Friday Rap

Being snowed in for two weeks and totally stir crazy makes me want to lash out and punch people, so today, I'm going to hit out at some of my favorite punching dummies, as well as a couple of new ones...

Don't Ask Don't Tell...

DADT does more than affect gay people. Black women are the primary group being bounced from the military because of this policy...There's a report from the government that shows black women who refuse to sleep with or welcome sexual advances from male officers or fellow soldiers are routinely turned into the brass as lesbians, whether they are or are not. Many women being bounced are in fact straight black women.....screwed no matter what...

John Mayer c'mon down!

What the hell is a hood pass, and who are the one or two Black people who thinks this loose lipped mufuca can entertain? He is known mainly for talking about sex with his exes....Other than the fact that his jump offs are all white...along with his apparently racist and right wing leaning wienie...

Why should we care what he says.....It's not like he's Robin Thicke or Tom Jones or Tina Marie, for god's sakes...He used us in the ugliest way possible in order to get his pub...now he needs to go sit down, before somebody really introduces him to Hood life and slaps him like the little bitch that he is...

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GOP c'mon down!

What the gay ole party has been doing these past couple of years is BOYCOTTING Obama, not obstructing. When you refuse to support, or attempt to stop something no matter what...that is a boycott or a strike...

It is not an obstruction...an obstacle, or obstruction...can be moved....The GOP has been doing the “we shall not be moved shuffle” since they lost the election. Doesn't matter what Obama says or tries to do, the GOP is agin it, period. They prefer to be called obstructionists because the word implies that someday in the future they might come around and work for the American people..not! They are protecting their ass which is what mediocre politicians do...

But we all know this is never going to happen as long as Obama is in the White House and many Americans, both Black and White continue to listen to GOP lies and bullshit.

Case in point....Medicare..

The GOP has been trying to kill this program since Ronnie Ray-gun spoke out about it back in the day. Yet, the GOP has used the threats of Medicare program cuts and the formation of alleged death panels to scare old people into believing that Obama, by working for healthcare reform, is trying to shorten their stay on earth.

The GOP is in fact, now painting itself as the only hope for a program it's been vigorously trying to kill for the past 40 years....And people are buying the Bullshit!

I took a look at the GOP Road Map to America plan, which is online and available to anyone who cares to read. It is the GOP answer to bringing this country back to economic well being. Check it out here.

Problem is...that funny old program called Medicare has to go away according to the GOP plan...don't believe me...read their plan for the future...the one they say...well....the one Sarah Palin, her advisers and some of the GOP vocally support right now..Fair weather congressman, Orangeman John Boehner is as usual, hedging his bets....won't support it...but won't say it sucks either....

The GOP plan for America also wants to privatize Social Security...but we heard that from Dubya a few years ago....so that's not new either....Can you imagine where you'd be if social security had been tied to the stock market these past few years....

The GOP is still working for big business and wall street..

This Road Map to the future also contains more bones for the insurance/healthcare industry than ordinary people...Should have called this mess...the Plan for Erasing the Middle Class.

Bipartisan Jobs Program...

Was put out of its misery yesterday by Harry Reid....the plan had more tax cuts for big business then it had help for the unemployed...

Saint Sarah Palin, c'mon down!

Let me pull out my redneck teleprompter so I can get this right....that's not nice...some of my good buddies are rednecks....hell.....my granddaddy was a redneck......that makes me quarter redneck...Black and redneck...ain't that a genealogical bitch!....Calling Saint Sarah a redneck is an insult to my family...

Anyway....

The polls say 71% of America, thinks Palin is not qualified to be president....Not qualified didn't stop Reagan.....won't stop Palin either....I hope she runs...about time for another landslide...like the one that buried Barry Goldwater....which was bigger then the one that buried McCain and America's favorite ex gov back in 2008......republicans, pollsters, and the media keep forgetting that the last election was a landslide....Maybe they need to try polling the “Real America” for a change...

Blue Dog Bitches, er Democrats

Time for O to put these fools on a choke chain. They've had enough exercise...time to rein them in and make them heel....

Black Community-we gotta talk

Did you know that the Centers for Disease Control predicts that half of all the little Black babies born this year, will develop Diabetes during their lifetime? Yeah....I'm not kidding...

We already die quicker than white people....Black people die from the stress of being black in America...women die from HIV/AIDS from sleeping with DL black men.....Black on black crime has taken a couple of generations of very young black men and now it is taking young black women....

And now the babies are in danger from yet another controllable situation....

We're not trying hard enough to handle these problems, and we're not the number two population group in America anymore either...Hispanics now rank second to whites in population... which means that the next census numbers...upon which all that government money is based....is going to Hispanics...while we Black folks, are on our way to oblivion...we don't have any black genes coming into our gene pool...

Habla espanol, negroes? Or can you speak Mandarin...Because I guarantee you negro dialect won't cut it in the future...if it ever cut it in the first place...

We are living thru slow, self imposed genocide.....Suicide by Community....It is way past time to stop drinking the Kool aid...literally!

Abortion Reality Show?! WTF!

I really thought when I stumbled across this article, that it was a joke. Some writer didn't have anything else to do, so they made something up. It happens. Not all written stuff should be taken seriously, even if it is real.

However, this is not a joke. Two guys, mind you, have created a reality show, with three women contestants who go on the show and let viewers decide whether or not to have an abortion. You can read the article here.

I really try not to judge people, unless they repeatedly demonstrate their mindless ignorance, and even then, usually my judgment is to decide not to personally watch or read or patronize them in any way. I can't control your world, nor do I want to, but I can certainly control mine.

This, however, crosses all lines of respect for women, morality, decency and just plain common sense. There is absolutely nothing funny or remotely entertaining about a woman making a life altering decision like this.

Abortion or the decision making leading up to the choice. is not a spectator sport for the hyper-testosterone, all life is sport competition junkies tired of their murder/death/kill video games.

And attempting to couch it in pseudo acceptable Obamaspeak...as in "we need to find new ways to dialogue about old and touchy subjects.." wreaks of tasteless, immature hypocrisy.

Some of us older than 18 spent a couple of lifetimes getting the discussion to where it is today......a discussion between the woman and her doctor...rather than to have it relegated to a gossip topic on a reality show with an audience of nitwits dying to play fly on the wall during a serious situation..

Call it what it is.....two guys looking for another way to update and present their lesbian sex fantasy to the world with hopes of cashing in.....wink, wink!

Brainless guys and the low self esteemed women who love them will run to tune in...

Truly loving someone...means not denigrating them in anyway...These fools need to think about what their reality show says about their respect for their mothers, grandmothers, aunts, girlfriends and female friends...I know they have mothers, but I wonder if they have girlfriends, brainless or otherwise..

And before you ask.............No I haven't seen this show....And No, I won't ever see this show...

The idea from jump is bad, and doesn't deserve the light of day, ever!

CBS What Does it Spell!

Friday Rap

Tea Party Convention

Underway with no American Flag and no Pledge of Allegiance to open the session and they call themselves patriots...please! Where are the flag pins? Where is the Lord's Prayer? Where the Black people at?

One thing's for sure about this Convention...Sarah Palin is going to show up and she's going to make out a like a bandit...

She says she is going to put her $100,000 speaking fee back into the movement...no specifics...just another blind promise like always..

And she has some company....Orangeman otherwise known as Ohio Congressman John Boehner (and no, I didn't vote for this fool), finally admits to being a tea bagger..says he's one of them....also said yesterday that Wall Street should give him some money so he can bury Obama....hmmm

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GOP Extortion Plot

Word out of DC this morning that one GOP fool of a lawmaker has put a hold on every Obama nominee for whatever....

Now, that's not very bipartisan, nor is it an attempt to represent the people. Blanket holds are for one reason only and that is to mess with the other party, period..

Certainly not about governance of the people, by the people or for the people..

Maybe O needs to conjure up LBJ...you remember him Lynchin' Baines Johnson, one of the best Congressman ever at twisting arms and getting legislation passed on Capital Hill...and that's before he took the White House away from JFK....but that's another story altogether.

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DADT

Despite how wrongly they've been treated...many LGBT military want back in...That's what you call patriotism and love of country.

I never see any tea baggers, Dick Cheney relatives or fake god and country people calling for a reinstitution of the draft...Clearly, our country needs help on the war front.....

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Terror trial in NY

When are Americans going to understand that citizens have to shoulder some responsibility. You want a a war on terror...but you don't want the inconvenience or necessary sacrifice in your life or a terror trial in your backyard....when the bad guys are caught........that's called white flight...or “don't bring em to my neighborhood”

You want the military to find and kill Bin Laden...yet you're not willing to support a draft to give the military enough people to fight a real war or to find the terrorist....

You continue to demand solutions from the government....yet continue to return the obstructionists to the Hill to keep progress from happening..

