Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Good News Tuesdays: Im just Getting Started....
The Obama's "Option" is in!!!
Actually credit goes to Harry Reid for putting the states the choice of opting out of the Option.
Now a couple of things.
1- Credit for Reid for showing some balls and rolling them on the table with what should have been a no brainer. (I was beginning to think that Alan Grayson was the only Dem willing to throw down.)
2- The trigger that was talked about before was iffy at best and no one could tell you exactly what would be good enough to pull the trigger.
3- He is going to be in a hell of a re-election so might as well go out with a bang if your going.
4- It's giving the states the option to say no, and we know how batty some of those states can be, see Texas, South Carolina, and Louisiana.
But I know a bunch of signifying monkeys when I see them.......
They were talking that smack about not taking stimulus money either and just as quick flip flopped and grabbed their share of that cash.
5- This isn't for everyone, it's only for those who are uninsured.
6- Still need 60 votes to get it passed and the bottom line is the real reason we haven't gotten this done yet is not because of the Republicans but because of the cowardly Dem's who are scared to death of the right.
If only they were all like Alan Grayson.....
That's a guy I can vote for.
7- YOU KNOW the Right is going to go ape shit but so what, they were going crazy before anyway.
So you may wonder why such a fragile bill gets the Good News Tuesday, cause it shouldn't of seen day light period.
Just two weeks ago they were claiming that health care reform was dead, well here it is, and it's up for a vote, that's good news to me.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Dont You Just Hate Them?
Yeah go ahead get it out of your system.
Call us what you want, Evil Empire (my favorite)........
Rich boys "buying" another ring.......
Spoiled brats.........
Everything that's wrong with sports.........
You make sure you add CHAMPS to that sucker when you say what ever your going to say.
I don't know whats more surprising about this post season, A-Rods hitting, the Yanks pitching not imploding, or how quiet everyone seems to be about it.
Oh well, bring in the next victim.
Call us what you want, Evil Empire (my favorite)........
Rich boys "buying" another ring.......
Spoiled brats.........
Everything that's wrong with sports.........
You make sure you add CHAMPS to that sucker when you say what ever your going to say.
I don't know whats more surprising about this post season, A-Rods hitting, the Yanks pitching not imploding, or how quiet everyone seems to be about it.
Oh well, bring in the next victim.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Wordless Wednesday: Art Appreciation Marilyn Monroe
A picture shows a colorful portrait of Marilyn Monroe made up of hundreds of balloons on display at the 2009 Balloon Art World challenge event in Bangkok, Thai.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Good News Tuesdays: Torii Hunter
I will over look the fact that this dude plays for a rival team and give props were props are due.
Los Angeles Angels OF Torii Hunter continues to inspire hope in hometown of Pine Bluff, Arkansas
From the New York Daily News:
BY Wayne Coffey
With 11 full years in the big leagues behind him, the 34-year-old Hunter is renowned for his electrifying defensive play and his ebullient personality, but back home in Pine Bluff, and elsewhere, he’s known much more for philanthropy that doesn’t stop, under an initiative called The Torii Hunter Project.
Hunter and his wife, Katrina, who was also born and raised here, have officially donated more than $1 million to their various causes, though close friends are sure the total is much more than that, because of all Hunter does without fanfare.
Hunter is intimately involved with an acclaimed character-development program called Heart Of A Champion, an in-school curriculum that is used in 23 states. He is underwriting college scholarships for a hundred students over five years through a program called Hunter’s 100, and built a youth baseball field in California in an effort to encourage inner-city kids to play the game. He’s also put money into a food-distribution network here, and, according to Skip Perkins Jr., the athletic director at the University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff, is by far the biggest contributor to the $5 million Torii Hunter Baseball, Softball and Little League Complex on a 15.5-acre parcel that is being built adjacent to the campus.
"You can’t meet a better person than Torii Hunter. He’s one in a billion," Perkins says.
I like to point out the athletes who are doing positive things especially when they give back to the communities they come from, because the media will always give these type of activities as back page press in favor of misconduct by a few others.
To let them say it there all hyper-sexual criminally leaning, thugs, which is that is what they think of the community at large.
That type of reporting has to be checked, and Torii's story is a good way to do it.
