Jack & Jill Politics

Hello everyone at Jack and Jill this is Dmak from the Kala Nation warrior/bloggers.Tonight at midnight I am broadcasting my radio show live at midnight eastern time.Tonight we will talk about Tavis Smileys State of the Black Coonion conference this past weekend in Los Angeles.
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http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Kala-Nation

STATE OF THE BLACK UNION AFTERNOON SESSION OPEN THREAD IS UP!!

Here's a state by state breakdown of Davis-Bacon. Crap...I might become a 'boilermaker' or sump'in.

if Michael Steele uses one and I mean one reference that is considered 'jive' or 'hip' - they will boo his azz

I hope they boo his ass just for the hell of it.

I realize this comment might be unpopular, but MIchelle Singletary got on my nerves. I agreed with some of what she said but not all of what she said. That "we can't depend on the government to help us out" argument no longer holds when you see billion dollar banks getting bailed out by same government.

Lawd, they got that b*tch Malkin on CSpan, right now!

I dont care how wrong I am...this is Michelle Malkin to the GOP as far as I'm concerned:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Otows0mpk&feat...

She is making money! It's all scam. Be the one raisin in the milk, confirm what the antagonists think and you get to be the exception. If she really believed her spiel she wouldn't need to be so hostile about it. There's no righteous anger just animus.

I changed the channel. I refuse to pay to watch that ho.

I cxan't. Someone else has the clicker.

Lawd have mercy. She is so crazy! She has swallowed the Repubs Talking Points whole. :shaking head:

I can't stand her smirks.

That ain't all she swallowed. Yeah, I said it.

She is a straight up HO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Otows0mpk&feat...

It's a re play blksista. Why they would have her on after the first session The State of the Black Union is beyond me. Prior to the replay that had caller after caller on saying "stop asking government to do for you" and "get off the couch and do for yourself" and "stop asking for handouts". How is asking that our government treat us fairly and equitably "asking the government to do something for us"? What exactly are we supposed to be asking the government to do for us? Free us from slavery? Outlaw Jim Crow? Give us equal rights? What?

"When black people talk about honest feelings, it's called blaming. When white people talk about it, it's being called held responsible." ~Dr. Michael Eric Dyson on MSNBC responding to Pat Buchanan re: NY Post Cartoon.

Didn't know it was a replay. Thanks.

And yeah, Dyson took the mic!

They replayed this segment to so the Uncle Toms and Aunt Thomasina's wouldn't feel left out.

Does "shovel ready" include us?

Panel 2 at 4:30 EST

Cornell West, NIle Akbar, Danny Bakewell, Lannie Guinear, All Sharpton, Karen Bass, Micheal Steele, Erica Williams, Emily Towns, Van Jones, Julian Malveaux, Randall Robinson, Konjufu, Tavis Smiley

Steele fixing to get a beat down by Malveaux. Sharpton will smirk.

Why come they don't have Jesse and Al on the stage at the same time?

And what? NO DICK GREGORY? Malveaux gotta put a beat down on Steele in order to keep my attention this afternoon.

can't wait for Steele!

Not Old News Jessie Jackson
Change the CRACK laws...they were bad bills
Change the structure of law that programs us into jails and not colleges.

Stephanie Robinson
Who invited her and what did they think she would contribute?

Peter Harvey
Crisis mentality produces ad hoc solutions.

Keep your kids out of the criminal justice system.

Michelle Singletary
Show that you can pay that mortgage if they refinance it for you. Do all that you can do.Take personal responsibility

Tricia Rose and the chittlin analogy...scratching my head

Jessie Jackson (Not old News)

We must now MOVE beyond freedom...to EQUALITY which costs and requires financial investment.

We need EEOC, contract compliance, women-owned businesses to gain EQUALITY as this money comes down

AFTERNOON THREAD IS UP!

