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.

Let’s make this clear.

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.

Now from personal expereince, there is a strange need for people to be comfortaed by a person of color being broke down, flat out angry and in need of help. I dont know if its a matter of other communities thinking, “as long as they’re more jacked up, we can at least sleep knowing, they can’t pass us up in the morning.” But I speculate.

I remember in tennis, our team mental coach said, “when they hit the wall with the racket, they’ve lost their cool.”

When the oppurtinity to exhbit those attributes do present themselves, the slick talk of “too cool,” and even “robotic” comes up, all with the intent verbally expression frustration for failed attempts of manipulation. But, who’s problem is that really.

But has anyone ever thought that despite the freaking out like most people today seem to exhibit, some people just hand problems calmer? And isn’t a calm thinking person in the time of a catastrophe sometime called, um what is that….a LEADER?

I mean seriously, Bobby Jindal my Indian brother seemed to calm people down by freaking out. James Carevel, who is by the looks not White or even human freaked out, that’s okay. Obama said Ass oooh. So they all care, cuz they cuss.

But seriously if Obama acted like Arsenio Hall in Harlem Nights, I’m sure the concensous would be, “I knew that Negro couldn’t handle it.” I’m sure they thought he’d handle BP like this:

Could the calmness and collectiveness of trying to solve this problem expose the real issue (besides the oil situation) that people have with Obama? I mean not to slap a wet baby down but, that region was not the most color friendly and Jindal showed progress. ,But, during the distruibution of stimulus money they didnt want any and now this, they should have had it just as much as NYC with terrorism.

And despite the claims of the industry being ruined by the oil, based on the interviews I’ve seen most were going bankrupt before hand. Granted the addition of Katrina stress hurt. But damn. But I do have to give Jindal probs for stepping up or the boaters being honest and non-handoutish and junk. To be fair. The real question is, could Jindal act like this with flotilla, immigration and this junk on the brain…and be calm.

Personally I’m more disturb at Tennessee response more than anything. But shinny keys.

And to show how bogus Obama would have looked flinching to the suspicions ouf being cold, the Mayor of Alabama, who at first was mad that the President didnt say the coast was viturally clear, is now emotionally embarrassed after people came to their coast for vaycay, based on his clams a week ago, only to encounter oil that he made point was not there.

Now Black folks are not in the clear, they like to envision the dumb “Hill Billy” image on White America. But it is strange how there never seem to be any boaters of color being interviewed. I recall seeing a mad amount of gnerational Asians in a documentary a while back. In all fairness, its jacked up.

I have my thoughts and theories but in the end, the only race I want to see for anything and everywhere, is leadership.

I can imagine they all sit around and say, this will happen and you will be slightly bruised but, that will happen to cover and distract from a bigger issue.

Now not only did Tiger’s boondoggle distract from a lot of bad news, he exposed weak and insecure bonds of the Black, White and Female community. Yep, Black people’s secret distain for mixed people backfired. Sure he said he was a peachcobbler or what ever the hell but before he came up with that term, in Standford and before, Black people around his way made sure to alienate him for not being, “Black enough”, so when he got big, he just helped them cut out the bull.

Don’t front, when Halle Berry won, many Black people where quick to say, “We’ll technically she’s not Black.” Up until the point when Hilary Clinton dropped out the race, many Black folks, even militant ones were splitting hairs on Obama’s actual Blackness. So, sure saltiness played a role in not one Black athlete or reporter saying anything in defense of Tiger, for being afraid of their own back lash and that he reciprocated what they always do, alienate. In this case, his made the louds sweep. The basis, Black folks want the credit but not the responsibility for exposing personal issues with priding hating on the union and they hair quality. No matter the blend…sorry Mariah.

Btw, for the record, Tiger Woods race is corny…nothing more.

For women, they got these nothing to loose dusty chicks all riled up, got the wife, “You Go Girling” a little too much and what happen. Tiger basically said I quit, and left all of them with just a story and no cash. Even the sponsors that got scared are now begging him to come back. And to that, you can’t take back a cashed check. Ironic huh? In case you didn’t realize, Tiger is the meal ticket for a lot of mugs. And by next year when this “Secret Issue” begins, they would have wised they said otherwise.

