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  • Year 1 BHO

    TheSkeptikOne

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    I am still thankful that Barack Obama was elected president of the United States last November. I believe that the country turned and started going in the right direction after being off kilter for so many years.

    I still think that one year later, he was and remains the [...]
    Posted: November 22, 2009, 11:23am EST
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  • Friday Rap

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    Palin in Cincinnati today....

    1000 spots online and I'm not one of em. Palin is basically a tribal conversation anyway, only this time, the tribe is the Caucasian tribe..Black people, brown people never figure in anything she does or says..nor does the mainstream media or pollsters ever ask us..they always' [...]

    Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:13am EST
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  • The Mayan Calendar and the Next to Last Pope

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    By now, everyone has heard about the Mayan calendar and how it predicts the end of the world coming on December 21, 2012. By that reckoning we have about 1132 days left on this planet before it comes apart.

    Honestly, I can't wrap my head around the world ending' [...]
    Posted: November 15, 2009, 8:54am EST
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  • Obama's Rope-a-Dope

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    A closer look at the Stupak Amendment

    What the first part of the legal mandate that the Stupak Amendment would impose is not new. It echoes the law laid down back in 1976 by the Hyde Amendment, which already forbids the use of federal funds to pay for most abortions. The [...]

    Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:26pm EST
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  • Driehaus Still Won't Get My Vote!

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    My ex Congressman voted for the health care reform bill last night and today I get a letter from the Obama Administration telling me I should thank Driehaus for acting courageously...

    Well pardon me, but I define courageous a bit differently. Courageous is a vote that would have passed [...]
    Posted: November 08, 2009, 12:56pm EST
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  • Ft. Hood Lament-Thinking Out Loud Through My Tears..

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    We sent them in not enough numbers....

    We sent them under false pretenses...

    We sent them without body armor, those who had it...bought it on their own...
    We sent them without the right equipment and wrong training into a death zone again and again...

    We discharge the [...]
    Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:44am EST
    by SkeptikOne
  • Steve Driehaus, You Just Lost My Vote!

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    Ohio Congressman Steve Driehaus is one of several democrats threatening to torpedo health care reform, unless the measure blocks the rights of women to get an abortion. Specifically, he says he will vote against the house health care bill, which is set for a vote tomorrow, if there are no [...]
    Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:25pm EST
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  • Cincinnati Election Postmortem

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    The election was mostly all good in last night's election. Voters on the whole voted for progress by re electing Mayor Mark Mallory for another 4 year term.

    City Council saw the return of 7 incumbents including Roxanne Qualls, Cecil Thomas, Jeff Berding, Chris Monzel, Leslie Ghiz, Laketa Cole,' [...]
    Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:01am EST
    by SkeptikOne
  • Election Eve Questions other Flotsam and Jetsam

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    Am I the only one bothered by Jeff Berding's blatant hypocrisy in his campaign ads....Anyone not paying attention is being led to believe that Berding single handedly stopped the police and fire fighter layoffs...

    And as a result of his heroic actions....was punished by the Mayor and stripped of' [...]
    Posted: November 02, 2009, 6:51pm EST
    by SkeptikOne
  • Martin's Daughter Making Her Own Kind of History

    TheSkeptikOne

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    It's been a relatively good and historic week for Black and LGBT people in America. After all this was the week that President Obama signed an expansion of the hate crimes law named after Mathew Shepard and James Byrd....

    Shepard the young gay man brutalized and left to die' [...]
    Posted: October 31, 2009, 2:48pm EDT
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  • Cincinnati Race for Mayor

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    Avondale the Forgotten Territory

    “This week, Wenstrup's campaign blanketed Cincinnati with two mailings - one that goes after Mallory for his many trips around the country and the world and another that challenges Mallory's assertion that Cincinnati is a safer city than it was when he took office nearly four [...]

    Posted: October 29, 2009, 9:16am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Issues on Cincinnati November 3rd Ballot

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    Issue 7- Library Issue

    Our libraries need more money because of a cut in funding from the State. State statistics show that Ohio libraries are loaning more videos and DVD movies than books, leading some critics to call them Blockbuster juniors.

