tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60586052463003198562024-03-14T04:49:27.761-04:00The Afro-ElitistThe chickens have come home to roost all in your face.The Afro-Elitisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864226988193563noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058605246300319856.post-28135323872140196922018-07-20T22:08:00.000-04:002018-07-20T22:12:10.096-04:00Maybe it is time for the return...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="addedVia" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: #999999; display: block; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Added about 7 hours ago by <a href="http://fab.com/susannader/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #999999; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">susannader</a> via The Modern Historic</span><span class="moreImgDetails" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 16px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="blockquote fabShopSprite marginRight5" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url("http://s3.amazonaws.com/static.fab.com/relaunch/fabshop_images.png?v=26"); background-position: -109px -51px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 6px 6px 6px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span> Though firmly seated in our design past, Mid-Century modern pieces continue to evoke images of the future with their refined lines and high-tech materials. As purveyor of all things Mid-Century, The Modern Historic seeks to give your home an atomic age update worthy of a classic Bond film. These timeless pieces will mix well with every kind of décor, from the industrial to the organic. </span><span class="moreImgDetails" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 16px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><span class="moreImgDetails" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 16px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>Sometimes</strong> the good ol' days are, well, good. Buying vinyl records, old cars, heirloom jewelry, classic furniture or any antique can inspire nostalgic feelings. Nostalgia has its place. But you have to admit, the prevailing racial attitudes of those good ol' days were just a wee bit discriminatory. Lynching, marginalization, rampant disenfranchisement, assassination of leadership (physically or character-wise), jim crow, de facto racism, rape, murder and so on...were acceptable forms of treatment against African Americans in the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. For the purposes of keeping this post brief, we won't go into specifics. </span><span class="moreImgDetails" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 16px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>Race</strong> issues have admittedly improved over the last decade or so (Biracial POTUS, the culmination of lots of hard work and sacrifice). However, every so often (damn near daily), something reminds me that racial vigilance must continue. On my Facebook page, I see the above Fab.com listing pasted by a friend, who characterized this listing as "hipster racism"...code for a type of racism propagated by so-called urban (mostly European) dwellers who typically gentrify a neighborhood, living in diverse neighborhoods. This you'd think would foster some racial understanding, right? What it fosters is a false sense of comfort, that this so-called hipster can take for granted that being cool supersedes cultural competency and understanding. The folks at Fab.com can take solace that they've allowed their true colors (and cultural competency) to shine through. Feel free to click the link and give them a piece of your mind (I'm sure this link won't last too long, or not).</span><span class="moreImgDetails" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 16px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><span style="color: red;">UPDATE 7/24 11:40am CT: The below link no longer takes you to the Fab.com post...apparently someone @ fab.com got the message...let's see if there's some sort of mea culpa from the folks @ "Fab".</span></span><span class="moreImgDetails" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 16px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red;">UPDATE 8/3 11:12am CT: Fab has basically dropped the issue. A call to the Fab client services department resulted in being placed on hold several times, then connected with a media coordinator named Katie, who personally apologized and said she took the matter personally, (missed opportunity to ask her if she was black, ugh!), then I explained that a global apology would be the appropriate way to handle the matter, she said she would bring it to her "team" - (whoever they are). 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Harlem, NYC- known for its luxury condos, restaurant rows, hip bar scene and white flight INTO (not a typo) the US African-American mecca is also in the midst of a music renaissance...and it ain't jazzy...it's hip-hop all the way...check these folks out (you may not agree with the message or the sound, but they're making noise)...<br />
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...you've already heard of Azealia Banks...haven't you? She's gone from pouring vanilla chai lattes at Starbucks to spitting fiery lyrics (she's not for the faint of heart, eyes or ears). She's dynamic, fashionable and from (my ol' hood) Harlem...and supposedly, she's a major league music talent...so "they" say.<br />
Btw, "they" are right. Listen, and find out for yourself...<br />
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...haven't had enough of Harlem, then check out this kid...ASAP Rocky, another new "NBT" (that's "Next Big Thing", if you're acronym-challenged)...<br />
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...and then head further underground with the emerging Y-ME era and The Gang (editor's note: lived in the same Harlem building with <b>Young Da Historian</b>-my cheap ass paid $$ for his early mixtapes, he's that good)...listening to all this you'd have no idea Harlem gentrification exists. Welcome back to the hip-hop map Harlem...<br />
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Several weeks ago, a Knoxville, TN man, 33 year-old Desmond Hatchett, petitioned a family court judges leniency as he asked for a reduction in his child support payments to his twenty-four (originally reported as thirty) kids. Yes, you read it right...two dozen kids. Jokes and smh's ensued throughout the media. With so many sad things to choose from, this should make this one of my easiest blog posts, right? Wrong. See, the idea of one man who's royalty, a billionaire, or the last man on earth, fathering twenty-four kids is excessive, but when he's making minimum wage ($7.25/hour in Tennessee) that amounts to thirty cents ($0.30) an hour per kid, two dollars and forty cents per eight hour workday or twelve dollars per week, per child...if the father dedicates every bit of his paycheck, before taxes. Taxes would eat away another twenty to thirty percent, depending on Tennessee's payroll taxes. <br />
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Supposedly, the children are spread among eleven women. Which means eleven women were willing to have Desmond Hatchett's child. Let that thought marinate for a minute. Is it because Desmond Hatchett is such a mack/pimp/playa, that women can't resist his charms? Does he have hypnotic powers? Does he mesmerize these women with something he should really package and sell in an infomercial? Who the f**k knows. <br />
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What I know is there are too many children and not enough parents. There are athletes (T.O., Antonio Cromartie, Jose Lima) and entertainers (Lil Wayne, Flavor Flav) fathering multiple kids with multiple women. Is this a case of dysfunctional life imitating art? Again, I don't know, nor do I give a sh*t. I just know that I'm tired of the ignorance and I'm tired of the irresponsibility.<br />
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There's a trend/mentality in many (mainly poverty stricken or poverty stricken influenced communities) where men and women accept the multiple father/mother family structure as a norm. It isn't a norm, especially since kids deserve a chance to be raised in the best possible environment.<br />
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A child enduring a fatherless or father-absent environment begets all sorts of child development obstacles ranging from attachment issues, abandonment, abuse and neglect. The child becomes a product of their environment. Raised in an inherently dysfunctional environment is traumatic and while some of those children may succeed, many unfortunately, sans positive intervention, won't have much of a chance to succeed.<br />