The problem with white flight is that eventually the problem comes to you...(ever notice the meths labs and drug busts are all in the burbs and rural areas these days, and not in the ghettos).... and you've got no where else to run...

Obama's canceled the moon program a couple of days ago...now what cha gon do?

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Driehaus

Heard from my Congressman yesterday....calling me “Jo” like he knows me..Thank you Congressman for addressing my concern. But I'm still not voting for you next time around.

I mean what I say. If you can talk to me when we agree...you should also talk to me when we don't. That is what I call representation. It's a dialogue between representative and constituent...not a happy sleepover, where we play games and tell each other how pretty we are.

You respect me, I respect you.

Ya know what, sometimes I may not like you, but honesty and respect, will get my vote every time.

You lost this one.

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GAY-TV!

I don't know about the rest of the country, but here in Ohio, 7AM to Noon is the queerest block on television....starting with GMA or Gay-M-A, as some call it.....Wendy Williams...Ellen...and The View.......Love it!

This block is the background noise for my writing, five days a week..

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Superbowl....Saint or Colts

My heart is with the Saints.....My head and money are on the Colts....Go Peyton!

Considering where Peyton lives and grew up...New Orleans is the winner no matter who takes home the trophy..

And....I saw a sneak preview of somebody doing the Bears Super Bowl shuffle again...I need a dose of my Bears....That was my favorite superbowl!

Trust Women

Hump Day Madness

“Walnuts” McCain, Obama and the National Prayer Breakfast, and AIG Bandits

Somebody punch John McCain in the ribs and wake him up, please. A couple of years ago he said on the day that the generals came out in favor of repealing Don't ask, Don't tell, he would drop his opposition.

Well John, that day has come and gone. Colin Powell who crafted the so called compromise with Bill Clinton and nearly every other politician, except you and your bigoted brothers and sisters like Barbour and Boehner and Fox and Bachmann, have evolved, and say the policy is bad policy.

You and your clique, however, are content to remain bigoted.

"Patriotism that only serves and never risks one's self-interest isn't patriotism at all. It's selfishness. -John Sidney McCain

Just once, John, I wish you would at least try to live up to your own words...just once. Face the reality, you're never, ever, ever going to be President.

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Obama and the National Prayer Breakfast

What better way to separate church and state as prescribed by the Constitution, then for President Obama to back away from his scheduled visit to the National Prayer Breakfast tomorrow. I know its been an official presidential stop since 1953, however, if this is the time for transparency in government, then stepping away from this event is a big start.

This prayer breakfast which masquerades as a pseudo religious event is nothing but a shady way of attempting to influence government for their pet projects.

I don't care how much they protest to the contrary, these are the guys behind that heinous Ugandan law calling for the death penalty for gays and lesbians. And yet they claim to be Christian.

These prayer breakfast organizers are behind that house in Washington that fronts as a prayer and meditation house for congressme,n...like...Ensign and Sanford..you know the latest lawmakers caught with their zippers open...They call themselves The Family...sounds cultish to me...you know like Charles Manson and his Family or that rock group that Prince put together called The Family..sinister..not healthy..

What worries me even more is the acceptance The Family continues to have on Capital Hill.

A real president of all the people would find a way to break precedent and not attend this fake religious function..sending a message to all bigots, that their way of thinking will no longer be tolerated.

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AIG Bonuses

How the hell does AIG continue to pay massive bonuses to the very division that tanked this country economically? Today comes word that the company is paying out 100 billion dollars in bonuses and they still owe the American 124 billion dollars in tax money payback..

How does this happen? And isn't it time for Obama to go ghetto on corporate America, the blue dog democrats and the GOP?

Candy Ass Pentagon and Crying in the Military

Now let me get this...you will excuse the expression.....straight....President Obama says he plans to work for the repeal of “don't ask, don't tell” in the American military, this year....A couple of days later the Pentagon says “it will begin studying the PROCESS of repealing DADT....AND...that it....meaning the repeal of the policy, will take several years to complete...

WTF!.....The Pentagon statement went on to explain that the military must find a way to do this gradually because of the emotions that soldiers might have when the ban is lifted...HUH!

We are talking about the military here...So when did the feelings of a grunt make any difference to the brass?

I mean on what world do gunnies, much less generals, worry about crying soldiers? I thought crying was a sign of your inner Mary, and the main reason for permanent banishment from the foxhole or trench..

My understanding of the military is..and you can correct me if I'm wrong...that the soldier's only real duty is to follow orders...period...that is where the vaunted military cohesion originates.....soldiers who don't follow orders or who cry...are court martialed and discharged or killed....well, maybe not killed but disciplined...

After all....isn't that what a “CODE RED” is in the Marines.....Or have I seen one too many Jack Nickelson-Tom Cruise-Demi Moore movies?

“you want me on that wall.....you need me on that wall!”

“You can't handle the truth!”

“General.....Did you order the CODE RED?!”

“You're damn right I did!”

This whole movie was about following orders and what happens to a soldier who was outcast in his platoon. He ends up dead on orders from the general. It's not the only movie like this. The lore surrounding the brotherhood of the military is legendary.

So my question....If Obama has issued the CODE RED...and he is Commander in Chief....Who the fuck cares or is taking into consideration, the hurt feelings of a few uber straight guys and gals?

Orders are orders.....no emotions allowed. You bunk where you're told to bunk, shower where you're told to shower and kill when you're told to kill.

It's not complicated....wasn't complicated when England did it or the Scandinavian countries or down under in Australia....these countries simply went cold turkey...

So you're trying to tell me the best fighting machine in the world can't follow one simple order?

“Don't ask don't tell is no longer policy in the American military...replace those pages with these new and updated policy pages in your how to be a soldier manual...effective immediately”

Can't get more simple than that....

The Politics of Seduction

And President Barack Obama is a master. Once again, after being backed into a corner during the past couple of months, he came out swinging, slamming an oratorical home run over the left field fence, temporarily making me forget the year that was 2009. I loved the speech. In fact, I love listening to Obama talk. While he talks I am inclined to believe everything he says. I tend to take all that he says at face value. I want the feel good snake oil that he peddles every time he opens his mouth to address the American people. His best speeches are like sex on a crowded beach at high noon, crawling with people, walking by, as you surreptitiously get it on, covered by a not big enough towel with a stranger you met twenty minutes before. A stolen, impulsive adrenaline rush kind of moment that you want to go on forever, but doesn't, because it can't.

And now, its the next day and the thrill is gone. The speech is over leaving only the echo of his voice in your mind. Hollow. The politics of seduction, having worked its magic and done its job, fading away in the cold fog of the morning after.

So in the filtered light of a new day, let's look at the speech, shall we........

Don't ask, don't tell...remains a vague promise....no deadline...sometime this year he will work for it..

Jobs...calling on business to help...like before...tax cuts to make it so....republican solution..another failed attempt at bipartisan politics

Bitch slapped the Supremes....I did like that.....How can these fools not understand that the Sup co ruling just opened us up to some foreign government like China or even rich man Bin Laden, spending bucks to gift wrap a legal Manchurian candidate for the American people...

His announced intention to go forward with health care reform is good...his blast at the scaredy cat democrats who are backing down was on time. My fear is that what will come is even less than what is currently on the table, and what is currently on the table, sucks...no other way to describe it.

President Obama did go school yard on the GOP, putting them on blast for refusing to take part in governance of the country. Did they hear him? Probably not, judging from their response delivered by the latest Mitt Romney clone, who's upside is that he is not Mitt Romney.

This slight of hand spending freeze...put off for a year...but still nothing less than a covert shout out to conservatives..another attempt to placate them.

Liked his tone. Obama took the middle ground between Fresh Prince Carlton and John Shaft. He didn't back down, instead striking just enough of the right note for the conservative talking heads to resurrect the old “he's arrogant” insult again.

If white people call him arrogant, it means he's doing something right like challenging their sense of control. “the boy just won't stay in his place!”

That's a good thing.

So to conclude, I like the speech. It was the right one for the time. Obama is still the best option given the choices of what else is available. It remains to be seen, however, if he was successful at taking back control of his own narrative from the conservative spin doctors.

And I just wish he'd have slapped the GOP obstructionists as hard as he came down on the Supremes.

Jim Barack The Hammer Obama Shaft Kelly

I'm at that point in the blaxploitation movie on loop in my head, where I'm ready for some action. We know who the good guys are, we know who the bad guy is, and we know who is supposed to be saved and why.

I'm ready for the big chocolate gun carrying, Jim Brown lookin' actor to whip it out and tell everybody;

“we got to go this way, 'cause if we go back we die, 'n I ain't ready to die just yet!”

