(CNN) -- What will be the biggest question asked at Davos this year? The environment, economic development and energy security will all be hot topics discussed by the rich and powerful who will gather in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum from January 23 to 27.
"The Davos Question"
The question being posed is:
"What one thing do you think that countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2009?"
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
Blackonomics part 2
It's your financial future. Take charge.
Stock downturns. Declining house market. These are things you don't have control over. But on the home front, it's another story. Here's a list that can help you get the year started off right:
Keep a record of where your money goes. Look at your spending over the past three months. Leave nothing out. And then, cut expenses where you can.
Change your energy consumption habits (turn your thermostat down five degrees and save 10% in fuel costs).
Watch what you spend for food (avoid frozen dinners - you'll be paying $300 a pound for those veggies on the side).
Try to establish an emergency savings fund that will cover three to six months of expenses.
Make sure your savings and checking accounts are FDIC-insured.
If you're facing a mortgage foreclosure, look into Hope for Homeowners (a federal program that can help refinance mortgages for borrowers who are having difficulty making their payments).
If you didn't qualify for the 2008 financial stimulus and your income has fallen dramatically, you could qualify for a "recovery rebate credit" on your 2008 tax return.
If you're a first-time homebuyer, look into the new tax credit from the IRS that can equal up to 10% of your home's purchase price, up to $7,500.
Amp up your 401(k) contributions if retirement is more than 10 years out (you should be putting away 10% to 15% of your income).
Clean up your own credit (get a free copy of your credit report and look carefully for incorrect, misreported or out-of-date information).
Stock downturns. Declining house market. These are things you don't have control over. But on the home front, it's another story. Here's a list that can help you get the year started off right:
Keep a record of where your money goes. Look at your spending over the past three months. Leave nothing out. And then, cut expenses where you can.
Change your energy consumption habits (turn your thermostat down five degrees and save 10% in fuel costs).
Watch what you spend for food (avoid frozen dinners - you'll be paying $300 a pound for those veggies on the side).
Try to establish an emergency savings fund that will cover three to six months of expenses.
Make sure your savings and checking accounts are FDIC-insured.
If you're facing a mortgage foreclosure, look into Hope for Homeowners (a federal program that can help refinance mortgages for borrowers who are having difficulty making their payments).
If you didn't qualify for the 2008 financial stimulus and your income has fallen dramatically, you could qualify for a "recovery rebate credit" on your 2008 tax return.
If you're a first-time homebuyer, look into the new tax credit from the IRS that can equal up to 10% of your home's purchase price, up to $7,500.
Amp up your 401(k) contributions if retirement is more than 10 years out (you should be putting away 10% to 15% of your income).
Clean up your own credit (get a free copy of your credit report and look carefully for incorrect, misreported or out-of-date information).
If anyone is interested in opening an ING savings account, they offer a $25 credit if you open it with $250 or more. There are no account minimums and unlimited withdrawals and transactions.. with a very competitive APY ...check it out..
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Like we were in fifth grade... Let Me Get a Do Over !!
What if you had a magical "do-over" button that you can press in those situations where the outcome lead to you wanting to kick yourself in the ass?..
Would you use it?..
I know there's been a point in time where all of us had an epiphany and said "damn ! I wish I hadn't acted that way!" Or, "wow I wish I would've taken that approach." Would you press that magical button that would rewind the hands of time and give you a second chance to do whatever it was,"the right way"?
The other night I sat and thought about it to myself. I said, "shit ! , I should've acted differenly, I wish I had a magical do over button."
But in retrospect the experience did teach me a lot about myself. It turned on a light in my brain in the section that had been pretty dark, and made me think that if something or some situation didn't go as planned maybe it wasn't meant to be.
If it wasn't meant to be, and if I did have a magical do over button to press and pressed it, the outcome probably would not change.
Do you believe in fate?
Do we have control over what is or isn't meant to be?
The older I get the less control I seem to have over the inevitable. I can't literally force a doctor to use my products, I can't literally force a girl to like me a certain way.
I'm learning more and more to just be who I am and let things fall into place.
