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In Detriot today, a little girl was shot while shielding her mother from a hail of bullets -  taking into her little body most of the slugs - saving her mother's life.

 Six bullets from the 9 mm handgun slammed into Alexis, piercing her right eye, the chin and jaw.  Two bullets hit her mother grazing her head - entering her chest and stopped  just short of an artery.

"She was trying to save me," said her mother, Seliethia Parker, 30.  "My baby is just an angel to her mother. I thought as the mother, I'd be saving my child. I never thought my daughter would be saving me." Alexis has undergone three operations since the shooting at Children's Hospital of Michigan.

Parker's former boyfriend, Calvin Tillie, a 29-year-old ex-convict on parole, was arrested and charged with 2 counts of assault with intent to commit murder, pkus other offenses. He could get life in prison.  HOW ABOUT THE DEATH PENALTY?

Alexis was already a child with learning-disabilities. She lags behind other youngsters her age.

Parker met Tillie earlier this year and called it off after 3 months. He stalked her & popped up in the middle of the night. Shortly after midnight on Dec. 2,  Alexis and her mother climbed into their friend Aisha Ford's vehicle for a late night birthday get-together for Ford's mother. The girl got into the back seat, and her mother took the front passenger seat.

Tillie, who had been lerking about outside the house in the shadows in extreme cold, jumped into the back of the SUV, next to Alexis, and forced Ford to drive at gunpoint for several harrowing minutes until the woman convinced him she needed to stop for gas. She tried to stall for time while pumping gas. As she and the station attendant called 911, several shots erupted from inside the vehicle. The girl had jumped toward her mother in the front seat.

Parker bolted from the SUV, screaming. Officers found Alexis curled beneath the steering wheel in a pool of blood. Tillie was arrested at the scene.

"She is doing much better," Parker said. "She opened up one eye. Everything seems to be going great."

In Alexis' special education classroom, her classmates have named a stuffed toy with pink ears "Hero."  "We didn't want Alexis' spot to be vacant, so she's got a sweet bear to sit in her place until she comes back," said her teacher.

Alexis suffered a stroke before age 1 and has epilepsy. Her teacher showed off a journal revealing strides Alexis had made in writing over the past few months. What started as an illegible series of lines had evolved into distinct letters.

How much more can this little girl endure?  Clearly she is a fighter... with a heart of gold and brave as can be. She knew no fear and stood firm in the face of a pure evil obsessed ex con. Many of us would have panicked or shut down in the face of a 9 mm handgun. This little girl knew enough to know that he aimed to kill her mother and she wasn't having it. Not in this life.

What are your thoughts?  Let's blog.

  Count down... We have only a few days before 2008 will be standing in our doorways with a big grin on it face, saying, What's Up!

Ring out the old

 Ring in the new

We blinked and it was gone... 

So now what are you going to do...

What will do differently next year?

What will you leave behind on purpose in order to start a new next year?

What is your new year's resolution?

Oh, alright, I'll go first... emmmm let's see...

Oh, I got it... to make a million dollars!  What?  Don't laugh... I can do it, so can you.

So what's your new years resolution...

Let's blog....

Why must we blame everybody and everything for the mistakes we make. 

With decisions comes rewards and consequences. Why is that when our decisions spuns negative consequences, we have to blame somebody else, anything else but ourselves?

In the news today we read:      A man smokes 3 packs of cigarettes a day for 40 years, dies of lung cancer, and his family sues the tobacco company.

A woman crashes while driving drunk, then blames the bartender.

Your kids are out of control - shoot up the school, so you blame violence on TV, lack of discipline in school or the influence of their friends.

Your husband cheats on you continously, but it's not his fault because these women just flunt themselves in front of him with skimpy clothes on, or  because Playboy prints nasty magazines....

Your spouse beats you you to a pulp, but its not the spouses' fault, because they witness violence between thier father and mother.

Excuses are like butt holes, we all have one. 

Excuses - we've got hundreds of them! Such as:  Our parents failed us...our friends let us down...somebody gave us bad advice...our mate doesn't understand us.

