How To Send Text Messages Via Computer

SMS isn't just for sending text messages from one phone to another -- it's also a great way to get email messages on your phone.

Yes, you can get email on your phone! All you need to know is your cell phone's email address.

Most carriers have "SMS gateways" which take email messages from the Internet and deliver them to their customers' cell phones as SMS text messages. The trick is that you need to know what carrier the recipient's phone is on -- it's not enough to know their phone number. That's because the carrier determines what the email address of the receiving phone is going to be. For example, Cingular phones' address are all "something@cingularme.com" while Verizon phones are "something@vtext.com."

Sound complicated? It's not. All you really need to do is find your carrier in the list below, and then use the pattern shown there to figure out your email address. If you want to send email to a friend's phone, just ask them which carrier they use, and off you go!

(Note: For each carrier, I'll include a link to a page with more detailed information on how SMS works with that carrier, how much it costs, and where you can find more information. In the list below, just click any carrier's highlighted name to find out more.

SMS EMAIL ADDRESSES:

ALL: phonenumber@teleflip.com
Alltel: phonenumber@message.alltel.com
AT&T Wireless: (now Cingular): phonenumber@mmode.com
Boost Mobile: phonenumber@myboostmobile.com
Cingular: phonenumber@cingularme.com
Metro PCS: phonenumber@mymetropcs.com
Nextel: phonenumber@messaging.nextel.com
Ntelos: phonenumber@pcs.ntelos.net
Orange: phonenumber@orange.net
Sprint (now Sprint Nextel): phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile: phonenumber@tmomail.net
Verizon: phonenumber@vtext.com
Virgin Mobile: phonenumber@vmobl.com

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Rudy Ray Moore, 81, Dies

Rudy Ray Moore, 81, a Precursor of Rap, Dies
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Published: October 22, 2008

Rudy Ray Moore, whose standup comedy, records and movies related earthy rhyming tales of a vivid gaggle of characters as they lurched from sexual escapade to sexual escapade in a boisterous tradition, born in Africa, that helped shape today’s hip-hop, died Sunday in Akron, Ohio. He was 81.

The cause was complications of diabetes, his Web site said.

Mr. Moore called himself the Godfather of Rap because of the number of hip-hop artists who used snippets of his recordings in theirs, performed with him or imitated him. These included Dr. Dre, Big Daddy Kane and 2 Live Crew.

Snoop Dogg thanked Mr. Moore in liner notes to the 2006 release of the soundtrack to Mr. Moore’s 1975 film, “Dolemite,” saying, “Without Rudy Ray Moore, there would be no Snoop Dogg, and that’s for real.”

Most critics refrained from overpraising “Dolemite,” with the possible exception of John Leland, who wrote in The New York Times in 2002 that it “remains the ‘Citizen Kane’ of kung fu pimping movies.” The film, made for $100,000, nonetheless became a cult classic among aficionados of so-called blaxploitation movies — films that so exaggerate black stereotypes that they might plausibly be said to transcend those stereotypes.

Very little of Mr. Moore’s work in any medium reached mainstream audiences, largely because his rapid-fire rhyming salaciousness exceeded the wildest excesses of even Redd Foxx and Richard Pryor. His comedy records in the 1960s and ’70s — most featuring nude photographs of him and more than one woman in suggestive poses — were kept behind record store counters in plain brown wrappers and had to be explicitly requested.

But Mr. Moore could be said to represent a profound strand of African-American folk art. One of his standard stories concerns a monkey who uses his wiles and an accommodating elephant to fool a lion. The tale, which originated in West Africa, became a basis for an influential study by the Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., “The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism.”

In one of his few brushes with a national audience, Mr. Moore, in a startlingly cleaned-up version, told the story on “The Arsenio Hall Show” in the early 1990s. Other characters he described were new, almost always dirtier renderings in the tradition of trickster stories represented by Brer Rabbit and the cunning slave John, who outwitted his master to win freedom.

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Levi Stubbs, of the Four Tops, Dies In Detroit

Detroit (WWJ) -- The lead singer of the Four Tops, Levi Stubbs Jr., died Friday (Oct. 17) morning at his home in Detroit. He was 72.

Stubbs had cancer and had a series of strokes. He stopped performing in 2000. Funeral arrangements are pending. He is survived by his wife Clineice and five children.

Stubbs (pictured second from right) was honored in 2004 on the group's 50th anniversary in music with an all-star salute in Detroit.

The Four Tops won international fame on Motown Records with the group\'s first hit, Baby, I Need Your Loving in 1964. A string of hits followed, including I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honeybunch), Standing in the Shadows of Love, Reach Out I'll Be There, Bernadette, It's The Same Old Song and Ain't No Woman (Like The One I've Got).

Stubbs and three of his friends, Obie "Renaldo" Benson, Lawrence Payton and Abdul "Duke" Fakir, started singing together at Pershing High School in the 50's and signed with Motown in the '60s.

With Stubbs' death, Fakir is the lone remaining member of the original group.

Notorious 2009 -Trailer - January 16, 2009

Grab your 40 and roll a blunt: The trailer for Notorious has finally hit the interweb. With Brooklyn rapper Gravy (née Jamal Woolard) playing Biggie and Derek Luke as P. Diddy, we can’t wait for this one. But will the film be a fitting legacy to one of the greatest rappers of all time? It’s hard to say from this teaser, which offers only a few glimpses of actual footage. Still, those glimpses are pretty awesome: Biggie as a little kid counting money? That pinstripe suit? Gold, Jerry, gold. On the other hand, the film is being released on Jan. 16, 2009 — historically a studio dumping ground. If it was really “sicker than your average,” wouldn’t Fox Searchlight drop it over Christmas? Only time will tell, but for now, the trailer holds us over after the jump.

