In 1986, Richie released Dancing on the Ceiling, his last widely popular album, which produced a run of US and UK hits including “Say You, Say Me” (U.S. #1), “Dancing on the Ceiling” (U.S. #2), “Ballerina Girl” (U.S. #7), and “Se La” (U.S. #20), Richie’s most recent U.S. Pop Top 20 hit. The title selection was accompanied by a video directed by Stanley Donen, which drew inspiration from Royal Wedding,[citation needed] a 1951 Fred Astaire film Donen had directed. The critical consensus was that this album represented nothing more than a consolidation of his previous work, though Richie’s collaboration with the country group Alabama on “Deep River Woman” did break new ground. By 1987, Richie was exhausted from his work schedule and after a controversial year laid low, taking care of his father in Alabama. His father, Lionel Sr., died in 1990. Richie made his return to recording and performing following the release of his first greatest-hits collection, Back to Front, in 1992.
Since then, his ever-more-relaxed schedule has kept his recording and live work to a minimum. He broke the silence in 1996 with Louder Than Words, on which he resisted any change of style or the musical fashion-hopping of the past decade, sticking instead with his chosen path of well-crafted soul music, which in the intervening years has become known as contemporary R&B.
Richie’s albums in the 1990s such as Louder Than Words and Time failed to match the commercial success of his earlier work. Some of his recent albums, such as Renaissance, have returned to his older style and achieved success in Europe but only modest notice in the United States. Since 2004, he has produced a total of six Top 40 singles in the UK.
https://twitter.com/activestills/status/416985059954941952/photo/1
So white pathology rears its ugly head again
So I’m sure a lot of you have heard about the ridiculous ‘artistic event’ that some are calling a ‘feminist gathering’ being held at a plantation, hosted by Ani DiFranco. Well shits hitting the fan on the Facebook page after some woman kept dismissing the critiques of black women about the insensitivity and thoughtlessness of the location. This person then made a fake account impersonating a black woman. Below are screen shots of the wreck.
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This is how far white women are willing to go to silence black women.
this shit is so sad its almost funny.
http://latinagabi.tumblr.com/post/71433142537/so-white-pathology-rears-its-ugly-head-again
https://twitter.com/amk4obama/status/417119148250894336/photo/1
NYTimes Investigation Brings Bad News For Benghazi Hoaxers
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/12/28/nytimes-investigation-brings-bad-news-for-bengh/197381
A six-part series by New York Times reporter David Kirkpatrick destroyed several myths about the September 11, 2012, attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, myths often propagated by conservative media and their allies in Congress to politicize the attack against the Obama administration.
Since the September 2012 attacks, right-wing media have seized upon various inaccurate, misleading, or just plain wrong talking points about Benghazi. Some of those talking points made their way into the mainstream, most notably onto CBS’ 60 Minutes, earning the network the Media Matters’ 2013 “Misinformer of the Year” title for its botched report.
Kirkpatrick’s series, titled “A Deadly Mix In Benghazi,” debunks a number of these right-wing talking points based on “months of investigation” and “extensive interviews” with those who had “direct knowledge of the attack.” Among other points, Kirkpatrick deflates the claims that an anti-Islamic YouTube video played no role in motivating the attacks and that Al Qaeda was involved in the attack:
Months of investigation by The New York Times, centered on extensive interviews with Libyans in Benghazi who had direct knowledge of the attack there and its context, turned up no evidence that Al Qaeda or other international terrorist groups had any role in the assault. The attack was led, instead, by fighters who had benefited directly from NATO’s extensive air power and logistics support during the uprising against Colonel Qaddafi. And contrary to claims by some members of Congress, it was fueled in large part by anger at an American-made video denigrating Islam.
Fox News, scores of Republican pundits, and Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsay Graham (R-SC), among others, dragged then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice through the mud for citing talking points that mentioned an anti-Islamic YouTube video on Sunday morning news programs following the attacks. Despite right-wing media claims to the contrary, however, Kirkpatrick stated that the attack on the Benghazi compound was in “large part” “fueled” by the anti-Islamic video posted on YouTube. He wrote (emphasis added):
The attack was led, instead, by fighters who had benefited directly from NATO’s extensive air power and logistics support during the uprising against Colonel Qaddafi. And contrary to claims by some members of Congress, it was fueled in large part by anger at an American-made video denigrating Islam.
[…]
There is no doubt that anger over the video motivated many attackers. A Libyan journalist working for The New York Times was blocked from entering by the sentries outside, and he learned of the film from the fighters who stopped him. Other Libyan witnesses, too, said they received lectures from the attackers about the evil of the film and the virtue of defending the prophet.
