To all the wonderful Mothers, 3 Chics salutes you. HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!
A Mother’s Prayer
What a Wonderful World
Wind Beneath My Wings
Please feel free to post any poem, prayers, and videos of tribute to your mothers.
To all the wonderful Mothers, 3 Chics salutes you. HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!
A Mother’s Prayer
What a Wonderful World
Wind Beneath My Wings
Please feel free to post any poem, prayers, and videos of tribute to your mothers.
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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OMG, these lines are off the chain
https://twitter.com/camanpour/status/464096252414533634/photo/1
https://twitter.com/zbleumoon/status/465024477034590208/photo/1
Happy, happy Mother’s Day, ladies! I am sooooo grateful to have my mommy!!!!
Congresswomen upbraid Army for unfair hairstyle regulations: Mitchell
With time running out on a petition seeking a revision on Army regulations that ban certain ethnic hairstyles, the petition’s creator, Sgt. Jasmine Jacobs of the Georgia Army National Guard, has gotten some influential support from members of Congress.
As of Friday, 17,440 people had signed the petition at the “We The People” White House website, but that’s far short of 100,000 signatures needed by midnight Sunday for Jacobs to get an official response from President Barack Obama’s administration.
Last week, 16 women of the Congressional Black Caucus sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel, encouraging him to “reconsider” the updated regulation that bans braids, dreadlocks, and twists.
“[T]he use of words like ‘unkempt’ and ‘matted’ when referring to traditional hairstyles worn by women of color are offensive and biased,” the letter said in part.
“The assumption that individuals wearing these hairstyles cannot maintain them in a way that meets the professionalism of Army standards indicates a lack of cultural sensitivity conducive to creating a tolerant environment for minorities,” the congresswomen said.
Freshman congresswoman Robin Kelly (D-Ill.) joined long-time powerhouses Reps. Maxine Waters (D-Ca.) and Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), in signing the letter.
“I respect that the military wants uniformity, but to go so far as to stipulate the exact width of a braid is taking it too far. My hope is that the Army will reevaluate this regulation with more sensitivity to the traditional hairstyles worn by women of color,” Kelly said in an email response about the letter.
So far, there’s been no public response from Hagel.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/mitchell/26922351-452/congresswomen-upbraid-army-for-unfair-hairstyle-regulations-mitchell.html#.U2_k31d79ws
https://twitter.com/CIconICMC/status/465320063969398785/photo/1
We’d be remiss if we didn’t REPOST this classic tribute to Mama.
Beautiful!
https://twitter.com/Dudette9t9/status/465353886983667712/photo/1
Lovely family :)
Yes indeed!
Rikyrah, check your email
Hey Chicas!
Y’all remember licking the spoon when your Mom baked cakes? LOL! Chocolate was the bestest!
mmmmmm…
I remember doing that :)
I just returned from planting flowers at my parents’ grave. They look BEAUTIFUL!
I can still hear in my memory my mom saying, “How’s my little girl?”
Awwww…so sweet. I’ll bet the flowers are breath taking. My mother always had a beautiful flower-bed. I don’t have a green thumb like her. I didn’t get that. :(
You must have enjoyed her flower bed and watching her plant flowers :)
I love the memory I have of when I was four and eating lunch in our patio out of a lunch box my mom had given me just like the one my older brother had starting taking to school :)
LOL We had to share the lickings in turns. I loved getting the cake mix bowl, and running my fingers around in it to get every bit of the drippings!
bwa ha ha ha ha
Me too!
Me first :) :) :)
That was for the picture below :)
http://www.blackcelebkids.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/howard1.jpg
We had the beaters too, remember?
mmmmm….
Yummy…You first :) :) :)
Chocolate cake or Brownie batter – the bestest!!
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Bring Back Our Daughters
National Review columnist Mark Steyn really distinguishes himself on Mother’s Day with this column slagging the First Lady and the missing Nigerian girls:
To recap, the First Lady showing that she does care, that she too is a mother and is worried, that Nigeria’s government has turned down US assistance and President Goodluck Jonathan continues to shuffle his feet on the issue, all that is only worthy of “total contempt” because she is Michelle Obama.
Because she used a hashtag, hashtags are now contemptible and not only is hashtag activism now utterly worthless dirty hippie twaddle, the entirely of Twitter is dead and gone and was always useless in the first place.
It’s odd then that when African girls are missing, and an African-American first lady gets involved, and a large number of black folk worldwide get involved, that suddenly, Twitter becomes useless, impotent, “wretched pleading passivity”, even contemptible “moral preening”.
So very, very odd.
http://zandarvts.blogspot.com/2014/05/bring-back-our-daughters.html
DON’T HATE THE PLAYERS, HATE THE GAMES, BITCHES!
Man Who Had Unemployment Benefits Cut Off By Republicans Threatens John Boehner’s Life
By: Jason Easley more from Jason Easley
Saturday, May, 10th, 2014, 2:40 pm
An Indiana man who had his unemployment benefits cut off after House Republicans refused to extend them has been arrested by the FBI for making multiple threats on Speaker of the House John Boehner’s life.
Months after Brandon Thompson lost his unemployment benefits worth $341.00 a week, he did something that no one should ever do. He began threatening to kill John Boehner.
On April 1, 2014, Thompson used the contact form on Boehner’s official website to leave the following message:
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/05/10/man-unemployment-benefits-cut-republicans-threatens-john-boehners-life.html
I don’t condone threatening a life.
Boehner and his cohorts are going to learn the hard way, that their behaviors have CONSEQUENCES.
Me neither, Ametia. But we are rational and sane. There are some nutcases out there who take things to the extreme and the ones who are causing them problems are going to be on the receiving end of their wrath.
