Lauren, Lauren, Lauren,
First and foremost, I have NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER been one to send out massive amounts of email forwards. In fact, I can't stand it when people send me forwards all the time. I even recall me sending out an email that consisted of the top ten reasons NOT TO SEND forwards in an effort to get people to stop sending them to me.
Kings of forward? Me and L...HUH? I'm missing something here.
And by NO MEANS am I reprimanding you guys from posting comments. I LOVE it when people post comments b/c I know half of the people who read my blog entries do just that (read them) but don't comment and I wish they would. All I was saying was that L's comment was so lengthy it might as well have been an entry in his own blog rather than a comment in mine (let alone anyone's blog) because of the length of the comment. Take a look around at some other blogs and count how many times someone dedicated that many paragraphs to a blog comment. Then take a look at some blog entries and see how they're much lengthier than comments. If you still don't get it, well there's no hope for you just like there's no hope for L when it comes to bowling.
So L, Lauren, post away, PLEASE! This whole day has been quite confusing and weird as it culminates. I feel weird in a WTF are you guys talking about kinda way, but yet-and-still, it remains ALL GOOD!
Hopefully this ends all this confusion about posting to my blog. "Thank you for coming out, God bless you, good night!"
Friday, October 7, 2005
Thursday, October 6, 2005
Babyface and Tracy Edmonds break up...WHERE'S THE LOVE?
When I first read this, I was like DAMN! I looked at these two in a similar light as I do Will and Jada. And these two have been together LONGER! We never really think about BAbyface and Tracy b/c they're not always in the limelight like other celebrity couples. Me, being naive, I assumed that this was probably a good thing and being out of the limelight meant they were enjoying life with one-another without the papparazzi! This really disappoints me man. This actually hurt my feelings a little.
When you're hopeful and have dreams of a healthy, everlasting marraige and a couple that you assume (here we go assuming, right) has that splits up, it disappoints you a lot. Fellas, you might call me soft for this one, but it is what it is.
http://movies.msn.com/celebs/article.aspx?news=203388
When you're hopeful and have dreams of a healthy, everlasting marraige and a couple that you assume (here we go assuming, right) has that splits up, it disappoints you a lot. Fellas, you might call me soft for this one, but it is what it is.
http://movies.msn.com/celebs/article.aspx?news=203388
I thought this was funny...
Kanye and Mike Myers meet again (it's about 30 seconds into the skit) on Saturday Night Live
http://www.collegehumor.com/movies/1612968/
http://www.collegehumor.com/movies/1612968/
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Monday, October 3, 2005
R Kelly Know He WRONG
"People in the singer's camp reportedly call Lee "Puppydog," and Kelly associates say she is required to knock before entering a room in their house if he is at home hanging out with friends."
Restraining Order
Restraining Order
Sunday, October 2, 2005
SPECIAL EVENT
A friend of mine is putting together an event on Oct. 14 here in Baltimore that is going to be BANGIN'!
If you aren't doing anything that night, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you attend...
www.fashiononcharles.com
If you aren't doing anything that night, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you attend...
www.fashiononcharles.com
PHOTOS: Cosmic Bowling
This past Friday night was bowling night (Cosmic bowling to be exact) for my friends and I. It was a lot of fun. Of course I was pressed and took pictures so I figured I'd share them with everyone. Enjoy!!!
T made it out!!!!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Sei WHAT???
Sei, your girl's a ringer. Ya'll hustlas homie!
Caught ya slippin L!
Not this time though, huh?
Hiwoo looking real possessed off the red-eye!
Pearl, Nadiyah (surprise guest)
Take two.
Tried to get everybody in this one. Missed about half the group though. Shot out to BHill's hat!
T made it out!!!!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Sei WHAT???
Sei, your girl's a ringer. Ya'll hustlas homie!
Caught ya slippin L!
Not this time though, huh?
Hiwoo looking real possessed off the red-eye!
Pearl, Nadiyah (surprise guest)
Take two.
Tried to get everybody in this one. Missed about half the group though. Shot out to BHill's hat!
Friday, September 30, 2005
BIG-UP to ALL BLACK WOMEN
Shot out to Fantasia!!!
While it is shocking, it also (in my opinion) shows the strength and determination of African-American women.
