Didn't I Say That?

I can no longer bit my tongue and stay silent. Why is it that anytime a Black American speaks out for what they believe to be right, it comes down to race and when a white person speaks it's a fact? This tells the whole story of the race divide. I choose a canidate not for there ethnicity but for what they stand for, how they speak to the issues I feel are important and what they plan to do to get the job done! And I am here to tell you there is one and only one who speaks to me and that is Barack Obama! I am proud of my race and why shouldn't I be! We have a long history of first that have yet to be written in the history books. From open heart surgury to the traffic light. So why is it that we can not make intelligent decisions that are based on fact instead of race? I am also proud to say I am a card carrying Democrat and when it comes to Presidents I have never voted across the party lines. However I have been known to vote on both sides when it comes to congress, senate and now that I live in AZ sherrif. It's about what's right and what's wrong. We have to come together as a people my friends. Don't let the McCains and Palins of this world divide us into race! We have come so far, and those who do not learn from our ancient history are doomed to repeat it! How can you stand for someone who flip flops on issues and dodges real issues? How can anyone in there right mind take a stand for a candidant who is a punchline for Saturday Night Live and doesn't know? How can anyone think that a women who has demons cast out of her by a witch doctor think she is a person to cast a vote for? Why would anyone think that a vote for change is a vote for any Republican canidant? Personally, I couldn't care less about her $150,000 dollar wardrobe and that fact that she is having the tax payers foot the bill to take her family on a fifty two state tour. If you can stand it, I can understand it. But don't get mad in the same respect for a man (Sen. Barack Obama) becauase he can manage a better campainge without owing lobbist favors and putting the country in a deeper deficit by using goverment funds. And how can McCain run the country when he can't even manage his campaigne without government funding? Isn't this the man that was taking bus trips cause he was broke before taking those said funds? Is this what he plans to do when he runs out of funds if god forbid he does get in office? No, I can't sit back and not take a stand. Stand for something or fall for everthing. This McCain/Palin ticket has set the polical movement back forty years. With the mud sliging and predjudice statements, we now have people being stopped at poling places being harrassed by bigots and racisim. People, wake up and do not take this in 2008! Get up, and stand up for your rights! Let it be known that we are sick and tired and are not going to take it anymore! United we stand, divided we fall. Let us come together, one nation under God and do the right thing. The economy has fallen apart, and if you are just honest with yourself you will take a stand and show up. But....Didn't I Say That?

Didn't I Say That?

Once again our Phoenix Suns are watching the playoffs along with there fans who support them all year. When was the last time The Suns won a playoff you ask? Oh yeah, never. How does the saying go? Always the groomsmen, never the groom. The last few years with D'Antoni we at least made it deep into the playoffs with speed and guns that rarely missed but that's all. You can't win a ring with offence alone. I can't believe there answer was to stick an old pole in the middle to hold up the tent. Enough water and that's what you're left standing with is a rusted pole and a blown out tent. Not to mention the fact that the pole would prefer to play sidekick to Sheriff Joe. Suited up like our very own Barney Fife, an empty gun with one bullet in his holster. Not unlike his game at the free throw line. But I digress. Shaq could be an asset with the right coach but lets face it, the Suns aren't nor should they be a half court team. What does it take to be a champion? What do the championship teams have that we don't? A Top to Bottom Management that cares about winning versus ticket sales. Highlights during the year are cool and great for Sports Center clips but during playoffs that stuff is long forgotten. Great leadership starts at the top and ends at the bottom. Look around the league and you will find two or three players who back in the day were the franchise players. There is no consistency or loyalty for that matter. It's all about the bottom line. While these back office deals go down with the teams that can afford it, there will never be an even playing field. D'Antoni for his part was only part of the problem, not the problem. To fix the leaks, let just hope when they bring in the next coach like a Don Nelson or whomever that he brings a backbone and knows how to incorporate defence into our league. And maybe, just maybe, when a player points to the ring finger it will be for the right reason? To have that championship ring sized up, but............Didn't I Say That?

Didn't I Say That?

Didn't I Say That?

I would like to talk about something I call Criminal Welfare. This was created through the AFDC programs across the US. Aid For Dependant Children. This was created as a government program to assist families in need of government assistance to make ends meet. This program has become a crutch and to some a career. Before you roll off the sofa, here me out. There are women who have two or more children with different fathers and these children are growing up without knowing a normal family life. You have little girls growing up missing there fathers and falling under the same patterns as there mothers. Ending up in a never ending cycle of the system. Little boys who never mature because there was no father figure to teach them to be men. Why because these women decided the more children they have the higher the check. Who cares of the self esteem of the children or there needs. Those checks are going towards there ghetto fabulous lifestyles. Not all are this way but for the most part, these women don't work nor do they want to work. Then there are the ones who prey on the ballers, shot callers. You know who you are, the steal chasers. They consider themselves a class above because there paper once they trap them there game is negotiated off the record. Often when the men try to get representation in these cases the law sides with the Mother. Of course she is the victim in this situation. Why on earth would she chose to have several children by different men and not have a way of taking care of them? Rap is not the blame, it is an underscore for the motion picture. And until the laws change, these poor misguided children will somehow become more unproductive adults, bleeding the system. We need to put the breaks on this sorry excuse of program and make it brand new. Let's make all parties involved accountable, after all they were of sound mind and body before hand. One time, is an oops but two more times is criminal welfare and we all pay the price in more ways than tax dollars for that, but......
Didn't I Say That?