Take care of my responsibilities, be who I am, and let things fall into place!
That's a hard thing to do for many of us because it leaves you vulnerable. It takes control out of your hands and puts it in this intangible belief in "whatever happens....happens", and happens for "a reason"...
I used to think that idea fuckin sucked, but I am beggining to see that maybe everything does happen for a reason.
Maybe I'm suppossed to work harder for that sale, Maybe that girl I want to be feeling me isn't really feeling me right now so I could be alone and reflect on life with no distractions...
Reflect on Life..
Reflect on Life..
What Do you think?
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Our Deepest Fear
A favorite of mine..
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
- by Marianne Williamson
Boats and Hoes... K.C., Jo-Jo, and Devonte..!
two clips to make ya laugh today !..
hahahahah! Boats and Hoes !
Remember this scene?!! Classic !!
hahahahah! Boats and Hoes !
Remember this scene?!! Classic !!
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Monday, January 12, 2009
Fcuk It.. (explicit)..
Damn I fuckin hate you. Fuck You Yo !..
Fuck your beautiful face that lured me.
Fuck your personality that got me stuck.
Fuck your sexy ass body that stays on my mind all the time..
Fuck the phone you use to call me 25 fuckin times in a row when I'm in the fuckin shower....
Fuck the letters on your dumbass querty keyboard you type whenever you want to text me a hundred million goddamn times!
Fuck your bluetooth!
Fuck your car!
Fuck your leave in conditioner you have to put in your hair every goddamn muthafuckin morning.
Fuck your whitening toothpaste you choose to brush your teeth with...
Nah fuck that! Fuck your fuckin dentist for cleaning your fuckin teeth every couple of fuckin months! That fuckin traitor..!
Fuck your parents for making you! Yea, I said it, so the fuck what... Fuck em! They don't like me because of where I'm from anyway!.. Fuckin stuck up pair of fucks!
Fuck your siblings for being fuckin related to you so closely!
Fuck the bed you sleep on, with all your comfortable ass comforters and shit... Yea ! I know they're jus fuckin sheets... So what !! Fuck em!!
Fuck the clothes you wear! Yep, fuck em!
Fuck your stupid ass shoes you wear on your bigass stupid ass fuckin feet! Yea! I think your feet are fuckin big, I never told you that! So ha! Fuck them fuckin banana boats !..
And fuck your fuckin face.... again ! Fuck it again!! No ! I don't want to actually fuck your face, I'm saying FUCK YOUR FACE! I want to throw a fuckin creme pie in it everytime I envision it in my fuckin mind.!!
I want to..... fuckin... Fuckin.... Say " MAKE UP!!!! " and hit you with a fuckin powder puff with a whole bunch of fuckin powder on it!.. And leave you standing there all white and shit.. with fuckin powder all over your goddam face!
And last but certainly not muthafuckin least.......
Fuck YOU.... You as in your whole mutha .......
Fuckin.......
Being .....
Fuck your piece of shit being that makes up YOU... you trifling ass cheatin ass lyin piece of slut shit..
Fuck off and go fuck yourself.....
Sigh..... I feel better now... ....
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Blackonomics part 1
Here's what's real and what's relevant, and in the wake of all this economic crisis talk, I thought it was important to take a step back and put some things into perspective.. The economy is really shitty right now and I think all of us as minorities/ lower income individuals.... should evaluate our money situation and think about the future. Yes! That's right the future! Are you saving money RIGHT NOW?...
Do you have an investment vehicle in place that can help the money you have sitting there actually grow, and not just accumulate dust?..
Were you aware that you can lend your money to banks for a small fee or percentage rate? I always bring up this subject to people I know because we all have to save up for a rainy day or those days where we decide we aren't going to work anymore. At the beginning of the year what I usually do is write down all my major outstanding debt(college loans, car, motorcycle....etc..), then I map out a plan to decrease that debt by a certain amount in a certain period of time. I also write down my monthly bills and expenses. Then, with whatever I have left I decide how much to put into savings versus frivolous spending money.
