Friday Rap

Is it just me....or have the writers responsible for the plot and storyline on All My Children gone absolutely crazy....

I am well familiar with taking license with reality....however the suspension of belief that it would take to make these story lines acceptable...is criminal...

I am literally ready to rid the world of Ryan, Zach, and Josh

But... Kendall and Randi....they are a disgrace to womanhood...no woman in the history of the planet is that stupid...ever....even while pretending....

And I thought Crystal was bad a couple of months ago...man!

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Speaking of monumentally intellectually challenged women...Our Sarah made a speech in Hong Kong this week....

Word is she was true to form of never letting the facts get in the way of her fiction..

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Speaking of facts on Health Care Reform....a new poll says 65% of voters now favor the public option..

The House is set to vote on it for the first time on Tuesday..

Call your Congressman please....Tell them that Health Care Reform Without single pay or a public option..

is just another government subsidy for the Insurance and health care industry...

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New survey out says spanking your kids makes them stupid....Not according to my Mom...She always said she would beat the black off me...and 50 years later I stand before you in all my light, bright and butterscotch skin...

No Black anywhere except in my mind...she missed that...I'm happy to say...

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Good to see Momar back in the limelight....he's old time crazy...been that way for years...his speech to the UN shows nothing's changed....

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It's still early....but I'm not seeing any signs what so ever...that my President is going to dismantle the evil empire and imperial presidency crafted together by the former regime...what's that about power corrupting...those who get it...don't want to give it up...

Maybe it's the ultimate addiction.

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New gadget for cooks....a cocoon cooker that will allow you to grow meat and fish from a prepackaged mix of dehydrated...well you don't want to know....

Of course PETA may like it....won't have to kill animals anymore...just whip up a chia steak in the kitchen for dinner...

Think I will pass....

Ya'll Need to go Sit Down and Shut up

Congressman Eric Cantor...the face of compassionate conservatism..This from a man who has government funded health care to a woman with stomach tumors Click on the link to check out what he said...

Remember, the GOP said all of us already have health care...it's called the emergency room at your local hospital...
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"She breaches!".....Condi speaks about pulling out of Afghanistan....where was all this bluntness when her boss was lying to us about terror attacks eight years ago...

I seem to recall if they had read the memo early in 2001....we might not have been attacked so succesfully in September 2001...

I seem to recall that on that fateful day....her boss was caught with his pants down in a classroom full of students...doing what Obama was excoriated for a few weeks ago..

I seem to recall....her boss and his now very vocal vice president went into hiding and Condi disappeared...

No Moses moment from these clowns...you know what I'm talking about...in the Ten Commandment movie when Joshua tells Moses to go stand on the rock and be seen so his people could draw strength from his visage as God parted the red sea...

To paraphrase a dead politician...."Mr Bush...you are no Moses!" and neither is Cheney and Condoleeza Rice...well nobody will ever mistake her for Joan of Arc, or Rosa Parks, or Coretta Scott King...

And afterward....again paying no attention to the writing on the memo....attacked Iraq when the terrorists with Saudi passports and birth certificates and nationality launched their attack from American soil, as American trained and armed Al Qaeda cheered from the sidelines in Afghanistan...

Remember bin laden's family lived in New York on September 11 and had to be smuggled out by the Bush government on airplanes supplied by his oil rich Saudi friends...

Condi helped create the lies back then...and now thinks we will listen to her once again?

hmmmmmmmm....

Things are different now....the one thing that is true about America...you can hit us...but not twice....

Thanks to Bush and Cheney and Condi...we got hit..But it won't happen again...

We're awake now...

Try it again....we dare absolutely double dare ya...

Friday Feel Good Music

Where is Rachelle Ferrell and Why won't she come home?

If It Walks Like a Duck and Quacks.....

Obama in denial about racism, misses opportunity to address systemic issues

I understand that Obama has firmly planted himself in the middle. He wants to be president to everybody. I'm on board with that. He was elected by nearly everybody. However, the very vocal minority who didn't vote for him and even refuse to recognize his very human-ness, as well as his American-ness, have hijacked the national conversation.