    Tom Brinkman is a critic...he is a [...]
    Posted: October 26, 2009, 9:58am EDT
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  • Friday Rap

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    So, tell me again why we're in Afghanistan and why we need to send in more troops?

    How about bringing home the troops and turning Special Ops forces loose on Pakistan and what's left of Al Qaeda in the mountains along the border....

    I'm sayin' let the dogs out [...]

    Posted: October 22, 2009, 7:34pm EDT
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  • Cincinnati City Council Endorsements

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    UPDATE.....Even after writing a post, I continue to look at the issue at hand, continue to learn and to tweak my knowledge, so to speak....Sometimes....my first judgment and pronouncement is wrong....and I will admit that....

    I was wrong for saying that I will vote for Kevin Flynn....I will not....Even [...]
    Posted: October 17, 2009, 8:09pm EDT
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  • Woman's Work

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    My mom has a saying about my dad....one of many since they've been together 59 years...this one refers to how he fixes things...

    Now...he can fix anything...and I do mean anything...He is the reason that I love working on stuff...that gene comes from him and my mother's father...my granddad....

    Their [...]

    Posted: October 14, 2009, 11:43am EDT
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  • Sellin' Wolf Tickets...

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    Old ghetto saying.....”don't let your mouth get your ass in trouble!”

    Insurance companies say they will raise rates if health care reform passes...

    The big health care companies say they will be forced to hike rates if the Obama Administration pushes through health care reform for citizens.
    [...]
    Posted: October 12, 2009, 6:30pm EDT
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  • Bible Study

    TheSkeptikOne

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    To quote one of Sarah Palin's favorite passages from her Bible...”When the Lord shuts a door....he opens a window somewhere else..” She used that phrase as part of her justification for abandoning her governorship.

    It is an apt description of Obama's week as well...

    Just a few days ago, the [...]

    Posted: October 09, 2009, 10:23pm EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Cincinnati Street Car Facts...We Need This!

    TheSkeptikOne

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    Take two minutes and watch....


    © 2009 Jo Anne Moore

    [...]
    Posted: October 09, 2009, 10:21am EDT
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  • Friday Rap

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    You may not know the name Floyd Brown, but I guarantee that you know his work...

    This is the GOP dirty trickster who created the virulently racist Willie Horton Campaign that tanked the Presidential aspirations of Mike Dukakis, back in the day..

    Now this fool has Obama in his sights [...]

    Posted: October 08, 2009, 6:36pm EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Franklin Delano Obama

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    Mr. President should stop channeling Abraham Lincoln and start giving us a little FDR

    Various administration spokespersons keep trying to convince us that the recession is over...that the country has turned the corner.

    However, I don't buy it and neither does anyone else for that matter, especially since unemployment' [...]

    Posted: October 07, 2009, 7:54pm EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Swine Flu Affecting Blacks and Hispanics

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    Government so far silent on number of minorities affected by flu bug.

    The Center for Disease Control says it will have a racial breakdown by the end of the week. However, early reports issued last month are showing that H1N1 is having a devastating effect on minority population, with [...]
    Posted: October 07, 2009, 7:35am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Swine Flu Vaccine Ready

    TheSkeptikOne

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    Still skeptical about Big Pharma-The 1976 fiasco.....2009 Problem

    I will admit upfront, that I'm a total skeptic when it comes to government vaccination programs. Just like all Americans my age, I went through them as a kid. They didn't really hurt me or anything, but then my Mom was in [...]

    Posted: October 06, 2009, 8:25pm EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • ASALH Convention

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    The organization that created Black History Month-94 years and counting, meets in Cincinnati

    I had never heard of the ASALH organization before getting an email from my cousin via Facebook. ASALH means the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. It is an organization founded by [...]

    Posted: October 04, 2009, 11:48am EDT
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  • Friday Rap

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    Is it just me....or have the writers responsible for the plot and storyline on All My Children gone absolutely crazy....

    I am well familiar with taking license with reality....however the suspension of belief that it would take to make these story lines acceptable...is criminal...

    I am literally ready to rid [...]

    Posted: September 25, 2009, 1:53pm EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Ya'll Need to go Sit Down and Shut up

    TheSkeptikOne

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    Congressman Eric Cantor...the face of compassionate conservatism..This from a man who has government funded health care to a woman with stomach tumors Click on the link to check out what he said...

