GOP Governors disagree with their own party on stimulus

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Vermont's GOP Governor Jim Douglas is one of many GOP governors who are pushing for Obama's stimulus package.

According to a story on MSNBC.com, GOP governors would love some stimulus money to help their state's economically strained budgets.

Read the whole story HERE.

VIDEO: A More Open White House

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Steele is RNC Chair, it's time to consider becoming a black Republican!

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Black Republican Recruit: [JUST FOR FUN]

"Maybe it’s time you considered being black Republican. As a black Republican, not only will you be accepted, you will quickly rise to the top as your party will need you to be an important face for the Republicans, even if you’re dangerously unqualified. The Republican Party is the party of Lincoln and freeing the slaves is a position we’ve chosen to stand by."



Thanks to The Message Show for this:

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Steele [ing] Obama's Style

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Jockin' Obama, Jockin', Jockin' Obama like they do Jay-Z!!!!!



In order to gain back some of the minority vote the RNC elected Michael Steele as the first African American to chair their party's national committee.

In his acceptance speech to RNC chair Friday evening, Michael Steele sounded a lot like President Obama. But since Obama already coined some things like the word 'change,' he had to play with words.

"It's time for something completely different and we're gonna bring it to them," Steele told RNC leaders in his acceptance speech. "We're going to bring this party to every corner every board room every neighborhood every community and we're going to say to friend and foe alike 'we want you to be a part of us. We want you to work with us' and for those of you who wish to obstruct, get ready to get knocked over."

In addition to that, Steele ironically employed DNC chairman Howard Dean's 50-state strategy (which Obama later adopted) calling on uniting people from all over the U.S. map.

"To my friends in Northeast, get ready baby it's time to turn it on and work to do what we always do well and that is win. We're going to win again in the Northeast, were going to continue to win in the South. When we get to the West we're gonna lock it down and win there, too. We're going to win with a new storm in the Midwest.

Again, he emulated Obama when he called for a group effort and said he was listening to the people. "I cannot do this by myself," he said, echoing Obama almost verbatim. "This is about empowering you. We stand proud as the conservative party of the United States, the party of Lincoln. We will cede no ground on matters of principle on matters that matter to people of this country."

On the Corner

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In the 'hood on the corner there are kids on the block running work to dope to the fiends with dark hollow eyes. They know "crack kills" but not literally. The fiends keep coming back with their last and only dollar asking for a rock. Crack heads from the 1980's and 1990's are still roaming the streets physically alive and breathing, but resembling zombies in their dirty, torn, oversized coats and threadbare pants stumbling around, skin and bones constantly pursuing their next hit. Because of them there will always be a demand. Because of them there will always be a supply.

The kids on the corner know how to cook crack and sell it, but they won't touch the stuff. It's a job.

Sometimes outsiders wonder why these kids aren't in school. Do they know that just by hustling fiends on the block one could make enough money to buy clothes and food and candy still go to the movies on opening night?

There's a kid in his drab middle school uniform walking down the street with dreams of nice cars but so far the school has given him tattered books. The dope boy rides by in a jag and the kid turns his head, eyes follow the shiny car down to the end of the block at he abandoned house.

The kid walks down Jefferson wondering if the Warren boys are going to beat on him today. He gets homeand calls his friend on the block. "Let's get money."

He's not going to school tomorrow.

VEGGIE PORN: PETA would rather hurt women than animals

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Apparently NBC banned a PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) ad that was supposed to run in Sunday's Super-bowl because it featured young women clad in nothing but panties and bras powerless to sexuality of ... Veggies? Yes. They are using the traditional woman" woman-as-sex-object" tactics to make those football-fiend, red meat loving, misogynistic men can associate porn with vegetarianism? What?

I shouldn't be surprised now. I guess this isn't the only "veggie love" PETA has made. Read more about it HERE.

Check it out:

Did Nas diss Obama?

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JUST FOR FUN:



Nas says on Young Jeezy's song "My president is Black":

"Mr. Black President, yo Obama for real
They gotta put your face on the five-thousand dollar bill"


As soon as I heard that I couldn't help but think: if the 5,000 dollar bill comes into existence under Obama's presidency, then I'd forecast tough times ahead. Think about the inflation that would have to occur before we see the need for a printed $5,000 bill? The value of the dollar would have to seriously plummet. Ouch. I hope neither Obama's face nor anyone else's will ever appear on a 5,000 dollar bill. I hope the need for such a bill will never reach the point of printing one.