The alpha male has spoken....the paler hued Beta Boy glares, and makes an ugly face, like he's going to do something. But he knows on a good day, he can't whip this Negro's ass in a fair fight. So reluctantly, Beta Boy drops his show for the ladies and turns in the direction that Chocolate Thunder wants to go, and starts walking, while the rest of the group meekly follows. No way are they getting in between these two fools, because while they quietly admit that Beta boy, may be their preferred cup of tea, they also know he don't know his ass from a hole in the ground and is totally useless in this situation.

Chocolate Thunder may be straight up crazy, but he knows what he's doing and can help them get home alive, and like all good Negroes, he is going to sacrifice himself and die so that all the good folks can live a better life, while remembering him fondly in their dreams of the good ole days.

So who would you follow? Camera ready Beta Boy or Crazy as a bedbug Chocolate Thunder?

Easy answer for me...I'm going with crazy, because sometimes the tried and true won't work and you can never go back and sometimes you can never go home again. So you keep marching forward until you see daylight or the end of the trail or the town located just over the hill.

President Obama was supposed to be the one. He was supposed to be the Jim Brown-Chocolate Thunder crazy, who was going to ride into DC and teach all the status quo Beta Boys and Catatonic Neanderthals how to save the people.

But what we've gotten so far, from Obama, is a weak imitation of Carlton, the dimwit cousin from Fresh Prince. All flash but so far, no substance.

I am truly troubled by all this talk of backing up and backing away from Health Care Reform, just because Ted Kennedy's seat was lost in Massachusetts.

One seat, people...ONE STUPID SEAT!.....That still leaves an 18 seat majority in the Senate. It's still a Democrat majority...I don't see the problem. Beta Boy Scott is singing the same song as the rest of his frat club-no plan, no clue. So the majority has to work a little harder. That's why it's called a job!

The American people or those who still have jobs, work everyday, without health care, without guaranteed holidays or carved in stone 4600-dollar yearly pay raises.

Now comes President Obama's first State of the Union Address and from the news reports, he seems more intent on placating us with peripheral bullshit then with delivering the goods. We don't need no stinkin' bipartisanship. We don't need feel good. We don't need 156 different ways to say “Change” in the course of a one hour speech, before a house full of unctuous people pretending to care.

Just once, I would like to see a State of the Union speech where all these fools sit on their hands and listen, quietly to what is being said.

We don't need the pep rally. I don't even care if they twitter to their follower twats, as long as they do it quietly and STFU!

So what should Obama say and do in his State of the Union Speech?

The American people need a jobs program. It's gone way past trickle down, need to work through the system kind of fixes. The guys at that top are doing what they always do, sitting on the money and jamming the feeder pipes so that nothings leaks down or out to the masses.

The American people need some liquid plumber, pronto. They need a powerful motorized snake to unclog the drain and get folks back to work. “F” the system...as in flush the system in order to get it going. We thought Obama would use an executive order or two to mandate some work projects to begin yesterday.

And to make sure that minorities get their fair share, open an office where minority workers or independent workers...those not allowed into the trade unions...to sign up and get hired and put to work alongside the union guys... If a contractor can't or won't use the independents, then his company can't work the project. This does away with the contractors who can't find anybody to work for them except illegal aliens.

Unemployment in my neighborhood is about 20%....yet....there is a lot of renovation going on the houses here.....all of it being done by whites and Hispanics.....in a nearly 100% Black neighborhood...now how does that happen? Not only do we no longer own the homes, we can't get work on them either. And you can bank that its happening everywhere else, too.

After he talks about Jobs, Obama needs to get back to the alphabet...DADT, DOMA, and ENDA. No more talk that it is going to happen. We need to know when it is going to happen. What day is it going to happen? The future is here, now.

Finally, he should now have a real plan for health care reform instead of that bill which is really an insurance industry subsidy program like the stimulus/subsidy program was for Wall Street. Dropping the age limit on medicare to give America what he and Congress already have in their own health care would be a start.

Better yet....why not just cancel the speech....and sit on camera and sign executive orders that really jump start the economy and let the people see that Chocolate Thunder has arrived and is ready willing and able to do crazy for the people in order to get this country back on track.

Friday Rap

Questions........

Isn't it time to boycott CBS? Since when is airing an anti abortion ad okay during the Superbowl? If it does air, shouldn't there be equal time for a Trojan ad or Yaz ad? Because you know somewhere in that mix...a Viagra ad is going to pop up, too...but male virility is a right in America, while women's fertility rights are the subject of debate...

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If Sarah Palin is a “real American” and Scott Brown is a “traditional American” What are the rest of us?

Is it just me...or is Scott Brown just a cuter version of Joe the plumber?

Why are the people who voted in Massachusetts seen as speaking for the rest of the country? Ask us how we feel, please...

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If Democrats out number Republicans 59-41 in the Senate and 256-179 in the House...then why is Obama acting like passing health care reform, or anything else for that matter, is suddenly up in the air? Isn't a majority still a majority? Ditto for DOMA, and marriage equality..

Leaving marriage equality to the states is like asking slave owners if they want to let go of their slaves and work their own fields. Didn't work for Lincoln...won't work for Obama, either...

If Obama wants us to coalesce around the “good parts” of his plan, then let's drop the age limit on Medicare and give America what our congressmen already have. Why can't we have what you got?

If we can't have health care reform, then I want something back from Congress...like maybe cancel the ability to automatically give themselves a raise each and every year....2009 raise was 4700-dollars per congressman...or cancel their health care and live like the rest of us..

On the question of jobs...isn't it about time to think about bringing back the WPA?

Reforming Wall Street is only good if it forces the banks to let go of the money they've been sitting on

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The Supco ruling on campaign finance reveals the real damage done by the GOP...really activists judges installed throughout the federal level of the court system..and they are all lifetime appointments....we're reaping what they sowed...

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I hear the White House is trying to figure out ways to make Uganda cancel the law that calls for execution of anyone caught being gay or lesbian....I've got a suggestion.....cancel all the money we're giving them...now....that's a wake up call they will hear...

And by the way...the Bill's sponsor is coming to America to the National Prayer Breakfast at the invitation of several so called Christian Evangelists...including Rick Warren, who are behind this heinous piece of legislation.....Obama is supposed to be at this breakfast.....

Trust me, O, this is really, really not a good move on your part.....

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Did you know the NAACP has nominated Michael Jackson's funeral for an Image Award? Isn't it time to cancel this useless and outdated organization, since they refuse to deal with real issues or recognize and deal with 21^st century problems....like AIDS in the Black Community...Black on Black crime....Black male unemployment...out of wedlock babies...Black school dropouts...no Black in college..too depressing to go on...

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Some dude down in Augusta Georgia is starting an all white basketball league..only players who can prove they have two Caucasian parents and are native born Americans can play...No foreign whites need apply either...The league founder says he is tired of street ball as played by Blacks in the NBA and want s to bring the game back to the more fundamentally sound white guys like it used to be played...

First off.....Caucasian is not a race...does not exist

Second.....the early “white” players who excelled in basketball...were Jewish...can they play in this league?

Third......In this mixing pot called America...how is he going to prove who is pure white in the first place? A DNA test? All that will prove is that we all originated in Africa...making us all Africans under the skin and an all white league a genetically impossible situation.. ..

You know....I wish these racists weren't so dumb and would go back to school...it's getting too easy...way to easy...

Trust Women

As we approach the 37^th anniversary of the still controversial Roe v Wade decision by the Supreme Court, giving women, control of their bodies as well as their lives, two recent news stories caught my attention and dramatically reinforced the notion that women still need legal protection from those bent on denying our rights as well as our humanity.

From The Huffington Post comes word of a Superbowl commercial being crafted by Focus on the Family featuring the mother of Tim Tebow, the acclaimed football quarterback from Florida. You can read the whole story here.

However, the gist of the article says that during the commercial, Tim's mother will tell the tale of how she got sick while doing missionary work in the Philippines. She was carrying her fifth child. Doctors, according to the story reportedly told her to get an abortion. She said no, and later gave birth to the baby who would grow into the acclaimed quarterback that many celebrate today.

Second story, this one in The Daily Beast. about a woman who went into a Springfield Massachusetts hospital in 2006, for a C-section delivery of her ninth child She delivered a healthy, full term baby boy, and she asked for and expected to be fitted with an IUD to prevent future pregnancies following the delivery. Instead, during the C-section and without her permission, the surgeons tied her tubes so that she could never have another child, ever. They figured nine was enough.

Now you say, what do these stories have in common....well, the answer is Choice...The choice of a woman to control her own body and reproductive future and health. Choice exercised...Choice taken away.

Quarterback Tim Tebow's mother, Pam, exercised her right to choose. Yet she campaigns vigorously to strip those rights from all other women. She does not trust women to do the right thing because it may not align with what she considers to be the right thing.

But that is not the point of Roe v Wade. All Roe v Wade says is that women have the right to make the decision about what they do with their bodies....Pam Tebow did it....Nadia Suliemann did it....that woman in Utah with 19 children and counting does it every nine months.