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Tell McCain to End the Politics of Hate

Racism has not changed one iota from when at the age of eight I witnessed racism directed at an uncle. I saw the racism directed from the mind and mouth of the racist, which made me pity the source rather than the target. It was as if the racist was poisoned by his thought processes just as a poisonous reptile's venom is a part of the reptile. My uncle was a God-fearing, hard-working, righteous man who would pray for his haters. Why? When did we become hated so undeservedly? Maybe it's a case of "always hating the one you love!!!

Boogie Man - Lee Atwater

Mud Pies for ‘That One’
By MAUREEN DOWD
The New York Times
October 7, 2008

Some of John McCain’s friends, from the good old days when he talked straight, feared that his Greek tragedy would be that he would be defeated by George Bush twice: once in 2000, because of W.’s no-conscience campaigning, and again in 2008, because of W.’s no-brains governing.

But if McCain loses, he will have contributed to his own downfall by failing to live up to his personal standard of honor.

John McCain has long been torn between wanting to succeed and serving a higher cause. Right now, the drive to succeed is trumping any loftier aspirations. He cynically picked a running mate with less care than theater directors give to picking a leading actor’s understudy. And he has been running a seamy campaign originally designed by the bad seed of conservative politics, Lee Atwater.

It was adapted in 2000 in Atwater’s home state of South Carolina by Atwater acolytes in W.’s camp to harpoon McCain with rumors that he had fathered out of wedlock a black baby (as opposed to adopting a Bangladeshi infant girl in wedlock). Sulfurous Atwater-style rumor-mongering by Bush supporters — that McCain had come home from a Hanoi tiger cage with snakes in his head — aimed to stop him during that primary after he had zoomed in New Hampshire.

Atwater relished teaching rich, white Republicans to feign a connection to the common man so they could get in office and economically undermine the common man. In the 1988 campaign, the Machiavellian ran to help George Bush Sr. defeat Michael Dukakis with this unholy quintet of charges:

The Democrat was a ’60s-style liberal who would raise taxes and take away guns. He was weak and would not protect the country militarily. He was a member of the elite “Harvard Yard’s boutique.” He had a foreign-sounding name and was not on “the American side.” He was on the side of the Scary Black Man.

Sound familiar?

Certainly, at some level, John McCain must be disgusted with himself for using the tactics perfected by the same crowd that used these tactics to derail him in 2000. He’s now curmudgeonly, even hostile, toward the press — the group he used to spend hours with every day and jokingly describe as his base.

He unleashed Sarah Palin to slime their opponent and suggested that the Democrat with the foreign-sounding name who came from the Harvard Yard boutique is not on the American side.

Campaigning last weekend, Palin cast their Democratic rival as “someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.”

The woman is sounding more Cheney than Cheney. Palin said that Obama’s relationship with the former Weatherman William Ayers proved that he did not have the “truthfulness and judgment” to be president. Asked by William Kristol if the Rev. Jeremiah Wright should be an issue, she said, “I don’t know why that association isn’t discussed more.”

Atwater gleefully tried to paint Willie Horton as Dukakis’s running mate. With a black man running, it’s even easier for Atwater’s disciple running McCain’s campaign to warn that white Americans should not open the door to the dangerous Other, or “That One,” as McCain referred to Obama in Tuesday night’s debate. (A cross between “The One” and “That Woman.”)

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Richelle Shaw - How did you get into the telephone business?

Forty-year-old Richelle Shaw has a green thumb when it comes to turning a company into a mega-success. And it doesn’t matter if it’s a business she owns or someone else’s. For starters, finding out that more than 300,000 Americans lose their phone service each month because of missed payments was the premise for Shaw’s company.

As fate would have it, she built a multimillion-dollar company, and nowadays many fledgling entrepreneurs have her to thank for turning their businesses around. How-to advice can be found in her book, “How to Build A Million Dollar Business in Las Vegas Without the Casinos,” or you can check out Shaw’s coaching program. To read a free chapter of her book click here: FREE CHAPTER

No, this isn’t a sneaky sales pitch because Shaw isn’t your run-of-the-mill entrepreneur who turned to coaching to make a living. Quite the opposite, this single mom is incredibly successful in her own right and has a passion for helping others attain fame and fortune.

If you read the answer to the first question I asked her, you might be as curious as I was. And it takes a lot to get my attention. Bottom line, I just had to know. How can I be like Richelle?

Your six-employee firm reached $2.37 million in sales last year, what inspired you to start your company?

SHAW: I am the only female African-American public utility in the nation. I own FreshStart Telephone. I was dating three men in three different states and had a high telephone bill. I was selling advertising, and the vice president of a local telephone company asked me to come and work for them. I did–was promoted six times in five years and grew the company from $300,000 to $36 million. I ended up buying the company from my boss. Lost it all after the 9/11, World Trade Center tragedy and rebuilt it back to $1 million in about six months.

What is unique or special about your business that gives it an edge over your competitors?

SHAW: I understand how to market. The customers drive my business. Actually, the results from marketing campaigns drive my business. Not what I think, not what my friends or staff think.

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How Criminal Republican Operatives Steal Elections for Their Clients 1of3 (PBS NOW)

Check this video out! And, then, see the new documentary, "Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story." See: http://www.boogiemanfilm.com. It is an alarming fact of life that will open your eyes as to why things developed in this country as they occurred. Are things that are happening now a case of cause and effect, "you reap what you sow," or "chickens coming home to roost?"

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Baby Preacher

I wonder how many other babies there are to do this same thing! Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD.