I think we all need to do a better job of not spending money we don't have. This epidemic of credit tries to infect us all.. Now I'm not saying don't ever buy anything on credit, I'm just saying it should be a carefully calculated action. Taking into account how much you'll really end up paying when you actually pay off your purchase, and the time period you plan on paying it off in.. Do you have a 401k, life insurance plan, or an IRA in place?
If you do.... Do you track its progress?... How much are you contributing to it?.. Did you know that you can decrease your tax liability by the actual amount you contribute to your IRA and 401K?... There are max contributions you can make, but it is definitely worth it so you can keep more of your money....
A lot of people don't see how much of an impact this has because it's money they won't see until they get to retirement age.. Hey, in my eyes a dollar now is definitely worth a dollar later.. Lets evaluate where we stand financially before it’s too late!
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Monday, January 5, 2009
Is Light Skin the Right Skin?
Recently I was at a small get together at a friend of a friend’s house (really small, 7 women, 3 fellas) when the topic of interracial dating came up. Not just interracial dating but specifically men who like to date white women, and women with lighter skin complexion and “good” hair (I put “good” in quotations because that can be interpreted differently from person to person). Coincidentally all of the women there were dark skinned and honestly I can say 4 of them were really attractive to me. I asked “ladies! If you happen to see a brother walking down the street with a white woman, how would you react?”
Aaaww man! Yall should have seen the scornful eyes! One of them responded “I would want to throw up!”. Another said “that would be a damned shame”… I asked “a damned shame. Really?”...
She responded “ yea, I would feel like we lost another brother to the other side, besides Black guys only date white women because its easier to do and they don’t have to deal with our attitudes!”.. So I said in an antagonizing voice “well maybe yall should tone the attitudes down a little!”.. Of course I was just playing devils advocate and it didn’t end there.
To make a long story short, and minus the alcohol…The overall theme was that lighter skinned women along with white women usually get more attention from men. Me personally I am a fan of women and if your beautiful and sexy (inside and out, oh yea and between the heights of 5’2 – 5’10, and nice and curvy) you’d probably catch my eye. Just like the song said “I like em brown, black, Puerto Rican, or Asian”…
So what do you guys think? Is light skin the right skin? Do you feel like lighter skinned women/ white women get more attention then darker women?
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Meet Jonas the family's Pit.
Here's my pup... Jonas, He's a year and 5 months..rednose pitbull, I got him when he was 8 weeks old.
I say he's the family's Pit because my mom calls him her grandson and my aunts call him their nephew, and my younger cousins call him their cousin! lol.. yea, we're weird.. but they all love him and he's fam so that's a good thing..
He's a crazy little guy, and although people are usually afraid of him cuz of his looks, he would never intentionally hurt anyone. I've never even heard him bark or growl in an aggressive way towards strangers..
He has a whole lot of energy so I have to make sure he get's a lot of excercise. And he's a chewing machine!
Supra Black and Gold Suede, Ato Matsumoto's
As promised here are pics of my Supra's the black and gold suede.
Pics of my Ato Matsumoto's, straight from japan
Pics of the paperwork that comes with them. If you ever buy a pair, please don't do so from Ebay.. If you see them for under $350, they're fakes.... Even Distributors can't buy them at wholesale for less than $300.. (I know dudes that live in China, Japan, and Taiwan that have confirmed this) ...and everything should be in Japanese..
Red tag will say 29,000 yen.. which is roughly $311 bucks...
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Saturday, January 3, 2009
Fake Jeans
Fake Jeans Guidelines
***To buy red monkey jeans at wholesale price (as authorized dealers do, and many sellers of fake jeans claim to), you MUST have an account with the company. In order to keep that account, you must purchase a certain amount every so often. The wholesale price of these jeans still isn't cheap-it is usually above $150- so if someone is selling them for less than that, then they are fake.
***To buy red monkey jeans at wholesale price (as authorized dealers do, and many sellers of fake jeans claim to), you MUST have an account with the company. In order to keep that account, you must purchase a certain amount every so often. The wholesale price of these jeans still isn't cheap-it is usually above $150- so if someone is selling them for less than that, then they are fake.
