Happy Tuesday. and MOANIN’ Everyone! More of the Marvelous Mingus!
My favorite Mingus piece…
CHARLES MINGUS- MOANIN’
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Black Girls Rock!
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Potus Takes Oath of Office
Flotus & Daughters at Great Wall of China
My Brothers Keeper
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AFRO PUFFS
Most Adorable Shoe Stealer
Six Little Babies
Fatherhood
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Even though 3Chics Politico is written and curated by three women: Ametia, Rikyrah, and SouthernGirl2, I must nominate this as one of the most engaging blogs I've found. Devoted to politics and culture, these three shine a light on contemporary life with humor and spirit.
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Liza, Looky here! Do you know any of these women?
Juror B37 Married 20 years. Husband is space attorney. Has 2 kids 24 and 27. Been employed 16 years.
http://3chicspolitico.com/2013/06/19/state-vs-george-zimmerman-in-the-murder-of-trayvon-martin-day-8/#comments
My daughter and kids were eating out at Los Cabos tonight. Haley is a very friendly little girl and was just speaking to the people seated next to them and when their baby dropped the bottle, Haley got up and picked it up for them. When the couple left they paid for my daughter & kids food. How about that! What a beautiful act of kindness.
Haley’s a precious and beautiful Soul. Beautiful acts of kindness runs in the family. Our children and grandchildren will lead the way to a saner, kinder, and loving world.
Indeed we pray!
Lupita Nyong’o & Singer K’Naan In A Relationship? [PHOTOS]
http://www.360nobs.com/2014/03/lupita-nyongo-singer-knaan-in-a-relationship-photos/
https://twitter.com/UrbanCusp/status/440974932105650176/photo/1
Nice!
Black Women Are an Electoral Voting Force. Recognize.
by Imani Gandy, Senior Legal Analyst, RH Reality Check
March 4, 2014 – 12:22 pm
The 2014 midterm elections are fast approaching, and Planned Parenthood Action Fund has just rolled out its campaign to help educate voters about candidates’ positions on women’s health. “We know that women’s health is a winning issue and that no candidate will be able to win without a plurality of women,” the group’s president, Cecile Richards, said in a statement announcing the launch of the effort, dubbed the “Women are Watching” campaign, which is expected to spend more than $18 million in at least 14 states.
All this is great news for those of us who are big supporters of access to birth control and safe abortion care. And yet, the announcement has left me feeling cold and disconnected.
It was just over a week ago that I was ravenously reading the #TakeRoot14 hashtag on Twitter, inspired by the activists who had converged in Oklahoma at this year’s Take Root conference (“red state perspectives on reproductive justice”). Attendees were there to discuss, among other things, how the reproductive rights movement must get beyond the traditional pro-choice framework, which fails to account for the ways in which race, gender, and class intersect and converge to shape the lives of women of color.
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Consider the recent election of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe. In each of those races, Black women propelled the candidates to victory. Yet, Planned Parenthood credited “women” with the victory in Virginia. Not Black women. Women. And yes, the distinction matters, because in this white-centric world in which we live, claims that McAuliffe’s victory was driven by “women voters” leaves the indelible impression that white women were the deciding factor, and that’s simply not true.
Left in the hands of white women, Republican candidate Ken Cucinelli, who would have been a disaster for reproductive rights, would be in the Virginia governor’s mansion right now. (Although, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that the McAuliffe win may not turn out to be as much of a coup as Planned Parenthood has touted it as, considering, as RH Reality Check’s Erin Matson recently wrote, that Gov. McAuliffe reappointed William Hazel, who was instrumental in adopting and carrying out anti-choice policies as Gov. Bob “Ultrasound” McDonnell’s health secretary.)
Let’s also not forget that if it wasn’t for Black women, we would be face-palming our way through a Mitt Romney presidency right now.
So where is our recognition? Where is the campaign strategy that centers our concerns? Where is the voter education model that emphasizes the unique importance to women of color of issues beyond abortion and birth control? Where are the NARAL Pro-Choice America candidate score cards that include candidates’ positions on, for example, voter ID laws? And really: Can a sister get a shout-out for keeping Mitt “Planned Parenthood? We’re Gonna Get Rid of That!” Romney out of the White House?
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2014/03/04/black-women-electoral-voting-force-recognize/
And a child shall lead:
8-Year-old Helps Pay Off Students’ School Lunch Debt
A super-sensitive Michigan elementary school student felt really sad
when a child in the lunch line in front of him who had to put his tray
down because he didn’t have enough money in his account. After
that experience, Cayden Taipalus decided to help raise money for the
kids who could use a few extra bucks for their lunch account.
He is returning bottles to earn the recycling cash, and asking friends to
donate. After just two weeks, he has paid for 295 lunches! The school will always provide an alternate lunch, but Cayden wants his classmates to have equal access to all the choices in the cafeteria.[…]
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/family-life/great-kids/8yo-pays-off-students-school-lunch-debt.html
Rick Scott’s ‘literally flying under the radar’
03/03/14 11:45 AM—Updated 03/04/14 12:24 AM
By Steve Benen
Not many governors have their own private jets. It’s something Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) apparently takes full advantage of, and not just for the sake of convenience at the airport.
