Zakaria: Mitt, you need to worry about the very poor

Reblogged from Global Public Square:

By Fareed Zakaria, CNN

Remember Mitt Romney's infamous "poor" comment? If not, here it is again:

"I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I'll fix it. I'm not concerned about the very rich; they're doing just fine. I'm concerned about the very heart of America, the 90-95% of Americans who right now are struggling."

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Fareed Zakaria is on point with this one! Fact check people...not opinion. America is not taking care of its poor. It is too busy being rich. “The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor” — Voltaire

Ready to Settle Down With Somebody That I Used to Know?

Kimbra

Settle on down with Aussie newbie Kimbra. This 21 year old is well beyond years in musicality. Thank goodness. And I don’t think we’re dealing with some bubble gum pop princess or passing fad of a hipster as she draws from some music and vocal heavyweights of all time. Nina Simone and Bessie Smith can be found woven all throughout the intricacies of this Australian platinum performer. There is also a tinge of Bjørk, one of my favorite eclectic vocalists.  Settle Down on the 2011 debut studio album Vow  is a rhythmic mouthful of vocalgasm-and my fav. It is sure to be revived and make it on up the charts as her just released video is making huge waves.

 

Gotye

 

Kimbra’s music is just now reaching the US. And boy, are we overdue for a breath of fresh and worthwhile music. She was introduced to Americans in her critically acclaimed collaboration with fellow Aussie, Gotye  in his groundbreaking 2011 American debut  Somebody That I Used to Know from the Making Mirrors album, which is still making rounds here. Check out both of my current favorite videos below.

 

This Just Blessed My Soul

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

This is the year of REDEMPTION! Whatever you have done, you can be cleansed by the Blood of the Lamb! Take charge of your life and allow God to lead you through your trials and triumphs. Be blessed and be a blessing to others.

You have to listen to this rendition of I AM REDEEMED. This brotha just took us all back to church and beyond! Hallelujah! You betta ask somebody who I am…I AM REDEEMED!

I am so glad music like this still lives on….

Addicted to Cheese?

Blame it on the Queso-Morphine…wait…MORPHINE?? Ugghhhh! Cheese rehab, here I come.

Why Cheese is Addictive

Florida mother of 15 says, “Somebody needs to pay for all my children!”

So, my friend posts this video on Facebook that just blew my mind. 

A 37 year old Tampa, Florida mother of fifteen children, twelve of which are living with her, is demanding to be taken care of. By who? Another question posed was, “Did the system fail her?” She blames Social Services for her woes. What woes? The woes of laying down and producing fifteen children she can’t afford to take care of?

Angel Adams was living in a small hotel room with twelve children who have no food, clothes, no shoes and no place to go after being turned in to Child Protective Services for neglect. She had been evicted from her small, upstairs apartment after the landlord discovered she was living beyond the allowed occupancy. The landlord claims to have been as lenient as possible and knew of agencies helping her pay rent and maintain sustenance for her family. But our dear sister Angel still could not live up to the minimum in responsibilities set before her. After months of non-payment and neglect of the dwelling, the landlord had no other recourse.

She has a no-good so-called fiancé who’s IN JAIL. Typical. He’s fathered 10 of the children. That was a sinking ship from the beginning. Perhaps his jail time was, in fact, his escape from this overwhelming responsibility. What a waste. So, just because he’s in jail, somebody else is responsible for you and your kids? She stands in the middle of the chaos of little ones and declares, “Some body needs to pay for ALLLLL my children! Somebody needs to be held accountable!” Uh, how about YOU and your NO GOOD FEEEEE-AHHHNN-SAAAAYYY!!

This poor excuse for a mother and and leech on our society has continued to play games in her ungratefulness and careless lifestyle. She’s bounced in and out of jail eventually losing custody of her children.

What does this say for the rest of the community of leeches like her? This is only one public story, but I am very sure it is a dime in a dozen of stories. At 37 years old, this woman hasn’t gotten it together yet. The other children not living with her are most likely grown as she has probably been producing children since she was first able to. Is she really a victim or just plain lazy and a victimizer? What about the children involved here? What are their chances for survival in this world? What do the statistics say about children who are born into this type of environment? What does this say about the world we live in?

I say what a sad commentary for the state of the world, when the poor have no empowerment to do better. Sad for the United States of America for the very un-American dream. Sad for the state of black America who has been deduced to stereotypes that bring to life the myths that others have wished upon us. This is straight up slave mentality. While “the system” is saying they’ve done all it could do. You sit there while your man is in jail and you still popping out babies, “it isn’t enough”. How about we the people tell you, “We’ve had enough”. It’s a tough call on humanity, but I keep hearing “sterilization” ringing in my ears. These babies did not ask to come into this world and they sure enough do not deserve a societal slap in the face that tells them they can’t because of how they came into the world and the environment they grew up in.

Weigh in. Post your thoughts and comments below!

Herman Cain Doing His Thing…at what cost?

Herman Cain should be singing a different song than his impromptu “Amazing Grace”anthem.

Playa play on!

If I were Questlove, I’d play Rolls Royce’s 1977 hit, “I’m Going Down”  or better yet, George Clinton’s 1982 Atomic Dog as his walk on music on the Jimmy Fallon Show (fair enough, Ms. Bachmann?).