STATE OF THE BLACK UNION 2009-- POWERFUL STRATEGY SESSION
NOT ABOUT TAVIS SMILEY = ALL ABOUT AFRICAN AMERICAN PEOPLE

Jessie Jackson

If you organize your neighborhood and they start taking houses, just don't leave until the stimulus package gets to you.
Just don't leave. Stay in your house.

Morial = What will be the take away on the stimulus package. Clyburn put in provision for state legislatures to accept the money; rally southern racist state legislatures.

Call the Question of the cities: What is you plan to benefit my community and my neighborhood. Engage our local communities for accountability. Make local governments put their plans on the table if change is to take place.

Q & A

Jessie Jackson = Getting the stimulus money down to the people is going to be more difficult than getting the money out of Washington. We must follow the money as it comes into our states.

Are young black men going to be "shovel ready"?

Maxine Waters = We must all understand all aspects of the stimulus package. We must first take advantage of the most vulnerable. Get the food stamps to the people who need it. Get the COBRA and Medicaid money in the package. Take advantage of the tax cuts. NO discrimination by contractors. Make sure cities only contract with people who do not discriminate. (AMEN< AMEN<AMEN)

Jessie Jackson = Fight state by state to get the money down to the people who need it.

Most Wanted Southern Governors Posters! I love it!

WHOA! Michael Eric Dyson KILLED IT!!!! *****KILLED IT******

what did he say?

he did...and I cried at the end... (sorry edit)


'they are calling him the POTUS now!' Dr. Dyson about Obama in reference to ppl calling him Marxist, terrorist and unamerican

I HATE Michael Eric Dyson, but he really spoke to me today.

Why do you HATE Micheal Eric Dyson? What did he do to you?

He's annoying, self-important, talks too fast, and too often says nothing of substance.

He's annoying, self-important, talks too fast, and too often has very little of substance to say.

I know for the last 2 years he has been defending these rappers and their filth.There are some things he says like he did today which I strongly support.Other things he is grandstanding and self serving.Check out this post.
http://kalanation.blogspot.com/2007/11/revenge-...

Hate is such a strong word and it's a useless emotion. Just say you find Dyson annonying, self important, talks too fast and too often has very little of substance to say. That said, I don't share your opinion of Dyson, but I respect your right to express your opinion because you know what they say about opinions and aholes, everyone has one. :)

I'm impatient at times with Dyson myself, but I don't hate him.

I think today he redeemed himself on a lot of levels.

From Michael Eric Dysons fertile mind on Obama

What we gon do with what he is?

If after Obama's second term all we can say is that Barack Obama is a great president, we have wasted an opportunity to educate about the defense of the vulnerable. The measure of his success if about HOW MANY BLACK PEOPLE HE BRINGS WITH HIM.

Put pressure on America to allow this man to do what he gotta do.

You love the God that Jeremiah Wright introduced Barack Obama to.

I find it hilarious that Tavis Smiley thinks that he's going to hold Barack Obama "Accountable". If Smiley said "Barack Obama lives in Washington, DC", I'd verify that information.

I will say that I was sure that Smiley was going to invite President Obama to come again this year and would make another big stink when he couldn't. I guess Smiley did learn a little something from last year's totally one sided "feud".

If Smiley said "Barack Obama lives in Washington, DC", I'd verify that information.


LMAO...good one

Les Brown was AWESOME!

I will do a post summarizing this shyt later on today. I'm in because of the flu...but that doesn't mean my brains are addled.

Les Brown's Motivational Wrap-Up
We don't know and we don't know and we think we know! (That's good food for thought)

If you are the smartest one in your group, you need to get a new group!

AIDS - Addiction to Incarceration and Death Syndrome

How we live our lives is based upon what we think of ourselves. (co-sign)

It's about the process

Stony the road we'VE trod...

WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE ONES WHO WOULD NOT DIE.

Mishelle Singetary should be on CNN
A "submitted" woman whose husband is head of her household
Stop defining yourselves as "consumers." Budget, get out of debt, no credit cards, stop taking on debt, look at where your money is going. Make sure you save from that piece of job you got. Get your money straight.