Los Angeles Angels OF Torii Hunter continues to inspire hope in hometown of Pine Bluff, Arkansas
From the New York Daily News:
BY Wayne Coffey
With 11 full years in the big leagues behind him, the 34-year-old Hunter is renowned for his electrifying defensive play and his ebullient personality, but back home in Pine Bluff, and elsewhere, he’s known much more for philanthropy that doesn’t stop, under an initiative called The Torii Hunter Project.
Hunter and his wife, Katrina, who was also born and raised here, have officially donated more than $1 million to their various causes, though close friends are sure the total is much more than that, because of all Hunter does without fanfare.
Hunter is intimately involved with an acclaimed character-development program called Heart Of A Champion, an in-school curriculum that is used in 23 states. He is underwriting college scholarships for a hundred students over five years through a program called Hunter’s 100, and built a youth baseball field in California in an effort to encourage inner-city kids to play the game. He’s also put money into a food-distribution network here, and, according to Skip Perkins Jr., the athletic director at the University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff, is by far the biggest contributor to the $5 million Torii Hunter Baseball, Softball and Little League Complex on a 15.5-acre parcel that is being built adjacent to the campus.
"You can’t meet a better person than Torii Hunter. He’s one in a billion," Perkins says.
I like to point out the athletes who are doing positive things especially when they give back to the communities they come from, because the media will always give these type of activities as back page press in favor of misconduct by a few others.
To let them say it there all hyper-sexual criminally leaning, thugs, which is that is what they think of the community at large.
That type of reporting has to be checked, and Torii's story is a good way to do it.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Mathematical Dysfunction
Take one 15 year old girl.
Add 18 year old boy.
Divided by 18 year old boy's 18 year old girlfriend.
And get 15 year old girl with a slashed face.
I wish I could feel sorry for the kid but I cant, hell wish I could say I am angry about it all but not really.
I am cold as ice to these things like this.
I can only see what should be done.
1- get the parents more involved
2- mentoring for kids
3- helping women to deal with anger better
4- telling women not to put everything they have in a man
5- get fathers involved in their daughters lives so they don't seek out what there missing in older boys arms
6- tell men to stop preying on young girls
7- anger management
And that's with out knowing all the details.
Add 18 year old boy.
Divided by 18 year old boy's 18 year old girlfriend.
And get 15 year old girl with a slashed face.
I wish I could feel sorry for the kid but I cant, hell wish I could say I am angry about it all but not really.
I am cold as ice to these things like this.
I can only see what should be done.
1- get the parents more involved
2- mentoring for kids
3- helping women to deal with anger better
4- telling women not to put everything they have in a man
5- get fathers involved in their daughters lives so they don't seek out what there missing in older boys arms
6- tell men to stop preying on young girls
7- anger management
And that's with out knowing all the details.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Good News Tuesday: The Reverend Joseph Lowery
I am keeping it simple for this Tuesday and saving the tounge in cheek commentary, to say Happy Belated Birthday to the Reverend Joseph Lowery who celebrated his 88th birthday at Morehouse college.
From the AJC:
The event featured civil rights icons as well as Aretha Franklin.
She was the highlight of a night that featured dancing, music and plays focusing on Reverend Lowery's life.
The $50-a-head ticket went to support the Joseph E. Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights.
Mildred Drayton says Dr. Lowery is an inspiration to youth today.
A little bit of bio:
Lowery was pastor of the Warren Street United Methodist Church, in Mobile, Alabama from 1952 until 1961.
His career in the civil rights movement began in the early 1950s in Mobile, Alabama.
After Rosa Parks' arrest in 1955, Lowery helped lead the Montgomery bus boycott. He headed the Alabama Civic Affairs Association, an organization devoted to the desegregation of buses and public places.
In 1957, with Martin Luther King, Jr. Lowery founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and subsequently led the organization as its president from 1977 to 1997.
Best quote:
Speaking at Coretta Scott King's funeral,
"We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there. But Coretta knew and we know that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance. Poverty abounds. For war billions more but no more for the poor!"
Honor the elders before their gone.
From the AJC:
The event featured civil rights icons as well as Aretha Franklin.
She was the highlight of a night that featured dancing, music and plays focusing on Reverend Lowery's life.
The $50-a-head ticket went to support the Joseph E. Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights.
Mildred Drayton says Dr. Lowery is an inspiration to youth today.
A little bit of bio:
Lowery was pastor of the Warren Street United Methodist Church, in Mobile, Alabama from 1952 until 1961.
