Vision Circle

A Telephone Call

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'lo?

Mike. Michael Irvin?

Yeah?

This is Whitney.

'sup?
CRACK IS WHACK!

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A Thought About "Saving Christmas"

Well, there are some people out there who seem to be on a crusade to save Christmas in the public square of business. Some want businesses to continue wishing "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays".

Well, if you ask me, those who really care about Christmas should want to disassociate Christmas from the "holidays".

Read this post I did earlier and you should get my point.

Political Quickies

From http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20051124-111815-8121r.htm:

The current Republican mayor, Rick Baker who was re-elected two weeks ago with 90 percent of the black vote, gave immediate attention to development and worked closely with black businessmen, Mr. Rouson said.

So, who keeps saying Blacks won't vote for Republicans?

From http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/25/AR2005112501301_2.html:

The two have disagreed on a recent decision by the Maryland Higher Education Commission to allow Towson University to offer a graduate business program. Morgan State's president has argued that Towson would duplicate what his Baltimore school offers. The historically black university relies on the MBA program and similar offerings to draw white students to the campus.

Ehrlich has said he "respects" the decision and is not opposed to having two MBA programs but wants to study ways to enhance Morgan State's offerings.

Steele credits the governor with recognizing Morgan State's needs, but the lieutenant governor said he was "very disappointed" about the decision to bring an MBA program to Towson.

The Real Meaning Of Christmas

The "real meaning of Christmas" appears to be a man jumping line at Wal Mart and getting the beat down by off duty cops.

The "real meaning of Christmas" appears to be people racing into a store at 6 AM on "Black Friday", falling down, and having other people run over them. ( Did you see the video of the Black woman who feel down, then instead of getting up, grabbed her wig that fell off in front of her, and put it back on her head, and straightened it, before attempting to get up? )

The "real meaning of Christmas" appears to be people fighting for items, getting in line at 4 AM, and getting caught up in consumerism.

What is it about a culture that does that?

Two songs come to mind: "The Real Meaning of Christmas" by the Winans, and "Remember Why" by Alexander ONeil.

Secrecy gag prompted by fear of new Blair-Bush revelations

Al Jazeera said that, if true, the story would raise serious doubts about the U.S. administration's version of previous incidents involving the station's journalists and offices. In 2001, the station's Kabul office was hit by U.S. bombs and in 2003 Al Jazeera reporter Tareq Ayyoub was killed in a U.S. strike on its Baghdad office.

The United States has denied deliberately targeting the station.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said: "We are not interested in dignifying something so outlandish and inconceivable with a response."

Professional Perception Management

or how you hoodwink and bamboozle the stupid, bellicose, and bored to support unprincipled and unsupportable political agendas like the phenomenally wasteful and unsuccessful occupation of Iraq. After you've tricked the rubes, you can depend upon the inertia of their hubris to prevent these victims of the grand hornswaggle from recanting their earlier blunders...., matter of fact, they'll prolifically concoct post hoc rationalizations to account for their earlier hysterical suggestibility.

It is a belief John Rendon encapsulated in a speech to cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1996. "I am not a national-security strategist or a military tactician," he declared. "I am a politician, a person who uses communication to meet public-policy or corporate-policy objectives. In fact, I am an information warrior and a perception manager." To explain his philosophy, Rendon paraphrased a journalist he knew from his days as a staffer on the presidential campaigns of George McGovern and Jimmy Carter: "This is probably best described in the words of Hunter S. Thompson, when he wrote, 'When things turn weird, the weird turn pro.'"

Pimp Juice

Miller Lite is the real "Pimp Juice".
When you got Flava Flav in a beer commerical, hawking your swill, you are DA PIMP!

"Forget the Party Labels"

This one has been swirling around in my mind for a bit. It's not formulated completely, but I just want to put it out there.

Michael Steele is getting support from the national Republican party because he is a Black Republican. He's getting help from Karl Rove, the president, and national conservative talk shows.

Michael Steele is the man.

Michael Steele is running his U.S. Senate for Maryland race, not as a Republican, but as an individual. His campaign is saying, forget the party labels and look at the man and the issues.

Now, he could be said that he is doing that so that Blacks "forget" he is a Republican and vote for him. But that is not the case.

Indeed, his campaign is looking at the Maryland demographics, 2:1 registered Democrats to Republicans, and see that in a state wide race, there is no other way to run.

His campaign, which has started, has already putting out that he should be considered independent of his party and the president.

Friendship is Essential to the Soul

Friendship is Essential to the Soul
Originally uploaded by Unbowed.

Happy belated Founder's Day to the brothers of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. I don't have many blogging entries left in me anymore, but if I can't make time for the organization that is more responsible for my "success" then what the hell can I make time for?

"Acting White", One More Time

P6 is throwing down on the false hype of "acting white".

He quotes someone else:

Whites aren't quitting the schools because the schools are failing academically. Quite the contrary: Many white parents say they're leaving because the schools are too academically driven and too narrowly invested in subjects such as math and science at the expense of liberal arts and extracurriculars like sports and other personal interests.

The two schools, put another way that parents rarely articulate so bluntly, are too Asian.

Ya'll go visit now. Ya here?