I don't understand who keeps allowing Sarah Palin to make an idiot out of herself in a public forum.
I understand she has a certain corky kinda charisma, but her intellect doesn't warrant public speaking in the political arena. It's too much rallying of ignorance to gain some sort of republican stronghold. Even they have denounced her & yet someone is still giving her air time. This must be for shyts & giggles
No one really takes her seriously expect for the undereducated missing tooth, redneck, "I's be whistling Dixie" & don't mess with Dixie type. Or do they.
What the hell do I know.
I'm not politician, however I do notice that she seems to be a reliable distraction from core issues.
Sarah "Death-Panel" Palin served as a means to help blind side people from having a real conversation about health care. Perhaps that's why the republicans keep trotting her out every now an then. It's not that I know all the find print about the proposed health care plan or budget, but it definitely gave the GOP a new means of shock and awe.
Now I'm not giving democrats a way out by saying everything in the health care plan is all peachy keen, but how do people allow a mediocre political figure such as Palin to speak on this issue. It keeps us from really getting to the meat, bone & gristle that effect American citizens.
I need then to put a muzzle on this bitch. (Pit bull in lipstick my fat ass). I could conjure up more rational for the subject and I haven't even read the proposal for health care.
As if her idiocy is not enough of an issue, news media outlets are giving her serious consideration for 2012? You're kidding me. fuck outta here (sorry for the common vernacular, but I have limits). How could anyone take seriously. Even if we base our judgements on her political career, she has no grounds. We could get Marie Carie to run based on the same down home, I'm just a regular gal bull.
She was married to a separatist people. isn't that the definition of anti-American. She just became a republican. She's as reliable as Lieberman, which is a whole nother story (he's the definition of a flip-flopper, I would hate to play chess with him). I would rather vote the hot brown gift my dog leaves on the lawn for president than her.
She really has no merit and as an American I feel my intelligence is being insulted every time they mention her and the concept of presidency in the same sentence. How base do you think my intellect is.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Being in the studio is not necessarily a new experience, but it's definitely not something I'm used to.
So this past Saturday, June 5, 2009, I went to the studio to do a little recording. Well I came to realize after getting there I would not be working on anything of my own (Blue is sneaky).
Anyhow I had to say it was nerve racking, but I kinda enjoyed it, in-spite of the fact that they kept playing the track relentlessly and I hate the sound of my voice, even more when it's singing. Beyond all that, it was memorable, but one of the highlights had to be seeing Nasser (Blue's evil twin and a hellafied MC) in action.
Granted it was definitely a track for the radio (for some, that might not be a good thing), I have to say it was fiah!!! I loved how he just took to the booth like a pro. This was his domain. He knew what to do and how to do it, what sounds to add and just how to spit it. He told me it took eight years to perfect, and I could see the hard work.
I can admire the confidence he had in his ability to do, not only what he loves, but do it in such a way that he had me singing the hook when it was done.
This is when I stopped to think about the moment before when I had to sing in the studio and came to realize I need more confidence in my abilities in general.
That being said. It was eventful and an experience I can say I learned something.
So this past Saturday, June 5, 2009, I went to the studio to do a little recording. Well I came to realize after getting there I would not be working on anything of my own (Blue is sneaky).
Anyhow I had to say it was nerve racking, but I kinda enjoyed it, in-spite of the fact that they kept playing the track relentlessly and I hate the sound of my voice, even more when it's singing. Beyond all that, it was memorable, but one of the highlights had to be seeing Nasser (Blue's evil twin and a hellafied MC) in action.
Granted it was definitely a track for the radio (for some, that might not be a good thing), I have to say it was fiah!!! I loved how he just took to the booth like a pro. This was his domain. He knew what to do and how to do it, what sounds to add and just how to spit it. He told me it took eight years to perfect, and I could see the hard work.
I can admire the confidence he had in his ability to do, not only what he loves, but do it in such a way that he had me singing the hook when it was done.
This is when I stopped to think about the moment before when I had to sing in the studio and came to realize I need more confidence in my abilities in general.
That being said. It was eventful and an experience I can say I learned something.
Monday, May 18, 2009
SLOW DANCE
Perhaps it's because I never went to the promI want to slow dance you in the creases of my palm
Feel the memory of pulse points It beats smooth in vertebrae calling...A two step lover
Bliss looks like your smile in kin just before the ebb of lips bring nerves to halt
Romance me beneath your thumb
lull my lids to close blues to brown
to linger in this traces of nights air
to sip sublet winds next to waiting
This constant day dream is in melody
a broken note of reality that I will play for your ear
Listen
my thoughts sound like your impulses to move
freely bring forth the rhythm hiding behind your intentions
Creep ever so meek under the shameful blush of yes
The greed is raged silence needing
Pressure
like pixies fondling the tiny hairs on your skin
they know me all too well
stimulating nomadic souls to greet
here in this back and forth of this sway
Sometimes I think you to great to be touched
a fool in confident clothing
a question bolstering through my chest
before the end of this proximity...