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There's nothing wrong with single parenthood when the parent is willing and capable of raising children (and believe it or not, while having ample finances is a factor, it is not the deciding factor of a single parent's capability). <br />
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However, unless there is a serious effort to attack the issue of irresponsible parenthood...these stories continue and the decimation of family (as we know it) continues as well. The Desmond Hatchett story, I'm afraid, isn't over. <br />
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Hopefully, your mother was around you throughout your developmental years. As a toddler, she cleaned you when you couldn't clean yourself (even after you finally ate the pureed green peas), she dealt with your five year old twin sister's death threats, as a teenager, she kept away from the den as you "studied" with your first romance, then just when you were about to make your move, she'd knock on the door, right? Yeah, those were the days. <br />
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My mother is a family person...her faith in family is superceded only by her faith in God. Even when, as a family, we weren't as cohesive or as together as she envisioned (maybe she didn't take into account the strength of the egos she raised), she kept the faith, belief and (while I'm sure it was trying) the love. One day seems wildly insufficient to recognize mothers everywhere. Internationally, mother's day celebrations occur on dates usually affiliated with springtime. In the United States, Anna Jarvis, a Pennsylvania social worker, began the concept of Mother's Day in order to memorialize her deceased mother in 1907. Ms. Jarvis refined the concept and fought for its national recognition in 1914 (thanks Wikipedia).<br />
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Mother's day is the hallmark for our undying love and appreciation for the sacrifices, joys, maternal bonds and fulfillment of motherhood. While capitalists attempt to replicate its spirit with candy, flowers, jewelry, amongst other material goods...at day's end, no matter how touching the material representation, a mother's love dwarfs any material gift one can possibly provide. Should you find a material item which provides that love, you might want to take a DNA test...or patent the item (might as well profit from the dysfunction). <br />
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Happy Mother's Day to my mother, and moms everywhere.</div>The Afro-Elitisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864226988193563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058605246300319856.post-57812391190791742662012-05-06T01:23:00.000-04:002012-06-24T13:43:58.747-04:00My response to the N-Word? Find a new slur already!!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The first time a non-Black person called me the n-word, as a fourteen year old, during a evening walk with my older brother in Freeport, a suburban Long Island, NY town, I remembered. Up until the year before, my family lived in predominantly-Black/Puerto-Rican Jamaica, Queens, with limited personal access to Euro-Americans (Italian grocers, teachers, my mother's job, going to a shopping mall). There wasn't an opportunity to walk in a predominantly Euro-American neighborhood at night. In Freeport, the opportunity presented itself.<br />
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The evening my brother and I walked down a dark Freeport, N.Y. street, a red, early 1970's Ford Mustang drove past and with windows rolled down, the Euro-American dudes inside screamed nigger!...my brother replied with his middle finger and I just stood there in shock, the Ford Mustang sped away. Up until that time, flagrant n-word usage around friends (my parents didn't tolerate its use around them) lit up my vocabulary. After that night, I reconsidered my n-word usage, and ceased using the n-word soon thereafter.<br />
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According to dictionary.com (<a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nigger">n-word defined</a>) , the n-word definition leads with <span style="font-family: inherit;">"T<span id="hotword" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; position: static;"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #0055bb; cursor: pointer; position: static;">he</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default; position: static;">term</span> </span><span class="sc" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-variant: small-caps;"><span id="hotword" style="position: static;"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default; position: static;">nigger</span> </span></span><span id="hotword" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; position: static;"> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="position: static;">is</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="position: static;">now</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="position: static;">probably</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="position: static;">the</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="position: static;">most</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="position: static;">offensive</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="position: static;">word</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="position: static;">in </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default; position: static;">English." I disagree. While its usage seems egregious and frequent, the n-word has turned cliche'.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; position: static;"><span name="hotword" style="cursor: default; position: static;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; position: static;"><span name="hotword" style="cursor: default; position: static;">This week's news alone, featured twittered n-word Boston Bruin fan responses to Joel Ward's winning playoff hockey goal, a deep south bar owner's Obama gripe, as well as NY Post's Phil Mushnick Jay-Z/Nets critique. Hell, living in NYC, I heard many Dominicans (amongst other brown and black so-called minorities) take ownership of the n-word as if they endured picking antebellum South Carolina cotton fields.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; position: static;"><span name="hotword" style="cursor: default; position: static;">When does it end? What is the n-word tipping point? Is Malcolm Gladwell interested in finding out? Well if he doesn't, I daresay the tipping point is here. Doesn't the recent flurry of n-word usage strike you as a haggard, tired, outdated expression? </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">It is safe to assume most of the people using the n-word hatefully know little about Black History, so what makes them experts on African-American or Black (African diaspora) people?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; position: static;"><span name="hotword" style="cursor: default; position: static;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; position: static;"><span name="hotword" style="cursor: default; position: static;">There was a time the n-word meant something, when an African-American man or woman shook in anger, fear, or (unfortunately) subservience at the mere utterance of the word--responding to its use was a call to serious activism. Now while its use results in the rare job firing, the usual reaction is nothing more than smh's and empty apologies. If you are a racist seeking to hurt me, get creative, find a new slur, attack me personally, individually. All y'all n-word users went to the well one too many times!!! I'm over the n-word, and while my personal preference is to not use it in my vocabulary, it lost its power to denigrate (I used that word on purpose) me.</span></span></span><br />
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As The Afro-Elitist blog began back in 2008, I had no idea how much time, effort and energy it took to construct several paragraphs of prose concerning topical subject matters which personally appealed to me. Hence my sporadic production of the blog. Further, the overwhelming task of producing quality vs quantity requires a herculean commitment to being true to oneself combined with creativity. Journalistic integrity for a non-journalist was quite challenging, it still is. <br />
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Over the last year, I've moved from the first city to the second city, lost the loves of my life, one a romance and the other and a film project I spent years producing, gained perspective on humanity, and enrolled in a master's program in social work. <br />
