Do real people take vacations?
Category: Life

I could sure use a vacation!!   I know it sounds cliche but it is more difficult to take time off now that I'm working at the agency.  It seems like most normal people take a break at least once a year but I've never considered myself to be part of the norm.

Working for a busy talent agency hardly allows me time to run to the bathroom let alone take two weeks off to vacation.  Not to mention, if I take off I don't make money (paid vacations are a farce).  A true Catch 22!!

Come to think of it I don't think I have EVER taken time off from ANY job??  Is this normal?  Even if I did vacate, I think I'd have a hard time fining stuff to do with my spare time...unless I was sunbathing on an island in Fiji with a bottomless bank account!!

Until that happens I think I'll just got to work like a good worker ant and save my money for everyday life happenings...or another Summer hurricane evacuation!  Fun!!

~B~

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50 Odd Things
Category: Life

50 ODD Things about me

1) Do you like blue cheese?
But of course!

2) Have you ever smoked heroin?
Nah... not trying to get loaded like that!

3) Do you own guns?
My daddy was a REAL cowboy...  I've had a gun since before I was old enough to vote! Perps BEWARE!!!

4) What flavor do you add to your drink at sonic?
None really.. tried the peach flavor for the tea and almost went into diabetic shock!

5) Do you get nervous before doctor appointments?
Yes.  I even get nervous when other people got to the Dr.

6) What do you think of hot dogs?
I only like my dog and I hate those little yappy dogs.   ...Oh HOT dogs?  Uh, organic beef hot dogs are OK.

7) Favorite Christmas song?
"Bells Will be Ringing" by Charles Brown

8) What do you prefer to drink in the morning?
EmergenC Vitamin drink.

9) Can you do push ups?
At this point in my life only "lady "push ups.

10) Can you do a chin up?
Even when I was in shape I could only do one.

11) What's your favorite piece of jewelry?
My Tagg watch I got from my dad.

12) Favorite hobby?
Cooking

13) Ever been in a car wreck?
Yep two.   I'm lucky to be alive!

14) Do you have A.D.D.
I don't think there is any such thing.

15) What is one trait that you hate about yourself?
I worry too much about stuff I can't control.

16) Middle name?
Chisholm Ramsey

17) Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment:

1- What a bother it is to have two middle names when I fill out something that requires a middle initial.

2- TGI to the Mother!@$% F!!!!!

3- Is anyone going to read this bulletin at 1:00AM?

18) Name 3 things you bought yesterday?
Gas
Clothes (finally)
Lemonade

19) Name 3 drinks you regularly drink.
Water
Yerba Mate
Super Food juice

20) Current worry?
Ah where do I start...

21) Current hate right now?
Louisiana/Mississippi legal system

23) How did you bring in the New Year?
Popped some really loud fireworks in a really small yard!  ....not too smart!

24) Where would you like to go?
Fiji or to visit my friend Lora in NY

25) Name three people who will complete this?
Hell if I know?!

26) Do you own slippers?
Only Crocs.    I love 'em!

27) What shirt are you wearing?
Who said I was wearing a shirt??

28) Do you like sleeping on satin sheets?
Gross.   No they catch on your toenails and feel really creepy on your skin!

29) Can you whistle?
No I'm a tard.

30) Favorite color?
It depends on what the color is on...   I love the color of  a Southern sunset, love to wear black when I'm feeling melancholy &  love my Aegean blue Acura so it totally depends on my mood.  favorite colors are like music to me whatever I'm feeling...

31) Would you be a pirate?
Hell yeah if I lived in that time!  Only other choice I'd have would to be a slave or something.

32) What songs do you sing in the shower?
Usually some Prince song in the evening or ABC's with Jaedon in the morning.

33) Favorite girl's name?
Perilloux

34) Favorite boy's name?
Jaedon. Duh.

35) What's in your pocket?
No Pockets.

36) Last thing that made you laugh?
Dang??  I'm not sure about that.. I've been too busy this week to recall?!

37) Best bed sheets as a child?
Jersey sheets baby!

38) Worst injury you've ever had?
Busted on my bike as  a kid when I tried to stand on the handle bars while I was moving.  F!@$ my ribs up!  No major hospitalization though...Knock on wood!

