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The King James Effect
7 Jul2010
Within the next hours (a few days ago), depending on when whom ever reads this, Lebron James chooses his NBA team. While many cities are rallying for his arrival or mainstay, there is a open truth no one wants to acknowledge, who can really afford him?
Sure the NBA teams are allowed budgets to campaign and sign on but ,the cities themeselves, with high unemployment and state budget woes, there is just something unsettling about cities with love/hate relationships with millionaires. You know wanting someone who can bring money to a state or city, where there is already suppose to be industry, its like an unofficial anointing…kinda creepy.
See for me, its about who ever gets him that will base the next fiscal year on the money made by non-Lebron people. While there is money made in merchandise, for cities that are currently in the Red, which so happen to be all the cities vying for him, can a location with only so few millionaires, accidently turn into a real monarchy or an Egypt style government? I mean if you look at a Chicago or even Cleveland, can they really afford to sustain his livestyle? Not that he’s a flashy dude but, what do they have to offer him? There is not much investment potential in many of these cities.
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Movie: Kings Of The Evening
29 Jun2010
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A Serf Is Just A Slave in a Cuter Outfit
21 Jun2010
Let’s make this clear. This re-emergance of “Serfdom” talk is developing on a disturbing trend but not as distrubing as the failure to realize its already in progress. And its only new to societies that forgot they are apart of the Human Capital process. Its like justifiying history to make it seem like a mutal agreement to work like a dog, simply because the pride was too strong to admit certain people just were never “that” in charge to begin with. Turning American into Pre-Bacon revolt status workers is not only perpetual, its inevitable.
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We’re All Winning At Losing, Yay!
14 Jun2010
Grades. Ah yes. Education setup where you get A’s, B’s, C’s and that other crap and determine how much of a failure society will label you in life. And in some cases like a school I went to, we were lucky to have E’s S’s and U’s. I guess to not tramatize us kids with the epic fail on poorly drawing a kitty cat or some junk.
But, in the world of credit. With all of the states, nearly and completely defaulting on loans, banks who provide yes’s or no’s on small businesses themselves are now being evaluated for questionable credit scores. A lot of DOWNGRADES are happening but no one is actually failing.
Yes Standards and Poors and Mitch are coming hard and this strange trend seems to appear. No one is actually getting bad grades. There are A+’s and A-’s, A1′s and Aa3′s. Really Aa3′s? Really, in a state like Illinois, an Aa3′s in school…those fools would just get D’s and C’s. Seriously. If you can’t pay your bill back, if the state of Illinois or Cali was a small taffy making business, the load paper would simply say DENIED.
Sure I know there is technically in the labeling of credit ratings but seriously. If schools don’t pass out Aa3′s its as delusional as a big and tall store (for women) turning size 18′s into size 2′s, or call a fat chick thick. Serious if getting a Aa3 is just a damaging as saying a F why not just saying and get this thing fixed.
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Slick Talk: Obama’s Response to the BP Deal
8 Jun2010
The BP Oil disaster is the first and official test of how non stereotyped and inconceivably calm, Obama is as a Black President. Yes I said it. Obama…is not Kanye.
For some reason, the envisioned sight of Obama as far back as the election of him freaking out and crying for a 2am phone call must have still stayed in the impressions for many people. Remember the 2am call. Sure because we aren’t hearing what’s happening, it can seem like he’s not doing anything but, it just seems like it. If anything its probably worse and he’s way cooler that we’d be.
I’ll just say it, there seems to be this comfort of the crying, confused and/or violently emotionally charged Black man that people seem to expect . And this far in his presidency, it seems like people still can’t shake that he’s not led by emotion but strategy. Go figure right.
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The Hustler, Kiddie Ed.
17 May2010
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Sounds Like A Plan To Me…
2 Apr2010
I’m not even gonna lie, this was hilarious but really when in doubt, be sarcastic…or in a hipster case..ironic.
Forgot to pay your gas bill….
Got Caught opening up fake credit cards…
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To Close Out Women’s History Month
30 Mar2010
Oh and why do prostitutes need lawyers for celebs who sleep with them?
Did the check bounce, I mean damn, no? So whats the deal? And women empowerment? Gloria Allred creditability has officially shredded to maybe. Its down to helping crying prostitutes and ironically this is what most of Women’s history was about, helping side hoes with self-esteem.
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