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Very simple to prepare, and afterwards will make you slap yo Mama, lol lol
Vodka Caramel Fried Chicken
ingredients: 1. Cut up chicken, 2. 1 1/2 cups of Milk, 3. 1 2/3 cups of Vodka Caramel, 4. 1 tsp of Sea Salt, 5. 1 tsp of sugar, 6. 2 eggs beaten, 7. 1 tsp of Black Pepper.
Ok here we go, such fun
Place cut up chicken is a plastic container that we will cover later. Mix all the rest of the ingredients together in a bowl. Pour liquid over chicken in plastic container and cover. Put in fridge for 3 hrs.
Ok, now we are ready to cook this fantastic chicken.
Make sure each piece of chicken is covered in flour, place in a skillet of 2 cups of Olive Oil and 1 stick of butter. Cook over a med-high temperature until golden brown. Now don’t start snacking until all is done, you won’t want to eat the rest of your meal. Feeds 4 folks.
Added attraction – Add spinach, carrots, or corn, or a fresh salad to compliment your meal.
(recipe by Lennis)
The Miami Herald is reporting that women in the north-central region of Nigeria are protesting the murders of a traditional ruler and his wife this morning.
Kaduna state police Chief Bala Nasarawa told the Associated Press that the traditional ruler and his wife were killed Friday morning in the town of Kafanchan despite the recent deployment of troops to the area. Nasarawa said the report of the killing came soon after the police relaxed a curfew from 24 to 8 hours.
The region of Nigeria has seen repeated riots over the last few days. The protest is the second in two days in the area over insecurity. Last week the killing of two women in a church of a nearby town also sparked riots.
The violence has been attributed to the ongoing conflict between Nigeria’s predominantly Christian south and Muslim north. This isn’t the first time that women have protested the conflict. In April thousands of Christian Nigerian women protested sectarian violence after 500 people died in postelection violence.
Can you say, “Stop the violence”? Religious conflict is supposed to be oxymoronic. However, it is anything but that. Kudos to the women for protesting the lack of security facing the region. Committing violence under the guise of religious preservation is unacceptable and devastating to world communities
We don’t have all the details, but he was rushed to an L.A. hospital around noon today and was pronounced dead at the hospital at 1 PM.
He was 44 years old.
Heavy recently performed at the BET Awards in October
real name: Dwight Meyers
ARIES
UNEXPECTED: Know your worth, stop cutting yourself short for what it is you need in your life.
Sometimes Aries you can be stubborn and don’t want to listen to what is right. Stop going back and forth in your decisions, you know what is right so damn it do it!
FINANCES: Slow improvement, bills are still lagging, pay what you can, after all you can’t get blood from a turnip (old folks saying).
ROMANCE: Solid as a rock, as the song goes.
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TAURUS
UNEXPECTED: Hard head makes a soft azz, feel me Taurus. Sometime you can be tooooo stubborn for your own good. Learn to relax and let life unfold in all it’s miraculous details.
FINANCES: Tax man is near, so take care and shore up all business details. You do not want your businesses to suffer because you didn’t pay your taxes do you? Stop loaning money out that you don’t half, your a soft sale sometimes, amidst your stubbornness.
ROMANCE: Time to take that trip in the winter months home. The family will enjoy the winter break and so will you immensely, so go for it. Romance, love, and laughter to be enjoyed by all.
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GEMINI
UNEXPECTED: Well here we go again, wearing your heart on your sleeve. If you have a lot of love to give and share, but not your finances. How did I end up broke you say? By being a unexpected “sucker”, so stop it.
FINANCES: Well the for-mention you inform you well about your finances. There is a raise coming after the first of the year. Also before the Christmas holidays you may end up selling a big ticket item out of your home for finance reasons. Just to clear up some debt. To give you a peace of mind.
ROMANCE: To be in love and love is a wonderful inflection if you understanding. Gemini never become desperate for love, it is not a good on your. Go with the flow, unless you are already in a stable relationship. Don’t laugh I heard that (what is stable). Gotta love ya Gemini!
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CANCER
UNEXPECTED: You actually have a little extra money in your pockets or purse this month, thank God! Things may not always seem that bad if you understand how to negotiate your money to yourself.
FINANCES: Life is starting to look a little better for you Cancer. Everything does happen for the good even if don’t understand what the fuck is going on!!! Continue to put your best foot forward, and continue to seek out better ways of generating money, legally that is.
ROMANCE: Love is in the air, to your discretion. If you are married or in a relationship this a good month for the two of you to enjoy the holidays. If single, someone out of your past will show up to help you celebrate.