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Obama In Prayer

This is the best photo of Obama and my peeps I have seen yet. I have never, ever, ever, ever seen a president or presidential candidate in humble prayer, not to mention while others are laying hands on for invoking the Holy Spirit’s blessing and protection! It is wonderful. It hints at the power of prayer, shows unity and oneness of purpose, and the presence of God… “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” Imagine this with Detroit’s mayor and the City Council!

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McCain: racist, bigot & homophobe

McCain: racist, bigot & homophobe

August 1, 2008 - 7:14am.

By DOUG THOMPSON

John McCain, a member of the House of Representatives in the mid-1980s, often held court at a table near the bar at Bullfeathers, a popular Capitol Hill watering hole, telling jokes and matching hangers-on drink by drink.

As a Capitol Hill chief of staff, I often drank at Bullfeathers and was invited to join the throng at McCain's table one evening. A few minutes listening to the racism, bigotry and homophobia of the Arizona Congressman told me all I needed to know.

McCain loved to tell jokes about lesbians, blacks, Hispanics and the Vietnamese community that occupied a large section of Arlington County, Virginia, just south of the District of Columbia.

Of course, McCain didn't use polite language in the jokes: He used names like "fags" or "queers" or "dykes" or "niggers" or "spics" or "wetbacks" or "gooks."

A typical McCain joke (overheard at Bullfeathers):

Two dykes are talking at a bar and one leaves. As she walks toward the door, the other watches her leave and says out loud: "God, I've love to eat her out."

Two men are standing near by and one turns to the other and says: "I'd like to do the same. Guess that makes me a dyke."

Or another (also overheard at Bullfeathers):

Question: Why does Mexican beer have two "X's" on the label?

Answer: Because wetbacks always need a co-signer.

(McCain has a documented history of lesbian jokes. He's also come under fire for other jokes about rape.)

Exampe:

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?

Because Janet Reno is her father.

Another example:

Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, ‘Where is that marvelous ape?’

When he ran for the Senate, I attended a gathering of GOP operatives at the National Republican Senatorial Committee where McCain outlined his campaign strategy:

I play to win. I do whatever it takes to win. If I have to fuck my opponent to win I'll do it. If I have to destroy my opponent I won't give it a second thought.

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The First Photos Of Brad & Angelina’s Twins

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's twin babies!

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U.S. Goverment Apologizes For Slavery

Look what God has wrought. After 140 years of denying reality and continuing vestiges of what was once a respected institution in America, slavery, as of yesterday July 29, 2008, was apologized for by the U.S. Government. Taking the risk of seeming ungrateful, I say, "It's about time." Now, with that aside, where's our 40-acres and that mule, promised for every formerly enslaved person sometime during the Emancipation Proclamation. During these days of soaring gas prices, a mule may prove to be invaluable for alternative transportation. This is a historic occasion as important as the original Emancipation Proclamation.

House formally apologizes for slavery and Jim Crow

By JIM ABRAMS – AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Tuesday issued an unprecedented apology to black Americans for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim Crow segregation laws.

"Today represents a milestone in our nation's efforts to remedy the ills of our past," said Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Mich., chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus.

The resolution, passed by voice vote, was the work of Tennessee Democrat Steve Cohen, the only white lawmaker to represent a majority black district. Cohen faces a formidable black challenger in a primary face-off next week.

Congress has issued apologies before — to Japanese-Americans for their internment during World War II and to native Hawaiians for the overthrow of the Hawaiian kingdom in 1893. In 2005, the Senate apologized for failing to pass anti-lynching laws.

Five states have issued apologies for slavery, but past proposals in Congress have stalled, partly over concerns that an apology would lead to demands for reparations — payment for damages.

The Cohen resolution does not mention reparations. It does commit the House to rectifying "the lingering consequences of the misdeeds committed against African-Americans under slavery and Jim Crow."

It says that Africans forced into slavery "were brutalized, humiliated, dehumanized and subjected to the indignity of being stripped of their names and heritage" and that black Americans today continue to suffer from the consequences of slavery and Jim Crow laws that fostered discrimination and segregation.

The House "apologizes to African-Americans on behalf of the people of the United States, for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim Crow."

"Slavery and Jim Crow are stains upon what is the greatest nation on the face of the earth," Cohen said. Part of forming a more perfect union, he said, "is such a resolution as we have before us today where we face up to our mistakes and apologize as anyone should apologize for things that were done in the past that were wrong."

Cohen became the first white to represent the 60 percent black district in Memphis in more than three decades when he captured a 2006 primary where a dozen black candidates split the vote. He has sought to reach out to his black constituents, and early in his term showed interest in joining the Congressional Black Caucus until learning that was against caucus rules.

Another of his first acts as a freshman congressman in early 2007 was to introduce the slavery apology resolution. His office said that the House resolution was brought to the floor only after learning that the Senate would be unable to join in a joint resolution.

More than a dozen of the 42 Congressional Black Caucus members in the House were original co-sponsors of the measure. The caucus has not endorsed either Cohen or his chief rival, attorney Nikki Tinker, in the Memphis primary, although Cohen is backed by several senior members, including Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. Tinker is the former campaign manager of Harold Ford, Jr., who held Cohen's seat until he stepped down in an unsuccessful run for the Senate in 2006.

The bill is H. Res. 194

Why Don't We Hear About This In The Media?

This is Naima Franklin, of Chicago, who was missing recently. Do you have any idea how many Black women go missing on a monthly and annual basis? Do you realize that the rate of women to go missing is so high that there almost has to be some sort of conspiracy going on to contribute to genocide by erasing young potential mothers and children before they have a chance? Some have been found; victims of foul play. Others haven't ever been seen again. What's happening here? I stumbled upon a Missing Black Women’s web site and decided to help alert everyone about this.

Click HERE for the website!