The blame game isn't new; we've been playing it since the dawn of creation.

In Genesis the first couple offered God every excuse in the book to avoid responsibility for their actions. Adam actually blamed God by saying, "It was the woman you put...with me." And Eve was no better, she said, "The snake tricked me."

The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of your character and maturity. Wouldn't you agree?

Shouldn't we acknowledge our sins and shortcomings get help and stop blaming others or other things and move on to maturity?  I think so, how about you?

Everytime you turn around, the news and newspaper is reporting stories like this...

OH, don't forget the woman who sued the popular fast food place for selling her HOT coffee. Apparently she sipped the coffee in her car, it was too hot so she dropped it and it fell between her legs, burning her private parts and prevented her from having relations with her signficant other... and the story goes on from there...

But wait, she won.... millions of dollars, even... wow...

Let's blog...

Another star ball player going to jail. MAN! What's the world coming too.

 Michael Vick surrenders to marshals three weeks prior to his sentencing on dogfighting charges.

Mr. Vick has accepted responsibility for his actions, and his self-surrender further demonstrates that acceptance.

Vick pleaded guilty in August to a federal dogfighting conspiracy charge after his three co-defendants pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with authorities.

He's scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 10 on a federal dogfighting conspiracy charge but worked out a deal to voluntarily enter custody prior to his sentencing hearing.

Loosing a wonderful career over fighting animals. I don't understand this...  do we forgive and forget and give him back his 20 million advance on his contract... what?

Somebody explain it to me please....

Let's blog...

Well, it's that time again, Thanksgiving Day..

How do you celebrate it?  What does it mean to you? If you don't celebrate it, why not?  Well, alright, ok, I'll go first: 

To me Thanksgiving is a religious family get together holiday to give thanks. It's like cramming a year of Sundays together into one day and celebrating big with good food, good company and good music and some history discussion so that we always remember the truth and continue to pass it on to our children. So before the Entertainment and eating begins, the history lesson commences... Here's a short summary...

Historically speaking... My family taught us that this is a day that Native American review as a National Day of Mourning. Most children are taught that Native Americans helped the Pilgrims and were invited to the first Thanksgiving feast. This is not accurate. Traditional hospitality and generosity have and continue to be constant Tribal virtues to be practiced at all times. One of a series of feasts reaching back into the Native Americans’ memory seized upon by modern society is: The Wampanoag feast,  Nikkomosachmiawene or Grand Sachem's Council Feast.

It was because of this feast in 1621 (which is when the winter had killed most of the pilgrims) that the Wampanoags had amassed the food to help the Pilgrims thereby creating a new European tradition known today as "Thanksgiving Day.  

But with the Europeans came smallpox, typhus, measles and other diseases to this continent. Native Americans had no natural immunity to these plagues. The Pawtnxet groups were totally wipe out. The Wampanoag was the next closet group. Twenty seven Native Americans were tricked on to ships by Captain Hunt and sold as slaves in Spain when Pilgrims (who did not call themselves pilgrams) and who did not come to America seeking religious freedom - they had that already in Holland. They came here as part of a commercial venture and one of the first things they did when they arrived in Cape code, before they made it to Plymouth was to rob Wampanoag graves at Corn Hill stealing much of the Indians' winter provisions - which is a desecreation and insult to their dead.

The Wampanoags who witnessed this, attacked and some were run off by guns but they returned later to pilgrams running and to get their guns leaving their tools behind.

The Natives took their tools and returned later with the tools and a Native American named Samoset (from Maine), a leader of the Wabnaki people. Samoset walked right up to the Pilgrams and said, "Welcome" in English. He learned the language when he was taken prisoner to England and sold into slavery in Spain. He managed to returned to the Plymouth 6 months before the Pilgrams arrived.

Pilgrams and Samoset talked. Samoset spoke of his friend Tisquantum (Squanto) who also spoke English as he was a prisoner as well and he spoke of Massasoit, the leader of the Wampanoag people.  