Jimmy Carter, the former president who was not as bad a president as some would imagine, kicked the door wide open on the subject. All Obama had to do was to walk through and begin the discussion.

But he backed off, preferring instead to let Carter twist in the wind. Carter's problem, even when he was president, was that he usually spoke the truth..

People just didn't want to hear it.

If this country had taken the steps mandated by Carter, back in the day, we might not be paying $4 for gasoline and hundreds of dollars a month heat our homes.

If we had listened to Carter back then, America would probably be green today living on solar power instead of just getting into the ballgame with two out in the 9th and the score 10-1.

The problem with Obama is that he still thinks he is walking the hallways of academia breathing that rarified air of debate, discussion and civil discourse....

while a street fight has broken out around him....

The guns are literally out in full view......and he doesn't want to talk about it.....

First things first...let's deal with health care reform...or let's put wall street back on track....or let's look for alternatives solutions to our energy crisis...

Note to O.....the underlying cause of this stuff.....is racism...systemic...institutionalized racism...except now it has broken into the streets and some people are hiding behind the first amendment and threatening to invoke the second....

Whole Black people have had to deal with this scenario our entire lives..."you don't like what we sayin'....we will kill you!"

That is the message from the streets to the White House...

The problem with ducking the issue in hopes that it disappears is that it doesn't...It does what things do when pushed underground and ignored.....It grows and grows until it pushes itself into the light of day...and one day you trip over it...

Obama talks about the racism he heard from his white grandmother....it is one thing to hear it from a white relative....

This is his way of showing off his so called Black credibility....see I'm really one of ya'll....

But it is another thing completely to experience it over and over again from strangers....His grandmother loved him and protected him from it as he lived in her world...even as she spoke it and practiced it against others....

He needs to step to the plate and deal with a problem that still has a strangle hold on this country.....

No amount of ducking the issue or shushing former presidents is going to make it go away..

Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary...

Mary, along with Peter and Paul are some of the voices that play in my head, when I think about my youth.

This was one of my favorite songs....in this video, John Denver is singing with them...He is the man who wrote this song...

May she find peace

Midweek Observations

Alan Wilson who is the oldest son of Congressman Joe from South Carolina says there is not a racist bone in his daddy's body. Alan says daddy doesn't even laugh at distasteful jokes...

In case you forgot Daddy Joe is the one who yelled at Obama and before that was mentored by Strom Thurmond (never say anything bad about the dead unless you can say something good.....he's dead...good)

Joe, when he was a young pup called Strom's black daughter disrespectful for simply saying truthfully that Strom was her father....

Strom financially supported his child her whole life...but I've got to wonder, since the 16 year old maid who bore Essie worked for the Thurmonds...

Was this a love affair....or was it a rape...by massa's son?

Just askin.........

Daddy Joe also has a thing for the confederate flag, too...

But no...he's not racist....

None of em are, to hear them tell it....It's all a figment of Black people's imagination for the past 400 years..

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OJ's ex......speaking about her 13 year relationship with the Juice who is now safely behind bars...

I almost had some sympathy for this woman...you know, Stockholm Syndrome and all that....

Until I found out where she met OJ.....outside his house where he committed the murders...she was there with other sightseers to look at the murder scene after it happened, and OJ came out and spotted her in the crowd....and what do you know...they fell in love...

She said in the interview that she stayed with him...even after he confessed to killing Nicole and Ron Brown, because she feared he would do the same to her.....

Let's back up a minute....

Girlfriend...if you're walking through the woods and a big black furry thing with claws, drool running down his neck and miles of big teeth stands up in front of you, stopping your stroll...you don't go up and ask it....”Are you a bear?....Am I in danger?”

You err on the side of caution....turn around....and hope you can outrun Yogi before BooBoo joins him in the chase......

In other words...DB.....you don't take up with men you meet at crime scenes...especially if he lives in the house and his wife who looks like you...is the one that's dead....


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Whitney and Oprah

The Diva sit down.....parts one and two....It's all Bobby's fault....Everything....I was just trying to be a good wife and go along with the program for the sake of my child....

Please....

Love me some Whitney....but I still see some issues that need resolving, big time...It ain't over..and this time...Bobby's not there to take the blame...