RED MONKEY JEANS
1. ALL Red Monkey jeans have double stitched inseams...if you see a pair that does not-they are fake, period.
2. Red monkey jeans DO have frayed back pockets-HOWEVER-they are not frayed to the point that there are strings hanging from the pockets.
3. Red Monkey jeans ALWAYS come in a wooden box...NEVER in a bag, or anything of that nature...this is one of the most common giveaways of a fake...the box is a light wood and the RMC logo is burned into it...
4. The tags of red monkey jeans are black, with black writing...I have seen black tags with red writing-fakes-and I have even seen white tags-also fake...
5. ***RED MONKEY JEANS DO NOT COME IN SHORTS*** some people insist that they do because they paid $400 for them...you paid $400 for a fake...sorry...the company DOES NOT make shorts-end of story...besides, red monkey jeans usually retail above $500...they also do NOT make shirts of any kind...
EVISU JEANS
1. Although Evisu does make shorts...they do NOT make shorts with the paint that runs down the legs (the paint that appears as a large "M" on the back)...
2. All Evisu jeans have double stitched inseams also...
3. The buttons of Evisu jeans all say evisu...they NEVER have the china man that you sometimes see on the fakes...also, every one of the small buttons in the corners of the pockets says "evisu" on them (on the outside of the jean AND the inside...
4. Evisu jeans have TWO tags...one is the tag that is attached to the right rear pocket...the other is on the waist on the back left side of the jean...the tag says "Evisu Genes" and it has a picture of a man painting the evisu logo on a pair of jeans...also on that tag (on the inside of the jean) there are some pointers on how to spot fake evisu jeans...
5. All evisu jeans spell the word "jeans" as "Genes"
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Friday, January 2, 2009
Hey Everybody !! Let's Make a Slave!
First of all we need a black nigger man, a pregnant nigger woman and her baby nigger boy. Second, we will use the same basic principle that we use in breaking a horse, combined with some more sustaining factors. We reduce them from their natural state in nature; whereas nature provides them with the natural capacity to take care of their needs and the needs of their offspring, we break that natural string of independence from them and thereby create a dependency state so that we may be able to get from them useful production for our business and pleasure.
CARDINAL PRINCIPLE FOR MAKING A NEGRO For fear that our future generations may not understand the principle of breaking both horses and men, we lay down the art. For, if we are to sustain our basic economy we must break both of the beasts together, the nigger and the horse. We understand that short range planning in economics results in periodic economic chaos, so that, to avoid turmoil in the economy, it requires us to have breadth and depth in long range comprehensive planning, articulating both skill and sharp perception. We lay down the following principles for long range comprehensive economic planning:
1) Both horse and niggers are no good to the economy in the wild or natural state.
2) Both must be broken and tied together for orderly production.
3) For orderly futures, special and particular attention must be paid to the female and the youngest offspring.
4) Both must be crossbred to produce a variety and division of labor.
5) Both must taught to respond to a peculiar new language.
6) Psychological and physical instruction of containment must be created for both.
We hold the above six cardinals as truths to be self-evident, based upon following discourse concerning the economics of breaking and tying the horse and nigger together...all inclusive of the six principles laid down above.
NOTE: Neither principles alone will suffice for good economics. All principles must be employed for the orderly good of the nation. Accordingly, both a wild horse and a wild or natural nigger is dangerous even if captured, for they will have the tendency to seek their customary freedom, and, in doing so, might kill you in your sleep. You cannot rest. They sleep while you are awake and are awake while you are asleep. They are dangerous near the family house and it requires too much labor to watch them away from the house. Above all you cannot get them to work in this natural state. Hence, both the horse and the nigger must be broken, that is break them from one form of mental life to another, keep the body and take the mind. In other words, break the will to resist.