...would you like to slow dance with me
Knickie D. © 2009
Feel the memory of pulse points It beats smooth in vertebrae calling...A two step lover
Bliss looks like your smile in kin just before the ebb of lips bring nerves to halt
Romance me beneath your thumb
lull my lids to close blues to brown
to linger in this traces of nights air
to sip sublet winds next to waiting
This constant day dream is in melody
a broken note of reality that I will play for your ear
Listen
my thoughts sound like your impulses to move
freely bring forth the rhythm hiding behind your intentions
Creep ever so meek under the shameful blush of yes
The greed is raged silence needing
Pressure
like pixies fondling the tiny hairs on your skin
they know me all too well
stimulating nomadic souls to greet
here in this back and forth of this sway
Sometimes I think you to great to be touched
a fool in confident clothing
a question bolstering through my chest
before the end of this proximity...
...would you like to slow dance with me
Knickie D. © 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Religious Dogma
OK, so there's the topic of religion and spirituality.
Many choose not talk about it and for some their so domineering, they could careless about what you have to say, which makes it really hard to talk to them.
How do you get someone to understand, that just as passionate as they are about their views of G-d, may very well feel the same about your views.
Some people feel as though their ideal are in fact the "Truth of G-D".
They'll go so far as to say it's not even their religious views, but the word of G-d. Well you know what you Zealot, some of use have our ideals in which we live by as well.
Is it not rude to assume those others a lesser person than you because they don't follow your doctrine.
I have a friend who considers himself an Orthodox Christian, which is all gravy to me, however he is so combative with every thing that comes out of my mouth. One can never get a word in edge-wise without hearing about "The Truth of G-d" and "The Devil".
Seriously dude. Can we breath and you not just make everything a religious conversation, especially since I'm not at liberty to mention my religious/spiritual views without a serious brow beating.
If a woman has sex with more than one man, he thinks she's a whore. If she doesn't fit a certain aesthetic (Light skin or a lovely caramel) well then she not worthy of his hand in marriage. He thinks the idea of a female or a genderless G-d of blasphemous and then proceeds to feel like I should no longer speak because I'm ridiculous. There is to be no other understanding but the Bible, which to each his own, but that's not me. Can I at least get some respect in saying I don't want to talk about it. For him, hell no. He will find a way to get back into the conversation and rant on and on about the sinful world and the ways of Satan and prayer not being in schools taking us away from G-d. Well you know what, with Christians like him, I would welcome being an Atheist sometimes.
This type of personality that he has and his verbose tendency to think that me not believing in G-d in the same fashion as him makes me wrong is really pissing me the F*&k off.
I mean can one have a conversation for once without you mentioning the "Word of G-d" apparently not.
I really believe that someone so filled with blind pride in his so-called faith really has no spine and cannot be expect to be taken seriously in any context if they cannot respect or understand the people around them.
Now it can be said that one should just avoid the topic of spirituality and religion, but with people like him, that's impossible.
Am I wrong for wanting to hang up on him repeatedly? I don't think so, but I feel as though people like him need to have more understanding and compassion before they go around berating people to death with their
rapture and wrath of G-d speeches.
I'm done.
Many choose not talk about it and for some their so domineering, they could careless about what you have to say, which makes it really hard to talk to them.
How do you get someone to understand, that just as passionate as they are about their views of G-d, may very well feel the same about your views.
Some people feel as though their ideal are in fact the "Truth of G-D".
They'll go so far as to say it's not even their religious views, but the word of G-d. Well you know what you Zealot, some of use have our ideals in which we live by as well.
Is it not rude to assume those others a lesser person than you because they don't follow your doctrine.
I have a friend who considers himself an Orthodox Christian, which is all gravy to me, however he is so combative with every thing that comes out of my mouth. One can never get a word in edge-wise without hearing about "The Truth of G-d" and "The Devil".
Seriously dude. Can we breath and you not just make everything a religious conversation, especially since I'm not at liberty to mention my religious/spiritual views without a serious brow beating.
If a woman has sex with more than one man, he thinks she's a whore. If she doesn't fit a certain aesthetic (Light skin or a lovely caramel) well then she not worthy of his hand in marriage. He thinks the idea of a female or a genderless G-d of blasphemous and then proceeds to feel like I should no longer speak because I'm ridiculous. There is to be no other understanding but the Bible, which to each his own, but that's not me. Can I at least get some respect in saying I don't want to talk about it. For him, hell no. He will find a way to get back into the conversation and rant on and on about the sinful world and the ways of Satan and prayer not being in schools taking us away from G-d. Well you know what, with Christians like him, I would welcome being an Atheist sometimes.
