WASHINGTON - Alaska is young. Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia have growing populations and many black voters. Montana has seen recent Democratic inroads, and North Dakota has sent only Democrats to Congress since 1986. Indiana borders Barack Obama's home state.
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Sunday, August 3, 2008
Bernie Mac, "very, very critical"
Comedian Bernie Mac was in "very, very critical" condition late Saturday at a Chicago hospital, according to a Chicago Sun-Times source who knows the comedian's family.
The revelation came after Mac's publicist told Chicago media Saturday that she had received multiple calls from news outlets regarding "absolutely untrue" rumors of the star's demise.
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The revelation came after Mac's publicist told Chicago media Saturday that she had received multiple calls from news outlets regarding "absolutely untrue" rumors of the star's demise.
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Saturday, August 2, 2008
Friday, August 1, 2008
New strategy aimed at Obama crafted by Bush operative
Senator John McCain's switch to an aggressive strategy towards his rival Senator Barack Obama has been orchestrated by a shaven-headed former operative in the Bush administration known as "The Bullet".
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Heckling Obama: An Essay
A young man personalized the sub-prime mortgage mess to Blacks and Latina as well as drug and gang-related killings in the black community and even the ill-calibrated levies of crime-infested Louisiana and placed those problems squarely in the lap of Presidential Candidate Barack Obama to solve.
He heckled the 46-year-old about his seeming dis involvement in the Black Community. The heckling comes from a group of young black men, nameless, standing with others, holding a sign promoting a black organization during a Barack Obama town hall meeting in St. Petersburg, Fla.
The sign read. "What about the Black community, Obama?" or something to that effect.
He told the men they were misinformed about who he was because he had been speaking out on on the predatory lending situation since his days in the Illinois State Senate and the U.S. Senate. However, if you are not literate or don't have a good handle on how U.S. government works or its different divisions, Obama's track record doesn't mean as much, compared to someone who truly has the most basic education. (I listened in my high school Poli Sci classes)
This young man said the predatory loans targeted African Americans and Latino populations; he said Obama was not involved with the Jena Six situation or Sean Bell.
Is is just a case of Obama as Messiah to a group of blacks in Florida who are oft abused and silent due to many of them being from areas outside of America? It's hard standing up for yourself when your whole life is based on a lie and you're paranoid of being deported every time you leave the neighborhood.
Obama reminded them he is a civil rights lawyer who has worked on and passed death penalty reform in Illinois as well as racial profiling legislation.
Sen. Obama even reminded them that they could run for office themselves to change where they live and work. The most shameful part is that Sen. Obama had to chide them on being disrespectful by shouting and interrupting his response.
If you are going to bother to stand up and heckle Obama, please be prepared. Lawyers argue points both large and small as a part of their skill set. Barack is married to a lawyer. Her name is Michelle.
So please have your facts straight, do your research on his voting record--accessible on the web--and think before you speak.
Lots of people in Florida have immigration issues. I lived in Florida for a while and was amazed at the groups of blacks. From time to time I'd run in to groups of non-English speaking Blacks but mostly they were quiet in the restaurant kitchens and shops of sunny South Florida. Many of these establishments were considered white by the frequency of clientele.
Whenever I would walk my black face in a nearby jazz club, I would see a group from the kitchen come out and watch the black woman unescorted in the white jazz club. No one else paid me any mind--the way I like it sometimes.
It was hot and I thought I'd get to hear a live band and relax.
Their stares made me uncomfortable. I didn't know why they were giving me the evil eye.
There is a culture disconnect between blacks (group b for BIA) and African Americans. I don't have to peek out from the back. I live in this country legally. My roots are from no where else but the good old Red White and Blue. (My roots aren't easily traceable and black folks descendant of slaves tend to be tight lipped about who has fathered whom.)
I am an orphan no one ever bothered to claim. I am a mutt no one wants. The only land I have is here in America, the state of Indiana. That is how it feels to be African American--I don't have all of Europe, Africa, Mexico, Jamaica or any other exotic island to run back to if I get fed up with the shenanigans in this country. I have no where to run so I stand up.