If Nas is right, here's an economic tip: buy gold & jewels

Sorry, Nas, but I beg to differ on this one.

Truth or Dare Stories

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Game Rules:



When my brother and I were kids we used to play a storytelling game. The game involved a series of imagined stories acted out by real characters. In fact, the characters were ourselves.

Taking turns, each of us would create a scenario and place the other in that scenario.

For example:
I'd make up a scenario where my brother was walking down the street with a basket full of eggs and make him trip and fall in the story, breaking all the eggs break all over himself in front of a girl he had a crush on. In my story, she turns and starts laughing at him.
What does he do next?

At any point the person who is telling the story (in this case it would be my turn) can say, 'truth or dare, stories' and (in this case) my brother would either have to tell the truth about how he'd get out of that situation, or take a story dare which means the I would dare him to do something crazy in the story, making the situation worse and more awkward and embarrassing, (such as run down the street smearing the raw eggs on the girl he thinks is cute , etc. ). Usually it something really embarrassing that will be part of the story-line/plot from then on (that means at any point in the story it can be referenced). But the dare can be something funny, nice ... anything. It just gives you a power-play on where to take the plot. Everything that happens in the story except a dare is negotiable with the storyteller.

The more players, the more interesting the stories get. Your combined imaginations will take you on a strange adventure. You're only limited by your imagination.

Have fun with it! As Oscar Wilde put it, "consistancy is the last refuge of the unimaginative."

Obama's "New Deal" is a big deal

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Obama has big plans. He's calling for a mass recovery of United States infrastructure.

You'll never win "the war on drugs" because ...

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Shhh. It's no secret:

Dope boys ride nice cars.

"What happened?"

"Move, nigga, they shootin'!!"

No running water, I'd put my ass in the bag and take a shit.

Dope boys ride nice cars.

We move when they're shooting

Keep coming out of that house and going back in.

What corporate culture am I missing?

smirking in satisfaction

at my

transformation into a "hood rat"

so

What's the story here?

Detroit Mayoral Race Tibit:

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A close and credible source has confirmed that mayoral candidate David Bing just moved to Detroit last Wednesday. He moved into a new Riverfront condominium, a luxury complex on the Detroit River.

Little house in the 'Hood

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It's a grey winter evening, dark before 5:00 p.m. the unplowed street are hard to drive on without getting stuck. But I'm not complaining. I see the woman n the street ahead of my snow-choking car trudging through the snow and wind, her coat with the fur around the hood can't hide her face from this zub-zero wind. It's so hot in my car I take my hat off and bake in my coat. I start to wonder why I was so finicky about the streets being plowed.

Living a modest lifestyle, Life in Detroit isn't so bad. All things considered -- the deficit, the public school system, the blight issues, the unemployment rate and the abysmal football team it might seen like the works place to live. But Detroit offers some merits unique to major us cities.


To someone who lived their life in the Metro Detroit suburbs, the city of Detroit (except for downtown and small areas of concentrated wealth) is like a different country. My suburban friends who visit me experience culture shock. When they arrive on my doorstep they're jumpy, scared of their own shadow. The funny thing is, my city friends who visited me in the suburbs have the similar reactions: uneasy, self conscious and defensive.

I'm not one to talk. It was this time last year that I, too, came to my new doorstep with a sense of unease, half expecting to find the inside of my house ransacked, or, worse yet, an uninvited person still inside. I'd look over my shoulder to make sure there was no one behind me, waiting for my to unlock the door.

I still look over my shoulder and keep a light on in the front hallway but it's not out of fear. In fact, over the year I have never had any problems and neither have my neighbors. But now caution is just part of my routine like shoveling snow or raking leaves. Living in Detroit taught me that being aware of my surroundings doesn't mean paranoid or afraid. Wherever you are in the world, it's always important to pay attention to detail.

Over the past few decades Detroit's national reputation has been marred, perhaps since the 1967 riots and the decline of the auto industry. But the past year was an exceptionally rocky road one for the motor city: the mayor's in jail, the Detroit Three auto companies groveled in front of Congress for federal "bailout" loans, the unemployment rate skyrocketed to 30 percent, the city's unstable government put city bonds in "junk" status, the public schools face a $400 million deficit without a superintendent (they fired her), The Detroit Lions made history as the worst football team EVER ... the list goes on and on.

