Travels

Have to go down and look after the place on the Seaside for a couple of days. Forecast is for a severe Nor’Easter with winds to 60 MPH, which means possibly severe flooding from the tides tomorrow and Friday and 20′+ waves. If I have electricity and Internet I’ll be online – other wise next posting will be Saturday.

Things That Make You Go… Hmmmm…

Hat Tip News One -

Fans Walk Out On Tracy Morgan After Obama Sex Jokes

Fans expecting to see Tracy ­Jordan at Tracy Morgan’s Carnegie Hall performance Friday night got a rude awakening.
The bawdy comedian packed the venerable performance venue with fans expecting his “30 Rock” character’s prime-time humor. But minutes after Morgan started his routine, many walked out in disgust. Some of the controversial jabs he made included a set about the First Family.
“Obama is really changing the White House, because he and Michelle will have the first presidential sex tape out,” he said to a stunned crowd.

Tracey needs to sit down and STFU.

Katt Williams Says He Was Making Movie On Obama When Arrested

Comedian and rapper Katt Williams was released on bond Monday night after he was arrested for breaking into a home and stealing thousands of dollars worth of jewelry and coins.

Williams said he was staying in suburban Atlanta while filming a movie about President Barack Obama.

As Williams emerged from the county jail, he called the alleged burglary “a misunderstanding between me and two stupid detectives.”

Bond had been set at $41,150.

The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reported the entertainer was mobbed by about 50 excited fans before departing in a van filled with friends and associates.

Williams, who police say is 38, is charged with burglary and criminal trespassing, according to Coweta County Sheriff’s Officer Maj. James Yarbrough.

Williams, whose real name is Micah S. Katt Williams, is known for his roles in the movies “Friday After Next” and “Norbit.” His comedy DVD, “Katt Williams: Pimpadelic,” was no. 8 in the nation for sales during the week of Oct. 30, according to Nielsen/VideoScan.

Maj. Yarbrough said the Sunday night incident happened at a home in Newnan, about 40 miles southwest of Atlanta. An employee — identified in a police report as Daniel Broach — who works at the estate where the comedian is staying called police around 9 p.m. to report a break-in at a guesthouse on the property.

Williams reportedly had a crowbar when he entered and is accused of taking $3,555 in jewelry and collectable coins.

He said he was staying at producer Barry Hankerson’s Coweta estate while in town filming a movie about President Obama.

The actor told Coweta County Magistrate Judge Joseph Wyatt he was “in the middle of a birthday party” when arrested.

“I’m one of the most honorable people in my profession,” Williams said.

Kat is next in line for one of our Orange Jumpsuit Awards!

I guess now that the race card is passe – some folks are using “the Obama Card”.

Radical Church Stages Protest At Obama Daughters’ School

Westboro Baptist Church, a hate group that travels around the country holding anti-gay rallies, protested outside the school attended by President Obama’s children on Monday morning.

The “church,” run by Fred Phelps and composed largely of his extensive family, is known for staging its events for maximum publicity and controversy. In the past, members have demonstrated outside troops’ funerals. Recently they have been targeting Jewish temples. Now they’re aiming their vitriol at Washington-area schools — including Sidwell Friends, where Malia and Sasha Obama are students.

A message on Westboro’s website refers to the Obama children as “satanic spawn” of a “murderous bastard.” Along with various schools, the church is also protesting outside the White House, the World War II memorial, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission field office.

I would hope the Secret Service is keeping a close watch on these scumbags, I really wouldn’t put it past them to try and harm President Obama’s children.

Kareem Abdul Jabbar Diagnosed With Cancer

The HNIC – Some White Republicans Are Scared of Me

Can’t believe he said that!

I mean – no WONDER America is in such a jam, after 8 years of these folks in charge.

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Ft. Hood – Yeah, But Was it Terrorism?

About the only person who will be stereotyped faster than a black man entering a convenience store with a bulge under his jacket…

Is a Muslim with a gun in this country.

Conservatives, never folks to let common sense or reason override their racism – are in a predictable howl to lynch every Muslim in the country from the nearest tree.