Now for the real whooer, many pivatol things occured the week of Tiger Woo. But you probably missed it:

Child homelessness at a new time high
Afganistan hit another brick wall, ie They really are not sure what is going on
City of Chicago social services, along with many other city will be broke in 2 weeks
For every 10,000 soilders going to Afganistan, 200,000 are returning STILL ON DUTY, (wth is that about)
Dubai was saved w/ a quick 10 Billion and…
the climate exchange which is received NO PRESS about what they are discussing is determining how we live for phssh what, the next 100 years? Ignornace.

Lets just face it, if TMZ actually worked with the CIA (instead of for it, allegedly) they way they just started finding these thirsty on call chicks Tiger supposedly messed with we would have found Osama, the chick HE was banging and the rest of the crew. Just saying.

Here is what gets me with this…

First we have the criminals themselves, marinated in Guantanamo on trial for meh…nothing to date. So, first it was holding these guys affiliated or related to 9/11 and the stigma was holding with no case in site could cause a deeper rift between the US and the terrorist making the US, not safe. Then it was the goverment so called changing the rules to catch terrorist that would affect us and thus, created a whole NWO conspiracy fan base which felt it would make it easy to hold people in jail for like…ever. So if the rules have changed to throw us all in jail, whats with the issue of the courts handling this?Are they afraid ppl might realize it could happen to them too? Dunno.

Here is where this whole thing doesn’t make sense, esp when discussing the latter. If holding them without a case was against Geneva rules and Gitmo’em them was good for info. Personally, oh well on getting the info, the world was never been lure for winning over enemies with delicious browines to spil the beans. Now if it never leads to a conviction or a trial, wth?And not for them getting charged for sharing some fafel with someone’s cousin’em them who might be a terrorist. Second, its sorta scary on the confidence of members of Congress seem to lack about our judicial system. It  says more about how messed up things are for our laws in general against basic criminals than just international ones. Third, Jeffery Dalmer was never at Guantanamo, just saying…hell Manson’s not…just saying! So if some our most vicious and immediate criminals have either been dealt with (or not) within our judicial system what makes these guys no different than a inner city street gang?

Then most importantly, if these guys are in fact responsible for a crime and people feel it should be handled by the military, then why weren’t they delt with under Bush when all this shady stuff against them was done and shhh’d up? That to me seemed like the time to take care of them, might as well dammit you already waterboarded them, get it over it with. But no. Firefighters and policemen and cilvians died and the military courts sat on this. When dealing with cilvians, its hard to explain why these guys have not faced a trial or anything. There were no military planes to intercept any action so, yes the pentagon was hit but dammit…I got a problem with the Pentagon getting hit in general. That ish should be happening just be cause…

For me, if these guys “are” responsible, what would be more cowardly than to tuck these guys away and never hand them justice? All that patriot, tea party talk seems fake if dealing with criminals is never handled. Go ask a US African slave in 1750 if they’d send him to remote island to chill…yeah right.

But no, these guys don’t even see bringing these guys to trial to either solve this crime. No closure, just pulled out every now and then as political pawns. I say, if it comes out these guys are not responsible, maybe the fear of these guys going on trial and not being handled could expose a bigger issue…but I won’t go there.

A one on camera film about Michael Ruppert, an ex LA cop, turned reporter who “predicted” the economic collapse and additional things to come. In this sit down film that plays more like a less campy version of Michael Moore’s movie about the Collapse of the comfortable world as we know it.

Directed By Chris Smith | Official Site | View Trailer

]]> http://urbanmagnate.com/2009/11/17/collapse-trailer/feed/ 0 http://urbanmagnate.com/2009/07/29/trick-me/ http://urbanmagnate.com/2009/07/29/trick-me/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:24:20 +0000 Magnate http://urbanmagnate.com/?p=1357 You see Kelis smiling in this pic? You see how annoyed Nas looks. Kelis knew something we obviously didn’t realize…Nas has some trick in him.