39) Do you love where you live?
I love the essence of NOLA dislike the folks around me sometimes.

40) How many TVs do you have in your house?
one

41) Who is your loudest friend?
Rachel

42) How many dogs do you have?
Only one now days. Thank God!!!

43) Does someone have a crush on you?
Maybe...

45) What is your favorite book?
The Celestine prophecies

46) What is your favorite candy?
Ferro Rocher

47) Favorite Sports Team?
Who cares

48) What song do you want played at your funeral?
Song for Renee By Clarence Brown   ( it's the Youtube video on my profile)

49) What were you doing 12 AM last night?
Sleeping

50) What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up?
Why have I been dreaming that my dad was still alive all week?!

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Greatest Music Legend
Category: Music

                  The Passing of Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown:

                            America's Greatest Music Legend

By Billy Atwell

These days, when people are only too happy to wave Old Glory for all of the wrong reasons, I often state that the music and soul of "Gatemouth" Brown inspires me to wave the flag.

I am proud to be a citizen of a country that births, cultivates, and gives nationality to the artistry of individuals as distinct as Gatemouth.

The genre-less and colorless groove of Brown's sound could only have come from the best aspects of what the American Dream can offer. And despite living through some of the darkest periods of racism in the country's less than perfect history, the heartbeat in all his work was a love of life regardless of the trials and tribulations. Life could not be more optimistic, fun and hopeful than when experiencing a Gate's Express gig.

Now, fortunately, we at least have his recordings for years to come.

You could get even more specific and say that the man was the embodiment of all great mystery and mojo in Louisiana and Texas. Those who are aware know that the cross-pollination of these two distinct regions of the South has created some of the deepest and mightiest sounds of the 50 states.



To me, Gate was the president we never had and the astronaut that never manned an actual space shuttle. In his own way he delivered music that was royal diplomacy, without boundaries, fearless, passionate and from the heart. Gate respected his craft and talents and never dumbed down his sound nor let his technique slip. He got better and even more intense every time I saw him.

It was one life's great injustices that he never achieved the star power to sell out Madison Square Garden for days running. The closest he ever came to that was a respectful nod from Eric Clapton when Gates opened for him during one of his own sold out runs at MSG. It might have been bittersweet and serendipitous, but a vindication in its own way. Gate was more than celebrity, or star power, or any of the absurd things exalted by the bulk of our flag-waving citizens. He might posthumously gain the legacy as one of America's greatest musical legends.

The Original Peacock Recordings was my introduction to Gate. It is still one of the most treasured CDs in my collection, especially since he autographed it in '96. If you want me to give you some sort of musical overview, I'd be hard pressed. The same with any of his recordings that I've heard or own. There is too much feeling, too much joy, too much liberation and celebration to break it down into chords and styles. It pours over you like a waterfall of gumbo stock, like a downpour of pure Texas rain.

It's the kind of recording you'd play while absorbing Life Magazine:100 Photographs that changed the world, only at a level where the neighbors are likely to call the cops. It's international but unquestioningly American. To paraphrase one of Gate's other great recordings, it's "American Music, Texas Style."

Forever in our hearts and souls, thanks again for the music, Gate. May you rest in peace. Oh, and don't forget to wave your flag today. For the right reasons. For the memory of Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown: America's Greatest Musical Legend!!! - Billy Atwell

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Yippie!!!!!!
Category: Life

Slidell Road May be Named After Gatemouth Brown

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

Road could be renamed for Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown Posted by Ed Anderson May 31, 2007 5:14PM

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown may not be around any more, but a little piece of him may live on in St. Tammany Parish, where he spent the last 22 years of his life.

A stretch of U.S. 11 from the southern boundary of Slidell to Lake Pontchartrain will be designated the Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown Memorial Highway if state Rep. A.G. Crowe, R-Slidell, gets his way.

Without objection, the Senate Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works on Thursday unanimously approved Crowe's House Concurrent Resolution 18, which calls on the state highway department to rename U.S. 11 from Spartan Drive to Lake Pontchartrain and hang roadsigns bearing the Grammy winning musician's name.