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While my progressive politics flavor the commentary, there is no concentration on politics, business, music, film, media, celebrities, sports or gossip...so it will be a mixed-bag of topics, with a common sense approach. Hopefully the topical scope broadens as well. You won't always agree with me, and that's embraced. Don't take this blog so seriously either...have fun with it. I pledge to respect your time by producing provocative, inspiring, fun, material. Will I produce consistent material? Only time will tell. Thanks for your time.<br />
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Cheers y'all,<br />
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PS - Heeere's Obama is my only 2012 post...the remaining posts are at least a year old...they're still good, just old. Don't judge me.<br />
<br />The Afro-Elitisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864226988193563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058605246300319856.post-74951857182261222292012-05-03T21:48:00.002-04:002012-05-04T11:42:33.787-04:00Heeeere's President Obama<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There's an African-American POTUS, his name, Barack Hussein Obama. Unless you've been hanging with a lost Amazonian tribe over the last three point five (3.5) years, you know this {for the remainder of this post, he'll be the African-American POTUS, or simply POTUS}. But the concept of this POTUS just sunk in for me. It's probably not too bright to pose this question either...Did you know there is racism in the US?<br />
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Yup, maybe the racism is not the good ol' fashioned cross burning, drinking from the colored water fountain, sitting on the back of the bus, plessy v. ferguson (separate, but equal) type of racism, but it is there. Since the civil rights era ended in the 70's, we've been in the "de facto" racism era. De facto, Latin for "by the fact," provides the definition and its etymology. However, contemporary American politics provides the canvas for the less-than-artistic POTUS treatment. From politicians to pundits, our African-American POTUS receives some unprecedented rude-ass treatment...and unfortunately, some of this has to do with the hue of his skin.<br />
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For my friends who are not African-American, but are my friends regardless, I would put it this way: your car breaks down in a rough section of town (where you are the "minority"), and chances are, you'll survive the experience. Yet, there's that uncomfortable anxiety...someone will recognize you're different and because of it, the majority will target you in an antisocial manner prior to you getting the hell out of there! <br />
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Well, since his 2008 campaign our POTUS's vehicle broke down in a rough section of town called Washington, D.C. Everyone knows he's different. So far, he's surviving his antisocial welcome...ranging from the "birther" movement, to his "improper vetting," to Ted Nugent's anarchist rant regarding our POTUS's re-election, to the so-called "ex-girlfriend" controversy...and despite the GOP efforts to derail him personally and politically, our African-American POTUS somehow takes it in stride.<br />
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The POTUS uses last weekend's 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner (aka the "nerd prom") as a cool-ass sounding board. That's the same dinner, where in 2010, our POTUS put the smackdown on Donald Trump's political aspirations (anyone, other than Mitt Romney taking the Donald seriously since?). If his African-American POTUS reelection doesn't pan out, at least he can give Chris Rock a run for his money in the stand-up comedy game...I'm sure he's compiled quite a bit of material. Some recent POTUS punditry below (mostly pro-POTUS)...<br />
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Could I, in my current human incarnation, become Charlie Sheen? Could I host drug-fueled porn star orgies, publicly berate my corporate bosses and attempt to sue them, flagrantly flaunt my two objectified, nicknamed porn star girlfriends around my kids, and have my greedy-ass corporate bosses ask me to return? Imagine, I arrive at my return-to-work negotiations with the greedy-ass corporate Board of Directors and their opening statement is..."Mr. Afro-Elitist, your job awaits, we missed you while you were out fucking porn stars and drinking Tiger Blood...oh, and by the way, we're raising your compensation." Hey, that's not so unlikely, is it? There are complications, my skin-hue and socioeconomic status amongst them, but the biggest complication of them all...I'm not the cash cow. </div>
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These crazy 17 to 19 y.o. kids, from Tyler <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">the </span>Creator, Hodgy Beats,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Domo Genesis, Mike G, Frank Ocean, Left Brain, The Super 3, Sid tha Kyd, Jasper Loc,Taco Bennett to the board</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">i</span>ng-school</span> attending Earl Sweatshirt...bring an national honor society vocabulary, lethal lyricism and next level visuals which make Eminem's seem like they're a product of your local Archdiocese (see Tyler the Creator in the compelling, eerie, disturbing "Yonkers"-link below) and a varied cast of talented characters channel the Wu meets MF Doom. <br />
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They're touring...and they introduced their horrorcore hip-hop brand to the Jimmy Fallon show. And to add to your hip quotient, they're already getting 2012 Grammy buzz...without a commercially released album. By the way, their full moniker...Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All. It's an Odd Future indeed.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hmm...chocolate infused with edible Laotian wildflowers, 1000 Siberian roses, lingerie woven from Venusian silkworms, a ten-carat Corinthian diamond (wink-wink CZ) ring, lingerie woven from South Pacific swimming caterpillars, heart-shaped clay adult toys crafted by Aleutian seven year olds, grass lingerie designed by Pigmy artisans, an impromptu South Pacific pig farming vacation...maybe? However, I'm sure your significant other would never guess this:</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/TVIOJhoUueI/AAAAAAAAAPA/sQA5Fr4E1eA/s1600/vagsteam.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/TVIOJhoUueI/AAAAAAAAAPA/sQA5Fr4E1eA/s400/vagsteam.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Just a lil bit more to the left please...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/korean/thanks1_kr.mp3" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">감사합니다</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">kamsahamnida (Korean for "Thank You")</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vaginal Steam Therapy ("VST") is coming to a Spa near you!!! Yes, Vaginal Steam therapy is sweeping the nation...oh, what is Vaginal Steam therapy, you ask? </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to a December 20th, 2010 LA Times article, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vaginal steam baths, called chai-yok, are said to reduce stress, fight infections, clear hemorrhoids, regulate menstrual cycles and aid infertility, among many other health benefits. In Korea, many women steam regularly after their monthly periods.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 20px;"><img alt="" height="1" src="http://articles.latimes.com/images/pixel.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="1" /></span> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And you have the privilege of accessing the world's most comprehensive VST info list this side of those folks/amateurs from Google:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/newest-spa-splurge-vaginal-steaming-2166958.html">THE INDEPENDENT (UK)</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>The Afro-Elitisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864226988193563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058605246300319856.post-39908031601502278062011-01-26T00:22:00.002-05:002011-01-27T23:41:34.421-05:00Social Networking Pet Peeves...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/TT-kfsA-wRI/AAAAAAAAAO0/YG6eSPklMN8/s1600/social-networks-logos.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/TT-kfsA-wRI/AAAAAAAAAO0/YG6eSPklMN8/s1600/social-networks-logos.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You're a member of one of these.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm a fan of the social networking phenomenon...and more than likely (especially if you're reading this) so are you. I get to spread my twisted lifestyle POV's, and distribute them to the masses, all from the comfort of my couch, securely located in Harlem, NYC. And I need no validation from anyone...cause it's my POV, you can read it, ignore it or whatever. But, when you receive the latest viral video from, oh, 700 Facebook friends...then something has to give...right? There oughta be a law, right? At the very least, some god damn etiquette...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'll begin with my pet peeve...Re: Facebook status posts...I'm not diggin' the minute by minute rundown of my life, so friends or no friends, your narcissism is wasted on my bleary, red eyes. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Readers, this is your open friggin forum...air your peeves, before I do. </div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /><input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /><br />