His career in the civil rights movement began in the early 1950s in Mobile, Alabama.
After Rosa Parks' arrest in 1955, Lowery helped lead the Montgomery bus boycott. He headed the Alabama Civic Affairs Association, an organization devoted to the desegregation of buses and public places.
In 1957, with Martin Luther King, Jr. Lowery founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and subsequently led the organization as its president from 1977 to 1997.
Best quote:
Speaking at Coretta Scott King's funeral,
"We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there. But Coretta knew and we know that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance. Poverty abounds. For war billions more but no more for the poor!"
Honor the elders before their gone.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Random Thoughts Of Cerebral Violence 11.
*****Warning: The Ability For Critical Thinking Required Before Reading This Post. The Slow Witted Need Not Continue.*****
****I was going to do this as a Good News Tuesday post but hell everyone knows about this.
Congratulations to President Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
Although I have no idea why you won it, but here is what I am guessing;
1- You won it for bringing awareness about.....I guess peace.
Several award winners have won the award before actually achieving anything, Al Gore won it for bringing attention to global warming and that's still and issue.
The idea here is about potential, which leads to......
2- Potential.
This maybe a slick way by the award givers to to try to influence the Presidents future actions specifically in foreign policy.
The President has to make a decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan or pulling out, there is the mess that is Iraq, the pests that is North Korea, the two faced Pakistan, treacherous Iran, and the more trouble than they will ever be worth Israel.
Lets be real could you really blame Obama if the first thing he did when he got to office was to press the hell out of the big red button?
I know I wouldn't.
This maybe away of saying "please take it easy".
3- For being black.
I cringe at this one but this is a possibility, this country is not considered enlightened when compared to the Europeans who enjoy reminding us about this.
Yet we elected a black President, that's something the eastern Europeans and the old colonial powers including the swirl spots that is Britain and France can never claim to come close to doing.
That is something to think about and also a cause for reflection, as in what the hell is wrong with y'all.
4- And finally and my favorite, for just not being George Bush.
Just that simple, Bush, and "the gang that could shoot straight", big bully foreign politic style pissed the entire planet off.
Anything other than him would be a welcome change.
I can dig that.
Regardless of the reason Im happy for it and I am enjoying watching the Obama haters have fits over it.
****
Rush "Boss Hog" Limbaugh is a part of a group that wants to buy the St. Louis Rams football team........how this Master Provocateur got it into his thick head that he should have the right to own a professional sports team in a sport dominated by his favorite punching bags, African Americans is bold as hell.
Lets be real that dude just wants to say he owns black players literally.
The messed up part is as absurd as the idea is I wouldn't put it past the league to go along with it.
Im still waiting on word from the league and the media about Ben Roethlisberger and his "alleged" rape incident.
The right thing to do would be to tell good old Rush is "don't call us, will call you".
And don't stop there either, any group that would count that ruffian among it's ranks need to be given the Reject stamp right across their for heads to.
I never liked that punk ass Dave Checketts anyway from back in his days with the Knicks.
**** Yes I know it's selfish.......
......I know it is not gentleman like behavior.......
......some would say it is even rude.......
........crude........
......they would even label me as a true scoundrel........
..........I am sorry........
.......but when I spend the night with a woman after making love........
......no.........
.........I will not sleep on the wet side of the bed........
......Damn That......
****
Went to a friend's house to watch the Kimbo Slice farce on TV.
He had a young lady over who he met a couple of weeks ago at a gas station, this would be their first date.
They were all lovey dovey at first than things change, the phone rings, or to be specific her phone rings.
All through the night she is on the phone, but not just that, she is walking into other rooms to talk, walking outside, and at one point locking herself in the bathroom.
She is talking so much that she borrows my phone when her phone goes dead and doesn't charge fast enough.
Off the rip I knew it was another dude she was talking to by her behavior, that and the fact that she was yelling on the phone explaining were she wasn't.
But she is young, which means she is dumb and it's not my problem.
But my homeboy on the other hand is .38 hot about it, he think it's rude and truth is, it is.
Hella rude.
So after the fight he bangs on the bathroom door and tells her it's time to go, she steps out and doesn't miss a beat, phone in ear yapping away, all the while he is talking to her demanding to know why she is acting like that and this cluck is ignoring him and still talking on the phone.
