stopped from typing another hateful nasty word. I bind and loose the vain imaginations in your warped man. I denounce the spirit of hatred, jealousy and bigotry in your soul. I command that the demons that are on you run out now…………You shall reap what you have sown. Nothing good from this day forward will come to you.
IT IS SO…………………..By the Blood of Jesus…………….You have been stopped. Now mock that you shall see….You mind will be so twisted, hands and arms broken so that you cannot say another hurtful thing.
I need all you bloggers to touch and agree and repeat this so this man can be stopped………………He needs deliverance.
there’s a mountain in ANTIGUA named after obama, in the caribbean.
HeavenSent,
I so agree!
Ludlum sounds like hoodlum? Your ignorance is showing. Ludlum School was named for Charles Ludlum; a prominent doctor who was school board president of the Hempstead district for 38 years. He died in 1930. By the way, Charles Ludlum was Caucasian.