You've got to own it...before you can control it.....

And Oprah....don't think that sneaky comparison of Bobby to Stedman was missed...It wasn't...

You ain't slick girlfriend....

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Kanye.....as long as the boy has FU money...he is going to do whatever he pleases...he is on the AAA list and until such time as the white powers that control MTV...BET...Viacom and whoever....he will be there to do exactly he did to whomever..

Like him or not...he makes headlines....

And make no mistake about it....I don't like him...don't think he is talented...and my gaydar is really up in his direction....like a damn homing signal on his ass...

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The View

Never thought I would want Elizabeth to come back....Megan was okay as fill in..In fact they could lose Elizabeth and plug in Megan...I'm okay with that....

But this Kate Gosselin...what were they thinking.......Useless.....totally useless...

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9/12 Million-950,000 Moron March

What does it say about your movement when fake pictures are used to allegedly document it...

Glen Beck....the guy who talked it up...refused to attend...

So what...he had a schedule conflict for his own party...I know...the dog ate the invitations after he had them printed.....what...

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And I am literally choking on these words....

Dick Cheney was right....He said that once Obama got into the White House he would like all those imperial presidency trappings that he and Dubya pushed through...

Obama wants to keep the patriot act in place.....

What's that saying...."absolute power corrupts absolutely....

As for the Health Care Reform Bill.....Baucus has proven to be the sell out that we knew he was....$3 million dollars from Big Pharma into his pocket will do that....


Note to President O......health care reform without a public option is the status quo that you keep saying you intend to change.....

hearin' me brah?

Boys Being Girls...R.I.P. Patrick and Zakes

Zakes Mokae passed away at the age of 75. He played in many, many movies as well as acting on stage.

You may remember him as Gregory Hines cross dressing friend Big Kathy in A Rage in Harlem.

He was also in Vampire in Brookyn and many other movies..




Patrick ranked high on my list of fun people to watch...Too Wong Foo, which sported three of the ugliest drag queens on the face of this earth, but I love the movie...Dirty Dancing and Ghost...simply the best...

He was 57.

Serena Apologizes

Serena Williams Statement, September 14, 2009

“I want to amend my press statement of yesterday, and want to make it clear as possible - I want to sincerely apologize FIRST to the lines woman, Kim Clijsters, the USTA and mostly tennis fans everywhere for my inappropriate outburst. I'm a woman of great pride, faith and integrity, and I admit when I'm wrong. I need to make it clear to all young people that I handled myself inappropriately and it's not the way to act -- win or lose, good call or bad call in any sport, in any manner.

I like to lead by example. We all learn from experiences both good and bad, I will learn and grow from this, and be a better person as a result.”

--Apology accepted

by the by....The sisters won the doubles finals today defeating the defending champs and number one ranked women's doubles team in the world...

The Williams took three out of four gram slam doubles trophies this year..losing only the French...

They already own the career slam..and are two of only three active players who can make that claim...

Go Williams..

Serena 's PMS Moment

Make no mistake about it Kim Clijsters deserves to play for the US Open title today. She won it fair and square. I said earlier this week that she would be a headache for Serena, because Clijsters is a very good player from the old school. She doesn't wilt at the sight of her opponent across the net. She plays her game, which has always been one of the best return games in the business.

Most counter punchers, which Clijsters is....don't have anything to their game except the counter punch..in other words the passing shot or the very sharp angle return...Clijsters has that and strength and a serve...both first and second...and she is smart...very smart......and cool under pressure...

When you play Kim Clijsters, you bring your A game or you go home. It's that simple. Serena did not bring her A game last night. Her serve sucked. She couldn't get the first one in and her second simply disappeared. Add to those woes a backhand that became uncontrollable and you have a problem. It's happened before to Serena. But usually she is composed enough to fight through the problems and get back enough of her game to win. Not last night.

Every great player always has that match during a two week tournament where things don't go right. Hopefully they have it early in the tournament...get it out of their system...so that late in the tournament...when they meet the better players...they are battle tested and ready....Serena was not ready...she had not been tested at all in these past couple of weeks..

