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Donald Trump may be the uniting divisive President in history.

Economic Corner 13 truth of investing in sport and what do you think of investing in leagues started in 2025?

I lurked on the old Thumper's corner. I think that the there needs to be better moderation on this forum because so far it is just filled with too much trolling and talking & trashtalking about *will not mention this person's name*. Those threads need to be deleted and more legitimate thread discussions should be created with legitimate posters. Maybe the adminstrator needs to make it so that you have to be registered in order to make a post because the trolling is getting out of h and. And if the trolling still continues then accounts need to be deleted. I hate what this forum has become.

From time to time people provide links to songs they want to share with others for one reason or another. Since it's a slow day, I'll indulge my personal tastes. Music lovers know that good music is good music, and the passage of time doesn’t alter this. My first choice is a song that became popular around 1950. It is entitled “It’s a Blue World” and was a ground-breaking record because it set the bar for all the crooning male singing groups that came after, including The Temptations, who cited The Four Freshmen as the vocal quartet which had inspired and influenced them most. As is the case in all of their selections, the Four Freshmen’s 4-part harmonizing …

Oscar Predictions 2012 Who Will Win, Who Deserves to Win, Who Was Snubbed by Kam Williams On May 16, 1929, the first Academy Awards were staged in Hollywood at the Hotel Roosevelt. Wings, a silent film, won the Oscar for Best Picture that night, a feat which would never be repeated, given the impending innovations in sound technology that ushered in the age of the talkies. But, as they say, wait long enough, and everything comes back into style, and such is the case with The Artist, a nostalgic throwback that’s the prohibitive favorite to prevail at this year’s ceremony. Who’d a thunk that a black & white, silent flick from France would eclip…

IN URBAN DAILY, A GQ INTERVIEW WITH ACTOR DENZEL WASHINGTON,DENZEL SAYS BLACK MEN SHOULD LOOK INTO THE MIRROR AND ASK WHAT CAN I DO BETTER.CANNOT BLAME,PROBLEMS, ON THE MAN OR BEING FRISKED..DENZEL NOR HIS SON HIS BEING FRISKED,BEATEN UP OR KILLED BY WHITE POLICE,NONE OF THE RICH BLACK PEOPLE ARE.....IF THEY WERE THEY WOULD TALK DIFFERENT ABOUT THAT.......WHEN BLACK PEOPLE BECOME RICH THEY TRANSFORM INTO SOMETHING ELSE THEY ARE NOT BLACK, UNTIL IT IS TIME FOR A BLACK AWARD SHOW......THE BLACK RICH AMAZE ME...NOT ALL OF THEM, HARRY BELAFONTE AND MAYA ANGELOU,MORGAN FREEMAN, IS AMONG THE FEW I HAVE RESPECT FOR./

BLACK MAN FROM MINNESOTA DIES FROM EBOLA IN AFRICA.. PATRICK SAWYER WAS VISITING SOMEONE IN AFRICA GOT EBOLA VIRUS,COLLASPED ON PLANE,DIED IN AFRICA..PATRICK SAWYER AND WIFE BECAME NATRUALIZED CITIZEN IN AMERICA..EBOLA HAS KILLED MORE THAN 700 PEOPLE IN AFRICA.2 AMERICAN HEALTH WORKERS GOT EBOLA IN AFRICA AND ARE QUARANTEEN.FLORIDA HEALTH PEOPLE WARN ABOUT FLESH EATING VIRUS...COOK SHELL FISH THOROUGHLY,AND DO NOT LET RAW SHELL FISH JUICE DROP ON OTHER FOODS.WHEN SHELL FISH IS COOKED,EAT SOON OR REFRIGERATE.GETTING FLESH EATING VIRUS,CAN BE TREATED WITH ANTIBIOTICS,BUT SURGERY AND AMPUTATION COULD BE NEEDED/PEOPLE…

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TROY, DISCUSSION & RESPECT I have an inquiry about this community, but firstly, I want to say this: I want to just say, thank you Troy for having and maintaining this site, a site that I have been able to come to and learn and also share. I have a lot of respect for you for what you are doing. I love to engage in a scholarly debate on topics that I think revolve around the African American Community and topics that affect me, but I do not want to be insulting or disrespectful to anyone whether African American or not. I hope to obtain confirmations on certain topics of my interest and also learn new things. I cou…