All the way to the car.
I jump in the back seat so I can get a ride to the liquor store before heading to the house, she is riding shotgun and yapping away, he is yelling at her, she is still ignoring him, so he turns the radio up.
Way up.
She tries to turn it down he slaps her hand away and NOW she gives him his attention, the argument starts, he is calling her all sorts of bitches at this point.
And she is cursing right back, this goes on while he makes a U-turn and decides to drop her off at the train station and kick her out the car, in the middle of the cold as hell night.
We get there and he he tells her to bounce to which she refuses to do.
My buzz from the drinking......completely shot.
It's at this point she wants to explain why she is on the phone and basically showing her ass.
Apparently she is 2 months pregnant and she is trying to get the dude on the phone to pay for the abortion.
Yes....that's right.....I will give you time to digest this........
I'm speechless, not that I was saying anything anyway, but homeboy who just got this bit of info doesn't miss a beat.
"Bitch get the fuck out."
She than turns to me and asks me if that isn't an important enough reason to be on the phone.
I don't even know this chick, so I say, hey this is between you all, I can see in the look in her eyes she doesn't like that one bit.
But damn that, I came to see a professional fight on TV not an amateur one from the back seat of a Chevy.
This chick than says she is going to call the cops if he tries to put her out, that's when I try to say something but before I could get the words out of my mouth she cuts me off with "no don't try to say anything now you didn't want to speak before your not a real man, there are no real men in this car no real man would put a woman out" and she sides eye my homeboy.
I'm in the back like stunned, "say what...." is all I could get out my mouth, my homeboy doesn't miss a beat again, he goes "yeah but a real nigga would now bitch get out."
She again refuses, so he says "OK you wont? I bet you will be out when I take you around the corner."
And speeds off.
Well I guess the girl got the hint and jumps out of the car as he is driving off.
A particularly impressive move since she landed on her feet, in high heels, and STILL manages to slam the door while getting out.
I mean I got to give the girl 20 points for that for real.
Homeboy in the mean while is still hot and going off about it while driving.
And to top it off the time wasted on this episode caused me to miss the getting to the store before it closes.
****I was going to do this as a Good News Tuesday post but hell everyone knows about this.
Congratulations to President Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
Although I have no idea why you won it, but here is what I am guessing;
1- You won it for bringing awareness about.....I guess peace.
Several award winners have won the award before actually achieving anything, Al Gore won it for bringing attention to global warming and that's still and issue.
The idea here is about potential, which leads to......
2- Potential.
This maybe a slick way by the award givers to to try to influence the Presidents future actions specifically in foreign policy.
The President has to make a decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan or pulling out, there is the mess that is Iraq, the pests that is North Korea, the two faced Pakistan, treacherous Iran, and the more trouble than they will ever be worth Israel.
Lets be real could you really blame Obama if the first thing he did when he got to office was to press the hell out of the big red button?
I know I wouldn't.
This maybe away of saying "please take it easy".
3- For being black.
I cringe at this one but this is a possibility, this country is not considered enlightened when compared to the Europeans who enjoy reminding us about this.
Yet we elected a black President, that's something the eastern Europeans and the old colonial powers including the swirl spots that is Britain and France can never claim to come close to doing.
That is something to think about and also a cause for reflection, as in what the hell is wrong with y'all.
4- And finally and my favorite, for just not being George Bush.
Just that simple, Bush, and "the gang that could shoot straight", big bully foreign politic style pissed the entire planet off.
Anything other than him would be a welcome change.
I can dig that.
Regardless of the reason Im happy for it and I am enjoying watching the Obama haters have fits over it.
****
Rush "Boss Hog" Limbaugh is a part of a group that wants to buy the St. Louis Rams football team........how this Master Provocateur got it into his thick head that he should have the right to own a professional sports team in a sport dominated by his favorite punching bags, African Americans is bold as hell.
Lets be real that dude just wants to say he owns black players literally.
The messed up part is as absurd as the idea is I wouldn't put it past the league to go along with it.
Im still waiting on word from the league and the media about Ben Roethlisberger and his "alleged" rape incident.
The right thing to do would be to tell good old Rush is "don't call us, will call you".
And don't stop there either, any group that would count that ruffian among it's ranks need to be given the Reject stamp right across their for heads to.
