Jack & Jill Politics

Obama fighting back on healthcare!!....He told them he was no patsy during the general campaign...he trys to work with you, takes your punches..then he shifts gears and punches back.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/18/obama-...

Colbert was dead on last night about this "white men=neutral" BS:

"The Word-The Neutral Man's Burden"
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report...

Great segment. YT wants Sotomayor to make like Casper & disappear.

...make like lightning and bolt :)

That was hilarious and all too true.

The Bar Exam is in a little over a week, part of me wants more time, and part of me wants it to just be over. . .

BTW, I'm trying to figure out what other blogs to follow and I'm going to start keeping up with my own (after the Bar of course) so feel free to bookmark me, and let me know where your blog is, I'll add you to my blogroll.

Why do you want to be a lawyer?

my entire purpose for coming to law school was to be able to help other people. I wanted to be a civil rights attorney. I don't really want to practice in the traditional sense at this point, but if I were to do so, that's the area I'd be most interested (and prepared for via the classes I took).

Good luck! I'm starting my LSAT prep classes next month and taking the LSAT in December. Any tips/advice you would like to share about the law school application process would be greatly appreciated.

I'll be checkin' out ya blog, too!

:)

good luck

interesting news....I would like to start law school for the purposes of doing pro bono work...do you recommend a law school?

Well I think the one I went to is pretty awesome. What state are you in/where do you want to go to school?

I live in Kentucky..

Hey! I went to undergrad at Kentucky State (I'm from Columbus, Ohio). I don't really know how the law schools are in KY, but I can find out for you, I'm sure I know someone who knows something :o)

cool

I need info...give me all the info you can..

thanks

odawa2@gmail.com

Good luck! you'll do fine!

Good luck on taking the Bar Exam, Muzikal! Study hard.

I work as a Paralegal.

Thanks.

As far as studying, THIS is how I'm feeling right about now. LOL

Are you going into private practice when you pass the bar?

Cause,those are not the kinds of things that a prospective employer reads and offers the applicant a job.

No, I'm not going into private practice, and I didn't write that blog, someone else did. Although, I think anyone who has EVER taken the Bar Exam felt the same way at some point.

LMBAO! Good stuff.

I just looked out my window, after rading about the Jersey City shootout, to see about a dozen cop cars descend on a party in a decent high rise...someone was shot (wounded), young black men are being maced, shackled, dragged out by cops. They are cursing the cops and threatening to kill them and the other people at the party.

Did anyone bother to ask them if they saw Barack's speech? No excuses, remember? Oh and this building has Section 8 folks in it and an African American nurse who lives in the building's over her on our side of the street, complaining that the bourgie kids at the party love to act the ghettofab kids in the building, and they mixed it up at the party...

...so we cheer Barack's words (some of us) and yet say/do nothing. We continue to make excuses lest we're called self hating, or Toms, or elitist or "Bill Cosby," I suppose?

Please, someon help me put this in context, because I dont want my child to think this stuff is just the cost of being black. I thought no excuses meant no excuses? Tough love. OK. But where's the tough part?

"Did anyone bother to ask them if they saw Barack's speech? No excuses, remember?"

I don't know. Did anyone bother to ask them if they saw Barack's speech? Did you ask them?

Um, it was a rhetorical question...ut okay, I'll bite. When my wife and I went out on the street because the flashing lights were too much, and we saw one kid being dragged away in both wrist and leg cuffs, and him vowing to kill the cops dragging him and some dude at this party--he looked right up at me and cursed something along the lines of "What the fuck are you looking at?" I sucked my teeth and shouted back "You and the rest of them are an embarrassment to all of us, so no, fuck YOU." Then a squat little Montgomery Co. female cop told us to back up from the curb.

Some of the onlookers--mostly teenagers--eyeballed me and my wife. Then folks--our age--started whispering. "Somebody needed to say it."

Somebody, like the President, needed to say it. Now what are you going to do? And that's not a rhetorical question.

Well, my question wasn't rhetorical, either. That was pretty dramatic, that little exchange between you and one of the arrested partiers. So dramatic, in fact, I'm surprised that you didn't include it in your original comment. Or blog about it. Yes, that's right- I don't believe you.

As for what I would have done, and have done in situations in which young people are behaving badly, or just projecting bad attitudes, was to flatly reject the behavior or attitude and try to get them to see that not only is it harmful, but it's also unnecessary. One thing I don't do is give a pass to misbehavior on the part of the authorities, and something I certainly haven't done is talk about going out and murdering young black men who give the impression of being "gangstas". You know, as you have done. No, wait- you didn't do that. You advocated other people doing that.

Well, my question wasn't rhetorical, either. That was pretty dramatic, that little exchange betewwn you and one of the arrested partiers. So dramatic, in fact, that I'm surprised that you didn't include it in your original comment. Or blog about it. Yes, that's right- I don't believe you.


rotflmao!!!!!!

