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Kanye West's spring line debut 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Leslie Jones McCloud) — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:49:00 +0000

This event happened in October--the post was dated October. I've been MIA. Nice Work Mr. West. Love, love, love the shoes and the extreame plunge and bandage dresses. Double-triple threat! (Where de knock-offs @? I want those shoes! They look like a warm way to wear strappy sandals.)

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KANYE WEST’S FASHION LINE DEBUT (Dw S/S 2012)

Kanye West debuted his highly anticipated Womenswear Ready -to -Wear collection in Paris to very mixed reviews (hey he’s a rapper so the criticism is definitely going to be tough) and a very well attended high fashion event as only Kanye could have pulled off. In the front row were the likes of Ciara, The Olsen Twins, Lindsey Lohan, Anna Wintour, Jeremy Scott, Alexander Wang and many more. Models such as Chanel Iman, Jourdan Dunn, Abbey Lee Kershaw and Karlie Kloss hit the runway in the new ‘Dw’ collection, named after his late mother Donde West who passed in 2007.

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noreply@blogger.com (Leslie Jones McCloud) — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:47:00 +0000

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noreply@blogger.com (Leslie Jones McCloud) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:41:00 +0000

Uh Oh! Claims of "lawlessness" against Lybian rebels http://amplify.com/u/a1gufm

Uh Oh! Claims of "lawlessness" against Lybian rebels

noreply@blogger.com (Leslie Jones McCloud) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:41:00 +0000

Weren't prisons destroyed at the start of the rebellion?

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"When they said Libya
Free, they meant the cars, the refrigerators and the flat-screen television
sets," runs one joke doing the rounds in Tripoli's cafes. Stories of
gunmen taking expensive cars at checkpoints, giving receipts saying they
will be returned after the revolution, are nervously swapped over cups of
tea.

Libya dispatch: as lawlessness spreads, are the rebel 'good guys' turning bad?

Once welcomed as liberators, Libya's rebel fighters are beginning to outstay
their welcome in Tripoli.

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noreply@blogger.com (Leslie Jones McCloud) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:40:00 +0000

Tiger Woods’ ex-caddie drops racist comment about former boss http://amplify.com/u/a1gs99

Tiger Woods’ ex-caddie drops racist comment about former boss

noreply@blogger.com (Leslie Jones McCloud) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:40:00 +0000

"My aim was to shove it right up that black ---hole," Williams said.

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Fri Nov 04 09:23pm EDT

Tiger Woods’ ex-caddie drops racist comment about former boss

By Shane Bacon

Via The Telegraph ...

"My aim was to shove it right up that black ---hole," Williams said.
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noreply@blogger.com (Leslie Jones McCloud) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:26:00 +0000

Woods says he’s healthy, ready to improve play http://amplify.com/u/a1gs7g

Woods says he’s healthy, ready to improve play

noreply@blogger.com (Leslie Jones McCloud) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:26:00 +0000

SINGAPORE (AP)—Tiger Woods believes he’s ready to return to top form after shaking off injuries that have undermined his performance for the last two years.

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SINGAPORE (AP)—Tiger Woods believes he’s ready to return to top form after
shaking off injuries that have undermined his performance for the last two
years.

The former world No. 1 says that he has been practicing frequently and
getting his playing instincts back.

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“The last couple of years, I haven’t really played as well as I’d like,”
Woods said Thursday during a one-day stopover in Singapore. “I made some
changes in my swing and I’ve obviously been hurt and that kind of added to it.

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noreply@blogger.com (Leslie Jones McCloud) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:21:00 +0000

Michael Jordan steps away from U.S. Presidents Cup team http://amplify.com/u/a1gs6h

Michael Jordan steps away from U.S. Presidents Cup team

noreply@blogger.com (Leslie Jones McCloud) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:21:00 +0000

The NBA lockout has claimed another victim: Michael Jordan's vice-captaincy at the Presidents Cup--His Airness.

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The NBA lockout has claimed another victim: Michael Jordan's vice-captaincy at the Presidents Cup.