Now the breaking process in the same for the horse and the nigger, only slightly varying in degrees. But as we said before, you must keep your eye focused on the female and the offspring of the horse and the nigger. A brief discourse in offspring development will shed light on the key to sound economic principle. Pay little attention to the generation of original breaking but concentrate on future generations. Therefore, if you break the female, she will break the offspring in its early years of development and, when the offspring is old enough to work, she will deliver it up to you. For her normal female protective tendencies will have been lost in the original breaking process. For example, take the case of the wild stud horse, a female horse and an already infant horse and compare the breaking process with two captured nigger males in their natural state, a pregnant nigger woman with her infant offspring. Take the stud horse, break him for limited containment. Completely break the female horse until she becomes very gentle whereas you or anybody can ride her in comfort. Breed the mare until you have the desired offspring. Then you can turn the stud to freedom until you need him again. Train the female horse whereby she will eat out of your hand, and she will train the infant horse to eat of your hand also.
When it comes to breaking the uncivilized nigger, use the same process, but vary the degree and step up the pressure so as to do a complete reversal of the mind. Take the meanest and most restless nigger, strip him of his clothes in front of the remaining niggers, the female, and the nigger infant, tar and feather him, tie each leg to a different horse faced in opposite directions, set him a fire and beat both horses to pull him apart in front of the remaining niggers. The next step is to take a bullwhip and beat the remaining nigger male to the point of death in front of the female and the infant. Don't kill him. But put the fear of God in him, for he can be useful for future breeding.
THE BREAKING PROCESS OF THE AFRICAN WOMAN Take the female and run a series of tests on her to see if she will submit to you desires willingly. Test her in every way, because she is the most important factor for good economic. If she shows any signs of resistance in submitting completely to your will, do not hesitate to use the bull whip on her to extract that last bit of bitch out of her. Take care not to kill her, for in doing so, you spoil good economics. When in complete submission, she will train her offspring in the early years to submit to labor when they become of age. Understanding is the best thing.
Therefore, we shall go deeper into this area of the subject matter concerning what we have produced here in this breaking of the female nigger. We have reversed the relationship. In her natural uncivilized state she would have a strong dependency on the uncivilized nigger male, and she would have a limited protective dependency toward her independent male offspring and would raise female offspring to be dependent like her. Nature had provided for this type of balance. We reversed nature by burning and dependent like her. Nature had provided for this type of balance. We reversed nature by burning and pulling one civilized nigger apart and bull whipping the other to the point of death--all in her presence. By her being left alone, unprotected, with male image destroyed, the ordeal cased her to move from her psychological dependent state to a frozen independent state. In this frozen psychological state of independence she will raise her male and female offspring in reversed roles. For fear of the young male's life she will psychologically train him to be mentally weak and dependent but physically strong. Because she has become psychologically independent, she will train her female offspring to be psychological independent as well. What have you got?man behi You've got the nigger woman out front and the nigger man behind and scared. This is perfect situation for sound sleep and economics. Before the breaking process, we had to be alert and on guard at all times. Now we can sleep soundly, for out of frozen fear, his woman stand guard for us. He cannot get past her early infant slave molding process. He is good tool, now ready to be tied to the horse at a tender age. By the time a nigger boy reaches the age of sixteen, he is soundly broken in and ready for a long life of sound and efficient work and the reproduction of a unit of good labor force.
Continually, through the breaking of uncivilized savage niggers, by throwing the nigger female savage into a frozen psychological state of independency,
by killing the protective male image, and by creating a submissive dependent mind of the nigger male slave, we have created an orbiting cycle that turns on its own axis forever, unless a phenomenon occurs and reshifts the positions of the male and female savages.
We show what we mean by example. We breed two nigger males with two nigger females. Then we take the nigger males away from them and keep them moving and working. Say the nigger female bear a nigger female and the other bears a nigger male. both nigger females, being without influence of the nigger male image, frozen with an independent psychology, will raise him to be mentally dependent and weak, but physically strong...in other words, body over mind. We will mate and breed them and continue the cycle.
That is good, sound, and long range comprehensive planning.