<div id="refHTML"></div>The Afro-Elitisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864226988193563noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058605246300319856.post-34722534580143672052011-01-09T22:27:00.001-05:002011-01-11T00:12:49.769-05:00Sense, It Ain't Common....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/TSpnurFIY6I/AAAAAAAAAOw/1-ovsjBYoXU/s1600/biggie+and+pac.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="204" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/TSpnurFIY6I/AAAAAAAAAOw/1-ovsjBYoXU/s320/biggie+and+pac.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Scoreboard- Dead Rap Legends: 2,<br />
Law Enforcement Investigators on the Case: Nada, Zero, Nothing.</div><br />
I got lots of love for both of the menacing looking cats above. If you read this blog, you know I carry much disdain for regurgitating well known history, especially tragic mid-nineties East Coast/West Coast hip-hop beef. So for the sake of saving us both SMH's, I'll assume you're familiar with it. And if you're not...LOOK IT UP!!!!<br />
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Reading CNN.com this week...a news item caught my eye...the headline read :<br />
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...oh, really???? Almost fourteen years later, this investigation "heats up". Really??? I'm puzzled, especially when there were, oh, dozens of people leaving the March 9, 1997 Vibe Magazine event, as Biggie caught lead. What happens if say, Harry Connick Jr., caught those bullets...anyone misses the shooter? Does the LAPD, somehow bobble the investigative ball??? Do I have to write a silly blog post to point all of this out???<br />
Read the foolishness for yourself:<br />
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</div>The Afro-Elitisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864226988193563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058605246300319856.post-78491664364521657412010-12-07T21:18:00.002-05:002010-12-08T19:54:41.140-05:00If I Could Live Forever...Hmmm....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/TP7l57-hQVI/AAAAAAAAAOo/9eHrYWtid5E/s1600/mickeyrourke.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/TP7l57-hQVI/AAAAAAAAAOo/9eHrYWtid5E/s1600/mickeyrourke.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>I dig your swag Mick, but you'd slurp Kim Kardashian's liposuction runoff to become Pope of Greenwich Village again. No worries Mick, science can save you the humiliation.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br />
</b></div>Don't know if any of y'all read about this, but Harvard scientists reversed the aging process in some lab rats. The rats were specially engineered to age prematurely and these Harvard (did I mention they were from Harvard?) scientists stimulated a gene (responsible for the aging process) and voila! 80 year old rats, regressed, oh, 30 years or so...restoring all sorts of cell functions, and physical activity, including virility (heh-heh).<br />
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Now you can read the article about this phenomenon...but I'm thinking of a few ways I can "game" this technology, despite no evidence of this breakthrough working on humans (but we know it's coming to a doctor, a very expensive doctor near you). Imagine the age paradoxes- if you can afford to pursue them!!!!<br />
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One age paradox came to mind...hmmm...Completely frustrate my son's friends by growing old, then " mysteriously disappear" for a year, or so...get the anti-aging treatment, then return as their next door neighbor...befriend him and his beautiful 25 year old model wife, charm her, then sleep with the model wife, then "mysteriously disappear" while the treatment wears off and attend their wedding anniversary party sporting a new nickname "Pops". Classic. Note to self: get a son...hmmm.<br />
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Anyone else think of some great or not-so-great "age paradoxes"? Please share or read about the anti aging tech below.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.voanews.com/english/news/science-technology/US-Scientists-Reverse-Signs-of-Aging-in-Mice-111123994.html">Age Regression Science!!!!!!!!!!!!!! </a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>The Afro-Elitisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864226988193563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058605246300319856.post-8195224306788874782010-11-28T00:32:00.002-05:002010-11-28T15:01:46.578-05:00Gifts We Dig...Kinda.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/TPHIel02ihI/AAAAAAAAAOg/qsgcmadcEP4/s1600/fushigi...ugh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/TPHIel02ihI/AAAAAAAAAOg/qsgcmadcEP4/s1600/fushigi...ugh.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Another sign the recession's over, Steven Seagal's barber-back in business.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So...it's Christmas, and you're tired of cruising retailers, or the web, for (fake or real) Louie V, I-Pad's, X-Box, and what-have-you. Or, you're still suffering recession blues and you can't afford anything over 30 bucks, soooo your options are pretty limited. There's no need to fear, the Fushigi (Fu-shee-gee) is here! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/TPHio8sq4lI/AAAAAAAAAOk/MDwBfyopSXw/s1600/fusigimullet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/TPHio8sq4lI/AAAAAAAAAOk/MDwBfyopSXw/s1600/fusigimullet.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>I get what you're sayin' dude..."Fushigi my nigi."</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">A Japanese word, "Fushigi" can mean "Mysterious/Wondrous/Magical" in different contexts (thanks Wikipedia).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> Consequently, none of these definitions relate to the "contact juggling" phenomenon called Fushigi.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> Do I stand corrected? (Predictable comment in 3...2...1) Hell to the effin no...but if you want to build a case for purchasing this rotating ball of...um...excitement...c</span>heck it out for yourself!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.fushigiball.com/default.aspx?MID=743177">Click here if Fushigi ball antics interest you</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div>The Afro-Elitisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864226988193563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058605246300319856.post-63126440568158564312010-11-22T00:22:00.005-05:002010-11-22T22:07:34.966-05:00Four Loko...for real!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/TOnn65IulnI/AAAAAAAAAOc/zUQJ3-vjHo0/s1600/four-loko.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/TOnn65IulnI/AAAAAAAAAOc/zUQJ3-vjHo0/s320/four-loko.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Unless you've lived in a collapsed Chilean mine shaft over the last several months, you've heard of this stuff. Alcohol (equivalent to 4 beers) + Caffeine, Taurine and Guarana (stimulants, heh-heh)...and this combo's blamed for a drunken melange of accidents, deaths, underage chaos and who knows what. Anyone from NYC's billionaire mayor Bloomberg, to the FDA has weighed in on the satanic brew. But has anyone thought of this...any alcoholic concoction coined not-so-cleverly, "Four" (or "For") "Loko" (or "Loco", Spanish for crazy), get it? "For crazy"...awful grammar in any language.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">There's several bodegas (corner convenience stores) in my hood that carry this Four Loko brew, so I decided to take one for my fans. So before its completely banned I would try this stuff, then chronicle it's effects on me...then I realized some brave individual (in this instance "brave individual" equals "attention whore") must've done this...so here he is, filmmaker K. Ryan Jones:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">...so Mr. Jones, your...um, film made "funnyordie.com"...why???<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Regardless, kudos for sacrificing your personal safety for the sake of art, you really put your life on the line, the ladies dig that stuff...warm regards, TheAfro-Elitist.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>The Afro-Elitisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864226988193563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058605246300319856.post-51262518359903238122010-11-07T01:07:00.000-04:002010-11-07T16:20:35.338-05:00Entertain Yourself...<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Every so often I take a day off from chuckling at reality to chuckle while I check out various internet programming (most of it is unmitigated crap, but you know that) and somehow I stumbled onto this cat, Nathan Fisher. I believe he's from the bay area. The production values are amateurish at best, but frankly, it didn't matter. I spent an entire Saturday evening watching his "Vlog" episodes. <br />
