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Evelyn Rasmussen Petersen celebrated her 80th birthday on Dec. 17. Evelyn was born in Kenilworth to Lawrence and Thelma Rasmussen on Dec. 17, 1925. On Aug. 1, 1945 she married Cambron R. Petersen in Salt Lake City. In 1963, their vows were solemnized in the Logan LDS Temple.
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Then again if that old man did not kick the bucket in such a situation this slavery business would just end peacefully.
With that along with the changes the dead of Canute's Brother may bring to the life in the farm just about anything is possible.
They could get their chance to freedom cut off... Or they could have to go tell their master his father is ill and hence follow after him... Which could lead to Thorfinn meeting Canute.
Considering how Canute and Thorfinn have been going in complete polar opposite in term of finding inner peace since they last met It could be an interesting encounter.


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France 1849 – 1934
Madame Roger Jourdain (Portrait of Mrs R. J...)
[Portrait de Mme R. J...] 1886
oil on canvas
canvas 200.0 (h) x 153.0 (w) cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris , Gift Mrs Roger Jourdain, the sitter 1921
© RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
Albert Besnard's portrait of Madame Roger Jourdain was highly regarded at the 1886 Salon, which was held at the same time as the last Impressionist exhibition. Besnard, like some other conservative Salon painters, adopted aspects of the Impressionist painting style after it became popular with the French public.
The annual Salon captured the imaginations of Parisians as they scrambled to view the celebrities of the day. The elegance of this portrait of Henriette Roger Jourdain contrasts with the many scandals she suffered during her lifetime. These included a morphine addiction, a string of lovers and finally her death from an overdose of sleeping pills.
Besnard delights in painting the glistening fabric of her stylish gown. A diagonal sash fastened with a sparkling brooch rests on Henriette's hip with long, ochre coloured gloves completing the ensemble. The society hostess was well known in Paris in the late nineteenth century and was a muse for many artists. Several painted her portrait and Gabriel Fauré dedicated one of his musical compositions to her.
The painting is infused with light coming from a number of directions. As Henriette sways slightly a combination of white and yellow light accentuates the folds of the dress and her fine features. A hazy, blue atmosphere lights the figure from behind. The setting is difficult to discern- is Henriette standing in an internal space or possibly on a terrace?
Text © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2009
From audio tour Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin and beyond Post-Impressionism from the Musée d'Orsay


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I was told this by someone I trust so take it for what its worth. Ralph has hired around the clock medical assistance since September. Remember he was in the hospital around that time and the Bills refuse to say why, so take it fwiw.
I was told this by someone I trust so take it for what its worth. Ralph has hired around the clock medical assistance since September. Remember he was in the hospital around that time and the Bills refuse to say why, so take it fwiw.
Can you share the source?
I was told by a very trusted source that TulsaBillzfan is a terrible poster who's only 'source' was actually ketchup.
Take that for what it's worth.
I don't think that a 94 year old man needing round the clock care is a shocking scandal.
OBD where I learned the truth about despair, as will you. There's a reason why this prison is the worst place on earth... Hope. Every man who has ventured here over the centuries has looked up to the light and imagined climbing to the playoffs. So easy... So simple... And like shipwrecked men turning to sea water from uncontrollable thirst, many have died trying. I learned here that there can be no true despair without hope.
That is not a big deal at all. Many people in their 90s have aides, or physical therapists who help them with thteir mobility and strength and their usual activities. I would be surprised if he did NOT have one, especially since he had a hip fracture/replacement fairly recently. That is usual and customary....not really news at all and I wouldn't look into it at all either.
most people at that age or well before that have the same thing. my great aunt has 24 hour people with her. its no news really
go bills
go sabres
go knicks
go sox
steve johnson is our future star
Fred jackson is my adopted player this year!!
freddie freddie!!
should change my username but oh well.
Ummm, as an LPN who's worked in LTC for the past six years I find the idea of a 94 year old man needing medical care around the clock to be completely shocking. Why, I've never seen such a thing in my life...Sorry. Even if true. Not news.
the dude is 94 and very very frail why this would be a shocker or"news" is beyond me...
a 94 year old multimillionaire with a private jet cant physically make it to games anymore that should tell you all you need to know about his health
"Fight on, my men, Sir Andrew said -- A little I'm hurt but not yet slain. I'll just lie down and bleed awhile -- And I'll rise and fight again." marv levy
Ralph has just sold the Buffalo Bills to the City of Buffalo and will become a Publicly owned club like the Green Bay Packers and stay in Buffalo forever!
gee i heard Ralph was going to perform with the Rockettes at the Thanksgiving Day parade in NYC, so my source is wrong then?
Adopt-A-Bill for eternity: Mr Ralph C. Wilson Jr.
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Janet Anne Smith
Funeral services for longtime Cortez resident Janet Anne Smith are pending with Ertel Funeral Home.
Janet was born Nov. 27, 1944 in Burtrum, Minn., the daughter of Adam Anton and Laura Bertha (Shinabarger) Vetter. She passed away on Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012 at her residence at the age of 67.
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By GARY ARRINGTONSports Writer
The Emery High Spartan football team continued their region schedule last week as they hosted the Salt Lake City based Judge Memorial Bulldogs to town in the Spartan homecoming game. After an evenly played first half in which the Spartans actually gained more yardage than Judge, the bigger school with more players wore down the home team and captured the win.
Emery led the game at 12-7 before trailing at the half 14-12 and then Judge won the game by the score of 37-12. Emery outgained Judge in the first half 169 yards to 88 yards.
After holding Judge to a missed field goal in their first offensive series, Emery took over at their 20-yard line and marched 51 yards down field only to fumble an exchange. Judge picked up the loose ball and ran the 76 yards into the end zone to score the first points of the night. Running back Ryan Cox was lost for the season on this drive as he suffered a shoulder injury. Cox was the leading rusher for Spartans this season with close to 800 yards. Cox also played linebacker.
Emery responded on the next drive. Emery returned the kickoff to the 39-yard line and then Emery went 61 yards to score. Fullback Matt Mecham scored from 3 yards out after Emery put together a 14 play drive. Marco Mota had the long run in the drive at 16 yards.
Emery then successfully executed an onside kick to get the ball right back. With kicker Tommy Lucas kicking and with Austin Allred gathering the kick in at the required 10 yards, Emery had surprised Judge.
Emery had the ball at the Judge 49-yard line and scored in five plays. Brayden Burke ran the ball 7 yards on the first play of the drive followed by Mecham gaining three yards and a first down. Mota then gained 27 yards and Burke added another yard. Tyler Olsen then scored on an 11-yard pass play as Burke completed a halfback pass.
Judge scored on their next drive to recapture the lead but Burke was injured on this series and never returned to the game.
Burke, besides running the ball, also was another Emery linebacker.
Emery, minus the two linebackers, had no answer in the second half for the Judge team that seemed like they substituted several players on every series and outmanned the depleted host team. Judge scored 23 unanswered points to capture the win.
Mota finished the game with 152 yards on 22 carries to lead the Spartans offensively. Zach West, Allred and Mecham led the team defensively in tackles.
