GREAT IS YOUR MERCY

What's goin on? I woke up from a great night's sleep and had a little pep in my step...My showcase artist today is the phenomenal man of God, DONNIE MCCLURKIN...This man is totally awesome and over the years have brought some wonderful songs for soul cleansing. I can sit and listen to him all day, and just have a shout on all by myself...Money is looking better, my youngest child, Justin, who is 20 yrs old is finding himself and has a new job with great potential for advancement, mountains are getting smaller, Mom is having some medical problems right now, but she will be okay I am confident. My eldest brother is in great spirits and helping me this week with spring cleaning. My oldest child just purchased a new car and she is very exciting to not have to catch a ride when she has to go to work. The Harlem Globetrotter's are here this week and I am taking the boys and my aunt, Arnita. So, needless to say I FEEL VERY BLESSED...

Which, brings me to the blog, can you just marinate on the words and the voices of Donnie McClurkin and his group when they say, "GREAT IS YOUR MERCY"...WOW, some words to say on a daily basis to give God all the praise, for bringing me a mighty long way...I'm not what I could be, but, thanks be to God, I'm not what I used to be. When I was young I used to hear people say that at church, and think "What are they talking about?" Well, as my Grandmama says, "keep living"...I know exactly what they are saying, I no longer want men who can't fully commit to me. No longer just quit at job because I'm bored, I could always get another one in a minute, so I thought it was okay. Until I went to buy a house a few years ago and they asked for my work history...Well, I could name off all the high dollar companies, but no longevity...Huummmm? So, now I just surf the net, to keep myself occupied...SIKE!!!!

I want to take this time right now to ask you how are things going in your life. If you have any testimony you would like to share, feel free. Good testimony or stumbling blocks, its all good in here...If you need prayer, just ask..I have had times in my life when I would call my friends and say, I don't seem to have the words to say to Jesus, CAN YOU HELP A SISTA OUT!!! Aint, no shame in my game, if I need something, I am asking...YOU CAN'T DO NOTHING BUT TELL ME TO GET A LIFE...Then I will just go to the next one, it won't deter me from getting what I want, NEVER...

Thank you guys for reading this, I do this for me and whoever else needs the encouragement to come out of their shell. Sometimes, we just need someone else to do it FIRST, then we get our strength to go just alittle bit further...HAVE A WONDERFULLY BLESSED DAY!!!

SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO LEAVE

I know he is not in there on the phone talking to a female, while I'm at home and the kids are walking around...He is so rude and disrespectful to me and I am getting sick and tired of being sick and tired..I need to call that lawyers office and see what is going on my divorce case, that stupid judge just doesn't understand what I go through on a daily basis living here in this hell. See, that's just like a man not to think its anything wrong because he thinks families should stay together no matter what the cost...This is not the 1950's where women dont have a say in their lives, we work everyday and contribute to the household bills just like our husbands. I need someone to look out for me and my kids best interest and it doesn't seem to be that country simple ass judge I have presiding over my case.

I got the kids fed and bathed and put everyone down to bed, after we said our prayers...I am blessed that the kids are on a schedule and don't give me too much trouble. All I want to do is take a shower and get in my bed and rest my mind, it is getting harder and harder living in this house with him. The water feels so good running down my body, its is hot like I like it and soothing to my aching head and bones. I thought I heard something but, just figured I was hearing things and didn't dwell on it too much. The next thing I know is the shower curtain is jerked back and Eugene is standing there naked as hell with a crazy look on his face. He then has the nerve to ask me if he could join me in the shower..My response of course was, HELL NAW AND GET OUT EUGENE!!! "I don't want to fight with you tonight, please leave me alone, was my plea to him." He pulled me by my hair and made me lose my balance and I fell on the cold tile floor.. I thought I liked this ceramic tile, but if you fall on it you will wish you made another choice. My lip started bleeding and my right shoulder was throbbing really bad. "Please Lord not again", was all was thinking when Eugene pulled me up and carried me into the bedroom. I begged him not to hurt me, but of course I was talking to deaf ears because he threw me on the bed..Before I could get my barrings together and get up he was on me, and just slammed into me without preamble..."Please don't do this, was my plea to try and make him see that it shouldn't have to be like this." Of course, he was getting a rush from dominating me and as far as he was concerned, I was still HIS WIFE, and he had a right to take my body anytime that he wanted to..