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I'm not going to say he's the next "thing", cause frankly, who the hell am I to determine that, but for a young dude, he's got his dry critique/sarcasm game down. No one, celeb, pseudo celeb, topical news, you tube/other online video network idiocy, or otherwise, is safe from this brother's wit.<br />
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Just remember I told you about him first...notwithstanding his thousands of YouTube fans.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=natesvlogs#p/u/8/upiW0DINZZc">http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=natesvlogs#p/u/8/upiW0DINZZc</a></div>The Afro-Elitisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864226988193563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058605246300319856.post-42188468873932738722010-11-04T20:28:00.016-04:002010-11-04T23:50:06.495-04:00Say Hello to the Bad Folk!!!<img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/TNN8n7RVpTI/AAAAAAAAAOE/wibangafjaE/s320/Yes-No-Maybe--Thinking-Hurts-Velcro-Patch-Black-on-White-side-800x800.JPG" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535905392335627570" /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>What's worse than knowing some Republican cats calling themselves the "Tea Party" caught the political attention of Americans across the country?</b></div><div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Kentucky's Senator-elect, Rand Paul? AKA...the anti - civil rights bill candidate (who, prior to election day, subsequently/conveniently clarified/softened his civil rights stance via press release)?</div><div><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/TNNoB2-7sXI/AAAAAAAAANs/piEzHeFgA9w/s320/Rand-Paul-what-now-289.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 254px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535882748117102962" /><div style="text-align: center;">Nooooo!!!!!</div></div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Defeated Ohio 9th district US Congressional candidate and weekend Nazi re-enactment participant, Rich Iott (second from right)?</div><div><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/TNN4PLQNWMI/AAAAAAAAAN0/15b4ShCZAvs/s320/wiking_resized.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 257px; height: 320px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535900569082616002" /><div style="text-align: center;">Nooo!</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Then what's the worse thing????</div><div style="text-align: center;">Tea Party campaign posters...aka....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>"Teabonics"</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/TNN9hh5FQhI/AAAAAAAAAOM/LzDB3iwRBCE/s320/gal_teabonics_14+(1).jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 234px; height: 320px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535906381955416594" /><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/TNNcnRD8s2I/AAAAAAAAANk/Hy5rasTEpkA/s320/gal_teabonics_3.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 222px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535870196633088866" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Stare at it long enough...and you'll get it.</div>The Afro-Elitisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864226988193563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058605246300319856.post-61926989668645320432010-10-11T23:03:00.008-04:002010-10-13T15:04:15.625-04:00From YES WE CAN!!! to YES WE CAN???<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/TLPc2c61cDI/AAAAAAAAANc/z4G20KRmSfE/s1600/commie+obama.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 236px; height: 213px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/TLPc2c61cDI/AAAAAAAAANc/z4G20KRmSfE/s320/commie+obama.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527003995747741746" border="0" /></a><br />Barack Hussein Obama, is still our president, right? Stupid question...of course he is. He's mine for sure. However, I've followed some presidential politics and I haven't seen such an outpouring of ridiculous accusations on a political figure, since...Jimmy Carter...who. mind you. was the last one-term US president in recent memory. From the questions of his citizenship, political affiliation (socialist, communist - see stupid photo above, anything but democracy), religion, and capability to lead...to a sore-loser, hostile House and Senate Republican minority (who's fighting hard to regain majority status), as well as recent inner sanctum staff changes...our beloved Prez has a long, bumpy political road to 2012...heavy is the head who wears the crown, huh?<br /><br />What does Obama need to do to return to the good graces of the fickle-ass voting public???<br /><br /><br /><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>The Afro-Elitisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864226988193563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058605246300319856.post-81230392933635117782010-02-12T00:22:00.005-05:002010-02-12T02:24:33.073-05:00A N--gga by any other name...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/S3TmLaUudkI/AAAAAAAAAMs/tCpYwKp5PIQ/s1600-h/john_mayer240.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/S3TmLaUudkI/AAAAAAAAAMs/tCpYwKp5PIQ/s320/john_mayer240.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437223733862233666" border="0" /></a>...smells just as sweet.<br /><br />What the deal John Mayer? The N-word (half your band is black)? White supremacist peenie? Jessica Simpson - sexual napalm?<br /><br />If a family member just started mumbling this in your crib...you'd taser them! Wouldn't you?<br /><br />Have certain white folk lost their minds? I have tons of multiculti friends, but I'm going on the record, I'm not cool with anyone, black, white, asian, hispanic (I'm dedicating different post to this altogether), indian or cablinasian (thanks Tiger) uttering the N-word...period.<br /><br />What's your take?<br />Does the N-word still radiate long hot summer-like cultural heat?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>The Afro-Elitisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864226988193563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058605246300319856.post-81793935971560114802009-07-08T19:51:00.020-04:002009-07-09T19:53:09.931-04:00Ode to a Family Icon...<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/SlUxFxYRxiI/AAAAAAAAAME/rsivzUwPZi4/s1600-h/ty.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356241307051345442" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; height: 274px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/SlUxFxYRxiI/AAAAAAAAAME/rsivzUwPZi4/s320/ty.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br />My Uncle Tyrone (Hubert "Tyrone" Martin) passed away June 29th, 2009. I attended his funeral today. The tears welled up, fell and rewelled. While Michael Jackson's death signifies the end of cultural icon, my Uncle Tyrone's passing signifies the end of a childhood icon.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>I spent early childhood in Jamaica, Queens during the Vietnam War era. My parents, Antiguan immigrants, while friendly to our neighbors, felt safe, like immigrants before them, with fellow Antiguan immigrants. My Uncle Tyrone and my Dad, late 50's immigrants, were thick as thieves. Their Polaroids remind me of their Golden Age, posed by shiny new American cars, at Hecksher Park/Sunken Meadow family outings, sometimes while they're on the road to Montreal, Toronto, or the Bronx. They wore the latest fashions, cigarette slacks and v-neck tops in the 60's, bell bottoms and vests in the 70's, looking like the West Indian Mafioso in a self conceived Shaft flick (how about Shaft in Antigua?). Our families had kids simultaneously, three of Uncle Tyrone's kids (Ira, Carmelita, and Tisha) were born virtually the same years my siblings were.<br /><br />As the 70's elapsed and the 80's took over, countless family events morphed the Cummings's and the Martin's into family...we didn't know or proclaim it, it just happened. Love and togetherness works like that sometimes.