While we waiting for this money to trickle down you gotta do what you gotta do.Stop spending crazy; make do with what you have.

The only thing is she's using her own standards of a religious model as if that's the only and correct version. Plus why is she married to somebody who she out-earns that she spoke about publicly? Now if he runs off with all her money what's she gonna say then?

OOOH, you didn't go THERE....LOL

And why didn't she put her pastor on blast when he deliberately wasted $450K of the Church's money because he didn't sign off on a contract dealing with their remodeling of their church edifice?

Now that I can get with - I already got rid of the credit cards and have myself on a plan to clear up all debt, including taxes, in the next five years. I plan to buy my first house in the next two years.

I am getting my money straight. Now Singletary needs to tell the same advice to her pastor, who just blew $50K of the congregation's money on church building rennovations; $450K that didn't need to be wasted if he signs contracts in timely fashion, and had the nerve to brag about it during service one Sunday back in 2006.

I knew then and there that her church was not one I wanted to be a member in, because of that shyt pulled by her pastor.

CPL: Heeeeeey! :>) :>) I'm on the run! :>)

GreenLady, Still running, I see! LOL

CPL: LOL!! :>)

This "retirement 'gig' " is wearyin'! :>) :>)

BUT - - - It's O.K. Keeps the MIND & BODY ACTIVE!!! :>)

Singletary has been on CNN before. That's where I first came across her.

I'm not a fan of the meme "submitted women whose husband is head of the household." But then I'm not a fan of taking 'The Bible' in any way, shape or form literally.

I saw Michelle Singletary's new column - bookmarked it to read tonight when we get done with all the family stuff today.

I love Michelle Singletary. She's so real.

I have covered Tavis' events in person for the last five years, and decided I couldn't continue to waste money like I did because it is the same people, talking about the same things, and what comes out of it is ANOTHER DAMNED BOOK.

And he's also trying to pimp Obama after hating on him as strong as he did. Does anyone on this board believe that President Obama's pic on the new book, "Accountability" is a coincidence? Do you think that Missy Hillary's pic would have been on the cover if she'd won? If, God Forbid, McCain, had won?

I'm tired of Tavis and his attempt to be a "Black Leader" when all he is, is a MARKETEER. Period.

We should all ask ourselves why does Tavis smile, and why are we watching?

I talked about it three years ago after I went to Houston and heard the same old shyt in Houston, and Atlanta before that, and in Jamestown after he caught hell for attempting to market the slave experience in 2007, and blamed Daphne Maxwell Reid once he caught hell for that.

Read this, and you'll probably follow the rest of the evening with new eyes:

http://www.blackcommentator.com/173/173_guest_s...

"Does anyone on this board believe that President Obama's pic on the new book, "Accountability" is a coincidence?"

Of course not, this is about getting back at Obama. And look at the expression on Obama's face on the cover, it's not exactly flattering in my opinion. It makes him look like a slick politician who's plotting his next political move. I've grown tired of Tavis and his believing the hype about himself, that he's the main spokesperson for Black America, B.S. There is no spokesperson for Black America.

CPL,

I didn't know about the book..if I had...I dunno if I would have even posted this thread.

yeah, I didn't know anything about until someone held it up...I saw the picture in the back and was like - NO HE DIDNT

You wouldn't have known about the book, Rikyrah, because Tavis keeps it under wraps until the start of the Annual Negro Super Bowl.

John Conyers was the one who told him to make the contract a "Covenant", no disrepect to Joe Lowery, but in all honesty, it was Conyers who came up with the idea in Atlanta back in 2005 at New Birth Baptist Church, where the Rev. Bernice King was put on lockdown that weekend, so Fast Eddie Long could get paid.

she is and she is right...there will be more years of this famine

Sngletary Up Next on Money
Rev. Jackson in not OLD NEWS = co-signing

I like that she says she writes her financial column for the WaPo based on what Big Mama taught her about finances. I like that.

i hate this format...get a bunch a smart ppl on the panel to pontificate on one subject.

this isn't dialogue

Vanzant the Self-employed Motivator
She puts the face on the country's economic crisis when AAs went into depression years ago. The reality of the shame and guilt that goes along with the devastation of the crisis. She ain't even in the loop of the stimulus package. Looks eyeball to eyeball with people feelin' her= get a vision. You can make it because its in your DNA!