The resolution needs just the final approval of the Senate before it goes to the department. No opposition is expected.

Although the legislation does not have the force of law and does not mandate the name change and designation, a state agency usually pays attention to such resolutions as the expression of the Legislature's wishes.

"I travel all over the world but this is home," Brown said of Slidell in 2003.

 

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I'm going to pee on myself!!!!!
Current mood: enthralled
Category: Jobs, Work, Careers

   I'm sure that some of you think my blogs can be a little down sometimes. I'm often most passionate about those things that disturb me. However, I have some fantastic news!  I got the job with the modeling agency as their talent coordinator.  I'll basically be running the office and interacting with the clients. I was warmly welcomed aboard yesterday and I start Monday!  To think I was worried....

  They loved my style, personality and "Bandbrat" background so much, that they said I could have as much creative input as I pleased.  The great thing is that if I find my niche in the industry whether it be print, booking, New York runway or motion pictures, they will facilitate my decision. The agency will gladly get someone to run the office if I wanted to grow with the company. 

  My agency is owned by two older women who are a hoot! I tend to get along great with older women who are more established, direct and assertive. They usually know what they want out of life already, rarely have time for games and are brutally honest!  I'm an old soul anyway....

  I really think I'm going to like it here. I feel like Shera  now!!  I haven't even gotten to the best part...  Since technically I'll be an independent contractor for the agency, almost all of my living expenses will be tax deductible!  If I need to buy an outfit for a casting call or have a spa day, it's all deductible!!!   Can you believe it?! I get to write off all the girly things I do!!  Not only is wardrobe  necessary for my productivity, but I'm going to have to keep up with my tabloid mags and award shows too. For this reason I can write off even my cable bill!!!  It is my duty to stay current with who's winning what award, who's hot, who's not and to bring a fresh and hip edge to the company. 

  I never thought all of my scattered creative qualities would tie into one position and that I would actually come across an opportunity like this. After all, the road I have recently traveled hasn't been exactly line with daisies.  I truly believe good things come to not only those who wait but to those who are deserving. 

   Let us put the gears of this thing we call life in full motion cause I'm doin the damn thing now baby!   NOLA Rise!

                                           Holla~B

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Assholes With Guns
Current mood: crappy
Category: Life

  Please, pardon my mood this morning for I had  terrible dreams last night and I slept very poorly. I was quite disappointed by the time the sun went down even though yesterday was one of the most beautiful days of the season.

  I awoke early yesterday for some reason. I tried to sleep in because it was my day off and I never get to sleep late. Despite my efforts to be lazy, my eyes and mind where too alert to be in bed. I decided go ahead and start my day by catching up on some long over due errands. In between going to the tailor and my bi-monthly trip to Walmart, I noticed how lovely the weather was. The great energy of my Saturday radiated even further when I had the pleasure of speaking with a very insightful friend of mine about an upcoming business opportunity. 

  Just when I thought the perfect cloudless 72 degree day couldn't get any better, my friend Zena called to invite me to the lakefront for crawfish.  This is what Saturday's are all about...

  Around 2:00p, on the way to bring my little boy to the lake for a restriction free outing, I noticed a SUV wrecked at the gas station near my house. I didn't think much about it, except for the fact that the man being carted off via stretcher look awfully injured to be in such a minor accident. Why were there so many cops at the scene? I would later discover the answers to my many questions...

Three killed in five shootings across the city

New Orleans police spent Saturday investigating five shootings across the city, including a midday killing on heavily traveled North Broad Street in which a 24-year-old man was gunned down behind the driver's seat of a sport utility vehicle.

The five shootings left three people dead.

Together with the death of a 25-year-old man found fatally shot in the head Friday morning inside his home in the Village de l'Est neighborhood, Saturday's carnage brought the city's 2007 homicide toll to at least 37 people in 69 days.

By nightfall, police had no suspects or motives in any of Saturday's attacks, which all took place outdoors on New Orleans streets, from Little Woods to Esplanade Ridge and Uptown. None of the five shootings appeared to be random.

"Everybody who was harmed, it looks as if they were the intended victims," said Sgt. Joe Narcisse, a New Orleans Police Department spokesman. "Several of the individuals have criminal pasts."

