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Are You a Threat? TGIF, Today God Is First, by Os
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day the evil spirit answered them, "Jesus I know, and I know about
Paul, but who are you?" - Acts 19:15
Are you a threat to the kingdom of darkness? If satan and his
demons had a board meeting and your name came before the board,
what would they say? Would they say that you are one of their most
feared enemies and they needed to keep many demons harassing and
opposing you? Or would they say, "Gentlemen, this person poses no
threat to our activities. Leave him alone. He needs no help from
us." There are millions of church-going believers sitting in pews
Sunday after Sunday who pose little threat to the kingdom of
darkness.
If we truly believe that we war against rulers and principalities
that cannot be seen, then we must realize that their mandate is to
hinder any believer who is seeking to walk in the fullness of God.
However, "greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the
world" (1 Jn. 4:4b KJV).
If you are seeking to fully follow the Lord, you can expect
harassment from the enemy. God permits temptation because it drives
us deeper into the soil of God. These times reveal God's power to
keep us and walk us through the temptations. Our message becomes
fruitful when it is born out of obedience and suffering for His
name. Do not consider it strange if you find yourself fighting
major battles the more obedient you become to the Master. God
desires each of us to become a feared enemy of hell in order to
affect satan's domain. When you begin to feel harassed, chances are
you are beginning to affect the kingdom of darkness, and satan
doesn't like this. So, how many demons do you think are assigned to
you?
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A older white guy asked his old black friend, 'Are you voting for
Barack Obama just because he's black'? So the older black guy says,
'Are you not voting for him because he's black?
'Why can't I vote for him just because he's black? Hell in this country
men are pulled over everyday just because they're black, passed over for
promotions just because they're black, considered to be criminals just
because they're black, but you don't seem to have a problem with that!
'This country was built with the sweat and whip off the slaves backs,
and now a descendent of those same slaves has a chance to lead the same
Country where we were not even considered to be full human beings.
Where we weren't allowed to be educated, drink from the same water
fountains, and eat in the same restaurants, or even vote. So you damn right I'm going to vote for him!'' Not just because he's black, but because he is hope, he is change, and he now allows me to understand when my grandson says he wants to be President when he grows up, it is not a fairy tale but a short term goal, because he sees, understands, and knows, he can achieve, withstand, and do anything just because he's BLACK |
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Why is it that a Black Man can create a tiny piece called a filament
(electric light - Lewis Latimer) That allows people to see in the dark?
But can't be seen fit to lead a country to the true light.
Why is it that a Black Man can create an instrument (clock - Benjamin
Banneker) that all People use to tell time? But people don't think it is
time for him to run a country.
Why is it that a Black Man can design a place for the high authorities
to meet in & a place for the President to live in (The Capital & the
White House Phillip Reid (a slave) & Pierre L'Enfant)?
But not good enough to lead these meetings or live in himself.
Why is it that a Black Man was brilliant enough to do the first open heart
surgery (Dr. Daniel Hale Williams) And show the world how to get and preserve
plasma (Dr. Charles Drew)? But not good enough to put a program in place
where everyone can afford this surgery.
Why is it that a Black Man was creative enough to design an instrument
(traffic light - Garrett Morgan) To bring multiple people (traffic) to
a halt?
But not seen creative enough to design a plan to bring all this unnecessary
and worthless Fighting between countries to an end.
Why is it that a Black Man could create the soles (shoes - Jan Matzeliger)
that people Walk on everyday? But not seen good enough to fill the shoes
of a bad president.
Why is it that a Black Man was smart enough and brave enough to teach
himself (Fredrick Douglas & Thomas Fuller - both slaves) and others how to
read, write and/or calculate math? But not seen (as) smart enough and bold
enough to calculate a platform to be President to a country that sure needs
another first by us.
So you see my Brothers and Sisters what I am saying is let us not forget
our past, which led us to our present and can definitely be the backbone to
our future. We were good enough, smart enough, creative enough, and bold enough
then, so lets all give Obama the chance to show that we are still these
things and more. We all are as strong as our weakest link, so don't be that
weak link that denies OUR people that chance to show we still can OVERCOME and BE THE
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Is Alicia Keys In Tune With The Conspiracy?
By Harry R. Davidson, Ph.D. |
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Alicia Keys recently alluded to the government’s involvement in “Gangster Rap” and the deaths of Biggie and Tupac. Some so-called Black people started talking about how ridiculous it was for Alicia Keys to be thinking. “She needs to shut up and just sing and play the piano.” No, what needs to happen is you need to “open up” your mind and start to think. For years now the government has been engaged in the science of psycholinguistics designed to control behavior. I know that it exists because I am one of a few Black psychologists who have been trained in psycholinguistic programming. Psycholinguistics is defined as the study of the relationship between language and behavior. Language includes images, signs, symbols and gestures. During the several days of training we were given homework that included programming the waitresses who served us that evening. The media has been scientifically used to control everything from the food you eat, the car you buy or the person you vote for. Who are the people who sit on corporate boards and determine what movies and other media get funded or made?
