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’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…

Obama calls you out?…

I’m sure most of people have either heard or become angry over the Conan vs NBC & Leno debacle. Sure during the media frenzy of the Haiti earthquake, it may seen superficial to some to even be worried about “two White Guys” and millions but, as a long time Conan fan and observer of his nearly up-hill battle with NBC, you better understand why you need to be concerned about the fate of Conan and realize what he truly represents the small business vs the too big to fails and the prize pig counterparts.

See for entertainers, its either a Leno should be blamed or its just Conan failed persecutive but if you see how Conan was setup for failure since his Twelve05 presence , and Leno’s past run in with Letterman, you will realize there is nothing noble or innocent in this final outcome.

Now why would I say Conan represent the regular person? Consider this, the Tonight Show has always been a power job. Once you get it, you are official apart of the “Suits of the Industry.” This means you can make everything work around you because you are the cash cow. If you fail, someone on the show list has to give up the budget to keep the cash cow alive. Sound familiar?

The way I see it, Conan represents the small business, micro American consumer. His show was never really contracted with NBC in confidence so, he worked from literally a check to check gig for the longest. (Look it up, its one the only if not the longest contractual option in entertainment.) So in a sense NBC worked with Conan but never had any intentions of really putting a buget behind him. Similar to a small business get a loan aproved from a big bank. Its when Conan’s fans put him up not a network budget, they had to take note.

Next, Leno who noted retirement in 2004 to make way for Conan, acted as if NBC just told him to do something he really didn’t want and its Conan who failed with ratings. Less we forget how when Carson retired, HE WENT AWAY. And then Leno’s rating actually sucked for nearly 3 years, during the height of the economy, while getting owned by Letterman who was intially up for the Tonight Show job. If it wasn’t for Hugh Grant, people wouldn’t have even really cared. But, notice how people are so focused on Conan’s failure, during a failing economy and not that Leno only had a strong 5ish 6ish years, after Letterman got old and crankity.

Next, Conan finally gets the gig, and what does Leno do..not sit his head down. He take over the time slot before Conan as if NBC had his dog held hostage or else and then as a loyal Conan watching fan..I waited…and waited and for a long time, Conan just wasn’t on TV. To the point when we was on, I basically didn’t find out until he was nearly a month in on his show. I’ve noticed when networks want a show to fail, their real good at extended breaks, long enough for people to get tired of waiting and find a new tv regime. So the lead in time for Conan never really was due to the buget going into Leno’s new special and then Jimmy Fallon. People knew it was so wrong on Leno’s part in Boston, they refused to show Leno due to support Conan. And on top of that the local news channels say Leno hurt their raitings.

Now Conan, like a small business owner took the responsibility of the employment of his entire team which moved from NY to LA. He even paid for them during the strike, OUT HIS OWN POCKET. So for you this may seem like just a TV thing but its just proof of how big companies are destroying the moxy of the small business owner and the families they are responsible for.

But with all of that said, Leno currently a ratings failure, if he continues to drop like a Goldman Sachs will NBC continue to pump funds and marketing in Leno while letting all the other shows fall at the waist side? I mean, will this be the end of say Heroes to save Jay?

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.

You know for a moment, I almost forgot that with all of the crazies shouting from the rooftops about a secret government, plotting to put us in a fascist state, that there was actually a good amount of ice crackingly crime to put us all over the top. Sure it would be easy to say, they wanna kill us all but what fun would that be? Sorta like giving the plot twist to the Sixth Sense 3 mintues into the movie.

But with the turmoil in cities, is it really going to be that hard and that arm twisting to beg for some sorta of dog, m-16 combo protection to go grocery shopping? Yeah sure, it sounds extreme but, in some cases people will eventually start requesting even harder penalties than the guys up top could even fathom.

See for towns like Chicago, the  notion of a police state for places, at least in the Brown & Black neighboorhoods was always one vote away. Sure the Democrat convention riots could spark an ugly sight but, the reality, most ppl who would show up to something like that, or even attended the actual riots, would never even go into the crime ridden neighboorhoods, less than 5 minutes away from the actual location of that historic event. Why? Cause its been creedance to say its only crime when poor people do it.

If there was ever an opportunity for poor to matter, are in these days. More ppl are on public aid than ever, with unemployment at a general 10% poverty is the right nudge to make ppl beg for more protection. Now poor folks are not off the hook and no particular race is either. Many of them have become gang and crime sympathizers and some have gone the lengths of profiting from their communities peril. I mean you dont think ppl like Jesse Jackson get money to live in nice neighborhoods from timeshares do you? You can make a mint, writing a grant to hold press conferences about crime and children and junk like that. And then for many that have BEEN poor, are used to the crime. So the word facist, is a word that doesn’t really apply in the mindset of someone who’s lived in a crime riddled neighborhood. I’d even go as far as saying many ppl Black Americas dont associate with the Holocaust or Stalinist culture that happen over 40 years but do with techincal slavery that happened over 500 yrs ago. If I recall, someone said, fascism is a White thing, racism is a Black thing…0_O???