Didn't I Say That?

The class is over and I for one fill changed. It was a long journey and not every moment was pleasant but that was part of the point in finding your life's purpose. I am looking forward to more from Oprah's soul series. Is it any wonder that she chose to continue since this was such a huge success? Here are a list of my favorite qoutes:

You can not fight against the ego and win, just as you can not fight against darkness. Page 8

When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and govern whatever I think, say and do, what kind of world do I create? Page 12

Underneath the surface apperance, everthing is not only connected with everything else, but also with the Source of all life out of which it came. Page 25 to 26

When every thought absorbs your attention completly, when you are so indentified with the voice in your head and the emotions that accompany it that you lose yourself in every thought and every emotion, then you are totally identified with the form and therefore in the grip of ego. Page 54

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists. Page 75


Only Presence can undo the past in you and thus transform your state of consciousness. Page 78

Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself. Page 90

Be aware of what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them. Page 96

To see one's predicament clearly is a first step toward going beyond it. Pg 131

There is only on perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization si true forgiveness. Pg 160

Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emothion plus and unhappy story is unhappiness. Pg. 166

Through allowing, you become what you are: vast, spacious. You become whole. You are not a grament anymore, which is how the ego preceives itself. Your true nature emerges, which is one with the nature of God. Pg. 184

You are not the ego, so when you become aware of the ego in you, it does not mean you know who you are - it means you know who you are not. But it is through knowing who you are not that the greatest obsacle to truly knowing yourself is removed. Pg 189

You are present when what you are doing is not primarily a means to and end (money, prestiege, winning) but fulfilling in itself, when there is joy and aliveness in what you do. And of course, you cannot be present unless you become friendly with the present moment. That is the basis for effective action, uncontaminated by negatvifity. pg. 211

This too will pass. brings detachment and with detachment another dimension comes into your life-inner space. Through detachment, as well as nonjudgement and inner nonresistance, you gain access to that demension. Pg 225

The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed: nor will they say, "Lo her it is! or There!' for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you." Pg. 234

Fulfilling your primary purpose is laying the foundation for a new reality, a new earth. Once that foundation is there, your external purpose becomes charged with spritual power because your aims and intentions will be one with the evolutionary impulse of the universe. Pg 265

So be true to life by being true to your inner purpose. As you become present and therby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power. Pg 269

You can not lose consiousness because it it, in essence, who you are. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are. Pg. 293

If you can neither enjoy or bring acceptance to what you do-stop. Otherwise, you are not taking resposibility for the only thing you can really take responsibility for, which also happens to be one thing that really matters: your stat of consiousness. And if you are not taking responsibility for your state of consiousness, you are not taking responsibility for life. Pg. 297


What more can you add, but


Didn't I Say That?

Didn't I Say That?

It's about two hours after my second class has ended. Yes, I am one of a zillion people participating in the Oprah and Echart Tolle online class to enlightenment for her book club selection, "A New Earth." This is the second week of the class that will be meeting every Monday evening for the next eight weeks. The first was frustrating as you probably have heard by now with over 700 thousand people logging in that's bout to cause so traffic delays. I tried everything but after an hour into the ninty minute class, finally gave up. I had my questions ready and sent a few a day ahead in preparations. They were answered but the few sent during the interactive class were indeed lost along with my connection. I am sure the questions are screened ahead to prevent duplications, as they should. Otherwise it would take more than 90 minutes to get through the class. Since we all believe our questions are the most important. Those reading (that was my ego talking. I had several questions submitted and although not one was read aloud, they were answered for the most part all the same. It's all about connecting with your inner self. This is a work in process for me and the class is a reinforcement in interpreting not only the concept but delving into your essence. I do feel a change taking place. It initially I felt a little skepticism but the book breaks that down in the first chapter. After getting half way through the book, yes I read ahead. It's a must read. Some of the people who are making comments on Oprah.com are so out there, I am surprised she hasn't shut um down but two each as own. I can only speak of my experience and it has been uplifting, challenging and enlightening. With each chapter you learn so much about yourself there is an AHA moment just about every other page. Tonight went without a hitch, I am sure with the hits Oprah took last week, I wouldn't be surprised if Bill Gates himself didn't fly in with reinforcements to get right. No surprises there, it is Oprah we're talking about. There is a workbook and assignments but not in the sense that you have a pop quiz to prepare for, it's designed to open up your senses to your take aways from each chapter. One of my favorite quotes, " You can not fight against the ego and win, just as you ca not fight against darkness." and " What ever you fight, you strengthen and whatever you resist persist". Taken out of context that wouldn't mean much, but it strikes a cord with me. I have resisted feeling the presence and yielding to loss. Looking as this blog, it is obvious. But I acknowledge this which is my main reason for reading the book in the first place, AHA! Next Monday we will be into Chapter 3, "Role- Playing: The Many Faces of the Ego." I look forward to the spiritual growth and each step towards enlightenment but.............Didn't I Say That?