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Jena 6 Mychal Bell's Cousin Tasered By Police

Jena 6 Mychal Bell's Cousin Tasered By Police...Ruled Homicide...

Louisiana, US: Death of Man Tased Nine Times by Police Ruled Homicide

by Hiram Lee
July 27, 2008


A Louisiana coroner has ruled the January 2008 death of 21-year-old Baron Pikes at the hands of police was a homicide. Pikes, a sawmill worker from Winnfield, Louisiana, was killed while in police custody on January 17 after being shot nine times with a Taser gun.

Wanted on charges of drug possession, Pikes was approached by police, including Officer Scott Nugent, near a Winnfield grocery store on January 17. Police claim Pikes did not stop for them and a brief chase on foot ensued. Phillip Terry, an attorney representing Officer Nugent, has said his client caught up with Pikes and fought with him on the ground without help from his partner who “had just come back to the police department from triple bypass surgery and could not assist Officer Nugent.” Terrell says Nugent only resorted to firing his Taser when he had already exhausted “every means possible” to take Pikes into custody.

Dr. Randolph Williams, coroner for Winn Parish, has challenged the official story saying Pikes was already handcuffed when Nugent fired the first shot with his Taser. Additionally, Williams’s findings reveal that Pikes was struck with six 50,000-volt shocks at the arrest site within a period of three minutes. Following this rapid succession of electroshocks, Pikes was placed in a patrol car and driven to the police station. Once there, Pikes was tased again while seated in the back of the patrol car, taking the seventh shot directly to his chest.

Dr. Williams told CNN in a recent interview that following the seventh shock, “[Pikes] was pulled out of the car onto the concrete. He was electroshocked two more times, which two officers noted that he had no neuromuscular response to those last two 50,000-volt electroshocks.” Williams says Pikes may already have been dead when the last two shots were fired. Police carried Pikes’ body into the station before calling an ambulance.

Dr. Williams, who has been extremely vocal in his criticism of the police, found that the use of Tasers in the incident that led to Pikes’ death “violated every aspect—every single aspect—of the department’s policy about its use.”

While no decision has yet been made as to whether Officer Nugent will face criminal charges for his actions, the officer has been fired by the City Council since the January incident. While Nugent apparently had a clean record, it has been revealed that of the 14 times Tasers have been used by Winnfield police since officers received them last year, 10 involved Nugent. A testament to racial tensions in the small town, no less than 12 of those 14 incidents involved black suspects.

The death of Baron Pikes, who was black, at the hands of Officer Nugent, who is white, has ignited the already tense racial situation in Winnfield, leading to angry protests. In a strange and tragic coincidence, Baron Pikes was the first cousin of Mychal Bell, one of the defendants in the infamous “Jena Six” case, which saw six black high school students from Jena, Louisiana fall victim to a racist prosecution for the schoolyard confrontation with a white classmate. Winnfield is just 40 miles northwest of Jena.

An earlier victim of Nugent’s tasing was a black teenager who had snuck out of his house to meet a girl. “I asked the police to bring him home,” the boy’s father is quoted as saying in the Chicago Tribune, “and they did, but in pieces—he was all scraped up and bruised. They told me the next time he runs, ‘You know we’re going to shoot him.’”

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Army, Why Lie? Who Killed LaVena Johnson?

Fellow St. Louis blogger Phillip Barron of WaveFlux fame has done an amazing job covering the case of PFC Johnson on his blog and on a separate site, LaVena Johnson dot com, where there is a petition seeking to compel the Army to reopen their investigation into PFC Johnson’s death.

The army ruled the death of PFC Johnson a suicide despite physical evidence inconsistent with suicide. As Philip relates in the first post on the LaVena Johnson petition site, that evidence includes “indications of physical abuse that went unremarked by the autopsy, the absence of psychological indicators of suicidal thoughts; indeed, testimony that LaVena was happy and healthy prior to her death, indications, via residue tests, that LaVena may not even have handled the weapon that killed her, a blood trail outside the tent where Lavena's body was found and indications that someone attempted to set LaVena's body on fire.”

The name of Corporal Pat Tillman, who died as result of friendly fire, and the story of the cover-up of his cause of death has held firm in the national press with good reason. Corporal Tillman was a sports hero who gave up millions for a military career after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

And who can forget the perfect script of a rescue that was the story of PFC Jessica Lynch? The war hungry media latched onto the Jessica Lynch capture and rescue story and there was even a movie made. But the truth of it all… a truth Lynch testified to before Congress…took years to come out.

Meanwhile the family of LaVena Johnson must fight for a legitimate investigation into her cause of death without the assistance of the national media or public outcry.

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Burning Fever

Yesterday Sadr city; before that Amara; tomorrow God knows what place we would look at only to find people in different states of misery, poverty and fear.

It is better - It is better, everyone chants in an effort to strengthen their resolve to live on and not die in despair - And it is.

Not tens upon tens killed every day.

Not stunningly violent as it used to be - but still a long way from reaching square one.

We have a saying in Arabic that goes, "He who comes face to face with death is content to have a burning fever."

We now have a burning fever and people have no choice but to be "happy" not to be dead. Is that really what we can call good?

What are our ambitions? What happened to them? They have become so humble.

Just to stay alive. We are supremely happy just to stay alive.

We talk to people and they are supremely happy just to be alive. We ask them what they think of the quality of their lives and most look incomprehensively in our faces, "We're alive aren't we?"