These women exercised their right to control their body, period. So why shouldn't the rest of us be able to do the same thing? Why are all women prejudged not capable of trust or control by many like Pam Tebow, simply because it does not line up necessarily with their way of thinking.

By the same token, the right to choose was taken away from the woman in Massachusetts. She gave birth and then had her rights stripped away from her without her knowledge or permission. Someone, somewhere, decided that nine was enough. They took her right to choose away forever.

This woman was violated as if she'd been raped. She was in effect told that, we, the doctors at this hospital, don't trust you to make the right decision about your body, your family and your life.

Forced sterilization in America is supposed to be illegal....It is supposed to be uncivilized, something that American doctors regularly engaged in back in the day when women were wholesale judged as not trustworthy or capable of making any decision, let alone one controlling their own body.

These personal judgments are what women must be protected from. That is what Roe v Wade does. It protects us from the whims of others. All laws like it or not...are double edged...the right to do or the right not to do...

Trusting women is what Roe v Wade is all about. The law says women are the ones best able to decide what goes on in their lives, no one else. We trust you to do the right thing.

Trust Women.

The Morning After

You know, I don't know which is worse, the daily bombardment of gossipy infotainment that blasts out at us from the majority of formerly reputable news outlets, or the overly sensationalized-hyperbole laced-sky-is-falling-reporting that has destroyed the rest of what used to be news in America.

Massachusetts chose a new Senator to replace the departed Ted Kennedy. OMG ! HE'S A REPUBLICAN!

“HEALTH CARE REFORM IS DEAD! IT'S THE END OF OBAMA! RUN FOR THE HILLS!”

On and on ad nauseum...except...today is the morning after...and we're still here...

Democrats still have an 18 vote majority in the Senate....Likewise in the House......Healthcare is still on the table and passable..

May take a little more work...but hey...not passing it is way worse than passing it..

And the Republicans still don't have a clue or a plan...except to wreck anything that will benefit Americans...that is their only plan, period.....

And what have we learned..... We have learned that..

America is still rife with people who believe in cutting off their nose to spite their face by voting against issues or people who will help them in the long run....

The corporate stranglehold to make reform go away is working well....bought and paid for congressman and scared people who are the monkey wrench thrown into the gears of progress to benefit all..

and

America with its love for the fake and cosmetically enhanced, still loves the cute white guy.....it's about the way he fills out his Speedos, not about what is inside his head or his heart...

Scott Brown! Come on Down!

How much you wanna bet he trades in that pick up truck for a Benz or something equally luxurious within six months of his swearing in.

No Safe Place

What for many will be a very difficult and emotional journey begins January 19th, 2010, at Cincinnati's Underground Railroad Freedom Center.

"Without Sanctuary," is an exhibit of photographs depicting America's dark and lengthy dance with the devil from 1882 until 1968, when nearly 5000 Americans died at the end of a hangman's noose-lynched and brutalized by their fellow Americans.

The exhibit has been touring the country drawing record crowds. It will stay at the Freedom Center until May of this year.

"Without Sanctuary" sheds light on a very brutal part of American history. It is not the "comfort history" that is routinely taught in schools across America. This exhibit pulls the drape to uncover the remnants of America's Holocaust, that officially lasted from 1619 until 1865 when slaves were officially emancipated.

While emancipation gave the newly freed slaves many of the same rights as other citizens, lynching was used to take them back.

Winking at a white woman is what many believe was the basis behind lynchings. However rape allegations and accusations were the basis behind about a fourth of the incidents. Most people lynched...men and women....were political and labor activists. And while most of those lynched were in fact Black, many were native American, some were Jewish, and some were Hispanic or other minorities.

All committed the ultimate crime of upsetting the status quo as defined by the majority.

The exhibit also reveals what happened here in the tri state during those years. Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana were not guiltless during this era. In fact, this area, right now, present day, remains the number one location for KKK and White Supremacists activity in America. Come learn the history of our area, and find out the part our ancestors played in shaping this shameful era.

I hope that my fellow Cincinnatians will use this opportunity to go and see "Without Sanctuary." And, while you're at it, take in the Freedom Center, tour it and learn history as it should be taught, honestly and simply in the words, deeds and pictures of those who lived and witnessed it.

And look for me, down there, as well. I just recently became a volunteer exhibit interpreter and am geeked about beginning another journey of historical revelation. "Without Sanctuary" represents my first exhibit. I look forward to sharing it with you.

What My Mother has Seen, on her 80th Birthday

I can only begin to imagine what my mother has seen and lived through in her now 80 years on this planet. I know some it because of the part that I have lived through with her, since I am her first and eldest child.

I am nearly 60, so we've been together for a very long time. She had me when she was 8 months into her 20th year. I was unplanned. She was unmarried. I don't know how it happened except she used to joke about the back seat of a convertible. My arrival was something else that my father wouldn't talk about. He did the right thing and married her seven days before I was born, though.

Justice of the peace. Nothing fancy. Mom did say her mother in law was totally against the marriage. I'm not surprised, my grandmother never liked me either and I was an innocent.

I am blessed with having had two parents all of my life. I wondered many times if they loved each other or if it was duty and me, and then my sisters, that kept them together. My mom often said it was the later. Yet almost 60 years and they still share the same roof. The roles are now reversed. My mom the ultimate caretaker ,is the one needing care. My father, the provider, has become the caretaker all the while worrying about his own mortality. He is facing 82 years, later this year. He diligently
takes care of her now.

But my mom, lives vividly in my memories. My sisters never saw the baseball player. The one who played baseball, not softball. The one who taught me how to pitch softball, hours of practice in the backyard. My mother, who reveled in the company of women, and still managed to be the perfect wife for my very traditional father. She taught me tennis, too. We'd take wooden racquets and go up to Walnut Hills High School and practice weekly.

She never missed any of my games, no matter what sport I played She was always there and I could always hear her above the crowd noise. When we lost, which was rare, she
would tell me...”don't like losing....then don't lose....get better.” That's the way I approach everything....I don't like losing....so I strive to get better....always...still....

My sisters never saw the roller skater. The one who would load up her girlfriends in the car and drive to Indiana to a skating rink, on Tuesday nights, to spend the evening
dancing on skates, only to have to run home and be there by midnight. Midnight was her curfew time, set by my father. She had one. I knew this because I saw her miss it once. The girls wanted to stay longer and she said okay. I wonder if they ever found out what kind of trouble she got into for a few more minutes of fun.

Dad skated, too. He just never made the trips to Indiana, and he looked awkward on wheels when he did put them on.  I often wondered if he knew about those trips before she broke curfew. I did. His skates were black and kept in a purple metal case. My mom rolled on Chicago wheels, with white leather uppers, and she kept them in a light blue case. I always wanted skates like hers, and got them. They were my prized possession along with my left handed baseball glove, when I was a kid.

When mom got done with skating, she took up bowling, at Friscos Lanes on Pebbles Corner on McMillan. Thursday night ladies league. My mom was so good that she finished
second in a statewide amateur tournament. She rolled a high game 222, beaten by a 223. These women on her team were good. I wanted to grow up to bowl with them. I did one year after I turned 18. I was good, but never in their class. Dad rolled pretty good, too. Except he couldn't beat mom. Saw that at Princeton Bowl one Sunday. He stopped
bowling after that.

Nor could he out shoot her. He loves guns. He took her pheasant hunting at his private club one time with the guys. Mom was dead on, beat everybody, bagged her two birds which was the limit, in record time, and she was never allowed to outshine him
hunting again. “Women don't hunt,” dad said. She laughed. The memory of the look on his face that day was enough.

Bowling with my mom at 18, I found out she smoked cigarettes. At 18, can you imagine, not knowing your mother had the habit. She never smoked at home, or in my dad's car.
She came home smelling like smoke, but I knew all of her friends smoked, so I thought it was them. It was them, but it was her too. My father didn't approve, so we, the kids never saw it. Until one day it clicked and she got tired of hiding and she started smoking at home for a short time, until she quit. That was a surprise, too. She quit cold turkey for a year, before anyone realized. She used her cigarette money to buy Christmas presents for us on that one year anniversary. I know mom drank, too, but never around dad, the tee-totaler.

One thing they did do together was play bid whist. They were a good team. Mom talked plenty smack when playing. Dad talked too, just not as loud or flamboyantly as mom. She
had a woman's group for that too. Girls from bowling and some of our neighbors played. I remember one time, I walked through the family room when the girls were playing cards and our next door neighbor asked me, “Jo Anne, when you getting' married?” I didn't miss a beat and said..”hasn't my mother told you I'm gay, yet?” Kept walking. My mother was the first person that I came out to years before. All she said at the time was, “are you okay?” That was it. No drama.