This type of personality that he has and his verbose tendency to think that me not believing in G-d in the same fashion as him makes me wrong is really pissing me the F*&k off.
I mean can one have a conversation for once without you mentioning the "Word of G-d" apparently not.
I really believe that someone so filled with blind pride in his so-called faith really has no spine and cannot be expect to be taken seriously in any context if they cannot respect or understand the people around them.
Now it can be said that one should just avoid the topic of spirituality and religion, but with people like him, that's impossible.
Am I wrong for wanting to hang up on him repeatedly? I don't think so, but I feel as though people like him need to have more understanding and compassion before they go around berating people to death with their
rapture and wrath of G-d speeches.
I'm done.
Monday, May 11, 2009
KANYE MUCH?1?
Well how do I start. People who are cocky, in my opinion they are lacking.
It's acceptable for someone to attack a person with so called low self-esteem and tell them to think better of themself or gain some confidence. However, all too often the form of low self-esteem known as being cocky is mistaken for confidence or "swag". It's not
When you have to brag about yourself more than anyone else can, then you're trying to prove something to yourself and not the room.
You clearly need convincing that you're that awesome. It never hurts to re-evaluate yourself and the flaws you have, but when you act as though there's nothing wrong with you and BRAG ALL THE TIME then you really need help. You're the worst kind. Now you've become obnoxious (Kanye much).
Perhaps society needs to starting treating overt conceit the same as blatant self hate. Either way you are not all that sure in your own self worth.
Far be it from me to judge someone on how well they view themself, but if somethign is wrong and sed person is oh-so willing to bring attention to my personality corks of deprication, then why not return the favor.
We are all bit damaged, right? So why turn one into a better form than the other.
If you ask me whether you're Kanye or Woody Allen (Woody being that of the self depricating ind) it's not all that great.
Having body dysmorphia whether you think you're too fat and you're not or thin and too fat, it's all a bit backwards.
So for you, you cocky jackass, go sit in a corner and calm down. When you're done go get a therapist and some humility
It's acceptable for someone to attack a person with so called low self-esteem and tell them to think better of themself or gain some confidence. However, all too often the form of low self-esteem known as being cocky is mistaken for confidence or "swag". It's not
When you have to brag about yourself more than anyone else can, then you're trying to prove something to yourself and not the room.
You clearly need convincing that you're that awesome. It never hurts to re-evaluate yourself and the flaws you have, but when you act as though there's nothing wrong with you and BRAG ALL THE TIME then you really need help. You're the worst kind. Now you've become obnoxious (Kanye much).
Perhaps society needs to starting treating overt conceit the same as blatant self hate. Either way you are not all that sure in your own self worth.
Far be it from me to judge someone on how well they view themself, but if somethign is wrong and sed person is oh-so willing to bring attention to my personality corks of deprication, then why not return the favor.
We are all bit damaged, right? So why turn one into a better form than the other.
If you ask me whether you're Kanye or Woody Allen (Woody being that of the self depricating ind) it's not all that great.
Having body dysmorphia whether you think you're too fat and you're not or thin and too fat, it's all a bit backwards.
So for you, you cocky jackass, go sit in a corner and calm down. When you're done go get a therapist and some humility
Not-So-Kool Yoruba Brown!!!
Ok, well I know (and don't challenge me on this), that looking the way I do is not socially acceptable.
I'm 5'10 and bucking the 200lbs mark... needless to say I'm over-weight.
This doesn't mean I'm ugly, but I'll be damned if the world can't make you feel it's so.
Recently I went on the scale and saw that I gained 7lbs (mostly in the thighs and face. Why would G-d curse me so). Anyway I gained some weight and I decide well, I lost over 140lbs I can get the last 20-45lbs off so I'm not eatting any junk food and monitoring my calories. However I still feel disgusting (Not in the Tyra Banks Top Model way).
I know I have self-esteem issues, but it seems to be hard for people to understand how I feel. I don't think I'm that fat most of the time nor to I think I'm unattractive. As a matter of fact, if I were a dude I'd do me and be my boyfriend (it's not hard to get someone to do you, but the committment is lacking...smh). Beyond that it seems quite common that I am relegated to the position of fat ugly friend, sidekick, and cockblocking wingmann (I don't cock block, but some men feel the threat and act on it).
Some men will hit on your friend and then not even say hello to you, as if you are a visual inconvience, but they will acknowledge you if they feel that the one they want may be swayed by you.