Nancy, our acting bureau chief announced a pool party today, and a little reluctantly I joined the group at around five. Once in the water, fully clothed though I was, I came face to face with the deprivation we are living. A flashback into our former lives was like a punch in the gut. When will we reach square one - When! The armour around my soul fell and I saw what I was reluctant to see - That I was just as happy with my burning fever, and although I am perfectly aware that the violence was political and that it was to achieve just this result, that we should be happy just to be alive and to hell with everything else - it has actually worked. OMG! The numbness caused by all the violence has born fruit - And our people are happy just to be alive!

This revelation didn't stop me from playing ball in the pool, I'm afraid.


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Obama - Well Loved Around the World

Berlin Awaits the 'Next JFK'
By STEPHANIE KIRCHNER
Wednesday, Jul. 23, 2008


Walking around Berlin recently, the American visitor could be forgiven for thinking Germany was the 51st state in the Union — and that it would vote heavily for Senator Barack Obama on November 4. Joggers in local parks proudly sport Obama T shirts; the trendy expat hangout White Trash Fast Food was turned into an Obama campaign center for a day; and a city magazine has published instructions on how to craft little American flags to wave in welcoming the junior Senator from Illinois, who visits on Thursday.

The city has been buzzing with anticipation over Obama's visit, and his reported request to use the Brandenburg Gate as the backdrop for his only public address in Europe sparked a local media frenzy. Chancellor Angela Merkel reacted with "bewilderment" to the Senator's request to speak at this historically charged location and appeared concerned that approving the request would be interpreted as taking sides in the U.S. presidential race. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, for his part, welcomed the suggestion that Obama speak at a venue rendered iconic by John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, saying it was "a vital expression of German-American friendship."



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Blackface & Watermelon???

Who makes decisions such as what will be featured on the covers of national/international magazines?

A satire? I bet! More than likely it is a marketing ploy to increase notoriety and sales. Or could it be thinly disguised RACISM. Rightly or wrongly, Blacks in the United States of America have had to deploy racial discrimination detectors for all of our tenure. In many cases, we couldn't have survived the workplace, society, or any facet of the American culture. Surely, the artist, as well as those who sanctioned this cover, knew the negative effect such imagery could generate. They might as well had featured them in blackface and eating watermelon, which could have been condoned in the name of "satire!"

The Bad Frame: Why Are the New Yorker, Salon and Other Liberal Media Doing the Right's Dirty Work?

By Don Hazen, AlterNet. Posted July 14, 2008

The New Yorker magazine hits the newsstands today with a shocking cover -- a caricature of Barack and Michelle Obama depicting the presidential candidate in a turban, fist-bumping his wife who has a machine gun slung over her shoulder, while the American flag burns in the fireplace. The cover is shocking in that it depicts the Obamas in bizarre, caricatured images and associations that reflect the very stereotypes with which the conservatives, particularly Fox News, have been trying to frame both the Obamas. Thus, instead of satire, the cover becomes a political poster for conservatives to reinforce their messages. Sen. Obama was shown the cover image by a reporter covering the campaign on Sunday, and while seemingly taken aback, he declined to comment.

But the Obama campaign quickly put out a release condemning the magazine cover. Bill Burton, a spokesman for Obama, said in a statement: "The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Sen. Obama's right-wing critics have tried to create. But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree."

Unfortunately the impact of this image will extend far beyond the reading audience of the New Yorker; cable news and the right-wing media noise machine will amplify the derogatory image to millions more. And the New Yorker of course will reap enormous publicity, clearly translating to increased sales and notoriety for the brand, and for corporate owner Conde Nast -- one of the largest and most powerful media companies in America.

But the publicity could very well backfire. Editor David Remnick and artist Barry Blitt's attempt at satire seems so arrogant and indulgent in its insensitivity, and so out of touch with political and media dynamics of tabloid TV and blogs, that it just might make a lot of people angry, including some subscribers. The cover turns the magazine into a potential Molotov cocktail, to be gleefully tossed by Fox News and the conservative blogs, into the already combustible tinderbox of race and Muslim stereotypes just below the surface of America's public discourse.

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Gerald Campbell - This Battle Is Not Yours!

The Decline vs. Whiners

After President Bush's whirlwind tour of Europe, it got me thinking about the health of America's influence on the world stage since Bush came to power.

This administration has divided once staunch allies, went in virtually alone without the critical international support and approval and created the modern day debacle that is Iraq. In the eyes of the world community America's reputation has diminished and it has created differences between allies. We see the effects of this today with the EU's lifting of China's arms ban, their diplomatic approach to Iran and Russia selling nuclear material to Iran. Bush's tour already looks like it has been unsuccessful and the European nations are no longer filing behind America and towing the line.

Europe is now taking a different path than America and on the world stage is defining it's own role. China is an increasingly growing in economic power and it's military capabilities have exponentially improved over the last 15 years, soon it will be strong enough to take on Taiwan. The Bush Administrations sabre rattling is only making things worse and China will only continue to invest even more into improving their military capability which inturn will greatly increase their influence and power in the entire region.

The Bush Administration's rhetoric of the 'axis of evil' has contributed to the supposed development of nuclear weapons in the Korean peninsula and in Iran, which could spark off a global arms race in the entire Asian continent and may make the NPT worthless.

Today we see that the Bush Administration is eying Iran with Bush's "all options are on the table" and unmanned drone's already probing defenses and it's recent rhetoric and exploitation of what has happened in Lebanon to vilify Syria in the world communities eyes so that it may overthrow the government.

The US military is already overstretched and has no near term exit strategy for Iraq, yet the Bush Administration continues to eye it's neighbors as potential targets, risking creating a massive insurgent triangle.

Economically, the US budget deficit is running into the hundreds of billions while in 2000 it was at a healthy 200 billion surplus. National government debt is at around $8 trillion, the highest in the world and total domestic debt is at approximately $37 trillion. There is a huge trade deficit and China is doing extremely well in the US. The dream run of the 90s and the Clinton Administration's fiscal conservatism have all but been thrown out the window with the Bush Administrations policy of cutting taxes while making the government bigger. The US dollar has lost major ground and has lost much confidence and many commodities and nations are changing to the Euro.