    Remember, the GOP said all of us already have health care...it's called the emergency room at' [...]
    Posted: September 22, 2009, 6:44pm EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Friday Feel Good Music

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    Where is Rachelle Ferrell and Why won't she come home?






    © 2009 Jo Anne Moore

    ' [...]
    Posted: September 18, 2009, 12:50pm EDT
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  • If It Walks Like a Duck and Quacks.....

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    Obama in denial about racism, misses opportunity to address systemic issues

    I understand that Obama has firmly planted himself in the middle. He wants to be president to everybody. I'm on board with that. He was elected by nearly everybody. However, the very vocal minority who didn't vote for [...]
    Posted: September 17, 2009, 8:16am EDT
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  • Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary...

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    Mary, along with Peter and Paul are some of the voices that play in my head, when I think about my youth.

    This was one of my favorite songs....in this video, John Denver is singing with them...He is the man who wrote this song...

    May she [...]
    Posted: September 17, 2009, 8:01am EDT
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  • Midweek Observations

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    Alan Wilson who is the oldest son of Congressman Joe from South Carolina says there is not a racist bone in his daddy's body. Alan says daddy doesn't even laugh at distasteful jokes...

    In case you forgot Daddy Joe is the one who yelled at Obama and before that [...]
    Posted: September 16, 2009, 9:31am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Boys Being Girls...R.I.P. Patrick and Zakes

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    Zakes Mokae passed away at the age of 75. He played in many, many movies as well as acting on stage.

    You may remember him as Gregory Hines cross dressing friend Big Kathy in A Rage in Harlem.

    He was [...]
    Posted: September 15, 2009, 1:26pm EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Serena Apologizes

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    Serena Williams Statement, September 14, 2009

    “I want to amend my press statement of yesterday, and want to make it clear as possible - I want to sincerely apologize FIRST to the lines woman, Kim Clijsters, the USTA and mostly tennis fans everywhere for my inappropriate outburst. I'm a' [...]
    Posted: September 14, 2009, 3:51pm EDT
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  • Serena 's PMS Moment

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    Make no mistake about it Kim Clijsters deserves to play for the US Open title today. She won it fair and square. I said earlier this week that she would be a headache for Serena, because Clijsters is a very good player from the old school. She doesn't wilt at' [...]
    Posted: September 13, 2009, 8:29am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Friday Rap

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    9/11

    8th anniversary of the attack on America. There is still a hole in the ground where the Trade Towers stood. Bush is out of office, but the war in Afghanistan is bloodier than before, even as Iraq is winding down, thanks to Obama.

    Waldo, Osama and Carmen[...]
    Posted: September 11, 2009, 8:46am EDT
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  • Media Misses Real Story

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    First African American Named as President of Major University

    Normally that would be the headline when a Black is tapped to do something the first time. Forever, his or her name would be prefixed by “first African American” this or that, whenever he is talked about in the news.

    However [...]

    Posted: September 09, 2009, 9:07am EDT
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  • A Nation of Stupid People

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    Despite what my teachers told me all the way through school, even in college, I knew that I would never make a good teacher. My teachers told me from third grade on, that I had what it took to educate other people. I had the ability to make them see [...]
    Posted: September 08, 2009, 8:45am EDT
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  • Labor Day Roundup 2009

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    Venus Williams playing on one leg is good enough to comfortably beat just about everybody else on the WTA Tour. However there are a few exceptions besides her sister, and Kim Clijsters is one of them.

    Clijsters who recently decided to come back to the tour following an injury and [...]

    Posted: September 07, 2009, 8:49am EDT
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  • Taking a Break.........

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    I need some down time to recover from my month long birthday celebration which ended on the first of September...

    I am taking time for myself and to watch some good tennis....The sisters Williams are holding court in New York and I am there...

    Back next week...
    [...]
    Posted: September 03, 2009, 9:00am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Erich Kunzel 1935-2009

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    Cincinnati Television News is reporting that noted symphony conductor Erich Kunzel has died.

    More on the story here.......


    Kunzel was 74.

    May he rest in peace.