Edward Winslow, a Pilgrim lied to Massasoit, saying King James wished to make an alliance and to another English  speaking native, Tisquantum - tricking him into signing a treaty which was heavily slanted in favor of the Pilgraims.

Wampanoags visted the settlements unarmed and all the neighboring nations were contacted by Massasoit believing they had a aliance.

 Tisquantum, a Pawtuxet TAUGHT the Pilgrams how to plant, fertilize corn and other crops, where the best fish were and how to catch them in traps and many other suvival skills. Governer Bradford called Tisquantum "a special instrument set of God". The Native natiosn along the eastern seaboard practiced tribal spirituality, hospitality and generosity - an attibute to this day the fits the Thanksgiving Holiday 

President Lincoln declared the last Thursday of November as Thanksgiving Day Text of Plaque on Cole's Hill    "Since 1970, Native Americans have gathered at noon on Cole's Hill in Plymouth to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on the US Thanksgiving holiday. Many Native Americans do not celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims and other European settlers. To them, Thanksgiving Day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of their people, the theft of their lands, and the relentless assault on their culture. Participants in a National Day of Mourning honor Native ancestors and the struggles of Native peoples to survive today. It is a day of remembrance and spiritual connection as well as a protest of the racism and oppression which Native Americans continue to experience."

So this would be a good blog if I didn't at least tell you what's on the menu usually at our home... so here you go..  Turkey, Chicken dressing from scratch, Baked ham with pineapple sausa, mac and cheese, greens and neckbones (mustard, turnip, collars), corn bread, corn on and off the cob - fried and laid to the side, cranberry sauce, gravy, sweet potatoe pie and cakes all made from scratch including choc., pineapple upside down cake, coconut, and of course tall glasses of water, tea and lemon aid.

Thanksgiving to me is about family, a day to reflect on true history, reconnect with loved ones and remember just how much we have to be thankful for..

So share and share a like... Chat a minute with each other about this wonderful day and of course, let's blog about it.

Hey Bloggers, Bloggetts ...

I want to tell you something I saw today that made me laugh so hard, I nearly choaked...

I'm riding with my folks down a busy street. A white car pulls up beside me at the red light with a blonde babe behind the wheel. Of course I am on the passenger side of our car...

Suddenly she loosely waves her left hand out the window to get my attention. Of course, I couldn't help but to notice the loosely waving hand.

When she saw me looking, she struck a pose with her left hand on the driver's side door to make sure that I saw the diamond wedding ring she was wearing.

I went, DAYUMMMMMM! That bad boy was so big that I could have seen it from a couple of blocks away. She has to be doing finger curls to keep her fingers up to hold that bad boy up on her hand, I said...

So I pointed it out to my folks and suddenly, the light turned green and off we went. She sped up in front of us, with this spurk on her face and cut us off. Yeap, cut us off bloggers and bloggetts!

It was then when I suddenly noticed as she forced us to nearly slam on breaks, that she was driving a FORD, baby!

I cheap two door Ford, not a nice mustang or suv... but one of the cheapest Fords on the line..

Man we fell over laughing...

Listen, ole girl is sporting a ring that cost more than her car baby!  I expected a Lexus or a BMW or a Mercedes to rip past us, after seeing that big beautiful diamond...

But NO! Baby has spend all her money on a ring and is driving a HOOPDEE ..

laugh with me yall... ahh ha ha ha ha ha..

Now that's what you call a Show Off on the City Streets. 

I know some neighborhoods where, had she done that at the light, they would have chopped off her finger and took  the ring and paid a downpayment on a house...

Yeah, baby, it was just that big and absolutely beautiful. lol

Let's laugh let's blog.

Say It Loud, I'm Black And I'm Proud                                          James Brown

Ok ladies, cross dressers and other folks who wear lipstick, makeup and the like. Ever wonder why lipstick taste nasty and is hard to get out of your man's white shirt?

Do you really know what’s in the products you put on your lips, your face or kiss off your woman’s lips and neck…   

READ ON....

