Countrywide Financial

Not being funny or anything, but if you can't get Shaq to front your mortgage there's always prayer. The White House Office for Faith Based and Community Initiatives was created by an Executive Order in 2001 to allow churches and the like to compete for federal funding. Funding for Faith Based Initiatives must be used to create wealth and prosperity. Two examples of this are improving the telecommunications fiber including, cable wireless, and satellite in rural Appalachia and the home renovators Faith, Bricks & Mortar, Inc. of New Jersey. Please view my comment on my cousin's "secret" house and this topic here.

Mets or Yankees?

On a 5 and 1/4 inch screen, Brookstone SportsCast Wireless Baseball Scorecard gives the scores and stats for every Major League Baseball game. Updated every half-inning, the device works by satellite and 4 AA batteries.

Sarah Hemmings

The story of the affair between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemmings given name Sarah came to the forefront when DNA genetic testing was able to trace one of Hemmings' children to the twenty five male Jeffersons that visited the Monticello estate in Virginia during 1802. Finally, the story of Sarah Hemmings' travails with Thomas Jefferson to Paris was able to surface because the Y-chromosomal DNA attributed to all Jefferson's male descendants could be traced to her son Eston Hemmings' line by private Dr. Eugene Foster. On the contrary, the descendants of West Ford a favored slave that lived on George Washington's Mount Vernon estate were not fortunate to discover conclusive scientific proof of George Washington's lineage with their family. The DNA test performed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation was to determine whether a sampling stray hairs found in historic institutions and private collections truly belonged to the first president. The FBI tested seventh generation George Washington female descendants because women carry a family's entire genetic sequence and pass it on to their children. As for West Ford, the 1994 test proved inconclusive because the Washington's hairs did not come from Mount Vernon and only showed a limited sequence. The Ford family avers that there are no Bushrods or Corbins in the family lineage. Although West Ford's body is now missing from George Washington's family crypt, I suppose the answer to the mystery could possibly be extracted from George Washington's Masonic Memorial.

Pennies from Heaven

Back to Quran Folsom, there is a common superstition is that money attracts money and that you never give a pocketbook without something in it. In Islamic countries, banking and financing is conducted on the priciples of shariah compliant-finance where transactions must comport with religious law. Shariah or literally "Pathway to Water" prohits the charging of interest and investing in breweries or casinos. The hidden truth is that shariah law funds islamic extremism in violation of United States racketeering laws. Because Islam requires tithing to muslim charities, shariah finacing can amount to the reemergence of the mob. The connection between religious and community involvment and organized crime is not a stretch of the imagination, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters offers a scholarship in the memory of Jimmy Hoffa.

Citation Du Jour Quatre

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative. - Kurt Vonnegut

Both disorderly conduct violations that I received at the Houston FBI for walking in the door were dismissed by the United States Attorney's Office.

Battleship

The UK Guardian proposes that developments in neuroscience will change the ways wars are fought and the concept of torture. Included with brain altering pharmacology are methods that untap the power of the brain's neurons such as Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation or tDCS. Transcranianal Direct Current Stimulation is a milder form of Electro-Shock Therapy.

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The Grapes of Wrath

Although John Steinbeck's son and grandaughter have lost the rights to the author's earliest works after the publishing company's appeal of a federal district court ruling, a man hospitalized at Tucson, Arizona University Medical Center is slowly regaining his faculties. NPR reports that a man given the name Adobe by hospital workers suffered a traumatic brain injury from a truck collapse. Over the past four months, Adobe has only been able to respond to questions for vital information with "Cindy, Cindy." The foreign national named as Adobe says that he misses his wife and children although his face and identity does not match the picture on the Mexican voters registration card he carried with him.

The Ultimate Hustler

As the saying goes, always a bride's maid and never a bride. Not to remain in second place after losing to Brian R. on BET's Miniseries Damon Dash's The Ultimate Hustler that aired in 2005, Dashawn Taylor has set out on his own ventures. Including a book From Poverty to Power Moves: A True Story, Dashawn has several online interviews and clips circulating on YouTube. His MTV Cribs short, posted below, is particularly funny. And everybody wants to know...why are so many East Coast people moving down to North Carolina?