Emery will host Canyon View this week in a non-region contest on Wednesday night in a shortened week. This week is fall break. Game time is 7 p.m.


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Canada no longer in medal hunt after loss to Brazil at Pan Am Cup
ROSARITO, Mexico – Canada's playoff hopes were dashed on Monday night in a 25-21, 28-26, 25-21 loss to Brazil in round robin action at the Pan Am Cup women's volleyball tournament.
The Canadians record dropped to no wins and three losses while Brazil earned its first victory and completes its round robin at 1-3.
Cuba leads the pool at 3-0, Argentina is 2-0, the Dominican Republic 2-1 followed by Brazil and Canada. The Dominican beat Argentina later Monday. The top-three in each of the two pools advance to the playoffs which start Thursday.
On Monday, team captain Tammy Mahon of Holland, Man., led the Canadian attack with 15 points, Sarah Pavan of Kitchener, Ont., added 14 Jennifer Hinze of Vancouver 11.
''We didn't have our best match of the tournament,'' said Mahon. ''The challenge for us will be to turn this around. We need to put this game behind us.''
Canada concludes its round robin Tuesday night against the Dominican.
The U.S., leads pool B with a 3-0 mark followed by Peru and Trinidad and Tobago both at 2-1.
This is Canada's first tournament in 2010 as they ultimately prepare for the world championships this fall in Japan.
Canadian roster for the Pan Am Cup women's volleyball tournament June 19-26 in Tijuana, Mexico.
Players; Tammy Mahon, Holland, Man.; Tonya Mokelki, Weyburn, Sask.; Ashley Voth, Winnipeg; Kyla Richey, Roberts Creek, B.C.; Jennifer Hinze, Vancouver; Marisa Field, Kelowna, B.C.; Tasha Holness, Calgary; Sarah Pavan, Kitchener, Ont.; Carla Bradstock, Richmond, B.C.; Janie Guimond, Bécancour, Que.; Julie Young, Red Deer, Alta.; Lauren O'Reilly, Langley, B.C.
Head Coach Arnd Ludwig
Assistant Coach Scott Koskie
Team Manager Diane Scott
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(April 08) Today we're celebrating . . . Birthday of the Buddha
Birthday of the Buddha (Buddhist)
Commemorate the most important Buddhist holiday, the Day of Vesak. Buddhists throughout Indonesia, Korea, Singapore and Thailand celebrate the birthday of the enlightened one, who lived from 563 – 483 BCE in India.
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I have a great plastic surgeon friend who offered to fill a facial scar for me. I was bitten in the face by a dog when I was very young, and the small (1/2 inch) divot of flesh from my cheek still bothers me slightly. I've generally ignored it but thought it might be fun to see if it could be corrected in any way – so I happily agreed to try a Restylane (hyaluronic acid) injection.
My surgeon and I decided not to use any numbing medication because it distorts the contours of the face, making correction more challenging. So I tried my best not to squirm as he inserted a fairly long needle parallel to my nose and began pumping in several cc's of thick, acidic goo into the tough old scar.
He had to insert the needle a couple of times to add more product, and then he had to squish it around by pinching my cheek with his thumb and forefinger. Without massaging the filler, it might settle into a lump. Again I tried not to budge, but he had to wipe one tear from my left eye as it disobediently escaped. I could see that he felt badly that he had caused me pain. I reassured him that it wasn't that bad (I fibbed.)
Anyway, I left the office with an ice pack on my cheek and later ran my finger over the area to see how it felt. To my surprise, it was pretty firm - like a tiny Tootsie Roll under my skin. My surgeon said it would soften up in a week or so.
It's been about 4 weeks now since the injection and the lump is indeed smaller, but not that much softer. The contour of the scar is indeed improved, though the result is not miraculous. But this experience got me thinking: what about those people who use Restylane in their lips?
You've seen those Hollywood actresses who have plumped their lips with fillers, right? Well – I guess there's something that their doctors might not have mentioned – the plumpness probably has a somewhat lumpy, firm texture. I imagine it might feel like kissing someone who has small tumors in their lips. Ewwww!
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AIS201 - International Studies @ Work
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The primary aim of this unit is to guide and assist students enrolled in the BA (International Studies) in making informed decisions about their study and subsequent work-career options, and to help them identify and develop key employability skills and attributes. As such, the unit is concerned with career development learning, and encompasses four main elements: self-awareness, opportunity awareness, decision making, and transition learning. Drawing directly on the experiences and insights of representatives from industry we look at career opportunities and related developments in the field of international studies, ranging from the government sector and private enterprise, through to non-government organisations both within Australia and overseas. We consider what is involved in establishing your 'profile' and gaining an edge when it comes to securing a job and laying the foundations for a career, and work with students in developing their own e-portfolios. We also address a range of key workplace skills and attributes, including presenting information (oral, visual), report writing, teamwork, undertaking different types of research, and analysing information.
Skills and attributes inventory 800 words 20%
Capacity building assignment 1600 words 40%
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IRVINE, Calif. (August 27, 2013) – Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. today announced that the company will be ready with multiple, commercially-viable Autonomous Drive vehicles by 2020. Nissan announced that the company's engineers have been carrying out ...
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CHICKASHA – USAO Baseball and Softball alumni gathered for a late-summer reunion, to share in food, laughter and friendly competition.
"It was just a fun time. It's something I've really wanted to do and get everybody back, and I was really happy to see some of the original (1970s) baseball team," Baseball Coach Mike Ross said. "It exceeded my expectations. And I expect it to be even bigger and better next year."
All-in-all, both Ross and Softball Coach Jenn White-Cody were pleased with the turnout — with 91 golfers at the tournament, almost 70 dinner guests and roughly 45 former players in the pickup games.
"We had actually more show up for the game than we expected to. The whole weekend went well," Cody said. "I think it's great for our school and our softball program."
The teams hosted a golf tournament for alumni and community members alike, a night of dinner and drinks for the alumni and finally, an alumni game. Enough baseball players returned to play an alumni-on-alumni game. Softball, however, pitted alumni against the 2011 Drovers.
Former players came in from all over, some traveling from as far as Florida, Canada and Arizona.
"They came from far and wide, so it was good," Ross said. "Everybody seemed to have a good time, and everybody seemed they wanted to do it again."
The event was an opportunity to gather baseball and softball alumni, but also the raise money for the current programs, which hope to build a shared indoor hitting facility. Ross said he hopes the programs raised $5,000, but they are not yet sure of the exact amount raised.
"I definitely want to thank everybody that came and everybody who helped with the organization," Ross said.
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UPDATE: Suspected bank robber dies following confrontation with Hermiston Police
From the office of Umatilla County District Attorney Daniel Primus:
At 3:24 p.m. on December 31, 2012, an alarm was initiated at Community Bank in Hermiston. Several officers were dispatched from the Hermiston Police Department to the bank and, en route, learned that the alarm was for a robbery and was not a false alarm. Eye witnesses reported seeing the bank robbery suspect leave the bank, cross Highway 395, walk through the Fiesta Foods parking lot, and enter the Hermiston Liquor Store. Soon after the suspect entered the liquor store, two Hermiston Police Department officers entered the liquor store and attempted to contact the suspect. Eye witnesses reported seeing the suspect draw what appeared to be a black semi-automatic handgun and point it at the officers. The officers responded by discharging their duty weapons.
