MURDERER!!!

Yeah... So... Im ridin on my way to my job on Saturday morning and Im runnin a lil late. I left my house about 15 minutes or so after I was supposed to be leavin. Not somethin I usually do but sometimes things happen that delay me that are beyond my control. So Im takin my usual route of quick turns and short cuts to avoid the traffic on the way to the highway and I see this squirrel... I see him side the road and we make eye contact so Im thinkin "he see me and we got an understanding. He's definitely gonna sit there until I pass by." WRONG! (thanks Charlie Murphy) This fella waits until I get within feet of him and then darts out in front of my car. I tried to break but I wasnt gonna swirve because he wasnt finna make another Geico commercial outta me. I slowed a pretty good bit but still heard a "thump" up under my car. I looked in my rear view mirror and saw hit little body rolling and bouncin on the ground. It saddend me a lil bit and I hoped and prayed that he wasnt dead. I told myself he was unconscious and that he would get up before somebody finished him off. I returned the other day. Part of me didnt want to see but another part of me had to know if some other car had come by and smashed him up. I aint see him; nor did I see any blood stained pavement. He must have gotten up just like I knew he would. Be strong young (and hopefully not brain damaged) squirrel. And work on growin some wings so you can fly like Rocky on that old cartoon - The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.

Daylight Savings Time

I hate Daylight Savings Time. I like Standard Time. For some strange reason, they extended Daylight Savings time and now it seems like this Standard Time aint "standard" at all and the daylight savings time last for longer than the standard time. I hate it. I cant stand having to get up earlier for what feels like absolutely no reason. Dont like the idea that a few men Ive never met are somewhere deciding what time my watch is gonna read and I hate getting up before the sun is up. At 7:26am it should not be black outside my window. I feel like Im waking up in the middle of the night. Its feels like its dusk when I leave and its dark again when I get home at 9pm. Its the worst. And whoever decided to push the "Standard time" back another week, I just might have to beat up. I officially dont like them. Im going back to work now - angry because I feel like Im being robbed of a natural sleep pattern for over half of a year.

I could be wrong (again) but...

The Blackout... Jena 6... Just by the mention of those two things, Ive made the topic of this blog a little bit controversial... But Im gonna speak on it...

So theres this blackout and Im not supposed to be spending money today and stuff like that. I guess because we are collectively supposed to be hurting "the man's" pockets. I wasn't even gone write about this today. It wasnt until I went on my lunch break with one of my colleagues and we're standing at a Wendys; My colleague is orderin his number 1 or whatever and this guy passes by and says "Thas right brothas... gone and spend ya money... dont observe the blackout." Ya know, real sarcastic like. I proceeded to look at him watch me turn around and ignore him. Now, while Im all for the cause... (and I might get attacked for this but...) Somebody please explain how not going Wendys is gonna stop a racist judge in a racist, hole in the wall town, from being racist. Demonstrations are great. Marching in Jena definately brought a lot of desperately needed attention to the situation - with positive results. BUT this type of "blackout" along with the "dont buy gas on whatever day" holdout seems a lil bit pointless. If nobody buys gas today, that just means twice as many people will be buying gas yesterday or tomorrow. Gas companies will still get their money. If nobody goes and sees American Gangster tonight (which I doubt); they'll still go tomorrow or Sunday and when the DVD comes out, theyll buy that too (Why arent there any black people making a huge movement against the bootleg game? No movies starring black actors should be bootlegged if we're gonna support each other. But anyway...) The theaters, actors, publishers, etc. (which, again, have nothing to do with the Jena 6 situation) will still get their money. Now, locally, this may hurt the economy of the people in Jena 6 if it were to be something on-going or if every black person there just moved, but honestly... This judge is still gonna wake up tomorrow and think the same way he did when he brought down the judgement - Regardless if we order a number 5 from Hardees today.

I like to see well thought out stuff, not just "Hey everybody lets just get together and do somethin just to say that we can get together about somethin!!!" The movement needs focus to be successful. I think the thing we need to focus on are our children. If our children are successful and dont have to go into the court system to begin with, then we wouldnt have to stop eating for a day or ride our gas tanks on E or whatever else whoever it is thats setting this up is gonna come up with. What this judge did was completely wrong, but there wouldnt be a discussion at all if there was never a case. Thats what would really hurt the judge - take away his cases. The problem with that is, in a racist town like that, they'll probably find a way to make up a charge to arrest somebody just to have somethin to do.

AND it just popped into my head... (Yall can all thank me later for this one) I HAVE COME UP WITH THE NEXT MOVEMENT FOR TOGETHERNESS!!! Lets all walk off our jobs next Monday at 3pm. This way, once we quit, "the man's" companies would flop, we wouldnt need gas since we wouldnt have anything to do or anywhere to go, AND we wouldnt have any money to purchase anything - so the blackout would happen by default. PLUS, with all the companies - other than black owned and managed stores of course - out of business, there wouldnt be anywhere to spend anything anyway. You may not recognize it now, but this is brilliance. After about 6 years or so of this, white people would be sure to recognize that they need us.

Right...

Although I may not have the solution. I do know that this aint the answer. And if Al Sharpton aint organize it, it aint real no ways... I could be wrong (again) though...

I'll just do it tomorrow... Im never gonna die anyway...

Came accross this article today and, maybe Im the only one but, I found this kinda disturbing. To live for one thousand years may be a dream for some - and of course nobody wants to die BUT... to literally come up with a way for a human to live for that long would be a serious problem. Not that I think people deserve to die or anything, but people HAVE to die. We are already over-populated on this earth and consuming at an alarming rate. (Not to mention all of this pre-teen humping thats going on.) If we start up this whole "Everybody gets to live 1000 years" movement, its gonna be some problems in the future. And these wont be small problems; its gonna be serious problems with getting the bare neccessities taken care of. You know - satisfying those basic food and shelter needs. This guy who wants this to come to past is kinda selfish in my opinion. Whats gonna happen when the natural resources run out? Yeah, you'll get to see a WHOLE LOT of Monday night football throughtout your life but I dont think thats gonna matter too much if it aint no water to drink and ya throat is too dry to tell ya homeboy about it...