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LEO
UNEXPECTED: Leo be careful, could be another child on the way. This seems to be a fertile period for you. Men and women please use some protections if you are not ready for a child or children(possible twins). Know the relationship you are in!
FINANCES: Good improvement in finances this month Leo. Loans repaid, bills on point, actually some extra money to enjoy. Treat yourself or love one to something nice.
ROMANCE: Well Mr./Ms attention getter. They are still trying to figure out your Halloween costume from last month. You mystery devil you, lol lol. Enjoy the new spice in your life just be careful. And Leo know when to say no, this is not me!
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VIRGO
UNEXPECTED: The light of your life is going to surprise you with something. If you are not in a relationship at this time, unexpected happenings will occur on the good side of love. You may hear how you have become quite interesting to the opposite sex. Work will be more busy than normal.
FINANCES: My advice Virgo put some money back for that rainy day fund. The weather this year will be havoc on your finances. This could be do to transportation issues. Make sure you are covered darling to get from point “A” to point “B” in your travels.
ROMANCE: Someone from afar would like to become a lot, and I mean a lot closer to you. All things are possible to those that believe.
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LIBRA
UNEXPECTED: Is it time to move, are you truly happy where you are at. Sometimes energy of certain areas are not meant to live at, just to visit and move on. Unexpected blessing is coming your way, sometimes KARMA can be a good thing. What you get back can be good, and a welcome blessing!
FINANCES: What a road Libra have you travel this year. Up and down, sideways, OMG, I’m dizzy. Finally you can feel the worst is over and a new beginning is at hand, about damn time don’t ya think. You are the scales of balance, but sometimes it feels one-sided.
ROMANCE: For couple time to enjoy the holidays with family and friends. If single look out world because you are available for fun and pleasure. Just don’t overdo, but do enjoy yourself Libra.
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SCORPIO
UNEXPECTED: Possible marriage proposal coming your way. If not marriage a solidify relationship is at hand. Yes he really cares about you woman! For the man know your place don’t push it, understand. More recognition is coming your way, hard work has definitely paid off, more than you know, and yes you have been noticed in a BIG WAY!
FINANCES: For those with children, pull out the checkbook, or credit cards. Darn those kids why do they have to keep growing, needing clothes, books, etc. ie, lol lol, and we love them with all our hearts!
Make sure you vehicle is running good, might need some minor repairs. Also check your foot for injuries, that may seem like nothing “not”, have that check out by your physician.
ROMANCE: I see a line of dancing Rockets all in a row. Everything is coming up roses whoo-hoo!
Enjoy your love life, for right now it is very good.
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SAGITTARIUS
UNEXPECTED: Time to let go and let God Sag. Where you going, where you been, these are life questions you need to be asking yourself. Unexpected family problems will come up this problem and not to happy either. Try to maintain balance in all relationships family or friends. Watch your words, they don’t return the same way you said them.
FINANCES: Time to make more money if you want to meet your needs Sag. Time to buckle down and take care of business. It’s been a shitty summer, and fall isn’t looking any better. You will have the money you need to meet your debt ratio, but what about enjoyment? Are we there ye?
ROMANCE: What are you looking for really? Are you happy, are you satisfy with your love life. Then why don’t the hell you change it, stop complaining about it, and do something already!
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CAPRICORN
UNEXPECTED: The joy of family or not, that is the question. Busy month Cappy between social engagements and business. News from afar will be a shock, but maybe not a total surprise.
FINANCES: Hold on to your money this month, because you are wanting to shop like no tomorrow for Christmas and New Year’s celebrations. Money will come in huge amounts, and start to slow down somewhat after Thanksgiving. So be careful with your spending, necessary purchases only.
ROMANCE: Well look hear, just folks coming from every direction possible. You love cupid you! lol lol
It would seem Cappy you are the flavor for the month. So capitalize on this and enjoy your love life.
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AQUARIUS
UNEXPECTED: Are you wearing your emotions close to the chest. So be benevolent and help someone out, you might just amaze yourself and feel good about it. You will enjoy a quiet Thanksgiving. But don’t get to relax, you may be call to work for emergency repairs.
FINANCES: All does look good, my suggestion sit down with an accountant before investing in anything.
ROMANCE: Someone from your past shows up at the front door, and knocks you off your feet. Very good surprise, shocked this person still remembers you, heh! heh! Take it with a grain of salt, nothing spectacular here, just enjoyment of two past lovers.