Never mind the facts.

Fox Anchor: If You’re Depressed, ‘You Take Yourself Out’

One can only hope, after the passage of the Health Care Reform Bill in the Senate…

Conservatives will heed their own advice!

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Beyonce On Larry King Discusses Etta James, Singing for President and Mrs Obama

Beyonce discusses a bit of her career, and singing Etta James’ signature song at the inaguration

DC Sniper John Allen Muhammad to be Executed Tonight

One of the two men who terrorized the Washington DC Metropolitan area randomly shooting people as they went about their daily business is scheduled to die in Virginia’s Death Chamber tonight at 9:00 PM EST.

DC Sniper John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind behind the killing spree, sans a commutation of the sentence will be executed by lethal injection.

His family recently appeared on CNN’s Larry King -

Part II -

Republican’s Lone Minority Votes For Health Care Reform

As near as I can tell – the entire minority caucus of the Republican Party is made up of one man out of the 250 or so seats held by Republicans in the House and Senate.

Congressman Cao, Louisana 2nd District

And that one minority, Anh “Joseph” Quang Cao – who was elected to fill the seat vacated by William “Dollar Bill” Jefferson, who, along with his Lawyers is running from having been “elected” by 12 of his peers to an Orange Jumpsuit. The 2nd District in Louisiana is 64.1% black, and Cao became the first Republican to be elected to a majority black district. Obviously, Cao is that rarest of rare Republicans who gives more of a damn about the people he represents than ideology.

Cao Casts Lone GOP Vote for Health Care

Cao, the first Vietnamese American elected to Congress, surprised Democrats and Republicans by becoming the only one of the 177 House Republicans to support the health-care bill.

“I felt last night’s decision was the right decision for my district, even though it was not the popular decision for my party,” Cao told CNN on Sunday.

The decision, he said, was a lifeline to the poor and uninsured in his district, rejecting the idea that it had anything to do with reelection hopes. Members of both parties privately said, however, that Cao’s prospects are doomed unless a large number of Democrats in his district embrace him.

In a statement released by his office, Cao touted the abortion limits in the health bill, which had been insisted upon by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Cao’s office also quoted Gregory M. Aymond, archbishop of New Orleans, who said, “I am grateful to Congressman Cao for his courage and determination to defend life.”

Democrats in Washington and New Orleans, noting how Cao has voted with Republicans on other issues, including opposition to the $787 billion economic stimulus package, said his record cannot be erased by his health-care vote. Democratic Party officials view Cao as one of the nation’s most vulnerable Republicans .

“He votes along party lines more than for the district,” said state Rep. Cedric Richmond, a Democrat who hopes to unseat Cao next year.

Cao is well aware of his potentially short Washington career.

“I know that voting against the health-care bill will probably be the death of my political career,” Cao told the Times-Picayune this year. But he added: “I have to live with myself, and I always reflect on the phrase of the New Testament, ‘How does it profit a man’s life to gain the world but to lose his soul?’ ”

Somebody get Congressman Cao a Membership in the CBC!

Congressman Artur Davis Stabs His Constituents In the Back

Congressman Artur Davis of Alabama’s 7th District, who is running for Governor next year, was the only member of the Congressional Black Caucus to vote against the Health Care Reform Act in the House Saturday – releasing this statement:

“I am a supporter of health care reform who believes that the House leadership’s approach is not the best we can do. Because we risk a disaster if we get this wrong, I have voted no on the House legislation and continue to root for a final bill that fixes the holes in our health care system and contains soaring costs in both the private and public sectors.

While the Senate Finance Committee bill needs work, there are three reasons it comes closer to achieving the real reform we need. First, the Senate bill tries to roll back some of the aggressive government subsidization of the private health care industry, a trend that has made that industry much too bloated and inefficient. The Senate bill would take the savings and use them to pay for many of the reforms in the package. Second, while there is no ideal way to raise new revenues, the Senate’s proposed excise tax on insurance companies is the best of the imperfect options. It will help rein in the profit spiral in the insurance industry. Finally, while the Senate does not mandate that companies insure their workers, their bill would make companies share with the government the cost of subsidizing any of their workforce that is uninsured. In contrast, the House bill sets a mandate on businesses, but allows larger companies to walk away from it by paying a limited penalty: this will surely drive some companies to drop coverage they already provide.

