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I Knew Gov. Barbour's Kidney Deal was Wrong (Video) - When I wrote on Wednesday about Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour suspending the sentences of Jamie and Gladys Scott, my post's headline emphasized the kidn...
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Media Strut New Year’s Resolution: In 2011 More Points and Less Snark - I’m old enough to remember when snark in the mainstream was a fairly rare occurrence. In fact, the Queen of snark, Maureen Dowd, was often the only snark m...58 minutes ago
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Sunday Social Commentary: The Mythological American Emancipation of Slavery. - Fear. It drives a fair share of minorities in America. The fear of governmental intervention that could lead to imprisonment is the nightmare of many of mi...1 hour ago
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Late Late Night FDL: The Phantom of the Horse Opera - *Beany and Cecil* -- *The Phantom of the Horse Opera*. This Bob Clampett Productions, Snowball Studios cartoon first aired on January 20, 1962. Grab your p...1 hour ago
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Brand New Diet Advice-Bring on the Carbs - OK! So its changed again. Remember when cranberries were bad for you? Anyway click the link for the full story.1 hour ago
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Saturday Night Music, January 1, 2011: Steve Miller Band, “Fly Like An Eagle” 1976 - While I was working as a cashier for an independent record store in San Jose in the mid-Seventies, a black guy surprised me by coming in and asking for thi...1 hour ago
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Melissa Harris Perry on Michael Vick, Race and Animal Rights - Michael Vick, Racial History and Animal Rights by Melissa Harris-Perry from the Nation Last night I had one of those awful television moments that sometimes...
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Sunday Open Thread - Good Morning. As you spend this weekend with family and friends, don’t forget JJP. Drop those links. Engage in debate. Give us trivia and gossip too. And a...2 hours ago
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NPR: 2010 - The Year For White America - The frustrating thing about Professor Brinkley's comments regarding how "White America" is up in arms over a "Black man as president" is that it does lit...5 hours ago
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Sign of the Apocalypse: Fox News makes fun of religious right over CPAC controversy - *crossposted on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters* I loathe religious right groups for the lies they tell about the lgbt community. And I despise the Fo...6 hours ago
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Taser Death: Unidentified Man (Cleveland, OH) - A 40-year old man was stopped by police officers on New Year's Eve in Cleveland OH. For some reason the routine traffic stop turned into an effort by the ...
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Rose Bowl Thread - Don't know if anyone out there is watching. I am. I don't really follow college, but this kid Andy… [image: Email this Article] [image: Add to digg] [image...8 hours ago
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Chris Christie Defends Florida Vacation During Blizzard: ‘A Great Five Days’ - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) has received heavy criticism from residents and lawmakers for leaving the state, along with the Lt. Governor, during...12 hours ago
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Happy New Year From Brother Jesse Blog and Thank You! - On behalf of everyone who has contributed this year to Brother Jesse Blog, we pray that you have a *Happy, Productive, Healthy and Powerful New Year!* Wo...
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Pastor Kim Burrell! - The Belle Report, is reporting that Kim Burrell will be install as senior pastor of Houston's Love and Liberty Fellowship Church.....on February 3-5......spe...14 hours ago
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Saturday–New Year’s Day–Open Thread - Happy New Year from WEESeeYou.com! What will you be doing in 2011? What will W.E.E. be doing in 2011? From Wikipedia: “Imma Be” is a song performed by the ...21 hours ago
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I wish all my fellow Bloggers and Followers of my Blog a Happy New Year! - * http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Desultory-Life-and-Times-of-a-Public-Citizen/113999018623719 * *twitter.com/citizenojo *
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2011! - I wonder where we are headed and what we will be talking about a year from now? I am sure that the 2012 presidential elections will be in full effect; win...
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AB.com's 2010 Predictions, Revisited. - Rather than doing a lame "the year that was" review like a lot of sites, AB.com has a tradition of making "predictions" at the beginning of the year, dro...