    © 2009 Jo Anne Moore

    [...]
    Posted: September 01, 2009, 12:36pm EDT
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  • Monday Morning Apology

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    Sarah Palin is still in the news, this time it's word that she is going to get that brand new passport of hers wet and visit Asia next month.

    Seems she is going to deliver a speech to a bunch of MBA's in business and finance about World financial [...]
    Posted: August 31, 2009, 12:04pm EDT
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  • Knowing Jack About Dick

    TheSkeptikOne

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    I am the last person in the world who should be writing about penis. There are none in my life, no real honest to god attached-to-a-body kind of penis that swings freely between the legs of some of my brothers as well as some of my of sisters.

    I haven't' [...]

    Posted: August 29, 2009, 3:00pm EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Ellie Greenwich, The Lady Behind the Music

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    You may not know her name, but you've certainly heard her music, usually powered by the vocals of Darlene Love and the Ronettes and the Crystals. Ellie Greenwich died of a heart attack last night, rounding out an interesting triumvirate walking into heaven...Ted Kennedy, Dominick Dunne and Ellie Greenwich...R.I.P.[...]
    Posted: August 27, 2009, 8:13am EDT
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  • Ted Kennedy 1932-2009

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    "For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die. -Ted Kennedy, Democratic National Convention, August 1980


    I was at Madison" [...]

    Posted: August 26, 2009, 8:21am EDT
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  • John E. Carter, Doo Wop Legend...R.I.P.

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    The South African runner who is being publicly subjected to gender testing by the international athletic federation has apparently been found to have three times the amount of testosterone in her body that "normal" women have..

    You can read more here....
    -0-


    John E. Carter, Doo [...]
    Posted: August 25, 2009, 8:15am EDT
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  • Health Care Reform-From a Woman's Point of View

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    Current system screws everyone, but women in particular

    Did you know that pregnancy is a pre-existing condition, that can keep women from getting health health care insurance when they need it most?

    True!

    Let me give you an example. If you're a healthy 30 something year old woman and you've [...]

    Posted: August 24, 2009, 8:41am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Aw Man, Another Stupid Report!

    TheSkeptikOne

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    (originally posted on 11/1/07)

    I guess I should stop reading the news, because I keep opening up stupid stories that depress me. There is a new report out, detailing the links, actual links between eating the wrong kinds of food, which make you fat and cause you to have [...]
    Posted: August 22, 2009, 6:41pm EDT
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  • Friday Rap

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    Gender Testing...Not as Simple as Dropping Your Pants....

    Like most, I have been following the story of the South African runner who is on the female track team, but some say is actually a man.

    They base their opinion on her size, muscularity and low voice.

    Caster Semenya is [...]

    Posted: August 21, 2009, 10:11am EDT
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  • Dysfunctional NAACP A National Problem

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    Cincinnati Chapter mirrors Nationwide disconnect.

    Let's start with the good news first, National Board Chairman, Julian Bond has endorsed the upcoming National Equality March scheduled to take place on October 11th in Washington. Bond has been a friend of the LGBT community for a while now. However his stance [...]

    Posted: August 20, 2009, 11:27am EDT
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  • “See, We're Not Racists...Our Nigras Got Guns, Too!"

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    I can't imagine how some Black people come to this point. Do they actually believe that their “fellow” protestors see them differently...

    Must be the Tiger Woods syndrome...or the Clarence Thomas genetic mutation....

    Do they actually believe that because they stand up along side their “fellow” protestors and rail' [...]

    Posted: August 18, 2009, 8:43am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Tom DeLay on DWTS?

    TheSkeptikOne

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    This is a joke, right? The Hammer actually fancies himself a twinkle toes? Who da thunk....

    That's quite a resume he's got going...from Texas bug killer to Congress to lying hypocritical sack of S***, to tainted and disgraced Republican to contestant on Dancing with the Stars...

    This [...]
    Posted: August 17, 2009, 10:35am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Excess Mortality-Death by Insurance Policy

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    The Health/Insurance Industry's term to describe the people who die because they are uninsured.

    A report from the Institute of Medicine blames health industry policies directly for the deaths of 27,000-40,000 Americans every year. The conservatives on the panel said that as few as 22,000 died per year. [...]

    Posted: August 16, 2009, 8:54am EDT
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  • Friday Rap

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    The fight to preserve the status quo....

