Edwards Campain is O-v-e-r

John Edwards has ended his campaign for presidency. He was an advocate for the Middle Class Health Care, and killing the corporate rule in politics.



RIP.


Hopefully he will be nominated for another round at VP status.




HOpefully that will be with Obama

Real Housewives NYC!!!!!!!!!

Forget the OC the Bravo reality show is moving to the big apple! 5 "housewives" are filmed 1 day out of the week. But whats the deal with the lack of diversity among these women?? All these women are white! The OC is one thing, but in New York? Don't tell me you couldn't find any debutant black women.
Tisk Tisk on Bravo's part and to whomever is in charge of casting.

The case includes:

• A Health Food Chef
• A women who married a French aristocrat and used to be a model/actress
• A Visual Merchandiser for a major retailer
  
• One is a real estate agent that sells left over estates to discount chains/boutiques
• One owns a fabric/home furnishing store in the Lower East Side.
  

Premiers March 4th

SUNshine State Primary today

Today is the Primary in Florida

Hillary is winning in Polls (taken a couple weeks ago=don't mean much.)

Gulliani will most likely drop out considering polls show he's n 3rd place.

Amy Winehouse is a Magician!

Just look, she is vanishing before our vary eyes. Upon receiving her cd (via D.Santos) and liking it, and then downloading her 1st album tonight i was astonished to see how different she used to look a matter of a couple years ago. Bitch went downdowndown hill!

The AMy we are all accostomed to: crack head junkie with a tweeker husband in jail. She used to be kinda soft/chunky/normal! and had all her teeth!

cause she's so fucked up i had no interest in listening to her mu$ic. too bad she's a mess, its good tunes.

Environmental (in)Justice. A Series.

Environmental Justice-is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people—regardless of race, ethnicity, income or education level—in environmental decision making.

Since I'm taking an Enviro Justice class, it seems only fit to bestow some of that knowledge on you all. Get ready.

(The image above is of the SF Bayview district)

NEXT DEBATE DATE

I never know when these stupid debates are and it kills me! They should be broadcastin this shit so everyone knows and watches because these people represent our future- reguardless of which person you like/don't like, one of them will win and we need to know what the hell they stand for!

The next Democratic Debate will be this Thur$day JANUARY 31.

Facebook--> friend or foe?

FACEBOOK is out to get you!
Some quick facts you should know about the new media monster

• The founder of Facebook is a young man not much older than you and me ( that is if you are around the (new) age of 22. (sleaze)
• Microsoft bought just over 1% of the website for $240 million! (youtube syndrome)
  
• Facebook uses a program that monitors your every move and alerts your friends of your actions (who you commented to, what clubs you're in, what you're wearing/reading/ doing/ thinking/eating/learning/driving/boycotting/following)
• this program was so intrusive that Facebook was legally forced to tone it down to protect they privacy of its patrons
  
• Every club you join on Facebook classifies you to corporations the same way your Safeway Club Card does. (sneaky)
• Adults are currently the fastest growing group joining Facebook (creepy).
  

Every social networking site will ultimately sell out to some corporation that will capitalize on your likes and dislikes, music choices, and favorite movies listed on your profile. Young kids are the new savvy entrepreneurs and their franken-websites are solidifying the internet as the new landscape for economic opportunity. Facebook/myspace/youtube are all capitolizing on the unique and organic ideas of the individual.

I'm praying that teleporting will be the next big thing.

The punk founder of fake(ass)book was on 60 minutes and was 'grilled' on the workings of his company. The buzz behind other media outlets like facebook (myspace/youtube) are so astonishing to analystis because companies are racing to buy these sites before they are even established on the actual market. ( facebook has yet to publish release any $$ gained.. as the same for youtube) although it can be easily inferred that sites like this will be forever popular, considerin they have upwards of 100million users. Programs like this are the future of the economy. If Microsoft is interested in owning as little as 1% of Facebook, than others will soon follow suit.


this clip captures the zest of Facebook. Its creepy program Beacon and how it will change the economy.:::: Watch and learn:::::::::

Word on the street: yall bout to be broke!

If you drive, than listen.
If you eat than listen.
If you live--> than listen.


GAS PRICES ARE GOING UPPPPPPP, Up, UP, UPP!


Jeroen van der Veer, the CEO of Shell Oil Co. , stated
"Regardless of which route we choose, the world's current predicament limits our maneuvering room. We are experiencing a step-change in the growth rate of energy demand due to population growth and economic development, and Shell estimates that after 2015 supplies of easy-to-access oil and gas will no longer keep up with demand."

Translation: In 7 years, demand for oil will exceed production/supply and the price ($$) of gasoline will skyrocket past affordability. $3/gallon will be a dream boat compared to 2015. This means that it will cost more to drive, fly, boat, train, bus, or whatever you do.
Translation: The price of any one product that is imported into this country will rise.
This includes: food, clothes, books, electronics, toys, tools= everything.

If you wish to read more: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/01/shell_ceo_peak_oil.php

Obama: 2nd black president?

Nah Bill it aint you!