Didn't I Say That?

What up, cut ups? The writer's strike is over and t.v. has gotten a whole lot interesting. The Oscar buzz is heating up but the movies being represented are so eclectic. There isn't two that match, how refreshing. It gives artist such as myself hope that there is interest in real people with real stories that are wrapped into fictional characters. We are getting close to tax filing deadline and those that are hoping to use that rebate to pay down debt, don't hold your breath. It's payout is determined by a system that stretches the payout through the fall of 08. So if you can't hold out until then, it's time to look for that second or third job. I personally am counting on overtime. Sure, it kills me at tax time but at least we can eat and pay our health benefits, insurance, car note, etc. But enough about me. Have you noticed lately how pampered pets are lately? I mean there are the Petsmart stores that have everything from food, toys, dog care to clothing. I have seen more pictures of people and there pets then babies. And these little, fidgety, barking all the time for no apparent reason, yip yip dogs really get on my last nerve. They are the most spoiled, pampered, poop everywhere dogs on the planet. I have this neighbor who has two of these out of control foo foo(s). She is by no means a small frail women OK. She puts me in the mind of GI Jane on Steroids but whenever she is walking these two..........dogs, you would thinks she was holding back mountain lions. She actual looks as though all that is missing is a whip and a chair. It is ridiculous! Then there's the chick who let's her mangy three legged dog out without a lease because she prefers to watch him from the patio in her underway. (Yes cut off top and panties)! I'm thinking of putting together video tape to sell to someone like You Tube because the stories in this neighborhood are enough for my next book. Speaking of which, got some more writing to do so this will be probably my shortest blog since I've been writing to date. Until the next time, keep those pups on a lease will you? But didn't I say that?

Didn't I Say That?

Didn't I Say That?

Hello Nips and what a start to the new year? We are leading into '08 with a bang and with such drama it's no wonder why it took me so long to get back to my writing. Superbowl is just around the corner, my teams out (Green Bay) but they did there thing til the end. We'll get um next year, 'cause we don't have a choice. We are out of it! Like JB (James Brown said, "Win Or Go Home." I know it was a commercial for the NBA and he wasn't the one that made it up. But go back and listen to the way he said it and you tell me if dog gone it he didn't say it right! This is one of the reasons why more people don't write. It's because so many are trying to explain what it is they are trying to say without offending the other. Not because it's hard to communicate but a bone will fall out that makes there views more apparent. We are also in an Election Year and the races aren't heating up they are blowing up. That's right, mudslinging has turned into dropping bombs on the opponent to take the next straight out! We have the self indulgent (Hip Hop Moguls) who are asking, "What's in it for me?" As if know with all there money before they give an endorsement it comes with a price tag. What happened to using that pull for good instead of self promotion. I have to say that my endorsement goes for Barack Obama, he is speaking my language. And that language is change. It's time we stop going with the flow and letting our future be dictated by someone with no belief in our rights and basic needs to survive in a world that has turned to one big self promotion. I believe that this is what those who have gone before and yes died for meant. When it was said, "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." We have the right to live with dignity not Elder Parents that you have to supplement there income because of government cuts in medicare. Children going to schools with metal detectors in the doorway and our right to privacy invaded on a daily basis under the cover of a congressional act. Our writer's are on strike and it has effected the industry in ways that will continue to pinch there pockets until it is resolved. One by one we saw award shows being either cancelled or scaled down to a documentary style script. At least they were able to pull it together for the SAG (Screen Actors Guild) awards tonight. That means there is hope for the Oscar's. Last I have to mention Heath Ledger, talk about wasted talent. I feel for the family that is left behind and pass on my sympathy. Why do we look at things that happen like this and say, "He or She must have been depressed." When a person OD's, it is an accident. People who are addicted are trying to numb themselves for reality by getting high. It's just that sometimes the body can only take so much abuse before it breaks down and out. Hopefully our youths out there will take notice to this and realize you don't have to go out like that and get help. No matter where you are in life, instead of leaning on those hanger's on and getting sucked up in the flash - stop! Turn to something or someone that's real like family. Why do you think they make three lanes? Slow down and move around. Life goes by fast enough without the help of false energy. Here's to a year of pleasant surprises and great changes! But........... Didn't I Say That?