Don't do that. You think I can't tell that you throwing your arm around me and talking to me like we're friends for elementary school isn't some way for you to soften me up. Look jackass, I'm not stupid and I live in a world where I can tell and I am made fully aware more often than not, that I'm not to be the object of a gentleman's affection.
Beyond this, the one's I do attract aren't worthy of picking up my dog poop. (Buck-e just co-signed this).
Anyhow, I am a work in progress as many humans are, so I know that sometimes what we preceive may not be true, but it should be seen as valid and not treated as the feelings of a crazed fat chick. My experiences (Note I said MY experiences) have led me to these conclusions.
That I at times am not even worthy of being in the same room as so-called attractive, slim body women.
Making fun of fat people is the most acceptable form of bigotry going around. I have a friend who spent 25min on the train professing how she would hate to have a fat child and while doing so refuse to even look at me while speaking. How am I to feel that having a over-weight child out weighs your concerns for havign a child with severe retardation... really now.
I mean I don't want to dwell on the negative, but one can only take so much. No one can deny that being a so-called "Big Girl" doesn't sit well with society and you are treated as a lesser human for it. I remember a survey in high school showing that these high school girls would rather have AIDS than to be considered obese or over-weight. Seriously?! Well the survey did say they got to look like models... there's your excuse.
Well I guess I can only go on so long about this and feeling like sh*t about not being gorgeous, but hey, my dog thinks I'm cute... lol
I'm done.
Don't forget Love, Charlotte album release party this thursday @ nightingale lounge @ 8pm
I'm 5'10 and bucking the 200lbs mark... needless to say I'm over-weight.
This doesn't mean I'm ugly, but I'll be damned if the world can't make you feel it's so.
Recently I went on the scale and saw that I gained 7lbs (mostly in the thighs and face. Why would G-d curse me so). Anyway I gained some weight and I decide well, I lost over 140lbs I can get the last 20-45lbs off so I'm not eatting any junk food and monitoring my calories. However I still feel disgusting (Not in the Tyra Banks Top Model way).
I know I have self-esteem issues, but it seems to be hard for people to understand how I feel. I don't think I'm that fat most of the time nor to I think I'm unattractive. As a matter of fact, if I were a dude I'd do me and be my boyfriend (it's not hard to get someone to do you, but the committment is lacking...smh). Beyond that it seems quite common that I am relegated to the position of fat ugly friend, sidekick, and cockblocking wingmann (I don't cock block, but some men feel the threat and act on it).
Some men will hit on your friend and then not even say hello to you, as if you are a visual inconvience, but they will acknowledge you if they feel that the one they want may be swayed by you.
Don't do that. You think I can't tell that you throwing your arm around me and talking to me like we're friends for elementary school isn't some way for you to soften me up. Look jackass, I'm not stupid and I live in a world where I can tell and I am made fully aware more often than not, that I'm not to be the object of a gentleman's affection.
Beyond this, the one's I do attract aren't worthy of picking up my dog poop. (Buck-e just co-signed this).
Anyhow, I am a work in progress as many humans are, so I know that sometimes what we preceive may not be true, but it should be seen as valid and not treated as the feelings of a crazed fat chick. My experiences (Note I said MY experiences) have led me to these conclusions.
That I at times am not even worthy of being in the same room as so-called attractive, slim body women.
Making fun of fat people is the most acceptable form of bigotry going around. I have a friend who spent 25min on the train professing how she would hate to have a fat child and while doing so refuse to even look at me while speaking. How am I to feel that having a over-weight child out weighs your concerns for havign a child with severe retardation... really now.
I mean I don't want to dwell on the negative, but one can only take so much. No one can deny that being a so-called "Big Girl" doesn't sit well with society and you are treated as a lesser human for it. I remember a survey in high school showing that these high school girls would rather have AIDS than to be considered obese or over-weight. Seriously?! Well the survey did say they got to look like models... there's your excuse.
Well I guess I can only go on so long about this and feeling like sh*t about not being gorgeous, but hey, my dog thinks I'm cute... lol
I'm done.
Don't forget Love, Charlotte album release party this thursday @ nightingale lounge @ 8pm
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Funny = One lonely bytch
I'm not old enough to know everything, but I do know this much in my life experience (Notice I said "MY" life experience).
NOBODY wants to be with the funny girl... they don't take you seriously about anything and when you are serious, then something must ne wrong.If you flirt, then well., at least they'll phuck you, but they don't keep what they phuck, they keep what they love... or at least want to love...
Now this doesn't mean they want every other type of woman but the funny woman doesn't get alot of points by way of relationship. You get to be the friend (that they would phuck) or the girl who's cool in social settings, but men don't want more female friends.