The suspect was taken by ambulance to Good Shepard Hospital in Hermiston, where he was treated by medical staff. At approximately 7:00 p.m. medical staff determined that the suspect died.
Shortly after the shots were fired the Umatilla/Morrow Major Crimes Team was activated by the Hermiston Police Department to investigate the robbery and subsequent shooting. It was determined that the Umatilla County Sheriff's Office would be the lead agency. The Umatilla County Sheriff's Office is receiving assistance from the Oregon State Police, Milton-Freewater Police, Pendleton Police Department, Stanfield Police Department, Umatilla Police Department, Boardman Police Department, Morrow County Sheriff's Office and the Umatilla County District Attorney's Office.
An autopsy date has not yet been determined, but will be set in the near future by the State Medical Examiner's Office. The investigation will continue throughout the week.


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Friday, March 21, 2008
Barack Obama's Racial Kung Fu
I was waiting for the gravity of Barack's speech to sink in. Next week me and Gordon are going to reflect on our hopes and worries regarding Obama's campaign, but for now, I have a few quick thoughts.
First, Obama's speech on race and the Wright-Obama debacle was courageous. He took on corporatism, racism, white racial resentment, and black self-sabotage. As others have observed this is probably one of the most important as well as most needed speeches on race since the Civil Rights Movement.
Second, this speech wasn't perfect, but how could it be? Obama had to accomplish specific political goals (regaining some momentum and addressing the Right's mean spirited and vicious charges) while also not appearing to abandon his base or to "sell out," two goals he accomplished quite well. My ears only perked up once during this speech--when he equated white racism and racial resentment with black anger I grimaced as these two issues are quite separate and different. Moreover, they are not morally equivalent (black folks have every reason to be angry and pissed off given their treatment in this country; white anger at some perceived wrong done to them by black people simply does not have the same legitimacy).
Bro'bama I am proud of you right now. Accordingly, you deserve a We Are Respectable Negroes Kung Fu Tribute (one of the highest honors we negroes can award).
Obama's speech exemplified the balance of Shaolin Monks:
He handled his business with the intensity and deftness of Silver Fox:
Obama skillfully applied the snake style from the Five Deadly Venoms:
Brother, you have alot more soul than I gave you credit for, sort of like my boy Jim Kelly in Black Belt Jones:
You schooled middle America and your detractors in a fashion akin to Bruce Lee when he lectured his young pupil in Enter the Dragon:
You really have been training hard brother Obama because your speech shows how far you have come in this campaign:
When the time comes, I hope you do McCain and Hillary just like Pai Mei aka Gordon Liu schooled Uma Thurman in Kill Bill:
And much respect to you Brother Obama like the Ghost Dog to the RZA:
Peace, and the struggle continues...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Chauncey Devega Says: Yes Virginia, there is a White Church
When I was a younger respectable negro I served as the commentary editor for my college newspaper. There, I had the chance to write all manner of provocative articles in an effort to (and I just learned the phrase at the time) "speak truth to power." I took particular pleasure in upsetting the white students at my small liberal arts institution. I would make them cry, enrage them to the point where I received death threats, and play on their liberal guilt--it was there that I learned about the many erotic possibilities which would potentially come to a racial messiah from the hot and flustered college co-eds who loved their local black radical. Ultimately, I simply enjoyed being the center of attention every Friday when the school paper was published...and attention would indeed come, and it often came when I least expected it.
In one of my more tame pieces I made a simple allusion, a throwaway really, to the fact that Jesus was "black." Here, I meant Jesus was "black" politically--he fought for the little guy, challenged State power, was politically progressive, and defended the weak against the strong. I also meant the historical Jesus, the man, was certainly not white. These were simple facts, written without much preamble or embellishment. Predictably, the reaction to these claims was so powerful and so immediate one would think that I had publicly lambasted the Pope and then killed his dog. I was threatened, verbally abused, and greeted by tears. Even my allies, my sincere supporters didn't understand why I would bring "race" into it. I responded with confusion. How did I bring race into anything? Race and racism are simple facts of life in America, I didn't introduce race to a situation where it wasn't already meaningful and relevant. The "anything" in this case was religion. The anything was the mere idea that I would state a fact in contrary to a fantasy, a deeply held fantasy that religion and faith are somehow immune from these questions of race and justice. I was befuddled, these normally rational, smart, reflective people lost all capacity for common sense when I dared to bring up an inconvenient truth.
It was then that I adopted my mantra to not mix religion and politics, never in my personal life, not in my relationships, and certainly never in my academic work because matters of religion often make rational, intelligent people act like total fools.
Now the Barack-Wright affair--and yes, this is how I believe history books will refer to this most untidy matter--has forced me to break my rule.
During the last week Fox News has transformed itself into the 24 Hour Black Religion Network where every second of every day offers some new morsel of information about Obama and Reverend Wright. Fox News has become so fixated on this issue that I am soon expecting TD Jakes, Reverend Ike, or Creflo Dollar to appear accompanied by praise dancers and interludes from Mahalia Jackson. However, if they could play some of this brother from the ATLAH Church I would be particularly pleased:
What is troubling, but hardly surprising in this matter, is how black folks are once more marked as the "other." The subtext (isn't it even a subtext anymore?) is that the black church is the center for some type of radical politics, that black people are bad citizens and ultimately, Obama is really one of "those blacks" and his mainstream appeal was the result of a sham, an effort to pull the proverbial negro wool over the eyes of "mainstream," i.e. good, white, patriotic Americans. Also, and the black church bears responsibility here as well, this fascination with black churches (which is cultivated by "cultural tours" of black churches like those offered by Trinity in Chicago) reeks of a type of racial voyeurism where black people are the subject of a particularly pernicious type of white spectatorship: look at the black people? Aren't they interesting? How they pray is so "animated"? Isn't the music amazing?...Maybe they will get the spirit and speak in tongues!
This effort by the right-wing to "blacken" Obama ignores some key facts and proceeds from a number of false assumptions. First, we must ask just how unpatriotic, disloyal, out of the "mainstream," or "crazy" are Pastor Wright's positions? Here, this divide speaks to the ways how (some) black people and (many) white people view the world through profoundly different lenses. While we may no longer exist in two worlds "separate, hostile, and unequal," we certainly are often worlds apart.
Let's offer a quick summary:
Not too much crazy there, no? The U.S. has supported authoritarian regimes which committed acts of terror and atrocities against their own people. Why is the idea of "blowback" or as Malcolm X said, "of the chickens coming home to roost" so troubling? On this point, I am reminded of Oprah Winfrey's 9-11 episode where experts explained to soccer moms everywhere that America has enemies, and that America often behaves like an international gangster who is long overdue for retaliation from elements abroad (I guess this is news to some). America has been stained by slavery, Jim Crow, support for state sponsored racial inequality, and continues to have an atrocious record in regards to the justice claims of poor people and people of color. Why is this so controversial? Katrina was a national embarrassment and from a religiously informed perspective that looks to the Bible as providing examples for how righteous societies ought to treat its citizens, and how societies which fail to do so will be punished by God, what is so unsettling or unpatriotic about the idea of divine retribution? How frightening is it that God may "damn" America? How absurd is this notion when one seeks, from a religiously informed perspective, to explain our declining position in the world?