On a more personal level, I met Detroit Public School (DPS) teachers about not having basics like toilet paper, heat or lights in classrooms. My car gets stuck in the often because the city doesn't plow most streets, the bus system is abysmal, the one I tried to get on this summer caught on fire. In the span of a year, I've had four friends get robbed, get their house or car broken into (my car was broken into), an acquaintance was shot dead, In the summer the weeds grow taller than me in my neighborhood, I drive by block after block of abandoned houses everyday. I'm not shocked or nauseated anymore when I spot bloated bodies of pit bulls rotting on the side of the streets in the fall ... That list goes on, too.

That said, I have only respect and admiration for the city. I'm still a newcomer to the city and I still feel that there is so much to learn. I plan on hanging

discovered the Detroit beauty supply, that I navigated my errands (poorly) around Detroit's East side and grew a tougher skin so that the deepely disturbing sights on the streets didn't ruin my day. It's the time of year that I get the annual winter blues and start having to remind myself why, of all places, I chose Michigan to spent my early 20s in. January is the coldest month and quite possibly the worst time to live in Michigan and it happens to be the month of my birthday, so I have to make the best of it.

Everyday I am reminded of Detroit's crippled state: The unplowed streets (I get stuck in the snow a lot), the untrimmed grass in the summer (It grows taller than me in some places) and I'm 24 today, one year closer to old age. I feel one year older, one year wider and immeasruable smarter. I love Detroit. Here's why.

There are some things money can't buy. The feeling o

Eastern MArket
Beauty Supply
Goat Milking, piggy wiglet, Jackson, the chickens,
Kids (PJ & the babies)
Bert's Market
Art
Kt & the artitis
Belle Isle
People (rhymes, uniqueness, funny)
Freedom
Machete/peach trees
Seldom Blues
U of M game
Rent
Neightbors/friends
Hood smarts
Playing in the rain
fall party
Mexicantown
Canada

Det. Mayoral Candidate Warren Evans: "Public Safety is the biggest problem."

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Detroit mayoral candidate and Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans spoke to a group of 12 senior citizens at a retirement home on Detroit's East Side on Monday afternoon [MLK day].

He addressed issues such as blight, employment, and budget but his main focus was public safety and policing techniques.

Here's the transcript from Evan's half hour speech to the Detroit senior voters.



I’m a third generation Detroiter. In 1910 my grandfather came here. [Studied in Detroit from Elementary school through law school].

If you haven’t lived the life that people in the city live, then you don’t really know what the problem is really. [Detroit is] so bad now I don’t think many people realize how good it could be. Everybody talks bout “the good old days.” I know in my life I’m looking for the god days.” “Even when this city was a better city it wasn’t better for us as black people.”

Public safety is I think the biggest problem. People in the city have got to feel safer. People would like to have the wheels on their car or their car when they go somewhere. Not only are taxes high bit you can’t get the police to respond when you call them.

I’ve been involved in criminal justices for 30 years. I’m not running for police chief, I’m running for mayor, but one thing you can be sure of is that I understand the language a police chief talks. When I hire a police chief nobody can blow smoke past me because I understand the business.

It’s important to understand that that’s not all I can do. I do other things in the city. [Mentioned his career as a Lawyer, college professor.]

The people that have the money to get out of Detroit go. No city is going to get better like that.
Usually the commitment is to fix up a downtown and bring in a Quicken. But when you bring in a company with a tax abatement so they don’t have to pa tax because they’re bringing jobs in … but when you watch in the morning people get off the freeway from the suburbs and go to job and they go home at the end of the day they haven’t done any business in the city. We need to look very seriously. What are we doing for.

The future of the City is in building up the neighborhoods. Property value of homes is higher because there’s a neighborhood. We don’t have that value now. Everywhere in the country 60 or 70 percent of all job are new jobs created in this country are new jobs created in what are called small businesses. In those small businesses, some of them might have 500 people in it but small compared to a General Motors.

I’m hoping auto companies … rebound but they will never be what they once were. So we’ve got to have safe neighborhoods. If we have safe neighborhoods people will start those business. See everything in my mind goes back to public safety.
I’ve been a professor for 20 years but I can’t go in there and turn the schools around academically. After talking to hundreds of teachers and hundreds of students [I found that] kids are scared to go to DPS and teachers are scared to teach. I don’t care what you do to the curriculum, if the kids aren’t comfortable in class and teachers aren’t comfortable teaching so even the biggest problem f DPS is public safety.