Genocide refers to the systematic destruction of a race of people in part or in whole. Too many Black people are unaware of the fact that such a plan is currently being carried out either directly through violent assaults by the police or indirectly by benign neglect. Benign neglect includes the fact that many Black children are not being prepared for a high quality of life, due to their being either uneducated or undereducated. Millions of Black youth are dropping out of school. These are Black youngsters who are the victims of mentacide. Mentacide is the destruction of their minds. Black people who are being denied appropriate health care are being physically destroyed. The media are being used to spiritually and morally destroy Black youth. The fact is somebody’s trying to kill you. (Click here to read the entire article!)
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11 Rules Of Life
A Message To High School Students
Rule 1: Life is not fair -- get used to it!
Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping -- they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
BILL GATES' 2003 SPEECH TO MT. WHITNEY HIGH SCHOOL in Visalia, California. |
Of National Lies and Racial Amnesia:
Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and the Audacity of Truth
By Tim Wise
March 18, 2008 |
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For most white folks, indignation just doesn't wear well. Once affected or conjured up, it reminds one of a pudgy man, wearing a tie that may well have fit him when he was fifty pounds lighter, but which now cuts off somewhere above his navel and makes him look like an idiot.
Indignation doesn't work for most whites, because having remained sanguine about, silent during, indeed often supportive of so much injustice over the years in this country--the theft of native land and genocide of indigenous persons, and the enslavement of Africans being only two of the best examples--we are just a bit late to get into the game of moral rectitude. And once we enter it, our efforts at righteousness tend to fail the test of sincerity.
But here we are, in 2008, fuming at the words of Pastor Jeremiah Wright, of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago--occasionally Barack Obama's pastor, and the man whom Obama credits with having brought him to Christianity--for merely reminding us of those evils about which we have remained so quiet, so dismissive, so unconcerned. It is not the crime that bothers us, but the remembrance of it, the unwillingness to let it go--these last words being the first ones uttered by most whites it seems whenever anyone, least of all an 'angry black man' like Jeremiah Wright, foists upon us the bill of particulars for several centuries of white supremacy.
But our collective indignation, no matter how loudly we announce it, cannot drown out the truth. And as much as white America may not be able to hear it (and as much as politics may require Obama to condemn it) let us be clear, Jeremiah Wright fundamentally told the truth.
Oh I know that for some such a comment will seem shocking. After all, didn't he say that America 'got what it deserved' on 9/11? And didn't he say that black people should be singing 'God Damn America' because of its treatment of the African American community throughout the years?
Well actually, no he didn't.
Wright said not that the attacks of September 11th were justified, but that they were, in effect, predictable. Deploying the imagery of chickens coming home to roost is not to give thanks for the return of the poultry or to endorse such feathered homecoming as a positive good; rather, it is merely to note two things: first, that what goes around, indeed, comes around--a notion with longstanding theological grounding--and secondly, that the U.S. has indeed engaged in more than enough violence against innocent people to make it just a tad bit hypocritical for us to then evince shock and outrage about an attack on ourselves, as if the latter were unprecedented.
He noted that we killed far more people, far more innocent civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki than were killed on 9/11 and 'never batted an eye.' That this statement is true is inarguable, at least amongst sane people. He is correct on the math, he is correct on the innocence of the dead (neither city was a military target), and he is most definitely correct on the lack of remorse or even self-doubt about the act: sixty-plus years later most Americans still believe those attacks were justified, that they were needed to end the war and 'save American lives.'
But not only does such a calculus suggest that American lives are inherently worth more than the lives of Japanese civilians (or, one supposes, Vietnamese, Iraqi or Afghan civilians too), but it also ignores the long-declassified documents, and President Truman's own war diaries, all of which indicate clearly that Japan had already signaled its desire to end the war, and that we knew they were going to surrender, even without the dropping of atomic weapons. The conclusion to which these truths then attest is simple, both in its basic veracity and it monstrousness: namely, that in those places we committed premeditated and deliberate mass murder, with no justification whatsoever; and yet for saying that I will receive more hate mail, more hostility, more dismissive and contemptuous responses than will those who suggest that no body count is too high when we're the ones doing th e killing. Jeremiah Wright becomes a pariah, because, you see, we much prefer the logic of George Bush the First, who once said that as President he would 'never apologize for the United States of America. I don't care what the facts are.'
And Wright didn't say blacks should be singing 'God Damn America.' He was suggesting that blacks owe little moral allegiance to a nation that has treated so many of them for so long as animals, as persons undeserving of dignity and respect, and which even now locks up hundreds of thousands of non-violent offenders (especially for drug possession), even while whites who do the same crimes (and according to the data, when it comes to drugs, more often in fact), are walking around free. His reference to God in that sermon was more about what God will do to such a nation, than it was about what should or shouldn't happen. It was a comment derived from, and fully in keeping with, the black prophetic tradition, and although one can surely disagree with the theology (I do, actually, and don't believe that any God either blesses or condemns nation states for their actions), the statement its elf was no call for blacks to turn on America. If anything, it was a demand that America earn the respect of black people, something the evidence and history suggests it has yet to do.
