Kim Kardashian arrived at her family's new Miami boutique

Kim Kardashian arrived at her family's new Miami boutique, Dash, after hearing that the store had been tagged with graffiti the day before its grand opening!

Mormons ?

- We are taught cleanliness inwardly and outwardly with the practice of good manners and respect to one and all.

- We are taught that the family is the backbone of society and that our children must be reared to the highest morals and training to perfect our society.

- We are taught to eat and prepare the best of food for the longevity of life, without the use of alcohol, smoking and substance abuse which endangers the ethics of healthy living.

- We are taught to respect and protect our women who are the mothers of our civilization.

- Our women are taught to a dress code of modesty that will lead to the practice of high morality.
- We are taught to be an exemplary community expressing the highest spiritual goals for the reform of ourselves and others based on wisdom, knowledge and beauty.

Mormons?

Nope... NOI.
http://www.noi.org/history_of_noi.htm

Have A Drink

Here you go FreeMan - have a Strong Island Tea.
Here you go brohammas - have some pineapple and cranberry juice.
RunningMom - sit back and have a Margarita.

The thing about these blogs is that it's like having people over for drinks and dinner.
Most are written in the way people speak (without regard for grammar or punctuation), a few are more deliberate and didactic.
But most share the common trait of being a vehicle to provide normally disparate people a place to interact.

I read the comment "I like your spot - I can curse here but not at my blog" on another site.
But that is disrespectful.
People go to New Orleans to have fun - but to leave a mess behind.
Most people act in a way that they wouldn't in their own home or their own environment.

So FreeMan and brohammas,
Sit back and have a drink and realize how similar your social beliefs are.
(See above post.)

As Long As It's Not Kobe

Sorry Lebron...

Gay Is NOT The New Black

Q: Why are so many Black preachers speaking out against support for Same-Sex marriage?
A: The imagery is wrong.

Even though some of these same preachers are are the biggest hoes in town - Gay is still taboo.
My next door neighbors likes to brag about being a former Deacon at his church... but in the next breath, he likes to brag that his wife permits him to receive one blow-job a month from a hooker because she won't do it.
Then he tells me that it's even okay for a guy to give him one. (I don't speak to the guy anymore - I think he was trying to hit on me.)

Black is still seen as something fierce,
something strong,
something to be feared.
Black is not seen by Blacks as Gay.

Smart and Black is seen as something less than desirable.

Gay and Black is something to be hidden. (Or something to kill one's self over.)

Feminine and Black is just wrong...

Unless you're Prince.

So why do so many Black preachers speak out against an issue that won't effect their congregation as much as one like extra-marital sex?

(And with a "friendly" choir director to boot?)

Because most Blacks are conservative in their values.

Because many still see themselves as those African warriors - not as Lamar from Revenge of the Nerds.

Maybe That Was A Stretch

So cockfighting was okay as long as it was legal in Louisiana (until mid 2008)?

But dog fighting is wrong because it is illegal?

Actress Nicole Kidman leaving her downtown apartment

Actress Nicole Kidman seen leaving her downtown apartment in the west village. Is she trying the hide her belly bump by using her thumb to pull down her shirt.?

Lydia Hearst Riding A Bike At A Photoshoot

Rihanna attends the Verizon & BlackBerry's Grammy Party

Rihanna attends the Verizon & BlackBerry's Grammy Party at Boulevard 3 on February 6, 2009 in Los Angeles, California.

Moral or Legal

So is the argument a moral one or a legal one?

And according to whose morals?

Delta Goodrem And Brian McFadden Kissing In A Back Alley

He Did It Again ?

Man...
Somebody's gotta' lock this guy up.
Why is he always carving Cyrillic letters on women's faces, or robbing or raping or killing women, and now he's gone and kidnapped another woman and her child?
To Disney World?

I always thought the Boogie Man was green or something,
and an Urban Myth,
but apparently - He's Black.

(Photo - Police composite of "The Boogie Man" aka - Alvin Blackguy or A. Blackguy)

Sativex And The False Notion Of Better Living Through Science

What's wrong with an altered version of Cannabis?
Nothing, according to GW Pharmaceuticals - a British company pushing for legalization of their marijuana derived oromycosal spray.
http://www.slate.com/id/2219152/

But why bother buying the fake stuff when one can just grow and smoke their own?
Q; But why does one have to smoke weed to get the medicinal benefits?
A; Taking a pill orally is not possible when one is inclined to nausea.
(I guess shoving a pill up one's rectum would work, but... .)

But is man's preoccupation with making the perfect solution "better" always wise?
Chewing a willow bark would relieve pain, reduce swelling and prevent clots.
Taking an Aspirin does the same - but also causes gastrointestinal ulcers, stomach bleeding and tinnitus.

It's the altered delivery system and purity of product that causes the problems.
It's just another example of a 'solution' causing a bigger problem.
Like petro-chemical rich fertilizers on our crops.
The new "improved" fertilizers burn through the nutrients in soil.
The way to remedy this is by creating another product to amend the nutrient strapped soil.
But this further dilutes the soil - and inevitably, the quality of our food supply.
The natural solution of cow manure or the resting of the fields was deemed too contrary to maximizing profits.
Now farmers must spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on farm equipment to produce inferior food products while acquiring an ever growing mountain of debt.
How is this "better"?

