Pause for Coretta Scott King...Dead at 78

Today we lost a strong woman who stood for her beliefs and continued to fight for Martin Luther King Jr's dream long after his death. Maya Angelou called into GMA this morning to talk about her "sister friend" Coretta Scott King. I was impressed to learn that she was a talented musician, violin and vocals, who put her music career on hold to lead the struggle with her husband MLK, Jr. In fact, they said that Martin wanted to just talk and preach about the struggle while Coretta was the main one saying... "Let's march! Let's hit the road.." She was a major force in Selma, Ala. And the last thing that struck me was that Maya said Coretta was very much in love with Martin. She said that Martin was assassinated on her (Maya's) birthday and that she speaks to Coretta every year on that day and that Coretta's voice softens and drops in tone every time she speaks Martin's name. Wow! That's love. She never remarried.. and for all who believe (and you jerks who don't) let's pray that there's an afterlife and a heaven and that these two souls are together again.

Fun with Word Choices - Favorite game of the US media

Okay so the news is talking about how US Marines have been "detaining" the wives of insurgents and using that form of intimidation to gather information about their husbands. The anchorman said that the US is guilty of, "ungentlemanly conduct".

Sounds like taking hostages to me. How is that different from what the insurgents are doing when they detain civilian contractors and journalists? Granted the Marines probably won't kill the wives, but they aren't guilty of anything to warrant "detention."
Check out what ABC News said about this.

- Red State Hostage

Stop Democracy Now

The Palestinian elections just go to show that you can lead militants to democracy, but you can't stop them from winning elections. In an almost comical twist, Hamas won the majority of the seats in the Palestinian parliament. It's kinda hard for me to buy into the "Islamic militant radical movement" modifier that is always attached to "Hamas" in US news articles. I mean, I'm thinking it should be "political party Hamas".. right? They's got democracy now. But, don't get me wrong, I understand how gangsta Hamas is and that the last thing they want to do is make peace with Isreal.

What's not funny is the riots or " burning of cars and firing of guns" that's taking place as a result of the elections. [First of all, if they burn ONE car in East LA it's a damn riot. These people start burning and shooting in the streets and it's a "protest". Whatever.] CNN and news sources say that the Fatah party, which only won a wee bit of the seats in Parliament, are pissed about being under Hamas leadership. People are fighting and shooting each other in heated arguments. That's the part of democracy that the Bush administration forgets to mention when they're selling it. Oh, and by the way, sometimes in democracy people you hate win elections and get to make all of the rules and set policies that you don't believe in. You've gotta wake up pretty early in the morning to assure that your party ALWAYS wins. What you have to do is keep proving to the people that their vote means nothing, and eventually they'll stop participating in politics.

Or maybe this was all thought out.. hmm, Let's help create a Palestinian state and then when the wrong party gains control.. Guess who has to come in and "keep peace" and assure that the country isn't "tolerating, supporting or harboring terrorists." When a regime threatens Isreal.. Who ya gonna call? Clever.. very clever.

The AP is at it again

I hate to straight up call the AP a group of bigots, but this pretty much speaks for itself. The link below may take you to the shot in question. They dug deep for a picture of Biggie in handcuffs in 1996 to report that his family was paid $1.1 million by the city of Los Angeles for hiding evidence that linked two LAPD officers to his murder. Basically, they're making a point to call Biggie a criminal, as if he was a menace to society. Or as if he was shot while running from the cops.

All I want to say is please don't forget what the AP did during Katrina with the pictures of white looters
"finding food" and black looters "looting." Also, please know that people aren't being hard on the AP, it's the most respected organization in the game. These guys distribute news and photos to the entire nation, they should be held to the highest standards.

In case the link doesn't work, the caption reads: Rap star Chris Wallace aka Notorious B.I.G., walks to a waiting police car outside the 6th Police Precinct in the borough of Manhattan Saturday, March 23, 1996 in New York. A federal judge Friday Jan. 20, 2006 has ordered the city of Los Angeles to pay $1.1 million in legal costs to the family of slain rapper Notorious B.I.G. as sanctions for intentionally withholding evidence during the family's civil lawsuit trial. (AP Photo/Adam Nadel)

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/060121/482/ny11201211047

Screw you guys!