Scott has struggled with transparency before. The Republican governor launched something called “Project Sunburst” a couple of years ago, vowing to put all executive-staff emails available online for public scrutiny. A year later, Scott’s team had failed to meet their commitments. The governor’s daily schedule is also published online every morning, but it’s routinely incomplete.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/scotts-literally-flying-under-the-radar
The wrong position in the wrong state
03/04/14 09:31 AM
By Steve Benen
From time to time, some on the right still question the merit of President Obama’s 2009 rescue of the American auto industry. But as a rule, Michigan Republicans know better.
For the record, Ford did not participate in the rescue, but it endorsed the policy and benefited from it indirectly.
Land, the Republican Senate hopeful, echoed a familiar conservative refrain, arguing that GM had come to be known as “Government Motors.”
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-wrong-position-the-wrong-state
Paul Ryan’s ‘unfortunate’ poverty report
03/04/14 10:26 AM—Updated 03/04/14 11:17 AM
By Steve Benen
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has been pretty aggressive in recent months about leaking word of his recent policy focus on poverty. The far-right congressman has periodically let major news outlets know he now hopes to “help” those who would suffer most under his own budget plan: low-income families.
And so, as Ned Resnikoff reported, it didn’t come as much of a surprise when Ryan yesterday issued a 204-page report, called “The War on Poverty: 50 Years Later,” condemning a variety of federal efforts to reduce poverty in the United States. It’s apparently intended to serve as a precursor to the congressman’s next budget blueprint, which, predictably, will seek more cuts to Medicaid, Head Start, and food stamps.
Ryan will justify his efforts, working from the assumption that many federal programs, aimed at helping those struggling, unintentionally make matters “worse.”
The editorial board of the New York Times did a nice job summarizing the degree to which Ryan’s ideas are “small and tired.”
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/paul-ryans-unfortunate-poverty-report
Putin cost the money men $54 BILLION dollars yesterday in the Russian stock market.
You don’t think phone calls were made?
I’m just sayin’.
Boehner wants Obama’s immigration help?
03/04/14 11:15 AM
By Steve Benen
On the surface, immigration reform is simply dead for the foreseeable future. House Republican leaders have retreated from their own policy “principles,” which rank-and-file GOP lawmakers chose to either ignore or reject. Barring unexpected Democratic gains in this year’s midterm elections, it would appear reform advocates will have to wait a long time for legislative relief.
Even the discharge-petition idea, which would seem to offer hope, is an unlikely path to success — no Republicans are willing to sign it, at least not yet.
And yet, the nation’s leading Republican lawmaker isn’t done talking about the issue, as if there’s still some chance of success. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) referenced immigration during an interview yesterday with the Cincinnati Enquirer.
In January, he and other GOP leaders outlined a set of principles to reform the immigration system. But shortly afterward, Boehner said he didn’t think he could move an agreement this year, arguing that Republicans didn’t trust Obama enough to implement border security measures.
On Monday, he told The Enquirer immigration was a key area of agreement between him and Obama and they talked about it at the White House last week. “He wants to get it done. I want to get it done,” he said. “But he’s going to have to help us in this process.”
It’s difficult to take any of this seriously. If Boehner wants to get immigration reform done, he can bring a bill to the floor and let the House work its will. The last I checked, he’s the Speaker of the House.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/boehner-wants-obamas-immigration-help
My power just came back on. It’s been off since before 6am. Darnit, it’s cold in here. 7 hours in the cold. Talk about miserable. I may have frost bite.
I feel ya, SG2.
I feel ya.
it’ll take a couple of hours to get back comfortable.
Husband: Well I guess we’ll light up the fireplace
Me: **side eye**
How are you going to light wet wood? **frowns**
*IWILLNOTLAUGH@HUBBY’SCOMMENT* SG2, not having power, especially heat, ain’t NO JOKE. Stay warm.
Ukraine: How it Got Harder for Snowden’s Russia Story to Pass the Laugh Test
Spandan Chakrabarti | March 3, 2014
Russian forces are occupying part of Ukraine right now in clear violation of international law. And yet, America’s self-proclaimed “anti-war” Left is eerily silent. There is no petition on MoveOn.org to urge the US and the international community to do everything possible to end the Russian invasion. Alan Grayson, the self-declared “Congressman with guts” evidently lacks the guts to even call Russia out. The dogmatic left, known for their propensity to scream and yell, is eerily silent. The screeching Left, best known for hitting the United States for “imperialism”, is barely even breathing a word against Putin’s moves to seize land from another sovereign country.
Could the deafening silence be coming from wanting to avoid the discussion of an inconvenient reality? Could it be because of Edward Snowden?
Raad more here:
http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2014/3/3/ukraine-how-it-got-harder-for-snowdens-russia-story-to-pass-the-laugh-test
Obama proposes $600 billion in new spending to boost economy
President Obama on Tuesday unveiled an ambitious budget that promised more than $600 billion in fresh spending to boost economic growth over the next decade while also pledging to solve the nation’s borrowing problem by raising taxes on the wealthy, passing an overhaul of immigration laws and cutting health costs without compromising the quality of care. Obama seeks to raise more than $1 trillion – largely by limiting tax breaks that benefit the wealthy — to spend on building roads and bridges, early childhood education and tax credits for the poor.
Read more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/03/04/obama-budget-seeks-new-spending-new-taxes-to-boost-economy-tame-debt/
http://youtu.be/ZPCkfARH2eE
God didn’t accept her bargaining chip on how she could become light-skinned.
AMEN!
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Good Morning, Everyone :)
Good Morning, Rikyrah & Everyone! :-)