The pain I felt on my lips and my eye after he had smacked me several times, were nothing compared to the excuriating pain I felt in my kitty kat and my ass...See, he is very violent and that is one reason why I want to leave him is because when he gets angry with me he takes me from behind without any kind of lubricant at all...He gets pleasure from my pain, he is in to totally dominating me..I don't want a new Daddy, I had a great Father, but he grew up in an abusive home and he feels that's how we should live...He finally rolls off me after about 2 hrs. and falls asleep...I drag myself off the bed and go and get in the shower again to wash the stench off me that I feel from him...He is a straight pig and he will get his one day, I need to get a plan together to get out of this house and very soon...My kids didn't hear the commotion, but one day they will and I don't want them to have to live in fear for their little lives.

The next morning I get up and hurry to get the kids ready and out the door before he wakes up. The first thing I do when I get to work is call my law office to speak with the paralegal that has been so helpful to me. I was asking her about my case and what can of recourse I had on speeding up this procedure. She informed me she was doing all she could do get me divorced but everyone seemed to be dragging their feet. I couldn't take it any longer and I burst out crying in her ear and told her I couldn't take the abuse anymore and refuse to keep getting raped by my husband. She screamed in the phone, "What?" He has been raping you? Why didn't you tell me was her response? She then informed me she would get me a court date on an order of protection and for me to tell the judge everything that I had just told her...My paralegal called me back in 30 minutes and informed me I had a court date in 7 days...I was on pins and needles in anticipation of the date, we get to court and I asked the judge if I could speak and he said, of course, and I proceeded to recant the incident that had happened last week and so many times before...The judge was irate, and cursed Eugene out and granted my divorce right then and there...I was so elated I could burst, I went in for one thing and ended up getting the greatest blessing of all, MY FREEDOM...WHEW, it has taken two years to get this, and I feel like I have died and gone to heaven.

I called the law office and asked the receptionist to speak with the paralegal and told her what had happened and she was so excited for me. She then informed me that the court system didn't play spousal rape just like any other rape and they take that very seriously...She knew the judge would grant me the divorce but, I just never said anything because I was afraid of the retialiation from Eugene. And, I didn't really want everyone to know my business, you see I am a very private person. But, if I had known this would speed up my divorce, I would have disclosed that information two years earlier.
THIS STORY IS TRUE, IT IS ABOUT ONE OF MY CLIENTS AT THE LAW FIRM WHERE I USED TO WORK...THE NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED, BUT THE STORY REMAINS TRUE OF SO MANY WOMEN AROUND THE WORLD...THERE IS NEVER AN EXCUSE TO BEAT YOUR WIFE OR HUSBAND, IF SOMEONE MAKES YOU WANT TO HARM THEM, YOU NEED TO GET OUT OF THAT RELATIONSHIP AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. LOVE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO CONTINUALLY HURT YOU, MENTALLY, SPIRITUALLY AND ESPECIALLY PHYSICALLY...

I AM SHIRLEY CHISHOLM

Mellanie Collins, Artist of sketch

Biograghy courtesy of AfricanAmericans.com

(b. November 20, 1924, Brooklyn, N.Y.), the first African American womanelected to the U.S. Congress and the first to campaign for the presidency,known for her incisive debating style and uncompromising integrity.January 3, 2005- Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress and an outspoken advocate for women and minorities during seven terms in the House, died near Daytona Beach, friends said Sunday. She was 80.

While Chisholm advocated for black civil rights, she regularly took up issues that concerned other people of color such as Native Americansand Spanish-speaking migrants. She also delivered important speeches on the economic and political rights of women and fearlessly criticized the Nixon Administration during the Vietnam War.

Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was the oldest of four girls born to parents who had immigrated from the West Indies, and who barely subsisted on their wages from factory work and housecleaning. When Chisholm was three, her parents, desiring a better life for their daughters, sent Shirley and her sisters to Barbados to be reared by their maternal grandmother. For Chisholm island life seemed like a paradise, and she received an excellent education in Barbados's British school system. At the age of ten Chisholm returned to Brooklyn, where she was an outstanding student. Later, at Brooklyn College, she majored in sociology and joined the debating society, an experience that would influence her cut-and-thrust oratory style. She also served as a volunteer in the Brooklyn chapter of the National Urban League and in theNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where she debated minority rights.

In 1949, after graduating from college, Chisholm attended evening classes at Columbia University, earning a master's degree in child education. Meanwhile, she taught at a Harlem nursery school, and later acted assupervisor of the largest nursery school network in New York. It was through administering to hundreds of children, the majority of them African American and Puerto Rican, that Chisholm learned the executive skills that served her so well in the political arena. In 1953, as a key member of the Seventeenth Assembly District Democratic Club, she waged a successful political campaign to elect an eminent black lawyer to the municipal court.

