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We agree with some folks who are a lot smarter than we, but in a nutshell we say if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

Senator Barack Obama is a man who has spent his entire political life being an inspiration to the people in order to get the job done.  (more…)

We dedicate this love song to Michelle Obama…

JUST THE WAY YOU ARE (with apologies to Billy Joel)

Don’t go changing, to try and please us
You never let us down before
Don’t imagine you’re too familiar
And we don’t see you anymore
We wouldn’t leave you in times of trouble
We never could have come this far
We took the good times, we’ll take the bad times
We’ll take you just the way you are (more…)

FROM WIKIPEDIA
“The Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA) (also known as the Marriage Protection Amendment) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution which would define marriage in the United States as a union of one man and one woman. The FMA also would prevent judicial extension of marriage rights to same-sex or other unmarried couples, as well as preventing people from having multiple spouses. The most recent vote to take place on the proposed Amendment occurred in the United States House of Representatives on July 18, 2006 when the Amendment failed 236 yea to 187 nay votes, falling short of the 290 yea votes required for passage. The Senate has only voted on cloture motions with regards to the proposed Amendment, the last of which was on June 7, 2006 when the motion failed 49 yea to 48 nay votes, falling short of the 60 yea votes required to proceed to consideration of the Amendment.” (more…)

The former LaDonna Bradford and her groom Darnell Suggs, both of Atlanta, Georgia, were married on Wednesday, June 25, 2008, on a live television broadcast seen around the nation and the world on NBC’s TODAY Show program.

~Denis Reggie-picture credit~
With Darnell Suggs waiting at the altar, LaDonna Bradford his soon to be bride, walked down to “At Last” by Etta James. The couple exchanged heartfelt, emotional vows, with Darnell promising to “go to the ends of the earth” to see LaDonna smile, hear her laugh, hold her tenderly, and ease her fears. He called his bride his “best friend, confidante … the love of my life.”

Acknowledging her father’s absence, LaDonna said she knew he was “smiling from above” as her grandfather gave her hand away in marriage to Darnell. LaDonna vowed to look forward to her tomorrows, “knowing we will walk it together side by side, hand in hand, and heart to heart.”
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Her name is Macrida Patterson, a 52-year-old Los Angeles woman who says the thong lingerie she purchased from Victoria’s Secret is defective in its design and caused injury to her person.
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Remember the television commercial for E.F. Hutton? The slogan was, “When E.F. Hutton speaks, everybody listens”. (more…)

Show your support for New Jersey poet Shawn R. Jones by attending the scheduled poetry reading and book signing event for Jones’ new chapbook Womb Rain.

If you are in the Philadelphia/South Jersey area this coming Sunday afternoon, June 22, 2008 be sure to visit the Noyes Museum of Art in Oceanville, New Jersey from 130PM until 3PM to meet Shawn R. Jones who, along with fellow poet Rachel Bunting, will be reading selections from their respective collections of poems published by the award-winning small publisher FinishingLinePress of Georgetown, Kentucky. FinishingLinePress located in Central Kentucky,  the heart of the Bluegrass country, is a prestigious ten year old publishing showcase for poets. Both Bunting’s and Jones’ works  are listed among the new releases and forthcoming titles at FinishingLine Press.

Shawn R. Jones’ collection of poems, Womb Rain, also has the distinction of being showcased in the widely known and highly esteemed New Women’s Voices at FLP.
Order Shawn R. Jones’ Womb Rain chapbook TODAY

We wrote about the late activist Rosa Parks’ personal items found in her home at the time of her death in 2005. These articles are now in the custody of Guernsey’s, the New York auction house selected by the Michigan court to hold an auction of these precious items in order to settle a dispute between the Parks family survivors and the Parks Foundation, over which would control the Rosa and Raymond Parks name and likeness.

We believe the items included in the collection of Parks’ personal affects are of value because they chronicle an important period in the history of this nation. It’s a sampling of the life of the woman known as the “mother of the civil rights movement”. (more…)

Three years after her death civil rights activist Rosa Parks’ personal items are still in storage. In order to settle a dispute between the Parks family and the executors of the Parks Estate over who would control the likeness of the late “mother of the civil rights movement”, a Michigan court ordered Guernsey’s Auction House of New York to hold a sale of the archived items to an appropriate institution, with the proceeds from the sale to be divided between the survivors of Raymond Parks’ family and the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development. (more…)

Congratulations to the Boston Celtics on winning their seventeenth National Basketball Championship world title.

A parade, they’re calling it a “Rolling Rally”, will be held at 11 AM in Boston to celebrate the win over the Los Angeles Lakers. Former Celtic greats, Celtics dancers and previous trophies will all be at this happy event.

The festivities will mark the sixth championship parade since 2002. There have been parades for the New England Patriots following each of their three Super Bowl wins; and two parades for the Boston Red Sox win of the Major League Baseball World Series.

This is the first Boston NBA championship in twenty-two years.