See, this is why The Thornbirds was so popular.
Mich @michlan
The Vatican have released a 2014 Roman Priests calendar. I kid you not.WHOA MOMMA.
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https://twitter.com/michlan/status/417054868910903296/photo/1
https://twitter.com/HFord2/status/417042813931360256/photo/1
Ok, which is your favorite:
Corner Bakery
Panera Bread
Cosi’s
Me…..Corner Bakery needs a slot on my tax return…as a work expense
LOL
WTF kind of headline is this? Then checkout how the reporters ended the article. WTFF?
Protests disrupt Obama vacation.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/28/22086780-obama-faces-protests-on-hawaiian-vacation?lite
The serenity of President Barack Obama’s Hawaiian vacation was rattled a little on Saturday when demonstrators aired grievances against unmanned aircraft and other issues in a small protest zone near the first family’s upscale rented house.
Returning from an early morning gym visit at nearby Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Obama’s motorcade passed a few dozen protesters holding signs with slogans including “Drones: Unethical and Illegal,” “U.S. Bases Out” and “Close Guantanamo Now.” Others expressed their opposition to genetically modified foods.
It marked a second day of peaceful protests surrounding Obama, who is spending a two-week vacation in Kailua with wife Michelle, daughters Malia and Sasha, the first lady’s mother, Marian Robinson, and the family’s Portuguese Water Dogs, Bo and Sunny.
On Friday evening, as many as 27 protesters turned out to demonstrate against the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact being negotiated between the United States and several Asian and South American countries.
Opponents of TPP say the agreement is being written to benefit large multinational corporations.
“Other than a friendly ‘shaka sign’ from the president as he drove by in his motorcade, we have not received a formal response from the White House,” said Mike Hasselle of the MoveOn Honolulu Council, one of the organizers of the action.
Obama has received mostly a warm reception in and around Honolulu, where he was born and spent much of his boyhood.
Hundreds of onlookers swelled around his motorcade for about four blocks on Friday night after the Obama family dined at Nobu, an award-winning Japanese fusion restaurant, in Waikiki.
As the motorcade pulled away for the 15-mile drive back to Kailua, the crowds clapped, cheered and waved, snapping photographs with their cellphones.
Good afternoon 3Chics!
Thanks again for sharing Lionel with me and the world.
Hi Brotha Tyren. Just getting back to the Twin Cities. Dang, it’s springtime here!
Hi Tyren!
I’m so loving Lionel too.
about the Duck Dynasty racist:
I found this on a friend’s FB post
Recently, I overheard a mother and daughter in their last moments together at the airport as the daughter’s departure had been announced. Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the mother said:”I love you and I wish you enough.”The daughter replied, “Mom, our life together has been more than enough. Your love is all I ever needed. I wish you enough, too, Mom.” They ki…ssed and the daughter left.The mother walked over to the window where I sat. Standing there, I could see she wanted and needed to cry.I tried not to intrude on her privacy but she welcomed me in by asking, “Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be forever?” “Yes, I have,” I replied. “Forgive me for asking but why is this a forever good-bye?””I am old and she lives so far away. I have challenges ahead and the reality is the next trip back will be for my funeral,” she said.When you were saying good-bye, I heard you say, “I wish you enough.” May I ask what that means?” She began to smile. “That’s a wish that has been handed down from other generations. My parents used to say it to everyone.” She paused a moment and looked up as if trying to remember it in detail and she smiled even more. “When we said ‘I wish you enough’ we were wanting the other person to have a life filled with just enough good things to sustain them”. Then turning toward me, she shared the following, reciting it from memory,”I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive.I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger.I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye.”She then began to cry and walked away.They say it takes a minute to find a special person. An hour to appreciate them. A day to love them. And an entire life to forget them.
This really touches my heart….beautiful!
Thanks for this, SG2!
my heart is weeping
It touched my heart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8IBkEvGGIZg
From Yesterday’s thread:
rikyrah says:
December 27, 2013 at 8:04 am
Disguise Leads To Freedom For Former Slaves
Say the words “slave revolt” and images of bloody confrontations waged with guns, machetes, and pitchforks come to mind. But the self-liberation of former slaves Ellen and William Craft shows that the route to freedom could also be paved with smarts and guile as opposed to bloodshed.
