HOPE and VICTORY

"It's incredible that in the most powerful country in the world, which spends billions of dollars on brutal wars ... people do not have enough money to stay in their homes" Nicaragua leftist President Daniel Ortega I asked one of my colleagues about the word "kill" , on how it relates to leadership in a Christian nation. Does being able condone killing makes one more Presidential? For that matter, must all elected officials in America, starting with (let's say) state governors and ending with the U.S. President, wear that bold badge of courage known as being able to order that people be killed? If history is revealed, the present President ranks high in directly or directly responsible for killing people. When serving as the Governor Texas, Bush, Jr. partnered with recently maligned U.S. Attorney General Gonzalez in allowing executions. In a magazine article it was reported that " During Bush's six years as governor 150 men and two women were execut...

While black men are being thrown in jail for not being able to pay child support, millionaires are being thrown lifelines for them and their companies in the tune of billion of dollars. The biggest joke, to add to the reference of the industrial prison complex, is that those who receive the lowest tax breaks, can't find good jobs, have problem paying medical insurance, are paying back taxes, can't pay the rent, etc. are being commanded to save the rich and the most capable. There are some disturbing statistics regarding people who are making millions, and then we are asked by government (or ordered) to bail their companies out financial turmoil. Merrill Lynch Chief Executive Officer John Thain made roughly $83.1 million in salary and other monetary rewards during 2007, making him the highest-paid CEO for the year, according to Associated Press rankings released Sunday. In that same year John Mack of Morgan Stanley made $41.7 million According to the Corporate Leader Daily thes...

"The real hurricane chasers are the real masters of the art of diversion" Some of the worst storms in American history included Hurricane Beulah in 1967, Hurricane Carla in 1961 and Tropical Storm Amelia in 1978. Of course, Hurricane Katrina may have trumped all of these as far as devastation and cost. Yet all storms have something in common, the power to divert people’s attention. Being raised in the great Southwest of Houston, I should know. Even though young, most people who I knew were not thinking about the War in Viet Nam, or high crime rates. We were all thinking about trying to stay alive as Hurricane Beulah approached. Wars are probably the other most understated vice for mischief. It doesn ’t matter whether it is an illegal war or a legal war. Once it gets started, it becomes one of the greatest vices for misdeeds by those in power. If President Bush hasn ’t had the sense to do anything else during his Administration, through his genius of starting wars, he had eff...

..."their candidates and their party have all but abandoned “the issues” at the very moment when voters are beginning to ponder them." Michael Colby, broadside.org No need to become jittery, or not?

There are too many Black women, young girls, who are pregnant and are on welfare. True or false? According to the elective Vice President, Sarah Palin, it is OK for young White girls to get pregnant and be placed on the world political stage as a model teenager along with the baby's father? True or false? While you're wondering, check out these intimate pictures of that 17 year old daughter and that 44 year old candidate for Vice President. palinqueen.jpg (58KB) , _0019_888nn4_full.jpg (80KB) , _0017_55oj2_full.jpg (87KB) , _0005_12fh7_full.jpg (122KB) , _0004_12667116xf6_full.jpg (58KB) , _0000_1000oh1_full.jpg (84KB) , sarah-palin1.jpg (46KB) . The bottomline message, it seems, has always been that Black pregnant teens (that would include my mother, daughter and most of my Black female friends and mothers), and Blacks in general, are lowdown and dirty and White pregnant teens (including Sarah Palin's daughter and other White and pregnant teenagers, and many of my friend...

I just got off the phone with a new associate that I had met (he and his wife) at the local grocery store. Even in a relatively steady moving environment, like the grocery store, the husband, John, came up to me and start chatting about a new economic opportunity or scheme--one that could make you rich. Needless to say, I've had my share of getting rich schemes. Some are simply corrupt and some are half-baked. Then there are some whose produce is suspect and some that don't make any sense, at all. Most, if not all, are pyramid schemes where one interest is primarily making money versus selling a good product or service. Like I said earlier, everyone who I know wants to be rich and, sometimes, in worse worse way. One sign of some get-rich-quick scheme is what I call secretive advertising . It was when I was invited to this party with the promise of receiving a surprise gift. That surprise turned out to be Amway. Of, course Amway is a multi-billion dollar corporation where one mi...

The question was asked by one of my childhood friends in response to the upcoming 'class-reunion' at the high school that we both attended--the reunion that I had no intentions of attending. Shouldn't they call reunions "Reunion to impress"? I wondered, what in the hell does "to impress" mean. To be honest, anybody who is a full-bloodied American or a stargazing immigrant should know this answer. In America, life equals being able to impress. The only fluctuation in this act of self-congratulatory expression is that it's done more so at different times and occasions of the year. However, trying 'to impress' is as American as apple pie. However, 'to impress' can also be touted as one of the most self-centered actions in the universe. Let's say that you can naturally impress someone, or mechanically impress someone. Naturally, all of God's children are beautiful. Mechanically, Americans feel that they can enhance on God's b...