Often times people might be affraid that the funny is a little too close to real and the reality ain't funny... ironic isn't it.
Well at least the funny one's have those traumatic life experiences to make jest towards and then secretly cry about it... lol
See the reality... funny, but not really
NOBODY wants to be with the funny girl... they don't take you seriously about anything and when you are serious, then something must ne wrong.If you flirt, then well., at least they'll phuck you, but they don't keep what they phuck, they keep what they love... or at least want to love...
Now this doesn't mean they want every other type of woman but the funny woman doesn't get alot of points by way of relationship. You get to be the friend (that they would phuck) or the girl who's cool in social settings, but men don't want more female friends.
Often times people might be affraid that the funny is a little too close to real and the reality ain't funny... ironic isn't it.
Well at least the funny one's have those traumatic life experiences to make jest towards and then secretly cry about it... lol
See the reality... funny, but not really
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
The Reason You all get Drunk Today
Cinco de Mayo
The 5th of May is not Mexican Independence Day, but it should be! And Cinco de Mayo is not an American holiday, but it should be. Mexico declared its independence from (conqueror) Spain on midnight, the 15th of September, 1810. And it took 11 years before the first Spanish soldiers were told and forced to leave Mexico
It is a date of great importance for the Mexican and Chicano communities. It marks the victory of the Mexican Army over the French at the Battle of Puebla. Although the Mexican army was eventually defeated, the "Batalla de Puebla" came to represent a symbol of Mexican unity and patriotism. With this victory, Mexico demonstrated to the world that Mexico and all of Latin America were willing to defend themselves of any foreign intervention. Especially those from imperialist states bent on world conquest.
Cinco de Mayo's history has its roots in the French Occupation of Mexico. The French occupation took shape in the aftermath of the Mexican-American War of 1846-48. With this war, Mexico entered a period of national crisis during the 1850's. Years of not only fighting the Americans but also a Civil War, had left Mexico devastated and bankrupt.
On July 17, 1861, President Benito Juarez issued a moratorium in which all foreign debt payments would be suspended for a brief period of two years, with the promise that after this period, payments would resume.
The English, Spanish and French refused to allow president Juarez to do this, and instead decided to invade Mexico and get payments by whatever means necessary. The Spanish and English eventually withdrew, but the French refused to leave. Their intention was to create an Empire in Mexico under Napoleon III. Some have argued that the true French occupation was a response to growing American power and to the Monroe Doctrine (America for the Americans). Napoleon III believed that if the United States was allowed to prosper indiscriminately, it would eventually become a power in and of itself.
In 1862, the French army began its advance. Under General Ignacio Zaragoza, 5,000 ill-equipped Mestizo and Zapotec Indians defeated the French army in what came to be known as the "Batalla de Puebla" on the fifth of May.
The 5th of May is not Mexican Independence Day, but it should be! And Cinco de Mayo is not an American holiday, but it should be. Mexico declared its independence from (conqueror) Spain on midnight, the 15th of September, 1810. And it took 11 years before the first Spanish soldiers were told and forced to leave Mexico
It is a date of great importance for the Mexican and Chicano communities. It marks the victory of the Mexican Army over the French at the Battle of Puebla. Although the Mexican army was eventually defeated, the "Batalla de Puebla" came to represent a symbol of Mexican unity and patriotism. With this victory, Mexico demonstrated to the world that Mexico and all of Latin America were willing to defend themselves of any foreign intervention. Especially those from imperialist states bent on world conquest.
Cinco de Mayo's history has its roots in the French Occupation of Mexico. The French occupation took shape in the aftermath of the Mexican-American War of 1846-48. With this war, Mexico entered a period of national crisis during the 1850's. Years of not only fighting the Americans but also a Civil War, had left Mexico devastated and bankrupt.
On July 17, 1861, President Benito Juarez issued a moratorium in which all foreign debt payments would be suspended for a brief period of two years, with the promise that after this period, payments would resume.
The English, Spanish and French refused to allow president Juarez to do this, and instead decided to invade Mexico and get payments by whatever means necessary. The Spanish and English eventually withdrew, but the French refused to leave. Their intention was to create an Empire in Mexico under Napoleon III. Some have argued that the true French occupation was a response to growing American power and to the Monroe Doctrine (America for the Americans). Napoleon III believed that if the United States was allowed to prosper indiscriminately, it would eventually become a power in and of itself.
In 1862, the French army began its advance. Under General Ignacio Zaragoza, 5,000 ill-equipped Mestizo and Zapotec Indians defeated the French army in what came to be known as the "Batalla de Puebla" on the fifth of May.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
TAG Records, is not what's up
TAG, not so hot.