These are all factors that should make even my more liberal constituents cautious about the virtues of the House bill.  By the way, its much discussed public option will actually cost more than most private insurance plans. It is also estimated by the Congressional Budget Office that fewer than 2% of Americans would end up in the public option.”

Now -Davis’ constituency is 71% black, a group disproportionally impacted by the lack of, and quality of health care in the United States – with an estimated 8,000 black children dying each year in their first year of life due to poor, substandard, or nonexistent health care resulting in mortality rates 2.5 times that of whites.

So i find it hard to understand under any circumstances, Davis’ so called “pricipled” stand.

The Democratic congressman recently received the support of Communications Workers of America Local 3902. It represents about 2,500 workers in the Birmingham area. As a former CWA member – I would hope the Union seriously considers rescinding that support.

Sosa Loses His Tan – Or Sammy Does the Michael Jackson

Say it ain’t so, Sammy!

Sammy Sosa’s new skin reflects an ugly mentality

Hat Tip – the Grio

Sammy Sosa with his wife, Sonia Sosa on May 13, 2009 in New York on the left and on November 4, 2009 in Las Vegas on the right. (Kevork Djansezian via Getty Images and Sipa via AP Images)

Many have been shocked to see recent photos of retired major league baseball player Sammy Sosa. Not only is he wearing green contact lenses, but his skin tone is considerably lighter than usual, something which he claims is the result of a skin “rejuvenation” process, some reports say. The once dark-complexioned, undeniably African-looking Sosa now looks more like Ricky Ricardo from “I Love Lucy”. As the late Nigerian activist and musician Fela Kuti would have said, it appears that Sosa is guilty of having a “colonial mentality.”

Throughout the African diaspora, black people internalized the racism they experienced under slavery and colonial rule. Bad habits are hard to break, and there is still self-hatred among black people today. With years of conditioning, societies were made to believe that blackness was bad, and anything associated with blackness was inferior and undesirable.

This problem is also prevalent in Latin America. For example, Brazil has the largest black population outside of the African continent at 90 million, which amounts to roughly half of its people. Yet, despite their conspicuous presence in society, black Brazilians face discrimination, poverty, and lower education and health standards than whites. According to a “racial atlas” created by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Federal University of Minas Gerais, 65 percent of the poor and 70 percent of the extremely poor in Brazil are of African descent.

In the Dominican Republic, Sosa’s country of origin, people are overwhelmingly black: 90 percent have African ancestry. Yet only 11 percent identify themselves as black. And as UN experts found, there is “a profound and entrenched problem of racism and discrimination against such groups as Haitians, Dominicans of Haitian descent, and more generally against blacks within Dominican society.”

A strong anti-Haitian sentiment is rooted in the country’s history. Haiti is a former colonizer of the Dominican Republic, as was Spain. Yet, Dominicans only celebrate their independence from Haiti. Haitian cultural practices are viewed as inferior. The government has engaged in mass deportations of Haitians – and sometimes Dominicans mistaken for Haitians – while also attempting to deny citizenship to the Dominican-born children of so-called “illegal” Haitian immigrants.

But a large reason for this hatred of Haitians is a denial of Dominicans’ own African origin. Simply put, sometimes it is difficult to stare at oneself in the mirror. For years, under the Hispanidad movement, the government of the Dominican Republic emphasized the nation’s white, Spanish and Catholic heritage, and conveniently left out the black part… (more)

Hmmm… Looks like Mr. Sosa isn’t the only one getting some “cosmetic” help…

In any case – check out this pic of Sammy from 2003 -

Sammy Sosa in 2003

Maybe it’s the steroids?

