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My hat is tipped off to our young Black geniuses today. A group of high school students at De LaSalle High School in Kansas City, Miss. have taken part in a project that will go into history books.
When compared with the amount of energy needed to run a regular car powered by gasoline, the electric car built by the De LaSalle students is equal to 452 miles per gallon!
One student, Kevin Duley (pictured above), had the typical dream of becoming a professional basketball player, but the invention changed his mind. He now wants to be a scientist.
The great thing about this story is that is emphasizes the importance of extra-curricular activities in the schools. These students’ futures depend on these programs, especially in the Black community.
Our politicians need to stop trippin out and get it together. They keep taking money out of the school and putting em over seas and in our prisons. If we had it right, prison populations wouldn’t be so high and we’d have more kids going to school instead of jail. But who am I. Just a blogger.
Now speaking of Whoopi, she has a new book coming out called Is It Just Me. In the book, Goldberg says what’s on her mind. Goldberg even talks about style saying she loves being comfortable. The book comes out in October. Hang on to your eyes, its going to be a blinking time tonight, lol.
Iyanla Van Zandt has a new book coming out in November called Peace From Broken Pieces: How To Get Through What You’re Going Through. Van Zandt is returning to the literary world after suffering the loss of her daughter and the end of her marriage.
My prayers are with you Ms. Van Zandt and your family, this too shall pass.
Believe me you where missed in the literary, and television arena’s. Love you!
A federal appeals court ruled Monday that California’s ban on gay marriage will remain in place indefinitely as judges consider whether it is constitutional.
The decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturns the order of judge Vaughn Walker last week that would have permitted same-sex couples to marry as soon as this week.
The three-judge panel that issued the decision said the 9th Circuit will expedite the challenge to California’s voter-aproved ban on gay marriage, though the case will not be heard in court until December.
Earlier in the month, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled that the ban, known as Proposition 8, amounts to unconstitutional discrimination. Just last week, Walker ordered it to be lifted on Wednesday, Aug. 18.
Opponents of same-sex unions responded harshly to Walker’s decision, saying it reflected his judicial activism.
“When a lower judge makes an unprecedented ruling that totally overturns existing Supreme Court precedent, the normal thing for that judge to do is to stay his decision, and let the higher courts decide, in an orderly fashion that respects the rule of law, if he’s right or if he’s way off-base,” said Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage.
The appeals court decision is a further setback for gay rights advocates, many of whom were planning wedding ceremonies for 5 o’clock on Wednesday, when same-sex marriages would have resumed for the first time since November 2008, when voters approved Proposition 8.
A judge is ordering Wells Fargo Bank to pay customers $203 million for overdraft fees.
According to reports, the bank has been manipulating accounts to make customers pay for unwarranted overdraft fees.
The bank has been in some trouble for its deceptive practices for years, including accused loan
discrimination against Blacks.
San Francisco U.S. District Judge William Alsup has also ordered the bank stop its deceptive practice of charging excess overdraft fees.
Wells Fargo will appeal the ruling.
The case is Gutierrez v. Wells Fargo
07-05923, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (San Francisco).
This story is nearly unbelievable, but anything is possible in America. Two teens are claiming Craigslist helped them sell their bodies and become sex slaves.
They say, “Craigslist makes horrific acts like this so easy to carry out, and the men who arrange them very rich,” said one of the teens, who said she was forced into prostitution at the age of 11.
The girls submitted an open letter to the Washington Post about the Internet classifieds site in a time when a federal judge kept an investigation of Craigslist “adult services” section. The Letter was posted as an ad.
One of the young ladies said a pimp “put my picture on Craigslist, and I was sold for sex by the hour at truck stops and cheap motels, 10 hours with 10 different men every night. This became my life,” read an account by “AK.” Men “answered the Craigslist advertisements and paid to rape me.”
Craigslist has been deemed the Wal-Mart of online sex trafficking. Ouch.
Sex trafficking: 1. Does happen 2. Happens in America 3. Happens via Internet.
In the words of Antoine Dodson, “Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife, and yo’ husband cuz they rapin’ er’body out her’.”
You know the economy is bad when thousands of folks trample over each other for Section 8 housing.
Over 30,000 Georgia residents rushed into an Atlanta parking lot on Thursday. It was so bad that people were fighting folks, kids got kicked, and police was beatin’ some tail.
People had been waiting in line for days, however, only 13,000 applications were handed out, but the kicker that only 455 families will receive assistance.
“The situation in East Point highlights how bad the situation really is,” said Dennis Williams, Assistant Commissioner for Rental Assistance in Georgia’s Department of Community Affairs. “There’s never enough to go around,” he said. “There’s always more need than vouchers.”