This controversy also speaks to how the black church is a deeply political space, and that black liberation theology is an effort to speak to the particular needs of black people in America. We are not all the same, and any effort to mask how race informs our varied life experiences is naive at best and disingenuous at worst. Moreover, it is a perspective often advanced by those who do not have to deal with the "inconvenience" of racism. The irony in this debacle is that the black church is deeply conservative and supports positions that most political Conservatives, if they were actually honest about their own racial politics and deep animus towards black people, would support. The proposition that black folk can do for ourselves, or perhaps see value in black spaces of community and support, spaces that are not prefaced on assimilation and integration, troubles the Right:
These efforts at self-reliance are then translated into racial separatism. By extension and association, Obama is tarred and feathered--stained by his association with these "radicals," when in reality the positions held by Pastor Wright (and others) are not all too radical. Moreover, why isn't truth seeking the cornerstone of patriotism? Must we lie to ourselves and our children about America and our shared history lest we be castigated as traitors and subversives?
As much as the black church is made the object of spectacle, it is also an opportunity to turn the table. As has often been observed, the hour of prayer remains the most segregated time of the week. If the black church is "political" or "separatist" to any degree, the "white church" exhibits those same traits, and does so in a far more negative fashion. This is scary to some white folk, this challenge to the assumption that "normal" equals "white" and that "whiteness" ought not to be interrogated. But, it is one of the basic perks of white privilege, a type of convenient myopia where one does not have to see the painful or inconvenient.
For example, in America the white church has supported slavery, Jim Crow, the KKK, racial violence, and the political disempowerment of people of color. Yet, we tremble at speaking this truth. At present, the white Church is deeply political. The alliance of the Republican Party and Christian Evangelicals has given us the Bush administration and the Iraq War. The white church, with its Christian Fascism, conflates love of country and God with love of the regime and patriotism:
As further evidence of the political double standard present in the Barack-Wright affair, where is the clarion call against McCain and his affiliation with Pastor John Hagee who called Catholicism a cult?
Why hasn't Bush been called to task for speaking at Bob Jones university, a racist institution that prohibited inter-racial dating?
And black preachers don't have a monopoly on "incendiary" or "crazy" speech as Pat Robertson provides ample evidence:
Along with (reformed racist) Jerry Falwell:
As a secularist, and as a respectable negro American, I am deeply disturbed by this perilous turn in the presidential campaign. Obama, in his stirring speech today didn't throw Pastor Wright under the proverbial bus, but he did do some necessary dancing around the issue. The right-wing will predictably stay on message with attacks on Obama's character and loyalty. Predictably,their loyal sheep will march in lockstep behind these conservative demagogues. Some critics and observers have echoed my concerns about the hypocrisy surrounding the Wright-Obama affair, but unfortunately it has not (yet) become a groundswell.
Sadly, this moment reminds me of Winston Churchill's quote, "never was so much owed by so many to so few." But unfortunately, it is a vocal few on conservative talk radio and Fox News who in their unbridled vitriol, prejudice, and political hostility, have through their attacks on Obama further poisoned our political discourse and potentially hurt so many.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Chauncey's World of Ghetto Nerds: Gnarls Barkley's new video--Run!
I saw these 2 in Vegas, with Kanye, and that horrible Lupe Fiasco, and it was amazing.
First, Gnarls Barkley's new video:
Second, a personal favorite:
Sometimes pop music is okay, it really is.
Friday, March 14, 2008
Chauncey's World of Ghetto Nerds: Damn it! Star Wars is Sexy!!
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Dear Star Wars ex-boyfriend, my vag is sore
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Date: 2008-01-25, 3:56AM
Dear Star Wars obsessed ex-boyfriend,
A few things as of late have come to light. The fact that you had an entire room dedicated to Star Wars should have been enough to make any sane girl run in the opposite direction, I somehow found it endearing...Your sexual inadequacies should have made me run to seek orgasm from another penis, instead I quietly masturbated in the bathroom after your pathetic attempts at coitus. When you told me that you slept with someone else, I must admit that I was mildly relieved as at last this was my way out. But Star Wars obsessed ex- boyfriend, you just had to go and one-up yourself in stupidity. Just when I thought that your stupidity had reached its crescendo a perfect symphony of ignorance, you surprised me. You said something that will forever go down as the worst phrase to ever utter to a girlfriend. You said: "Yeah I slept with someone else, but I had to think about you to get off." Seriously? Really? Am I supposed to be honored by this? ...Well, Star Wars obsessed ex-boyfriend, let me tell you this. I won. First off, I am not going to let you ruin Star Wars for me. I will still giggle with delight at Chewbacca's noises. I will still find humor in Jabba's fat face. More importantly, I won because I used my inner rage to go out and fuck the ever living shit out of someone else...And you know what Star Wars obsessed ex-boyfriend? I fucked this guy on real sheets. Sheets that didn't have R2D2 and C3P0 and Tie fighters. Big boy sheets. When I arched my back and looked up I didn't see any Sith infiltrators on the ceiling. No Death Star. For the first time in a long time I got off without feeling like I should be on "To Catch a Predator" because you, Star Wars obsessed ex-boyfriend, made me feel dirty for fucking in what looked like a little kid's room...
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Let's take the sexy back fellow Star Wars fans. Brother Lando are you with me?
You are so cool I may just have me a Colt 45:
Stars Wars fans and ghetto nerds we are gonna take sexy back in the '08.
May the Force be with you, always.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
This is a High-Tech Lynching! Well no it really isn't...
Mayor Text o'love Kwame is at it again. Now, those are some mean words, but given your behavior you have lost all credibility with me and I can't help but see a race-baiting, desperate, tacky politician--and one who exploits his child and wife to boot. Brother Kwame, why can't you just be contrite, resign, disappear from public life, and drink a big bowl of shut-up juice?
From Newsweek magazine:
You might think the resignation of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer would put more pressure on Detroit's embattled mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, to do the same. But Kilpatrick, seven weeks into his own text sex scandal, shows no signs of giving up the fight. In fact, with a prosecutor contemplating perjury charges and his city council in revolt, Kilpatrick has chosen the nuclear option in this deeply divided city. At the end of an otherwise routine state-of-the-city speech Tuesday night, Kilpatrick went off on a racially explosive tirade against his critics and the media.
"In the past 30 days I've been called a n----- more than any time in my entire life," he told a cheering, invitation-only crowd of 1,500 at Detroit's gilded Orchestra Hall. "In the past three days I've received more death threats than I have in my entire administration. I've heard these words, but I've never heard people say them about my wife and children. I have to say this, because it's very personal to me." He stole a glance at his wife and twin 12-year-old sons standing at attention in a luxury box above the stage. "I don't believe a Nielsen rating is worth the life of my children or your children. This unethical, illegal lynch-mob mentality has to stop."Wow, we have enough content to recycle! But here at We are Respectable Negroes we call this a "flashback" rather than a lazy, respectable negro moment.