Knickie Duchatellier
It has been rumored that Jermaine Dupri might get booted from his position as President of TAG Records due to his falling out with DEF JAM, but lucky for him the deal with TAG Records and DEF JAM were separate.
On the down side however, TAG Records itself is not doing so well according to Proctor & Gamble (owners of TAG Body Spray).
It’s obvious to anyone who isn’t living under a rock that economy is keeping most from spending their money, which is one reason the label isn’t doing so well, the other is the lack of buzz around the labels initial artist Q Da Kid.
At the end of the day JD still reigns supreme over the TAG Records Empire, the question is, does anyone still care. Let’s see how those record sales do.
Knickie Duchatellier
It has been rumored that Jermaine Dupri might get booted from his position as President of TAG Records due to his falling out with DEF JAM, but lucky for him the deal with TAG Records and DEF JAM were separate.
On the down side however, TAG Records itself is not doing so well according to Proctor & Gamble (owners of TAG Body Spray).
It’s obvious to anyone who isn’t living under a rock that economy is keeping most from spending their money, which is one reason the label isn’t doing so well, the other is the lack of buzz around the labels initial artist Q Da Kid.
At the end of the day JD still reigns supreme over the TAG Records Empire, the question is, does anyone still care. Let’s see how those record sales do.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Legalizing Mary-Jane
San Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano argues that it’s time to tax and regulate your favorite herbal barbiturate a.k.a marijuana, as stated in the Los Angles Times on Feb. 24.
Supposedly this proposal would mean legalizing marijuana, which would make California the first state in the nation to tax and regulate recreational marijuana in the same manner as alcohol.
Ammiano's measure, AB 390, would essentially replicate the regulatory structure used for beer, wine and hard liquor, with taxed sales barred to anyone under 21.
He believes that this proposal will help in create state revenue on California’s largest cash crop.
This can be both good and bad news to some of those who have grown to love “Mary-Jane”. It’s great that you can start enjoying your time with your number one “Bud” legally, but you will be paying taxes for your torrid love affair.
But don’t get too excited about yet, it’s quiet obvious a proposal of this magnitude involving legalizing drug use is definitely going to be opposed by those who feel marijuana is a gate-way drug or would lead to a greater societal down fall.
Ammiano does try to appease them by pointing out the pros of legalizing the drug. He believes it would boost public safety by keeping law enforcement focused on more serious crimes and while keeping marijuana away from teenagers who can readily purchase black-market pot from peers.
Not to mention this would also benefit Mother Nature as well, because this would mean uprooting an environmentally destructive pot plantations t
The natural world would benefit, too, from the uprooting of environmentally destructive backcountry pot plantations that erode an already fragile ecosystem, Ammiano said.
Well with any luck and all things work in Ammiano’s favor, you can smoke weed and be environmentally friendly. And to think your mom thought you weren’t doing anything for society be sitting in the basement all day and eating all the Captain Crunch
Supposedly this proposal would mean legalizing marijuana, which would make California the first state in the nation to tax and regulate recreational marijuana in the same manner as alcohol.
Ammiano's measure, AB 390, would essentially replicate the regulatory structure used for beer, wine and hard liquor, with taxed sales barred to anyone under 21.
He believes that this proposal will help in create state revenue on California’s largest cash crop.
This can be both good and bad news to some of those who have grown to love “Mary-Jane”. It’s great that you can start enjoying your time with your number one “Bud” legally, but you will be paying taxes for your torrid love affair.
But don’t get too excited about yet, it’s quiet obvious a proposal of this magnitude involving legalizing drug use is definitely going to be opposed by those who feel marijuana is a gate-way drug or would lead to a greater societal down fall.
Ammiano does try to appease them by pointing out the pros of legalizing the drug. He believes it would boost public safety by keeping law enforcement focused on more serious crimes and while keeping marijuana away from teenagers who can readily purchase black-market pot from peers.
Not to mention this would also benefit Mother Nature as well, because this would mean uprooting an environmentally destructive pot plantations t
The natural world would benefit, too, from the uprooting of environmentally destructive backcountry pot plantations that erode an already fragile ecosystem, Ammiano said.
Well with any luck and all things work in Ammiano’s favor, you can smoke weed and be environmentally friendly. And to think your mom thought you weren’t doing anything for society be sitting in the basement all day and eating all the Captain Crunch
Friday, February 13, 2009
Smoke Still Rises...Poetry
On the corner where they place flowers for the dead
A ghetto garden
of innocence no to be forgotten
below the painted memories of eternity
The street lights punctuate the venom of snakes
in concrete grass
sneaking silence onto the tongues of onlookers
A shirt prances to a tune
“STOP SNITCHING”
And the smell seeps into the cracked life lines of the city
The smoke still rises…
Their eyes watch G-d
in astonishing disbelief
Perhaps lil’ Tyrell is holding winged horsemen at bay
for tomorrow in the ICU
Mama is repeating
somber concertos
A soundtrack to dreadful imaginatory fouter
“What If?”