<br /><br />I was a college undergrad when Uncle Tyrone's first wife, Gwenneth, passed from cancer - I attended her funeral. It was the last time I remember the Cummings and the entire Martin family together. At that time, I didn't foresee the challenge adulthood poses to family cohesiveness.<br /><br />During my adulthood, I moved to NYC and my Uncle Tyrone visits became less frequent. Uncle Tyrone's kids had kids and the complexities of their adulthood (and mine) took hold resulting, much to my regret, to distance. Life works like that sometimes.<br /><br />I remember Uncle Tyrone's infectious laugh, his competitiveness (he hated losing, from bets to bowling), he was a firebrand, a proud family man, at times stern, he took no mess (ask anyone who knew him family, friend or foe - think about it, who knows a weak Tyrone), a hard worker, firmly opinionated, he never budged (no matter what anyone thought), a fierce Obama supporter. He was a surrogate Dad, I always felt invited in his home.<br /><br />Was he without fault, I'm sure he wasn't (and his faults aren't for me to share with you), but who isn't? As far as I knew, he succeeded as a man, he left his manhood on the table for everyone to see. I took notice. Especially in the latter stages of his life, he further embraced his family and God. I didn't know him as a person who verbally declares his love, but he'd show you.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">He showed me once more. Fall 2008, my Dad tells me Uncle Tyrone asked about me. I decided to make it a surprise, and instructed my parents to keep secret my attendance at the Martin's Thanksgiving dinner. For once my parents actually kept a secret.<br /><br />Excited, I joined the Martin clan for one more Thanksgiving. Uncle Tyrone was surprised, but didn't miss a beat in returning me to the safety and familiarity of family once more. We caught up and he acquainted me with a new generation of Martins (he remarried). Uncle Tyrone and I spoke for several hours, savored waves of West Indian/American cuisine - (sorrel, jonnycake, turkey/stuffing, curry beef, ambrosia), shared laughs and exchanged stories. I never knew it would be the last time I saw him alive. I realize now he possibly knew something I didn't. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>My Uncle Tyrone represents a withering patriarchal era. In an era where oftentimes men shun responsibility/manhood, he embraced manhood for all it stood for, and at the end, I believe he was at peace with it.<br /><br />I know this. I miss him already. An icon of my childhood died with him, but I'm buoyed by the memories. Rest well Uncle Tyrone, rest well.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden"> <div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden"> <div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden"> <div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden"> <div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden"> <div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden"> <div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden"> <div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>The Afro-Elitisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864226988193563noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058605246300319856.post-25690527087933470882009-06-28T09:55:00.007-04:002009-06-30T00:35:54.176-04:00Michael Jackson, plain and simple...<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/SkeDbe4L_TI/AAAAAAAAAL8/P0CmS9DiiIs/s1600-h/mj.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352391190321560882" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; height: 283px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/SkeDbe4L_TI/AAAAAAAAAL8/P0CmS9DiiIs/s320/mj.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><div></div><div align="center">A couple shock-filled days since MJ's death, I'm still stunned. While many remember MJ's legacy, music, where they were when he died, blah-blah-blah-blah...I remember the tug at my heartstrings whenever the press dug him a new asshole with...wacko-Jacko taunts, child molestation charges (which admittedly, had to be investigated, however the press exploited the story six ways to Sunday), hyperbaric chamber reports, Peter-Pan psychoanalysis...and to the press (some of you may be friends, family or acquaintances, I couldn't care less) FUCK YOU, that's right, as base and ignorant as that sounds, FUCK YOU, there I did it again...FUCK YOU (three times) with your tributes, 24hr coverage and breaking news updates. Go ahead media outlets, gloss over the child molestation charges all you want, but maybe you should repeat all your negative coverage in a split-screen alongside your so-called "tributes." Frankly, I'm tired of the hypocrisy. R.I.P. MJ, if you can.</div><div></div><div></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>The Afro-Elitisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864226988193563noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058605246300319856.post-64012047348803884692009-05-17T15:45:00.003-04:002009-06-02T19:21:09.127-04:00Entertain Yourself<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/SiWxp1uWJlI/AAAAAAAAALs/Qh7ldeJlEJc/s1600-h/thestimulist.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 175px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/SiWxp1uWJlI/AAAAAAAAALs/Qh7ldeJlEJc/s320/thestimulist.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342871865299183186" border="0" /></a><br />As conceived initially, who'd figure a clever, thoughtfully laid out website devoid of shameless self-promotion (The Daily Beast, Smoking Gun.com and The Huffington Post for the whites, Media Takeout, Bossip for the blacks), could inspire bookmarks. Hell, getting my close friends to visit The Afro-Elitist site requires extortion and blackmail threats.<br /><br />Apparently MSNBC's Carlos Watson (and The Stimulist's founder) is a serial optimist. I've clicked on this site every day since their mid-May launch. Who knew world, local, business, political, entertainment, and even health news, could be so god damn uplifting? Makes me want to change my tag line (insert thinly veiled sarcasm here).<br /><br /> Don't take my word for it, read the beta version of The Stimulist.com yourself. You'll see, and if this good news can't turn your negative ass on, god bless your betrothed.<br /><br />Check out the beta version (so that means the alpha version has...even more optimism?) for yourself:<br /><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thestimulist.com/#2">http://thestimulist.com/#2</a><br /></div><br /></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>The Afro-Elitisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864226988193563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058605246300319856.post-55105448784022302052009-05-01T10:14:00.043-04:002009-05-07T01:32:47.245-04:00A World of F**king Cheaters...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/SgJiQlxbHMI/AAAAAAAAALk/VN6bClD8rcM/s1600-h/Ethics.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/SgJiQlxbHMI/AAAAAAAAALk/VN6bClD8rcM/s320/Ethics.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332932945916927170" border="0" /></a><br /><div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">eth⋅ics [eth-iks]</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">–plural noun</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">1.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">(used with a singular or plural verb) a system of moral principles: the ethics of a culture.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">2.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.: medical ethics; Christian ethics.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">3.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">moral principles, as of an individual: His ethics forbade betrayal of a confidence.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">4.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">(usually used with a singular verb) that branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">Compare axiological ethics, deontological ethics.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">Origin: 1400–50; late ME ethic + -s 3 , modeled on Gk tà ēthiká, neut. pl.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">Synonyms:2. See moral.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"></span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Currently, ethics, the existence of, and its acknowledgment, fades into obscurity, especially if mixed with copious amounts of power, fame, and financial gain. But when my UPS guy quotes Sun Tzu's, "keep friends close, but enemies closer,"(he probably heard it from Michael Corleone) line, something is amiss.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Is this nation's collective consciousness overrun with distrust, fear, and paranoia?