Thursday, December 31, 2015

Liberian Ball vs Real Ball!

Two organizations, wow! This is a new dawn if only we could unite as ONE organization in the Americas. Can you imagine what we will accomplish? I would like to see ONE organization in America with states chapters, example: Liberia Association in America, Liberia Association in America Michigan Chapter, Liberia Association in America Delaware Chapter, etc. Annual due, $120.00. Each state chapter will host their convention annually. Convention sitting fee for attendees $100.00; nonattenders $200.00. Have all dues auto debited on the last day of each month ($10.00). The account should be handled by a non-Liberian accounting firm. Money generated at the end of the year should complete one major project in Liberia. The National Board of directors should be outsourced (non-Liberian) as well. Until we can develop trust, unity, and selflessness, every major decision and every penny spend should be governed by a non-Liberia group!

Now, let’s talk about THE ball.

The word "ball" derives from the Latin word ballare, meaning "to dance"; the Latin word also developed into French baller—from where it swapped into languages like English or German—, and bailar, the Spanish and Portuguese verbs for "to dance" (although all three Romance languages also know danser, danzar and dançar respectively).Catalan uses the same word, ball, for the dance event.

Nowhere in this description mentioned Long speeches and long sitting. If you are going to live on the microphone all night why we sit and or sleep, please change your title from “Ball” to “sit and talk” event. Some of us go to ball to DANCE not sit while Liberian men give long unnecessary “much to do about nothing” speeches!

Thank you,


Roberta Williams 

FROM: Grand Gedeh County and
Nimba County Associations
in the USA

TO: Liberian Diaspora Community

SUBJ: SPECIAL INVITATION

DATE: December 29, 2015

The officers and members of the Grand Gedeh County Association in America and the United Nimba Citizens Council, UNICCO cordially invite all Liberians residing in the United States to a NEW YEAR DINNER AND BALL on Saturday, February 6, 2016 at 7:00 PM. The venue is 7200 Groovers Avenue, Philadelphia PA 19142. The two Organizations have decided to host a UNITY FOR PEACE AND PROGRESS NEW YEAR DINNER AND BALL as a way of initiating a friendly and prosperous collaboration between the Organizations and their Counties.

Leaders of the two Organizations appointed a joint Steering Committee that is responsible to plan and execute the program. You will be hearing from the Committee occasionally providing you with basic information about the event.

Though invitations will go out to all Liberian Organizations, we want to send this special invitation to the Union of Liberian Associations in the Americas, ULAA, all county and District organizations as well as all other Liberian organizations in the USA to attend this all important Dinner and Ball. Your invitations will soon be in the Mail, but we are kindly asking you to save this date and join the people of NIMBA County and Grand Gedeh to have a wonderful night together.

We will be happy to see all of you.

Gounquoi Domah and Anna Barlee
267 496 0939 484 620 9328
Grand Gedeh-Nimba Steering Committee

Posted by Robbie Answer My Questions at 9:37 AM

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Joke Of The Day

A little boy walks into his parents' room to see his mom on top of his dad bouncing up and down... the mom sees her son and quickly dismounts, worried about what her son has seen. She dresses quickly and goes to find him. The son sees his mom and asks, "What were you and Dad doing?" The mother replies, "Well, you know your dad has a big tummy and sometimes I have to get on top of itand help flatten it." "You’re wasting your time," said the boy. "Why is that?" the mom asked puzzled. "Well when you go shopping the lady next door comes over and gets on her knees and blows it right back up."

Liberians, I have few questions I would really like answers to

Please number your answer(s) to match the question(s)s you are answering.
1. What would happen if all of our Liberian non-for-profit organizations deleted their constitutions and by-laws? Most non-profit organizations outside of Liberians do not have constitutions and or by-laws. What would happen if we had no political jah-jah in our organizations?
2. What would happen if we did not put these titles before our Liberian people names? "His or Her Excellency", "Honorable", "chairperson", "Governor", and so forth and so on? If we call the president of Liberia, Mrs. Johnson-Sirleaf, what will happen to us after doing so and what is the reason behind these titles anyway? Most places will say: Mr. Bush, president of the USA, not His Excellency Bush!!
3. What would happen if we really wanted to help our country Liberia and did it this way; instead of having hundreds of Liberian organizations going NOWHERE FAST? What if we divided the Liberians living in America by States and divide them by Liberia counties and terrorities. Here’s my madness: Take Liberia nine counties plus five terrorities equal fourteen areas, hopefully it is still that number from when I left. Divide that into the fifty states, which will give you 3.57 states per Liberia area. Let say, all Liberians in the 3.57 states take on one of those counties or terrorities and get together to re-build the area. Do you think Liberia will be on her feet by the year 2012? Again: 9 + 5 = 14 ÷ 50 = 3.57.
4. What if all Liberian government officials had to public a monthly "job" progress report with evidences to all Liberian newspaper? Do you think they will put effort into their jobs? What would happen if the public had the power to fire them for not doing their jobs or not doing it according to their job descriptions?
5. What if the president of Liberia, Mrs. Johnson Sirleaf was to ask each adult Liberians living outside of Liberia to send $50.00US to help re-build the schools in Liberia; how much do you think would be collected and how many schools do you think will be in the position to compete with the western world by the year 2012?
Everyone please have a blessed day and remember to answer the questions you truly can relate to.