Finally, although one can certainly disagree with Wright about his suggestion that the government created AIDS to get rid of black folks--and I do, for instance--it is worth pointing out that Wright isn't the only one who has said this. In fact, none other than Bill Cosby (oh yes, that Bill Cosby, the one white folks love because of his recent moral crusade against the black poor) proffered his belief in the very same thing back in the early '90s in an interview on CNN, when he said that AIDS may well have been created to get rid of people whom the government deemed 'undesirable' including gays and racial minorities.
So that's the truth of the matter: Wright made one comment that is highly arguable, but which has also been voiced by white America's favorite black man, another that was horribly misinterpreted and stripped of all context, and then another that was demonstrably accurate. And for this, he is pilloried and made into a virtual enemy of the state; for this, Barack Obama may lose the support of just enough white folks to cost him the Democratic nomination, and/or the Presidency; all of it, because Jeremiah Wright, unlike most preachers opted for truth. If he had been one of those 'prosperity ministers' who says Jesus wants nothing so much as for you to be rich, like Joel Osteen, that would have been fine. Had he been a retread bigot like Falwell was, or Pat Robertson is, he might have been criticized, but he would have remained in good standing and surely not have damaged a Presidential candida te in this way. But unlike Osteen, and Falwell, and Robertson, Jeremiah Wright refused to feed his parishioners lies.
What Jeremiah Wright knows, and told his flock--though make no mistake, they already knew it--is that 9/11 was neither the first, nor worst act of terrorism on American soil. The history of this nation for folks of color, was for generations, nothing less than an intergenerational hate crime, one in which 9/11s were woven into the fabric of everyday life: hundreds of thousands of the enslaved who died from the conditions of their bondage; thousands more who were lynched (as many as 10,000 in the first few years after the Civil War, according to testimony in the Congressional Record at the time); millions of indigenous persons wiped off the face of the Earth. No, to some, the horror of 9/11 was not new. To some it was not on that day that 'everything changed.' To some, everything changed four hundred years ago, when that first ship landed at what would become Jamestown. To some, every thing changed when their ancestors were forced into the hulls of slave ships at Goree Island and brought to a strange land as chattel. To some, everything changed when they were run out of Northern Mexico, only to watch it become the Southwest United States, thanks to a war of annihilation initiated by the U.S. government. To some, being on the receiving end of terrorism has been a way of life. Until recently it was absolutely normal in fact.
But white folks have a hard time hearing these simple truths. We find it almost impossible to listen to an alternative version of reality. Indeed, what seems to bother white people more than anything, whether in the recent episode, or at any other time, is being confronted with the recognition that black people do not, by and large, see the world like we do; that black people, by and large, do not view America as white people view it. We are, in fact, shocked that this should be so, having come to believe, apparently, that the falsehoods to which we cling like a kidney patient clings to a dialysis machine, are equally shared by our darker-skinned compatriots.
This is what James Baldwin was talking about in his classic 1972 work, No Name in the Street, wherein he noted:
White children, in the main, and whether they are rich or poor, grow up with a grasp of reality so feeble that they can very accurately be described as deluded--about themselves and the world they live in. White people have managed to get through their entire lifetimes in this euphoric state, but black people have not been so lucky: a black man who sees the world the way John Wayne, for example, sees it would not be an eccentric patriot, but a raving maniac.
And so we were shocked in 1987, when Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall declined to celebrate the bicentennial of the Constitution, because, as he noted, most of that history had been one of overt racism and injustice, and to his way of thinking, the only history worth celebrating had been that of the past three or four decades.
We were shocked to learn that black people actually believed that a white cop who was a documented racist might frame a black man; and we're shocked to learn that lots of black folks still perceive the U.S. as a racist nation--we're literally stunned that people who say they experience discrimination regularly (and who have the social science research to back them up) actually think that those experiences and that data might actually say something about the nation in which they reside. Imagine.
Whites are easily shocked by what we see and hear from Pastor Wright and Trinity Church, because what we see and hear so thoroughly challenges our understanding of who we are as a nation. But black people have never, for the most part, believed in the imagery of the 'shining city on a hill,' for they have never had the option of looking at their nation and ignoring the mountain-sized warts still dotting its face when it comes to race. Black people do not, in the main, get misty eyed at the sight of the flag the way white people do--and this is true even for millions of black veterans--for they understand that the nation for whom that flag waves is still not fully committed to their own equality. They have a harder time singing those tunes that white people seem so eager to belt out, like 'God Bless America,' for they know that whites sang those words loudly and proudly even as they were enf orcing Jim Crow segregation, rioting against blacks who dared move into previously white neighborhoods, throwing rocks at Dr. King and then cheering, as so many did, when they heard the news that he had been assassinated.
Whites refuse to remember (or perhaps have never learned) that which black folks cannot afford to forget. I've seen white people stunned to the point of paralysis when they learn the truth about lynchings in this country--when they discover that such events were not just a couple of good old boys with a truck and a rope hauling some black guy out to the tree, hanging him, and letting him swing there. They were never told the truth: that lynchings were often community events, advertised in papers as 'Negro Barbecues,' involving hundreds or even thousands of whites, who would join in the fun, eat chicken salad and drink sweet tea, all while the black victims of their depravity were being hung, then shot, then burned, and then having their body parts cut off, to be handed out to onlookers. They are stunned to learn that postcards of the events were traded as souvenirs, and that very few whites , including members of their own families did or said anything to stop it.