This issue is all over the news these days and the radio.

The Romans and ancient Egyptians used cosmetics containing mercury.

Women of Roman Britain used a foundation made from animal fat, starch and tin oxide.

Lipstick is known to have been used around 5000 years ago in ancient Babylon, when semi-precious jewels were crushed and applied to the lips and occasionally around the eyes.

Ancient Egyptians extracted purplish-red dye from fucus-algin, 0.01% iodine, and some bromine mannite, which resulted in serious illness.

Cleopatra had her lipstick made from crushed carmine beetles, which gave a deep red pigment, and ants for a base.

WHAT INGREDIENTS ARE IN MAKEUP NOW-A-DAYS?

Red colour of modern lipstick comes from synthetically derived pure iron oxide (a component of rust). Synthetic colours are listed in the ingredients as a code and may contain up to 10 parts per million of lead / 3 parts per million of arsenic.

Castor oil and its derivatives called "non-comedogenic".

Cerebrosides (cells from the nervous systems of cattle or swine) were used in some high-end skin-care products to increase moisture retention and to create a smooth skin surface. YUCK!

Strong red colours for eye products have been produced using the dye carmine, made from carminic acid extracted from the crushed bodies of the cochineal insect.  BUGS, I HATE BUGS!

Pearlescence, also sometimes spelled as "pearl essence", is a shine or gloss effect. It is a shimmery substance found on fish scales, usually obtained from herring and one of many by-products of commercial fish processing. YUCK!

Some controversy over the presence of these ingredients are looming. Especially since makeup worn on the lips is not just absorbed through the skin, but also swallowed with drinking, eating, kissing, etc.

The product is really cheap to make, yet the mark up is more than 30%, hence a tub of lipstick may cost a manufacting company 10 cents to make it in bulk. By the time it's packaged and in the store to sell to you, the costs is any where from $5.00 - 30.00 dollars a tube depending on if a designer or celebrity's name is on the package.

And think you are kissing crushed bugs or fish scales, lead.. Ah man..... owwweeee 

What’s your thoughts….

Let’s blog…

Look At Michael Jackson! He looks GOOD!  Just goes to show you that a person really can be RACELESS. That is what he sought to achieve by removing the melane from his skin.  Go ahead Michael with your BAD self!

I use to be a fan. Loved his music as an adult and when he was a child with the Jackson 5. Above all else he is the best enterainer of all time. Gotta give him his props.

After years of silence, rumor and a sordid trial, Michael Jackson has given his first major U.S. interview in a decade. He is 49 years young and appears on the front cover of my favorite African-American magazine "Ebony" to mark the 25th anniversary of "Thriller" -- the world's best-selling studio album that also made him a superstar.

Michael has largely shunned publicity since his 2005 trial and acquittal on child molestation charges. I certainly understand that….

The cover photo of the magazine, whose December edition hits newsstands on November 12, is causing almost as much of a blogging feast as the interview. I think he’s handsome. Other bloggers are focusing on his skin color…now how sick is that… aye?

One post on the pop culture blog commented; "Michael Jackson has to be the whitest person to ever be on the cover of Ebony magazine." Now that’s cruel and unnecessary, don’t you think?

Jackson has in the past attributed his gradual skin whitening to a disease called vitiligo. I think he just wanted to become RACELESS. So am I. He accomplished this and I think he’s cute, even though he has a hard time finding makeup now.

"He's grown-up, learned from his challenges, and stronger. He has three children, and his whole life ahead of him. What do you say, let’s give the man another chance, aye Bloggers and Bloggetts.

He plans to release a 25th anniversary edition of "Thriller" later in November with four new and four remixed tracks. He is said to have worked with Kanye West, Akon and Will.I.Am of the Black Eyed Peas. That's a talented bunch right there.

The original 1982 "Thriller" has sold more than 104 million copies worldwide and was the first album in history to produce seven Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles.

Are we ready for our main man, Michael Jackson to come back on the scene… I am, how ‘bout you…

Who’s bad!

Let’s blog….