Here's to the Chef

Just like Ocean's Eleven movie series star Bernie Mac, Musician Isaac Hayes is now gone. Billed as a "Memphis Icon," Isaac Hayes' restaurant shut down in 2007 to make room for another Peabody Hotel. Hayes also left his job in early 2006 as the voice for "The Chef" on the animated series South Park after the show decided to poke fun at Scientology. Both celebrities will be missed but not forgotten.

In Memory of Anna Nicole Smith

Trimspa is now $5.00 a box at your local convenience store, but somehow Prince von Anhalt has stayed in daily rotation on TMZ. This is more than a year after the death of Anna Nicole Smith and the custody battle that ensued after her baby Dannielynn was left orphaned. Husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, the British press circulated the rumor that Prince Frederick von Anhalt, Duke of Saxony, bought his title from Princess Marie August of Anhalt. Zsa Zsa Gabor, who great-grandmothered Paris and Nicky Hilton, has been said to have passed on the title to a number of adoptees. However the Prince has acquired his title, he sees it fitting to ridicule Michelle Obama saying that she will look like a washer woman among former first ladies.

Bag Balm

A product made for chapped cow udders that I recently picked up off of the personal hygiene aisle at a local CVS/pharmacy.

Anastasia Romanov

1500 are reported killed due to the conflict between Russia and Georgia -- a vital conduit for transporting oil into the Caspian Sea. The conflict has not only been a war of arms but one that has included cyber warfare. The Georgian government began shutting down Russian government websites at the inset of the fighting. The long storied strife between the central government and the people of the region is reminiscent of the legend of Anastasia, the last remaining heir to the Romanov dynasty. Princess Anastasia and her family were reportedly killed by the Bolsheviks in 1918, but somehow, she, the youngest daughter managed to survive as the the legend goes. Many people have claimed to be Anastacia including Germany's Anna Anderson who died in the Dalldorf Asylum in 1984 and could not read or speak languages becoming of a Russian princess. Anderson's remains could not pass a DNA test years after she died. The legend of Anastsia has helped to keep the memory of her father Czar Nicolas II in the public consciousness years after his fateful overthrown.

Reply All

TIME online featured an article this week about the new website www.whocanisue.com that beginning in September determines for consumers whether they actually have a case and help them find an attorney from a list of lawyers who advertise their expertise on the website. As always, I forward relevant information like the www.whocanisue.com by way of e-mail to other lawyers and other professionals that I know. I have several investigatory questions for the site since mail that I send to Seton Hall Law professors are intercepted by non-legal staff. The first of which starts with the song "You" by Raheem Devaughn that played incessantly on the radio when I worked in Memphis beginning three years ago. I posted the video below...

Raheem DeVaughn - You
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MLK Jr. Boulevard

Central Intelligence Agency Director General Michael Hayden has earned a street sign with his name on it. Right outside of his hometown's Pittsburgh Steeler's Heinz Field is General Michael V. Hayden Boulevard. Pittsburgh knows how to throw a party. I was thoroughly upset after I waited twenty working days for this thoughtfully wrapped package from Hayden's Agency and I read the contents inside highlighted in my earlier post, Brown Paper Bag Test.

Launch Pad

The United States Air Force is requesting proposals for the development of high energy laser shielding for its Katushya rockets such as the spray-on coating featured on Wired.com. Lasers can burn holes in munitions rendering them ineffective.

House Arrest

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich signed legislation in memory of Cindy Bischof, a victim of domestic violence, who was killed by a former boyfriend who violated a court protective order. Governor Blagojevich's bill enables domestic violence offenders to be fitted with GPS monitoring devices as a condition of bail. The satellite tracking system alerts victims of domestic violence when offenders approach a victim's place of work or business. Space-age technology in the hands of Illinois constituents that don't have to pay-to-play to get a foot in the door of state politics is commendable. Governor Blagojevich's campaign fundraisers have been under federal indictment for questionable accounting practices. The Chicago Sun-Times blog Eye on Tony Rezko monitors the trial updates and the release of sealed court documents.