Two different people and approaches to life in general. I wonder, if my mother would have chosen differently if she didn't have to worry about taking care of me? I wonder if she would have chosen to be more true to herself and natural nature. I can ask, but I don't think the answer would be truthful. I think she would tell me what she thinks I would want to hear, rather than what she really wants to say. Always looking out for her kids..no matter how old they are.

Her love for me is something I never ever wonder about, nor question.

Happy Birthday, Mom.

Friday Rap

Obama's still half steppin'....this time on Haiti...

President Obama did good with his initial response to the Haitian crisis. The 100 million dollars in aid is getting there, and it will get better in days to come.

However, there is still a problem, that  I've written about  before. The American government has always treated Haiti and immigrants to this country from Haiti as backward step children.

In the past, and up until the earthquake a couple of days ago.  Haitian boat people, those found stowed away,or those trying to swim to America, are routinely scooped up by the Coast Guard and sent back to their island.

Thousands of Haitians who make it to America are locked up awaiting deportation.

Why?

Because Haitian immigrants, unlike Cuban immigrants, don't have protected status in America. A Cuban who decides to leave Cuba and swim to America or boat to America or secretly sprout wings and fly to America, is greeted with open arms by our government as just another indication that Castro is a bad man...so bad his own people don't want to be around him..

But Haiti?  Haiti is poorer than a church mouth. The poorest country in the western hemisphere. American news agencies are reporting this phrase over and over as if they just learned that bit of information when they descended on the island yesterday.

Yet, The United States likes to pretend Haiti doesn't really exist except as a vacation spot for pedophiles and missionaries.

Granting protected status to Haitian immigrants would go a long way in changing the cycle of despair that envelops this small country. Protected status has been granted to other immigrants in the past by other Presidents in time of crisis, so Obama would not be setting precedent.

He would however, be showing some courage by going farther than he usually does. He is on the good side of many issues...He just doesn't seem to go far enough....Obama has a chance to rectify a big mistake he made by not granting protected status when four hurricanes hit Haiti last year...Like Dubya.....Obama turned a deaf ear....sending boat people back...and letting the island flounder..again..

It is a glaring double standard that exists in how Cubans are treated and granted asylum, while Haitians are allowed to sink into watery graves in the Gulf of Mexico...

The government, after all, does not bother to count the number of boat people who have drowned trying to get to the land of the so called free..

This is a time for big steps....not baby ones....Immigrants who have protected status can get a work permit and a driver's license which would allow them to send money home to support their families and to begin to break the poverty cycle...


Before the quake...Haitian families lived on a $150 a month....Protected status would allow more money to flow into the ravaged island, some experts say to the tune of about $50 million annually..

If Obama is looking to prove his Blackness to Black America....this is it...

If Obama is looking for a way to say “thank you” Haiti...this is it...

Why should America thank Haiti...Well it goes back to the Haitian revolution...yeah that same one that Pat Robertson was talking about.. when the Black African slaves threw France and Napoleon off their island....This small feat broke french influence in this part of the world, enabling America to make the Louisiana Purchase and become the bull in the china shop that it remains to this day..

Amazing what all that Black slavery action has done for this part of the world...and nobody wants to say thanks...

Protected status from the US would go a long way to right a wrong that has yet to be corrected...

And how good it would taste  were it  served by a brother in the White House on another brother named Martin's  birthday...

Teddy, RIP

A little cognac, candles and Teddy....I'm good...for always....

Devil, Thy Name is Pat Robertson

Still talking out the side of his neck. I keep forgetting that Robertson is still alive. He has a habit of misinterpreting scripture to justify and explain his perverted world view of people of color.

True, he runs missionary schools, allegedly to help people in need. But make no mistake there is not one Christian bone in his body. What he does is for power and money, just like the rest of the masters of the universe except that he tries to hide behind religion.

His barbs are usually directed at women and people of color. His statements about the earthguake and the Haitian people are just an example. He combined folklore, to remind us that he is still alive and just as nasty as ever....

There is really no difference between Pat Robertson and anything that comes out of the Westboro "God hates everybody" Church. Their perversion of religion is the same.

The so called Haitian "pact" is explained here. Check it out.

If you want to refresh yourself about what Robertson said, go here .

Let's all pray that Robertson joins his good friend Jerry in the near future.

Better yet, don't waste any prayers on Robertson...Send them to the good people of Haiti. They need them more.
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Out of the Mouth of Idiots

Comparing what Harry Reid allegedly said to what Trent Lott said about Strom Thurmond is mixing apples and oranges. Lott was praising a rapist, who got away with sexually assaulting a 16 year old Black domestic servant at his parents home and got away with it because his parents covered it up and bought off the victim... He reportedly supported the baby born...but never acknowledged her as long as it could possibly bring down his political career, of keeping Blacks in their place...except I guess when he needed sex...

Strom Thurmond is the old poster boy for GOP racial hypocrisy....He should have been in jail not in Congress..

Like it or not...Harry Reid spoke the truth....I don't care how intelligent or how eloquent a brother is....no matter the number of his post graduate degrees....if he is black as the ace of spades....and talks like Shaft or Biggie or Snoop....or Tupac and is viewed as threatening for some reason...he won't clear local vetting to run for city council..much less national office..

Hell....Tupac an elegant writer and master of the spoken word...is still dismissed by white America as being a thug because of the way he looked...he could never get elected in America...Yet I measure his brain next to Obama's..

If brothers had an equal chance like most of America seems to believe, there wouldn't be 25% unemployment among Black males....The dropout rate...lack of male teachers, etc, wouldn't still be going on...despite having a Black man in the White House..

Jesse Jackson would have been taken seriously when he ran for president......Bill Clinton wouldn't be asking Obama to bring him some coffee...and we wouldn't be having this conversation..

And don't get outraged Black people....have we as a community canceled the “paper bag test” yet?

Are the days of wanting “nothing Black but a Cadillac” and “nothing big but a bankroll” over yet?

What about looking for a job...making a call...talking to a pleasant white lady to get a job interview...putting on your Sunday best to go to the interview only to walk in...be looked up and down like you smell funny and be told by the same nice white lady from the phone that the position has been filled...regardless of how you sound...how you fill out that stylish suit and what is printed on your resume...happens once...okay....happens over and over and over and over and over...and suddenly you feel like kicking some ass....But it happens less to beige brothers then it does to dark chocolate ones..

Hip Hop Mike can go sit down...He's the joker in the deck...except nobody's laughing..

This same book pillories Hilary and Sarah, too...equal opportunity hearsay journalism at it's best...

Sarah allegedly said it was God's plan that she run for VP....We've known forever that God really does have a sense of humor...


Why else would he have given the world Rod Blagojevich....he jumped on Obama in an interview to be published in Esquire in February....

"I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived," Blagojevich said. "I saw it all growing up." ….ex gov Rod B...

hehehehehe!

Oh man... Do I yearn for the days of half hour news at 6pm and 11pm....no CNN, no FOX, no MSNBC.. And real journalists who found two sources before rushing to  publish or report.....with at least one willing to go on record....

Oh for the good ole days!

Friday Rap

Reality TV narcissism

Can we please be done with people who think making baby litters takes some kind of skill and that raising the rugrats is 24/7 entertaining to the rest of us?

Reality TV in general functions with a “crabs in the barrel mentality” powered by a 3 year old's definition of what makes entertainment....watching people try to destroy or humiliate others is not entertainment..taking somebody down is not fun nor does it feel good....if it did...we all wouldn't bother to hide behind computer screens shunning face to face contact, fearful of rejection..

turn off the TV.....get a real face to face life....think...friends in person...think talking across a dinner table...think wine.....lots and lots of wine.....think sex.. real sex, not simulated or porno playing on a screen.....reach out and touch...contact..

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Worthless POS

Will the media please stop reporting every brain disconnected, meaningless utterance that falls from the mouth of Dick Cheney? The toothless old warmonger is a coward......five times deferred when he could serve....hid every time a plane was sighted in the sky over DC when he was VP.....Doesn't give a good damn about America....is a lying hypocritical, dinosaur whose time has past...

I'd quote Wesley Snipes from the movie Demolition Man at this point....”Will somebody please shoot this Mufuca!” except it would probably get me jailed for something,,,the old white guys still have most of the power and and all of the money....or at least enough to make my life miserable, anyway...

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Glen “I don't have any Black friends” Beck


Read the article, I won't repeat it here. But I will say that it seems the only word attached to Blacks that whites never seem to have a problem with is nigger....

Nigger...once PC in America....always PC in America

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Tiger Woo!

First they make him Black...Now they make him gay...a 21^st century lynching of a colored man for whistling at white women



Woods needs to man up and get back on the course and do the only thing he does well, because the masters of the universe do have very short memories...the media relies on computer databanks to remember for them...it will settle down if you beat them on their holy ground at Augusta..again..