Tim Kaine and Michael Steele Head to Head

Yesterday, on This Week with George Stephanopoulos DNC Chair Tim Kaine and RNC Chair Michael Steele went head to head -

At some point, Democrats need to realize they have wasted way too much time and effort allowing the Republicans to foot drag and draw out the Health Care Reform debate. This issue has sucked the wind out of every other legislative effort. It is way past time to use the proverbial 2 x 4 between Rethugly eyes – and get on towards solving the many many issues created by the previous 8 years of Republican destruction of our country.

Time Warp – Protest From the 60’s

A group called Black is Back proves that radicalism isn’t dead in the black community – although it may have been asleep for a few decades.The US swings from left to right and back again about every 20 years. Could this movement presage a general leftward trend? Or are these some folks that just never got over the 60’s? Dang! I gotta find that box I put my black beret and “Power to the People” T Shirt in back in the 60’s!

"Black is Back" Demonstration in Washington

African-Americans slam Obama in White House protest

WASHINGTON — Decrying Barack Obama as “white power in black face,” hundreds of African-Americans marched on the White House Saturday to protest policies of the first black US president, and demand that he bring US troops home.

More than 200 people gathered for the first public demonstration by African Americans against the Obama administration since his historic inauguration in January, and slammed the president for continuing what they described as Washington’s “imperialist” agenda around the world.

“We recognize that Barack Hussein Obama is white power in black face,” civil rights activist Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the Black is Back coalition which arranged the protest, called into a megaphone as the group marched outside the mansion’s gates.

First Black Elected Mayor in Utah

Mia B.  Love became the first black Mayor elected in Utah, November 3rd.

Congrats to Mayor Love!

Hat Tip – NewsOne

Mixed Martial Arts… Beauty Queens?

I have to say the folks over there in the UK seem to handle their scandals much better than we do ours. Over here, as in the case of the defrocked Miss California, Carrie Prejean – it seems to be “secret” sex tapes dethroning our Beauty Queens…

Over there, the beauty queens will rearrange you face!

This from the Daily News -

Miss England Rachel Christie loses crown after allegedly assaulting Miss Manchester Sara Jones

In the Left Corner, Miss England, Rachel Christie (5'10" 34B) - and in the right corner Miss Manchester, Sara Jones (5'5" 34B) - "Let's Get Ready to Rumble!"

Two beauties turned into beasts when a pair of pageant winners duked it out in a barroom brawl over a hunky muscleman.

Miss England Rachel Christie was stripped of her crown after a blowup in which she was accused of clocking Sara Jones, the reigning Miss Manchester, at a porn-themed party.

“Rachel will concentrate on clearing her name and focus on training for the 2012 Olympics until this case is resolved,” Miss England pageant organizers said in a statement. “Rachel is very upset about the matter.”

Christie, the first black Miss England and a niece of Olympic gold medalist Linford Christie, was charged with assaulting Jones in the full-costumed rumble over the strapping “Gladiators” star known as Tornado.

Published accounts of the sexy slugfest at a Manchester nightclub said Jones was clubbed in the face “several times” after she and Christie tangled over Tornado, a Royal Marine commando whose real name is David McIntosh.

The beefy star of the “American Gladiators”-like show, who lists his inspiration on the show’s Web site as vengeful Vietnam vet John Rambo, had moved on to Christie after a prior romance with Jones.

The bad royal blood boiled over when Jones (5-foot-5 with a 34B bust) apparently flashed Christie (5-foot-10, 34B) a racy text message Tornado sent her.

Dressed as an angel, the hell-raising Christie was accused of knocking around Jones, who was outfitted as a cavegirl.

“Bad time last night,” Miss Manchester wrote in a now-deleted post on Twitter. “Assaulted in a nightclub.”

Christie, 21, practices tae kwon do, and is training for the heptathlon in the 2012 London Olympics.

Jones, 24, works as an events organizer and listed her ambitions on the pageant’s Web site as winning the Miss England crown and having a “successful career in TV acting.”

Tornado was given time off from the Royal Marines to appear on “Gladiators,” where he competed in bruising events called “Sumo Ball” and “Whiplash.”

But it may be his latest sexy flame who’s doing the whooping now. Christie is out on bail until a January court date.

More about Miss Christie here.