Onyango Obama, Uncle Of President, Arrested For Drunk Driving

Who among us has control over grown relatives? My question is why is the picture of Mr. Obama looking so menacing and in black and white when pictures of folks who are arrested come in color?
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TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads

Good morning Sunday TeeVee Talk Shows avoiders! After an absence to bury my Ma who lived to be 97 years old I am back. I was missing only your great gems of wisdom on what weaklings ot 4th estate are these days.



Let 'er rip!
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Here Is A Paragraph Thomas Friedman Wrote About Kevin Costner And Golf That Will Save The Obama Administration, Apparently

Frankly, I loved Caddy Shack. I find it more applicable than Tin Cup and funnier too.



Tom Friedman needs to retire.
About Barack Obama
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Florida's High-Speed Rail Money Officially Sent To Northeast Corridor

I agree. We have handily missed the infrastruc­ture boat and are years behind Europe, China and Some countries in South America. Investing our dollars in the upgrade and expansion of our infrastruc­ture improves the lives and well-being of we the people and makes us better competitor­s for the tourists and other lucrative markets...­we make MONEY!
About Trains
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Aurelia Joseph Barabino 1913-2011

On Thursday, July 21 I wrote the following message to my email group who had read my and my mother's escapades: My Ma...Is dying. She is at home peacefully sleeping away. It will not be very long. She is 97 and has had a glorious run. The best of me is directly apportioned to her. She is the last of the old ones in our family. All of her brothers, cousins, and peers have died. She lived to hold and catch great great grandchildren. Ma's greatest gift to me is the love of reading. For that alone I shall be forever grateful.

My highest compliment to her has always been that I would have selected her to be my friend. I selfishly wished she would live to be 100. She being the independent force of nature she is decided to leave us before another winter. Aurelia Joseph Barabino is going to go and live with my father in my heart forever.

On Saturday, July 23 Ma died. I wrote this to my close friends: Thank for all of your prayers and offers of condolences. Ma died peacefully in her sleep today. Her funeral will be in New Orleans.

I am grateful to each of you for being a part of my support system. It did me a great deal of good to simply read your posts and argue politics. I did the best I could by her. I got a chance to say goodbye and to tell her it was okay to leave us. I am hoping that I have her skin genes ( she has silky skin even at 97) and her longevity. Actually, I pray for good health and longevity for you each you and your families too.

Her obituary read as follows: BARABINO Aurelia Joseph Barabino passed away peacefully on Saturday, July 23, 2011 at the age of 97, surrounded by family in Boston, MA. Daughter of the late Joe Joseph and Amanda Narcisse. She was the beloved wife of the late Maurice Joseph Barabino. Mother of Warren Williams (Anita Dillon), Cynthia B. Jenkins, Venessa B. Rosemond (Peter), Dorothy B. Bennett (Larry), Deborah L. Barabino, Antoinette R. Blackston (Louis), and the late Lorraine B. Ledet and mother-in-law of the late Royal A. Jenkins, Jr. Loving grandmother of Thyra Ferguson (Larry), Michelle Laymon, Daniel Ledet, Sharrell Taylor, Royal Jenkins, III (Kamara), Kimberly R. Jenkins, Demonde Bennett, Maurice Jenkins, Leslie Bennett, Derreck Bennett, Carlos Renfroe, Michael Renfroe, Joel Hamlin, L'Jour Blackston, Lance Blackston, Landon Blackston, Zoe Rosemond and the late Dwayne Williams (Anita). To cherish her memory she leaves 16 great grandchildren, three great-great grandchildren and a host of other family and friends. Relatives and friends of the family, including the Pastors, Officers and Members of Living Water Baptist Church, House of Healing Outreach Church, Old Zion Missionary Baptist Church and all neighboring churches are invited to attend Homegoing Services at Living Water Baptist Church, 2104 Elysian Fields Avenue, New Orleans, LA, at 10: 00 a.m. on Saturday, August 6, 2011. Visitation will begin at 9:00 a.m. Reverend Kenneth McDowell, Officiating. Interment will be at Mt. Olivet Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family asks for contributions to Kit Clark Senior Services, Inc., Development, 66 Canal Street, Boston, MA 02114 or online at

Finally, here is a picture of my Ma Aurelia Joseph Barabino

Tavis Smiley: Obama Is The First President Who Hasn't Invited Me To White House

That is not true. Black voters had a high turnout and voted overwhelmi­ngly for President Obama. The problem with this next election will be that the sense of abandonmen­t and the severe lack of jobs will sour folks lowering the turnout. If black folks go to vote they will vote for Obama because the republican­s offer us nothing.
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Thomas Friedman Dreams Of A 'Grand Bargain,' In Which Sentimentality Saves America

My thoughts of Mr. Friedman run from crazy as hell to what a jackass! Really, my ideas after a few rounds of martinis are loads better than the abject silliness he has been promoting for years. Why on earth is that guy taken seriously and why is he paid so much for it?



And yes, I am testy. This kind of garbage makes me angry. Now, print this HP.
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Tavis Smiley: Obama Is The First President Who Hasn't Invited Me To White House

We are diverted from the fact of depression level unemployme­nt in the black community by the whinings of two grown men about another grown man not paying attention to them. I did not vote for these guys to represent me. I did vote for President Obama. The only point that Tavis and Dr. West have in my opinion is that the President has been very dismissive of the black community and the liberal media. I do not know who the President is listening to but they are giving him some terrible advice. Our community is in grave economic pain we are in regression­. There is no jobs program and a crazy unwillingn­ess to realize that the macro in macroecono­mics is indeed government­. At this point it is government that can pull us from falling further into this economic abyss.
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