From a few months back, still relevant and still funny:
Kwame Kilpatrick, the mayor of Detroit, is in big trouble. Apparently, he has been running his administration like a cross between Flavor of Love, 106 and Park, and We can do Better. Kwame's the "hip hop" mayor. He has strippers, parties, and security guards covering up his mess. Now, Kwame is caught creeping with his senior aid. It seems that Kilpatrick and his lover have exchanged 14,000 text messages over the course of a year, yes, 14,000. The rub of the story is that few of the text messages that have been released to the public are any good. I want some steamy, I am cheating on my wife, nasty and dirty text messages. For example, how about a few, "I am gonna come over and put you in the chicken wing girl;" "I want to put you in the camel clutch later tonight;" or "I am going to wear you out like a pair of shoes from Payless." In honor of our first hip hop mayor, a mayor by the name of Kwame, I present a classic cut from the original Kwame (see it makes sense in the end):
It seems Kwame thought he was a smooth operator:
But, Kwame may have just played himself:
One-fourth of teen girls (and half of black teen girls!) have this in their drawers; teen boys, R Kelly undaunted.
I'm sorry, this is just gross. Just once, I'd like for black people to not be atop the Raggedy Rankings.
And I'm sure many will blame the predatory, manipulative boys for infecting innocent girls, but if you've spent any time around teens, you'll see that these girls want it just as much as the boys.
This is a failure of black parenting at every imaginable level—a failure to provide decent male role models so that girls won't go looking for male love and acceptance in chubbies; a failure to provide strong female role models who don't make a habit of letting random dudes run up in them raw dog; a failure to make kids realize the seriousness and permanence of some STDs and the importance of safe sex; a failure to instill character and independent thought so that kids don't take their behavioral norms from mass media and their fucked up peers.
Young people are going to have sex—that's a given. But they don't have to turn this bitch into 12 Monkeys in the process.
How's that for racial id, Chauncey?
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Hillary Clinton's Red Phone Ad and the Birth of a Nation
ON first watching Hillary Clinton's recent "It's 3 a.m." advertisement, I was left with an uneasy feeling that something was not quite right — something that went beyond my disappointment that she had decided to go negative. Repeated watching of the ad on YouTube increased my unease. I realized that I had only too often in my study of America's racial history seen images much like these, and the sentiments to which they allude...
I have spent my life studying the pictures and symbols of racism and slavery, and when I saw the Clinton ad's central image — innocent sleeping children and a mother in the middle of the night at risk of mortal danger — it brought to my mind scenes from the past. I couldn't help but think of D. W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation," the racist movie epic that helped revive the Ku Klux Klan, with its portrayal of black men lurking in the bushes around white society. The danger implicit in the phone ad — as I see it — is that the person answering the phone might be a black man, someone who could not be trusted to protect us from this threat.
The ad could easily have removed its racist sub-message by including images of a black child, mother or father — or by stating that the danger was external terrorism. Instead, the child on whom the camera first focuses is blond. Two other sleeping children, presumably in another bed, are not blond, but they are dimly lighted, leaving them ambiguous. Still it is obvious that they are not black — both, in fact, seem vaguely Latino.
I am not a fan of Hillary Clinton. Nor, have I drunk the Obama Kool-Aid and become a true believer. However, I must admit that the ugliness of her campaign has pushed me, and I imagine many others, to vote for Obama in order to teach Billary a lesson about taking black folks for granted, and as punishment for how Bill Clinton disingenuously pimped the label of being "America's first black president."
With this qualification noted, I have mixed feelings about the interpretations that some have offered regarding Hillary Clinton's red phone campaign ad where Obama is skewered as being unprepared to lead the country in a crisis:
In fact, Hillary's campaign ad has more in common with the fear mongering offered by the Johnson campaign in its classic "Daisy Girl" commercial:
Monday, March 10, 2008
Negro History Week is Pre-empted by our Racial Id's
We have had these photos for some time but decided not to post them. They were gathered during one of our trips to the local ghetto mall, you know the one with the dress codes, the security guards, and hoards of ignt's engaged in their local mating rituals. Our compassionate souls restrained us, but our racial ids have compelled us forward. Part of my psyche said, "they know not the evil the do," but the other part said, "these folks just want to be 'hood celebrities." You, our respectable negro patrons can decide if these photos are 1) sad; 2) depressing; 3) funny as hell; or 4) tragic.
We are Respectable Negro's exhibit number 1
This picture represents a number of troubling possibilities. From least worrisome to most...
1. This is a picture for grandma. Here, grandma is much older. The kids in the photo, and the mother, are just a little young but we will let it pass.
2. Maybe grandma is in her 30s and the folks in the picture are her "grands" and her daughter. This is troubling because the daughter was in her teens when she got knocked up and the kids are damn too young.
3. The kids and mom are in the same cohort as noted above, but they are dressed like "little men" and "little women." You know that pathology where among the ingnt's children are made adults. That is a bit disgusting and sad. Moreover, little kids are not adults. And little boys made into "little men" become medium sized men whom grow up to be prison inmates. Finally, toddlers should not be dressed like junior gang bangers--sorry for being insensitive.
4. Troubling, maybe this is mom and these are her kids? So, mom had her kids in her mid-teens? I don't like that.
5. Most troubling, maybe this is grandma, and these are her grandkids. As Chris Rock said, "if you call momma Pam, and grandma mom, you are going to prison."
We are Respectable Negro's exhibits 2 and 3
1. I am speechless.
2. Could this be an effort to simply find acceptance amongst one's peers? However sad? Among some social classes maybe showing pregnant bellies is cute?
3. Maybe distended pregnant belly buttons are sexy? Am I a prude?
4. Maybe among some ignt's (and others) to be pregnant is to be proud, and to be pregnant and to display one's body on tacky posters, in photos, and on inexpensive t-shirts is praiseworthy?
5. Baby Phat? Yikes...
I will play devil's advocate. Are these photos any more or less tacky than this magazine cover?
Or this sculpture?
You all tell us...
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Negro History Week: Chauncey DeVega's Pre-History Part 2
Did you know that Chauncey DeVega's mother:
...Learned how to drive at 10 years old. Apparently, she was too short to see over the dashboard of the 55 Buick her uncle would let her drive in exchange for doing errands. Chauncey's mother, a petite woman, would have to sit on a pillow in order to navigate the back country roads where she lived.
...Once tried to run over the neighborhood meth-head. This woman was riding a bicycle and dared to call Chauncey's mother out of her name. In retaliation mother Chauncey pursued this "fat bitch"--my mothers language not mine--with her car and pushed the back wheel of the bicycle with the front bumper of our Plymouth Grand Fury until the PWT careened out of control. We had a running feud with this family which involved numerous fights, general chaos, and episodes of random violence over the course of several decades.
... Is the first cousin of the boxer Floyd Patterson. This is ironic because Muhammad Ali is one of my personal heroes and the great Ali whooped Floyd Patterson's butt.