Hey Chris, I think I pre judged you..you are not alone...

contact me at odawa2@gmail.com

huh? It seems like you are ranting and I can't make sense of your post.

I will give you my thoughts. As a native american I would be so proud so pleased feeling so blessed that one of my own became president, you could not stop me from feeling proud. Why you or anyone from your culture would still question, or doubt, or feel inadequate about passing this great gift onto your children is totally beyond my comprehension.

On twitter someone called Cronkite "Kronkite." Isn't that just wonderful symbolism for how ignorant we as a country--and our news media--have become?

Ya know I saw some disturbing comments on ABC and USA Today, I didn't know what the anger was about, but then I remembered CPL's comment on the Cronkite thread up tonight....he changed the country's attitude about Vietnam...and in the mind of the average wingnut, that's treason. I even went to free republic to see if the freepers would confirm my suspicions...they didn't let me down....just a few comments:

RIP U POS
I’m ticked that Fox interupted Laura Ingraham on BOR for this old liberal bag of air
Millions (in Asia) died because of him.
I wonder if the so-called “most trusted man in America” trusted in the Lord Jesus.
Say hello to Benedict Arnold.

Ahhhh......the right wing are such a lovely bunch, aren't they?

Jon Stewart- "White Men Can't Judge-Sotomayor: Judgement Days

VIDEO

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/jon-st...

That was a great segment

I don't believe for 1 minute that Pat Buchkkkana was gonna be the worst person on Countdown, unless he has been "let go" from MSNBC

I actually heard someone on MSNBC earlier, I think it was Sam Stein, say he wasn't going to criticize buchanan because he was on MSNBC. SMH. Really? That's the point we've reached? Although I can't say I'm TOO surprised by it.

Looks like MSNBC has a bit of a Pat Buchanan problem on its hands.

In the wake of Buchanan’s latest (ahem) racially charged diatribe, in which he described America as a “country built basically by white folks,” a respected immigration reform group is demanding that the network stop granting Buchanan a platform to share what might charitably be termed his ideas on racial issues.

“We’re really concerned that MSNBC is putting this guy on when he should be on Fox,” Paco Fabian, a top official at America’s Voice, a frequently quoted group advocating immigration reform, told me. “He’s got a long history of being questionable on race issues in particular."

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/political-med...

I want to know when the Black Folk are gonna get galvanized? They had Don Imus off of the air within a WEEK of the "nappy-headed ho" comment, yet we can't get rid of pat buchanan? Even after 'A Brief for Whitey' where he said slavery was the greatest thing to ever happen to Black folk he's still on MSNBC like every hour on the hour. I wonder what kind of state "America" would be in if they had to do all the shit they made the slaves do for free and what state the countries Africa would be in had they not been robbed.

Not surpirsed.

ROTFLMBAO!! @ a comment from the plumline:

"Buddy Gill | July 17th, 2009 at 08:57 pm

As a 58 year old, bitter, white, blue collar, gun owner, I got to tell ya, It’s time for Pat to take off the pointy white hat and move into the new century. Sorry Pat, Imperial Wizard no longer looks good on a resume unless you are running for a republican office."

Who was KO's "Worst Persons" tonight?

I dont think they did it because the Cronkite news came up in the middle of the show, so all of the news networks are reporting on that. I flipped over to Fox just to see what they were doing and saw that silly Bret Baier - just to give you an idea - it was like watching Souljah Boy attempt to talk about Paul Robeson.

"it was like watching Souljah Boy attempt to talk about Paul Robeson." You need to copyright that b/c it's the best thing I've heard in a month on blogs or on the air or print!

... "it was like watching Souljah Boy attempt to talk about Paul Robeson."

*dead*

it was like watching Souljah Boy attempt to talk about Paul Robeson.

Why you gotta get me while I'm sippin'? LOLOLOL

got invited to a big shot home for a dinner party, they had fleas...I own a pest control company, they used another company. Asked if I could get rid of them, in my dinner dress...bastards!

http://genmaspeaks.blogspot.com/2009/07/dinner-...

My blog is the sweetest revenge...

SMDH!

All I can do is SMH ...

... and laugh heartily.

LOL!!

I cant stop laughing.....I really cant...I can see your face..OMG

Wait, so at the party, while folks are gettin' their eat and drink on? What did she expect you to do? Spray around their ankles?? LOLOLOLOL

Long time would pass before I'd even DRIVE past that house. LOLOLOL

Heck yeah, she was supposed to wrap that dress around her legs, kick off her heels and GIT TO WORK...LMAO.....it makes no nevermind that she's a guest...she was supposed to go to her car, open the trunk and reappear with a hazmat suit on and get to WORK...LOL

you just gave me a big laugh! hey, take care of those fleas.

you laughing made me laugh, she is unfriended and unfollowed and blogged about! thanks for popping in!