Hey Bitches,

Just wondering. Is the comment function broke on this muthafucka or do you just not feel the need to communicate with me? Just wondering, because I can contact technical support if you're trying to leave comments and I'm just not seeing them. I mean, I find time to write to you guys and you can't click on the pencil and be like "Sho Nuff!" or nothing? That's cool, I'm gonna keep on keepin' on.

Shouts out to Red State Hostage.. my only blog buddy.

Take Two

Obesity in the U.S. is creating a new problem- for me. I usually don't care how large people are. Obesity doesn't disgust me on sight and I don't think less of extra large people. BUT last night I was sitting peacefully at a seminar when the obesity problem in the U.S. started to weigh heavily on my mind. This lady came to sit in the empty seat next to me and at first she was rubbing all up on me. I scooted over in my chair a little thinking that another inch would be good for us both, but then she settled into her seat even more and I felt the great pressure of her thigh on my lap. This chick was literally sitting on me. I'm thinking, if you need two seats and you know that you do, just ask me to slid down a seat. She didn't even acknowledge that my body was crushed beneath hers. Couldn't she feel me? I couldn't pay attention to the seminar until my cell phone rang, which gave me a green light to shift in my seat and get free from her. I really felt embarrassed to immediately move over into the next seat just because an obese person sat next to me. I thought that would look kinda rude on my part.. right? Like everyone around us would think I just didn't want to sit next to her. I think it was her responsibility to say, "would you mind moving down?" I'd never know there weren't three in her party. I had to spend the rest of the seminar sitting with one butt cheek in my seat and one in the other because homegirl needed half of my chair. And I bet money that she wasn't crushing her friend on her left side. I think she spared her friend and nearly paralyzed me. Dear overweight people, If you need more room, politely ask for it. Don't oppress the person sitting next to you if you don't have to. Take two seats if that's what you need, especially when they're free. - Super Thanks!
I think my thigh is hurting right now just thinking about it.

Milking MLK

Hey. Nothing new to discuss. I'm celebrating MLK day for the first time since college. It's not all that it's cracked up to be. I don't know what I thought was going on while I was working in the past. I kinda hate to lose this work day and fall behind on deadlines. Um, but I haven't done anything celebratory at all. I've cleaned up and watched videos. One year I went to a protest in SC for the Confederate flag to be removed from their state capitol. Now that was the best use of my MLK weekend. Maybe I should go look at the Emancipation Proclamation like Dubya did. ... OK I Googled it. That was great. I'm going shopping now.

Chinese masquerade

Hola peoples. A very nice Asian lady just dropped off a menu for a restaurant called Jason's Sub Shop. I was like, "Word. Thanks!" cause who couldn't use a new sub shop in the lunch rotation? But then when I look at this thing it reads, "Chinese, American Chicken Seafood Subs" just like that, under "Sub Shop." Now, I have a strong dislike for Chinese food. I'd rather eat Thai first. And I don't like Thai food either. But I have a new found disgust for Chinese food trying to hide in a sub shop disguise. Subs are great, they're standard and you always know what your getting. This menu is like 3 pages of Chinese slop and then one flap of "American" fare which includes Steak, Ham Egg and Cheese sandwiches (in 6" or 12"- yuk!) . Now I've been American my whole damn life and never ate a steak ham egg and cheese sandwich on a sub roll. And there are only like 7 normal subs on the whole menu. And the Gyro is thrown in on the American Food side!

I know bootlegging is big, especially in China, but you can't bootleg a whole damn restaurant. I don't want my turkey sub kicking it in the kitchen with moo-shi. I'm sorry to go on and on, but that nice Asian lady better not come rolling through here with her fake-ass sub menus again. That's all I'm sayin'.