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Hip Hop Mike

The GOP created Obama mirror image named Michael Steele is pissing off the powers within his own party for talking out of line...Mike won't stay in his place...apparently doesn't remember they chose him to be seen and not heard...

He is supposed to be the walking proof that the GOP is not racist...That they really, really love people of color....they really do...

He keeps talking and they're going to go out and dig up Stepin Fetchit....oh wait...they  already put him on the Supreme Court!...My bad....Shelby Steele is available...no relation to Mike..but that last name might stir up bad memories of Hip Hop..

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GOP Talking Points

The talking heads of the GOP keep saying there were no terror attacks during Dubya's tenure in the White House....okay...I bet Dorothy really went to Oz, too...didn't she.... and Middle Earth exists..... William Shatner is really an alien and god actually sprung from the mind of L Ron Hubbard.....

Please!

Saying it over an over makes it urban legend....not fact....except for L. Ron...then it becomes a religion for some...

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New boy toys

Let's give a shout out to Susan Sarandon...the 60 plus actress recently dumped her long time toy for a new boy toy.....go girl! Thelma rocks!....at least I think she was Thelma...hated that movie..but loved her in The Hunger with Catherine Deneuve....


And since I strayed into Hollywood....Sharon Stone is quoted as saying Meryl Streep “looks like an unmade bed” and that's why people relate to her...

Well...I like snuggling into unmade beds....better than curling up with an over exercised bag of bones with no padding...c'mon girls....let's don't fight...men are infinitely more funny to talk about...



Go Meryll


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Boy Boxer Bomber

is in court today....all this hyperventilation over a near miss....it could have been serious...but face it people...it was a miss...an almost.....and...almost only counts in horse shoes...as my dad used to say...take this as a teaching lesson to improve the system and move on...

A world powered by fear is going to kill us all..

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Words of Advice for Prez O

I know you have to deal with all this peripheral BS for the cameras....but we the people could use a little help in your spare time...

Like jobs, for instance...that will secure the election if you can jump start the employment scene by summer..

It would help if you could cancel Don't Ask Don't Tell.....since many of your Arabic speaking translators that you kicked out of the armed forces last year were also gay...It might be good for security if you brought them back and allowed them to live their lives....while doing their job..

I ask you..which is best for all of us....National Security or worrying about who is sexing whom?

New Year, New Laws on Ohio Health Care

 With the new year comes new law from the Ohio legislature. Folks with pre existing health conditions will catch something of a break this year if they try to buy health insurance coverage.  A new law caps the rates that insurance companies can charge during their open enrollment period to persons with pre existing conditions or chronic illnesses. According to lawmakers more than 52,000 Ohioans will benefit from this change.

And, something for parents, coming in July parents will be able to buy insurance for their kids, as long as they are under the age of 28 from their employer. Old law capped this benefit at age 22.

Even if you still can't get insurance, you will be able to price shop hospitals online. A website has been created to compare prices and procedures and will have 100 different ways to measure the comparison to determine if you really are getting the better deal.  Hospital infection and death rates will also be listed.

Bear in mind this will only be for state hospitals, not privately owned hospitals. But it is a step in the right direction.

The Decade in Color

Tiger, tiger, not so bright
stuck in rehab New Years night.

Broken teeth and split lip, too
xmas gift from your blond ex boo.

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Went to Hermes did TV's Ms O
But the doors wouldn't open, which just goes to show

No matter how big the bankroll or prosperous the guise,
Step away from the mic and get profile victimized

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DJ Don cracked wise 'bout the prim and proper lady jocks of Rutgers U,
called them nappy headed ho's, figuring they never listened to the ranting on his show.

But he was wrong, and lost his living.
Exiled at first, now back on the air, behind the mic,
recouping his green, while routinely telling his listeners
he's not a bigot nor mean

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Dubya was fiddlin' when Katrina blew in
Drowning New Orleans Cajun, Creole
and all of their kin.

Mimicked his dad like when Andrew swamped Florida
Stayed out of sight, exercising presidential right.

hoping maybe the category five would blow out like it blew in
leaving some people alive.

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Michael died unexpectedly may he rest in peace.
Secrets buried, mysteries unresolved, his family adrift.

The fight is now on for his king of pop crown
Claimed by Jay Z, and Kanye,
other poseurs and clowns.

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They finally got OJ locked up and corralled
No more white women at risk, well until next time
anyhow.

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Barack Obama, elected president.
A black man in the White House, who'da thunk it
so quick.

It's the end of times, the pseudo Christians roar.
He's killing America, of that they are sure.


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Congress apologized for slavery, surprise, surprise, surprise.
So where are the reparations, the 40 acres, the mules?

Better late than never, some 400 years due.

This decade is over and I'm not sorry to see it go.
Next year will be better, because I intend to make it so.

Grass Roots Terrorists

Been reading and listening to all the hyperventilation going on about this latest attack on an American airplane. In case you've been on Mars for the past weekend, some rich kid from Nigeria decided to martyr himself for Al Qaida by blowing up a Delta jet over Detroit. He managed to explode his homemade device, but mainly caused damage to himself and the guys who jumped him. The plane landed safely.

20-20 hindsight is kicking in like a mutha with all these pseudo pundits and fake security experts opining about the state of American security or lack there of. One fool on one network going so far as to demand that Obama go on television and talk about it. What's he gonna say?

He's ordered another layer of security checks at the airports and on board planes. President O has also ordered a review of the overall process. His DHS Secretary Napolitano is all over the situation, talking about it. So other than ordering the snipers into Yemen, what's he gonna say?

“My fellow Americans, today I'm sending in the snipers who took out the Somali pirates into Yemen to kick some Al Qaida butt and take out a few radical Muslim clerics who are stirring up these fake Muslim wannabes over here, so we can go back to celebrating our Christian holidays in peace.”

Even if he is sending black ops into Yemen, he couldn't tell us about it until after the fact. Probably never, because until we get rid of the Al Qaida leadership altogether, we've got a problem

Anyway...the plain fact of the matter is that finding a terrorist is like searching for a needle in a haystack, even if he is listed on the security watch lists, because until someone acts, there is no threat. This young fool was on the list because his rich daddy called the American Embassy in Nigeria and said basically his son was acting crazy and didn't give any details of his craziness.

How many young rich kids do you know, who could fit that description? What is the government supposed to do? Go find him? Lock him up? Shoot him on sight? Spank him and return him to his banker father? Until he acted, it was a situation of he said-he said....hearsay, in other words...and not admissible in any court in America.

And I don't care how many layers of security you have in place at airports around the world, short of a strip search with a complete cavity check, there are no machines to catch someone who wants to do bodily harm to Americans by secreting a bomb up his ass or carrying an IED strapped to his dick. The explosive used in this latest event is readily available via the internet. I looked it up, just like looking up a recipe for a cake. It's there in black and white for anyone who dreams of becoming the next Timothy McVeigh.

That's why it's called “crazy.” There is no rhyme or reason, nor logic to crazy. You just have to deal with it as it happens, because as we improve our detection machinery, somebody, somewhere is already improving ways to kill people.

The Decade of Wil Smith

1. I Am Legend, 257 million

Hancock, 229 million

Rush Hour 2, 227 million

Men in Black 2, 195 million

Hitch, 179 million

Pursuit of Happyness, 163 million

Shark Tale, 162 million

I Robot, 145 million

Rush Hour 3, 140 million

Bad Boys 2, 139 million

American Gangster, 130 million

Remember the Titans, 117 million

Big Momma's House, 117 million

Daddy Day Care, 105 million

Dreamgirls, 104 million

Top Grossing Black Movies 2000-2009

This list looks back at Top Money Making Black movies of the decade, listed in the order of most money made. The second list is my favorite movie list of that year. Feel free to agree or to disagree. Better yet, comment with your own list.