Saturday's first shooting victim was identified by the coroner's office as Keyana Price, 21, killed by several gunshot wounds as she walked near the corner of Gov. Nicholls Street and North Roman streets at 5 a.m. with a 25-year-old acquaintance, who was wounded in the ankle.

At about 11 a.m., officers were called to the 7800 block of Venice Boulevard in the Little Woods neighborhood of eastern New Orleans, where they found a man dead in the roadway. The man, who had cropped hair bleached blond, was riddled with bullets.

By 2 p.m., police were working a crime scene that stretched over a swath of one of the city's major thoroughfares, North Broad Street.

At Esplanade Avenue and North Broad, the body of Glynn Francois Jr., 24, was removed from the shattered remains of a silver Dodge Durango that he was driving when he was shot. His sister, who was also in the car, grieved on the neutral ground, her white tank top stained with blood.

According to investigators, a maroon Dodge Magnum pulled alongside the Durango and its occupants opened fire, hitting the driver several times, at least once in the head.

Three men fled the Magnum, dropping an AK-47 assault rifle, police said. Francois managed to drive two blocks before crashing into a pole at North Broad and Esplanade. Police said his sister, Deone Francois, took a handgun from the Durango and hid it in a nearby convenience store.

Francois, whose most recent address was in Gretna, had amassed about 20 arrests in the past five years, including a number of armed robberies in the university area of Uptown in 2003. But throughout seven Criminal District Court cases, Francois beat all the charges, either by being acquitted at trial or when prosecutors dropped the charges.

In one case, Francois was accused of holding up young women and robbing them of jewelry in the 500 block of Hillary Street in the early morning. Police said he forced the women into an alleyway and made them disrobe, brushing a handgun over their bodies.

Two cars, lightly crashed together, were parked outside the car wash: a maroon Dodge Magnum with Texas plates and a taupe Chevrolet sedan.

The Dodge that Francois had been driving was listed as a rental car from a Houston agency, according to a search of online databases. The Magnum is registered to a Houston man, records show.

Francois' last arrest was Nov. 7 in Jefferson Parish, in the 3100 block of the S. Interstate 10 Service Road in Metairie. He was booked with possession of more than 28 grams of cocaine with the intent to distribute, drug possession with the intent to distribute, possession of drug paraphernalia and firearm violence.

While NOPD officers, crime scene technicians and FBI agents -- who last month started teaming up with local homicide investigators -- recorded evidence from Francois' killing, police received a fourth call of a shooting.

This one was Uptown, in the 2100 block of Foucher Street, near South Saratoga Street, where a man was reported shot and wounded. No details were available Saturday.

By 6 p.m., a fifth shooting was reported, at Fern and Colapissa streets. Police arrived after a man was shot several times, including wounds to the hand and back. The man was in the 3000 block of Fern when a blue car approached him and someone inside opened fire, police said.

The coroner's office is asking for the public's help in identifying the man found dead in Little Woods. Chief investigator John Gagliano described the man as 5-feet-6 and 150 pounds with green eyes and short bleached blond hair that was originally dark.

The man had a dark beard and mustache, each trimmed, and wore blue jeans, a black shirt and tan work boots. He also had four tattoos: a skull on his inner, upper right arm; a skull with a top hat on his left arm, along with a monsterlike bird; and a hand holding a sphere around the grim reaper with the name "Warren," all over a strand of barbed wire.

Anyone with information about the five shootings is asked to call Crimestoppers at (504) 822-1111 or toll-free at (877) 903-7867. Callers may remain anonymous and can receive a cash reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to an indictment.

   It was painfully clear to me that what I'd seen nearly five hours before was not merely an accident but yet another senseless murder in my city.  I realized this when I was on my way home at 6:00p and discovered that the cops were still posted up on the corner. They had the whole convenient store parking lot barricaded with yellow tape. I had assumed that there had been a car wreck because of the busted out window of the SUV, but had neglected to notice the brain matter splattered on the driver's side window!