Jordan, a decent-enough golfer who's had a touch more success in other fields, announced Wednesday that he won't be accompanying the U.S. team to Australia to play in the biennial competition. Jordan had served as one of Fred Couples' assistants during the team's victorious 2009 effort, motivating the troops and providing some complementary star power to Tiger Woods, who was still weeks away from the hydrant and everything after.

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noreply@blogger.com (Leslie Jones McCloud) — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:23:00 +0000

Arackdent Barack Obama is the Most Powerful Man on the Face of the Planet http://amplify.com/u/a1gipf

Arackdent Barack Obama is the Most Powerful Man on the Face of the Planet

noreply@blogger.com (Leslie Jones McCloud) — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:23:00 +0000

Barack Obama topped Forbes' list of the world's most powerful people in 2011, as the U.S. leader's clout rose after the deaths of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

Obama bumped Chinese President Hu Jintao from the No. 1 spot on the magazine's annual rankings.

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"blacklisted"

noreply@blogger.com (Leslie Jones McCloud) — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 10:32:00 +0000

read.

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Anderson said he never questioned the culture of corruption because he feared ruining his career.
"I didn't want to get, as I said, blacklisted from other undercovers, where I wouldn't be able to go out with my teams, or other undercovers wouldn't want to work with me," he said.

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noreply@blogger.com (Leslie Jones McCloud) — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 10:31:00 +0000

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noreply@blogger.com (Leslie Jones McCloud) — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:38:00 +0000

California budget cuts http://amplify.com/u/a1eox1

California budget cuts

noreply@blogger.com (Leslie Jones McCloud) — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:37:00 +0000

Why is this mentally disabled woman wandering around alone and defenseless in a California mall? Where is her caregiver? Look at what California and GOP budget cuts have brought us. Please view the video and read the comments on the site. #reasontooccupy

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OCTOBER 11--Police are reviewing a viral video that shows unprovoked attacks on a confused California woman who was battered as she wandered around a strip mall.

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#Seriously #GOP Mitt--come on! What happened to economic parity?

noreply@blogger.com (Leslie Jones McCloud) — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:36:00 +0000

The Value Voters Summit: showcased GOP candidate Mitt Romney's wise decision making:
I promise more food stamps for married people and I promise to make baby daddies marry their baby mommas.
Notice no promise of economic parity between the classes. No plan to create jobs, just more incentive to marry by offering increased food stamp amounts. Seriously? In a campaign speech, he says this? It's a good policy if the plan is paid for but to say it in a campaign speech seems odd and poorly thought out. He's not ready yet.
Go Obama 2012! You have no contenders! Are you our smartest president ever or what?!

Occupy Wall Street/New York/Chicago word of the day: Bourgeoisie

noreply@blogger.com (Leslie Jones McCloud) — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:59:00 +0000

Bourgeoisie

The bourgeoisie are a class within a society which own the means of production. The bourgeoisie own private property and businesses as capital. They are considered to be the elite ruling class. This group of people form the basis for the idea of a capitalist society, where private citizens control the buying and selling of goods and services, as opposed to a socialist or communist based economy where the means of production is controlled and distributed by the government.

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Occupy! Live Feeds/Chicago

noreply@blogger.com (Leslie Jones McCloud) — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:08:00 +0000

noreply@blogger.com (Leslie Jones McCloud) — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 02:46:00 +0000

Blacks gripe about lack of money, parity -- not the president http://amplify.com/u/a1dw1p

Blacks gripe about lack of money, parity -- not the president

noreply@blogger.com (Leslie Jones McCloud) — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 02:46:00 +0000

yahoo contributor network buried this story all the way in the back of some blog and called it "old news" in the web address. i guess if it has nothing to do with the majority it is of little interest to them. whatever.

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COMMENTARY | The Congressional Black Caucus awards dinner address by President Barack Obama last weekend has been a long time coming. President Obama told us all throughout the 2008 presidential campaign election that he was tough but many didn't understand how tough. We don't have any guidance on the issue of what can happen during the term of the nation's first black president.

As an Obama supporter, I had grand ideas and definitions to frame the first black presidency. However, I was just glad I did not have to explain to my then-9-year-old son why a black man had never been president.