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In 2011, "No" Is Just A Suggestion That You Should Try Something Else - My life is all about pressing on despite fear. When I battled the worst of my bipolar disorder for seven years it was about choosing to confront my inner...1 day ago
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The Friday Sex Blog [Exhibitionism/ Voyeurism] - ¡Hola! Everybody… Well it’s Friday New Year’s Eve! The last sex blog of the year. LOL I’ve been working on some blogs that… well suffice it to say I’m not t...
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The Five Coolest of 2010: #1 - LeBron James - **Today concludes our 5-part series as we give you the definitive ranking of the five coolest sports figures of 2010. To check out the entire list, please ...1 day ago
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Rant-ish? On Kanye’s ‘Monster.’ - Decided to throw this up here before the label undoubtedly takes it down: Kanye West’s leaked video “Monster.” Soon there will be a host of blogs that p...2 days ago
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Right Wing Round-Up - - Salon: Mosque foes launch Bieber boycott. - McEwen: The 2010 Five Most Embarrassing Moments of the Anti-Gay Right Caught on Video. ...2 days ago
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Stage Husbands - Scott Disick reportedly tried to play hardball with E! to have his son Mason appear in “Kourtney and Kim Take New York”. He wanted $5,000 per episode, whil...3 days ago
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Top 10 Blog Posts of 2010 - 2010 was a stellar year for my blog. I managed to touch many people’s lives in ways that I never thought possible. I’m overwhelmed by the love and support ...3 days ago
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5th Annual End of the Year WTF Awards - Word of the Year FacePalm a popular online expression referring to the physical gesture of striking one’s own face in a display of exasperation. In Interne...3 days ago
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Happy Hellidays to You! A Few Notes on that "Fake" Holiday You Know as Christmas - I hope your holidays were fun and restful. Next week, I will resume my normal schedule of black genius in the form of my witty and wise meditations on al...3 days ago
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12 Beefs We Should Remember from 2010 - It’s that time of year again where we look back, remember and reflect on what went down this past year- 2010.. For me, there was so much making it hard to ...4 days ago
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Why Kwanzaa? - Habari Gani! If your childhood was as righteous, Asiatic and Nubian as mine, then you know the proper response today is “Kujichagulia Habari Gani.” But sin...5 days ago
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2010 in Review: Disasters, Deportations and DREAMs Rising - Happy holidays from Colorlines. We'll ee you in 2011.5 days ago
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Happy Kwanzaa (Kwanzaa yenu iwe na heri!) - Today is the first day of Kwanzaa. Today’s principle is Unity (umoja) To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race. There are ...6 days ago
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Merry Christmas - Hopefully, you’re not reading this on Christmas Day. I mean honestly, who blogs on Christmas Day? This is a timed post, I created this sometime earlier th...1 week ago
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Why Haley Barbour Needs To Quit Mulling Over Race Speech - It wasn't long after I pushed the "submit" button on my article over at Big Think this morning that I saw this headline: "Barbour Mulling A "Race Speech...
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Just Curious... - I haven't kept up with Mr. Assange and what he's been up to. But every time I read about something he's solely responsible for publishing to the masses I ...
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The Wichita Branch 2011/2012 Strategic Planning Session set for January 22nd - Scan the graphic with your smartphone to add the event to your calendar On January 22nd (11:00am - 2:00pm) the Wichita Branch NAACP will hold its annual S...