Using her light-skinned hue to her advantage, Ellen, a biracial slave born in 1826 in Georgia, figured that the best way to beat the slave holders in her region of the country was to, in a sense, join them.
So Craft cooked up a plan to to pose as a White slave owner by cutting her hair, adopting a man’s walking gait, and hiding the fact that she couldn’t read. All this with her “slave” in tow.
The plan allowed the Crafts to travel through the South to Philadelphia, where they arrived in the winter of 1848. They moved to Boston and became influential abolitionist speakers.
One would think that would be the heartwarming end to the Crafts story of ingenuity and bravery, but one would also be underestimating the brutality of the American slave system.
In 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law, which allowed slave masters to cross in to non-slaveholding areas to retrieve their “property.” The Crafts were forced to run to England but returned to Georgia after the Civil War.
http://newsone.com/2027294/ellen-and-william-craft-fugitive-slaves/
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Yahtc says:
December 27, 2013 at 2:07 pm
Thank you for posting this wonder piece of history, rikyrah!
Here is the video found in the article you linked:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T3ad6O9PQmQ
William Sill includes them in his 1872 book entitled “The Underground Railroad. A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, etc.” on pages 368 – 377.
Yahtc says:
December 27, 2013 at 7:25 pm
YW, Ametia!
I just copied the first 3 pages (bottom half of p. 368 to top of p.370 from my copy of the of the book.) What follows are William Still’s words:
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Note…on the pages that follow this, Still tells how the Crafts felt safe in Boston for two years, but then the Fugitive Slave Bill was passed and fugitive slaves could no longer feel safe anywhere in the U.S.
Sugar Chile Robinson:
“Rare Black Cinema – “Oft In The Silly Night” (1929) featuring Curtis Mosby’s Blue Blowers”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=uSwigty1V74
Film clips that include:
You will need to click “Start” right away when you get to the page before an order form covers “Start”
http://www.historicfilms.com/tapes/6801
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/23/black-celebrities-icons-who-died-in-2013_n_4494523.html
“Black Voices – Huffington Post”
From the article:
The Rev. William H. Gray III, who rose to influential positions in Congress while remaining pastor of his north Philadelphia church ( Bright Hope Baptist Church) for 3½ decades, died on July 1, 2013. He was 71.
New York City Deputy Mayor Bill Lynch, who for 40 years played an active role in city, state and national politics died Friday, Aug. 8, 2013. He was 72.
Sean Sasser
“Real World” star and AIDS activist Sean Sasser died at the age of 44.
Malcolm Shabazz, the 28-year-old grandson of political activist Malcolm X, died in Mexico City on Thursday, May 9, 2013. Mexico City prosecutors said on May 13, 2013 that they have arrested two men in connection with the death of Shabazz, who died of blunt-force trauma injuries. A companion said the dispute involved a $1,200 bar tab.
Demetrius Newton, a civil rights attorney who represented icons like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. before becoming the first black person to serve as speaker pro tem of the Alabama House, died Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. He was 85.
Reggae singer Junior Murvin, best known for the hit song “Police and Thieves,” died in Jamaica on December 2. Son Keith Smith says the 67-year-old performer died at Port Antonio Hospital. He had been hospitalized recently for diabetes and high blood pressure but the cause of death will be determined at an inquest.
Ken Norton, Heavy Weight Boxing Champion, died September 18th at the age of 70.
L.C. Greenwood, the relentless defensive end who made up one quarter of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ “Steel Curtain” defense of the 1970s, died September 29 at the age of 67.
(This list above should have been in quotes)
http://capegazette.villagesoup.com/p/dover-museums-to-host-african-american-themed-events-jan-4-and-5/1094939
A&E: ‘Duck Dynasty’ resuming ‘with the entire Robertson family,’ including Phil
By Brian Stelter, CNN
updated 10:41 PM EST, Fri December 27, 2013
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/27/showbiz/duck-dynasty-resumes/
Good Morning Everyone.
What a great job you are doing, rikyrah, as you bring Lionel Richie to us!
Good morning, Yahtc! Happy Saturday!
Good Morning, SG2.
Any peanut brittle left?
Just a little. Almost gone. :(
Well, there are always the New Year Games’ sub sandwiches :)
I am going to be taking down our Christmas decorations today. (They have been up since the day after Thanksgiving.)
We took our son back to the airport yesterday for his return flight to NYC. Miss him already.
I’m going to take my tree and decorations down on New Years. I don’t have the energy to do it right now. I am sure you’re already missing your son. Time goes by so fast when you’re enjoying.
Good Morning, Everyone :)