Internationally, people realized Obama is the American president and our needs in this country are his first priority. Some did not like that. Blacks privately thought we would come up a notch or two --at least in how the world views us -- but no, it is pretty much the same -- just more vocal.
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noreply@blogger.com (Leslie Jones McCloud) — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:03:00 +0000

CA college bake sale a teachable moment http://amplify.com/u/a1dl2s

CA college bake sale a teachable moment

noreply@blogger.com (Leslie Jones McCloud) — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:03:00 +0000

This weekend on TJ Holmes' CNN show, there was an interesting segment on a young man, a college group and a college bake sale. It wasn't that baked goods are fattening but the price list for said baked goods.

White men pay $2 for a cookie as opposed to a Native American woman who would pay nothing. Ask a NA woman the last time she got anything of value that she wanted for free. Right.

I guess the point is white men have to pay for every other minority including women, are at the top of the pecking order or are better than everyone else, deserve to not have to consider anyone other than themselves, etc. The bake sale price list says lots of things this young man is in agreement with and he doesn't even know it. That is just how young he is. Look at what this doe-eyed little guy is admitting. It's would be almost sweet if it wasn't so painfully wrong.

Instead of getting on the college student for verbalizing a long standing notion, why don't we teach several valuable lessons from this bake sale list?

I did not hear why the young man thinks white men should pay $2 while a black woman would only end up paying .50 cent. Is it because the black female is near the bottom of the pecking order and needs the help?

I didn't hear the why asked but do realize that this young man is not the only one who thinks this way. In his mind, a black female would carry less value than a white male--as women do overall because all women get a free pass of a quarter discount.

This same type of little boy is in charge of hiring at various places around the country as he is considered a great white hope. Whites place lots of value on their youth and put them in places of authority.

How frequently do you think a young man such as this will hire a black person for anything anywhere -- especially an older black in which he naturally has nothing in common? Many times blacks have to leave their community to seek employment because there is scant little business economy where they live because blacks do not usually have ownership in their own neighborhoods. (Go take a look if you don't believe me.) So we end up looking for work where that young man lives and we already know how he feels about the matter.

Think about that because it is for this reason the black unemployment rate is hovering at 17 percent. It is for this reason blacks need to own more things so they can hire more people. As long as I am in line at his bake sale I guess I have to play by his rules, eh? Well, I cannot get any younger or turn white but whilst I'm in line, I'll be looking. I'm looking for some other bake sales until I can get my own up and running in a few generations.

Also notice the pecking order itself. In this free society, are you in agreement with it? The people at the bottom actually pay more for everything in every way, are naturally disrespected and marginalized by society, usually offered nothing -- even a place in line at the bake sale. The bottom of the totem pole is a place for misfit toys, in effect, and everyone knows no kid wants a misfit toy. The bottom of anything serves as a rock and an a foundation and we all know black don't crack. I also noticed that classism and capitalism is a great neutralizer because blacks and NA with money can climb to the top of the list and be considered like whites because they will have power like whites.

Also, women are judged by their beauty because their attractiveness to a man is their worth, like a hood ornament or a doll, and most NA are considered to be like whites because most who we see are blended with Caucasian. Black Indians look like me--a black person--just like black Puerto Ricans, Brazilians etc.

It is sad that it takes a college bake sale to spawn a discussion on race and class but again, where would you fall on the bake sale list and do you agree?