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Video Overnight Thread- John Mellencamp Band, Joan Jett Do ‘Bits and Pieces’ - My resolution this year is to be a taller, bigger, blonder Joan Jett. We have a link up to Amazon at the right for the new book by the President for childr...2 hours ago
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Michele Bachmann Became A Republican Because She Didn’t Like Gore Vidal - I’m always suspicious of those who switch political parties because one person in their party says or does something they don’t like; those who, for inst...4 hours ago
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B&R Saturday Night - Put It Where You Want It first appeared on the Average White Band’s relatively unknown 1973 debut album “Show Your Hand”. AWB’s second album with the hit “...7 hours ago
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Anarchists, libertarians and Marxists must prepare to fight an increase in the debt ceiling - One of the first battles of 2011 will come in the spring as the Washington establishment seeks to gain approval to raise the debt ceiling. Anarchists, libe...7 hours ago
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Brutal Reprisals Against Peaceful GA Inmate Strikers Confirmed. Was One Victim Hidden For Weeks By Prison Authorities? - *By BAR Managing Editor Bruce A. Dixon* read more16 hours ago
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Kicking off 2011 - Learning not to say "I told you so!" - Stands up and steps to the podium to address BougieLand. "Hi. My name is Michele and I'm a perennial tongue-biter." "Hi Michele." "I'm afflicted with dr...
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Happy New Year to all! May It Be Better for All Humanity! - Happy New Year to all our readers! May it be a major year for the expansion of human rights! Happy New Year in some of our world’s many languages: Arabic K...18 hours ago
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Happy New Year - Happy New Year Glitter Happy New Years Graphic provided by MUDTRAP.COM Pictures Peaches & Herb are an American vocalist duo, once comprising Herb Fame (bor...19 hours ago
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Let me see your face - I never got to hold your hand or touch your new born feet I never got to hold you close to my heart and listen as you sleep I never got to hear the sound o...1 day ago
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2010 DirtyWHORElebrity Awards - # 10. Epic Fail of the Year Award: Alicia Keys’ ‘Digital Deaths” campaign. Alicia Keys and her celebrity friends thought it was a good idea to fake death f...1 day ago
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Black Twitter History: A 2010 Year-In-Review - Front-Free has been on hiatus for a few months (fuck y’all I got a son now), but Lord-willin’ we’ll be back on track in 2011 with a new style (no, I no lon...1 day ago
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May the Best Puppet Win: Cocoa, Diamonds & the Ivory Coast Conflict - A very intelligent international lawyer told me last year that most of Africa's leaders needed to be hung, shot and burned at the stake for their politica...
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Alicia Keys & Swizz Beats In Love In St. Barts - Swizz Beats and wife Alicia Keys decided to celebrate New Years Eve in the Caribbean this year. The two were spotted in St. Barts shopping and enjoying s...1 day ago
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2010 - The Year Of The Villian - Sometimes I wish this blog was simply a notepad so I could really speak on it. For the sake of others I hold back and sometimes diminish the therapeutic po...1 day ago
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Thank You For An Awesome(ly) Lovely 2010 - WOWSIES! I can’t believe it’s the last day of 2010. Where did this year go? It ran faster than a Kenyan. Sheesh! Anywho, I didn’t want to have the New Year...1 day ago
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Uncle Tom's Children - I happen to read the article from different perspectives, white and black, regarding Governor Patterson commuting the sentence of John White, which is sti...
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2010 Musical Year Ender Countdown - I think 2010 can go down as a great year for R&B/rap & soul house music. From the turn of the year to the very end, we were hit with some musical goodies ...2 days ago
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Math Is A Bitch.... - The Resilience of Americans Is Not A Matter of Belief Or Philosophy, But Of Statistics Today, I read a response to an article regarding how much American...
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Top 10 Of 2010 - What’s the end of a year without a top ten list? We covered a lot of topics this year; here are the top 10 read by you! 10. 206, Who Are You? I’m personall...2 days ago
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Teena Marie…TV One Unsung - Check her out! Right now they are showing the entire episode of hers online so now’s the time to watch her talk about the building of her career with Moto...2 days ago
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THERE'S A NEW YEAR -- A Train A Comin' -- NEGROS BETTER GET READY! - I was going to say *N-WORD-ERS* get ready, but I didn't want some *negros*getting mad at me. But check this train-of-thought. And remember, it's just my op...