What is Michael Steele going to say?

Preview;

Wassup Peeps!

Outreach.

Party of Lincoln.

Personal responsibility.

Accountability.

Unwed Mothers.

Welfare.

Government is not the answer.

Post Racial America.

Hip Hop.

Booky: HIGH 5!!! ON THE LOW! LET'S GO!! :>) YEEEEAAAAAAAH!! :>)

And he might bust with the "'LECTRIC SLIDE" 4 versatility!! :>) :>)

***shaki'n my head*** :>) :>)

Oh! His BAD!! We cain't PAY our ELECTRIC BILL with the way the economy it is NOW!! :>)

CANCEL that dance! Back to the "CHA CHA"!! It is FREE!! :>)

YO!

YO YO!

Wazzup Black Amurica WAZZUP WAZZUP WAZZUPPPPPPPPP????

You lost yo job? Yo got no inshurence? You got kicked out ya crib?

MY BAD!

Ya know whuh'm sayin?

WERD. The GOP is FRESH TA DEFF!

YO.

Ask him to explain why he diverted most of his campaign funds to his sister's defunct catering business when he ran for the Senate and loved puppies?

The GOP has a coon heading it and if he doesn't turn things around in two years, they'll offer the job to the Dark Sith.

Tax cuts.

It's Fanni and Freddie's Fault

People bought McMansions they couldn't afford.

The government made banks lone money to people to buy houses they couldn't afford.

Single parent homes.

Lots of typos!

It's Fannie and Freddie's Fault.

The government made banks loan money to people to buy houses they couldn't afford.

How could I forget, of course it's Fannie and Freddie's fault.

Also,

This nation has not been attacked since 9-11-01.

Cue "Crickets Chirping" when that brotha comes out on stage, if not booed.

I hope he is not booed. That's all the gop will need. Silence is golden. I hope they will just be quiet.

dayum...Iyanla Vanzant broke with no health insurance...recession is a bitch.

she could just host Skype sessions and eat can't she?

Shoulda stuck with Oprah instead of followiing behind Barbra Walters.

What?! hhuy...

nice logo tho!

Robinson from Jamestown Project
She really didn't grab the moment and make use of her time well unfortunately. Rambling.

Harvey, NJ Atty General
We argue small, we settle smaller when we don't know what's in the Stimulus Bill.

Tricia Rose on Hip Hop Culture - Urban renewal = negro removal before hip hop emerged as cultural voices. "Gangster/Pimp/Ho" identity are self destructive conceptions of who we are. 'thug life should not be a product but a crisis we need to change. Hip hop has to be asked to represent what it wants not just what it represents. Tell hip hop culture they need to do a little better by a change in consciousness.

I ask again, are young black men "shovel ready"?

Michael Steele and Al Sharpton today at 4pm on CSPAN

I liked her point about hip hop representing...I just talked about on Kos

i refuse to hear the same 10 people say the same 10 things for the same 50 years. if they want to put new black lawyers, doctors, mathematicians, etc then will i listen.

I agree with you wholeheartedly. When they get an opportunity, such as the young white boys Obama has brought forth in his cabinet, they should be elevated. There have been NO opportunities for development to take the forum over the last 8 years. Do you agree?

Ogletree on Prisons - Make sure that this President is accountable to us. Make sure stimulus money gets to our communities and young black men get a chance to work.

Check out this archived post on Tavis Smiley from last year's Presidential primary.
http://coonwatchcentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/ta...

Rev. Jackson actually made some good points, esp. about the Southern Governors going all 1950s style re: the stimulus money and about the need for more affordable higher education.