Politically, there seems to be a wishing among the populace for the 'old days' as grass roots conservatives have gained considerable popularity among the American populace. The 2000 election debacle was a sign that all was not well in America's democracy. Non-mandatory voting has made a minority of the nation decide who runs the nation.

Deregulation of the US media has put the hands of the press into the hands of a few corporate giants under the 'veil' of a "free" press. Each giant promotes it's own political and corporate agenda and news stories are skewed and censorship is becoming commonplace for stories that hurt the corporations bottom line. We live in a world today where the state-run media stations by the Industrialized west are the one's who have reporters who's hands are not tied.

All these conclusions I have come to from what I have seen and gathered lately make me believe that we are seeing the decline of America as the global superpower and as the leader of the Western World. I believe the Bush Administration is the major cause of this, as what has seemingly happened is that the PNAC (Project For A New American Century) Agenda (invade Iraq, exploit a Pearl Harbor type event to get the support of a more pro-active role in preserving America's superpower status) has actually been the first nails in the coffin of the American hegemony and the return of the bipolar world or even a tripolar world.

So my question is to you : Do you think America is in decline?? Do you think we are witnessing the beginnings of the end of American Hegemony?

I hope to see responses from all sides of the fence, from all over the world and from Conservatives and Socialists alike.

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Rev. Jesse Jackson on Barack Obama: I Wanna Cut His Nuts Off

Why? Why would a professional person, a minister of the Gospel, a would-be politician, and a leader of my people utter such words, knowing the possibility of them being broadcast, and destroying many years of his carefully cultivated personal image.

As reported in the Detroit Free Press newspaper on July 10, 2008, "The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s unintentionally announced desire to castrate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama calls to mind former Detroit Mayor Coleman Young’s assessment of Jackson during Jackson’s 1980 presidential campaign: “He’s never run anything but his mouth.’'"

I've always had a lot of respect for Rev. Jackson and his astuteness. But, if he can't do any better than this, he doesn't have the sense he (or even I) was born with. He needs to go to the corner, face the wall, and stay there until I tell him to come out!

Miracle at St. Anna - Trailer

This is a Spike Lee movie, soon to be released -- Sept. 26. It's clearly a winner. Just as I observed about Spike Lee a few years ago, I anxiously anticipate his future releases as he gains experience and more wisdom.

THE SKY IS FALLING!!! THE SKY IS FALLING!!!

Received this in my e-mail this morning and it's actually the second time receiving it in a couple of years. I'm slightly upset when I think of all the other people who may be simultaneously receiving the same thing or variations of this message. Many will take this as a serious matter and may respond in turn. DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT! It's a scam, calculated to play upon your worst fears, to separate you from your money. Want to know more about this scam? CLICK HERE!

SOMEONE YOU CALL YOUR FRIEND, WANTS YOU DEAD

I felt very sorry and bad for you, that your life is going to end like this if you don't comply, i was paid to eliminate you and I have to do it within10 days.Someone you call your friend wants you dead by all means, and the person have spent a lot of money on this, the person also came to us and told us that he wants you dead and he provided us all necessary information we needed about you. If you are in doubt with this I will send you to death.

Now do you want to LIVE OR DIE? It is up to you. $9,000 is all you need to pay. You will first of all pay $1, 500 then I will send the tape of the person that want you dead and some information about the person, when the tape gets to you, you will pay the remaining $7,500. Warning! Don`t of contacting any body or authority for your interest.

Mr. Jacks H. Killer.

A Child Speaks Out To the World

Capitalists, Communists, Socialists, Radicals, and everyone else; PLEASE LISTEN!

Most Astonishing Health Disaster of the 20th Century

Thank goodness I stopped smoking over 2 1/2 years ago after smoking most of my life. Furthermore, I have severely curtailed, almost to none, the high intake of soda pop I have traditionally consumed. And, it's working for the betterment of my health in many ways! I pray for continuous enlightenment.

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John McCain - Lost in Space

Has Your Town Declared Peace Yet?

Has Your Town Declared Peace Yet?
by Ben Manski and Karen Dolan


Tired of being ignored by the feds, citizens pass city laws declaring peace.

The heartland spoke; the world listened. On April 5, 2006, hundreds of newspapers across the globe, from Italy’s Il Manifesto to the Los Angeles Times, shared a similar headline: “Wisconsin votes for troop pullout.”

One day earlier, citizens in 32 Wisconsin cities, towns, and villages had cast ballots for immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. Voters in tiny villages in the North Woods and the Door Peninsula, in the regional urban centers of Madison and La Crosse, and in the small cities that are the heart of the Badger State, sent a clear message. As Green Party activist Steve Burns told newspapers, the vote meant that “opposition to the war [has] become the majority sentiment,” winning over communities that had voted for George Bush only months earlier.

While peace advocates rejoiced over the events, the Bush administration was unresponsive to Wisconsin’s extraordinary display of democracy. White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan attempted to downplay the Wisconsin vote, concluding that while “all Americans” wanted the troops home, they also understood the importance of the “mission in Iraq.”

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Boy Slaps His Mother On Dr. Phil

Where is the love? Where is the respect? Where is the fear of God? This is the result of children being raised in a Godless home!