Ermias "Nipsey Hussle" Ashghedom's Mom Speaks, his brother... His Relatives in Eritrea--HIS PLIGHT … Nipsey, born Ermias Asghedom to an Eritrean father and African American mother has said that he didn't know much about his Eritrean side growing up. He was influenced by Los Angeles gang culture and headed in a bad direction. At age 18, his father took him on a trip to their homeland. That’s when he changed his outlook on life. https://www.wfae.org/post/charlotte-s-eritrean-community-mourns-slain-rapper-nipsey-hussle#stream/0 VIDEO When Ermias was a child and at the age of 18-His Trip to Africa with his Father & Brother …

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. Lately I have been reading about time. It seems to be a hard thing to describe. I have also been thinking about the quality of time. Although we mostly think about time as quantities. It is paradoxical because it is the only resource we have at our disposal, yet we can neither accumulate it nor save it. And we trade it for money, fun and everything else.

What's up with so many sistaz running around in bonnets and shower caps lately? You can't go into a gas station or a Popeyes Chicken joint without seeing some young sista toddling around with a cell phone stuck to her hear and a shower cap on her head, lol. If she ain't got a shower cap on, she's got one of those hand-kerchiefs wrapped around her head and tied in the front calling it a bonnet.

you may not have seen micheaux's work before so if you see this post , within an hour of its time tag, go to TCM and view it or tape it if you can.

The two had already been sentenced to life for the crime in state court. And the judge rejected their request to serve their sentences in a federal prison. https://www.wdhn.com/news/national/3-guilty-of-killing-ahmaud-arbery-face-hate-crime-sentencing/

In this age of gemini, era of pisces, I believe we should take care and be aware of the next upcoming age/era. It may be a very difficult shift but nothing so difficult it couldn't be overcome. Eras are easier to shift from than ages because of how grand the ages are, but overall when the change happens I feel they'll be a lot of good out in the world to spread.

MY THOUGHTS AS I LISTENED 1:17 the third black disney princess 1:22 Hans Christian Anderson version was so different than this. 2:17 mmessages to children and adults, remember christianity was originally taught through moral tales, not the bible, cause most couldn't read 3:45 good memory research, I never knew Queen latifah played ursula 4:17 why did you like Melissa mccarthy's ursula 4:41 based on inflation , the animated made more 4:58 school time: Cinderella with brandy side whitney : noni rose as tiani in princess and frog; princess of wakanda in the Black Panther series; Halley Bailey as Ariel is fourth 6:26 yeah, t…

DeepSeek and the quality of usa finance MY THOUGHTS 600 billion dollars. Nvidia lost 17th percent of its value in a day . Like many USA firms or industries outside military products, they are weak from the 1900s to today. DeepSeek said it cost 5 million dollars to produce a product rivaling any comparative computer program in storage/speed/calculation at 1/20th of the cost. So this proves the value of the usa firms is incorrect. which is my issue. Tesla was given such a high value. The USA's financial environment allows for a bloating of firms, like Nvidia, like Tesla that to be blunt, have each lost huge market shares which they shouldn't. The fact that the best…

No, this isn't a thread about our late and beloved brother D'Angelo; may he find peace and happiness.... I hope some of yall didn't bring yall asses up in here expecting to see a brother with a 6 pack and corn-rows grinning at you and licking his lips....lol. I have questions for our brothers @ProfD and @umbrarchist and any others who consider themselves agnostic. I often wonder what goes through the minds of people who live in this world without acknowledging a Higher power. How do they feel as they go through this life? When you are met with tragedy in your life....tragedy so serious you don't see a solution for....how do you deal with it? …

Economic Corner 14 the fiscal reality of the black farmer in the united states of America today What should future Black people , anywhere in humanity, learn from the journey of the Black Farmer in the USA?