Jessie Jackson = We have to raise the right issues: Envoys to Zimbabwe, Haiti, not just envoys to Gaza. As we challenge white America, walls come down. Banks scalping student loans at high rates." Obama paid off his student loans with his hit book, otherwise we would have a President in the White House with student loans.

I am sorry but I dont feel led to go to Tavis Smileys"STATE OF THE BLACK COONION"So after pondering what he tried to do to Obama last year,I think Ill stay home and eat ice cream and watch from tv.I will see all the cooning and shuffling from all the grandstanding do nothing leaders I can take.The COONION will be a flop.

You always learn something that you didn't know before when you allow yourself to be open to knowledge.

True I was listening to Dr Dyson and he dropped it!Tavis was feeling stupid about all of the pro Obama speech it saw it in his face.

Morial = Make sure these funds don't bypass our community. Forceful advocacy.

No mics, Maxine Waters having to holla and getting hoarse.

Are you seeing this shit! For those of you not watching, Tavis has a new book entitled Accountable and guess whose picture is on the cover......Obama! Supposedly, it's a guidebook on how to keep PBO and congress accountable. Unfukkingbelievable!

who gives a crap about Tavis? He won't make 1 dime off President Obama. God don't like ugly.

OMG...I am not watching..thanks Sepia.

I tell you folks are just so crass about marketing Obama.

This is the same Obama who Tavis dissed during the primaries and would not accept his wife coming in his place!

Tavis is nothing but a media whore.

See my post above...I said the same thing when I saw that book cover.

Tavis the HATER, but will not ignore ways to make a dollar. LOL

I cant believe this kentucky fried mealy mouthded nigra, I really cant. Why didnt he write a book during the 8 years of the Bush administration calling for them to be accountable??!! He's a hating ass coon, self important coon. 10 years of this so called state of the black union and what has he accomplished??? Not a f_cking thing, he's useless!

*dead*

kentucky fried mealy mouthded nigra

ROFLMAO!!!!!!

OMG Miranda, he's just so despicable to me, for all the reasons everyone has outlined in this thread.

This picture sums it all up, peep the Menace II Society reference lol...

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q181/bionicb...

For real. KFC Mealy-Mouthed Nigra....

I am sooo stealing this one when referencing the HATER.

TRIPLE co-sign!!

People really need to be careful about how they "criticize" President Obama. I'm for freedom of speech, but folks trying to cultivate audiences need to be really careful.

THe Co-Pastor at my church made a less-than-flattering remark about President Obama last Sunday...and she got ***crickets*** from the whole congregation. Don't Knock Barack.

LMAO....**crickets**.....I can see it....too funny.

I know!!

Instead of crickets my mom would say."it got so quiet ..you could hear a rat pissing on cotton"!!

Where do folks get off critiquing Obama. Isn't like haven't they heard, no matter what Obama does he can't mess up this nation any worse than the last 20 Presidents?

Obama has inhierted the worse condition this country has seen in the past 50 years!!

Whatever he does will be an improvement.

I don't have a problem with criticizing Obama ---we SHOULD criticize Obama. We SHOULD hold Obama accountable.

But while we're demanding "accountability" from Obama, we should also be demanding accountability from our local, state and federal officials as well.

And if we're going around holding Obama accountable, we should hold his criticizers accountable too.

Obama's critics don't like being held accountable.

Santelli didn't like being held accountable by Matt Lauer.

Tavis didn't like being held accountable by the Tom Joyner Morning Show listeners. That's why he cut and run.

The loudest ones screaming for accountability on Obama are the ones most likely to hate being put under the microscope themselves.

It's not that black folks don't want to hold Obama accountable. They just want everyone else to be held accountable too. If Tavis was true to wanting accountability, he would have held John McCain and Hillary Clinton accountable, too.

That's why people diagnosed Tavis with end-stage Hate.

"It's not that black folks don't want to hold Obama accountable. They just want everyone else to be held accountable too."

There you have it.