When you step on me, I holler and go tell and stick up for myself. I don't have to hide in the back anymore because the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King said I didn't and then backed up his statement with his own blood. Malcolm X stood up and made sure I didn't have to hide in the back, and he paid. My black teachers in my black elementary, middle and high school said I didn't have to hide in the back.
The first black mayor of a major city, Richard Hatcher, said I didn't have to hide in the back. Rosa Parks said no, she doesn't have to hide in the back and said I didn't have to either--IF I WERE WILLING TO STAND WITH HER.
They told me they had paid enough of the price with their own blood and that all I had to do was go to school, learn to read well, speak and behave in public.
I was told I would pretty much be alright. They were right. But I have had to stand up and remind other people that Blacks don't have to hide in the back but they do have to be educated.
I told my children they don't have to hide in the back. Too many of us have stood up against real injustices to hide in the back or watch others, like that young man representing a Black group, hide in the back.
However, you must be educated if you are going to stand up.
He wanted to know why Obama had not did this or that for the black community (Where does this young man think the South Side of Chicago is?)--without ever looking up the information he was asking about. He didn't even know the man, Obama, the one who doesn't have to hide in the back, in the kitchen or run from INS. He is a constitutional rights lawyer and that young man didn't even know that. I wonder how much else he doesn't know?
You have to stand up, you have to be educated.
A lack of education is the only thing that can legitimately sit you down.
St. Petersburg Times article
He heckled the 46-year-old about his seeming dis involvement in the Black Community. The heckling comes from a group of young black men, nameless, standing with others, holding a sign promoting a black organization during a Barack Obama town hall meeting in St. Petersburg, Fla.
The sign read. "What about the Black community, Obama?" or something to that effect.
The crowd subdued the men with rousing chants of "Yes We Can" lasting at least a minute. I wonder if the men felt outnumbered and alone in their journey to be heard by the Candidate.
Barack let the men talk as he listened.
He told the men they were misinformed about who he was because he had been speaking out on on the predatory lending situation since his days in the Illinois State Senate and the U.S. Senate. However, if you are not literate or don't have a good handle on how U.S. government works or its different divisions, Obama's track record doesn't mean as much, compared to someone who truly has the most basic education. (I listened in my high school Poli Sci classes)
This young man said the predatory loans targeted African Americans and Latino populations; he said Obama was not involved with the Jena Six situation or Sean Bell.
Is is just a case of Obama as Messiah to a group of blacks in Florida who are oft abused and silent due to many of them being from areas outside of America? It's hard standing up for yourself when your whole life is based on a lie and you're paranoid of being deported every time you leave the neighborhood.
Obama reminded them he is a civil rights lawyer who has worked on and passed death penalty reform in Illinois as well as racial profiling legislation.
Sen. Obama even reminded them that they could run for office themselves to change where they live and work. The most shameful part is that Sen. Obama had to chide them on being disrespectful by shouting and interrupting his response.
If you are going to bother to stand up and heckle Obama, please be prepared. Lawyers argue points both large and small as a part of their skill set. Barack is married to a lawyer. Her name is Michelle.
So please have your facts straight, do your research on his voting record--accessible on the web--and think before you speak.
Lots of people in Florida have immigration issues. I lived in Florida for a while and was amazed at the groups of blacks. From time to time I'd run in to groups of non-English speaking Blacks but mostly they were quiet in the restaurant kitchens and shops of sunny South Florida. Many of these establishments were considered white by the frequency of clientele.
Whenever I would walk my black face in a nearby jazz club, I would see a group from the kitchen come out and watch the black woman unescorted in the white jazz club. No one else paid me any mind--the way I like it sometimes.
It was hot and I thought I'd get to hear a live band and relax.
Their stares made me uncomfortable. I didn't know why they were giving me the evil eye.
There is a culture disconnect between blacks (group b for BIA) and African Americans. I don't have to peek out from the back. I live in this country legally. My roots are from no where else but the good old Red White and Blue. (My roots aren't easily traceable and black folks descendant of slaves tend to be tight lipped about who has fathered whom.)