  Big freakin deal to me!  I live only  three blocks from North Broad @ Esplanade.  What's messed up is the knuckleheads started shooting automatic weapon two blocks from where they finally ended up!!!   I love NOLA  but I'm not going live in fear of getting shot in broad daylight.  I realise that the cops think the victims were intended, but anyone could be an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire. Especially if these assholes pick a perfectly good Saturday afternoon to go off on a shooting rampage.  I think all of these losers should have taken my lead and went to the lake for a peaceful picnic.

                                   Holla~B~

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Tig Ol' Bitties and Bush
Current mood: discontent
Category: News and Politics

I'm sure most of you have been way too overwhelmed with the popular media coverage to realise what is going on in the REAL world. I don't mean the not-so real show on MTV, but the world that you and I reside in. I have to admit, I'm pretty clueless the majority of the time. My media time is spent learning about the crackhead stars who overdose and the shortest celebrity marriage on record. I know I'm not really interested in Anna Nichole Smith or the "mystery" behind her death. For some reason though, the scandal draws me in every time.

 Despite the ever so interesting news about poor Anna Nichole and her baby's daddies, there are more important current events at hand...

 I'll let you read the following article and I'll comment afterward.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pentagon officials undercut the intelligence community in the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq by insisting in briefings to the White House that there was a clear relationship between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda, the Defense Department's inspector general said Friday.

Acting Inspector General Thomas F. Gimble told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the office headed by former Pentagon policy chief Douglas J. Feith took "inappropriate" actions in advancing conclusions on al Qaeda connections not backed up by the nation's intelligence agencies.

Gimble said that while the actions of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy "were not illegal or unauthorized," they "did not provide the most accurate analysis of intelligence to senior decision makers" at a time when the White House was moving toward war with Iraq. (Read the unclassified portion of the report -- PDF)

"I can't think of a more devastating commentary," said Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan.

He cited Gimble's findings that Feith's office was, despite doubts expressed by the intelligence community, pushing conclusions that September 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta had met an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague five months before the attack, and that there were "multiple areas of cooperation" between Iraq and al Qaeda, including shared pursuit of weapons of mass destruction. (Watch Feith fight back )

"That was the argument that was used to make the sale to the American people about the need to go to war," Levin said in an interview Thursday. He said the Pentagon's work, "which was wrong, which was distorted, which was inappropriate ... is something which is highly disturbing."

Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Missouri, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said Friday the report "clearly shows that Doug Feith and others in that office exercised extremely poor judgment for which our nation, and our service members in particular, are paying a terrible price."

Republicans on the panel disagreed. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, said the "probing questions" raised by Feith's policy group improved the intelligence process.

"I'm trying to figure out why we are here," said Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Georgia, saying the office was doing its job of analyzing intelligence that had been gathered by the CIA and other intelligence agencies.

Gimble responded that at issue was that the information supplied by Feith's office in briefings to the National Security Council and the office of Vice President Dick Cheney was "provided without caveats" that there were varying opinions on its reliability.

Gimble's report said Feith's office had made assertions "that were inconsistent with the consensus of the intelligence community."

At the White House, spokesman Dana Perino said President Bush has revamped the U.S. spy community to try avoiding a repeat of flawed intelligence affecting policy decisions by creating a director of national intelligence and making other changes.

"I think what he has said is that he took responsibility, and that the intel was wrong, and that we had to take measures to revamp the intel community to make sure that it never happened again," Perino told reporters.

Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman denied that the office was producing its own intelligence products, saying they were challenging what was coming in from intelligence-gathering professionals, "looking at it with a critical eye."

Some Democrats also have contended that Feith misled Congress about the basis of the administration's assertions on the threat posed by Iraq, but the Pentagon investigation did not support that.

Levin calls IG report 'very damning'
In a telephone interview Thursday, Levin said the IG report is "very damning" and shows a Pentagon policy shop trying to shape intelligence to prove a link between al Qaeda and Saddam.

Levin in September 2005 had asked the inspector general to determine whether Feith's office's activities were appropriate, and if not, what remedies should be pursued.

The 2004 report from the September 11 commission found no evidence of a collaborative relationship between Saddam and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror organization before the U.S. invasion.