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Music Thursday: My Daddy's record collection - When I was growing up, downstairs in the family room of our home, was my dad's record collection. Mind you, I don't recall my dad ever having time to liste...2 days ago
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GLADYS AND JAMIE SCOTT, FREE AT LAST! - Gladys and Jamie Scott have been granted a pardon by Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour. In 45 days the sisters will be released from prison. According...
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Tucker Carlson: Douchebag of the Day! - Tucker (who is named "Tucker" that is taken seriously in life? really?) thinks that Michael Vick should have been executed for his non-capital offense for ...3 days ago
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Pondering exceptionalism… - Let’s jump right on in! This bitch has heard and read a lot about American Exceptionalism. I first heard it during the Reagan years, but the phrase ha...3 days ago
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Dr. Goddess Gets a Makeover: We've Moved! - Hey Folks, I've thoroughly enjoyed my time here on Blogger, from the beginning of my years blogging since late 2007 (amazing, really, I had no idea what I ...3 days ago
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Visualize It: How To Get What You Want In 2011 - We are less than a week away from the New Year and you know what that means: Resolutions for all! As we think about how we’re going to ring in 2011—somew...4 days ago
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Unbeweavable.... - I know that Chris Rock came out with this movie a while ago, but I just happened to catch it the other day while channel surfing. I have to say that this...
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Crab lice and even more serious shit than that!!!! - *Ain't no shame in my game.* *When I was 18 years old I learned a hard and simple truth; and that is that crab lice will make you scratch your nether regio...
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WAOD Holiday Classics: Jiffy-gate 2008 - Someone left a comment last week that reminded my mother about this CLASSIC WAOD post regarding the annual flurry of emails between my sisters and I as som...1 week ago
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No Doubt... - Every heartbreak is an opportunity for true love. Every disappointment is an opportunity for shear joy. I remind myself of these two truths as I prepare to...1 week ago
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Eff Em Friday - Eff the long lines at stores, long lines in the city, long lines on the roads, long lines at the airport, the handsy TSA agents, crazy ass drivers, little ...1 week ago
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“Very Smart Singles” and more…. - 2011: The Year of The Very Smart Takeover In the 690 posts and 225,000 comments since the first VSB entry (“emotional” cheating. the ultimate oxymoron), we...1 week ago
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No Jobs, No Justice: The Black Unemployment Crisis - American Gothic (Photo Credit : Gordon Parks) Give a (wo)man a fish and s/he will eat for a day Teach a (wo)man to fish and s/he will eat for days Teach y...1 week ago
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I Am A Slave...Are You? (Part 1: Is Slavery Over?) - *Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but our self can free our minds. – Bob Marley* My emancipation from mental slavery came with the painful...
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What is the Progressive Love Affair With Julian Assange? - Julian Assange may not be the devil because he posted US diplomatic cables online. And to my knowledge they haven't resulted in anyone's death. But this vo...2 weeks ago
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But Rand Paul says this is OK… - Today comes the story of of Abbotsford, Wisconsin businessman Mark Prior, who wants to keep blacks out of his soon-to-be-opened “Gentlemen’s Club” (also kn...2 weeks ago
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Mighty Dreaming Duck - THE DREAM ACT HAS PASSED THE HOUSE of Representatives and is now to be voted on in the Senate. I write this post to ask you—if you've the time and energy—t...3 weeks ago
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People - [image: people-out-persp] Some people say life is funny. I actually think it’s more so the certain people you allow in your life that are funny. People ca...3 weeks ago
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I Knew There Was Something Off About Barbara Bush: Fetus in a Jar Affected Bush - I have not given a flying crap about George W. Bush's "memoir" *insert vomit face here* *Decision Points *because I knew that the guy had zero ability t...1 month ago
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Regent Greg Duckett ducks questions and shows signs of early dementia at TBR Hearings - Tennessee Board of Regents(TBR) Greg Duckett from Memphis comments about Tennessee State University (TSU) in the highly promoted July 12th issue of the T...
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