...Firmly believes that the actor Philip Michael Thomas (the light skinned guy from the TV series Miami Vice) is a relative. She, like black people everywhere, are obsessed with having "Indian" blood and has concocted a story where one of our family ran away from the South to be famous in Hollywood. This fictive relative was never seen again, but Mr. Thomas bears an incredibly strong resemblance to this man. Thus, my mother has claimed Miami Vice's Philip Michael Thomas as a relative.
...When asked about Doctor King and The Civil Rights movement said that King was "half-crazy and half-brave." When pressed about her participation in the Civil Rights Movement my mother said that she didn't want someone putting hoses on her, isn't capable of turning the other cheek, and that if some racist cop put his hands on her that she would kill him. So much for non-violence in my family.
...Has an eccentric first cousin who is a millionaire that owns 500 acres of land. This cousin also does not believe in the necessity of indoor plumbing and still maintains (and uses) an outhouse.
...Has a family with interesting and tragic roots. One of the patriarchs of our family was the product of a taboo relationship between a white, Jewish woman and a black man. Apparently, they were getting their groove on and this woman came up pregnant. The white people in town didn't take kindly to this crossing of the racial divide (even with a questionably "white" Jewish person) and formed a lynch mob to kill this woman and her lover. Unfortunately, these hate mongers were successful and killed the couple. Their love child was secretly taken in by my mother's clan and raised as one of the family.
...Like Gordon Gartrelle's family, we too have a black male relative who couldn't resist the temptations of white women and subsequently paid a high price for sharing his black love. Apparently, sometime around the turn of the 20th century one of my mom's people was philandering with a white man's wife in the Southern town where they lived. Said woman's husband found out and confronted my cousin who in turn killed this white man. In telling the story my mother observed that, "u know that's what black men do" meaning they can't resist sleeping with white women. I said that isn't fair. She replied, "it is the truth"--
...Aunt raised 13 children, most of which were not her own. My great Aunt, a woman with a 3rd grade education and without the aid of the State, i.e. welfare, social workers, and all that other mess which the undeserving breeding ignt's receive today (as opposed to the "deserving poor," i.e. people who have been laid off, downsized, are ill, elderly etc. and do not live in a cycle of dependency and ghetto underclass culture) mentored, encouraged, and raised a group of people whom would go on to be doctors, lawyers, and ministers.
Chauncey's World of Ghetto Nerds: Dungeons and Dragons Creator Passes Away
Dungeons and Dragons was lots of fun, especially for socially awkward black kids in the semi-suburbs. You could hang out with your friends, and if you had a cool person running the campaign you could easily pass the time every Friday and most Saturdays of your middle school and High School years. Better yet, (and yes the games with its "high fantasy" setting could be a bit too European and Nordic for my taste) it was a world where race didn't matter and you could play a Moor (or its equivalent) paladin who was neutrally aligned--it added a little bit of mystery to my character. Anticipating your questions, no, I do not know what character class Marlon Wayans was supposed to represent in the horrible film adaptation:
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) -- Gary Gygax, who co-created the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons and helped start the role-playing phenomenon, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva. He was 69.
He had been suffering from health problems for several years, including an abdominal aneurysm, said his wife, Gail Gygax.
Gygax and Dave Arneson developed Dungeons & Dragons in 1974 using medieval characters and mythical creatures. The game known for its oddly shaped dice became a hit, particularly among teenage boys, and eventually was turned into video games, books and movies.
Gygax always enjoyed hearing from the game's legion of devoted fans, many of whom would stop by the family's home in Lake Geneva, about 55 miles southwest of Milwaukee, his wife said. Despite his declining health, he hosted weekly games of Dungeons & Dragons as recently as January, she said.
"It really meant a lot to him to hear from people from over the years about how he helped them become a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman, what he gave them," Gygax said. "He really enjoyed that."
Dungeons & Dragons players create fictional characters and carry out their adventures with the help of complicated rules. The quintessential geek pastime, it spawned a wealth of copycat games and later inspired a whole genre of computer games that's still growing in popularity.
Funeral arrangements are pending. Besides his wife, Gygax is survived by six children.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Negro History Week: Chauncey DeVega's Pre-History
...Was much older than his mother and played semi-pro football with questionably "white"people during the 1930s and 1940s. These good white ethnics included the Irish, Italians, and Greeks. These "white" people liked my father because he was really fast and had great hands so they wanted to draft him. As pops would say, "I was a shorter version of Randy Moss, and if pro-football drafted black people he would have tried out and and made it."My dad was a hell of a bullshit artist, but when he was serious he was serious, and this story was verified by many different people so I take it to be true. Before I shattered my wrist, I too was damn good with that pigskin. I remember having a shoulder cast on my arm for six months and pops told me how it was a good thing I couldn't play football anymore. I asked him, "why?" He said that when he played football he ran fast because the Irish, Greeks, and Italians would yell, "get that nigger!" My dad was tall and sort of mean so I wouldn't have wanted to cross him, but he said it made him run really really fast because these white guys would tackle him and try to hit him in the groin. To add insult to injury, in the pile after the tackle they would whisper in his ear that the next time he put his "nigger hands" on the football they were going to kill him. I said, "dad, is that true?" He replied, "damn right...that is why I ran so fast!"
...Ex-wife put voodoo on him. My mom and I would tell him this was non-sense. But, he stood by it and wouldn't be budged. Apparently, when pops was leaving his ex she would heckle him. My dad being a playboy tried to shrug it off. At some point he went back to their/his house to pick up his old records and clothes and his ex-wife appeared in the doorway with 2 voodoo dolls. One doll was my father and the other his ex. The ex-wife had placed pins in the doll and said "this doll is you" and you will never leave me. The next day my father was deathly ill with food poisoning and explosive diarrhea. He swore it was voodoo. My mom (and I) disagreed. My mom told him it was some bad undercooked goat that he ate the day before...pops didn't believe her and swore it was the dark arts. Till the day he died, my father believed voodoo and not food poisoning put him on his death bed.
...Had fictive kin relationships because our families were broken and recreated by 400 years of slavery and we sort of had to make family where we could find it. My father's two best friends were my "uncles." This was strictly enforced. I could ask them anything and if anything happened to my parents they would have fought to take care of me. One of my uncles was/is a very talented musician who played with James Brown all over Africa during his tours there:
This uncle is very dear to me but is a bit of a pot head. I mean for a 70ish year old man he smokes too much weed and has had his share of young women. He apparently, while high or sober, mastered the art of driving across the East Coast with my father and peeing in beer bottles and soda cans. Yes, my uncle would drive his expensive car, smoke weed, and pee in bottles...this was his gift.
...Had a second "brother," my other," who loved to travel all over the world and spoke a bunch of languages. He smoked hashish on the Nile, fought Afrikaners in a bar in South Africa (true story), and in his later years would go to the Dominican Republican and sleep with prostitutes. The uncle in the above reflection looked liked Grady from Sanford and Son. This uncle looked like Bubba. Before my 2nd uncle would fly to the Dominican Republic he would watch the Home Shopping Network and QVC and buy cheap trinkets for the women there. He was a rich skinflint and traveled with either my father's luggage or with garbage bags. In these receptacles he would put all his trinkets and share them with those poor prostitutes. Yes, this is sad as he was fat and old and rich, but they were poor and had no choice. This uncle also hated his wife and kept 2 different refrigerators in his house. One was his wife's. The second was my uncle's which he would keep padlocked and chained shut lest his wife eat his food. Yes, he was a bit odd.