Asked to comment on the IG's findings, Feith said in a telephone interview that he had not seen the report but was pleased to hear that it concluded his office's activities were neither illegal nor unauthorized. He took strong issue, however, with the finding that some activities had been "inappropriate."

"The policy office has been smeared for years by allegations that its pre-Iraq-war work was somehow 'unlawful' or 'unauthorized' and that some information it gave to congressional committees was deceptive or misleading," said Feith, who left his Pentagon post in August 2005.

Feith called "bizarre" the inspector general's conclusion that some intelligence activities by the Office of Special Plans, which was created while Feith served as the undersecretary of defense for policy -- the top policy position under then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld -- were inappropriate but not unauthorized.

 WTF?!  Do you mean to tell me that we sentenced someone to death without any proof of his involvement in 9/11? Are we some kind of poachers looking roast a scapegoat? I don't want to here any bullshit about past war crimes either. We all know that US presidents are responsible for more crimes against humanity than all the leaders of the world put together! Not only are slave owners hailed as our founding fathers, but they can get away with social genocide to this day.

 Either the world is as high as Anna Nichole or we are really that brainwashed.  Either would be equally as bad.  I'm not telling everyone to go register to vote or anything , but something has got to give. After all, we see how that turned out for the Florida charade.

 Only as conscious people can we make a change.

Copy and paste  the link below if you haven't seen the clip " Loose Change. ".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WsyEqKQRBY

                              Holla ~B~

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Some People Should Be Neutered!
Current mood: angry

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Warning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you are easily offended by extreme stupidity read no further...

 

If you haven't heard about the woman who gave her son a pistol to retaliate against a rival, read the article below. I'll will give my two cents in a minute.

 

Fistfight between teens leads to murder

03:18 PM CST on Friday, February 9, 2007

 

A fistfight between two 17-year-old boys led one of the teen to kill the other one with a gun his mother gave him, police said Wednesday.

 

A picture of Clarence Johnson, which was taken by his mother, shows the teen holding a pistol and a fist full of cash.

According to Sgt. Joe Narcisse, an NOPD spokesman, the shooting took place shortly after 7 p.m. near the intersection of Clio and Simon Bolivar streets, in Central City. The victim, a 17-year-old New Orleans boy, got into a fistfight with Clarence Johnson earlier in the evening, with both individuals walking away after the conflict.

Narcisse said Johnson went home and gave details of the fight to his mom, 44-year-old Vanessa Johnson. She gave her son a handgun and told him to get revenge because he had apparently lost the fight. Johnson took the handgun, located the victim a short time later and fired several shots, striking him once in the stomach. The victim was rushed to Elmwood Medical Center, where he later died.

Both individuals had been previously arrested as juveniles, Narcisse said. Meanwhile, Johnson's mother has an extensive rap sheet, including arrests for drugs and violent behavior.

"How does any police department make up for huge deficiencies in parenting?" Narcisse said.

Police said Vanessa Johnson was arrested early Thursday morning and booked with principal to second-degree murder. Her son remains at large. A murder weapon has not been found.

 

 

When I first saw this article I was just getting to work. To say the least I was in total shock that someone could be this trifling! I mean..What would posses a mother to jeopardize the safety of her child and condone violence towards another child?? I know the police said they found cocaine in the house but ain't enough crack in the world to make someone this stupid.

   I blame Ms. Johnson 100% for the actions of her poorly misguided son. How can we expect our youth to prosper into productive citizens if their parents ain't shit? After all, we are a product of our upbringing. I'm tired of society blaming the media for it's misfortunes. My father let me watch all the scary movies I wanted to as a child and I'm not going around committing violent crimes. This is because values were instilled at an early age. I learned to separate fiction from real life. What's acceptable for T.V. isn't always what flies  at home.

 I think that part of the problem is that parents aren't setting the right example and giving their children a realistic outlook on  life. If they see their parents in the streets, then that's what they will aspire to become.

  I realize that this is an isolated incident but the lack of parenting in NOLA is an ongoing issue. For instance, when did it become cute for a six year old to bend over on a car and pop it like a stripper? Just yesterday, I heard a woman crossing the street cussing out her five kids to her friend. In my opinion, the words "Fucking'" and "Kids" should never be used in the same sentence. Maybe it's just me, but if you don't have time to nurture your children then maybe you shouldn't have them in the first place. Simply put, " Stupid people shouldn't procreate."