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PISCES
UNEXPECTED: It is time to clean house, mentally, spiritually, and yes physically (get your health in order). The holidays are approaching and what are you going to do? You will have unexpected guests arriving throughout the month. Enjoy your visits, with laughter and love.
FINANCES: This might be a tight money month for you Pisces. Hold on it will get better by December, just be patient for a little while longer. All will come together in the right time.
ROMANCE: No one is as clever as Pisces in the love arena. You have such a creative mind, maybe more than most other signs. Romance is good, think of those lovely ideas you also wanted to do and try them out. You might receive an amazing response.
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They’re after Bishop Eddie Long once again. They, meaning anyone whose got something against the guy.
The head of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Ga. is in trouble again. A lawsuit was filed against the scandalous preacher for allegedly scheming church folk out of millions of dollars, via a business Long endorsed.
According to the Atlantic Journal-Constitution, the allegations stem from a three-day investment seminar Long held at the church in October 2009, at which church members were encouraged to invest in a company named City Capital Corporation, according to the suit. The company’s then-CEO, Ephren Taylor, attended and was heralded by Long, attorney Jason Doss told the AJC. Doss, of Marietta, and attorney Quinton Seay are co-counsels in the suit.
“I am responsible for everyone I bring before you and what they say,” Long said at the seminar, according to the lawsuit. “The gentleman that I am going to bring before you is an ordained minster. That gives me great pride to bring him for you.”
The preacher’s latest allegations are just another thing to add to his long list of scandals and schemes.
SIDEBAR: What does it take for a person to step down, they are pretty good at it in the Middle East!
Former American Idol Winner Fantasia had to answer a lot of tough questions this week. Fantasia is scheduled to star as Gospel Great Mahalia Jackson in a big screen movie bio. Fantasia says no contracts have been signed. She was told the investors ran out of money, so she thinks the project is on hold. Reports came out last week producers of the Mahalia project and family members were upset with Fantasia because she is pregnant by a married man. They also claimed she lied about her pregnancy claiming she told them she was gaining weight for the role and not pregnant. Who is telling the truth here? Will this movie ever get made? Fantasia is due at the end of the year. She is not happy with the recent reports about the movie project and questions about her relationship with a married man (Antwaun Cook). This has been a difficult pregnancy for Fantasia.
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Who leaked Diddy’s personal info? The rapper and media mogul is working with authorities to find out who leaked his personal information from his Black American Express Card. His personal numbers and financial information were listed on a website. Whoever did it had to be close to him……. maybe a mad babymomma? Hmmmmmmmmmm!
The re-launch of the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) has been slow. Oprah has returned to TV along with a new addition: The Rosie O’Donnell Show. Both shows debuted to disappointing ratings.
Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton are teaming up for the movie Joyful Noise. The movie also stars KeKe Palmer and Courtney B. Vance and opens in theatres January 13th.
Alicia Keys will be doing the music for the new Broadway production Stick Fly, which debuts later this year.
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Ron Isley says he is looking forward to reteaming with R Kelly for Ron’s next project. Kelly is already working on his own project. Kelly’s CD Black Panties is coming out next year. Kelly says this CD will be very sexy and explicit.
Singer Roberta Flack is getting ready to release a new music project after eight years. The CD, featuring Beatles classics, comes out in February.
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Singer Kenny Lattimore recently opened up about his upcoming divorce from Singer Chante Moore. Lattimore says it is a private matter and that he is not gay, responding to rumors about his sexuality. He says he wishes it would have worked out, but they have a son and will always have a bond.
Mel B wants to lose the baby weight. The former Spice Girl and babymomma of Eddie Murphy recently had a baby girl with her husband Stephen Belafonte. Mel says she wants to lose some weight. She now weighs 165 and wants to get down to 132 with the help of Jenny Craig. Mel B is going to be the spokesperson for their overseas campaign.
Producer/Composer Nile Rodgers of Chic fame has finished his book, and the release date has been moved up. The book, Le Freak: An Upside Down Story Of Family, Disco And Destiny, is coming out October 18th. It will detail his music career and his battle with cancer. Rodgers has worked with Diana Ross, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Madonna and Sister Sledge.
John Legend is now a television producer. Legend is producing a family comedy for NBC called Mixed Blessings.
So much of our history is lost to us because we often don’t write the history books, don’t film the documentaries, or don’t pass the accounts down from generation to generation.
One documentary now touring the film festival circuit, telling us to “Always Remember” is “Black Survivors of the Holocaust” (1997). Outside the U.S.., the film is entitled “Hitler’s Forgotten Victims” (Afro-Wisdom Productions). It codifies another dimension to the “Never Forget ” Holocaust story–our dimension.