    You know, I have been waiting for the explosion...the eruption of anger to happen after seeing that white man with a gun strapped to his leg at an Obama rally, earlier this week....

    I have been waiting for somebody to say something. I [...]

    Posted: August 14, 2009, 8:24am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Woman Town

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    (Originally posted 4/26/07)

    All right ladies, here’s something we can invest in. It’s called Women’s Town. And, no I’m not talking about Province town or any of several cities in Massachusetts. I’m talking about a real live city in China where you can unleash your inner Towanda. It's 2.3 [...]
    Posted: August 13, 2009, 12:19pm EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Coming to America, Pantyhose for Men

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    (Originally posted 1/10/09)

    Hypothetical situation- You’re in a club, the music is banging, you got your drink on, standing there at the bar surveying the room with your BFF, when in walks god. This guy is the be all, end all of your dreams and you just have to [...]
    Posted: August 12, 2009, 5:48pm EDT
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  • Hamburgers, Old Fossils and Getting Fat by Breathing

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    (originally posted 3/29/07)

    Unless you live under a rock or somewhere else deep inside the earth, you know that too many calories and not enough exercise will make you fat. Well, there is a new study out that claims that air pollution is also contributing to America’s big butt [...]
    Posted: August 11, 2009, 9:28am EDT
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  • Swine Flu Skeptic

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    The 1976 fiasco.....2009 Problem

    I will admit upfront, that I'm a total skeptic when it comes to government vaccination programs. Just like all Americans my age, I went through them as a kid. They didn't really hurt me or anything, but then my Mom was in charge. She said take [...]

    Posted: August 10, 2009, 9:44am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Republican Lies About Health Care Reform

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    The GOP policy of destroying Obama at all costs is in high gear with its big guns blatantly lying to the American people.

    Most people seem to know better....Yet the base is crazier than ever...Not surprising when you have statements like the one below being thrown at them by their [...]

    Posted: August 08, 2009, 9:11am EDT
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  • Friday Rap

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    Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor....has a wonderful ring to it, doesn't it...

    I just wish people, including the main stream media, would stop saying “Puerto Rico” as if it was some kind of foreign country...

    Get a clue people....Puerto Rico is American soil...”they” is “us”....

    Points to my main argument' [...]

    Posted: August 07, 2009, 9:44am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • In Her Father's Footsteps

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    Bernice King in the running to head SCLC

    The youngest daughter of the late Dr. Martin Luther King is one of five being considered to head the civil rights organization famously helmed by her father, back in the day. You can find the details here.

    If she [...]
    Posted: August 06, 2009, 10:05am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • They Done Lost They Minds

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    (originally posted 7/11/06)

    This is a reminder that crazy shit's been going on forever...It didn't begin when Obama decided to seek the presidency...The Orly Taitz of the world hide among us waiting to be triggered into nutty activity designed to draw attention to their perverted self centeredness....Nutbags probably were' [...]
    Posted: August 05, 2009, 9:21am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Orly Taitz...Not a Citizen

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    More on the Queen of the Birther movement....seems old girl is everything she has accused Obama of being....not born in the United States and not a citizen...born or otherwise...

    Taitz was apparently born in the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldavia...that makes her an old school communist...or commie pinko fag...as [...]
    Posted: August 04, 2009, 8:47am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • So Who the F*** is Orly Taitz?

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    I've been asking that question since she became the force behind the Obama birth certificate mess. I got to see her for the first time today via Youtube. View for yourself. Seems she has allegedly found Obama's African birth certificate and well...judge for yourself...


    This woman [...]

    Posted: August 03, 2009, 8:40pm EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • The Kindness of Strangers

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    originally posted on 8/8/06....during a visit to the mountains of Alabama)

    When you're growing up, your mom always tells you to never talk to strangers.It's a survival tactic passed on from parent to child and it is good practice. But I guess I have some of Blanche DuBois in' [...]
    Posted: August 03, 2009, 8:14am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Off to see The Wizards

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    (originally posted 7/4/06...following the acquisition of my own pair of ruby red slippers for travelling purposes)

    Here I am halfway thru my fifth decade and I never knew that Judy Garland's Wizard of Oz was a remake of a remake and that The Wiz with Diana Ross was a [...]
    Posted: August 02, 2009, 8:37am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Palin Divorce

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    Alaska news agencies reporting Todd and Sarah are ending their marriage...