Rather than knowing about and confronting the ugliness of our past, whites take steps to excise the less flattering aspects of our history so that we need not be bothered with them. So, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for example, site of an orgy of violence against the black community in 1921, city officials literally went into the town library and removed all reference to the mass killings in the Greenwood district from the papers with a razor blade--an excising of truth and an assault on memory that would remain unchanged for over seventy years.
Most white people desire, or perhaps even require the propagation of lies when it comes to our history. Surely we prefer the lies to anything resembling, even remotely, the truth. Our version of history, of our national past, simply cannot allow for the intrusion of fact into a worldview so thoroughly identified with fiction. But that white version of America is not only extraordinarily incomplete, in that it so favors the white experience to the exclusion of others; it is more than that; it is actually a slap in the face to people of color, a re-injury, a reminder that they are essentially irrelevant, their concerns trivial, their lives unworthy of being taken seriously. In that sense, and what few if any white Americans appear capable of grasping at present, is that 'Leave it to Beaver' and 'Father Knows Best,' portray an America so divorced from the reality of the times in which they wer e produced, as to raise serious questions about the sanity of those who found them so moving, so accurate, so real. These iconographic representations of life in the U.S. are worse than selective, worse than false, they are assaults to the humanity and memory of black people, who were being savagely oppressed even as June Cleaver did housework in heels and laughed about the hilarious hijinks of Beaver and Larry Mondello.
These portraits of America are certifiable evidence of how disconnected white folks were--and to the extent we still love them and view them as representations of the 'good old days' to which we wish we could return, still are--from those men and women of color with whom we have long shared a nation. Just two months before 'Leave it to Beaver' debuted, proposed civil rights legislation was killed thanks to Strom Thurmond's 24-hour filibuster speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate. One month prior, Arkansas Governor Orville Faubus called out the National Guard to block black students from entering Little Rock Central High; and nine days before America was introduced to the Cleavers, and the comforting image of national life they represented, those black students were finally allowed to enter, amid the screams of enraged, unhinged, viciously bigoted white people, who saw nothing wrong with calling children niggers in front of cameras. That was America of the 1950s: not the sanitized version into which so many escape thanks to the miracle of syndication, which merely allows white people to relive a lie, year after year after year.
No, it is not the pastor who distorts history; Nick at Nite and your teenager's textbooks do that. It is not he who casts aspersions upon 'this great country' as Barack Obama put it in his public denunciations of him; it is the historic leadership of the nation that has cast aspersions upon it; it is they who have cheapened it, who have made gaudy and vile the promise of American democracy by defiling it with lies. They engage in a patriotism that is pathological in its implications, that asks of those who adhere to it not merely a love of country but the turning of one's nation into an idol to be worshipped, if not literally, then at least in terms of consequence.
It is they--the flag-lapel-pin wearing leaders of this land--who bring shame to the country with their nonsensical suggestions that we are always noble in warfare, always well-intended, and although we occasionally make mistakes, we are never the ones to blame for anything. Nothing that happens to us has anything to do with us at all. It is always about them. They are evil, crazy, fanatical, hate our freedoms, and are jealous of our prosperity. When individuals prattle on in this manner we diagnose them as narcissistic, as deluded. When nations do it--when our nation does--we celebrate it as though it were the very model of rational and informed citizenship.
So what can we say about a nation that values lies more than it loves truth? A place where adherence to sincerely believed and internalized fictions allows one to rise to the highest offices in the land, and to earn the respect of millions, while a willingness to challenge those fictions and offer a more accurate counter-narrative earns one nothing but contempt, derision, indeed outright hatred? What we can say is that such a place is signing its own death warrant. What we can say is that such a place is missing the only and last opportunity it may ever have to make things right, to live up to its professed ideals. What we can say is that such a place can never move forward, because we have yet to fully address and come to terms with that which lay behind.
What can we say about a nation where white preachers can lie every week from their pulpits without so much as having to worry that their lies might be noticed by the shiny white faces in their pews, while black preachers who tell one after another essential truth are demonized, not only for the stridency of their tone--which needless to say scares white folks, who have long preferred a style of praise and worship resembling nothing so much as a coma--but for merely calling bullshit on those whose lies are swallowed whole?
And oh yes, I said it: white preachers lie. In fact, they lie with a skill, fluidity, and precision unparalleled in the history of either preaching or lying, both of which histories stretch back a ways and have often overlapped. They lie every Sunday, as they talk about a Savior they have chosen to represent dishonestly as a white man, in every picture to be found of him in their tabernacles, every children's story book in their Sunday Schools, every Christmas card they'll send to relatives and friends this December. But to lie about Jesus, about the one they consider God--to bear false witness as to who this man was and what he looked like--is no cause for concern.
Nor is it a problem for these preachers to teach and preach that those who don't believe as they believe are going to hell. Despite the fact that such a belief casts aspersions upon God that are so profound as to defy belief--after all, they imply that God is so fundamentally evil that he would burn non-believers in a lake of eternal fire--many of the white folks who now condemn Jeremiah Wright welcome that theology of hate. Indeed, back when President Bush was the Governor of Texas, he endorsed this kind of thinking, responding to a question about whether Jews were going to go to hell, by saying that unless one accepted Jesus as one's personal savior, the Bible made it pretty clear that indeed, hell was where you'd be heading.