Amir Edwards - Superstition - The Jam Society

I remember that just a few “short” years ago, I was working in Placement Services at Wayne State University, when Susan Edwards knocked at the back door of the office and I got up to go and let her in. Sure enough, it was Susan, wheeling a stroller with her new baby boy, Amir, in it. I was so shocked that the only thing I found remarkable was the color of his eyes. I was like, “Sue, he really has the most beautiful steel grey eyes.”
Well, things have changed and nearly 12-13 years have passed. So, what is the passage of 12-13 years like? To me, truthfully, they were almost as if they were 4-5 years ago. It seems as if nothing much has happened in that short time since I first saw Amir in that baby stroller.
Now, let me update you. Sue called me this Sunday morning and wanted to know if I could find an article about Amir in this Sunday’s Detroit Free Press and download it along with the images it contained to send to those people she knew would be interested. Here is the embedded file that I sent her, along with the PDF file attachment. I am astounded, shocked, in awe of the time that seemed to have passed so quickly. Has it been 12-13 years since then? Could we have grown older? What have I been doing, positive, with my time during that time.
It’s almost shocking or incomprehensible to me but, here is that infant, featured in this Sunday’s Free Press, winning band competitions, something I could never hope to imitate! May God continuously bless him! And, his mother, too!

Michelle Obama on The View

The Torchbearer of Camelot

Previously fearful of stepping out of the background, Caroline Kennedy now appears ready to continue the family legacy of public service. Is her role with the Obama team a permanent shift into politics or a guest appearance?

SIRI AGRELL
Globe and Mail Update
June 14, 2008 at 2:12 PM EDT

When Caroline Kennedy took the podium to introduce her preferred candidate for U.S. president, veteran PBS news anchor Jim Lehrer could think of little to tell viewers except her middle name. "There aren't many people who know much about this young lady," he said.

Ms. Kennedy also faltered. Dressed in a simple white dress, kitten heels and pearls, the daughter of assassinated president John. F. Kennedy began speaking before the microphone was on, stumbled through her prepared address and kept talking as the crowd roared with applause.

When it was time to bring out her uncle, Senator Edward Kennedy, she looked palpably relieved.

Ms. Kennedy's appearance at the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, where she voiced her support for party nominee Al Gore, was her first major foray into the public eye and did not do much to alter perceptions of her as a sincere but intensely private figure.

Eight years later, having endorsed Democratic nominee Barack Obama, who recently named her as part of his vice-presidential selection committee, Ms. Kennedy, now 50, is far from the unwitting celebrity she once was.

"Caroline was always reluctant to step out of the background, that was her preferred role," says Laurence Leamer, author of The Kennedy Women. "She was afraid. There was fear for her family, fear for what politics can do to people on various levels."

But her new, high-profile role stumping for Mr. Obama seems to be a signal that she is ready for the scrutiny, and the potential danger, of life as a public Kennedy.

In a sign that she will not escape close examination in her new role, another member of the vice-presidential selection committee, Jim Johnson, resigned this week over suggestions that he received advantageous loans from Countrywide Financial, a major player in the subprime mortgage crisis.

According to Mr. Leamer, Ms. Kennedy became willing to place herself in the public eye only after the death of her younger brother, John Kennedy Jr., in a 1999 plane crash. John John, as he was known, the editor of George magazine, was widely considered the future of Camelot and, without him, Ms. Kennedy found it necessary to fill the void, continuing the family legacy of public service.

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Bo Diddley Moves On

Bo Diddley was not a happy camper while he lived, so there is not a chance in a hundred that he went gently when he died of heart failure on Monday. Diddley (born Ellas Bates, later changed to Ellas McDaniel) was always ornery, especially when it came to what he thought was his due. But then, if you'd invented as much as he did, you'd be ornery too if you hadn't received what you thought you deserved. And in Bo Diddley's case, he thought he'd invented nothing less than rock and roll. After all, he was out there two or three years before Elvis or Chuck Berry or Little Richard, tearing it up with an electric guitar and a trademark beat that landed somewhere between a shuffle and the clave rhythm of Latin music. You hear it in everything from Buddy Holly to the Who to the New York Dolls, but Bo Diddley was the first to inject that infectious beat into mainstream pop. For that matter, the very phrase "rock and roll" was coined by disc jockey Alan Freed in the early '50s to describe what his listeners were about to hear: "a man with an original sound, who is going to rock and roll you right out of your seat." And that Diddley did, for over half a century, touring until a heart attack stopped him last year.

Not being an especially sentimental man, Diddley was almost indifferent whenever it was pointed out to him how much he'd influenced the course of pop music. Being honored for his influence "didn't put no figures in my checkbook," he said. And as for being influential, he saw it more as theft. "Everybody tries to do what I do," he said. "I don't have any idols I copied after." But what really riled him was not being paid. Like so many artists of his generation, he was given a flat fee for his recordings but not royalties. "I am owed. I never got paid," he said. "A dude with a pencil is worse than a cat with a machine gun."

A lot of details in his biography come straight off the rack: born in the South around New Orleans, raised in Chicago, where high school classmates gave him the name Bo Diddley and where he soon took Chess Records by storm. He had hits with his first two singles, "Bo Diddley" and "I'm a Man," which was reworked a year later by his labelmate Muddy Waters as "Mannish Boy." But here's where it gets interesting. Muddy's version is straight up bragging—and frankly a little boring. The original is funny. Something in the Bo Diddley delivery always implied a joke, even when it didn't make clear who was being kidded. But in this case the bragging is just so over the top that you can't help smiling. Sometimes the humor lies in the surreality of the lyrics, and no one could be more surreal than Diddley; from his big black glasses to his guitar shaped like a cigar box, he just radiated strange. But a good kind of strange, the kind that made you want to work your way down front and hang on the edge of the stage all night while he played.