Batted breath leaks slow from hollowed lungs
in and out
Of traumatic displays for funeral brochures
The smoke still rises…
The killers are always near
Where stuffed animals gather
to the sound of wailing sirens frequently daily
Those missed opportunities to tell LaShonda
…childhood is not a sentence to evade,
but they put and end to you
Period…
That precedes a muffled phrase
“STOP SNITCHING”
As the smoke still rises…
Distraught wrecks the haunted halls of an old Baptist Church
As the smoke still rises…
Daddy can’t be father
to baby gone too soon
… As the smoke still rises
A bullet whispered a bloody lullaby to an infant in slumber
Straight through the window/
Next to the Bodega/ on the corner
where the smoke is still rising
There are candle light visuals
for the incumbent souls
Reversed entrapment
made involuntary
Handed a nail for the coffin
… And the smoke still rising
The mournful bellows can’t bring them back
Can’t pull the images from the bricked walls
of the Bodegas on the corners…
Can’t pull blood from stone
As the smoke still rises
There’s a shirt humming
“STOP SNITCHING”
Outside the procession of tears?
Momma will miss you
The promises of love
beyond six feet of Earthy separation
And the kiss that kills you in parting
…the smoke is still rising…
And you can smell it walking
Down the hospital halls/ past the Church pews
It rocks the cradle
….and the smoke is still rising
To the street lights that burn tragedy in effigy
Near the corner
While it walks down the hospital halls
…and the smoke still rising
Past the Church pews
…and the smoke still rising
It’s rocking the cradle
…and the smoke still rising
Daddy can’t be father
to babies gone too soon
…and the smoke still rising
STOP SNITCHING?!
Momma will miss you
And the smoke
is still rising
A ghetto garden
of innocence no to be forgotten
below the painted memories of eternity
The street lights punctuate the venom of snakes
in concrete grass
sneaking silence onto the tongues of onlookers
A shirt prances to a tune
“STOP SNITCHING”
And the smell seeps into the cracked life lines of the city
The smoke still rises…
Their eyes watch G-d
in astonishing disbelief
Perhaps lil’ Tyrell is holding winged horsemen at bay
for tomorrow in the ICU
Mama is repeating
somber concertos
A soundtrack to dreadful imaginatory fouter
“What If?”
Batted breath leaks slow from hollowed lungs
in and out
Of traumatic displays for funeral brochures
The smoke still rises…
The killers are always near
Where stuffed animals gather
to the sound of wailing sirens frequently daily
Those missed opportunities to tell LaShonda
…childhood is not a sentence to evade,
but they put and end to you
Period…
That precedes a muffled phrase
“STOP SNITCHING”
As the smoke still rises…
Distraught wrecks the haunted halls of an old Baptist Church
As the smoke still rises…
Daddy can’t be father
to baby gone too soon
… As the smoke still rises
A bullet whispered a bloody lullaby to an infant in slumber
Straight through the window/
Next to the Bodega/ on the corner
where the smoke is still rising
There are candle light visuals
for the incumbent souls
Reversed entrapment
made involuntary
Handed a nail for the coffin
… And the smoke still rising
The mournful bellows can’t bring them back
Can’t pull the images from the bricked walls
of the Bodegas on the corners…
Can’t pull blood from stone
As the smoke still rises
There’s a shirt humming
“STOP SNITCHING”
Outside the procession of tears?
Momma will miss you
The promises of love
beyond six feet of Earthy separation
And the kiss that kills you in parting
…the smoke is still rising…
And you can smell it walking
Down the hospital halls/ past the Church pews
It rocks the cradle
….and the smoke is still rising
To the street lights that burn tragedy in effigy
Near the corner
While it walks down the hospital halls
…and the smoke still rising
Past the Church pews
…and the smoke still rising
It’s rocking the cradle
…and the smoke still rising
Daddy can’t be father
to babies gone too soon
…and the smoke still rising
STOP SNITCHING?!