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">You be the judge as I roll out the carpet for A World of F**king Cheaters (in no particular order):</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"> </span></div></div><br /><div style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"> </div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Cheater!</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/SfunOIQFsxI/AAAAAAAAAKM/Vc_0P6JvDI8/s1600-h/george_louis_theodule_001.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331038445098087186" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; cursor: pointer; height: 315px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/SfunOIQFsxI/AAAAAAAAAKM/Vc_0P6JvDI8/s320/george_louis_theodule_001.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">George L. Theodule </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">From Haiti, with love...and twenty three million of your hard-earned savings in his pocket...known as S.Florida's Mini-Madoff. Read all about Papa fraud below:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/PersonalFinance/story?id=6581726&page=1">http://abcnews.go.com/Business/PersonalFinance/story?id=6581726&page=1</a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/PersonalFinance/story?id=6581726&page=1"></a> </div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Cheater!</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/Sfun-xKzHOI/AAAAAAAAAKU/UU1mhmJxLpY/s1600-h/bernard_madoff.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331039280715472098" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 203px; cursor: pointer; height: 320px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/Sfun-xKzHOI/AAAAAAAAAKU/UU1mhmJxLpY/s320/bernard_madoff.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Bernie Madoff </span></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> </div><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">If you don't know his exploits already...I rechristen you, "Bubble Boy/Girl". There are fifty to sixty billion reasons why he's single-handedly "out-Ponzied," Ponzi. Here's a new take on Madoff, courtesy of Madoff's secretary via Vanity Fair:</div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> </div><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 204, 255); font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2009/05/bernie-madoffs-secretary-spills-his-secrets.html">http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2009/05/bernie-madoffs-secretary-spills-his-secrets.html</a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"> </div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Cheater</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">!</span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/Sfuoh_k527I/AAAAAAAAAKc/fqarGvrFXHE/s1600-h/allenstanfordRKS_450x300.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331039885878483890" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; cursor: pointer; height: 214px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/Sfuoh_k527I/AAAAAAAAAKc/fqarGvrFXHE/s320/allenstanfordRKS_450x300.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Sir Allen Stanford</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Cricket's Mack Daddy, dazzled Antigua with his generosity. Stanford built a state of the art cricket field, spearheaded job development (via his commercial bank) and lucrative real estate development deals that lulled the former British colony asleep. Arguably one of the Caribbean's most corrupt islands (home of USSR ex-pats, off-shore banking, gambling and drug trafficking)...had no problem accepting the spoils of his alleged multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme. His system pimping's described below:</span><br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/17/sir-r-allen-stanford-bein_n_167605.html"><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);"></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/17/sir-r-allen-stanford-bein_n_167605.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/17/sir-r-allen-stanford-bein_n_167605.html</a><br /></div><div align="center"><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Cheater!</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/SfupJV5V0mI/AAAAAAAAAKk/FFQLsigP8mA/s1600-h/Gay+Arod.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331040561884680802" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; cursor: pointer; height: 218px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/SfupJV5V0mI/AAAAAAAAAKk/FFQLsigP8mA/s320/Gay+Arod.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">A-Rod</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Steroids. Nuff-said.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Whether you agree with steroids in sports or not, his bitchassness cheated on his wife, helped Madonna cheat on her husband, and if his punk-ass sits across me during a spades game, I'm going Bush on him with a preemptive strike.</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/07/national/main4782637.shtml"></a></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/07/national/main4782637.shtml"></a><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/07/national/main4782637.shtml"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;">http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/07/national/main4782637.shtml</span><br /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Cheater! </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/Sfu068yDu0I/AAAAAAAAAKs/Mqb0TAxzfy8/s1600-h/dannypang.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331053508764613442" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 230px; cursor: pointer; height: 172px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/Sfu068yDu0I/AAAAAAAAAKs/Mqb0TAxzfy8/s320/dannypang.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Danny Pang </span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Mr. Hand-Man (an "Enter the Dragon" reference) is Taiwan's Ponzi broker based in Cali. No stranger to lawlessness...ex-wife suspiciously murdered, his stepson sues Pang for life insurance proceeds resulting from the wife's death, siphoned funds from a former partner, all documented. His investment company supposedly used life insurance and real estate time shares to bolster client returns. Instead, private jets and a company sponsored Vegas trip occur. When no life insurance or real estate deals materialized, Pang openly admits scheme to an employee. Ping-Pang got served when the SEC recently busted him on alleged fraud charges.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://gawker.com/5231292/danny-pangs-last-gamble"></a><a href="http://gawker.com/5231292/danny-pangs-last-gamble"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;">http://gawker.com/5231292/danny-pangs-last-gamble</span></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div></div><br /><p align="center"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Cheater! </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/Sfu1PfCEfGI/AAAAAAAAAK0/casvyd9X9OY/s1600-h/raju_4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331053861555960930" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 250px; cursor: pointer; height: 250px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/Sfu1PfCEfGI/AAAAAAAAAK0/casvyd9X9OY/s320/raju_4.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Ramalinga Raju</span></p><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">This world famous financial chef's specialty isn't curry...he cooks books. Mr. Raju inflated outsourcing computer company Satyam Inc.'s figures larger than India's Gross Domestic Product...okay, that's a stretch, but Mr. Rama-lama ding-dong somehow made one billion dollars magically appear on Satyam's books. Now he's in hot water:<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="http://gawker.com/5231292/danny-pangs-last-gamble"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;">http://www.livemint.com/2009/05/03230315/Raju-may-be-charged-on-32-coun.html</span></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Cheater!</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/Sfu198sAdyI/AAAAAAAAAK8/2siKM-RHu5o/s1600-h/agape+world+nicholas+cosmo.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331054659790468898" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 317px; cursor: pointer; height: 230px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/Sfu198sAdyI/AAAAAAAAAK8/2siKM-RHu5o/s320/agape+world+nicholas+cosmo.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Nicholas Cosmo</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Greed is not-so-good in Long Island, NY. Cosmo allegedly nicked three hundred and seventy million dollars from investors who fell for promises of forty-eight to sixty percent gains in ninety days. One thing I can say for Cosmo is he certainly knows how to match.