WARNING: POSSIBLE INTERLOPING NEGATIVES Earlier, we talked about the non-economic good of the horse and the nigger in their wild or natural state; we talked out the principle of breaking and tying them together for orderly production, furthermore, we talked about paying particular attention to the female savage and her offspring for orderly future planning; then more recently we stated that, by reversing the positions of the male and female savages we had created an orbiting cycle that turns on its own axis forever, unless phenomenon occurred, and reshifted the positions of the male and female savages.
Our experts warned us about the possibility of this phenomenon occurring, for they say that the mind has a strong drive to correct and recorrect itself over a period of time if it can touch some substantial original historical base; and they advised us that the best way to deal with phenomenon is to shave off the brute's mental history and create a multiplicity of phenomenon or illusions so that each illusion will twirl in its own orbit, something akin to floating balls in a vacuum. This creation of a multiplicity of phenomenon or illusions entails the principles of crossbreeding the nigger and the horse as we stated above, the purpose of which is to create a diversified division of labor. The result of which is severance of the points of original beginning's for each spherical illusion. Since we felt that the subject matter may get more complicated as we proceed in laying down our economic plan concerning the purpose, reason, and effect of cross-breeding horses and niggers, we shall lay down the following definitional terms for future generations.
1. Orbiting cycle means a thing turning in a given pattern.
2. Axis means upon which or around which a body turns.
3. Phenomenon means something beyond ordinary conception and inspires awe and wonder.
4. Multiplicity means a great number.
5. Sphere means a globe.
6. Cross-breeding a horse means taking a horse and breeding it with an ass and you get a dumb backward ass, longheaded mule that is not reproductive nor productive by itself.
7. Cross-breeding niggers means taking so many drops of good white blood and putting them into as many nigger women as possible, varying the drops by the various tone that you want, and then letting them breed with each other until cycle of colors appear as you desire.
What this means is this: Put the niggers and the horse in the breeding pot, mix some asses and some good white blood and what do you get?
You got a multiplicity of colors of ass backwards, unusual niggers, running, tied to backwards ass longheaded mules, the one productive of itself, the other sterile. (The one constant, the other dying. We keep nigger constant for we may replace the mule for another tool) both mule and nigger tied to each other, neither knowing where the other came from and neither productive for itself, nor without each other.
CONTROLLED LANGUAGE Cross-breeding completed, for further severance from their original beginning, we must completely annihilate the mother tongue of both the nigger and the new mule and institute a new language that involves the new life's work of both.
You know, language is a peculiar institution. It leads to the heart of people. the more a foreigner knows about the language of another country the more he is able to move through all levels of that society.
What this means is this: Put the niggers and the horse in the breeding pot, mix some asses and some good white blood and what do you get?
You got a multiplicity of colors of ass backwards, unusual niggers, running, tied to backwards ass longheaded mules, the one productive of itself, the other sterile. (The one constant, the other dying. We keep nigger constant for we may replace the mule for another tool) both mule and nigger tied to each other, neither knowing where the other came from and neither productive for itself, nor without each other.
CONTROLLED LANGUAGE Cross-breeding completed, for further severance from their original beginning, we must completely annihilate the mother tongue of both the nigger and the new mule and institute a new language that involves the new life's work of both.
You know, language is a peculiar institution. It leads to the heart of people. the more a foreigner knows about the language of another country the more he is able to move through all levels of that society.
Therefore, if the foreigner is an enemy of the country, to the extent that he knows the body of the language, to that extent is the country vulnerable to attack or invasion of a foreign culture. For example, you take the slave, if you teach him all about your language, he will know all your secrets, and he is then no more a slave, for you can't fool him any longer and having a fool is one of the basic ingredients of and incidents to the making of the slavery system.
- "This speech was delivered by Willie Lynch on the bank of the James River in the colony of Virginia in 1712. Lynch was a British slave owner in the West Indies. He was invited to the colony of Virginia in 1712 to teach his methods to slave owners there. The term "lynching" is derived from his last name."
When I read this in its entirety a couple years ago I was blown away. If you look up "Willie Lynch Letters" you'll find his speeches and some more of his ideas and concepts..
-your thoughts..
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