The mayor can do that. That doesn’t mean take over the schools. The mayor’s job is to protect the citizens. It’s not a pipe dream.
The police need to start responding to complaints. Let me tell you a little secret about how that operates before I tell you what the solution is . You also read articles that say crime is down. None of us are probably rocket but are smart enough to know crime is not down, right. The reason they can say it’s down is that crimes are is counted by reports. If they never come out to take the report it never happened. But the crime did happen. The most basic answer is to use common sense.

Every shift in Every district of the City of Detroit when an off comes on duty he has a list of all the other rounds that the shift before him never got to . So he or she starts out the day going around to 20 other places trying to catch up. When you’re catching up you’re not policing. Why waste two police officers in a scout car to go catch up? Why not have one person call the home owner, talk to him and go and get a report when you can and let the police officer in the police car protect you? I mean that’s what you want them to do. It is basically that simple to get started. Which is something you can get started on the next day. And then you start bring another police officers.

Leadership. Start using reserves. There are a lot of reserves in this city who volunteer their time to help the police dept. I’ve got people in my reserves that fight Internet crime. They spend their time chasing child predators. That makes them feel good. They come back to work because they provide something of value because I ask them to do something of value. But they do not get used appropriately.

Everybody’s gonna tell you they gonna fight crime. The question is when have you done it before and how have you done it? And if you’re so good at it how come you didn’t you fix it when you were office before?
If you go back and you believe that as a Sherriff I’ve done a good job. Don’t accept that has he’s a good sheriff he can’t do anything else. You pay me to do another job I’ll do a good job at that. Teaching 20 years, practicing law I work hard at what I do. We’re broke we messed up.

There are a lot of people running – business people other people now I’m not knocking anybody but I’m the only elected CEO in this race. You vote for me to run an organization. I’m not out chasing crooks all day. I wish I was ‘cause it’s fun. But that’s not what I do all day. I manage a $150 million a year budget and 1,200 employees. That’s what I do. It’s a small city. There are lots of city’s around here that don’t have that big a budget It would certainly be a promotion to running the city of Detroit but it’s the same, it’s apples to apples. I’m not running a private company that doesn’t have labor unions or state legislators and all those other people you have to deal with every day. I deal with them in good times and bad times.
I brought in $30-35 million in grants from the federal Govt. in the past 4-5 years. That’s federal grants. That’s not your tax dollars. You gotta go find ways to get money and move forward to do some stuff.

The city has a significant amount of money … Detroit has some money called neighborhood stabilization fund. And part of that money can be used to demolish buildings. We don’t have enough money to demolish them all, but one of my biggest pet peeves is that they don’t even use good judgment deciding what to tear down in the first place. I mean when the money comes I’ve seen them cut a contract with a vendor and then let him decide what houses he’s going to tear down. I want to tear down houses next to people who live in the community who got a burnt house next door to them. Get some of the abandon house out of the way so the kids can get to school. Even if you can’t tear them all down, prioritize the ones that are in the best interest of your citizens.

Let me just leave you with this. I’m a workaholic. And I don’t get Amnesia. If you see me later and it’s something I didn’t live up to then see me about it. I want my granddaughters to still live here. I don’t want my granddaughters all over the globe because they don’t want to live in the City of Detroit.

Nolan Finley: "Close ears to ... dead Palestinian Children""

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Detroit News editorial page editor Nolan Finley writes in his blog, [CHECK IT OUT HERE]

"Israel appears to be readying for a massive ground invasion of the terrorist infested Gaza Strip. Israel's success depends on its ability to close its ears to the worldwide outcry over dead Palestinian children.

Because there will be dead children. Already, children and other civilians are dying under the week-long barrage of Israeli bombs.
But Hamas terrorists are also dying, and that's what matters."


Wait a minute here. What in the world is this?! It's NEVER OK for kids to get killed no matter what the circumstances are. There are ALWAYS diplomatic ways of handling things and while Hamas is a terrorist group, it seems like Israel has taken up the idea that it you can't beat 'em you have to join 'em. I say that meaning Israel is now officially no better than a terrorist organization for killing innocent children. Nolan, do you have any kids? Would you offer them in a bloody sacrifice them for peace in the middle east? You're cold.

How do you measure a year?

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I have no idea. Maybe in love.