Category Archives: News & Politics

Just my rants, raves & reflections on things that happen around the world.

Food For Thought

With Obama about to become President, I have hope as everyone else.  But at the same time, I’m very nervous of people building expections too high that they are going to set him up to fail.  I truly believe that he can and will make things better, but he is not all powerful.

He has congress and the senate, everyone and anyone wanting their imprint on things, the courts, the GOP…..his hands will be tied in a lot of things, he will have to make concessions that the grass root supporters will not like.

I know there are things that he will probably do that I don’t like and agree with…..that is politics and being forced to work within the area that he has…but will people understand that?  That is what concerns me…..I’m use to studying history and politics, so I can see the different sides, even if I don’t agree…………….

Martin Luther King Jr

Most blacks say MLK’s vision fulfilled, poll finds

**You know I’m extremely proud that my country voted and put a black man into the highest office.  BUT King’s vision is no way fulfilled.  He vision included economic equality that plays into our racial history.  That is huge part of King’s work that gets forgotten and pushed to the side.

Yes, we have a black family moving into the White House, a house built on the backs of slaves, but we still have a long way to go.

Change can Happen.

Change We can Believe In! VOTE!

http://www.flixxy.com/presidents-morphing.htm

I like this.

Less than 100 hours to go.

So close.

W’s speech broken down to the root…

Change We can Believe In

“I’M STILL RIGHT!”

Yawn…

What a boring and totally BS inspired speech, even for him this was a terrible speech.

5 days….

Or about 113 hours, 40 minutes as I write this.

Not that I’m counting down….

Another Monday….

Today started out ok for Monday.  Took a bit to move my butt out of bed to get ready for the gym.  But actually did pretty good there today.

When we got home, I had some work that I had to attend to right way. Got that out of the way and jumped into the shower.
We decided to try this bar & grill down the road that we’ve been waiting to go to.  Get there….and it wasn’t open!  It doesn’t open until 3pm?!  What happened to lunch?  So now we are hungry, nothing sounds good so after a wasted trip we went home and had left overs.

It kind of put a kink in the day……doesn’t help that I’m having one of my woman days.  Both of us were just irritable the rest of the day.  We didn’t have any motivation……I did force myself to do work, but it was tough.

This weekend was spent watching playoff games and our netflixs of Boston Legal.  We really enjoy that show.

Woman fights City Hall over right to petition

Found these really cool stories that gives a real look into our racial past and what this Inaugural means to so many.

Grandson of slaves: Obama is our Moses

Crossing the railroad tracks amid a new time in history