    Check it out here...

    Thanks paul, for the tip....

    Palin denies.....calls it a rumor.....see it here..

    © 2009 Jo Anne Moore

    [...]
    Posted: August 01, 2009, 8:09pm EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • You Want to Do What?

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    (originally posted 7/30/06.....as I contemplate leaving the world of baldness and regrowing my hair)

    What makes white women think that because we are both women, that they can put their hands on me or ask me questions like a sister as in sibling, not sistah?

    I had this [...]
    Posted: August 01, 2009, 7:35am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Friday Rap

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    (An oldie but goodie reprint for a friend who wanted my jerk goat recipe...originally posted on Wonderfully Wino...12/29/08)

    I got one of those dinner invitations the other day, that start me salivating like Pavlov’s dogs, as soon as I hear my friend’s voice on the phone. My girlfriend (friend, [...]
    Posted: July 31, 2009, 8:32pm EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Stranger on My Block

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    I live in a house that's been owned by my family for 8 decades. We've been associated with this house on this street for so long, that it has become another family member. It is a part of us, like we, the family, are a part of this house and [...]
    Posted: July 29, 2009, 11:51am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Roadblock to Health Care Reform

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    Courtesy of the New York Times....These are the six holding up Health Care Reform...It's time to ask them how much they are being paid by the Health Insurance Industry, which is dropping one million dollars a day to keep health care reform from passing [...]
    Posted: July 28, 2009, 8:24pm EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Kicking the Habit

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 4
    I'm not sure when I lost my taste for all things sports. I grew up living and dying with the Cincinnati Reds and Royals....I remember being on my dad's shoulders at Fountain Square in 1961, I think..when the the Reds beat the Pirates for the Pennant..

    You're talking to someone [...]

    Posted: July 28, 2009, 10:20am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Things That Make the Hair Stand Up on the Back of My Neck

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 1
    A Sunday Rap...

    Ex Governor Sarah..

    Okay now, let's all sing (to the tune of Jimmy Crack Corn)...So long Sarah, So long Sarah, So long Sarah...we're glad to see you go...

    Except my fear is that she will do a “retirement tour” like the Rolling Stones or Cher...and never go' [...]

    Posted: July 26, 2009, 11:05am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • E. Lynn Harris Dies

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 0






    Sadly, noted Author, E. Lynn Harris has passed. The word coming out of Arkansas within the past hour....

    News updates will follow....Harris was just 54

    Rest of the Story here

    © 2009 Jo Anne Moore

    [...]
    Posted: July 24, 2009, 12:40pm EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Definition of “Diva"

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 2
    With Whitney Houston coming back to the music scene, its got me thinking about the true definition of a Diva.

    Diva is Italian for a celebrated female singer, usually an opera singer. The term has since spread to theater, and movies and pop music to describe female singers.

    Diva, [...]

    Posted: July 24, 2009, 12:00am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Ohio Lawmakers Bringing Back Slavery

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 1
    Proposed bill seeks to define women as property

    Didn't have time to jump on this yesterday when I saw it on my buddy's blog, QueerCincinnati. Thanks Barry.

    However, State Representative John Adams of Sidney has reintroduced a bill that would make it illegal for a woman to' [...]
    Posted: July 23, 2009, 12:02pm EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Aftermath, Dr. Henry Louis Gates

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 0
    By now you've heard that the disorderly conduct charges against Dr Henry Gates have been dropped with a sorta-kinda apology from the prosecutor. I've spent much of the day reading and thinking about the various opinions put forth by my colleagues in the blogosphere, as well as those comments generated [...]
    Posted: July 22, 2009, 12:00am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • It's Only Socialism When We Say it Is

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 2
    More GOP hypocrisy on health care reform...

    I'm still stuck on this health care reform thing, since it affects me so personally. Without going into detail, I'm one of those uninsurables because I have a pre-existing condition.

    And although I'm sometimes extremely easy....I'm never cheap...If you want to [...]
    Posted: July 21, 2009, 9:43am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Monday Musings.....