Did you know that in the 1920′s, there were 24,000 Blacks living in Germany ? Neither did I. Here’s how it happened, and how many of them were eventually caught unaware by the events of the Holocaust. Like most West European nations, Germany established colonies in Africa in the late 1800′s in what later became Togo, Cameroon, Namibia, and Tanzania.
German genetic experiments began there, most notably involving prisoners taken from the 1904 Heroro Massacre that left 60,000 Africans dead, following a 4-year revolt against German colonization. After the shellacking Germany received in World War I,it was stripped of its African colonies in 1918.
As a spoil of war, the French were allowed to occupy Germany in the Rhineland -a bitter piece of real estate that has gone back and forth between the two nations for centuries. The French willfully deployed their own colonized African soldiers as the occupying force. Germans viewed this as the final insult of World War I, and, soon thereafter, 92% of them voted in the Nazi party.
Hundreds of the African Rhineland-based soldiers intermarried with German women and raised their children as Black Germans. In Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote about his plans for these “Rhineland Bastards”. When he came to power, one of his first directives was aimed at these mixed-race children. Underscoring Hitler’s obsession with racial purity, by 1937, every identified mixed-race child in the Rhineland had been forcibly sterilized, in order to prevent further “race polluting”, as Hitler termed it.
Hans Hauck, a Black Holocaust survivor and a victim of Hitler’s mandatory sterilization program, explained in the film “Hitler’s Forgotten Victims” that, when he was forced to undergo sterilization as a teenager, he was given no anesthetic. Once he received his sterilization certificate, he was “free to go”, so long as he agreed to have no sexual relations whatsoever with Germans.
Although most Black Germans attempted to escape their fatherland, heading for France where people like Josephine Baker were steadily aiding and supporting the French Underground, many still encountered problems elsewhere. Nations shut their doors to Germans, including the Black ones.
Some Black Germans were able to eke out a living during Hitler’s reign of terror by performing in Vaudeville shows, but many Blacks, steadfast in their belief that they were German first, Black second, opted to remain in Germany. Some fought with the Nazis (a few even became Lut waffe pilots)! Unfortunately, many Black Germans were arrested, charged with treason, and shipped in cattle cars to concentration camps. Often these trains were so packed with people and (equipped with no bathroom facilities or food), that, after the four-day journey, box car doors were opened to piles of the dead and dying.
Once inside the concentration camps, Blacks were given the worst jobs conceivable. Some Black American soldiers, who were captured and held as prisoners of war, recounted that, while they were being starved and forced into dangerous labor (violating the Geneva Convention), they were still better off than Black German concentration camp detainees, who were forced to do the unthinkable–man the crematoriums and work in labs where genetic experiments were being conducted. As a final sacrifice, these Blacks were killed every three months so that they would never be able to reveal the inner workings of the “Final Solution”.
In every story of Black oppression, no matter how we were enslaved, shackled, or beaten, we always found a way to survive and to rescue others. As a case in point, consider Johnny Voste, a Belgian resistance fighter who was arrested in 1942 for alleged sabotage and then shipped to Dachau . One of his jobs was stacking vitamin crates. Risking his own life, he distributed hundreds of vitamins to camp detainees, which saved the lives of many who were starving, weak, and ill–conditions exacerbated by extreme vitamin deficiencies. His motto was “No, you can’t have my life; I will fight for it.”
According to Essex University ‘s Delroy Constantine-Simms, there were Black Germans who resisted Nazi Germany, such as Lari Gilges, who founded the Northwest Rann–an organization of entertainers that fought the Nazis in his home town of Dusseldorf –and who was murdered by the SS in 1933, the year that Hitler came into power.
Little information remains about the numbers of Black Germans held in the camps or killed under the Nazi regime. Some victims of the Nazi sterilization project and Black survivors of the Holocaust are still alive and telling their story in films such as “Black Survivors of the Nazi Holocaust”, but they must also speak out for justice, not just history.
Unlike Jews (in Israel and in Germany ), Black Germans receive no war reparations because their German citizenship was revoked (even though they were German-born). The only pension they get is from those of us who are willing to tell the world their stories and continue their battle for recognition and compensation.
After the war, scores of Blacks who had somehow managed to survive the Nazi regime, were rounded up and tried as war criminals. Talk about the final insult! There are thousands of Black Holocaust stories, from the triangle trade, to slavery in America , to the gas ovens in Germany .