Democratic Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm of New York takes her oath of office.

Chisholm's political career took off in 1964, when she won by a landslide her campaign for the New York State Assembly. As an assemblyperson (1965-1968), she authored legislation that instituted SEEK (Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge), a program that provided college funding to disadvantaged youths, and successfully introduced a bill that secured unemployment insurance for domestics and day-care providers. In 1968 Chisholm won a seat in the House of Representatives, where she served on a number of committees, including Education and Labor, and campaigned for a higher minimum wage and federal funding for day-care facilities. She also secured federal grants for a number of Brooklyn-based enterprises that benefited disadvantaged communities. In 1972 she became the first African American woman to campaign for the presidency, (The first woman ever to run for president was Victoria Woodhull, in 1872, on the Equal Rights Party platform.) running as "a candidate of the people." In doing so she paved the way for others like herself who, as she said in her autobiography The Good Fight, "will feel themselves as capable of running for high political office as any wealthy, good-looking white male."

Ms. Chisholm is one of the many black women who have been denied their rightful place in the history books.

Fortunately, a young filmmaker named Shola Lynch recently completed a documentary on Ms. Chisholm that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival a few weeks ago. The film, Chisholm '72: Unbought and Unbossed, features interviews with writer Amiri Baraka, feminist Susan Brownmiller and former Black Panther leader Bobby Seale. Ms. Chisholm herself is interviewed, and the archival footage from the 1970s brings her campaign to life.

In reflecting on her defeat in 1972, Ms. Chisholm remarks in the film: "There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.

"Obscurity is too high a price for Ms. Chisholm to have to pay."

Chris Brown charged with two felony counts

I'm sure you have all heard that Rihanna has asked through her lawyers to not prevent Chris Brown from contacting her after he was charged with two felony counts. The Los Angeles county Judge Kristi Lousteau warned Brown "not to annoy, harass, molest, threaten or use force or violence against anyone," Lousteau did not issue a "no contact" order that would have kept Brown away from the woman he is accused of beating. Watch

Love is a funny animal and I hope these young people get the counseling they need in order to be more in tuned with their emotions in the future. I don't think that Chris is a bad person, he just comes with alot of emotional baggage and needs to work on that. Rihanna has her own set of problems with self esteem, and she doesn't talk to her own Mom so there are some underlying issues there as well.

Brown faces up to four years and eight months in prison or he could get off with probation. He is charged with two felony counts of making criminal threats and assault. His arraignment is scheduled for April 6, 2009.

First Lady Michelle Obama serves food

The First Lady is a class act, she was serving food on March 5, 2009 to customer's of Miriam's Kitchen just blocks from the White House. She encourages everyone to donate food and if you cannot donate then give a helping hand by volunteering. She was not put off by people wanting to take her picture and gave several smiles.

I am so happy to see some genuine people, they are not perfect but, they at least try to be good citizens. A slideshow is including in the link from Huffington Post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/05/michelle-obama-spends-lun_n_172257.html

THIS IS WHY HE'S HOTTTTT!!!!!

According to Telegraph.co.UK

Michael Jackson O2 ticket website attracting 16,000 visits a second

Michael Jackson's website is receiving 16,000 visits a second as fans register for tickets to his summer residency at the London O2.

By Matthew Moore Last Updated: 8:37AM GMT 06 Mar 2009


MichaelJacksonLive.com is struggling to cope after being inundated with hundreds of thousands of requests.

Dozens of people hoping to register for the "pre-sale" draw have posted comments on the site's forum complaining that their applications do not appear gone through.

Many say that they have not yet received a confirmation email, while others are baffled that they must sign up to Jackson's official newsletter in order to have a chance of getting early tickets.

A spokeswoman for AEG Live, which is promoting the concerts, said that they had been overwhelmed by the level of interest.

"The site is receiving 16,000 requests per second, so demand is extremely high, phenomenal is an understatement," she said.

The pop star appeared in person at the arena in Greenwich, southeast London on Thursday afternoon to announce a 10 date summer residency, telling fans that they would be his last dates in the capital.

Tickets go on general sale on March 13, but fans can apply for a chance to buy pre-release tickets by registering on MichaelJacksonLive.com or texting "MJ" to 81707.

The sheer number of people desperate to see Jackson's comeback – and farewell – shows appears to be slowing down the application process.