Indeed, vitaminlover and these INSANE Folks are going to cash in on that KARMIC check.
The Black Snob is back with a new edition of SCAN (Secret Council of American Negros)
Warning: For the uninitiated unfamiliar with the old SCAN series on the Snob Blog, this is a satirical post that is long as hell (I had to break it into three parts). So, um, if you’re not into that sort of thing, sorry, BUT THIS IS FOR THE FANS!
The Secret Council of American Negroes
Vol. 2, Episode 1
It’s a three-parter that begins here:
The Secret Council of American Negroes
Captain African America: The Winter Mistress, Pt. 1
May 5, 2014
http://daniellebelton.com/2014/05/05/captain-african-america-the-winter-mistress/
This is HILLARIOUS & GENIUS. Go SNOB!
Americans Are Watching and They No Longer Trust The Conservative Supreme Court
By: Rmuse more from Rmuse
Sunday, May, 11th, 2014, 11:07 am
Trust is deep-seated belief that someone or something is reliable, good, honest, and effective, and can be counted on to remain faithful to the reason they expect to be trusted in the first place. For most Americans, the idea of having trust in the justice system is closely related to their experience with the system and because the great majority of Americans have no reason the distrust the judiciary at any level they assume that justice is, indeed, blind and fair. Since the highest court in the land has the Constitution and legal precedent as its guide, there was a time when few Americans had misgivings about 9 jurists wielding immense power over the government and the people because they were expected to render decisions fairly according to established precedent and the law of the land, the U.S. Constitution.
The current conservative Supreme Court has shown an increasing predilection to brush aside precedent and the Constitution as its guide and rely solely on their affiliation with the Republican Party, the Koch brothers, corporations, and religious fundamentalists for how to decide cases that affect every American. The conservatives have been so blatant in their service to special interests that Americans have taken notice, and a new poll reveals the people have lost faith in, and are weary of, this conservative Court’s rulings exclusively serving the interests of the Republican Party, Koch brothers and corporations, and Christian Dominionists by a very wide margin. One thing is abundantly clear; Americans no longer trust the conservative Court to follow the Constitution, adhere to precedent, or protect the very democracy they are manifestly dismantling at an alarming rate.
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/05/11/americans-watching-longer-trust-conservative-supreme-court.html
https://twitter.com/NoShock/status/465503910975664128/photo/1
awwww… too much sweetness!
They’re PRECIOUS! There’s no greater joy than being a GRANDMA.
NO DRAMA OBAMA MEANS NO DRAMA OBAMA
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Washington gossip is dead. Long live Washington gossip.
By Patrick W. Gavin, Published: May 9
It’s not been a good few years for the Washington gossip industry.
Politico, my home for five years before I left recently to pursue documentary filmmaking, once had six journalists — myself included — writing for its “Click” gossip section. All of us left over the years, and the section was disbanded in December.
If Politico, whose success has been driven by its aggressive coverage of every move in Washington, has decided that there’s no more water to be squeezed from that rock, then trust me, it must be dry.
Look around. While long-standing columns such as The Washington Post’s “In the Loop” and “The Reliable Source” and U.S. News’s “Washington Whispers” are still around, many of their brethren are gone. The Washington Examiner folded its “Yeas & Nays” column. The Hill killed its “Washington Scene” section. Roll Call trimmed the staff of its “Heard on the Hill” column in half. The once-titillatingWonkette.com has turned away from snarky stories of Capitol Hill liaisons and toward snarky takes on actual policy. TMZsaid it would start TMZDC.com in 2007; the site has yet to launch.
It has all been enough to promptFishbowlDC — yet another gossip blog that’s struggled to feed the beast — to run a regular feature on “Why Washington D.C. Gossip Sucks.”
For the wonks in our midst, this may seem like a victory. But it’s not. The gossip hasn’t gone away — it’s gone mainstream.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/washington-gossip-is-dead-long-live-washington-gossip/2014/05/08/10b86152-d528-11e3-aae8-c2d44bd79778_story.html?tid=pm_opinions_pop
I’ll let Gene tell it:
https://twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/465496783674949632/photo/1
Our First Grandmother & First Mother, BEA-U-TI-FUL!
So beautiful.
I love the top FLOTUS is wearing
Sending Prayers and Mother’s day wishes to the Nigerian mothers whose daughters are still being held in captivity.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers at 3CHICS!
It’s been five years since Mama passed and I still miss her terribly.
Going to a Mother’s Day lunch with my sister, Peanut’s mother and Peanut.
Thank you, Rikyrah,. The memories of our mothers are etched in our hearts for eternity. Enjoy your Mother’s Day lunch with your sister and Peanut!
Enjoy, Rikyrah! Hug little Peanut!
I’LL ALWAYS LOVE MY MAMA, SHE’S MY FAVORITE GIRL
I’LL ALWAYS LOVE MY MAMA, SHE BROUGHT IN THIS WORLD.
Yeah!
yesssss
Hillary Clinton And Michelle Obama Jab Each Other In Mother’s Day Message On ‘SNL’
http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-and-michelle-obama-mothers-day-snl-sketch-2014-5
Happy Mother’s Day, Mama! I still love you deeply!
**cries**
A mother’s love is special, indeed, and your children are so blessed to have you, SG2.
**hugs**
Happy Mother’s Day to all the wonderful mothers out there!
Hope your day is filled with love and much joy!
Happy Mother’s day to you extraordinary women.
Good morning, Silently! Thank you! It’s nice to see this morning!
Happy Mother’s Day :)
What a beautiful sight! It makes me happy!
Happy mother’s Day!
Good Morning, And Happy Mother’s Day to all you beautiful loving MOTHERS. :-)