2000-Big Momma's House, Remember the Titans, Unbreakable, Shaft, Bring it On, Rules of Engagement, Mission to Mars, Romeo Must Die, Finding Forrester, The Hurricane
My2000
Gladiator
X Men
Shaft
Crouching Tiger
Scream 3
Chocolat
Romeo Must Die
Road Trip
Gone in 60 Seconds
Miss Congeniality
2000 Favorite: Gladiator


2001-Rush Hour 2, Training Day, Along Came a Spider, Ali, Exit Wounds
My2001
Lord of the Rings
Monsters Inc
The Mummy Returns
Ocean's 11
Training Day
Along Came a Spider
The Score
Swordfish
2001 Favorite: The Score


2002-Men in Black 2, XXX, Blade 2, Snow Dogs, Barbershop, John Q, Changing Lanes, Next Friday, Drumline, Like Mike
My2002
The Two Towers
Goldmember
Men In Black 2
The Bourne Identity
8 Mile
The Scorpion King
Blade 2
Count of Monte Cristo
Unfaithful
Big Fat Liar
2002 Favorite: Big Fat Liar

2003-Bad Boys 2, Bringing Down the House, SWAT, Daddy Day Care, Gothika, Radio
My2003
Return of the King
Matrix Movies
X2
SWAT
The Italian Job
Mystic River
Kill Bill 1
Holes
Tomb Raider
2003 Favorite: Kill Bill 1


2004-Shark Tale, I Robot, Collateral, Man on Fire, Ray, White Chicks, Manchurian Candidate, Barbershop 2
My2004
The Incredibles
The Bourne Supremacy
Dodgeball
Man on Fire
Kill Bill 2
Hellboy
Collateral
I Robot
National Treasure
Alien v Predator
2004 Favorite: Man on Fire


2005-Hitch, Are We There Yet, Four Brothers, Guess Who, Coach Carter, Crash
My2005
Revenge of the Sith
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Batman Begins
Constantine
Sin City
Crash
Fantastic 4
Mr and Mrs Smith
Hitch
Saw 2
2005 Favorite: Sin City


2006-The Pursuit of Happyness, Dreamgirls, Inside Man, Big Momma's House 2, The Holiday, Deja Vu, Madea's Family
My2006
The Departed
Inside Man
V for Vendetta
The Good Shepard
Deja Vu
Little Miss Sunshine
2006 Favorite: Deja Vu


2007-I Am Legend, Rush Hour 3, American Gangster, Norbit
My2007
I Am Legend
Bourne Ultimatum
300
American Gangster
The Bucket List
1408
2007 Favorite: Bourne Ultimatum


2008-Hancock, Seven Pounds
My2008
The Dark Knight
The Incredible Hulk
Tropic Thunder
Hellboy 2
Hancock
2008 Favorite: The Dark Knight


2009-Madea Goes to Jail, Obsessed, Taking of Pelham 123

Due to recessionary budget constraints in 2009...did not go to a movie, choosing to console myself with my DVD collection from past years...hope to resume theater going in 2010

Top 20 Xmas Tunes of All Time!

Happy Holidays!

Glen Beck

I never write about nor do I try to read anything about Glen Beck. He long ago proved to be an insult to my intelligence and I try never to insult myself by being bothered with anything he chooses to allow to come out of his mouth. He is in fact, in the top five on my list of "walking wastes of oxygen, along with Rush, Ann, Michelle and Michelle (Sarah registers like a child on my scale of grownup WWO).

They are all uniformly bigoted, thoroughly unpleasant individuals, who masquerade as thinking and intellectual human beings. They are intelligent, however, I question they're human-ness. Their distorted and bigoted view of the world has corrupted the thinking of whole segments of the population to the detriment of all. They don't care about this country or the people in it. Calling them racist is an insult to rednecks. So,I try to keep their vitriol out of my world as much as possible because constant ignorance is bad for your health.

Ignoring them is problematic, however, given the MSM's penchant for stirring up useless controversy by giving these people airtime instead of reporting stories of real import.

Which brings me to Beck. This week on his program, apparently he tried to "interpret" the United States Constitution's "three-fifths clause." This is the clause that referred to slaves as three fifiths of a person, essentially writing Black inequality into the document. It is why the House of Representatives has the number of Congressmen that it does. But according to Beck this clause was inserted into the Constitution by the founding fathers because they were actually all abolitionists instead of slave owners that we know them to have been, and were actually attempting to covertly rid the country of slavery. You can read it here.

The way it is written, the three-fifths clause applied to women, Native Americans, The Chinese, as well as Blacks, because what it did was elevate white men to superior status. America's first drug laws were written to "protect" white women from Chinese men, but that's another topic for another day. Back on topic.. If this clause had not been enacted, white men and whites in general would have been outnumbered dramatically because at that time in this country's history, there were more slaves in America then white people.

So the men in power acted the way they always do...protect their power, their property and their women, in that order.

To give you an example, white people in South Carolina were outnumbered by their slaves by about 6 to 1. Further, there had been a slave revolt prior to the constitutional convention that scared white people. The revolt was put down, the slaves brutalized and killed in horrible ways, and the history buried. It's not taught in schools. If you look at history as taught in schools, slave rebellions began and ended with Nat Turner and John Brown. Rebellion history is always ignored in favor of perpetuating the happy darkie mythology where uncivilized negroes were happier being cared for by their white owners then living free lives, doing their own thing.

And, unlike what is taught, slavery was not just a southern problem for white men. There was an internal slave trade in America, in addition to what came over the ocean from Africa. In fact, at one point, the state of New York had more slaves than any state in the South, including South Carolina.

Another reason was to control the numbers of free men of color in America, as well, since all Blacks in America were not slaves and never had been. The three-fifths clause stripped them of their human-ness too, opening them up to the whims of their white neighbors.

The founding fathers...and I hate using that term....were not abolitionists....they were slave owners....they were not Christians....they were white men of power acting like white men of power do...for their own benefit. Their actions back in the day continue to affect us, here in the 21st century, where it is institutionalized and ingrained making it nearly impossible to root out.

Real history reveals that slaves built this country and are the roots of America's foundation. No distortion...no lie.....just fact..

A truth the Glen Becks of the world can't handle.

Friday Rap

UPDATE-Tiger has apparently decided to take a break from golf for a while to fix his family. He made the announcement on his website.



Some sanctimonious ass hat in New York wants the PGA commissioner to ban Tiger Woods...For what...screwing white women?

Or maybe it's the number of white women....Okay...so how many white women is too many... does it count if you screw them one at a time...or what happens if you take part in an orgy or two...is group sex with all white women the tipping point?

Are you banned for life for going in on an orgy with five or more?

What's the penalty for oral sex....ten day suspension...

Or maybe dummy was offended by the pros...the porn ladies sprinkled among the amateur cocktail waitresses...

Give me a fucking break....He curses on the golf course well within the hearing of your precious little children, enough to make a sailor envious

But other than that...he does nothing on the golf course but make money for himself and all of the other golfers...

Message to ass hat....even if Tiger hadn't taken all the white women...you still wouldn't qualify...

so go sit down somewhere...simple dip shit....this whole thing is about money...not sex...

wake up and deal with it... Besides....ban a professional athlete for bedding white girls and you will have to cancel sports all the way down to puberty level juvy-ball...

And I hope that Ben Crane (Ben Crane update....) and what ever his name is Howard or Warren, have decided to retire...because when Tiger does go back to playing golf...you guys will never win another tournament....if you've won one in the first place above amateur level

A real pro keeps his jealousy out of magazine interviews....you can lust after the man's wife and envy his golf game...just be smart enough to keep it to yourself... so go ahead make hay now and then tear up your PGA card because you're not gonna need it when Tiger comes back...dumb ass..

Tiger.....Cheetah...whatever....you can't beat him...not with money, women or golf...never could...never will...

And that's really why all of you also rans are unhappy and runnin off at the mouth..

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Public Option Dead

Looks like we lost this war....I'm still waiting for the final form of this bill...but I'm not happy....the fat lady is tuning up and corporate America is lacing up its dancing shoes to dance on the mass grave of this country's middle class...

Wonder how Obama is gonna jig out of this one....

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Bat Masterson RIP

Gene Barry was one of my first TV crushes...I was 8....he was the man playing a debonair gambler, before the Maverick brothers took over...

He came back to TV in Burke's Law...and I followed him then...

Mr. Barry was 90...

Tiger Woo, Tiger Woo

I never intended to write about Tiger Woods. I have been laughing from day one about this whole situation, especially when word surfaced that he ran out the door, driving away shoeless, as well as police seeking a search warrant for a golf cart along with the clubs, that his wife allegedly used.

I have this picture in my head of a metal breast plated Viking woman, blonde hair flowing in the wind, club held high, driving this golf cart, angrily chasing down her barefoot, Escalade humping husband as he tried to maneuver down the driveway, singing Wagner's Battle Cry of the Valkyries.

Every day this past week has unveiled a new blonde hottie claiming to have had an affair with the great Tiger Woods. This newest one gets me, though. Just like the others she is a cocktail waitress, who is pursued by the golfer, meets him in the parking lot where he either jumps her bones there or takes her back to his house, and who by her own admission, only cares about the “lust,” doesn't practice safe sex and treats her coldly. Yet she says they had an affair. Another one expressed surprise that she wasn't the only one he had, besides his wife, course. Number 2, I think said she was ticked off and came forward because Tiger cheated on her with the first ho....why couldn't he take “ her” to Australia, huh?

Also this morning, white people have glommed onto the fact that Black people don't like the fact that Tiger is color struck...meaning he only dates, screws or marries white women. They are calling us racist and practitioners of a racial double standard.

Well, yeah....

Tiger's womanizing reinforces the second class position that Black women have been in since free Black people came to America...And for those of you historically challenged individuals...free Blacks came here before the slaves were brought here..