Even though B. Clinton was credited for being the 1st Black President for some time, he should step down from that pedestal and allow the man more fit for the position hold such a the title. Barack Obama is everything that Clinton was back in 1992, except he's actually a black man! Maybe this is why Bill's active role on Hillary's campaign is so alarming.
Bill was thought of as the man who motivated the youth, united the masses, and represented progress and change; and indeed at the time he was that man. But now that man is Obama, and to watch Bill help Hillary smear Obama's name is quite contradictory to everything that Bill stood for and everything that he still represents. Many democrats have openly admitted (exit polls) that they'd vote for Bill again if he could run, so to watch Bill get ugly towards Obama is both a detriment to his name and Hillary's campaign.
Post South Carolina:: with Obama sweeping over 55% of the vote, the Hillary camp is squabbling to quite the former president in hopes to revive her campaign.

NEW OBAMA ENDORMSENTS:
Caroline Kennedy (JFK's daughter)
Senator Kennedy (major Dem Senator)

Caroline stated that she believed Obama is the first man since her father to spark hope within the American people since her father in the 1960's. A statment that muted the Clintons.
** supposedly Bill Clinton pleaded with her/senator Kennedy to NOT endorse Obama.

Tricks are for Kids:

South Carolina backed Obama shown by the results of their Democratic Primary hosted on Saturday January 27th. After the heated exchange between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, as discussed below, I think many people were made aware of the slimy tactics being used by the Clinton Campaign in order to smear Obama's image and goal of the White House. It was disgusting to witness and I'm glad that South Carolina reflected their disgust by voting otherwise.

Obama won the black vote, the young vote, the old vote.
Edwards won the white-male vote.
Hillary was reduced to her core constituancy: white women.

Lesson learned Hillary: dirty tricks are never rewarded. :)

Corn. A series.

Corn is in everything. Its in gum, toothpaste, cereal, bread, candy, soda's, juices, it might as well be in our water. With the growing surplus of such a product, the US government is finding a way to force corn to pay off the subsidies its production: by putting it in any edible/nonedible product possible. This series will continue. The diagram below represents SORBITOL, which is an artificial sweetener found in sugar-free gum and toothpaste, it too is a corn product. Look for it.
Brand name sorbitol products:

public transportation

Hayes Valley truck. and local talent

Spice up your life:

If you don't have the ca$h for new kick$, a quick fix can be some laces. I've been rockin the Huf Quake laces in the mid, and they're sick!

Sneakers. A series:

Forever Sneaker Shopping

Democracy Now!!! (please)

Many have said that we do not live in an actual democracy.
Freedom of speech is exchanged for (politically correct) interpretations
Freedom of the press just allows sensationalism prevail.

Moving on:

there are some media outlets that try to break both stigmas,
Democracy Now! is one of my favorites.

The Jan. 14th episode hosted:
Gloria Steinem (New Yorker/Ms. Magazine)
and
Melissa Harris Lacewell (Professor @ Princeston/Author).

The topic of this episode paralleled the feminist and racial struggles in this country. Lacewell owned this debate and forced Steinem to chase after her in order to vindicate her claims written in a past article. A link to the radio show is provided beneath. Please listen to the whole show, especially between Lacewell and Steinem.

Melissa Harris Lacewell provided insight to the racial strugglesthat were not yet thoughtof and acknowleged in this country and I respect her ever so much for doing so.

ROCK ON LACEWELL!!!!
________________________________________________
a sample:

"I just feel that we have got to get clear about the fact that race and gender are not these clear dichotomies in which, you know, you’re a woman or you’re black. I’m sitting here in my black womanhood body, knowing that it is more complicated than that. African American men have been complicit in the oppression of African American women. White women have been complicit in the oppression of black men and black women. Those things are true. And so, to pretend that we can somehow take them out of the conversation when a white woman runs against a black man, when she tears up at being sort of beat up by him, when her husband can come in and rally around her and suggest that we need to sort of support her because she’s having difficulties, while Barack Obama is getting death threats, basically lynching threats on him and his family, these are—for a second-wave feminist with an understanding of the complexity of American race and gender to take this kind of position in the New York Times struck me as, again, the very worst of what that feminism can offer—in other words, division. "
-Melissa Harris Lacewell


Link to the show:
http://media.switchpod.com/users/democracynow/ftp/dn2008-0114-1.mp3

Link to Democracy Now!: http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/14/race_and_gender_in_presidential_politics

Even if you're not a fan...

you just can't hate on Chris Brown. please forgive the poor lipsyncing and the rihanna cameo in this clip and just admire the brownster.

dancing+dimples+milk chocolate= momentary cru$h

Is this supposed to represent experience, change, or passion?

Watching these two figures was quite humorous, but the true fighting should be saved for November. Tisk, tisk, tisk to Obama and Clinton, I was dissapointed to see this squabbling. I did note (and appreciate) the intense head turn from Obama upon listening to Clintons attack. 2008 is off to a tumultuous start for the presidency!

January 15th 1929

Lets not forget that we are still strugglin for his dream.

The original Martin Luther King Jr. should always be recognized for his impact on this country (this means you Hillary).

The Time is Now

This is the first of many hopefully. A new election, a new way of life, with new goals among the community to hopefully create a future not clouded by controversy and negativity but full of happiness, something that should not be determined by materialism . People need to rise up and wake up to the reality of contemporary issues both domestic and global.

Wake up!!
Raise up!!

and be happy :)