Huh?

http://www.jabberwonk.com/flinker.cfm?cliid=j49t

"For some reason, Republicans keep letting RNC chairman Michael Steele near live microphones. Today, while guest hosting the Bill Bennett radio show, Steele said that he is working on a new game plan that will address issues in the black community by creating a “hip-hop storm” for the GOP.

Ah yes, if there's ANYTHING the Black community needs, it's more ignorant demeaning insulting "hip hop"

Newsflash Michael, most of the people listening to that crap are young white suburban kids. I prefer REAL music (I can do SOME hip hop, but most of it, I wouldn't spit on if it were on fire).

ok;;;;you lost me?????

We've heard this before haven't we?

yes we have heard it before, just makes me wonder about Steele...does he think because he says the words "hip-hop" all kinds of youth and people of color will just be there? Oh well, the longer Steele fails for the GOP the better.

I want to know when Steele is going to acknowledge hos irrelevant he is? No one takes him seriously and he has become a joke both in and outside of his party.

my guess is he is in so deep he doesn't know how to extricate himself without looking like a big loser and he is trying to lessen his embarrassment.

whatever, Steele has to live with himself, like my mother always told me....you are your own person, you own what you do.....kinda like what the president said at the NAACP....maybe my mother wasn't as snappy as the president but she got her message across to me.

He's going to try to do something to expand the Republican party as it stands, again, and he's going to be told to walk it back. Again.

As nutty as he may seem sometimes, his heart's in the right place - he's trying to make his party more moderate. I respect him, even if his own party doesn't.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday marked the 91st birthday of Nelson Mandela by hailing the South African statesman as "a living embodiment of the highest values of the United Nations."

UN chief pays tribute to Mandela on his 91st birthday

In a message to be delivered on Mandela Day Saturday, the UN secretary general said he was joining people throughout the world "in wishing him a happy 91st birthday."

"His commitment to a democratic, multi-racial South Africa, his steadfast pursuit of justice, his willingness to reconcile with those who persecuted him most -- these are just some of the hallmarks of a remarkable man," Ban said.

"May we all continue to benefit from his wisdom, his good works and good humor for many years to come," he added.

"I warmly welcome the global campaign to recognize the birthday of Nelson Mandela, July 18, as an annual opportunity to celebrate this great man and the values and principles that he has come personify over the past seven decades," said the president of the UN General Assembly, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, in his own message.

Wow! Mandela is 91?!?! Happy Birthday indeed!

Happy Birthday Nelson Mandela!!!!

And how apropos is that. To show racism at its core??!!! Here is Nelson Mandela, having been imprisoned for close to 30 years, just by virtue of the color of his skin, surviving to see Barack Hussein Obama elected President of the United States.

Walter Cronkite, a contemporary of Nelson Mandela, also lived to see it. Mr. Cronkite, an excellent journalist, just by virtue of his skin color, never having to suffer the insults, the imprisonment, to racists laws that a black man of his age and station in life might have.

Things that make you go Hmmmmm.....

(where is Arsenio, anyway?....)

The Constipated White People of America
http://themidnightsolution.blogspot.com/2009/07...

Listening to Pat Buchanan, and others like him lately, all I can think about is these people suffering from a serious case of constipation.

No, seriously.

Have you ever been constipated?
Have you ever gone 3 or more days without a bowel movement?

Chances are everyone has. And it's never a good feeling. You can't eat properly. You can't sleep properly. You body doesn't function properly. Your clothes don't fit properly. You just pretty much feel like you're gonna explode and all you want is relief.

Now imagine you've been constipated since.....oh let's say....January 20, 2009. Hell, you might even say as long as November 4, 2008. Imagine what type of agony these people are going through.

I've pretty much just described every racist white person in America.

And what made them constipated, you ask?

A black man named BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA is President of the United States of America.

Obama and his black family sitting in the WHITE house destroys everything these people ever believed to be true about themselves and others.

It has literally made them constipated and every time they think they're about to get relief, they see Obama's black face on TV, in the magazine shelves at the grocery store, somewhere on the street, and their sphincters just tighten back up. It's like torture.

So with all that crap built up and driving them insane, the only way it can come out is through uncontrollable and spastastic burst which, while providing some relief, usually ends with the person having crapped all over themselves.

Put it to you like this. Do you really think the kiddies in FREEPERSville didn't know in the back of their minds their racist, hateful slurs at Malia Obama, an 11 year old girl, wasn't making them look like huge assholes? Of course they knew, but at that moment all that were going through their mind was "I NEED RELIEF!!!!!!"

This is why you're seeing the racism towards Obama and his family literally come out in explosive blurts and stream (not unlike diarrhea). It comes out in a way that you can't even try to hide that it's racist. It's far too blatant and far too sloppy.

I use this far out analogy to make this point. Whenever you see or hear someone like Buchanan, or Hannity, or Limbaugh make huge assholes out of themselves, just think about the pain and misery they're going and know the dumps they're taking always end up making them look like shit.

BWA HA HA HA HA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aint that some SHIT!

In every sense of the word.