We often shy away from hearing about our historical past because so much of it is painful; however, we are in this struggle together for rights, dignity, and, yes, reparations for wrongs done to us through the centuries. We need to always remember so that we can take steps to ensure that these atrocities never happen again.
For further information, read: Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany, by Hans J. Massaquoi.
LONDON: Britain must stick to its austerity drive and avoid tax cuts while it tries to wipe out a record deficit, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said on Saturday, as a senior member of his party accused him of lacking a “coherent and credible” long-term growth plan.
Speaking before his center-right party meets for its annual conference, Osborne said abandoning its public cuts and tax rises would lead to an immediate rise in interest rates that would be “disastrous” for the British economy.
A run of bleak UK economic data, the euro zone debt crisis and worries about the global outlook have stoked fears that Britain could tip back into recession.
The economy has barely grown since September, raising pressure on the Conservative-led coalition to soften its deficit-reduction strategy and do more to stimulate growth.
Osborne said the world’s economic state was “at least as serious” as during the 2008 financial crisis and Britain had to keep cutting its deficit.
“A country with an almost double-digit deficit cannot add to its deficit in the middle of a sovereign debt storm to cut tax, presumably on a temporary basis, because you would have to then put it back up again to deal with the deficit,” he told the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
“I don’t think Britain has the fiscal luxury to do that sort of thing.”
The coalition has repeatedly warned that failing to cut a record peacetime budget deficit that peaked at around 11 percent of gross domestic product could lead to a Greek-style debt crisis.
However, some center-right Conservatives fear the austerity plan will alienate voters already struggling with rising unemployment, low wage growth and inflation running at 4.5 percent, more than double the 2 percent target. The left-wing opposition Labour Party says the plan is choking growth.
Andrew Tyrie, the Conservative chairman of parliament’s influential Treasury committee, said Britain’s long-term growth strategy was “inconsistent, even incoherent” in places.
Efforts to legalize marijuana for recreational use are gaining momentum in Washington state and Colorado, despite fierce opposition from the federal government and a decades-long cultural battle over America’s most commonly used illicit drug.
Officials in Washington state on Friday said an initiative to legalize pot has enough signatures to qualify for the ballot in November. In Colorado, officials are likely this week to make a similar determination about an initiative there.
Supporters are prepared to possibly spend millions of dollars ahead of the November ballot, when they hope a strong voter turnout, particularly among youth, for the U.S. presidential election will aid their cause.
“Whether it’s make or break depends on what public opinion does after 2012, but in terms of voter turnout this is the best year to do it,” said Alison Holcomb, director of New Approach Washington, the initiative’s sponsor.
While 16 states, including Washington and Colorado, along with the nation’s capital, now allow marijuana use for medical purposes, cannabis remains an illegal narcotic under U.S. law – and public opinion is sharply divided on the merits of full legalization.
California voters turned back a ballot initiative to legalize marijuana for recreational use in 2010, in part because of concerns about how production and sale of the drug would be regulated.
Undeterred, supporters of the Washington state initiative say it represents the “grown-up” approach to legalization.
Sales would only be allowed to adults 21 and older through marijuana-only stores licensed by the state Liquor Control Board, which would also oversee production and processing of the drug. Laws on drunken driving would be amended to include maximum blood content thresholds for THC, the main psychoactive element in pot plants.
Colorado already has a robust regulatory system for medical marijuana that includes a registry of over 80,000 card-carrying patients and rules governing how physicians and distributors operate. Here, too, legalization advocates are stressing a rational regulatory approach.
“Voters aren’t being asked to imagine as much as they are in other states, they have seen that marijuana can be regulated and it doesn’t result in significant problems,” said Mason Tvert, co-director of the Colorado-based Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol.
Organizers of the Washington effort have collected over $1.1 million in campaign funds, with $250,000 of that coming from Progressive Insurance chairman Peter Lewis, public disclosure records show.
Loren Collingwood, senior researcher for the nonpartisan Washington Poll run by the University of Washington, said the initiative could pass, but that backers must spend between $2 million and $4 million to run a competitive campaign.
A poll done by the university in October found 48 percent of Washington residents support the idea of pot legalization, but that was not tied to any particular initiative.
“If young voters turn out in droves like they did in 2008 or even start to approach those numbers … then I think this will pass, but they very well may not,” Collingwood said.
Pot legalization supporters have argued for decades that prohibition has failed to curb pot use, and that the policy enriches drug cartels, hurts casual users and deprives governments of a potentially lucrative source of tax revenue.