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Reverand Pfleger Tells Probable Truth About Clinton At Church

I think it classic that the establishment media sees fit to send the dogs out to fetch and promulgate each and every opinion perceived to be contrary to their own. I think the right-wing media brain manipulators do more damage to themselves in trying to defame someone who represents change in this day and age. The world as a whole has evolved into a new collective intelligence. People are no longer blinded by the artificial light of mass manipulation. In other words, people are waking and seeing things as they really are. The truth is that this country's status quo and its leadership is on a sinking ship going nowhere fast. It would be feasible for the guardians of the status quo to try to be allied with those who call for a new day as a way to convert to the will of the sane. The day of cat calls that the emperor has on clothes are about over when everyone begins to recognize that the emperor is indeed nude! Only through the grace of God can we regain our place in the world and survive.

What Rev. Pfleger has said is no more than what I had thought many moons ago. I am probably not alone; it's a sentiment most likely shared by many others, regardless of race and creed. The truth is the light and severely wounds those who would manipulate it.

The truth is that the war is responsible for all of the latest ills of this U.S. culture. It has boosted the overall U.S. demand for untold energy (both manpower and fossil fuel). I clearly remember when countries around the world advised against this misguided war. We were lead into it on deceptive grounds and are totally mired. We, who have represented one of the greatest nations in the world, like Rome, has an Achilles' heel; and it is Karma!

"If my people, which are called by my name (Christians), shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." -- 2 Chronicles 7:14

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Thankful -- Still

This is the third year since I was hospitalized with necrotizing infasciitis (the flesh-eating disease). I intend to repost this information every year as a living chronicle of what God has done for me when a chief surgeon had all but given me up for dead. It is a witness to God's grace and mercy.

It had been prophesied a long, long time ago that God intended to use me in a big way. I was told that I should trust and obey what God's will is for my life. Furthermore, in a validating move, He saved my life* about this time last year in a situation that was against all odds where the chief surgeon at a large nationally ranked hospital had predicted my demise and/or the loss of a limb. Wrong! I'm still here with all of my original equipment.
I have finally determined that I will start to more fully obey and go wherever He leads me. I think that includes His purpose for the content of this blog. So, enough already with the pointing out of that which borders on the sacreligious... enough of the comedy of the profane... and enough of the ignorant stuff. There are an overabundance of web sites that serve to tittilate the senses. I don't have time to spend time doing anything less than that which will glorify my Father. I now dedicate this blog to whatever it will take to inform and educate others in the way that I have been lead by the Spirit. This is the first step in doing just that!
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Lighthouse Everything Drama

Mr. & Mrs. Mariah Carey-Cannon — United

"Hollywood folks have for real lost their damn minds behind these publicity stunts. Nick Cannon’s stepmother Linda Cannon has confirmed to E! that Nick has indeed married the pink yet lavender butterfly that is Mariah Carey:

“Yes, we know,” she says. “He called us and told us all about it. We are happy for him. If that is what he wants then we are happy for him.”

I promise y’all I didn’t know until last week that Nick and MiMi even knew each other. And I know Selita is somewhere extra pissy that she dealt with his corny ass for a long minute and didn’t even get past the engagement. But he went and married MiMi like this ish was on a dare or something. Sources say the ultra private nuptials took place–with Da Brat in tow–at MiMi’s new Bahamas crib. I guess sneak-up weddings are the new black. Stop the madness Nariah.

Confused on how all this could happen? Check out the posts leading up to these “nuptials” here, here, here, and here. Still confused? Don’t worry–we are too."


From: The Young, Black, and Fabulous

Smokey Robinson's "A Black American "

Who Is Dr. Mark E. Dean?

On Tuesday, April 12, 2005, history was made at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville's College of Engineering's annual Honors Banquet as Dean Way Kuo presented the prestigious Nathan W. Dougherty Engineering Award for distinguished alumni to its first minority recipient, Dr. Mark Dean.

Dean, currently Vice President at IBM and the lab director of IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, oversees more than 500 scientists and engineers performing exploratory and applied research in various hardware, software and services areas, including nanotechnology, materials science, storage systems, data management, web technologies, workplace practices and user interfaces.

Dean was one of the first UT College of Engineering minority students to receive the Minority Engineering Scholarship, which has since been renamed the Diversity Engineering Scholarship. Dean graduated with his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the UT COE in 1979. He later earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from Florida Atlantic University and a doctoral degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

In the early 1980s, Dean and a fellow inventor, Dennis Moeller, developed computer architecture that allowed IBM and IBM-compatible personal computers to run high-performance software. He holds three of the original nine patents on the standard IBM personal desktop computer that served as a basis for all personal computers.

Dean was the chief engineer for the development of the IBM PC/AT, ISA systems bus, PS/2 Model 70 and 80, the Color Graphics Adapter in the original IBM PC and numerous other subsystems. His invention of the Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) "bus" -- which permitted add-on devices such as keyboards, disk drives and printers to connect with a motherboard -- earned him election into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1997. Dean was only the third African-American to receive that honor.

Dean was named "Black Engineer of the Year" in 1997 and in 2000. In 1995, Dean was appointed as an IBM Fellow, IBM's highest technical honor. Among Dean's other awards, he has received 13 Invention Achievement Awards and six Corporate Awards. He also was honored with the U.S. Department of Commerce's Ronald H. Brown American Innovator Award.

Overall, Dean holds more than 40 patents. In 2000, U.S. News & World Report named him as one of the "Innovators of the 21st Century."

The Dougherty Award is traditionally given to an individual whose professional engineering practice has advanced the field of engineering and brought honor and distinction to the College of Engineering. The award is named in honor of UT graduate and former COE Dean Nathan Dougherty, who served as dean from 1916 to 1946.

From the University of Tennessee at Knoxville

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You had best be careful what you say; anyhow!


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