...So I was watching Divorce Court the other day. Interracial couple, bm/ww. They were having a dispute about his infidelity, her stabbing him in the foot and owing him 3 stacks for the emergency room visit...and her "ghetto" behavior in which this this samborific step-n-fechit remarks (TO JUDGE LYNN..who is a beautiful sista) "If i wanted ghetto, I would have married a black woman!" Of course Judge Lynn schooled this spearchucking bandicoot and read him like a damn book, lol. What amused me about his words is that this fool was neck rolling, using broken english and behaving just like a "ghetto black woman" he vehemently despises. So I ask....the standard fo…

Man, this is getting good to me now that I know how to embed YouTube songs in a post! And I know I am being self indulgent, but who cares. This is more fun than exchanging insults with Carey, and it’s not like other board members, who obvious prefer to lurk, don’t have equal time to do their thing. Moreover, people should always take advantage of an opportunity to broaden their music tastes. With the that said, let’s get esoteric. To my surprise I have discovered that a piano genius who burned up the key board back in the late 50s and early 60s has become increasingly unfamiliar to anybody but the most elite of jazz buffs. Check out this dynamic rendition by the…

I’m sure I’m in the minority when I heave a sigh and roll my eyes and gripe at the way the upcoming anniversary of the 911 episode is being hyped. But then I don’t care about being a lone voice in a chorus of blubbering babble. That’s how I roll. OK, 10 years ago, a handful of Arabs with a minimal amount of effort and weaponry neutralized America’s state-of-the-art defense technology when a few hi-jacked airplanes flew into buildings, killing over 2,000 souls in NY and DC and PA. Tragic. Shocking. Yet, Death has a way of being random, casting its pall on anyone at any time. And it never takes a holiday. Thousands of people, young, old, Black, White, Asian, Christia…

IN LOUISIANA ELEMENTARY TEACHER TERRILYNN MONETTE IS MISSING.SHE WENT TO A BAR LAST SATURDAY AND HAS NOT BEEN SEEN OR HEARD FROM SINCE THEN..I ASK AGAIN, WHEN BLACK PEOPLE ARE MISSING, DOES THE NAACP, BLACK CHURCHES AND POLITICIANS GO OUT AND LOOK FOR THEIR OWN PEOPLE/././///

BILL COSBY WAS ARRAIGNED YESTERDAY, I BELIEVE HE GOT A MUG SHOT.1 MILLION DOLLAR BAIL I THINK..HIS LAWYERS SAY HE INNOCENT,THE WOMEN WHO ACCUSED HIM SAY HE GUILTY/BILL COSBY IS 78/ IF HE IS GUILTY, DRUGGING THOSE WOMEN, THEN HAVING SEX WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION, HE IS GUILTY///// TCU QUARTERBACK IS BLACK I THINK, HE WAS FIGHTING AT A BAR LAST NIGHT, THEN WAS FIGHTING POLICE,WILL NOT PLAY IN THE ALAMO BOWL AGAINST OREGON TOMORROW//HE HIT A POLICE OFFICER WHY WAS HE NOT SHOT,ALL THE INNOCENT UNARMED BLACK MEN THAT HAS BEEN MURDERED BY RACIST WHITE POLICE...TEXAS CHRISTIAN QUARTE…

Well, our fearless leader has been inaugurated much to the satisfaction of all the Evangelicals whose prayers for a Trump victory won out over those praying for a qualified leader and are now praying that the tyrant they were against, will miraculously become a savior they'll be for. Sharing this sentiment are the many others who are simply resigned to accepting defeat. The undertones of Trump's inaugural speech were "it's my way or the highway" - obviously his formula for making America great again. And if a Cabinet made up bigots, clueless amateurs, corporate millionaires and Russian puppets is any indication of what Trump considers "great", then this nation is at …

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2016/08/19/5-pioneering-scientists-who-were-spiritual-mystics-most-of-them-were/ https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/611905 https://www.speakingtree.in/article/partnership-between-science-spirituality https://m.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/12-famous-scientists-on-the-possibility-of-god_us_56afa292e4b057d7d7c7a1e5

What's compelling about Internet Forums is what every contributor has in common. Although most preface their statements with an obligatory "IMO", let's face it, nobody enters a discussion with the idea that what they post is wrong . And when everybody feels this way, the stage is set for dissent. Who really believes that those who contradict you, know what they're talking about? No one thinks what their adversary calls facts, are that reliable. Everyone secretly places great significance on their anecdotal evidence. Meanwhile, coming up with a rebuttal takes priority over giving close attention to what is being claimed by your opponent. Plus, how people react or overre…