Fantasia could not read or write very well, but she still had the drive and motivation to learn all those songs by listening to them in order to be able to go and sing her butt off in those American Idol episodes.
I just gained a whole lot more respect for her as a person. I always respected her ability to sing, but being strong enough to put this info out there (along with the fact that she got raped as a freshman in high school) takes a lot of heart!
Check it out...
While it is shocking, it also (in my opinion) shows the strength and determination of African-American women.
Fantasia could not read or write very well, but she still had the drive and motivation to learn all those songs by listening to them in order to be able to go and sing her butt off in those American Idol episodes.
I just gained a whole lot more respect for her as a person. I always respected her ability to sing, but being strong enough to put this info out there (along with the fact that she got raped as a freshman in high school) takes a lot of heart!
Check it out...
My Email to Bill Bennett
I'm gonna be honest with myself here, he'll probably never get this. And I really had a TOUGH a$$ time finding the right words, but dammit I had to say something!
"Aborting African-American babies?!? Oh, this fool got us TWISTED!"
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Hello Mr. Bennett,
It is hard for me to believe that a well-educated man with a history in politics (not to mention a presidential Cabinet position) can make such an ignorant and stupid statement. However, I cannot say that this surprises me one bit (it was the Reagan Administration) considering you were in charge of the underachieving and at times clue-less system that educated me while I attending DC and Prince George's County Public Schools in the 1980s. Fortunately, I came out of those systems with enough knowledge not to let your comments go without any response and with enough integrity to stand up for a group of people whose unborns you feel don't deserve life because they'll increase the crime rate.
The fact of the matter is that crime reduction in this country has less to do with race than it does wtih economics! Poor people in this country live an entirely different life than those who are lucky enough to be maintain life above the ever-rising poverty-line. Being poor in this country often means having to find ways to survive. And if that means committing crime, then by all means poor people will commit crimes to survive. Survival doesn't mean committing a crime to support a drug habit (crack cocaine did first appear during the Reagan Administration right) or some other negatively-viewed affliction we associate solely with poor people (which is a myth in itself). Survival means doing what you have to do in order to feed yourself, your family, and live day-to-day.
What is needed to help decrease the crime rate is not the abortion of a single race's offspring (I am still wondering how you could mouth those words), but a raising of the level of education given to people across the country, so that those in poor communities are afforded the same opportunities that those in wealthy countries are affored. Maybe then we can reduce the crime rate by pulling uneducated poor people up into the class of highly-educated wealthy people through their use of a solid foundation of education.
But oh yeah, there's one problem with that, right? People like you probably don't want poor people rising there! You don't want that unaborted African American child living next door to you, do you? You're probably terrified of the thought.
So let me help you calm your nerves. When it boils down to it, people are just people! Regardless of skin-color, race, ethnic background, OR finanical status, we all tend to have similar goals in life. When people in this country are educated equally and treated equally, then our crime rate will go down. Not when we start aborting babies that we assume will be felons!
Also, I must charge you with hypocrisy considering you were a part of an Administration that was in power when the crack cocaine epidemic took over an entire community (the African-American community) and spread to other communities. Perhaps if you, and members of the Reagan Administration found a way to stop the spread of this genocidal drug, you wouldn't have so many poor people today! Maybe there wouldn't be so many "abort-able" African-American crime-rate-increasing babies if you didn't "let" - I am struggling to use that word considering all the suspicions surround the Reagan Administration and crack cocaine - the crack cocaine epidemic spread like wildfire! I guess that since crack couldn't do the job, reducing the crime rate is your new excuse for getting rid of the "trouble-makers" in this country? Well, it looks like you've made a little trouble yourself.
Mr. Bennett, you hugely underestimate the intelligence, strength, will, integrity, and self-respect of African Americans in this country, MY PEOPLE! Your comments will get you a lot of emotional and passionate responses from people like myself, some more scathing than others. I pray to God that you take the time to listen to the same people you think could have been aborted to reduce your precious crime rate, and see that we have feelings, values, and most of all, intelligence, integrity, and self-respect! So I beg you to think twice before you make such an ignorant and inherently stupid statement.
Sincerely,
Michael Carroll
"Aborting African-American babies?!? Oh, this fool got us TWISTED!"