One fan wrote on the Michael Jackson forum: "I've tried to register like ten times now, but I don't get any confirming email. Anyone else? What can I be doing wrong?"

Another wrote: "It appears to still be having a nightmare as anything online like this does. I sent 3 text messages from 3 different phones though so still waiting."

One frustrated fan appealed for help after finding it impossible to enter his details. "I just tried to sign up for presage tickets but after entering my details and pressing the button, nothing happened. It took me back to the same page. No confirmation that I have registered." he wrote.

But the problems do not appear to be universal – many fans posted comments on the forum saying they had received confirmation emails and texts.

Okay, now our brother has his issues BUT, HE IS GETTING A MILLION DOLLARS PER NIGHT. Let me say that again, A million dollars a night for 10 nights. When I went to seee him back in the 70's I remember being at the Municipal Auditorium and dancing the whole concert. My Mom had me decked in my wool wide leg pants and my brown suede vest with the shing a lings on the bottom. YOU COULDN'T TELL ME NUTIN..

Michael Jackson has all kinds of problems and we won't go into that, but he is a great performer and evidently people are still willing to forgo said issues and pay to see this man. No other artist in the world can command that kind of response, 16,000 calls per second to get tickets, WOW!

What is your favorite Jackson 5 or Michael Jackson song? I will post one of my favs here to get the convo started, and don't get it twisted, if given the chance I would be right there on the front row.

CARAVAN OF LOVE

Do you remember this video? What I like about Ol Skool Joints was happier times, I mean people struggled but it was just different. What was one of your Ol Skool Joints that made you cry, dance or be reflective?

Disney has released The Princess and the Frog Doll

AWWW, Disney has released it's new Princess doll, "Tiana" and she is absolutely gorgeous. I know this is the purchase for me this year, I am buying four dolls, one for each grand girl and one for Me. I am so excited about this movie being released and unlike the other Princess', Tiana has a vision and plan for her own life. Disney decided to go back to the original ways of doing things with this production and they have drawings that advance to make the movie instead of animation.

Oprah Winfrey plays the mother to the young princess in the movie, that is set in New Orleans. Kudos to New Orleans for being on the comeback after Katrina, I see that Disney is aware of the problems with the town and trying to give some sorta granduer once again.

According to ShoppingBlog.com

Disney has unveiled a new toy line inspired by the upcoming The Princess And The Frog movie starring Princess Tiana. Tony Award-winning actress/singer Anika Noni Rose, the voice of Princess Tiana, unveiled the line which includes dolls, play sets and role-play dresses at a sneak preview event at the American International Toy Fair in New York City. Opening Holiday 2009, The Princess And The Frog is a fairytale set in New Orleans. The film introduces Disney's newest princess in more than 10 years, Princess Tiana.

Mattel presented a one-of-a-kind Princess Tiana doll created specifically for Ms. Rose in celebration of her role. "I have loved Disney movies since seeing Fantasia, Bambi, and Mary Poppins when I was little," said Ms. Rose.

"I have always wanted to do a Disney voice, since before I even thought of being an actor, so for me, this is a dream come true. It didn't even need to be a princess, so this is just the cherry on top. Tiana is a different sort of princess in that she has had a very loving childhood and is not waiting for someone to change her life for her - she has a vision and a plan. I saw early models of the toy line, but seeing them today in final form, they are just beautiful. What an absolute thrill to be a part of something so timeless!"

In addition to toys, Disney will also introduce The Princess and The Frog apparel, accessories, home decor, consumer electronics, school supplies and personal care products. The products will arrive at retailers nationwide this fall. Disney Publishing Worldwide will launch an assortment of titles including story and activity books.

http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/princessandthefrog/

DADDY WHERE ARE YOU?

This portrait is titled, "Waiting for Daddy", by Meryl Jaye. I really like this piece because it shows a little girl who loves her daddy and she is waiting patiently for him to pick her up. Her mom has dolled her up all pretty and and put on his favorite dress, ruffle socks and mary jane shoes and she has combed her hair just the way he likes it. He seems to be taking too long to get there but, she does not cry or get in Mom's way she just sits there in anticipation for his arrival and just looks out the window for his car to pull up. Don't think for one minute that she doubts him, he will be there, however late because he has never told her he was going to do something and didn't do it.

The one thing he always taught her was to stand by her word, when you tell someone you are coming thru for them, by God you better do just that or have a valid excuse why you can't. His favorite quote that he always stressed to her was, "Always be Consistent and Considerate Princess".