I am an orphan no one ever bothered to claim. I am a mutt no one wants. The only land I have is here in America, the state of Indiana. That is how it feels to be African American--I don't have all of Europe, Africa, Mexico, Jamaica or any other exotic island to run back to if I get fed up with the shenanigans in this country. I have no where to run so I stand up.
When you step on me, I holler and go tell and stick up for myself. I don't have to hide in the back anymore because the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King said I didn't and then backed up his statement with his own blood. Malcolm X stood up and made sure I didn't have to hide in the back, and he paid. My black teachers in my black elementary, middle and high school said I didn't have to hide in the back.
The first black mayor of a major city, Richard Hatcher, said I didn't have to hide in the back. Rosa Parks said no, she doesn't have to hide in the back and said I didn't have to either--IF I WERE WILLING TO STAND WITH HER.
They told me they had paid enough of the price with their own blood and that all I had to do was go to school, learn to read well, speak and behave in public.
I was told I would pretty much be alright. They were right. But I have had to stand up and remind other people that Blacks don't have to hide in the back but they do have to be educated.
I told my children they don't have to hide in the back. Too many of us have stood up against real injustices to hide in the back or watch others, like that young man representing a Black group, hide in the back.
However, you must be educated if you are going to stand up.
He wanted to know why Obama had not did this or that for the black community (Where does this young man think the South Side of Chicago is?)--without ever looking up the information he was asking about. He didn't even know the man, Obama, the one who doesn't have to hide in the back, in the kitchen or run from INS. He is a constitutional rights lawyer and that young man didn't even know that. I wonder how much else he doesn't know?
You have to stand up, you have to be educated.
A lack of education is the only thing that can legitimately sit you down.
St. Petersburg Times article
Free broadband access now!
NEW YORK, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- OVER 100 MILLION U.S. ADULTS AND THEIR CHILDREN DON'T HAVE INTERNET ACCESS OR USE REALLY SLOW DIAL-UP BECAUSE BROADBAND IS NOT AVAILABLE OR TOO EXPENSIVE. MOST ARE FROM LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS OR LIVE IN AREAS THAT EXISTING PROVIDERS DON'T WANT TO SERVE. ON AUGUST 14TH, THE FCC PLANS TO VOTE ON THE ISSUE OF FREE WIRELESS BROADBAND SERVICE.
PHONE COMPANIES LED BY AT&T AND T-MOBILE, ARE PRESSURING THE FCC TO SQUASH THIS IDEA BY DELAYING THE VOTE. THEY SAY THIS SERVICE MIGHT HURT THEIR PROFITS.
JOHN MULETA OF M2Z NETWORKS SAYS THAT IN TODAY'S ECONOMY, ACCESS TO BROADBAND SHOULD BE EASY AND AFFORDABLE.
"All Americans deserve equal access to the Internet and broadband, but unfortunately a surprising number of families, schools, libraries and cities can't afford to get broadband and most of rural America cannot even get access to it. The Internet today enables us to be more informed and more productive. So broadband not only improves our quality of life today but improves America's competitiveness tomorrow."
TO SUPPORT THE PLAN FOR FREE BROADBAND, SIGN THE PETITION AT WWW.FREEBROADBANDNOW.ORG.
PHONE COMPANIES LED BY AT&T AND T-MOBILE, ARE PRESSURING THE FCC TO SQUASH THIS IDEA BY DELAYING THE VOTE. THEY SAY THIS SERVICE MIGHT HURT THEIR PROFITS.
JOHN MULETA OF M2Z NETWORKS SAYS THAT IN TODAY'S ECONOMY, ACCESS TO BROADBAND SHOULD BE EASY AND AFFORDABLE.
"All Americans deserve equal access to the Internet and broadband, but unfortunately a surprising number of families, schools, libraries and cities can't afford to get broadband and most of rural America cannot even get access to it. The Internet today enables us to be more informed and more productive. So broadband not only improves our quality of life today but improves America's competitiveness tomorrow."
TO SUPPORT THE PLAN FOR FREE BROADBAND, SIGN THE PETITION AT WWW.FREEBROADBANDNOW.ORG.
No consultation on intell changes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Thursday unveiled an overhaul of intelligence powers that concentrates power in the national intelligence director and drew immediate criticism from Congress for failing to consult on the changes.
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