So you can curse God in this way--and to imply such hate on God's part is surely to curse him--and in effect, curse those who aren't Christians, and no one says anything. That isn't considered bigoted. That isn't considered beyond the pale of polite society. One is not disqualified from becoming President in the minds of millions because they go to a church that says that shit every single week, or because they believe it themselves. And millions do believe it, and see nothing wrong with it whatsoever.
So white folks are mad at Jeremiah Wright because he challenges their views about their country. Meanwhile, those same white folks, and their ministers and priests, every week put forth a false image of the God Jeremiah Wright serves, and yet it is whites who feel we have the right to be offended.
Pardon me, but something is wrong here, and whatever it is, is not to be found at Trinity United Church of Christ.
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A black girl and a white girl were friends. The black girl slept over
the white girl's house.It was 3 a.m., and they were still up.
The white girl's mother came downstairs and said, "Honey, don't you
think it's time for you to go to bed?"
The white girl responded, "Shut up Mother, I don't want to go to sleep!"
Her mother said, "Okay, honey. You can go to bed later."The black girl
was very intrigued by what happened and decided to use that when she
got home.
The next night the black girl's mother said to the black girl,
"Girl, go to bed! It's late!"
The black girl shouted, "Shut up Momma, I don't want to go to sleep!"
The black girl's mother took one look at her & raised her eyebrow......
The black girl started to blink, looked around, and asked, "Where am I?"
A lady came over to the bed and answered, "You're in the Intensive Care Unit!" |
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The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112
If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile, network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked. Try it out.
Have you locked your keys in the car?
Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday.
Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock.
It saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other 'remote' for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk).
Hidden Battery Power
Imagine your cell battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370# your cell will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your cell next time.
How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?
To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 #, a 15 digit code appears on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. When your phone gets stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless. You probably won't get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either. If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.
And Finally....
Free Directory Service for Cells
Cell phone companies are charging us $1.00 to $1.75 or more for 411 information calls when they don't have to. Most of us do not carry a telephone directory in our vehicle, which makes this situation even more of a problem. When you need to use the 411 information option, simply dial: (800) FREE
411, or (800) 373-3411 without incurring any charge at all.
Program this into your cell phone now. |
"A White Woman's Opinion" |
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This is a white women's opinion of black women & a black man's
response. Please take a moment and read this. You might have seen this before as it has been creating quite a stir all over the internet. As a favor to the readers of my pages I decided to include it on the ScurvOriginalz website. It's Pretty Deep! Thumbs up to this black man whose feelings toward our beautiful Queens are not represented enough in the media. It seems that an article was written to Sister 2 Sister magazine by a Caucasian woman who requested a response from black men. I'm so glad she got What she asked for and so much more!!!
Dear Jamie:
I'm sorry but I would like to challenge some of your
Black male readers. I am a White female who is engaged to a Black
male who is good looking, very educated and extremely loving. I just don't understand a lot of the Black female's attitudes about our relationship.
My man decided he wanted me because the pickings
amongst Black women were slim to none. As he said they were either too loud, too mean, too argumentative, too needy, too materialistic or
carrying too much excess baggage.
Before I became engaged, whenever I went out I was constantly approached by Black men, willing to wine and dine me and give me the world.
But if Black women are so up in arms about us being with their men, why don't they look at themselves and make some changes. I am tired of the dirty looks I get and snide remarks when we're out in public. I would like to hear from some Black men about why we are so appealing and coveted by them. Bryant Gumbel just left his wife of 26 years for one of us.......
.......Charles Barkley, Scottie Pippen, the model Tyson Beckford, Montell Williams, Quincy Jones, James Earl Jones, Harry Belafonte, Sydney Poitier, Kofi Anan, Cuba Gooding Jr.,
Don Cornelius, Berry Gordy, Billy Blanks, Larry Fishburne, Wesley Snipes.......
.......I could go on and on. But, right now, I'm a little
angry and that is why I wrote this so hurriedly.
Don't be mad with us White women because so many of your men want us. Get your acts together and learn from us and we may lead you to treat your men better. If I'm wrong, Black men, let me know.
Signed,
A Very Disgusted White Girl, Somewhere in Virginia .......
Dear Jamie:
I would like to respond to the letter written by A
Disgusted White Girl.
Let me start by saying that I am a 28-year old black man. I graduated from one of the most prestigious universities in Atlanta ,
Georgia with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Management. I have a good job at a major corporation and have recently purchased a house. So, I consider myself to be among the ranks of successful black men. I will not use my precious time to slander white people.
I just want to set the record straight of why black
men date white women. Back in the day, one of the biggest reasons why black men dated white women was because they were considered easy.
The black girls in my neighborhood were raised in the church. They were very strict about when they lost their virginity and who they lost it to.
Because of our impatience to wait, brothers would look for
someone who would give it up easy without too much hassle. So, they turned to the white girls.