Williams says there are 59,000 Section 8 vouchers in Georgia allotted by the federal government, 50,000 of them for metro Atlanta.
Mr. Obama, umm… I think it’s time you do something for your people. I’m not just talking about Black folks, but for the people who were sucker in… I mean believed in your promises. Get it together and make something happen.
Over the years I’ve had the pleasure of listening to a variety of radio shows on the air. I must say these are my observations and comments.
1. Hannity – Bigot, egotistical, likes to be the limelight. Goes by half truths, not good at investigating
the whole truth. Nor do you apologize for misquotes, and misinformation.
2. Bill O’Riley – Bigot, mental issues of unfair commentaries. Acts like a cartoon, does not like to be challenge when he is wrong, or accept responsibility for misstatements. Thinks he knows it all. Talk about a curtain, even Ray Charles could see that bullshyt.
3. Michael Savage – Egotistical blow hard. Rude, rants, not good as a radio host. Another one thinks he knows it all, and his word is always right – give me a break. At one point he was being sued and had on air folks calling with money to help with his lawyers and court fees. (the name Savage suits you!)
4. Michael Medved – Get a life outside of radio. You sir are a educated fool at best. Folks pacify you because they feel sorry for you, not because you are that good. Why do you think a lot of Authors will not discussed there books on air with you, because you are such a irritation. So your Jewish and……………..so am I now what? Learn to be honest in your critiques, and not add your flavor of injustice. Some folks are dealing with holocaust everyday of there lives call “survival”. Get a grip you inept fool.
5. Rush- Yes please rush to the nearest door and never come back. You sir are a bigot, racist, uniformed,
don’t care to know the truth commentator. You represent who? The Republicans want you to shut the hell up. The Democrats simply ignore your ignorance, after all ignorance is bliss as it concerns you. Again, money talks and bullshyt walks. You are one of the greatest on air bullshyter there is. You are most famous for throwing a rock and hiding both of your hands. Yet the truth always has a way of rearing his head when it comes to you and your character. Get off the train love, you have went waaaaay past your stop.
6. Laura Ingram – Somebody get me a bag, I’m throwing up in my own mouth.
and that is my commentary on rants for today, thxs.
Only 12 members of Congress voted to approve health benefits for “1st Responders” to 911 Twin Towers.
Yes the Democrats overwhelmingly passed it. It has been years since 911 and the folks that involved
their lives to save whomever are now greatly disturbed with health concerns – OK who knew. What the
outcome effects would be. These folks Fire Dept, Police Dept, Medics put there lives on the line to help.
And this is how Congress rewards them for a job well done to the best of their ability – well damn Congress.
And you wonder why – folks are voting for anybody other than the incumbent to stand for there City,
or State reps. How dare you put these folks on the back burner. Do you have no shame or guilt what you
are doing to these folks. Understandably the economics in this country are steep, why do you think that
President Obama wanted the Health Care Reform bill past. Not just for future clients, but present ones in
need as well. Congress when are you going to get off your azz and stop throwing a rock and then hiding
your hand. You took your offices with a “vow” to pledge and help your constituents of your state and
others. Do not turn a blind eye to the needs of Americans, families are involved here and future generations.
Have you thought about what your legacy would be when you depart your office? Was it to help or hinder
the causes of citizens of the USA? Or is it money talks and bullshyt walks Congressmen Republicans.
Automakers are operating in terra incognita as they prepare for the biggest change in the way cars are powered in a century. As they begin to add battery-powered cars to their lineups, they will have to solve some fundamental problems about how the cars are built and sold.
For engineers, the questions include:
Should automakers be technology leaders or fast followers?
Should they develop their own batteries or leave that to specialists?
Should they focus on one technology or hedge their bets with several?
For marketers, the issues are:
Should automakers use existing body styles and model names or create new ones?
Should they start slowly and wait for demand to develop or try to grab market share immediately?
Should they distribute cars through existing dealer networks or start from scratch?
There are few guideposts to follow. The only equivalent parallel in recent history has been the launch of the hybrid gas-electric vehicle, where, arguably, only one company has been successful.
That is Toyota (TM), which unlike most other manufacturers, built a hybrid-specific car, the Prius. The car’s unique character attracted early adopters as well as the environmentally-conscious who wanted to visibly demonstrate their commitment, and Toyota promoted it effectively.
Honda tried to drive the same road with its own hybrid, the Insight. But both the first- and second-generation vehicles sold poorly.
Other automakers installed their gas-electric powertrains in existing models, essentially making the hybrid device an option. The cars lacked a distinctive identity, most have suffered weak sales.
If there lessons to be learned from Prius, they haven’t been reflected in current battery-electric strategies, no two of which seem to be alike.
Two French automakers, for instance, are using sharply different approaches.