The New MBT logo... Compliments of my ex-roomie Steven. Don't sweat my sick logo too hard...

Are you Lost too?

Someone tell me you watch "Lost," and that you saw tonight's episode. It was a 2-hour recap for people who are just catching up, which is probably everyone. I don't see how you could completely follow this show. Anywayz, I'm trying and it's fun. Tonight the told the story behind the African guy.. what's his name? Ecko, probably not spelled that way. He's a good guy turned bad guy turned good guy. He has the best background story so far. I'm still wondering how he ended up on the plane that went down and what the odds are that he'd find his brother and friends from a different plane wreck. Here's what I think is REALLY going to happen. Even though he found that necklace on the body, I think that it's possible that his brother is alive. Mainly because of those religious symbols on the island..
But what was up with the black smoke beast? What the hell was that? And what's up with Anna-Lucia and the doctor? And why do I say I enjoy this show when it leaves me so confused? They answer one question and leave you with three more.

Missing You

Yo, don't you just HATE it when someone starts a blog, makes a big deal out of it and then NEVER updates it? Man, I knew this guy once who had this cool blog called Stringcans and we used to read it all the time. One day- BAM! nothing. I started checking less frequently and then not at all...
OK, I'm talking about people like me. But I have very good reasons for disappearing.

1. I liberated myself and resigned from my "dream" job that had slowly become a nightmare, around the beginning of December. Shouts out to my people still on lock down!

2. I relocated from North Carolina to Washington, DC. It's colder, more expensive and it takes me twice as long as it should to get from point A to B. But things are improving.

3. I took a lovely 2 week vacation in the mother land, or the land of my mother at least, Jamaica.

4. I was too consumed with myself to blog about other people's issues.

But the good news is that I'm back. I know that eventually you'll check back and realize that this is true. I miss MBT! Which by the way was named after a situation that my crazy-ass boss got into at my old job. Now, alas! I can tell the meaning of MBT and not give a shit who reads it.

So what had happened was, there's this lady. She's not normal. (Fact.) Since I interacted with her daily I used to collect stories of her abnormal behavior for fun. One day she ordered breakfast from room service at a hotel. First of all, normal people don't do this because we know that it's not normal to pay $12 for toast, OJ and coffee. Anyway, she bought toast and who knows what else. When the toast arrives it's burnt. It's burnt to the point that it isn't edible. Now a normal person may call room service and ask for unburned toast, or call management and say, "this is unacceptable and I'm not paying for it." But this lady wrapped the toast up on the plate it came on and packed it in her bag. I'm guessing she didn't mention it to the management and paid for it. Who knows. The point is that she brought the toast across state lines, back to her home and then into her office. Why? Because, silly! She's not normal. She took the black toast wrapped in plastic wrap and stuffed it in a package addressed to the corporate office of the hotel chain. Why do you need to bring mail to work to send it? Because you need to use company supplies, of course! But this isn't a story about stealing from your employer. [Hey, who doesn't take too many Sharpies on the way out? Right? ] Anywayz, this dumb bitch sent the burnt toast to the corporate office with a stickie note on it that read "Would you eat this?" And no doubt there was a long ranting letter attached making huge deal out of nothing. [her favorite pastime]

Um, this story circulated and those of us who work under her tyrannic thumb laughed and laughed. It was right in line with her abnormal behavior in other situations. Anyway, we came up with a band name to commemorate the situation and it was Militant Black Toast... which is what I named my blog later on because I love that damn story. And I love how very offensive those two pieces of black toast were. The emotion that they evoked by simply being black is truly historic. But I digress, I love that story, but not as much as the story in which she threatens to call the police on the garbage department if they didn't stop blocking traffic in the mornings while she's trying to get to work. Jebus!

Anyway, peoples, I've found a new puppet master here in DC. I haven't been employed a week and I spent my entire Saturday busting ass. And as far as I know, everyone around me is fairly normal. I'll be in touch though. ALL DI TIME!

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