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 0
    About Health Care Reform....as the GOP tries to torpedo the plan with the help of the Blue Dog Democrats..

    I am serving notice as a taxpayer that I am going to start refusing to pay taxes if we don't get changes in the health system in this country..

    The status' [...]

    Posted: July 20, 2009, 9:06pm EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • When is..Enough is Enough

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 1
    It's time to pry the mike from Pat Buchanan's cold, dead and heartless hands...




    Why, Thank You, Massa, suh!

    "First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew" [...]
    Posted: July 17, 2009, 10:16am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Only in America-Can't Make This Stuff Up

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 3
    On a day when 12 White men claiming to represent a diverse and just America, sat down to question Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor's diversity-inclusive credentials...

    GOP chairman and token black man, Michael Steele talked about why minorities should join his party...



    He made this [...]
    Posted: July 14, 2009, 8:02pm EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • I Love The View!

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 2
    Can you believe it....Five women....Whoopie Goldberg (my favorite)...Barbara Walters (my idol)....Joy Behar...Sherrie Shepard and Elizabeth the Republican....

    Debating the merits of MASTURBATION on Daytime TV...

    I love it!

    No double entendres....no bleeps.... no word substitution.......just plain talk....

    honest talk from Whoopie...as in “yes” I do pleasure myself....

    to sillly talk [...]

    Posted: July 14, 2009, 11:20am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Young GOP Tone Deaf, Too

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 0
    Group elects Audra Shay to leadership position

    The 38 year old republican with a taste for racist remarks on her Facebook page has been elected national chairman of the Young Republican organization, proving the apples don't fall too far from the tree.

    Find the full story here:
    [...]
    Posted: July 12, 2009, 8:19am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Another Movie List

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 3
    Whenever some organization or critic puts together a best movies list, he/she also puts together a worst movies list to compliment and contrast with the good.....

    Recently I posted my favorite Black movies list as well as my favorite overall list. I always intended to revisit this subject and [...]
    Posted: July 11, 2009, 9:07pm EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Friday Rap

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 2

    Nominees for the “Walking Wastes of Oxygen Award"

    The Obama Administration-for not killing DADT, while yet another gay naval officer dies while serving his country...brutally killed on base here in the US....shot three times...his body burned to hide the crime...Rod 2.0

    The Cincinnati Enquirer-shrinking and now disappearing," [...]

    Posted: July 10, 2009, 8:49am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Cincinnati Link to Chicago Cemetery Scandal

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 1
    Burr Oak Cemetery final resting place of Heavyweight Champ Ezzard Charles

    The manager and three gravediggers at historic Burr Oak Cemetery, located outside of Chicago have been charged with desecrating more than 300 graves in a scheme going back some four years, say officials. The plan was to empty [...]
    Posted: July 09, 2009, 2:24pm EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Tom, Angelina and Madonna Less White?

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 2
    Because they have Black children? Does that somehow make them less caucasian?

    Funny how nobody tears up their white privilege card for adopting dusky hued babies, while at the same time stomping all over Michael Jackson's grave because he made some white babies to raise.

    Why does [...]
    Posted: July 08, 2009, 11:33am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • R.I.P. ...

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 0

    R.I.P.

    © 2009 Jo Anne Moore

    [...]
    Posted: July 07, 2009, 7:32pm EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • If Obama is Serious About Health Care Reform...

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 0
    Then a public option would not be negotiable....It would be a requirement...

    Real health care reform would also include limitations on “pain and suffering awards” in malpractice suits...

    Real health care reform would make health insurance mandatory for everyone over the age of 21..

    Real health care [...]
    Posted: July 07, 2009, 10:03am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Max and the Coons

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 2
    I’ve never met Max. He is one of many people who periodically read and comment on my blog. I read and comment on his blog once in a while, as well. One of the best things about writing a blog is that sometimes you develop long distance conversations with strangers [...]
    Posted: July 06, 2009, 10:36am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Friday Rap

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 0
    ***********************************************************************
    Palin resigns....giving up governorship at the end of the month...

    You don't really think she believes that she can win the White House in 2012 do ya?

    Nah!

    ************************************************************************

    Organic Foods-you are what you eat..

