Did a hardware upgrade, XP wouldn’t fucking start.  Tried doing a repair, no dice. Had to do a fresh install.

Open Thread.

I’ll be fuckin with this for the rest of the day tryin to get shit re-installed and whatnot.

Death of Pr. George’s Co. inmate ruled a homicide

June 30, 2008 - 10:48pm

Police say Ronnie Lionel White, 19, of Laurel was the alleged driver of the pick-up truck that struck Cpl. Richard Findley. (WJLA photo)

 

LMAOOOO!

Is dude gonna have a cameo in the new Transformers?  Cuz this nigga is shape shiftin like a muthafucka.

**And spare me the “He’s gotta do what he’s gotta do to get elected!!!” And hey, wasn’t that the knock AGAINST Hillary?  Ooops. “GOTCHA BITCH!”

Gravel!!!!!!

whuz up?

TV kinda sucks in the summer?

Where the fuck has Heroes been at?

Weeds is back on.

When does Curb Your Enthusiasm come back? (Best show evah!!!)

Hitting ROC Bottom from jeff on Vimeo.

Ha!

(from that shitty blog)

SNITCH SLAIN IN GUN BUY
WIRED THUG SHOT 14 TIMES
By JOHN DOYLE, PHILIP MESSING and LARRY CELONA

EMMITT LITTLES
Strayed from police plan.

Last updated: 2:51 am
June 30, 2008

Everyone knew it was dangerous work.

But no one could foresee the tragic turn of events that would lead to the death of a police informant during an undercover gun buy in a Bronx building - and the gunman’s waltzing out undetected, even though the building was surrounded by cops.

The ordeal began around 6 p.m. June 19 when the informant, a 24-year-old high-ranking Bloods gang member with a long rap sheet, pulled up in front of 3204 Park Ave. in Melrose.

He was with an undercover cop plotting to buy a .40-caliber handgun for $500 from a fellow gang member known on the streets as “Guns.”

Members of both the NYPD and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms were monitoring the deal from surveillance vehicles nearby.

When the informant, Emmitt “E-Murda” Littles, phoned “Guns” and asked him to come down to the car, the illegal-gun dealer balked, telling him to go up to the 15th floor, instead.

Sources say the undercover officer felt this was a bad idea, as it went against preferred practice. But before the cop could stop Littles, the informant hopped out, saying, “I’ll do it,” and quickly headed into the building, sources said.

Littles was wearing a recording device but not one that could be monitored from a distance.

Minutes later, police radio blazed with numerous calls to 911 reporting gunfire in the building.

When cops raced upstairs, they found the 6-foot-4 Littles lying dead against a door with 14 gunshot wounds to his chest and arms, his cellphone in his hands and his shorts pulled down to his knees.

“Buying guns undercover is a very dangerous job,” said William McMahon, special agent in charge of the ATF’s New York office. “We will look at the procedures taken.”

One key piece of evidence in the case likely will be the tape recorder that Littles had on him, which was still running when he was found.

A quick replay of the tape revealed Littles’ last words: “Yo, yo, 5-0 is downstairs. They’re coming up.”

It is not clear whether he was tipping “Guns” off to the cops or trying to hide the fact he was working with them.

“You can hear them rummaging through his pockets, and then you hear them put one more [bullet] in [him],” said a source who heard the tape.

People close to Littles - who did not want to be identified - said he and “Guns” were old friends. They believe he was killed because “Guns” knew he was a snitch.

A search of Littles’ cellphone calls soon led cops to Don Silver, 28, who was recently released from prison on two attempted-murder raps.

When they tracked him to a nearby apartment, they found a .45 caliber handgun in a drawer, but it was not the murder weapon.

Silver is being held on a federal gun charge.

Additional reporting by Murray Weiss

With that being said….Good morning everyone LOL

From shakesville and angryblackbitch

If a black person is running for office that does not automatically mean that she or he is going to make affirmative action, poverty and pay-day loan scams the foundation of their platform.

But DAYUM…

wouldn’t that be NICE for a “change”?

Given Obama’s recent statements to the nation’s Governors…maybe ol Ralphie (never was a fan, I still remember when my HS best friend told me he was planning on voting Green…but I digress) has a point.

The CHA’s $1.6 billion Plan for Transformation is replacing the city’s public housing high-rises with developments that mix public housing, affordable and market-rate units to attract residents from across the economic spectrum. But the mixed-income communities risk imposing “a tyranny of the middle class” on the new communities’ low-income residents, Pattillo said.

Pattillo lives in one of these developments, and she said neighbors always are discussing what constitutes appropriate behavior. When is the music too loud? Where is it OK to barbecue? These questions, rooted in race and class, arise because of residents’ different backgrounds, yet it’s usually the poorer residents who are expected to change, Pattillo said.