Nowadays, in my opinion, a lot of brothers date
white women because they are docile and easy to control. A lot of black men, because of insecurities, fears,
and overall weaknesses, have become intimidated by the strength of our black women. We are afraid that our woman will be more
successful than us, make more money than us, drive nicer cars and own bigger houses. Because of this fear, many black men look for a more docile
woman. Someone we can control. I have talked to numerous black men and they continuously comment on how easy it is to control and walk over their white women. I just want to set the record straight. I want A Disgusted White Girl to know that not all successful black men date white women.
Brothers like
Ahmad Rashad, Denzel Washington, Michael Jordan, Morris Chestnut, Will Smith, Blair Underwood, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Samuel L. Jackson, and Chris Rock all married strong black women And, to flip the script, there are numerous white men, in and out of the spot light, who openly or secretly desire black women over white women. Ted Danson, Robert Deniro, and David Bowie to name a few.
I just don't want a disgusted white girl to be misinformed Stop thinking that because you are white that you are some type of goddess. Remember, when black Egyptian
Queens like Hatsepshut and Nitorcris were ruling Dynasties and armies of men in Egypt, you were over in the caves of Europe eating raw meat and beating each other over the head with clubs. Read your history!
It was the black woman that taught you how to cook
and season your food. It was the black woman that taught you how to raise your children. It was black women who were breast feeding and raising your babies during slavery. It is the black woman that had to endure watching their fathers, husbands, and children beaten, killed, and thrown in jail.
Black women were born with two strikes against them: being black and being a woman.
And , through all this, Still They Rise! It is because of the black women's
strength, elegance, power, love and beauty that I could never date anyone except my Black Queen. It is not just the outer beauty that captivates and draws me to them.
It is not the fact that they come in all shapes, sizes, colors and
shades that I love them. Their inner beauty is what I find most appealing
about black women. Their strong
spirit, loving and nurturing souls, their integrity,
their ability to overcome great obstacles, their willingness to stand for what they believe in, and their determination to succeed and reach
their highest potential while enduring great pain and suffering is why I have fallen in love with black women.
I honestly believe that your anger is geared more toward jealousy and envy more so than snotty looks. If this were not so, then why
do you continuously go to tanning salons to darken your
skin? If you are so proud to be white, then why don't you just be happy with your pale skin? Why do you continue to
inject your lips, hips, and breasts with unnatural and dangerous substances so
you can look fuller and more voluptuous?
I think that your anger is really a result of you
wanting to have what the black
woman has.
BOTTOM LINE: If I were looking for a docile woman,
someone I can walk over and
control, I would give you a call.
But,
"unfortunately", I am looking for a
Virtuous Woman. Someone that can be a good wife and mother to my children.
Someone who can be my best friend and understands my struggles. I am looking for a soul mate. I am looking for a sister and;
unfortunately, you do not and CANNOT fit the bill. No offense taken, none
given.......
Signed,
"Black Royalty" |
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How Bill Clinton Made Obama Into a King
by Dr. Boyce Watkins
www.BoyceWatkins.com All the polls said that South Carolina was supposed to be close. Televised specials on black female conflict between race and gender were all over the airwaves, and it was concluded that South Carolina would be a battle ground between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. The problem was that the poll in my gut said the race wouldn’t be close at all. Barack Obama was going to win, and he was going to win big. Don’t get me wrong, Hillary Clinton has her supporters. I also expect that she has a strong chance to win the Democratic nomination. But truth be told, black people have made their decision. Obama is loved by nearly all black folks, rich or poor, educated or not, old and young. As my 18 year old God daughter (who knows far more about BET than the Presidential election) said to me the other day, "Barack Obama is my n*gga. I looooove that man!" While I didn't completely agree with her method of expression, I am a fan of free speech. Sorry if her choice of words offends you. Black people are not supporting Barack Obama because he is black. Like everyone else, they support Obama because he is one of their most cherished Americans. Bill Clinton, the alleged “First Black President” showed the true colors behind the “benevolent overseer” mentality the Clintons have used to control the black vote. Black voters “belonged” to the Clintons, so how dare Senator Obama step in and try to take the driver’s seat? He surely could have, as many African-American leaders have done, received a top notch seat in Clinton’s cabinet, or been positioned as one of Clinton’s valued channels into the black community. But choosing the high road meant alot more than just being a nice guy. It implies that he believes himself to be destined for the highest office in the land. Unlike many of us, Obama doesn't quite seem to "know his place". Bill Clinton thoroughly embarrassed himself, and his wife, on national TV. Attacking Obama at every turn only showed his true colors as it pertains to people of color. Using the typically negative, nasty political and psychological manipulation we’ve seen in the past, former President Clinton reminded America that he and his wife are simply politicians on a mission, willing to say anything or hurt anyone in order to get a vote. Obama came out smelling like a rose, and all of America is sniffing. He is being compared to John F. Kennedy, even by Kennedy’s daughter herself. Barack Obama has been patient, yet firm and has refused to engage in verbal political violence, even after being baited, beaten, bombarded and berated by Bill and Hillary Clinton. Martin Luther King is smiling in his grave, as the Clintons have made Obama into a political Ghandi. I am not sure who is going to win this race, but Obama’s blowout victory in South Carolina made a clear statement. Black people, as a collective, have abandoned the Clintons. They will support Hillary if she gets the nomination, but will only tolerate her the same way an abused woman would tolerate her husband after he has murdered her romantic lover. The relationship has gone flat, the honeymoon is over. Barack Obama has become the First Black President.
