The New Threat Of A Cold War

Greetings ALL!
Yes I've been on vacation again and this time it was at the BIG Conference in NOLA. I had a great time. I've been relaxing and busy reading other peoples blogs and I must say that I've found some really good ones that I truly love. I've got to add them to my blog rolls, some were so good that I've been reading them daily and I can not take my mind off of them because not only are they great reading they are truly inspiring and uplifting.

So much has happened in the world in the past week, we've lost Bernie Mack, Issac Hayes, Beyonce is now a white woman, John Edwards had an affair and Washington is now painting Russia as the bad guy and we are about to revert back to the cold war missile crisis of the past.

Isn't it ironic? Here we are months away from the election and Washington wants to exert it's power in Russia's business? Hmmmmm! I smell a rat, where they are playing on the mindset of weak Americans and attempting to paint McCain as the true savior, yipes!

As I said earlier that I've been reading and posting comments on other peoples blogs and have been neglecting my own. Here's something that I wrote on the Black Snob's Blog:
The Media works for "big business" and corporations do not care who is killed or what just as long as there is a profit. The media is still in the business of distorting the truth. Russia has always been made out to be the bad guy, when the bad guy is really the USA.

What interest does the USA have in Georgia??? Oil perhaps??? China, Russia and India have had more billionaires being created because of their growth and the US can not tolerate this new wealth.

Russia's actions were that of peacekeepers, but the media will always paint them as the aggressors since many of Americans have been brainwashed to believe that they and others are our enemies and they are out to destroy the USA.

Can shooting peacekeepers and the mass extermination of a civilian population, mainly Russian citizens be regarded as hostile action against a state of the Soviet Union? Is it grounds enough to use armed force in self-defense and to safeguard the security of these citizens? The truth has been concealed from our country, by the media as always and the Tbilisi government.

They can get so called humanitarian aid to a country thousands of miles away and they could not provide the needed support during hurricane Katrina within a timely fashion within the USA, something they greatly disturbs me.

Russia’s response is entirely justified and is consistent with both international law and the humanitarian goals of the peacekeeping operation conducted in South Ossetia.

Does that mean that the United States and NATO can use brute force where they want to, and Russia has to abstain from it even if it has to look at thousands of its own citizens being shot? If it's not hypocrisy, then what is hypocrisy?

My thought is as long as you have the backing of the USA, you can go and do as you please just as long as you don't have the courage to stand up for your people or your country, and if you do - then you will have hell to pay.

If many of you don't know about the cold war and what it stood for then many of you will get to see it all over again for the first time when you will live with the fear of the world and it's people being annihilated by a bunch of men with some super inflated egos and the need for world domination and superiority.

All of the former Eastern Bloc countries are now allies with the USA making the possibility of a new cold war threat and deployment of missiles right at Russia's front door. Germany and other European countries removed many of the WOMD from their lands during the former cold war. So what interest did we have in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Iraq and now Georgia? Why aren't they interfering in the Sudan? Oh! I forgot they get all of their intelligence on Al Qaeda from them and they need to blame it all on China and divert the public gaze off of them. Just my random thoughts…

The Iconic and Beautiful Diahann Carrol

I am part of the throngs of women who are the faithful subscribers and readers of Town and Country, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar and yes Vogue. I'm sorry but I can't help it that I love fashion and have been ever since I was a child. I use to draw and design the clothes for my paper dolls and my baby dolls and as I grew older started designing and making my own clothes. I'm the type that when I can't find what I want in the stores, I will make it myself and now that need has evolved into making items for my home. I love the idea of being different and unique. Isn't that what style is all about?

Well, the latest issue of Vogue had the legendary Diahann Carrol inside of it's pages and I could not get enough of the article. For those of us who happen to like the finer things in life and appreciate those who have paved the way for us to follow, Diahann Carrol certainly fits the bill. She is one of the true purveyors of style, class, grace and sophistication, a living legend and a fashion icon in her own right. My first foray into the eponymous style and grace of women of color came from that of my mother, grandmothers, some of the stylish women in my community and also of the images of what I saw on television.

With the television show Julia being the exception. Here we had a Single Mom on television who was a Nurse, a professional and not the stereotypical junkie, maid, or prostitute in which most of the time all black women would be cast into those categories, Julia broke the mold. Indeed she did, she showed little black girls that you too can be whatever you want to be just as long as you worked hard to obtain it. Her presence on the television screen hammered it on home what your parents told you day in and day out, to become someone and something and make them proud of you.

Diahann is in the same age range of my mother now and they both are still just as stylish and beautiful as they were in their younger years, living their lives as if there is no tomorrow. My mom may not drive a Mercedes Benz as she does, but she has a sporty little white sports car that my kids want and she still gets around town and goes wherever she wants to.

Diahann Carrol will have a biography published in September titled, The Legs Are The Last To Go: Aging, Acting, Marrying & Other Things I Learned The Hard Way and I can not wait to read it. Timeless is what you can call her, absolutely timeless.

