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President Obama Sings Al Green!

Gotta love this!!

 

Love (a Valentine's Day post)

Saint Valentine's Day (commonly shortened to Valentine's Day) is an annual holiday held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions. The holiday is named after one or more early Christian martyrs named Valentine and was established by Pope Gelasius I in AD 496. It is traditionally a day on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines"). The holiday first became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished -- from WIkipedia

I've never been one to get into the whole V-Day thing. I don't quite get the whole idea of it all; showing your proposed love by giving cards and gifts on one identified day of the year. It just seems a bit forced to me, and unauthentic. But if you have a Valentine today, I hope you're enjoying and making the best of it.

Leaving you with a couple of songs that come to mind on this day.

KP4C: Kevin Powell is Running for Congress

Kevin Powell (political activist, poet, essayist, hip hop historian, public speaker, lecturer and entrepreneur) is running for a seat in US Congress, in Brooklyn's 10th Congressional District. Check the website >>

Top Noodle Dies

I know that I've been mentioning a lot of deaths here lately and that can be a bit depressing. But each death has been of an important person whose life has affected a multitude of others. So, yet we have another....

Momofuku Ando, the Japanese inventor of instant noodles died last week at the age of 96. He was also the founder of Nissin, maker of Ramen Noodles. The first product in 1958 was Chicken Ramen.

This terribly sad news and I'm sure that every college student, low-income family, distressed mom, & lazy bachelor will want to offer their condolences on behalf of their saviour.

Wesley Snipes, where are you?

Wesley Snipes has been accused of tax fraud, to a tune of $12 million. Prosecuors say that he filed falsified documents and avoided 6 years of tax payments. At present, no one knows where Wesley Snipes is and he's being urged to turn himself in. But what I want to know is, what if he does not turn himself in? Who's going to be the daring person to go after him? Have you seen 'U.S. Marshals'? 'Blade'? Mr. Prosecutor...let it go. Just let it go.

The Heat is Coming!

Its hot as the beegeezits out here and its gonna get hotter. Midwesterners are going through it and its moving east. Forecasted highs are hitting the double digits: Tuesday's high of 99, Wenesday's 101 and Thursday at 98 degrees.

Strangely enough, most of the country is registering higher temperatures than the entire West coast. What's that all about?  Anyway, I'm gonna be sure to walk with my flashlight and sneakers for the next few days - with ConEdison's stellar performance.

Connection between Rap and Violence?

ANOTHER Shooting at Hot 97 Radio Station [Source: NY1]
If it were a club, it would've been shut-down a long time ago.

Snoop sets-off AIrport Melee [Source: Guardian]
How many riot police does it take to put Snoop in handcuffs? Ans. after step.

British Airways Bans Snoop for Life [Source: Mirror]
Assault was the case that they gave him.

60th Post Anniversary!!

Name the Personality

Most of these pics aren't the typical looks seen of these personalities. Some you probably haven't seen for awhile. Some you may wish you didn't see. Can you name them all?

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E)   F)

Blame Apple for Juvenile Crime too!!

Apple seems to be getting the brunt of many a lawsuit. Kind of expected given their monetary success. The companies and entities trying to make a dime off of them is just a fact of life. Now even the NYPeeD is blaming Apple's iPod for a rise in juvenile crime. Strangely, in riding the subway 5 days a week since the iPod was introduced by Apple, I can say I've NEVER seen an iPod theft. Read more on the step-up. [NY1 News]

Just As I Thought!!

It's official...the buzz about Katrina is over. Sure, there is still talk about the levees and who warned who and when who warned who and who didn't respond when they were warned, etc, etc. However the buzz about the indigenous people of the gulf coast area needing help is pretty much gone. In the wake of the tidal wave of fund raising efforts by so many different human aid groups, large and small, are people who still haven't obtained a solid footing on a rebuildable future.

The American Red Cross states that $2.07 billion was obtained through fund-raising efforts. That's BILLION. An asterisk next to the figure on the agency's website denotes that the amount raised will cover their estimated $2.116 billion in costs for their emergency response to the hurricane trifecta (Katrina, Rita and Wilma). This causes me to wonder, "How does one spend $2.07 billion dollars?" Where does it go? Who gets it? Who sees it? Who reaps the benefit of it?  Although it may be easy to assume who does, one can factually determine who does not - with 66 percent of housing structures in New Orleans still without electricity and much evidence of disaster still evident.

Residents or displaced residents are now faced with very unique and difficult situations: foreclosures on homes that no longer exist, mortgage payment resumption on extremely damaged properties or nonexistent properties and attempts to maintain a livelihood away from home with impeding financial responsibilities back home in the gulf coast.

On top of all of these things, $85 billion proposed in government reconstruction funds is tied up due to some apparent safeguard system while Bush, in his State of the Union address, seems to have moved on to "more important" (war) issues.

What's one to do? I guess, take the situation into your own hands wherever possible, pray, and be sure to vote on election day. God bless the USA!

Letterman vs O'Reilly - The Recap

I missed this episode as I was kinda busy with work, but I'm glad that a clip is included on the step-up. Take a look and see. Letterman is the man. (Does that sound redundant?)

Letterman vs O'Reilly

THE GRIND CONTINUES
Still grindin'. Knocked another project out last night. Seems like not eating helps me to focus more...on food, that is. Walked through the office today and smelled some food (damn those people that eat at their desks). I was about to jack somebody for their burrito! But instead...I chilled.