But that's my point Town.

They ain't holding all those folks accountable, never have and never will.

So, as far as I'm concerned...even though Obama can do wrong...it ain't my job to hold him accountable.

Let the same folks who didn't hold everyone ELSe accountable do so.

And when they do...I will DEFEND Obama!!

Co-signing!

'.....a rat pissing on cotton.'

Ya know, I don't even wanna picture that - but that - that is a good one.

Obama has been in office, what?, 45 days - if that - and now what? everything supposed to be all better. Over at Alternet or Huffpost - pics of the president at the b-ball game. And a couple of posters asked "Does he ever work?"

The thing about the Obamas is that THEY have epitomized 'the American Dream.' They ARE the American people, goddamnit.

Oh...p.s., I stopped listening too much to Tavis Smiley when I figured out that he was all about himself.

Yeah...first time I heard my momma say that...I reflected on it and thought ...dayum if u can hear THAT it is awfully damn quiet...hahahahaa

What did she say?

I don't remember her exact words, but I do remember that she had us whopping and hollerin Jesus until she tried to diminish Barack, then we all went stoic-stone-faced on her. Hands went from clapping to down in the laps.

Hollering. That reminds me of a time a minster had folks shouting and asked for $1000 OFFERING/SEED DONATION. Folks came out of that trance right quick :).

That minister must have lost her mind talking about our Beloved President in church...We all still shouting because he is IN the White House and ain't studying no haters (preachers or not).

OMG...........ROFLMAO...........I can so see it!! LMAO!!!!!

Yes, I've seen it and it's ridiculous. The cover alone annoys me, because look at the picture of Obama, the expression on his face. It's not exactly flattering, it makes him look like a slick politician who's plotting his next political maneuver.

http://www.amazon.com/Accountable-Making-Americ...

If I had known this before, I don't know if I would have even put up this thread.

You gotta be kidding...............................I am too thru..........LAWD!

Girl, let me tell ya! He betts be glad interactive TV doesn't exist 'cuz I would've reached into the TV and slapped him back into his momma's womb!

Now all of a sudden he writes a guidebook on how people can keep the government accountable? Where was this book for the last 10 years? This ain't about accountability this is about vindictiveness against PBO. Having Obama on the cover and calling him out by name proves that.

Exactly - not just him, but others including the media whores who bent over backwards, forwards, up against the wall, lying down, on the dryer.... to fuck the American public over with any kind of accountability.

Guuurl, we would have had a line of folks and those SaaaLAPS would have been like Dominos, and Tavis would have become a bobblehead doll.

that's gonna be the breakthrough on tivo 2015 - the "Slapafu" button sitting right next to "Play"

Exactly.

The State of the Black Union...let the hateration begin! lol

Since Pres. Obama will make an appearance (via a taped message), maybe that will keep Tavis from whining....no it won't lol.

I love how on the State of the Black Union homepage, it's easier to spot John Kerry and George Bush than Barack Obama lol, think that was intentional??.

Will they be addressing whether or not young black men are "shovel ready"?
Obama setting the tone with opening video

myth. i'm coppin that for brainfood, thx - are young black men shovel ready?

Isn't that our heirtage? Wasn't black folks always shovel ready...free labor?

WTF does that statement mean? Sounds racist to me.

What's going to happen if jobs are manual labor jobs, like rebuilding infrastructure - highways, schools, bridges, etc? Should black folks refuse to do them then?

And "shovel ready" is a phrase that's been used lately when talking about jobs relating to rebuilding infrastructure.

One of the reasons I have absolutely NO problem with immigration or "illegal immigration" was growing up on a farm I worked my ass off. From the age of 13 until out of high school, I worked summers bucking hay, topping corn, changing sprinklers, digging ditches or thru-ways, picking fruits. It is HARD fucking work and the majority of the workers outside of kids, white kids, (high school & college) were Hispanic men & women who were supporting families. And we knew that when the summer was over we could back to school but they had to continue with their life. And the work that we did to have money for college or to pay for school was more REAL LIFE to them than us. If you follow my drift. (And not to mention that my paternal grandparentsand maternal great-grandparents were all immigrants.)