Now not to knock the bruh but seriously, HOW COULD YOU NOT HAVE A PRENUP? The first high profile divorce in the Hip Hop community. Right when it seemed there would be more Hip Hop unions, the inevitable has to be addressed. There will also be a bunch of divorces.

And the necessary need to understand the prenup the way bruthas have figured out the child support costs as if it was the tip for the Red Lobster waiter.

For Nas though. All that prophet mind thought stuff dissolved quick huh? No Pre Nup? Esp when you got other kids and child support, your supplemental income depends on that whole situation being stable. You knock up a bunch of chicks your main goal, when you get married is to do it right. Everything you did wrong, you do it right, period.

A lot of people are mad at Kelis but, you know her music as timeless and authentic as it is, will never get Diana Ross or hell not even Mel B status. She knows this and so, her goal was to find someone to handle help her financial situation.

So reports are going back and forth on $44 or $55K a month. To which I say wow, Nas you really made that much? That Belly movie must have done way more than we thought huh?

Either way, as intelligent as Nas like to claim he was. As non flashy as Kelis came accross, they both go out with common street drama. Allegedly denying him the right to see the child birth, that stuff. I’m going to assume Nas was too weed’d up to really pay attention to stuff.

Btw Nas, she said she was Bossy, should that have been a damn hint?

I like mentioned on Saturday, there seems to be something missing with this…”potential pandemic,” like people actually dying (in mass numbers..200 yesterday, 300 last week,etc). Granted tomorrow will be officially a week since it became hype. I’m sure with all of the tweeting,etc the rumors don’t help and if photos of dead bodies poppued up we’d know…right?

It doesn’t help that they mention over 250,000 people die from the regular flu. When you put in perspective, why would this be that big of an issue unless… there is more to this story, either way, this whole,  just enough info to worry and not enough to be concerned is a dangerous combo to create rumors and precautions that could actually lead to an issue, before something actually happens. Remember how 12 monkeys happened? Well the semi-spoiler led to a butterfly effect of the time-traveler, giving the idea of a flu to a guy, which resulted in a preemptive strike that, led to the actual release of a flu that would have been inevitable, no matter who started it. (I think my eyes just crossed trying to explain that.)

Either way, the prepping for this flu could easily leave us wide open for a real virus, if people don’t start getting gestation info and mapping. I would say how its interesting Africa hasn’t seem to be affective but, with Aids and all I doubt people are really relieved. Maybe a little smug…I get it, you’re forever dealing with disease. 

Oh and sidebar: All of this, fake-caring but, blaming Mexico talk on the flu. The real issue comes down to this, if the Mexican government had better communication with their rural towns, these outside towsn would have received the medical support to not die in the first place, let alone spread. At this point, its the people with no contact to the city I worry for the most. They’ve been alone before all of this.

 

Rapper E-40 announced on Monday the closing of his Fatburger franchise in Northern California. 

E-40, who no doubt signs franchise related agreements with the name his mama gave him – Earl Stevens, explained to the LA Times music blog why he invested in a fast-food franchise. ”As any casualty of the record biz will tell you, album sales don’t pay all the bills,” he said…

Stevens said, “I’m moving on from Fatburger because it didn’t really take off like it did in Southern California.” He adds, “I’m moving on to Wing Stop … that’s where it’s at.” After a year’s worth of research and work, he and an unnamed partner will shortly open a Wing Stop in his hometown of Vallejo. [BlueMamu]

 

Ain’t that a BIT…WingStop? Seriously, I saw that go down hill earlier this year, when these Palestinian dudes tried to open a steak hut and then a wing hut and now, closed…in the most populous Black part of Chicago. E, please hold for a bit. I’d hate to see you fall off over some damn wings. Speaking of upscale, ghetto delectables failing… 

Hmm, if Fatburger is not even doing well in Cali, I wonder how, Kanye’s Chicago Fatburger franchise is doing? Hadn’t heard much from people saying, “You’re right Fatburgers ARE good..” and I’ve been touch and go in Chicago, since the news and have yet to come across any of them. Let me stop. I’ll start asking how that platinum Kanye travel agency went and then, it’ll get awkard.

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