...And my second uncle were fascinated by women's vaginas...especially foreign women's vaginas. You see I used to date a Chinese woman while in college and afterwards before finding my black queen. My uncle called up one day and said he had a question. I said, "what do you want to know?" He replied, "me and your dad were wondering what Asian women's parts look like? Are they sideways?" I laughed and said, "No, women's plumbing is all generally the same." Yes, I felt dirty but wanted to satisfy the curiosity of 2 old black men--we are the fruit of the Civil Rights Movement after all and they couldn't have imagined that their kids would get to sleep with an Asian woman.
...Fought in World War 2. He could sort of "pass," but he had to wear a stocking cap to hide his nappy head when he woke up in the morning. He was also a Sergeant and couldn't stand, as he put it, "lazy negroes and white trash:"
...Was stationed abroad all the white guys knew he was black, but they were from his neighborhood (that is how the draft worked) and conspired to hide the fact he was black. They were his friends and wanted him to stay safe, but they didn't like black folks too much. Apparently, these white folk would wake him up before the sun came out and tell him to, "take off his stocking cap and comb his kinky nigger head" lest the officers find out he was really black and send him home.
...And his friend would get drunk while off duty in the Army. One day they resented having to sit in the black part of the movie theater--what was then called the buzzard's nest--it wasn't because they were black, but because they really wanted to see the movie, the screen was blocked, the seats were dirty, and my dad and his friend reasoned it wasn't fair that they would have to sit there and still pay the same amount of money as white people. Dad and his friend decided to pull out their pistols and shoot up the movie screen as an act of protest against the white theater owners. They never did get to see another movie at that theater.
...And his unit were tasked with bringing prisoners to Leavenworth military prison. Some of these prisoners were Germans and were being brought to work camps throughout the Midwest. My dad had nothing but praise for these soldiers. At length he would describe how well read these Nazis were, how they had good hygiene, weren't racist against black people, and were very well behaved. In fact, they would let these Germans out of their handcuffs for the long ride and would talk about history, politics, philosophy and such. The American GI's would even let these Germans use the toilet (as opposed to peeing and pooping on themselves) during the train ride from Texas. By comparison, my father and his unit had to guard prisoners and detainees going to the prison at Leavenworth. Many of these men were white and resented having black troops guard them. Apparently, these good ol'boys would curse black people and use all variety of racist profanities. Generally, they would just gag these idiots and ignore them. But on one occasion, there was (as my dad described him), "a cracker" from the South who wouldn't shut up. My father and the men under his command beat the hell out of this man. As my father relayed, they would beat him into unconsciousness and this white guy would just keep talking. They would knock him out and he would wake up and keep going. My father concluded that they could have killed him and gotten away with it, but it wasn't worth the trouble. They decided to just marvel at how hardheaded those white Southerners were as they beat this knucklehead into unconsciousness over and over and over again.
Wednesday: Some reflections from Chauncey's mother
Monday, March 3, 2008
Negro History Week: Gordon Gartrelle's Pre-History
In light of the Baldwin quote Chauncey posted last week, we would like to kick off Negro History Week by exploring our personal histories. Today I will provide a context for my respectable negro-ness by offering up this Did You Know? installment about each of my parents.
Did You Know that Gordon's father…
…Was told that his own father, a sharecropper, was caught with a white landowner's daughter, and rather than submit to being whipped, buried an ax in the white man Jack Nicholson style? And that according to family legend, Grandfather Gartrelle changed the family name to evade the authorities?
…Was sent to work on his grandmothers' farm as a small boy, but got out of doing farm labor by reading (the Bible) voraciously?
…Overcame white employers' attempts to discriminate against him, which included scheduling his multiple physicals in two different states on the same day?
…Was terrified after hearing rebel yells when he first went to work in a cannery, where he was later told he had to eat in the "executive lunchroom" apart from the other white workers and was reprimanded for bringing a knife to work (it was a boxcutter that all employees used to open boxes)?
…Became the first black person to work for his city's unemployment office (as a minority rep), but only received the job because there was an "audit" of the local office and they needed to have a black person on staff?
…Worked payroll at a shipyard, where he drew the ire of white employees because he didn't need a calculator to do his job, and where he made sure to "lose" the paychecks of any white men who called him out of his name?
…Played in and led a series of successful bands that allowed him to befriend The Allman Bros and War, among others?
…Accompanied his middle aged mother when she voted for the first time after passing a ridiculously difficult "literacy test" that was only given to black voters?
…Graduated from a black college and received a Masters from a respected "white" school after moving to the West Coast?
Did You Know that Gordon's mother…
…Trumpets our family's Indian lineage and says that her grandmother had an Indian name?
…Claims that one line of her maternal ancestors passed for white, but helped their darker relatives?
…Was told that her family worked for a landed New Orleans family for several generations, and eventually owned a great deal of property themselves?
…Had a father who played in the Negro Leagues?
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Hillary Clinton's Sex Face and Obama's Magical Hands
We love being right here at We are Respectable Negroes. We are like negro Nostradamuses...we do in fact "see" the future and know all. So tell me, doesn't bro'Bama look like he is coming to lay hands on the true believers in this picture taken last week?
bro'Bama also looks like he is going to throw a fireball a la Ken or Ryu from the video game Street Fighter 2.
But this photo of ol'Hillary is even more disturbing:
Maybe this is ol'Hillary's war face?
Yes, more dirty than excited. I think I will go take a shower after getting a glimpse of ol'Hillary's sex face.
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Chauncey's World of Ghetto Nerds: Semi-Pro is "Positive" Black Cinema that You can't Help but Love
Plus, and to give away too much, the character he plays turns out to be a brother after all, and not in a heavy handed, preachy sort of way. Jackie Moon has soul, he has heart, and there is a reason he looks so comfortable wearing that 'fro. How can you not love a movie where one of the main characters is named "Coffee Black" and which features a surprisingly good soundtrack? This is the type of "positive" black cinema critics have been clamoring for!
In Semi-pro we have a wonderful homage to the good ol' days of the ABA, Will Ferrell, some great, likely improvised scenes, and a wonderful antidote to the cumbersome weight of the Oscars last weekend.
A bonus, Jackie Moon is a great lover and Renaissance man with the gravitas of Barry White:
Friday, February 29, 2008
Obama Swears: "I have never been a Muslim"
The pressure on Obama in regards to religion is bordering on absurd isn't it? So, in the spirit of the "I have never" game (you all have played that one, right?), I have decided to share some of my favorite "I have nevers":
1. From the movie Conan the Barbarian: "Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, or why we died. All that matters is that two stood against many. That's what's important! Valor pleases you, Crom... so grant me one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then to HELL with you!"--
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Negro History Week Reborn
The following is an excerpt from the minutes of the Proceedings of Spring Conference of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Petersburg, Virginia, March 30-31, 1926, detailing the first observance of Negro History Week.