Further....she seems to be believing the hype...and when you're reading and believing your press clippings more than your fans...you are setting yourself for a big fall...

She totally self destructed starting with when she broke her racket in the first set, which was also a point penalty deduction. The foot fault at championship point was her second penalty of the night.

And yes, she did cuss out the linesman...going in not once...but twice....you could hear every word on the live feed....it was only bleeped in the replay....

I questioned the foot fault...I don't even see it on the replay....However...there was no excuse for Serena's behavior...

It was a total PMS moment.... completely unexplainable...

She lost it....lost it at the wrong time...Unfortunate...but stuff happens...

Friday Rap

9/11

8th anniversary of the attack on America. There is still a hole in the ground where the Trade Towers stood. Bush is out of office, but the war in Afghanistan is bloodier than before, even as Iraq is winding down, thanks to Obama.

Waldo, Osama and Carmen

Waldo, Osama Bin Laden and Carmen Sandiego are the only three people in the world that American spy satellites can't seem to locate. Despite a 25-million dollar bounty on his head and the fact that he has failing kidneys and is 6 feet 4 inches tall, They can't find him...

Think about it....a six foot four Arab pulling a dialysis machine through mountains...

Do we really want to find this guy? After all...America armed the Taliban in the first place...Why can't we end this American created inter squad scrimmage and come home, now?

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Michael

MJ may have been the king of pop when alive, but his family is going to make him the hardest working man in show business, since he passed. Joe's got all kinds of plans for his late, estranged son...Jermaine is in the corner scheming like always, while the other brothers run around looking lost..

The crazy one, LaToya is screaming murder and doing all the interviews...so you know there is nothing of substance being said....The MSM talks to her because they want controversy and headlines..nothing more...that's not news...

Katherine and Janet seem to be only voices of sanity, trying to keep the others from spinning totally out of control.....and those poor kids are trapped in the middle.....lost in Jackson Wonderworld..

And I don't care who gave him the injection.....Michael was an addict....He did what addicts do..had the money to get it done....and paid the consequences....

He killed himself...

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Caster Semenya

May be an intersexual...or sources allegedly close to the testing have told a couple of foreign newspapers..Today, I am questioning those reports as accurate....primarily because...of the terms that the sources are using...Hermaphrodite is not the au currant term these days....It's Intersexed..

In the meantime these “sources” say she has organs for both men and women. The sports governing group says since she didn't cheat, she may get to keep her medals, but they still have studying to do and that will take a few more weeks...

The downside is that she may never be allowed to compete again, because she is too strong to go against women, yet not man enough to go against men...

There is an upside to all of this controversy....the girl is happy with who she is...the world seems to be happy that she is happy...and that is a good thing....no one wants her stripped of her medals or hurt anymore by this mess...

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Joe Wilson

It gets better about Congressman Joe “that's a lie” Wilson....seems he is back tracking his apology saying the GOP leadership told him to say sorry....

Kind of like the kid who gets the crap beat out of him then tries to spin it by saying...”did you see me punch his fist with my face?.....I kicked his ass!”

Yeah, right..

This little piss-ant apparently has a long history of letting his mouth get his behind in trouble...seems way back when, when the world got wind of racist Strom Thurmond's black daughter...Wilson attacked the daughter....Essie Washington....as disrespecting a fine upstanding and respectable Congressman that was the segregationist Thurmond.....All Essie said to disrespect the man was....”yes, he is my father.”

Thurmond supported Essie his entire life....just kept her hidden....to keep his buddies from stripping him of his KKK membership...

Wilson, like many of his modern day fellow republicans has a problem with black-white love or sex...especially when it begets babies who may someday grow up to be president...

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Mad Dogs and Republicans Come Out in the Noon Day Sun

This week shows that the GOP has jumped off into the deep end is unsteadily stroking into deeper and deeper water. They've reached the point of no return and don't seem to realize it..

They've marginalized the sane members and embraced the lunatics...

Can total extinction be far behind?

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Queen Serena

Has her toughest match this afternoon, not Saturday night when the final will be played...She is playing Kim Clijsters today in the semis.....Kim is dangerous and has nothing to lose...Love her game...but I love Serena even more....