 Did she ever consider that it could have been her son that was killed? This is clearly a case of poor parenting.   After all, If you cant' count on Mama to steer you in the right direction, who can you count on? Shame on you Ms. Johnson!

 

                                         ~B~

  I would like to thank my friend Mr.MO10 for encouraging me
MR. MO10       to write about this topic.

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What pisses you off?
Current mood: bitchy

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Tired of all those surveys where you list favorite this, favorite that...? Well now you get to list off everything you hate and vent about everything that annoys you or makes you mad. Just let it all out and say as much as you want! HERE'S YOUR CHANCE TO RANT !!! YOUR MOST HATED/or at least strongly disliked... CANDY: Those nasty ass sugar coated yellow chicks BEVERAGE: Ghetto punch. Ya know the kind that comes in the barrel? I once started a puke chain in the cafeteria when I choked on the little particles at the bottom! COLOR: lime green! How come big girls always want to wear lime green? TOWN/CITY: Atlanta. The traffic there almost made me insane!! MOVIE: Ballistic. If it weren't for the gazillion explosions, I may have gotten some decent sleep at the movies! ASPECT OF MYSPACE: Greasy booties! Call me a hater if you want but any woman (excluding porn stars) that would take a picture of her ass to show the public needs some divine intervention! ANIMAL: Mosquito INSECT: Since I said mosquitoes already, I'll go with roaches. BIRD: pigeons. They are the bums of the sky! SEASON: Summer. You can always get warm but you can't beat the heat! AGE OF KIDS: 18. Kids are cute but once you grow up you can be a little annoying! MOST ANNOYING?? DRIVING: People who drive slow in the left lane. TALKING ON THE PHONE: People who cant drive as it is but damn it ! They have a secure hold on that cellphone! TV: Soaps and lifetime stuff. EATING IN RESTAURANTS: Wilted lettuce in a salad! Do ya know how old lettuce has to be before it turns brown? Long time...weeks even!! GOING THROUGH DRIVE-THRUS: Don't do that much but when I do I hate not getting what I ordered!! SLEEPING: When a telemarketer calls early in the morning!! SHOWERING: low flow ( common in New Orleans) YOU'RE AT THE BEACH: sand in the crack YOU'RE AT THE GROCERY STORE: Well the new Walmart in NOLA is never in stock! YOU'RE ON A DATE: Meaningless chit chat...so what do you do for fun? Uh, if you have to ask you'll never know. COOKING OR BAKING: When I leave something on the fire just a tad bit longer so it can simmer, brown, get tight etc... just to discover an hour later that I forgot about it!!! WHAT HOUSEHOLD CHORE DO YOU HATE THE MOST: Dishes WHAT WOULD BE THE ABSOLUTE WORST WAY TO DIE? drowning WHAT'S THE MOST ANNOYING HABIT IN OTHERS? I hate people that aren't sincere. Facades suck! WHAT IS YOUR WORST HABIT? My way or the highway. TO BE COMPLETELY STEREOTYPICAL, WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST ANNOYING THING ABOUT GIRLS? Some need men to validate their existence. Ya know the break up with on guy only to fall prey to another. They need some in between time to self reflect and be content with self. TO BE COMPLETELY STEREOTYPICAL, WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST ANNOYING THING ABOUT GUYS? A lustful heart. I know men will be men but grow up! There is more to life than chasing tail! WHAT'S ANNOYING YOU TODAY: The same things that were annoying me yesterday... AMEN!

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Crime in NOLA
Current mood: curious
Category: Life

I would like to know how the city of NOLA will create a balance between protecting it's citizens and down right racial harassment. I've heard a lot of stories lately about the police cracking down on crime. Unfortunately, this usually means that the black citizens of New Orleans have less freedoms. More pullovers, searches, racial profiling and arrests seem to do little to help the increasing violent crimes. What I'm trying to say is that just because the cops bust people selling or smoking marijuana doesn't mean their making the streets safe. Put the attention where it's needed!!

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