But, everyone hasn't had this kind of stability in their lives, and your walk through life can be so much different. And you could live in a world where no one seems to do what they say, when you have let down after let down until you are just numb. It cannot be a good feeling, and you start building up walls and closing your heart to people and only depending on yourself. You want to let people in your front seat, but time and time again you keep getting disappointed, so you just say forget it, I'll do me and you do you.

Where were you Daddy when I scrapped my knee on the playground?

Where were you Daddy when I cried because the monsters were in my room?

Where were you Daddy when I got into my first fight after school?

Where were you Daddy when uncle Leroy touched me on my budding breast

Where were you Daddy when Charlie from across the street put his hand down my panties

Where were you Daddy when I won the regional Spelling Bee?

Where were you Daddy when the cake I made for the church picnic fell and the other kids laughed at me?

Where were you Daddy when I won the award for my community service work at the nursing home?

Where were you Daddy when my prom date took my virginity and I begged him not to?

I came to you and tried to tell you, but you thought I was being fast and you didn't hear my words

Where were you Daddy when my stomach was getting bigger because of the baby that was growing inside of me from the rape was born?

Where were you Daddy when I had to face all the stares and ridicule on my own because when you looked at me I could see the disgust in your eyes?

Where were you Daddy when I graduated with honors in spite of having a baby in high school?

The only person I needed to see at the graduation was you, and you never showed up

Where were you Daddy when I did get that Bachelor's Degree when all the odds were against me?

Where were you Daddy when they didn't understand me when I tried to apologize for their perception of me?

When I tried to explain and no one would or could hear the sincerity in my voice

Where were you Daddy when I needed you to hug me and tell me everything is going to be alright, "I GOT YOU BABY".

DADDY I LOVE YOU AND I AM STILL WAITING ON YOU TO COME AND GET ME !!!

I DON'T THINK YOU KNOW WHO I AM PIMPIN

I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS TRICK, HE GOT ME MESSED UP FA REAL!!! I am sitting here in the car waiting on my girl Natasha to come out of the BP on Magnolia, when I see Eugene kissing some female on the neck coming out of the store. They look all happy and cheesing, so he must have been with her for a minute. He always giving some excuse why we can't go out because he working at the studio, I guess the studio got a name and its this girl right here. But, that's okay I grew up with all brothers and would get a beat down from them if I act like this knuckle head got my head all messed up. I was taught early to handle my buziness and never let a man see me sweat. Just get busy with my own life and dont worry about him.

Eugene is straight foul on this, knowing my family on this part of town. I hear my phone buzzing in my purse and it's my girl Natasha texting me that Eugene and some trick were in the store. See, that's what I'm talking about, I dont want to have to kick Tasha's ass for getting all in my shit about this boy. Why can't men at least not disrespect your geography? But, this always happens, and then his ass be blowing my damn email, phone and sidekick up...I be like, "is this an emergency, WHAT DO YOU WANT?"...And, what he don't know is I already know she is married as hell. Just stupid, does he not think her ass will cheat on him too...She tell him all her business with her husband and then he swear that makes his simple ass special. He gone treat me like an afterthought and be putting her up like she all that..NOT PIMPIN The same way she doing him and wanting you, she gone be wanting another ninja when she get you. She is a cheater DUDE, and you know you want to be HER ALL AND ALL... Well, be careful how you get people and how you start a relationship off, cuz that same stick gone be measured against YOU..

I drop Tasha off and go home so I can hook up with her later at "Club Shakes". I put on some Keyshia Cole's, "Didn't I Tell You" and run me a bubble bath. I know that hot water will help to ease some of the tension in my body from the business I got to handle with Eugene. If he think I'm going to go for this continual disrespect I know HE DON'T KNOW WHO I AM. So, I am standing here in the mirror after my bath and shaking my ass to Keyshia. I do alittle shimmy shake to the part where she says, "WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND ITS ALWAYS BEEN THAT WAY...DIDN'T I TELL YOU BOY". I keeps booty popping so when I do that shit tonight when my that fine ass Johnathan be sitting there staring at your girl, he will know my skillz are on point. What Eugene dont know is when I take a break between men, I still practice droppin it like its HOT AND gyrating my Kitty Kat to ensure that snapping pussy is STILL FIYAH...!!!! He BETTA ASK SOMEBODY BOUT ME, I'M JUST SAYIN.

Be careful what you do pimpin, that very woman you try to run over is the ONE YOU GONE BE LOOKIN FOR IN THE END....Like Aretha says, "JUST TRYIN TO PUT YOU ON GAME"!!!