    Another government approved scam forcing consumers to pay more' [...]
    Posted: July 03, 2009, 9:13am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • We’re All Going to Hell and it’s Obama’s Fault

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 0
    Oklahoma GOP politician...fake Christian...bigot...racist...homophobic....Sally Kern...is in the news today. I usually don’t bother writing about these people because they do enough damage to themselves, just by opening their mouths...

    However, today is an exception to my rule ....Kern has authored a proclamation on morality, that the Oklahoma legislature is [...]
    Posted: June 30, 2009, 4:37pm EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Northern Kentucky Native Pens First Novel

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 0
    When author Paul G. Bens, Jr., was growing up in Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky, he always knew that one day he wanted to be a novelist, but like all young boys he also wanted to be a policeman, a fireman, an astronaut and a paleontologist.

    Well, some 40 years later, [...]
    Posted: June 28, 2009, 4:24pm EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Not Since 9/11

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 3

    On Sale Monday.....

    © 2009 Jo Anne Moore

    [...]
    Posted: June 28, 2009, 12:21pm EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Death-Bringing Out the Worst

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 1
    Vultures pickin' at the bones of Michael Jackson

    Suddenly, anybody who merely stood in his shadow, handed him a menu, watched him board a plane, passed him on the street, lived 20 doors down and thirty blocks away...is a media anointed expert on Michael Jackson....

    Jackson very publicly' [...]
    Posted: June 28, 2009, 10:01am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Friday Rap

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 1
    Don’t know why...But the one song playing in my head is Dirty Diana...



    I was already grown when the Jackson Five came to prominence, so I’ve been privileged to have witnessed his entire career, from the jump...

    There are certain songs....I’ll Be There....Rock with You......Bad....The Way [...]
    Posted: June 26, 2009, 8:56am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • The Way I Choose to Remember Them

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 1




    Life is Fragile
    Like the dew hanging delicately on the grass.
    Crystal drops that will be carried away
    on the first morning breeze

    © 2009 Jo Anne Moore

    [...]
    Posted: June 25, 2009, 6:56pm EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • National HIV Testing Day

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 1
    UPDATE *************************************************************************************
    If you can’t make to this weekend’s events, you can still be tested through JustGetTested.com. They will do the testing for $20 from now through June 30th. And you can get the results back in days rather than weeks....
    Go to Just Get Tested.com to find [...]
    Posted: June 25, 2009, 10:14am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • The Nixon Tapes

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 0
    Watergate/Nixon revisited


    The release of more of the Nixon tapes has precipitated a flood of memories about the Watergate hearings in 1973. The hearings were must see TV and since there was no cable at that time, the television networks took turns broadcasting the hearings..ABC one day...NBC the [...]
    Posted: June 24, 2009, 9:16am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Follow the Money...

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 0
    Saudi Arabia's part in the 9/11 attacks...

    Want to know who is in bed with whom..... or who was behind what.....follow the money trail...it always leads back to the real perpetrators.....

    And from 9/12/2001, the money trail has led back to Saudi Arabia....

    Read This....
    [...]
    Posted: June 23, 2009, 9:53pm EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • Justice Thomas Stands Alone

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 2
    Lone Dissenter on Supreme Court Ruling on Voting Rights Act of 1965.

    Why am I not surprised...

    The Supreme Court rules 8-1 to uphold a section of the Voting Rights Act, that would have literally torn the heart out of the law, if the vote had gone the [...]
    Posted: June 22, 2009, 2:27pm EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • DINOs (Democrats in Name Only)

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 0
    Fake Democrats working to sabotage Health Care

    There are several old timer phrases that will fit what's going with the Democrats and Health Care reform in Congress......

    “Give them a minute and they will figure out a way to screw it up..”
    or
    “Democrats, always ready, willing and' [...]
    Posted: June 22, 2009, 8:23am EDT
    by SkeptikOne
  • A Sunday Fruit Salad

    TheSkeptikOne

    Number of comments: 1
    A little this... A little that to greet Summer Solstice......

    A rich guy with Tourette's..

    is one of the people funding the fight against marriage equality...

    He had problems with his parents...so he takes it out on the rest of us by paying for hate campaigns..
    [...]
    Posted: June 21, 2009, 8:34am EDT
    by SkeptikOne

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