Another Senseless Act Of Cowardness!

While Anthony Hopkins was leading a revival in a small church on the outskirts of Jackson, Ala., Monday night, the body of a woman, presumed to be his wife, was stuffed in a freezer at his house in Mobile, waiting to be discovered by police.

It could be the last sermon he preaches as a free man. Hopkins now sits in Mobile County Metro Jail, charged with murdering his wife, 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. He could face life in prison if convicted. AP



How many times will it take for the life of a BF to be considered as important as anyone else? Here we have a so called Preacher who was ministering to his congregation while his wife was decomposing in a freezer. How fake is that? I guess when we as BW start valuing our own lives only then will men and others do the same.

The Real Housewives of Atlanta???

OMG! I saw the trailer for The Real Housewives of Atlanta and I stared at my television screen in disbelief. All I could say was OMG! This show is going to be a hoot! Now I see what all the hoopla and name calling that was going on, on the AJC's Blog when they talked about the show. I guess a real classy lady would do no such thing to be on the show, I would love to have seen a real Buckhead Betty or someone with a little bit more class and elegance than the chosen ones slated to be on the show.

Honestly, I am going to watch this show and see what it will be about other than what I've seen thus far, you know the over consumption of designer duds, excess materialism, drama and the total lack of class and sophistication. Can we say ghetto fabulous with a twist? Nouveau Riche and without a clue how to use it. I love comedies and this one is sure to hit my funny bone to the core.

If they completely embarrass BW, we will demand that they be removed from the airways. Oh! I forgot negative imagery of BW are not removed from the mainstream media, it's only the positive ones who don't get any air time.

Yung Berg, Your Time Is Up!

I'm sure by now every Black woman in America and possibly the world has either read about or heard the comments that this young man who goes by the name of Yung Berg has said in referring to dark skinned black women as unattractive and un-datable.

This young man can join the thousands of black men who feel the same way. Everyone has a preference, even I have one when it comes to dating and that is to date those who want me and someone that I have something in common with. Isn't it obvious how some men really feel? One would think that there are no woman of color who are darker than a tan paper bag by the images that are displayed for the masses to see.

How many Brown girls see themselves on television, especially their favorite and beloved BET? I say wake up ladies and hold those who are responsible for your image demand that they show the diversity of the Black woman. As a matter of fact it is time for all women especially Black women becoming more active about what is displayed in the media and take it away from men and self loathing women who only display one dimension of Black femininity.

I have nothing against any other black woman or woman of color for that matter, because I know that we are all beautiful and I never had the opportunity to believe that I was less than anyone else on the face of this earth.

Pay very close attention to the other Yung Bergs and some Old Bergs too, in the USA and how they interact with you, their actions are speaking louder than ever and they are not including us in the equation when it comes to dating in America.

As some of the biggest consumers in America, save your money and stop wasting your money with Black men who do not honor you and I don't care how bad the beat is and how much it makes you want to dance. Let them start dancing to your tune and not to theirs.

So when his next album drops in August, I say don't buy it, don't even down load it unless it's free, it's probably whack anyway, more mindless garbage infiltrating the airways.

Your apologies are too late for many young women and girls who are already suffering from low self esteem and the daily barrage of intra-racism.

Damn! Why do the ignorant keep messing up my vacation???

Are Some Women Lacking Sexual Knowledge?

While watching the View today I could not do anything but laugh. I listened with great interest as some of the ladies of the View were asking their guest, an MD who happened to be a Plastic Surgeon who specializes in rejuvenating a woman's vagina muscles, all about the so called G-spot and where was it located and about some shot that the other guest had done that supposedly allowed her to achieve an orgasm. Seems to me that Sherri and Elizabeth have never had an orgasm by the way that they were acting and all of the questions that they kept asking.

Ladies this Doctor said that Kegel exercises do not work. When did he grow a vagina? How does he know what works for women? There is much more than a vagina that is needed to achieve an orgasm. Anyway, Whoopi and Joy totally dismissed him since I'm sure that they are quite aware of their bodies and of their own sexuality as women.

Let me bring out my sex pert advice to those of you who have never had or experienced the big-O, in order to achieve it, it is totally up to you, not the man, you. Tell your mate what you want and what must be done to get you there and don't be afraid to assert your needs and desires. Take control of your own satisfaction.

I guess today he and others who specialize in this type of surgery will be overwhelmed with women who are in need of this procedure in hope that they will be able to achieve the much needed orgasm that has been eluding them.

I'm Planning For The Inauguration

I think it's time that I start planning to attend the inauguration of Obama. Sure it's months away, but isn't being hopeful great? Everybody in my household will be there. We've got plenty of relatives in the District of Columbia area where we can room at. This will be an event of all the events ever in American history and an historical and inspirational one also. Every interstate and roadway in America will be clogged with motorist trying to get into our nations capital. It will be a party for the people. I can't wait!!!! President Barack Obama!