Well, if things build up we will see how they feel about both. I would guess that they would even be happy to see  rows of police keeping order, so long as they don’t pull them over to get harassed. But the drying up of public funds is creating a strange atomsphere for poor Blacks, Latinos….and Whites. The requirements to need money to survive has been installed in most Americans since birth so, what do you think the reaction will be when, later this Fall when the funds they’ve grown accustom to using dries up? Blame + Anger = Crime. And there will only be us to blame for the catalyst of no turning back.

Believe it or not people but, that crime that had gone ignored and poverty arrogantly avoided, is now going to be the barometer of how this whole country succeeds from here on out. And the sick and twisted irony, the very same people who were avoided, will be the very same people that will define how hard we will get it in the head for walking too slow. If they want it, sooner or later its bound to catch on like twitter.

Such as things like people in Chicago who are now begging the same police departments they complained about, to stay out of their neighborhoods and defend family memebers who murder, now asking the Fed turned Cop Commissinoer to bring in the tanks and dogs to create order. His response? “Don’t ask for something you will regret.”  If they keep asking enough, its only a matter of time someone will take them up on their offer. And it would have happened, not with some Elite legion of doom sitting around a table or even a talking head’s seemingly bias proposition.

No one will allow martial law more than a community that begs for it. And right now, the cry for help from the hood , is in stereo.

As he started becoming familiar, with the help of the blogs, these series of unfortunately events started happening to him. First some guy got shot at his concert in Chicago…which I guess was his pre promo tour, very Backstreet Boyish of him. Then he broke his knee or something, I’d take this cartoon’s word for it and say ACL, then had to sit down to perform at the last leg of his tour (no pun seriously), then he performed “The Best He Ever Had” at the BET awards, still sitting down the entire time, with a bunch of nine year of girls dancing around, which we’d later find out was Tiny and Toya’s new group the OMG girls…meh..

Then that part of the awards was cut from the million -o reruns BET shows every year, due to the horrible and age questionable performance, then he let Mr. West an employee of ROC, direct his video which not only became an epic fail, he got flack from Black women for the lack of melanin in the video (Which I though might have been directed more at Mr. West since he took soo much credit for directing it) and then the possible nail in the coffin… Drake fell trying to promote himself while his knee/err leg what ever was not yet healed and he fell and busted his stuff on stage, while the lip-sync track continued to play.

Now I’m no expert even though I thought I could be but, someone or something does not want him to make it lol. Only time will tell. And no despite the contrary, he is not wheelchair bound, just someone wants him to be.

C’est la Vie, Drake from jeff on Vimeo.

I hope they card machine work, this bit%ch always broke

Um can you put one tomato PLEASE

I gotta watch them cause they be messing up my sandwich

and last but not least,

can you add more than that?! PLEASE (with an accompanied rolling of the eyes)

Now, you’d think I was jumping to conclusions but for every road trip I’ve taken where hoodrats locale within miles, it was the same conversation, same argument, if not variations of the statements made. I’m sure the wishes of the Subway maker is thinking, “I wish they couldn’t see us making this damn sandwish I’d…”.  What I also noticed is that my card always works and the girl who does my sandwich is always on point.

What is always funny is that they assume the Indian chick on the register is incablable of using the cash register, as a reason their  card is always declined. More than likely, from knowing, the checks cashed are probably in her name from that franchise or at least someone in the fam..in other words, she owns this b.i.t, so she understands money.

But whats hilarious is that they end up hella embarassed when I come in after them (or before) and it works and you seeing them wishing vexes on my card, like “Don’t Work Dont Work..Dammit…now I gotta come up with another excuse.”  Only to start cussing out the people behind the counter I guess to hope they just say, get out and leave, with a free sandwich. Then for them to only return for lunch the next day, with evil eyes like they better not… My thing, if the service is so damn bad, why return..that answer I’m still trying to figure out… I guess to do it all over again with a free sandwich, cookie, chip and drink?

Oh another one is this need to go all Willy Wonka in a damn subway, seriously who goes there and gets all that mess on the front counter? My stuff cost the same every time but these chicks go in spend like $10 and realize they might have spent too much of their bus, hair, nail whatever money and go in with this infamous statement:

“I didnt ask for banana peppers, you gotta take this back” (When actually requested extra be put on)

Now I don’t want to speak on the Gates vs the Police situation but, if he acted anything like these chicks I see in Subway, then he might just have been due to some sorta of discipline, just saying. So as a note, Black women, if you don’t want to be labeled the angry broke ass sassy chick in Subway, git ya stuff together or risk being called another hoodrat in Subway.

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?