</span><br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><a href="http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1874283,00.html"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;">http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1874283,00.html</span></a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="ttp://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1874283,00.html"></a></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;"> </div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Cheater!</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/Sfu2d9RIrqI/AAAAAAAAALE/9d_yoWlC8lg/s1600-h/NormanHsu.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331055209702010530" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 215px; cursor: pointer; height: 320px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/Sfu2d9RIrqI/AAAAAAAAALE/9d_yoWlC8lg/s320/NormanHsu.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Norman Hsu</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">This Grecian formula dude's alleged sixty million dollar Ponzi scheme involved promising exorbitant returns to investors funding his so-called short-term small business financing. To disguise his scheme and raise his profile (two great attributes which go great together), he encouraged investors to donate to various presidential campaigns. Unfortunately, it didn't help. Hsu, fell prey to the authorities. </div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2008/2008-239.htm"></a><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1874283,00.html"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;">http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2008/2008-239.htm</span></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Cheater!</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/Sfu3LykD1PI/AAAAAAAAALM/wSOCnM3qdgo/s1600-h/barry-bonds-in-drag.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331055997102576882" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; cursor: pointer; height: 313px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/Sfu3LykD1PI/AAAAAAAAALM/wSOCnM3qdgo/s320/barry-bonds-in-drag.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Barry Bonds </span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Arguably the best professional ballplayer ever...on steroids...may have been the best without them too. Dude, I was on your side for a minute, but I just don't comprehend...you're the best player in the game, the head of Balco (aka, 'roids incorporated) basically implicates you as the Grand Poobah of steroid use...and you still act like you can change water into wine (retire already-no one's gonna sign you). Plus, this might be a stretch, but you're hiding something...</span><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1874283,00.html">http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6058605246300319856&postID=5510544878402230205</a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Cheaters!</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/Sfu3j0CegNI/AAAAAAAAALU/J7W-EILGkHw/s1600-h/sammysosaandmarkmcgwire.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331056409815449810" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 230px; cursor: pointer; height: 320px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/Sfu3j0CegNI/AAAAAAAAALU/J7W-EILGkHw/s320/sammysosaandmarkmcgwire.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Sammy Sosa &</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Mark McGwire</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">C<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">orked bat, steroid accusations, mysterious loss of English language mastery during a Senate subcommittee on steroid use...Sammy Sosa has done it all, while bopping 609 home runs...Partner-in-crime Mark McGwire bashed 583 home runs...used androstenedione to mask his steroid use, and subsequently lost his grasp of the English language as he pleaded the fifth when a Senate subcommittee inquired about his HGH and steroid use...feel free to read about both below:</span><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;" href="http://blogcritics.org/sports/article/sammy-sosa-is-the-second-greatest/">http://blogcritics.org/sports/article/sammy-sosa-is-the-second-greatest/</a><br /><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;" href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/joe_posnanski/02/18/mcgwire/">http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/joe_posnanski/02/18/mcgwire/</a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Cheater!</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/Sfu4F3OxUOI/AAAAAAAAALc/Qa3K5FZu64Y/s1600-h/clemens-needle.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331056994787872994" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 229px; cursor: pointer; height: 320px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/Sfu4F3OxUOI/AAAAAAAAALc/Qa3K5FZu64Y/s320/clemens-needle.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Roger Clemens</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">If Roger the Artful (truth) Dodger is one thing, he's consistent. Whether it's racist remarks concerning S.Koreans and Japanese during the 2006 World Baseball Classic, tossing a broken bat at the NY Mets Mike Piazza during the 2000 World Series, wishing Hall-of-Famer Hank Aaron was still in baseball so he crack him in the skull, adultery, his pregame ritual of rubbing Ben-Gay on his shriveled, steroid ravaged sperm sacs after a hot bath, denying his alleged HGH and steroid use to a Congressional committee, despite an Everest-sized mountain of evidence, need I go on (this is tiring)...he's consistently a self serving, egomaniacal asshole. Click below for more on this class act:<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><a href="http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feature/roger-clemens-lies"></a></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feature/roger-clemens-lies"></a></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><a href="http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feature/roger-clemens-lies"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feature/roger-clemens-lies</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">.......</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">This list, despite its length, can go on, on, and on, 'til the break of dawn. You know most of these people. Unnamed are suspect folks, like the nonperforming CEO/Managing Director of your company, or the senior executive who you can't quite figure out what their function/purpose is, the various commercial entities who charge their consumers more for less service (NYC Metro Transit Authority, anyone?)...if you had all day, I could continue. We're mired in land of the free, and the home of the cheat.<br /><br />Despite the global scope...each of the above fools were in some way shape or form, educated, trained, or influenced by the good ol' USA.<br /><br />Surprise, surprise, surprise!<br /><br />Don't worry UPS guy...I peeped you eying my girl, so I'm tying you to my friggin' ankle. 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Living Color, The Jamie Foxx Show, Collateral, Ray, second actor after Al Pacino to receive two acting Oscar nominations...an A-list cat, no doubt about it.<br /><br />I ain't gonna lie, I thought he might be taking it too far with the music career. "Party all the time," anyone?<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/SdE7eF7ehhI/AAAAAAAAAKE/XQaDM9svGfA/s1600-h/Party_All_the_Time.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ASWudfyPL7c/SdE7eF7ehhI/AAAAAAAAAKE/XQaDM9svGfA/s320/Party_All_the_Time.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319098023075022354" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Don't laugh, if you're 35 or over, you know you have this album somewhere.</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Jamie Foxx somehow avoided this fate, and while this may be late, as a hit song, I have to give "Blame It" its credit. I'm dancing with Wanda Jackson right now, damn it!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">As for the video, well, Hype Williams, I can't give credit. You can blame it on the l-l-l-l lack of creativity. Anyone tired of the popping bottles, pimpology, and primping chics??? Jake Gyllenhaal??? Ron "Opie" Howard??? (Alright, I ain't gonna lie, he did look kinda slick). A dancing Panda???</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Click below to experience the alcohol fueled madness for yourself:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYc875zkDxg&feature=channel">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYc875zkDxg&feature=channel</a><br /></div>The Afro-Elitisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13504864226988193563noreply@blogger.com0