Continuing

It costs up to $150,000 to rehab a public housing unit and up to $300,000 to build a new one, Gist Gilliam said. But there’s little money for public housing at the federal level, because in the past two decades voters have rejected  political candidates who favor it. Housing is not on the national agenda; the presidential candidates aren’t talking about it, though more Americans live in substandard housing than lack health care.

“It comes back to the people you send to Congress,” she said.

What does Obama say:

Drawing on his years as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago, Mr. Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, said that while he intended to be a supportive partner if he won the White House, the mayors should not count on significant additional help from Washington. Change, he said, comes from the bottom up, not the top down.

Mr. Obama also said the federal government’s ability to help cities would be limited in part by a long-term budget deficit left by the Bush administration, which he called “the most fiscally irresponsible administration in modern times.”

“Yes we need to fight poverty; yes, we need to fight crime,” Mr. Obama, of Illinois, said in a midday address to the United States Conference of Mayors. “Yes, we need to strengthen our cities. But we also need to stop seeing our cities as the problem and start seeing them as the solution. Because strong cities are the building blocks of strong regions, and strong regions are essential for a strong America.”

Free Market! Baby!

But take, for instance, the fact that at recent Republican debates, we’ve heard class-warfare rhetoric aimed at Mitt Romney from the party’s current frontrunner, Senator McCain: “I led for patriotism, not for profit.” By contrast, here in the Garden State, Senator Obama announces that “I love the free market” and “I love capitalism.

What about New Orleans?

New Orleans can now be “renewed” along the gentrification lines favored by its elite and paid for by regressive taxes. That has always been the way of “urban renewal” in the US (with infrequent, minor, and mostly cosmetic concessions to “peoples’” interests when politically required).

Obama?  Skipped the State of the Black Union (held in NO), wonder why?  Might be asked to actually weight in?  Oh Noes!

Shark-Fu continues:

All people running for office…any office…should be expected to build a platform that addresses the needs of the people they wish to serve.

…

That isn’t acting white…speeches about the shit are not examples of talking white…and this bitch is going to move past anger into some serious rage if one more motherfucker insults me and mine through the assertion that only white people discuss the economy, healthcare, the war and international diplomacy.

Ahem…

The problem isn’t that Obama DOESN’T discuss THOSE issues. He does. (Ralph’s critique was more specific, but whatever)

The problem is what ends up coming out of Obama’s mouth WHEN HE DOES! (see UHC, NATFA, FISA, etc etc etc)

Which I think was Ralph’s original point.  A tangent to Tavis’ point.  And a whole bunch of other people’s points.  Linguistic quibbles aside. (love how black folk get all (ir)rational about race at the funniest of times)

Ask Obama to throw poor blacks a bone?  Shiiiiiiiiiiit.  That’s like askin Jesus to turn more water into wine! The NERVE of some (non-)niggaz!!!

Shark-Fu goes on:

He (Nader) ought to be ashamed of himself for putting forth the notion that a black person isn’t fully black if they don’t act like he expects them to and society has instructed them to.

Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…

What a loaded sentence.  Should Obama NOT be expected to address issues that largely affect poor blacks?  If not him, who?  Isn’t HE the ONE we’ve been waiting for?  What have we been “waiting” for him to do, exactly?

Shark-Fu goes on:

For the record, this is an example of a race card this bitch is familiar with…the one that has so-called allies maintaining low expectations and out-dated assumptions that they dress up in the language of the Civil Rights Era but which are actually built on a foundation of bigotry that’s been masquerading as tolerance far too long.

But Uh-OHHHH!

The Black man who wants to be president spends Father’s Day at church in loud and general denunciation of Black males. For added insult, he describes them as “boys.” Barack Obama’s primary audience isn’t the conservative Black Pentecostal congregation, but “white social conservatives in a race where these voters may be up for grabs,” says the New York Times. In America, even the “Black” corporate candidate runs against Black people. How did such madness come to pass in 2008? Blame the Black “progressive” misleaders who failed to challenge Obama when they had the chance. Now it’s too late, and African Americans are reduced to objects of derision.

Continuing:

Even the New York Times could see through Obama’s transparent bid for white approval at Black people’s expense. Reporter Julie Bosman noted that Obama “laid out his case in stark terms that would be difficult for a white candidate to make” - terms (such as boy?) that “his campaign hopes [will] resonate among white social conservatives in a race where these voters may be up for grabs.”

Continuing:

Can one imagine Obama or any other presidential aspirant repeatedly hectoring any other ethnic group on moral issues? Singling out Jews for excessive materialism? The Irish for excessive drinking? Of course not; that would be unfair and politically suicidal. But there are large regions of the white body politic in which it is not only acceptable, but damn near required, that politicians demonstrate their impatience with the alleged moral shortcomings of Black people. Barack Obama trolls for votes in those foul waters, at the cost of Black people’s dignity.