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On Upper Sproul Plaza, where free speech reigns supreme, the Berkeley College Republicans have scheduled a bake sale where the price of a cookie or a brownie depends on your gender and the color of your skin.
The price of a baked good costs $2 for white people, $1.50 if you're Asian, $1 for Latinos, 75 cents for African-Americans and 25 cents for Native Americans.
Women get a discount of 25 cents.
Club president Shawn Lewis planned the event.
"The pricing structure is there to bring attention, to cause people to get a little upset," said Lewis. "But it's really there to cause people to think more critically about what this kind of policy would do in university admissions."
Lewis says the bake sale is the club's way of taking a stand against pending legislation that would let the University of California consider a student's race or national origin during the admission process.
The bake sale wasn't the first of its kind: A similar pricing structure was used for a similar sale in 2009 at Purdue, and the same year, another similar bake sale was held at Bucknell before it was shut down by school officials.
The nasty comments began as soon as the event was posted by Lewis on Facebook. Lewis said several members who created the event have been threatened.
The response was so strong and so negative, the College Republicans group canceled their usual lunchtime tabling at their usual spot for fear their volunteers would be harassed.
"It certainly is stirring emotions," said Lewis, "and that's what we want, but we certainly don't want people to think that we're making fun of racial issues or laughing at them because that's not the message of the bake sale."
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noreply@blogger.com (Leslie Jones McCloud) — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:42:00 +0000

Everybody has to pay their fair share http://amplify.com/u/a1d5fs

Everybody has to pay their fair share

noreply@blogger.com (Leslie Jones McCloud) — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:42:00 +0000

Today the President spoke on the American Jobs Act and for how it will be financed. It will will be a balance of restructuring social programs, the tax code and rescinding temporary tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans and wealthiest American companies because they don't need them anymore.

The GOP is fussy about the tax breaks because they want the wealthiest to continue to get them. The President said it s time to live within our means without starving the poorest Americans in the process.

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A week ago today, I sent Congress the American Jobs Act. It’s a plan that will lead to new jobs for teachers, for construction workers, for veterans, and for the unemployed. It will cut taxes for every small business owner and virtually every working man and woman in America. And the proposals in this jobs bill are the kinds that have been supported by Democrats and Republicans in the past. So there shouldn’t be any reason for Congress to drag its feet. They should pass it right away. I'm ready to sign a bill. I've got the pens all ready.

Now, as I said before, Congress should pass this bill knowing that every proposal is fully paid for. The American Jobs Act will not add to our nation’s debt. And today, I’m releasing a plan that details how to pay for the jobs bill while also paying down our debt over time.

And this is important, because the health of our economy depends in part on what we do right now to create the conditions where businesses can hire and middle-class families can feel a basic measure of economic security. But in the long run, our prosperity also depends on our ability to pay down the massive debt we’ve accumulated over the past decade in a way that allows us to meet our responsibilities to each other and to the future.

During this past decade, profligate spending in Washington, tax cuts for multi-millionaires and billionaires, the cost of two wars, and the recession turned a record surplus into a yawning deficit, and that left us with a big pile of IOUs. If we don’t act, that burden will ultimately fall on our children’s shoulders. If we don’t act, the growing debt will eventually crowd out everything else, preventing us from investing in things like education, or sustaining programs like Medicare.

So Washington has to live within its means. The government has to do what families across this country have been doing for years. We have to cut what we can’t afford to pay for what really matters. We need to invest in what will promote hiring and economic growth now while still providing the confidence that will come with a plan that reduces our deficits over the long-term.
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Conversations for the People

Kanye West's spring line debut 2012

KANYE WEST’S FASHION LINE DEBUT (Dw S/S 2012)

Uh Oh! Claims of "lawlessness" against Lybian rebels

Libya dispatch: as lawlessness spreads, are the rebel 'good guys' turning bad?

Once welcomed as liberators, Libya's rebel fighters are beginning to outstay their welcome in Tripoli.

Tiger Woods’ ex-caddie drops racist comment about former boss

Tiger Woods’ ex-caddie drops racist comment about former boss

Woods says he’s healthy, ready to improve play

Michael Jordan steps away from U.S. Presidents Cup team

Arackdent Barack Obama is the Most Powerful Man on the Face of the Planet

"blacklisted"

California budget cuts

#Seriously #GOP Mitt--come on! What happened to economic parity?

Occupy Wall Street/New York/Chicago word of the day: Bourgeoisie

Occupy! Live Feeds/Chicago

Blacks gripe about lack of money, parity -- not the president

CA college bake sale a teachable moment

Everybody has to pay their fair share

Once welcomed as liberators, Libya's rebel fighters are beginning to outstay
their welcome in Tripoli.