His whole world is indeed flipped upside down. And why? As Mr. Atomic Dog himself says so lyrically:
“…this is a story of a famous dog.
For the dog that chases its tail will be dizzy.
Why must I feel like that?
Why must I chase the cat?
Nothin’ but the dog in me.

Bow wow wow…
Since the onset revelation of his misogynist, womanizing ways, his campaign seems doomed at this point. And why would he think he could possibly get away with it all? He ain’t our squeaky clean present POTUS. And believe you me, if there was something to dig up, they would have found it by now. That’s why folk had to go making up silly lies about the origin of his birth. WASTE OF TIME. And we all know Barack is holding it down tight for Michelle. Make no doubt about THAT. And all you floozies out there flinging all your goodies at him are quite laughable. He is one black man that is not falling for that. And good for him and the Mrs.

Another thing can be said of the presidential hopeful (now hopeless) pizza man, Herman Cain. Apparently, he’s been flipping more than pizzas. And a man running for public office ought to know that he cannot walk up in the White House with all that baggage. He will get checked right at the front porch. Either he is a bigger egotistical jerk than I thought or he is just really dumb to think that all this would just blow over. He will be raked over until every bit of the black layer of skin turns him into the white man he wish he was.

And let us not even think of the women accusing him as victims. Although they very well may be. But why is this an issue now when he was high profile figure within the company he worked for? He could have (and should have) been brought down then. It isn’t until someone is seeking one of the highest offices in the land that people want to step up and speak out. It involves more notoriety and money opportunities, perhaps? I don’t know. But I really want to take a closer look at this home wrecking, narcissistic, opportunistic lump of waste called a Ginger White. WHAT. THE. WORLD?

This woman is a white woman. And why are we even surprised? This man is married to a black woman and all the women he “took advantage of” are white? Strategy is good. And whoever is running this scheme knows that if he had affairs with or had victimized a black women, the allegations would not have as much fire power. Nothing gets conservative white men more stirred than the victimization of white women by non-black men. But, look at Ms. Ginger White, who went on the morning news declaring her “inappropriate” relationship with Herman Cain. “But, he was married. I am not married.” she refutes. Heifer! That does not diminish your role as home wrecker and adulteress. You knew he was married. You carried on with him for thirteen years! And now you say how ashamed you were. What exactly are you ashamed of? You were receiving calls from him as recently as last week. I just don’t get how you figure yourself any less innocent in this. Well, now your steady flow of funding will stop unless you’ve cut a deal somewhere that has you set beyond what Big Daddy Cain could ever give you. You hussy. Just keep playing the game. It seems that it’s the only way you know how to make money.

And a nice quick message for Mr. Cain who seems to be doing his own thing. If he is being set up, it shows just how dirty politics really can get. Get out now because you are losing your dignity. But brotha-Mr. Associate Pastor, if you don’t get your stuff together and humble yourself, you will continue to go down until you are back where you were on December 13, 1945…naked and po’.

Man up Black Man.

Soldiers Die On the Homefront

Kelvin and Lykisha Gooding

Once again, we bow our heads in sadness at the loss of life of some of our soldiers. But we didn’t lose these soldiers on the battlefield somewhere in the desert or mountainous regions overseas. These soldiers were lost right in their home, in their own country, in our backyard.

I knew Lykisha Gooding through the Fort Bliss Got Talent contest I entered in earlier this year. She was a 39 yr. old native of Columbus, GA.  A mother of three and 1st Sergeant in the US Army currently stationed here at Fort Bliss. She was very confident with a southern charm. Her platform was country music. She wrote her own material and wanted to seriously pursue this dream of writing and performing her music. During the contest, she went to Houston to audition for this year’s season of America’s Got Talent. I don’t know whatever became of that because there was never another word said about it. I figured, had she made it, it would have been all over the army post. So I can assume she didn’t.

Lykisha had many supporters during the FBGT show in the audience, but failed to make the final cut as the winner. As far as that goes…me either. In the short time I knew her, I saw a side of her that I didn’t care for. But then I was convinced too that she had a side of her that boosted her as a hero in the eyes of her friends and family. It’s just a shame that her life was cut short over what has now turned out to be perceived as a domestic situation gone bad. She and the man described as her husband were shot. She did not survive. The gunman fled to another part of the city where another confrontation ensued and he was killed on the scene. Senseless.

Not even a month a go another soldier barricaded himself in his military housing unit and took his own life. Last year in two separate incidents, two soldiers were involved in deadly shootings here. In between the shootings that resulted in loss of life, there have been senseless attempts. What is going on here?

The sad news is, with the influx of troops coming home from the drawdown of US occupation overseas, we will see more of this. Locals here want to jump in and call soldiers all kind of disrespect not even understanding that there could be a commonality here. PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder). These soldiers are literally flipping out. And where is the help? Is there enough? Are they being reached out to properly? So many questions and not enough people answering.

I am sadden for this senseless loss and pray for healing for the friends and family affected. This has got to stop.

Here is the story from the local news:

Here is Lykisha performing in Fort Bliss Got Talent Feb/Mar 2011:

Lykisha singing

UPDATE:  We now know that 1Sgt. Gooding (the female victim) and SFC Steadman (the shooter) were in the same unit. Steadman was facing disciplinary action within the unit which somehow involved Gooding, as she was his supervisor. He must of had everything to lose to commit this heinous act. I must however note that both Steadman and Gooding were praised for their outstanding work in the military community. Someone obviously snapped under tremendous pressure. Again, my deepest condolences.