The observance of Negro History Week proved to be one of the most fortunate steps taken ever taken by the Association. The celebration made a deep impression. The literature was early prepared and it was distributed in time throughout the country. Easily understood, the idea was readily taken up at centers where some thought is given to social amelioration and wherever special efforts are being made to elevate the Negro. Ministers, teachers, social workers, and business men rallied to the support of the movement and made it a national success.
You didn't think we respectable negroes would let Black History Month go by without comment did you?
Starting Thursday keep your eyes open for our personal reflections on just what is Black history. Next week we will be sharing our own version of the PBS series, African American Lives.
For now, reflect on James Baldwin's observation that:
"History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about."
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Obama the Racial Healer--Lay Hands Upon Him and You too will be Healed
The thesis that Obama represents racial healing is compelling to many. Why wouldn't a reasonable person support moving past our country's racial divide? Why wouldn't a good and decent person want to see Obama elected, a man who could quite possibly hail a future where race is lessened as a determining factor for our life chances? If we as a country are afflicted with a racial sickness, wouldn't we all want to be healed?
Friday, February 22, 2008
The Word is in! On the Genetic Superiority of Respectable Negroes Everywhere--Well, Maybe Just Black People More Generally
All who know me take this to be a self-evident fact. These white queens have known it for a long time:
But, I am of two minds on this one. Maybe YouTube can help me sort this one out?
Right side of brain says, "how cool! look at all the evidence for the genetic superiority of black people. Here are some prime examples:"


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Report: U.S. Staged Failed Secret Mission into Syria to Rescue Foley
American officials confirmed the authenticity of a YouTube video in which a Rochester, New Hampshire photojournalist is seen beheaded by Islamic militants in Iraq.
James Foley went missing in 2012 while reporting on the Syrian civil war for the Boston-based media company GlobalPost. The AP reports that Foley was kidnapped by militants who stopped his car in a contested area and had not been seen since.
U.S. Special Operations forces reportedly attempted, but failed, to rescue Foley and other Americans detained in Syria in a secret mission this summer that left one U.S. serviceman injured.
Foley worked in several war zones through the years, including Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and Iraq. It was the second time Foley had been abducted, after he was kidnapped and subsequently released while on assignment in Libya in 2011.
GlobalPost CEO Philip Balboni told reporters Foley's family received an e-mail from his kidnappers that was "full of rage against the United States" and stated they planned to execute the journalist. Balboni said pleas to spare Foley went unheeded.
The video of his murder, uploaded by ISIL, depicts a kneeling Foley dressed in orange amid a desert landscape with a masked executioner behind him.
"I call on my friends, family, and loved ones to rise up against my real killers, the US government," Foley is heard to say in the video (you can read a full transcript here). "For what will happen to me is only a result of their complacency and criminality. My message to my beloved parents, save me some dignity, and don't accept some meager compensation, for my death, from the same people who effectively hit the last nail in my coffin with their recent aerial campaign in Iraq."
Foley's killer, speaking with a British accent, denounces American air strikes in Iraq as "an aggression towards Muslims from all walks of life who have accepted Islamic Caliphate as their leadership."
He is then seen killing Foley and later grabbing another man believed to be missing journalist Steven Sotloff.
"The life of this American citizen, Obama, depends on your next decision," he said, gesturing to Sotloff.
Pres. Obama told reporters in Martha's Vineyard that "the entire world is appalled" by Foley's murder.
"No just God would stand for what they did yesterday or every single day," he said. "A group like ISIL has no place in the 21st century...They have rampaged across cities and villages killing innocent, unarmed civilians in cowardly acts of violence. They abduct women and children and subject them to torture and rape and slavery."
"There has to be a common effort to extract this cancer so that it doesn't spread," he added.
"We thank Jim for all the joy he gave us. He was an extraordinary son, brother, journalist and person. Please respect our privacy in the days ahead as we mourn and cherish Jim," Foley's mother Diane wrote on a Facebook page started to support the missing journalist.
She lauded her son's work "trying to expose the world to the suffering of the Syrian people" and encouraged ISIL to release their other hostages.


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When Bud Cribley talks about moving to Alaska, you hear the excitement in his voice and his anticipation for what lies ahead. During the week of Thanksgiving, Bud will begin his job as BLM-Alaska's State Director. He is very upbeat, laughs easily and reflects on what lies ahead. He says that after 35 years with the BLM, he sees Alaska as an opportunity to learn new things and gain new experiences. "Hopefully, the experiences I have to date create a good foundation to use in Alaska and help with what BLM-Alaska is trying to accomplish."
Bud's looking forward to working with Alaska's issues and people. He believes his diverse background will complement management decisions in Alaska.
Bud Cribley has a forestry degree from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. He joined the BLM in 1975, and worked in Arizona, Montana, Colorado, and Nevada. In 1997, he moved to BLM's national headquarters in Washington, D.C., as a senior specialist with the Wild Horse and Burro program, later heading up the Rangeland Resources Division. He briefly left Washington to serve as Acting State Director for Idaho in 2006, and then returned to Washington as BLM's Deputy Assistant Director for Renewable Resources and Planning.
Bud candidly admits that most of BLM-Alaska's issues are new for him. He is spending his last weeks in the Nation's capital studying the issues awaiting him in Alaska.
"Obviously, we need to focus on developing a single management plan for the NPR-A [National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska]," he says. "Energy development is a big issue and how that affects the natural resources, will be an important priority."
In all-employee meetings at BLM-Alaska during brief visits to Fairbanks and Anchorage last month, Bud listened to employee concerns about declining budgets and echoed BLM Director Bob Abbey's assurance that we "will not be doing more with less, but will do the best we can with what we have."
Bud doesn't walk into a room with all the answers. During his career, he says many managers asked for a briefing, but already had their minds made up about what they would do. Bud says he won't make decisions that way. He believes that when managing organizations, you rely on a good staff and their expertise, and learn to be more of a generalist than an expert.
Bud says he isn't coming to Alaska with an agenda from the standpoint of changing things. He prefers to get a sense of an organization, where it is, what is working, and identify the challenges. After he has the information, then he will engage people on the issues.
When asked about using new technologies, he chuckles. "I may be overeducated in technology. I represent the BLM for eGov." His involvement with information technology includes geospatial and inventory monitoring strategies for better efficiency. He emphasizes that BLM needs to use new technologies within its capabilities and available tools, to be effective.
Bud's wife, Karen, is a school teacher. She will finish out the school year and join him next summer. Bud is an avid hunter and fisherman. They have three grown daughters and one granddaughter.
Bud says, "I feel very privileged to have the opportunity to come to Alaska and work. Not only within the BLM, but with everyone in Alaska. It is just an incredible opportunity, it's exhilarating."
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Stewart's recently gathered donations on behalf of the Food Bank. The well needed donations were greatly appreciated and will still be accepted at the Food Bank in Castle Dale.
Stewart's clerks encouraged shoppers to donate items to the food drive and they also accepted money donations and the clerk's selected the items to donate to the Food Bank.
Store manager, Wayne Huntington said that Stewart's was happy to participate in gathering food for the needy families in the community.