There are a bunch of thing I need to work through, but the most important thing is that one. Resetting your password does not work yet (did it ever?). I hope to have that working sometime this evening. If you can login you are free to use the forum. After I get the password reset working I'm begin making some esthetic changes. Fun facts: We have been using this software since Sunday, September 13, 2009! The last time I upgraded to a new server was in 2019 and the forum was down for 10 days (at least)!
Since the forum have been restored only @Delano , @ProfD , @aka Contrarian , @richardmurray, @Troy have posted. I just noticed if you mouse over the name, you see a preview of the profile. Many of the other posters @Mel Hopkins , @frankster , @Pioneer1 , @Chevdove , @umbrarchist ; @harry brown , @Milton have yet to return. I know I have to make the forums landing page less confusing and more appealing. I doubt think I would post here looking at the main page:: https://aalbc.com/tc/ I struggled trying to get the forum back up I got tired of looking at 🥺it but I really need to do something with that main page and cracking on attracting more participants. In the past 7 days despite the outages traffic from search is slightly up 2% according Goolge's Search Console with the most popular page in search results being: THE 100 BEST BLACK MOVIES (EVER) - Culture, Race & Economy - African American Literature Book Club
Absolutely. Only a small percentage of the population has ever been smart enough to do great things. Creativity & innovation aren't tied to literacy rates. Same goes for basic human behavior. Last week, a few astronauts returned from a trip around the moon supposedly.😉 NASA still uses a lot of the same engineering of 50 years ago to build the spacecraft. Heat shields prime example. Computer & AI is derivative technology built up over the past 50 years & counting.😎
When the pendulum swings back and the smoke clears, America will never be the same, no matter which party prevails. Civilization aided and abetted by AI will morph into an entirely different society. If you're an optimist, nothing to worry about.
@ProfD Trump always takes the low ground, never the high ground. He says what a lot of prople really think and appeals to the worst in people, with his lack of propriety. England's royal couple, King Charles and his consort Queen Camilla are coming to America as a good will gesture in connection with America's celebration of its 250th birthday. Wouldn't be surprised if the meglomanical Trump tries to upstage them, and a lot of people will approve of this. Trump is an iconoclast, which wouldn't be such a bad thing if he, himself, wasn’t such a depraved, narcisstic, ignoramus. As POTUS, he's a terrible embodiment of the America spirit on the occasion of its 250th anniversity.
No, I did not mean to suggest that I found something "innately wrong" with it. I was just curious about the motivation. Sometimes, perhaps often, we do things without understanding the true motivation. It is the same curiosity I have about people who wear spacers in their earlobes, cover their bodies in tattoos, or color their hair purple. I will admit 20 years ago I probably would have been more judgmental about those things. Today I could care less about what a person does with their own body, but I'm still curious about the motivation. Look, white people invented dying hair blond or at least popularized it before Black women began doing it. Obviously, white women were not motivated by race. Maybe it is not racial for our deeply melaninated women either.
Wayne Lewis of Atlantic Starr born April 13th, In 1957
Wayne Lewis- of Atlantic Starr who cowrote Always
https://www.al.com/news/2025/06/pop-singer-in-iconic-rb-group-who-co-wrote-popular-wedding-song-dead-at-68.html
song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM-CiPKZF4g
LYRIC
[Verse 1: Wayne Lewis and Barbara Weathers]
Girl, you are to me
All that a woman should be
And I dedicate my life
To you, always
The love like yours is rare
It must have been
Sent from up above
And I know you'll stay this way
For always
[Pre-Chorus: Wayne Lewis and Barbara Weathers, Barbara Weathers]
And we both know
That our love will grow
And forever
It will be
You and me, hey
[Chorus: Wayne Lewis and Barbara Weathers]
Ooh, you're like the sun
Chasin' all of the rain away
When you come around
You bring brighter days
You're the perfect one
For me and you
Forever will be
And I will love you so
For always
[Verse 2: Wayne Lewis and Barbara Weathers]
Come with me, my sweet
Let's go make a family
And they will bring us joy
For always
Oh, boy
I love you so
I can't find enough ways
To let you know
But you can be sure I'm yours
For always
[Pre-Chorus: Wayne Lewis and Barbara Weathers, Barbara Weathers]
And we both know
That our love will grow
And forever
It will be
You and me, hey yeah
[Chorus: Wayne Lewis and Barbara Weathers]
Ooh, you're like the sun
Chasing all of the rain away
When you come around
You bring brighter days
You're the perfect one
For me and you
Forever will be
And I will love you so
For always
[Bridge: Barbara Weathers]
Hey, yeah
[Chorus: Wayne Lewis and Barbara Weathers]
Ooh, you're like the sun
Chasing all of the rain away
When you come around
You bring brighter days
You're the perfect one
For me and you
Forever will be
And I will love you so
For always
[Outro: Wayne Lewis and Barbara Weathers]
Ooh, ooh
I will love you so
For always
Ooh, ooh
I will love you so
For always
Ooh, ooh
I will love you so
For always
lyrics from
David Lewis Wayne Lewis
Funny how they wrote one of the most well known romantic songs of the late 1970s early 1980s while also one of the best if not most well known cheating couple song
song
SECRET LOVERS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzwQ-PNJtPg
song with stage intro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe2UXqFo0DY
LYRICS
[stage intro]
- San Bernardino! (crowd cheering)
can we talk? [laughter]
Okay. Right now I'd like to tell you a story, okay?
But in order for me to tell you the story, you must,
you just must use your imagination.
Okay, ladies. (gentle music)
Okay, first, imagine
that this is the finest man
you have ever seen in your life!
(crowd cheering) Whoo!
Is he fine or what? (crowd cheering)
But he's mine.
And I love him.
But on my way to rehearsal,
I saw this man.
Whoo-whee!
And girlfriend, let me tell you,
he was finer than my man was!
So I wanted to mess around with him a little bit.
You know what I'm saying?
But I couldn't leave my man,
could I? - No.
- So in order to have my cake and eat it too,
I had to keep him a secret.
Do we have any secret lovers out here in the house tonight? (crowd cheering)
This is for you.
[official song]
Here we are, the two of us together
Takin' this crazy chance to be all alone
We both know that we should not be together
'Cause if we're found out, it could mess up both our happy homes
I hate to think about us all meetin' up together
'Cause as soon as I look at you, it will show on my face, yeah
Then they'll know that we've been loving each other
We can't let 'em know, no, no, no, we can't leave a trace
Secret lovers, yeah, that's what we are
We shouldn't be together
But we can't let go, no, no
'Cause we love each other so (ooh)
Sittin' at home, I do nothin' all day
But think about you and hope that you're okay
Hopin' you'll call before anyone gets home
I wait anxiously alone by the phone
How could something so wrong be so right?
I wish we didn't have to keep our love out of sight, yeah
Livin' two lives just ain't easy at all
But we gotta hang on in there or fall
Secret lovers, yeah, that's what we are
Tryin' so hard to hide the way we feel
'Cause we both belong to someone else
But we can't let it go
'Cause what we feel is, oh, so real
So real, so real
You and me, are we fair?
Is this cruel? Or do we care?
Can they tell what's in our minds?
Maybe they've had secret love all of the time
In the middle of makin' love we notice the time
We both get nervous 'cause it's way after nine
Even though we hate it, we know it's time that we go
We gotta be careful so that no one will know
Secret lovers, yeah, that's what we are
Tryin' so hard to hide the way we feel
'Cause we both belong to someone else
But we can't let it go
'Cause what we feel is, oh, so real
So real, so real
So real, so real
Songwriters: Wayne I. Lewis, David E. Lewis