I don't believe Black folk will refuse manual labor jobs, if at a decent wage, which should happen, because I don't believe a Democratic President would suspend Davis-Bacon. On the local level, we have to make sure that Black folk have the opportunity at those manual construction jobs.

I would hope no one refuses because it's 'beneath' them. Living under Bush's administration was 'beneath' me but I'm still here. And, actually, ya know, any work "at a decent wage" - like socially just and livable wage - is good.

Unless I'm wrong, I'm thinking Bush suspended Davis-Bacon during or after Katrina, rather.

And manual construction jobs can lead to other things believe it or not. Trade jobs like plumbers, pipefitters, electricians, etc. Ya gotta somewhere. I know it would be probably kill me 'cuz I'm old, but I think rather than lose my home I'd be grabbing a shovel.

I was not suggesting that they refuse a job. Just that I was only hearing this 'shovel ready' at the State of Black Union..and was thinking...so what are they saying about us?

But a job is a job!!

"Just that I was only hearing this 'shovel ready' at the State of Black Union.."

Was it being used in the same context? Or here, maybe this is a better way to ask: What context did they use it in?

PBO speaks via taped message!

I know that's RIGHT.

He should never attend one of these after Tavis showed his royal ass during the primaries.

What did BHO say?

Anything interesting?

Tavis looks like doo doo on a stick.

Interesting that it's sponsored by Wells Fargo and Nationwide.

Guess Mickey D's didn't want to foot the bill this year.

Well WellsFargo is one of those banks who are having a hard time with the Giethner 'stress test.

One article I read made analogies to a cardiac arrest, they said.

Citibank was headed to the OR
Wells Fargo...defibrillator STAT
BankofAmerica..needs transfusion.

Is Nationwide what became of Countrywide (most subprime loans of all banks) that BofA bought?

Hey - do you think you can find that article again? I'd like to see it. I was just trying to think of who BofA did buy.

Merrill Lynch. Yeah - Nationwide ..... noooo - sorry, Countrywide. I'm thinking Nationwide insurance.

Here's the link.

It was in Time magazine I will try and find it.

I will, whiterose. You gave me the source - that'll do just fine; thank you.

No! Here it is. This is great..... "on the way to ICU...."

hopefully that is where you work

nah - I work in radiology [MRIs and such].

But this is stuff I use to get my family talking which includes siblings, nephews/nieces, kids, in-law kids - grandkids are too little, but we'll get to them too.

OK, gotcha. It's just that I was hoping you were working and not in need of the services of ICU.,,,when you said you were off to the ICU.

Keep that family dialogue going!!

Della Reese with a pink bow in her hair...huuuuuuuum!

Ain't watching no Obama Haterz. Ain't watching dat sh*t. Peeps got 2 learn: "Don't Knock Barack."

Michael Steele is gonna speak....I'm hoping he comes out and yells "WASSUP!!!!!!"

LMAO!!!

you gotta be csi to find any kind of agenda on the site. (um, who and what's on tap?) i guess you could register to find that out, but why use the hotwire model for a conference - i want to know what airline i'm flying and when that joint takes off. ...bet not pay money and find Homey the Clown on keynote, although I believe he would truly rock it, come to think of it.

The agenda is the same as the agenda last year....and the year before that....and the year before that.....and the year before that.......................

trudat, miranda, isonprize, thkaboutit, sepia.. my bad for looking for some substance up front there. slept late this a.m., didn't have all my wits about me.

If Dick Gregory is not there...there will not even be humorous highlights!

Exactly...LOL!!

Yep ---To sell Tavis' books.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

See how you are? LOLOLOLOL

I have said it before and I will say it again. Join in if you know the tune....

Tavis is about Tavis. Tired of hearing him talk about Tavis? Let's hear you talk about Tavis.