The former POTUS took a few boxes of government documents to Florida when he left the White House. That's against the law: https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-government-and-politics-9e8d683afe87389407950af7ccfdbdd6 It took a while for the government to retrieve the boxes. No telling what documents were pulled from the boxes before turning them back over to the feds. I would be surprised if the FBI find any documents in that house. If they do find anything, someone was very stupid, cocky or sloppy. For many years, they haven't been able to make anything stick to Teflon Don. Let's see if the FBI co…

Speaking of Octavia Butler check out this free (no paywall) article in the New York Times: https://nyti.ms/3AZxzL3 This is one of the most visually compelling articles I have ever read online. The Visions of Octavia Butler As a science fiction writer, Butler forged a new path and envisioned bold possibilities. On the eve of a major revival of her work, this is the story of how she came to see a future that is now our present. Text by Lynell George with Visuals by Ainslee Alem Robson ___________ Also check out the new drama series premiering on Tuesday, December 13, based on Octavia E. Butler's novel Kindred…

Idk. I just wanted to share my thoughts on this. When it comes to compatibility I find earth signs and water signs do well together and fire and wind signs do well together. I know there are more complexities to it based on the behavior of each specific sign, and I know there are exceptions, too. But typically, this is how I've seen it: Earth gives water a place to release and settle, while water gives earth life and reason to be still. Air gives fire expansion to gain more ground and fire gives air something to fan out and inspire. On the flip side: Earth and fire don't work well because …

This news completely surprised me. This is what happens when you actively avoid consuming content on social media I guess. When I connected to Twitter to check on engagement (from a tweet I send out through MailChimp), I saw a flash of a big "X" and then I noticed the same Big X on the upper left had side of my screen. I hadn't even noticed the blue bird was gone. I thought it was a bug; after a quick search, only then did I learn Twitter was killed by Musk in favor of his new social media Platform "X," https://x.com. Nothing has changed. It is probably a publicity stunt (which I'm feeding into). Well if it will get Black peopl…

TRANSCRIPT I know one thing though. See, what a sex toy can do, what a good vibrator can do , I don't know one man that can do that job? True that. And that is just facts. You see that rhythm, that consistency that a vibrator has. No man can wiggle his tongue consistently like that , till you come. Sometimes you know, when your doing with a man, he's getting the rhythm, he's getting the rhythm, and then your about to come and then he changes something. And, I am like, oh my goodness, get the fuck out of my face. If, If your partner, is giving you one on one and you've been taking it for years. And then the vibrator just goes like this [mechanical so…

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/total-solar-eclipse-04-08-24-scn/index.html I believe today's solar eclipse came and went without too much fanfare beyond millions of people staring at the sky wearing paper glasses with cellophane lens.😁 Folks who had the best seats along the path of totality had 4 minutes to witness the event. It will take 20 years for that particular solar eclipse to come back around. @aka Contrarian already mentioned that she'll check back Tuesday. Sooner is fine too. Paging @Chevdove to the deck.🤣 This is a post-eclipse roll call. Check in and let us know you were not abducted or …

https://nypost.com/2024/09/07/us-news/georgia-school-shooting-suspect-colt-grays-family-not-white-trash-are-just-regular-people-relative/ Most schools around America just opened a couple weeks ago. It didn't take long for a 14-year old white boy to show up with his AR-15 cutting down 4 people with 9 folks injured. The school resource officer is being hailed as a hero for preventing more loss of life. The shooter and his father are being charged with multiple counts. These same individuals were interviewed by the FBI last year because something this teenager posted raised red flags. FBI let it go. Mean…

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/leavitt-reveals-nj-drones-authorized-faa-white-house/story?id=118187426 The government has just admitted the drones flying around were authorized by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). @frankster, I understand this could be the officialdom response to hide the *truth*. I always felt the gov't was aware of the drones and most likely responsible for them too.😎

On cue by direction of POTUS OJ, New York AG Letitia James has been indicted on federal charges: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/new-york-ag-letitia-james-speaks-federal-indictment/story?id=126496441 NY AG James is the 1st to win a conviction of a former POTUS. Of course, that was never going to sit well with POTUS OJ. Not even 1 year into his second term, the same clown who claimed he wasn't going on a revenge and retribution campaign if re-elected has done it anyway. AG James has been defiant in declaring her innocence and willingess to fight the charges. Trust that she already has her defense strategy on lock.😎