For the entire history of Black people in America, the white woman has been held up as the holy grail of what everyone, whites, blacks, Native Americans, Chinese, Samoans, whoever, must have, on their arm, in their bed, or on the side, in order to live the ultimate definition of success in America. That doesn't leave much room for the rest of us women of color. I mean who plays for second place in life? Everyone wants a rich spouse and success and fame and all that other peripheral happy horseshit

White men have always screwed and now are openly dating, marrying and fathering little mixed up babies with Black women, Asian women, any woman they choose....However, when they go into politics, become CEO, or land at the top of the entertainment/sports ladder.. you can bet the woman who is allowed to share that success is usually always blonde, real or bottled...don't make no difference. The two exceptions that I know...Michelle Obama and Janet Langhart. All men are color struck when you think about it. It's not about the women...it's about money, image and perceived success.

White women are always considered a step up in this country, while white men who marry Black or minority are assumed to be getting better sex, but are fucking and marrying beneath their station in life. White women are held up as the beauty standard and many Black women spend their whole paycheck subconsciously emulating some form of that so called beauty standard, failing to see that white women changed the game a while back and started ripping off Black and brown women for their beauty tips.

Remember when Bo Derek wore cornrows in the movies? That's when it got serious.. They used to be covert about it. But now, they plump their lips, get breast implants, shoot silicone in their butts to make them bigger and rounder, like minority butts. Some of them even try to talk and act ghetto....nothing funnier than a white girl doing a neck roll. They are so afraid of the sun and skin cancer that now there is a whole market of bronzers to make them look brown, or some silly form of orange.

While the brown countries around the world are trying to simultaneously turn themselves white skinned in order to get that white man defined good looking man, or woman and money and fame, since the white man's definition of success still is the name of the game, around the world.

The very confused Cablinasian is fucking white girls, but he married the whitest of the white that he could find, a Swede..and a rich one at that. And he is even willing to fork out 80 million dollars to keep his fantasy of supremacy over white guys in tact. After all, he has conquered their sport, is responsible for them getting paid, too...taken all the money...and taken their women...Numero Uno...King of the World, Ma!

Because the game is not really about women. Women are the pawns in the game of success and money. They are the arm candy, the bauble, the sign of success. The bank account is the real prize. Besting white guys at their own game is the platinum ring.

Beat the Masters of the Universe and you become a god.....roundly celebrated... worshipped....but universally despised behind doors...

Tiger's Dad figured that out and taught his kid to live the fantasy...

And based on what his fuck-buddies say, he screws like he plays golf, cold and calculating with amazing course management, apparently upping the anti through unsafe sex.

I'd even bet my mediocre paycheck that nearly all of his fuck rounds come in under par, too.

Mission Not Accomplished

Thoughts on Obama's escalation of the Afghan war.

The main message from our President last night is that this country is going to be in Afghanistan for a long, long time. Pundits are worried about Obama setting a deadline to begin bringing the troops home. However the key word here is “begin.” The other part of the message was the “begin” will start if and when the natives can handle the situation on their own.

This is the second troop escalation that Obama has authorized. Shortly after taking office he sent in the troops. This second surge will bring troop count to over 100,000. That's way more than the Bush-Cheney cabal thought we needed to win in the first place. Bush-Cheney was wrong on so many levels that I'm not even going to go there. But by Obama's reasoning last night, we need to escalate in order to draw down.

This Obama reasoning is merely a re-statement of Bushco's “go shopping” rationale to get us out of the deepening recession. Obama is now telling us that we need to make a similar move in order to bring our troops home and to end this thing.

Yet, in order for us to draw down our troops, the Afghan and Pakistani governments have to get themselves together and actually begin to govern and protect their people. This would seem to be an indication that we are not going to prop up any more corrupt leaders who screw over their people while pocketing American money.

Oh, and by the way, this is going to cost us another 30-billion dollars. In other words, we've got to spend some, to get some. All of these echoes of Bushco, make me very uneasy. The speech to sell the principle was much, much better. However the principle being sold was basically SOSDD (same old shit different day) -Bush Doctrine, to put a name on it.

The Bush Doctrine basically says we, as a country have a right to start wars, if we think another country is going to do something to us-not after they make moves, but after they think about it and before they follow through with any plan to harm us. We have the right to “preempt their plans and hit them first.

Here in the ghetto, that's called a sucker punch. We no longer counter punch, you know, never hit someone unless they hit you first. That's the way we're all taught, usually. The Bush Doctrine changed the rules and Obama seems content to go along with the status quo. Obama shows no inclination to dismantle the imperial presidency created by Bush. He seems comfortable allowing the freedom-stealing Patriot Act to stand. He hasn't even mentioned getting rid of the Military Commissions Law of 2006, which makes it easier to use American troops on American soil against American citizens.

Now the Nobel peace laureate is escalating a war albeit with the best of intentions, he says.

The plan says he is sending in the Marines first. Well, I hope this is an indication that he is really letting the dogs out to do what they do, what they train for-take out the enemy, Al Quaeda and the Taliban. If there are less than 100 Al Quaeda still there, then a Marine Battalion or two should be able to kill a 100 or so enemy.

I'm not happy about this either because my nephew and the nephew of a close friend are in the Second Battalion Marines at Camp La Jeune. They've already been to Iraq a few times. My nephew and my friend's nephew, did not come home whole like they went. But as long as they can walk, they will be sent back, and I don't like that, personally. They volunteered, so they do what they do. That doesn't mean I have to like it.

I wanted Obama to plot a new course last night. I wanted him to change directions. He had the chance to do that, but he chose to claim the war and attempt to do something. I can't say something different, because it's not. Not really.

We're still living Bushco policies and I know that somewhere in Texas, Dubya is laughing his ass off.

When Sex Kills-A Conversation for My People

Black people- HIV/AIDS is killing our community. It stopped being a gay white man's disease, years ago. However, from the beginning it was killing Black people. Black women were passing the germ on to their newborn babies in breast milk, and they were dying. Black people in Africa continue to die with whole generations wiped out and children left without parents. The white gay community mobilized to deal with the situation while Black people fell through the cracks due to their own prejudices and ignorance, coupled with an inherently racist health system that continues today.

The HIV virus is not killing white America, so much anymore, but it is killing Black America....Let's bring it even closer....It is affecting Black straight America...through Black straight women, who refuse to hold their sexual partners accountable.

In Hamilton County, Cincinnati, Ohio....The number of Black women living with HIV/AIDS has doubled since 1998, according to the Ohio Department of Health. Across America, Black women, most of them straight, make up 61% of the newly diagnosed cases, while Black men make up 46% of all newly diagnosed cases.

The Black community in America is on target to be wiped out just like in Africa.

I've been writing and doing radio programs about this since the disease surfaced in 1984. I lost 11 friends in one year and 2 relatives before I stopped counting. I continue to write about it, and to talk about it, but it feels like I'm spitting into the wind and nobody is paying attention.

The fact of the matter is that.....

HIV is the number one cause of death for Black women between the ages of 25 and 34. The same is true for Black men between the ages of 35 and 44.

My people, you are dying because of fear, denial and ignorance. It's not about drug use and junkies sharing needles. That does happen, but primarily the cause is unprotected sex. Sex without condoms. A condom can stop the spread of the disease. No one is saying become celibate....just become sensible about what you do when you do decide to get your groove on.

Anyone who has sex with someone who refuses to use a condom is committing suicide...a long painful and stupid suicide.

As Black people we're funny. We talk about white people letting their dogs kiss them in the face. We worry about the germs from the dog's tongue. Yet, dog germs on your face won't kill you. But sex without a jimmy will and does over and over and over again. But nobody's talking about that.

Straight Black women in particular are in denial and are paying the price. Maintaining a jimmy-less relationship with their man when he comes out of prison is a big factor, especially since many black men engage in man on man sex while in jail, then take it home to their women.

Another major factor is men who routinely have sex with other men, yet don't consider themselves gay and still sleep with women. She ends up infected since male to female transmission is the easiest form of transmission.

Ohio Corrections tests all men going into the system, however they don't test them upon release.

The sad fact is that statistics show that most Black straight women are infected by their husbands and boyfriends.

So what can be done. Well, it's a matter of the entire community coming out the closet about the problem. And by this I mean, Black Churches, Black civil rights organizations, and Black people need to admit to themselves that it is not a white disease or a black disease....It is a disease that is colorblind and is killing us.

Everyone should be tested. I have been, a couple of times. It is a simple blood test that you can have done while you're having other blood work done. Your doctor can give you a card that you can carry in your wallet. The information just says...blood type..rh factor and HIV positive or negative.

People are living longer and longer because the medicine is finally catching up. HIV is no longer an instant death sentence.

So do yourself a favor on World AIDS Day, get tested and ask your partner to get tested, too.
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