Go Serena!

The sisters are in the Doubles finals on Sunday...they got pushed yesterday...but got through it...that's okay....They need to be pushed in order to get better....

Go Venus! Go Serena! Go Venus! Go Serena!

Cincinnati Media Misses Real Story

First African American Named as President of Major University

Normally that would be the headline when a Black is tapped to do something the first time. Forever, his or her name would be prefixed by “first African American” this or that, whenever he is talked about in the news.

However there is a problem here and the problem is that Gregory H. Williams, looks like a white man. He identifies himself as African American, so we're not spilling any family secrets here.

He is okay with his identity, in fact he wrote a book about it. The stories today point out his relationship to two coaches for the Cincinnati Bengals.

Yet, the media is in a state of flux about how to identify this man. If he were my color, there would be no problem. If his skin is dark, then he is first and foremost identified by his color.

However, since he looks like a white man, do they want to hang a negative on him in front of his name? In other words, since he looks like a white and probably lives like a white man, why should we bring him down and label him in a negative, ie "black way."

“First African American Named to Lead UC” or some such statement.

The media is still stuck and probably forever will be stuck in telling stories by stereotype, rather than finding the real story inside the facts.

The fact that this man spans and lives and has survived in both worlds is interesting in and of itself regardless of his new position of power, especially since he rose to power after embracing his dark side...

Identifying him the way he identifies himself and then telling the story of how he reached that point is infinitely more interesting than the one the MSM has set itself up to tell.

Their fear of possibly offending someone or of shying away from the facts is why they've lost all credibility in a game they created...

In a time when we're trying to bolster young black men to stay in school and to seek achievement rather than run from it, Gregory Williams is an excellent role model.

I know, I know...I hear you....he achieved in a white skin with full white privilege in play...looking and thinking that he was a white man...until he met his family...all of his family....

Well, after meeting his family...he didn't lie or run away from what he is...he embraced it and went on..

He says he is a Black man...and that is good enough for me...

It is also the story inside the story that should be told...

A Nation of Stupid People

Despite what my teachers told me all the way through school, even in college, I knew that I would never make a good teacher. My teachers told me from third grade on, that I had what it took to educate other people. I had the ability to make them see history or to understand science or to solve the riddles hidden in psychology.

What my teachers didn't know and that I never told them, is that I have trouble dealing with people who lack my passion for the subject. In other words, if you don't care and don't want to learn, I don't care and will not try to force feed it to you.

A good teacher overlooks this and continually tries to bring the mountain to Mohammed, so to speak. Not me. I know the damn mountain won't move and if Mohammed's not interested in seeing it, I'm not interested in breaking a sweat to get dirty for someone who doesn't care in the first place.

The one person who should be talking to school kids is President Obama. He is the walking, talking, living, breathing example of the American dream. He is the one who puts the truth in this convoluted, racist driven country called America.

All teachers should have to do is to stand in front of their class and when some student gives them some grief....wave a picture of Obama at them and say....”wanna be like him....put your head back in that book!”

But a lot of people don't want this to happen. They don't want their kids to be like Obama.

For a long time, education, knowledge, and intellectualism has been frowned upon in this country. It seems as though that anyone who loves learning and welcomes different viewpoints is adjudged to be unpatriotic or un-American.

We've ventured into a climate where we burn not only books but the book reader as well as the author in one big bonfire.

It's not cool to be smart or book learned in this day and age. And it's not just a white conservative problem, Blacks who embrace knowledge are routinely called out for acting too white.

Black schools are bereft of parental input, teachers more burdened with raising and civilizing kids rather educating them.

The result is a nation of stupid people. People who are motivated by fear instead of reason. People who see crossing the street out of their neighborhood as a danger instead of an adventure toward new people, ideas and places.

And that fear is being exploited by the power hungry, the ambitious, willing to use that fear to get what they want...which is to bring down a president who is attempting to change the status quo...because it doesn't suit them or their dreams of unending wealth and control.

So we live in a world that has been turned upside down...black is white....day is night....the president wants to talk to school kids and that is wrong....even though the presidents favored by the power mad routinely talked to school kids during their watch...