I've been noticing that the SAME people who dye their hair blonde are usually the SAME people who celebrate Christmas, Easter, Thanks Giving, and any other day White people established for their "subjects" to celebrate. And both types usually use the same excuses for doing so. There was a time in America....roughly between 1965-1995....where Black folks were coming out of celebrating those pagan holidays and we were doing our own thing. That also was the same time period where Black women were more likely to embrace their natural hair texture and color! I don't think those examples are coincidences. And just like after around 1995 more AfroAm…

Estimations of Change No human has to embrace change nor is it mature to embrace change unquestioningly, but how does one live happily when you liked where you lived before the changes? Immigration by default brings change, but is change by default positive?

Oh no! I forgot what I was about to say. It must have been a dream. See, that's what I get for watching daytime soaps.

There was a time when Frank Sinatra had the ladies swooning and Nat Cole elicited sighs, but back then there were those of us who also appreciated the vocalizing of chitlin-circuit singer best known for his rendition of a raunchy song entitled “I want a bow-legged woman”. Like his contemporaries Arthur Prysock, and Billy Eckstein, a guy named Bull Moose Jackson could also wrap his pipes around love ballads and make female hearts flutter. Yes, Ella’s fans considered her the best, and blond blue-eyed Doris Day was everybody’s favorite girl next door but, with her soaring range and luscious tone, Sarah Vaughn could hold her own.

BLACK MAN KILLED IN MISSISSIPPI BY KLAN...SOME BLACK PEOPLE THINK THIS HAS STOPPED.. THE BLACK RICH AND FAMOUS..COLLEGE ATHLETES THINK THERE ARE SOMETHING OTHER THAN BLACK.. ..

MIAMI'S BLACK CANNAIBAL'S GIRLFRIEND WAS ON CNN NEWS.SAID SHE AGAINST CANNAIBALS..SAID SHE STILL LOVES HIM.HE USED MARIJUANA..RUDY EUGENE THE CANNAIBAL,WAS EATING THE FACE OFF A 65 YER OLD HOMELESS MAN..RUDY EUGENE WAS FATALLY SHOT BY POLICE.....I HAVE SEEN THE MOVIE- NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD,THE ORIGINAL A FEW TIMES. A BLACK CANNIBAL..AMAZING.///

So I had a twitter account. Had. So it turns out my daughter was wrong. I didn't LOVE it. I found it to be the biggest waste of time. I'm following people. They're following me. What? I don't get it. I could have been writing.

To one of the finest intellectuals I know. Happy Birthday!

Well, it finally came to pass. What folks being interviewed on the evening news lament about when describing whatever calamity they always figured happened to someone else had suddenly happened to them, has happened to me. .It all started on Memorial Day at a family cook-out. There I sat gnawing on a barbequed rib, licking my lips to savor the sauce when I was joined by my oldest granddaughter, the one I had christened my "golden girl" because she was so smart, accomplished, and pretty. A mischievous grin creased her face as she plopped down and promptly informed that she had something to tell me. Before I could wonder what, she made her 2-word announcemen…

CDC CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL SAYS ZIKA VIRUS CAN BRING BIRTH DEFECTS TO BABIES, IF WOMEN ARE BIT BY MOSQUITO,WITH THE ZIKA VIRUS.WEST NILE VIRUS MOSQUITOES HAVE, WEST NILE VIRUS CAME FROM BIRDS, MALARIA YOU CAN FROM MOSQUITOES ,MALARIA THE SYMPTOMS ARE CHILLS, VOMIT, SWEATS, HIGH FEVER, VERY WEAK FEELING, MOSQUITOES ARE VERY DANGEROUS/SUPPLY YOURSELF WITH HOT SHOT, RAID AND BLACK FLAG/////

News Says A Washington D C Police Officer Supports ISIS.His Name Nicholas Young,Trying To Find Picture Of Him.Picture Of A White Man,Who Plead Quilty Of Supporting A Middle East Terror Group.I Dont See The Faces Of White Police Officers,Who Was Fired For Being Members Of White Supremacy Groups,Klan Groups.San Francisco,White Police Talked About Lynching Black People,Fort Lauderdale ,Florida,White Police Fantasized About Killing Black People...

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