What’s the problem with all that…niggaz don’t take care of their kids…RIGHT??!!??

Ooops:

A month before Obama made this stereotypical and plainly false assertion, Boston University professor Rebekah Levine Coley, in a comprehensive study on the black family, found that black fathers who aren’t in the home are much more likely to sustain regular contact with their children than absentee white fathers, or for that matter, fathers of any other ethnic group. The study is not an obscure study buried in the thick pages of a musty academic journal. It was widely cited in a feature article on black fathers in the May 19, 2008 issue of Newsweek. There was no excuse then to spout this myth. The facts are totally contrary to Obama’s knock.

So maybe when Ralph Nader says that Obama is “talking white”…

it’s a tad more nuanced and complicated (and correct) than one might want believe.

Serveral issue overlap and intersect when talking about all of this, and the rush for political correctness might be counter-productive to fleshing out the truth, in this instance.

**long exhale**

Pass the blunt nigga!

]]> http://www.sohhoverit.com/2008/06/26/on-not-getting-it/feed/ http://www.sohhoverit.com/2008/06/26/is-it-the-weekend-yet/ http://www.sohhoverit.com/2008/06/26/is-it-the-weekend-yet/#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:48:39 +0000 jaedalaurez http://www.sohhoverit.com/?p=952 So…Russell Simmons has been ordered to pay 20K per month per EACH child to Kimora till 2019. Now, my question is, if you had it the way they do, would the 20K bother you that much, or would you just charge it to the game since it’s for the babies?

In White Folks News:

Verne Troyer has a new sex tape.

That’s right, Mini Me.

I honestly cannot think of anybody else I would rather see getting it in, can you?

Coming soon to the Innanet near you.

First of all, Usher - booooooooooooo! WTF? Shouldnt you be past the level of lip-synching by now? And why didnt you do the remix to that song? At least having Bey on stage with you might have diverted our attention from them skinny ass sweatpants. And by the way, Neyo TOTALLY shitted on you, dude. AND he brought the Jabbawockeez out. You? You suck.

Now I must say I always liked Alicia Keys, but I like her even better now that she’s said to be a homewrecker, LOL. IDK, its just something about the humanization of celebrities that make you wanna invite em to a cookout LOL. But yo, SWV and EnVogue? Thats wassup right there. Ima just need them not to let T-Boz come in singing after Cindy n’em. Theres rules to this shit.

T-Paine has to be the most annoying artist on the planet, but I’ll be damned if he cant make a remix hot. He’s on the hook of the hottest shit out right now… and he sang them all last night LOL.

Oh Warren - I mean, Marvin Sapp, LOL. I never woulda made it either! Church on the move! Take em witcha! LOL. Seen Kirk Franklin in the audience. Anybody seen Plies? OF COURSE NOT! LOL (BTW, if you ever wear a sweater that tight again, Im tellin Jesus).

Lisa Lisa, whoa! How many kids you got? Got the nerve to be presenting a gospel award after wondering if you should take him home. And how did that work out, by the way? LOL

C-Breeze….mm mm mm. Oh wait, is that Ciara? Ok, dont get hurt now. Rihanna dont look like she like all that girating and hovering you doing. Thats not a real smile. Trust me. Speakin of Rhi-Rhi, loving her these days. Somebody definitely sent her to a vocal coach - sounding like Beyonce Lite - and fuck what the next nigga say, that bitch is bad!

But Damn, Cassie. You cant sing OR read???

Im sayin though…. they could not have chosen better tributes for Al Green. But are those white shoes Anthony Hamilton? Seriously, are they? Is that….. nigga, thats Maxwell! Oh my damn….. stop, drop and roll, Dig. Stop, drop and roll! “Dont take those pumps off baby!” Ok, I wont. LOL

Al Green is that dirty old man in church that drops his handkerchief on purpose so he can look up your dress. But when he touches your butt as you walk by, youre almost excited to tell all your friends about it LOL.

Can somebody tell me why they even do best actor and actress? We aint had to see Halle since Jungle Fever and she’d still take it and Denzel would win if we was still watchin “Mo Betta Blues.” Kinda like how Trina and Missy are always nominees when we still singin “The Baddest Chick” and “Get Your Freak On.”

Quincy Jones, I love you man. But….. your piece of bread… my peanut butter is your jelly… no chips…. when it rains, get wet…… WHAT? LOL

My nigga Nelly said “1000 for the pants, 200 for the shoes, keep your shirt, Ima rock these tattooes!” LMAOOOO! Woooo….. my baby LOL. You rock em, boy. “He done stepped on my J’s” LOL….. you know, I really hate Fergie, but I cant front on her either. That broad is swaggerific.

So I know yall watched it. What fuckery did you witness?