I never liked that punk ass Dave Checketts anyway from back in his days with the Knicks.
**** Yes I know it's selfish.......
......I know it is not gentleman like behavior.......
......some would say it is even rude.......
........crude........
......they would even label me as a true scoundrel........
..........I am sorry........
.......but when I spend the night with a woman after making love........
......no.........
.........I will not sleep on the wet side of the bed........
......Damn That......
****
Went to a friend's house to watch the Kimbo Slice farce on TV.
He had a young lady over who he met a couple of weeks ago at a gas station, this would be their first date.
They were all lovey dovey at first than things change, the phone rings, or to be specific her phone rings.
All through the night she is on the phone, but not just that, she is walking into other rooms to talk, walking outside, and at one point locking herself in the bathroom.
She is talking so much that she borrows my phone when her phone goes dead and doesn't charge fast enough.
Off the rip I knew it was another dude she was talking to by her behavior, that and the fact that she was yelling on the phone explaining were she wasn't.
But she is young, which means she is dumb and it's not my problem.
But my homeboy on the other hand is .38 hot about it, he think it's rude and truth is, it is.
Hella rude.
So after the fight he bangs on the bathroom door and tells her it's time to go, she steps out and doesn't miss a beat, phone in ear yapping away, all the while he is talking to her demanding to know why she is acting like that and this cluck is ignoring him and still talking on the phone.
All the way to the car.
I jump in the back seat so I can get a ride to the liquor store before heading to the house, she is riding shotgun and yapping away, he is yelling at her, she is still ignoring him, so he turns the radio up.
Way up.
She tries to turn it down he slaps her hand away and NOW she gives him his attention, the argument starts, he is calling her all sorts of bitches at this point.
And she is cursing right back, this goes on while he makes a U-turn and decides to drop her off at the train station and kick her out the car, in the middle of the cold as hell night.
We get there and he he tells her to bounce to which she refuses to do.
My buzz from the drinking......completely shot.
It's at this point she wants to explain why she is on the phone and basically showing her ass.
Apparently she is 2 months pregnant and she is trying to get the dude on the phone to pay for the abortion.
Yes....that's right.....I will give you time to digest this........
I'm speechless, not that I was saying anything anyway, but homeboy who just got this bit of info doesn't miss a beat.
"Bitch get the fuck out."
She than turns to me and asks me if that isn't an important enough reason to be on the phone.
I don't even know this chick, so I say, hey this is between you all, I can see in the look in her eyes she doesn't like that one bit.
But damn that, I came to see a professional fight on TV not an amateur one from the back seat of a Chevy.
This chick than says she is going to call the cops if he tries to put her out, that's when I try to say something but before I could get the words out of my mouth she cuts me off with "no don't try to say anything now you didn't want to speak before your not a real man, there are no real men in this car no real man would put a woman out" and she sides eye my homeboy.
I'm in the back like stunned, "say what...." is all I could get out my mouth, my homeboy doesn't miss a beat again, he goes "yeah but a real nigga would now bitch get out."
She again refuses, so he says "OK you wont? I bet you will be out when I take you around the corner."
And speeds off.
Well I guess the girl got the hint and jumps out of the car as he is driving off.
A particularly impressive move since she landed on her feet, in high heels, and STILL manages to slam the door while getting out.
I mean I got to give the girl 20 points for that for real.
Homeboy in the mean while is still hot and going off about it while driving.
And to top it off the time wasted on this episode caused me to miss the getting to the store before it closes.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Good News Tuesday: Haiti HOPE International
As seen at Movie Lakay.....
This is a documentary created for HOPE International to show how microfinance enterprise is working to fight poverty and change the lives of people in Haiti. It was directed by Nic McLean and shot on a Panasonic HVX200 and a Nikon D90. Music is by Josh Garrels, Jessica McLean, Chad Farran & Justin Werner.
Haiti HOPE International
I will say this as a sidenote, never trust a missionary man.
Haiti HOPE International from Nic McLean on Vimeo.
This is a documentary created for HOPE International to show how microfinance enterprise is working to fight poverty and change the lives of people in Haiti. It was directed by Nic McLean and shot on a Panasonic HVX200 and a Nikon D90. Music is by Josh Garrels, Jessica McLean, Chad Farran & Justin Werner.
Haiti HOPE International
I will say this as a sidenote, never trust a missionary man.
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