Dr. Boyce Watkins is a Finance Professor at Syracuse University and author of "What if George Bush were a Black Man?" He is a regular contributor to national media, including CNN, ESPN, CBS, FOX and MSNBC. For more information, please visit www.BoyceWatkins.com. |
HOW TO KNOW YOU’RE AT A BLACK CHURCH! |
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1. Service starts at 11 a.m., but, 50% of the members arrive at 11:20 a.m.
2. All the cars in the parking lot have been freshly washed and waxed
3. The pastor doesn't come out until 45 minuts after service has started
4. The choir discusses for 10 minutes over which song to sing
5. The choir sings the song, but the musician doesn't know how to play it
6. The parents whip their kids during worship
7. The congregation has to help the announcement clerk pronounce the words in the church bulletin
8. Two of the church deacons have gold teeth
9. The members socialize and speak during the tithes and offering period
10. When church is over no one discusses the pastor's message, they just compliment each others outfits and hair
12. Members give $20 for offering, but stand there waiting for $18 in change back
13. The single women give each other signals when a handsome guest minster is invited
14. You find notes after church that read: "That’s not her hair"; "Who is that baby’s daddy"; "He need to sit down"; "What did you fix for dinner"; "I know she ain't got that on"; "Let me borrow a $1 for offering"
15. It takes 8 deacons 2 hours to count $400
16. There is a slot on the tithe envelope marked "Building Fund"
17. That afternoon service is either: Choir Day, Usher Day, or Men and Women's Day!
18. The Pastor's teenage kids never attend church
19. The Pastor's car has either a rag top or rims
20. The women have on expensive heels, but have house shoes in their bags
21. You see more than 5 people pass someone gum or peppermint
22. Someone will feed a baby cheetos, sugar cookies, crackers, or vanilla waffers in the sanctuary!
23. Someone will wear white in December
24. Men will have on suits in the color of bright yellow, lime green, hot pink, sky blue, and candy apple red with shoes to match!
25. People will have a $80 bible, but will have to look in the table of contents to find the text of the pastor's message
Go to church Sunday, and see if you are in a real black church! |
The Mayonnaise Jar & The Two Cups Of Coffee....... |
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When things in your lives seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 cups of coffee. A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was. The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with an unanimous "yes." The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed. "Now," said the professor as the laughter subsided, "I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things--your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions--and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car. The sand is everything else--the small stuff. "If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued, "there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important. "Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your spouse out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal. Take care of the golf balls first--the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand." One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented. The professor smiled. "I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend." |
Sex in the Workplace:
Have You Ever? Did You Ever? Were You Ever Tempted? Was It Worth It? Did Anyone Find Out? Was There Drama? Were You Fired? Why Did You Do It? Did It Fizzle? Was It True Love? Are You Still Friends? Do You Still Talk? Was It Good? Do You Regret It? Was It Thrilling? Where Did You Do It? What Did You Do? When Did You First Realize The Attraction? Who Made The First Move? Were You Involved With A Significant Other When It Happened? Would You Do It Again?........... |
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"In my personal opinion, sex in the workplace is a situation that shouldn't happen." Adina Black's Thoughts:
Sex in the workplace is a touchy subject (no pun intended). As employees, we spend most of our time with our co-workers and everyone knows that when you spend enough time with someone, something is going to happen. You are either going to dislike the other person even more than you did, or you're gonna find yourself attracted to this other person. We have all types of relationships with the various people in our lives, some of them cross over so the lines between what's allowed and what's not are often blurred.
The potential for a sexual encounter in the workplace to occur is heightened when you align that person with something you admire in a potential or present mate. For example: I love smart men. I think intellect is a sign of open-minded thinking and that's admirable and very attractive. I found myself attracted to someone I worked with. He reminded me of the guy I was dating at the time, so us getting to the point where we were planning our breaks around the same time wasn't a shock. I enjoyed talking with him because he wasn't a "yes" man. He was very opinionated and supported his views with facts, not just emotional arguments. It was a very intense situation because I respected him but I was also attracted to him. My boyfriend at the time wasn't too concerned with spending time with me, so I seeked conversation and intellectual stimulation from someone else.
We never crossed the line and allowed things to become more than a workplace friendship but I can't say if the opportunity presented itself under the right circumstances, whether I would have stopped it. We were both involved so the thought of us getting together was never even discussed. In retrospect, I guess his decision to remain loyal to his relationship was also part of the reason I was attracted to him. I admired the type of man he was and often felt because we met in the workplace, it was never meant to be more than a passing thought.