Momma will miss you
And the smoke
is still rising
A tulip-rose sunrise before my sunset... poetry/ free-write
I thought you smelled nice
so I followed you in sweet dreams of September morning dew
Placed you in my hair for vanity and good luck
Stared between your iris
And skipped on the path of broken promises in searching
All because your fragrance lured me with temptation
Squeezed you between loose leaf binders
As keepsake
Keep memories
safely trapped in the folds of consciousness
basking in the amazement of the dynamic flaws in your colors
Created murals in your resemblance
Because I knew you wouldn't live long
Accentuated thorns since they were a part of our story
Linear and ever weaving turns in twilight
Captivated by the length of your grace
Stemmed truth in the cusp of a butterflies wings
Teased them to fly back to me to get one more whiff of an illusion in bloom
Sometimes i feel sorry for those who never take the time to get know you
Its as though G-d birthed you in closed nightmares & opened my eyes to see all your pedals in sunrise
Kiss me in the dew of September before
I fall asleep
so I followed you in sweet dreams of September morning dew
Placed you in my hair for vanity and good luck
Stared between your iris
And skipped on the path of broken promises in searching
All because your fragrance lured me with temptation
Squeezed you between loose leaf binders
As keepsake
Keep memories
safely trapped in the folds of consciousness
basking in the amazement of the dynamic flaws in your colors
Created murals in your resemblance
Because I knew you wouldn't live long
Accentuated thorns since they were a part of our story
Linear and ever weaving turns in twilight
Captivated by the length of your grace
Stemmed truth in the cusp of a butterflies wings
Teased them to fly back to me to get one more whiff of an illusion in bloom
Sometimes i feel sorry for those who never take the time to get know you
Its as though G-d birthed you in closed nightmares & opened my eyes to see all your pedals in sunrise
Kiss me in the dew of September before
I fall asleep
Obama's stimulus package
The House approved President Obama’s stimulus Plan on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009 with a 246 to 183 vote.
The $787 billion stimulus consist of 36 percent in tax cuts and 64 percent spending for social programs, however the GOP (Republicans) did not lend there backing to this plan. The most important aspect of this plan is that Obama plans to create over 3.5 million jobs, which during our economic times would be more than necessary.
Of those who voted against the plan, they believe there are not enough tax cuts to support our failing economy.
Apparently they’re romancing of the times of Bush’s famed $1.35 billion tax cut package of 2001. Which reminds me, can anyone tell me how we got into this crisis?
In the article posted on BBC News Online, Republican representative Mike Pence said before the vote: "The only thing the Democrats' stimulus bill will do is stimulate more government and more debt."
There go Obama’s plans to end bipartisanship in Washington.
The $787 billion stimulus consist of 36 percent in tax cuts and 64 percent spending for social programs, however the GOP (Republicans) did not lend there backing to this plan. The most important aspect of this plan is that Obama plans to create over 3.5 million jobs, which during our economic times would be more than necessary.
Of those who voted against the plan, they believe there are not enough tax cuts to support our failing economy.
Apparently they’re romancing of the times of Bush’s famed $1.35 billion tax cut package of 2001. Which reminds me, can anyone tell me how we got into this crisis?
In the article posted on BBC News Online, Republican representative Mike Pence said before the vote: "The only thing the Democrats' stimulus bill will do is stimulate more government and more debt."
There go Obama’s plans to end bipartisanship in Washington.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Not that one likes to assume, but I'm certain most of you haven't heard of
Chen-Lo, and if I'm right, well then you need to get acquainted with Brooklyn's newest hip-hop export.
Originally from Philly, is story-telling lyricist has got what you've been aching for, that is if you're pretty much sick of what passes for hip-hop> these days.
On his track Brooklyn, Chen brings you his own views of one of New York's finest boroughs accompanied with a beat that you can't deny. Needless to say the tough hitting bass and drum is undeniably BK and you won't be able to> stop your head from co-signing every verse. BET even saw it fit to give him a big-up by airing the video for this track on 106 and Park, which can be> found on youtube.com as well.
Since you're dying for something new, check out Chen-Lo and download his> latest mix-tape, The Ink Well for free. Yea that's right for free, and since> we're in a recession you know you can't afford to say anything that won't>rob your unemployment check.
FOR FREE DOWNLOAD OF "THE INK WELL".
http://www.zshare.net/download/54414982813f0232/
Chen-Lo, and if I'm right, well then you need to get acquainted with Brooklyn's newest hip-hop export.
Originally from Philly, is story-telling lyricist has got what you've been aching for, that is if you're pretty much sick of what passes for hip-hop> these days.
On his track Brooklyn, Chen brings you his own views of one of New York's finest boroughs accompanied with a beat that you can't deny. Needless to say the tough hitting bass and drum is undeniably BK and you won't be able to> stop your head from co-signing every verse. BET even saw it fit to give him a big-up by airing the video for this track on 106 and Park, which can be> found on youtube.com as well.
Since you're dying for something new, check out Chen-Lo and download his> latest mix-tape, The Ink Well for free. Yea that's right for free, and since> we're in a recession you know you can't afford to say anything that won't>rob your unemployment check.
FOR FREE DOWNLOAD OF "THE INK WELL".
http://www.zshare.net/download/54414982813f0232/
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