Or our reliance on steroids and antibiotics in our food production.
Sure the chickens and cows are bigger - but are they as good for us as the meat products of old?
Are we building a resistance to microbes that our bodies used to fight on their own?

And now we are told to wash our hands with anti-bacterial soaps to prevent Swine Flu.
But aren't all soaps already inherently anti-bacterial?
Are we also killing the good bacteria, microbes or germs? (Leaving us susceptible to illness from previously harmless - and possibly beneficial - germs.)
And in doing so (like most of what we call "progress") - has our 'solution' really caused an even bigger problem?
Have you read the warning labels on medicines?
Sometimes the illness seems a better alternative than the cure.

Black Test

Mr Jaycee brings up some good points on his post regarding when the line of being Black gets crossed.
http://achoiceofweapons.blogspot.com/2008/06/box-marked-other.html


Sure, everyone has their own definition of when one is black and when one is "Black".
(Sorry brohammas, but your daughter is Black.)
But many people who accuse Tiger of denying his Blackness do the same thing when they point out how "Ghetto" or "Hood" other Blacks can be.
Many of those same people would love to change places with Eldrick (sans white wife - or maybe even with).
Most Black sites do this (point out how they are not like those other Blacks whom they choose to ridicule).
But few understand that they are taking part in a mentality that has lead to failure after failure.
What makes some people just black (skinned) while others are Black?
And is this limited definition of Blackness really the cause of years of failure?

MV vs. PC

I hate to get all DV on y'all but...
Who is worse?

Is She Black

Soledad O'Brien ?

Robin Roberts ?

Hoda Kotb ?

Richelle Carey ?

Allison Stewart ?

All; are in the same medium, get national exposure, speak in SAE, and have parents whose ancestry can be traced back to Africa.

None (currently) live the lives of the average American - let alone the average Black American.

But are these women considered Black?

Soledad is of Irish and Cuban decent.

Robin Roberts can't escape her Creole connections.

Hoda is an Egyptian/American and raised in the South.

Richelle is just hot.

And Allison went to Brown.

But does any of this make any of these obviously attractive ladies (I have a thing for tall, lean, educated and pretty women.) - Black?

Black+"Ugly"+Chanequa = No Harvard Degree ?

So Chanequa Campbell gets dismissed from Harvard - Why?
Is it because she's Black?
Probably not.
Is it because does not look like Rihanna or Solidad O'Brien?
Probably not.
Is it because her name is Chanequa?
Probably not (Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama and Eldrick Woods all have uncommon names.).
Is it it the Vick/Pac Man Jones syndrome (When keeping it real goes wrong.?
Maybe.
But really it's a combination of all of the above.
When you have that much going against you (socially speaking) - you walk a tight rope.
Is it fair? Nope.
But that's just how things are. Sometimes one can just get caught up. (Kind of like being an overweight poorly spoken Italian man who lives in New Jersey - People are going to think "Mafia".)
Sometimes the images associated with one's public persona are often given more weight than one's accomplishments.
Was she involved with the murder?
I don't know.
But is her name, plus her looks, plus her race, plus her associations even more to blame?
More than likely, yes.

Are Ellen And Porcia Still Married

Yeah... Ellen and Porcia get to stay married.
The recent ruling of the California Supreme Court let stand the voter approved measure to deny the civil right of marriage to gay and lesbian couples.

But this is all that the courts could have done.
In re Marriage Cases deemed the California law preventing the recognition of marriage between same-sex couples unconstitutional.
But the anti-GLBT lobbyist thought that the courts had overstepped their limit of power and the measure went before the public in the hotly contested and controversial Prop.8.
After the voters decided to overturn the courts (as per the California constitution - Remember... Lex Rex (The law is king)), same-sex marriage again became illegal in the state.

The recent decision to let the couples who were married during the time it was legal, but to prevent any more marriages, is all the courts could have done.
Really, it's all the courts should have done.

So, according to the California Supreme Court, these lesbians can't get married in the state... for now.
Is that Bad?
(Okay, it's a gratuitous use of a lesbians photo here).


Nope.
If the courts would have ruled against Prop.8 - The time needed to sort through all of the legal wranglings would have taken up years of the process to recognize a civil right.
A civil right?
Yep - just not a Civil Right.
(IMO - The biggest problem with the marketing team at GLBT Central is in trying to make the case of same-sex marriage the same as the Civil Rights Movement of the '60s.)

Canada, Sweden, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Spain and even South Africa recognize same-sex marriage.
Afghanistan has no need - there are no gays in that country.
The states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont (as of Sept. 1 '09), Maine (mid Sept. '09) and New Hampshire (with protection for religious institutions) all recognize same-sex marriage.
And New York recognizes same-sex marriages performed elsewhere.

California won't be far behind.
It's just that people don't like being told how they must think.
The people would rebel.
The courts made the right decision.

"Marriage is one of the "basic civil rights of man"...fundamental to our very existence and survival..." (Ruling in Loving v.)