This president has too many Czars....other presidents actually coined and created the offices of czar...yet...the power mad overlook that....and the stupid people listen...forgetting how it used to be..This president can't lead....can't get anything done...this despite the fact that he has only been in office for a few months and it took years to drive the country this low....

This climate is surely how it felt during the time of the Salem witch hunts and trials...or during the Inquisition. However, making those references are useless, given today's climate of ignorance..

Stupid people....stupid, uneducated....fearful people...





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Labor Day Roundup 2009

Venus Williams playing on one leg is good enough to comfortably beat just about everybody else on the WTA Tour. However there are a few exceptions besides her sister, and Kim Clijsters is one of them.

Clijsters who recently decided to come back to the tour following an injury and baby retirement, has always had one of those dangerous games for either Williams. She is one of the best returners in the game. And she is a former grand slam champion.

I was surprised when she dusted Venus in the first set and equally surprised when Venus returned the favor in the second set. The outcome of the match didn't bother me too much. Venus is gimpy and it shows. She can't get down on her shots because of the knee. She does need the rest.

She would have met Serena in the semifinals and now this is not going to happen. So Serena has pretty much of a straight shot at the championship with only Clijsters in the way. I am discounting the 17 year old phenom.

She is good, but I don't think she has the guns to take out Serena, or Clijsters for that matter. She would not have beaten a healthy Sharapova either.

The sister act is still alive in the doubles. They paired up after Venus lost and looked completely at ease doing it. They have already claimed two out of three grand slam doubles titles this year. This one will be the third this year, if they win.

They already have a doubles slam in their trophy case..that means in one year they won all four titles..pretty hard to do....Serena is one of only five women who have done it in singles...Stephie Graf did it twice.

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Mark Sanford

Man....can you believe it.....South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford is the one who started the rumors that his Lt Governor is gay? Rumors have been flying for months now, however the source has only just been revealed...

Stay tuned it's getting uglier down in the Palmetto State..

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The Crazy Lady from Minnesota

Michele Bachmann for President, huh....I can't even type that and keep a straight face...I guess she figures if Sarah can do it....so can she...you betcha......hehehehe...

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The Big Scary Black/Boogie Man

Funny how in all this rigamarole about Obama talking to school kids...nowhere have I seen any file footage of Dubya....Some show Dubya's dad talking to kids...some mentioned that Reagan routinely talked politics with school children...

But nowhere have I seen that footage of Dubya inside a classroom...I'm talking about the time he visited while the planes flew into the World Trade Center Towers on 9/11...

He used to go to schools on a regular basis...yet no one ever accused him of being politically motivated

Some stereotypes just won't die and the big black boogie man is one of them....

White guys can do the same thing over and over for days....but as soon as the black guy does it..then there must be something wrong...something negative....something that is going to hurt somebody...

circle the wagons....lock up the women....hide the kids....

still doing this shit....

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And for the record.....Van Jones may have resigned...but he didn't lie...like it or not...he... did ..not.. lie...

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George Will

I like George Will. I do listen to him, even if I don't agree with him. I respect his opinions and, honestly, I like the way his mind works....But like I said I tend to come to different conclusions...Except this time..

George has said we need to get out of Afghanistan pronto...and I wholeheartedly agree with him. Afghanistan is another mistake by the Bush Administration that should never have been made given our mistakes and history in that area, in the past, as well as our history with Vietnam.

We should not be there....period.

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Obama is at Coney Island

The President is in Cincinnati today at the annual Union picnic at Coney Island. Been there in past years...not there this year...prefer to enjoy my tennis..

Labor Day is a day for sports...not politics...

But a word to the O-man.... Mr. President....Health Care without a public option is not reform....

Taking a Break.........

I need some down time to recover from my month long birthday celebration which ended on the first of September...

I am taking time for myself and to watch some good tennis....The sisters Williams are holding court in New York and I am there...

Back next week...

ciao

Erich Kunzel 1935-2009

Cincinnati Television News is reporting that noted symphony conductor Erich Kunzel has died.

More on the story here.......


Kunzel was 74.

May he rest in peace.