In my personal opinion, sex in the workplace is a situation that shouldn't happen. It shouldn't even be considered because sexual feelings are based on temporary needs and most work environments last longer than sexual flings. Because of competition, higher standards, technology, and countless other stressors in the workplace, adding sex to the equation is like leaving a thief in a jewelry store... The thief will be pleased by the instant gratification but what follows his good fortune usually ain't worth what it cost to get. Plus logically, let's think about what it takes to have "good" sex: Mental stimulation, flirting, body language and the obvious act! Now, in the workplace, where your performance is monitored by haters, supervisors, the "higher ups" etc, do you really wanna be distracted from meeting a deadline or performing to the best of your abilities because you're fantasizing about "performing to the best of your abilities?" I guess you need to ask yourself a few questions before you decide to bed your attraction:
1. If you get fired for breaking the morals clause in your contract, is he/she going to support you until you find another job?
2. What are you going to do if you find out that you're not the only person he/she is sleeping with at work?
3. Are you sexually emotional? meaning, do you get emotionally attached to the people you sleep with?
4. Will this fling/relationship put your company in jeopardy for lawsuits, or public embarrassment and how will that affect your present job and future advancement plans?
In conclusion, I have to honestly say I've never met a man who had a penis that was worth a 401k!
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"Personally, on every single job I have ever worked on, there was someone there covertly engaging in sexual activity with another co-worker"
Scurv's Thoughts:
Why should sex in the workplace be a touchy subject? Evidently it is not something that is not THAT repulsive. If it was, folks wouldn’t be doing it in every conceivable workplace in record numbers whether it be an office job or a warehouse gig, from the CEO level to the labor pool.
Adina Black is right when she said that you would either like the person more or dislike them more due to the amount of time you spend with them. Personally, on every single job I have ever worked on, there was someone there covertly engaging in sexual activity with another co-worker. Across the board, they always felt as if “no one knew”. But oh how they were wrong! I just always seemed to have that knack for having information and revelations like that fall right into my lap. And admittedly, I have first hand experience as one who has also indulged and it was not the smartest of actions and I take full responsibility for thinking with the wrong head.
But I will tell you this, men being the predators that they are and most not having any strength in this area makes any job a breeding ground for on the job sex training. Guys know exactly what they are doing, the lines never get blurred, they know exactly what they want and what they are doing.
While some men may have circumstances in their lives that may open them to a potential fling on their job to make up for some real or imagined void, most are not looking to some “intangible quality” that may make the women attractive to them in their minds eye other than booty, breast, thighs and how skilled their well glossed lips can do for them down below.
Most men are perpetually horny sex crazed chronic meat beaters. You ladies don’t think so?
Then leave a room full of men with a recording device on in your handbag while you take a twenty minute break and don’t be shocked as those same polite and professional males enter into a dialogue that will bedazzle you to thinking they were card carrying certified class “A” perverts! But they will “act” in a way that is so pleasing to you until you will be in a position where you want to give him some loving because you will swear up and down that “he is different” .
Now as far as Adina’s friendship went with her co-worker. That was a unique situation because Adina Black is a strong Black woman of character. Do you think these types of men that I described above would “try” her in such a manner? I think not! Men will only try you once before they see that they cannot “play” with you in such a manner, and then for the most part once they sense your sincerity and conviction to live a virtuous life, they will then feel stupid and leave you alone….And in time appear to be so respectful of you that you may have to wonder if that event ever happened when he tried to push up on you.
But what of the “easy to influence” ditzy type of woman who may be attention starved? These wayward men could pick up on a woman’s deficiencies so fast and cater to them quicker than a fly finds a fresh pile of Sugar Honey Iced Tea to land on!
But I must take time to mention the faithful, loving men that are out here who respect women and are fine examples of what a man should be. They may not be perfect and may be tempted at times, but for the most part they have withstood the tests and fiery furnaces that the world can put on you as a man.
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Usually with schizophrenia, the person's inner world and behavior change notably. Behavior changes might include the following: Social withdrawal, Depersonalization (intense anxiety and a feeling of being unreal), Loss of appetite, Loss of hygiene, Delusions, Hallucinations (eg, hearing things not actually present), The sense of being controlled by outside forces
A person with schizophrenia may not have any outward appearance of being ill. In other cases, the illness may be more apparent, causing bizarre behaviors. For example, a person with schizophrenia may wear aluminum foil in the belief that it will stop one's thoughts from being broadcasted and protect against malicious waves entering the brain.
People with schizophrenia vary widely in their behavior as they struggle with an illness beyond their control. In active stages, those affected may ramble in illogical sentences or react with uncontrolled anger or violence to a perceived threat. People with schizophrenia may also experience relatively passive phases of the illness in which they seem to lack personality, movement, and emotion (also called a flat affect). People with schizophrenia may alternate in these extremes. Their behavior may or may not be predictable.
In order to better understand schizophrenia, the concept of clusters of symptoms is often used. Thus, people with schizophrenia can experience symptoms that may be grouped under the following categories:
Positive symptoms - Hearing voices, suspiciousness, feeling under constant surveillance, delusions, or making up words without a meaning (neologisms).
Negative (or deficit) symptoms - Social withdrawal, difficulty in expressing emotions (in extreme cases called blunted affect), difficulty in taking care of themselves, inability to feel pleasure (These symptoms cause severe impairment and are often mistaken for laziness.)
Cognitive symptoms - Difficulties attending to and processing of information | | | |