Archived Messages

I tried to check out a Carl Thomas concert on Friday evening, but when my hot pink high heels, hair and make-up began to melt from the high humidity waiting on line outside, I decided to take my party of one elsewhere. I did not see anyone that I knew, and I felt that I might have a better opportunity experiencing sour apple hookah on an outside patio. No one called that night although the email banter ealier that week announced a planned meetup for the Carl Thomas, and my recent hanging out buddies, my brother and his platonic girlfriend, were not interested. Communist China has allegedly entreated the help of the International Olympic Committee or IOC to block e-mail correspondence of the human rights afflicted Chinese public. In the United States, a republic of full disclosure, Hillary Clinton, opposed to her husband dodges the Federal Election Committee and blogs such as the Judicial Watch's Hillary Watch and Paul v. Clinton dedicated in her esteemed honor tracking such mundane occurrences as her guests at the White House when she was NOT a cookie-baking First Lady. Like Clinton, Vice President Dick Cheney has more to worry about than dodging Scooter Libby's collect calls at the office or Mary Cheney's next baby shower to worry about. The Vice President is tied up in Martha Stewart-esqe chit chats with the Securities and Exchange Commission on disclosures of the Halliburton slush fund to keep Nigerian oil barons from dumping the profits in the Niger Delta. Who wants to know? inquiring minds and the French government... As for me missing the club meetup...why can't you all call nobody?

King James Version

An Op-Ed piece in the Sunday Times decided it was brilliant to conflate the curse of Noah's son Ham and the plight of homosexuals in one long winded diatribe. Now that the Vatican Observatory acknowledges the existence of aliens, the Times proposes that God detests Africans over gays. Once a poof, always a poof so the Anglican Church deserves the credit for straightening out the proper sacrements. However, while the Sodomites might have laid camp with a few of Ham's progeny, the retelling of Ham's exploits in no way means that the curse itself is a birth right of supremacy for black people who also believe in the demise of black cats, broken mirrors, and walking under a ladder. My thought is that any person that feels the need to embody the spirit of Ham, deserves the undoing that was given to Lot's wife.

From the Big House

The United States House of Representatives resolution for an apology for slavery introduced by Representative Steve Cohen D-TN has cleared the House to be approved by the United States Senate. Strange enough, only two members of the Congressional Black Caucus signed on as co-sponsors of the landmark bill.

Fat Cats

If you haven't fallen in love with the 44 pound homeless cat named Princess Chunk by now, you are probably dry heaving over the cat's grotesque enormity. Personally, my guess is that Princess Chunk's size is due to some sort of undisclosed experiment. A cat that huge and having to fend for itself probably escaped its cage with the laboratory scientist turned her back to give the feline another shot of human growth hormone. It could be possible. Bruce Ivins, one of the perperators of the 2001 Anthrax scares committed suicide this week a criminal probe indicated that he might face the death penalty for his work at a United States Army bioweapons laboratory. What will they come up with next?

Navajo Nation

The Navajo Nation located in parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah are facing a disruption of satellite telecommunications services provided by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) due to a failed audit by the Universal Service Administrative Co or USAC. The USAC which has the authority to administer FCC grants to rural and low-income consumers is charged with mishandling funds to the Navajo Nation's internet providers. As for satellite communications, I was pleased to see the FCC's public service flyer announcing the switch from analog to Digital TV among the handouts provided at a prominent African-American professionals conference that I recently attended. Since 1996, the FCC has been steadily moving television to Digital TV to free up weaker radio frequencies to be auctioned off to new industry and for emergency services. Satellite telecommunications enable the Navajo Nation's telephone services, library online access, and access to online university courses. The Navajo Nation, credited by the pentagon for its skill in creating code cyphers during World War II, are currently battling for continuity of the services on its 27,000 square mile reservation.