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Hello Mr. Bennett,
It is hard for me to believe that a well-educated man with a history in politics (not to mention a presidential Cabinet position) can make such an ignorant and stupid statement. However, I cannot say that this surprises me one bit (it was the Reagan Administration) considering you were in charge of the underachieving and at times clue-less system that educated me while I attending DC and Prince George's County Public Schools in the 1980s. Fortunately, I came out of those systems with enough knowledge not to let your comments go without any response and with enough integrity to stand up for a group of people whose unborns you feel don't deserve life because they'll increase the crime rate.
The fact of the matter is that crime reduction in this country has less to do with race than it does wtih economics! Poor people in this country live an entirely different life than those who are lucky enough to be maintain life above the ever-rising poverty-line. Being poor in this country often means having to find ways to survive. And if that means committing crime, then by all means poor people will commit crimes to survive. Survival doesn't mean committing a crime to support a drug habit (crack cocaine did first appear during the Reagan Administration right) or some other negatively-viewed affliction we associate solely with poor people (which is a myth in itself). Survival means doing what you have to do in order to feed yourself, your family, and live day-to-day.
What is needed to help decrease the crime rate is not the abortion of a single race's offspring (I am still wondering how you could mouth those words), but a raising of the level of education given to people across the country, so that those in poor communities are afforded the same opportunities that those in wealthy countries are affored. Maybe then we can reduce the crime rate by pulling uneducated poor people up into the class of highly-educated wealthy people through their use of a solid foundation of education.
But oh yeah, there's one problem with that, right? People like you probably don't want poor people rising there! You don't want that unaborted African American child living next door to you, do you? You're probably terrified of the thought.
So let me help you calm your nerves. When it boils down to it, people are just people! Regardless of skin-color, race, ethnic background, OR finanical status, we all tend to have similar goals in life. When people in this country are educated equally and treated equally, then our crime rate will go down. Not when we start aborting babies that we assume will be felons!
Also, I must charge you with hypocrisy considering you were a part of an Administration that was in power when the crack cocaine epidemic took over an entire community (the African-American community) and spread to other communities. Perhaps if you, and members of the Reagan Administration found a way to stop the spread of this genocidal drug, you wouldn't have so many poor people today! Maybe there wouldn't be so many "abort-able" African-American crime-rate-increasing babies if you didn't "let" - I am struggling to use that word considering all the suspicions surround the Reagan Administration and crack cocaine - the crack cocaine epidemic spread like wildfire! I guess that since crack couldn't do the job, reducing the crime rate is your new excuse for getting rid of the "trouble-makers" in this country? Well, it looks like you've made a little trouble yourself.
Mr. Bennett, you hugely underestimate the intelligence, strength, will, integrity, and self-respect of African Americans in this country, MY PEOPLE! Your comments will get you a lot of emotional and passionate responses from people like myself, some more scathing than others. I pray to God that you take the time to listen to the same people you think could have been aborted to reduce your precious crime rate, and see that we have feelings, values, and most of all, intelligence, integrity, and self-respect! So I beg you to think twice before you make such an ignorant and inherently stupid statement.
Sincerely,
Michael Carroll
GOTTA READ THIS!!!
Bill Bennett said...
"...I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could -- if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down."
Here's a link to a semi-transcript of the discussion between Mr. Bennett and the caller he said this to. There's a soung clip of the interview as well (he makes the statement about a minute in).
http://mediamatters.org/items/200509280006
For those of you (like me) who have something to say about this, feel free to send it straight to Mr. Bennett:
http://www.bennettmornings.com/askbill
Naturally, I will be spewing a rack of venomous comments about this in a blog entry. Just not this one. I still have to get my thoughts together on this one.
How can someone say something so ignorant and STUPID?
"...I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could -- if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down."
Here's a link to a semi-transcript of the discussion between Mr. Bennett and the caller he said this to. There's a soung clip of the interview as well (he makes the statement about a minute in).
http://mediamatters.org/items/200509280006
For those of you (like me) who have something to say about this, feel free to send it straight to Mr. Bennett:
http://www.bennettmornings.com/askbill
Naturally, I will be spewing a rack of venomous comments about this in a blog entry. Just not this one. I still have to get my thoughts together on this one.
How can someone say something so ignorant and STUPID?
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